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if you don't stand with palestine FUCK OFF!!!!!!

about the raoul

hi :} we're raoul. system. disabled. queer. adult. raoul is the collective name & therefore doesn't exist, but we do not usually sign off. Mostly it's Zephyr I type like this.

level 2 autism, cognitively disabled [schizoaffective, cognition fluctuates but is never great], physically disabled, & moderate support needs. important to note we're white, so don't hesitate to correct us if we say/reblog something bad.

clarify tone? for raoul? for a little guy who can't read tone please consider clarify?

we're in a band & run the band account as the main one. you'll get interactions from it & if you scroll down you can see when we used to post all our personal stuff on there because we were too lazy to make this blog. hip hop hoo ray!!!

names all of us are cool with

raoul

pronouns all of us are cool with

it/its

regretfully the schizoaffective has killed our comprehension of neos. if there are neos we will need a translation not out of transphobia, but because we quite literally cannot read them

DNI???

terfs & radqueer shoo otherwise we don't care

interests... the autism kind

-tally hall......<3 [shared by a lot of us]

-theatre

-sea rays!!!

-where the wild things are <333

-outer space

-monsters

-music

-various per alter

alters you may see

zephyr - it/its

ross - they/them

everyone else - Just default to it/its. Yayy

that's about all the important stuff!

other

we have many other blogs most of which are irrelevant right now

schizophrenia/paranoia made us block most people who interacted for like a year but now we're betterish & trying to not do that. but if you send an anon I will reply in a Very scared voice. etc

tw for unreality[? we think] under the cut

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Shoutout to south asian trans folks today. I noticed racism and micro aggression against south asians is on the rise as of late, and it’s really disheartening. Yall are great and beautiful people.

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they killed him for this

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rusty pylons

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I am in fucking tears

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Probably a huge asshole thing to say but I find a lot of popular disability advocacy to be reductive & stupid because 99% of the time it's people who need the least amount of support making themselves the biggest victims possible & then calling you a worthless piece of shit freak if you're any more severely disabled

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happy autism month to everyone with level 2 autism & level 3 autism & moderate autism & severe autism & moderate support needs & high support needs & who cannot relate to the current popular image of autism as a relatively invisible disability that does not make you any less capable. happy autism awareness month to everyone with visible & significantly disabling autism

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Average bloke trying to sound smart: you are not a serious person if you're not reading thousands of pages of this theory stuff Reddit told me to

Smartest person you know: I'm getting really into SpongeBob lately

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a strange number of lsn autistic people say "autism is a spectrum" & what they mean is "some autistic people really like routines & some have intense sensory needs & some have fixations that are very important to them & some display other symptoms but we are all still capable functioning individuals who are valid in being autistic" & not "'autism' means you could live independently & support a family without any intervention or that you could live with caregivers or support workers forever & need consistent help in everyday life or that you could need 24/7 support in all areas of life but the only criteria for autism spectrum disorder are deficits in 2 areas that can present in numerous ways & severities"

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there's a big difference between "i'm visibly autistic (other autistics can usually tell but less informed people still doubt me when i tell them)" & "i'm visibly autistic (people avoid me in public & when we do interact i am treated like a child &/or incompetent)"

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pom pom crabs are some of the most unethical animals in the ocean

this man is a serial abuser

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His pom poms are two sessile invertebrates he holds in his hands and starves so he can punch stuff with anemones who are so desperate to eat that they’ll use maximum sting on anything that gets close to him. When they starve to death he just finds more

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ACTUALLY, IT IS WORSE

The crabs will force the anemones to clone themselves if one dies OR steal others’ anemones if both die

They haven’t found these anemones in their free-living form, so, as far as we know, this anemone species is these crabs’ slave species—it’s only known in association with pom pom crabs

Cool paper on this: Schnytzer, Y., Giman, Y., Karplus, I., & Achituv, Y. (2017). Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft. PeerJ, 5, e2954. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2954

Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft

Crabs of the genus Lybia have the remarkable habit of holding a sea anemone in each of their claws. This partnership appears to be obligate,

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So if I understand this right, "slave species" is a biology term only used for this ONE SPECIFIC CREATURE OF ALL THE COUNTLESS LIVING ORGANISMS ON THIS ENTIRE PLANET?!

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Oh, the slave species thing is outdated information from the original study in the 90’s. To be fair, that study is still very very respected, it was just wrong about this specific thing.

Their anemones aren’t a unique species, they are only visually distinct because the crab farms them in a very specific way - making a fragment of a larger hawaiian anemone, or finding a newly spawned one. When they carry it around, they force the anemone to adapt to an entire new lifestyle. The crab’s nocturnal behavior slowly kills the anemone’s photosynthetic symbionts, from which it gets its color. After that, the crab can control how much food the anemone actually gets by using it to mop up food off the sea floor, and take excess out of its mouth. Since it doesnt have to reach for sunlight, or reach to catch food, this encourages dense, but short tentacles.

The shortcoming of this study was just that its very hard to get the anemone away from the crab without killing both, and its equally hard to get an anemone to bounce back from this state.

Due to their introduction into home aquaria, we now know any anemone they take will end up in this state, (bubble tips, aipistasia, haitian anemones, the list goes on) and we also know they are not bound to carrying anemone’s specifically. They’ve been seen collecting zoanthids, palythoa, and euphyllia (though euphyllians usually don’t survive).

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