Sarah Lynn?

That time of year is over and, yes, I'm STILL molting, and I'm STILL working on this blog, rip this shrimp.

[joekeerys]

it’s halloween and my chemical romance is getting back together literally nothing could ruin this day

[closet-keys]

Katie Porter: You’ve got about 15 thousand contractors watching murders, stabbings, suicides, other gruesome disgusting videos for content moderation, correct?

Mark Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, yes, I believe that that’s correct.

Katie Porter: You pay many of those workers under $30 thousand a year, and you’ve cut them off from mental health care when they leave the company, even if they have PTSD because of their work for your company. Is that correct?

Mark Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, my understanding is we pay everyone, including the contractors associated with the company, at least a $15 minimum wage, in markets, in cities where there’s a high cost of living, that’s a $20 minimum wage. We go out of our way–

Katie Porter: Thank you, I’ll take your word at the wage. Reclaiming my time. According to one report I have, and this is straight out of an episode of Black Mirror, these workers get nine (*nine*) minutes of supervised wellness time per day. That means nine minutes to cry in the stairwell while somebody watches them. Would you be willing to commit to spending one hour a day, for the next year, watching these videos and acting as a content moderator, and only accessing the same benefits available to your workers?

Mark Zuckerberg: Congresswoman, we work hard to make sure we give good benefits to all the folks who are doing this–

Katie Porter: Mr. Zuckerberg, reclaiming my time, I would appreciate a yes or a no. Would you be willing to act as a content moderator? To have that life experience?

Mark Zuckerberg: I’m not sure it would best serve our community for me to spend that much time–

Katie Porter: Reclaiming my time. Mr. Zuckerberg, are you saying you’re not qualified to be a content monitor?

Mark Zuckerberg: No, Congresswoman, that’s not what I’m saying.

Katie Porter: Okay, then you’re saying you’re not willing to do it.

[brostateexam]

Video of the transcript above is here and it’s fantastic.

[wayobsessed]

Sometimes I feel bad for Zuckerberg, because I really do think that Facebook is just this thing that he created that just got away from him in the most horrendous way, and it created this whole world of problems that he maybe didn’t foresee, and now he’s getting thrown around in Congress hearings and data wars and you can just TELL he’s in no way shape or form prepared for any of this but he has no way out of any of this because everyone knows Who the Facebook guy is. That being said, that doesn’t excuse him from taking responsibility for all the consequences of the Facebook age and/or the way in which he treats his employees directly or indirectly.

[mens-rights-activia]

Lmaooo don’t feel bad for him

[watchersclown]

So tired of people trying to convince me the UK is real like god guys grow up we all know jonny just invented Britain for TMA 😒

[morbidology]

Olivia was born with HIV. She was immediately placed up for adoption but sadly, she was rejected by 10 prospective families solely because she had HIV. That’s when Damian Pighin and Ariel Vijarra of Santa Fe, Argentina, met her. The couple had been wanting to adopt for three years and when they met Olivia, they knew she was the baby for them. “As soon as I saw her, I felt that she was part of my life,” said Vijarra. At home, Olivia responded to HIV treatment and a couple of years later, the family got the amazing news that the virus was no longer detectible in her blood.

[deathandlover-moved-deactivated]

Michael, in hell: honestly nobody else was even going to do anything, these ungrateful mothersfucker have no idea the lengths I went to for them, I give them fire extinguisher safety training, I offer to murder them in a sexy way and I didn’t even get any thanks. After all the unpaid stabbing I’ve done

[geekwithsandwich]

seriously though it would be an enormous help if more people understood that autistic brains/bodies (and some other conditions too) very VERY frequently don’t process sensations and emotions in normal ways and INSTEAD replace them with bodily and emotional responses that are total nonsense in an NT context

like i have chronic pain, i have an always-on headache that used to be around a 2-3 on the pain scale and is now a 6-7 most days.  but periodically i find that instead of actually feeling a level of pain i can rate, i have a series of puzzling physical sensations like nausea that miraculously get better when i take painkillers and go lie down in the dark.  because they were actually pain signals.  pain signals that got turned into something else at some point in my body.  so i have days where i feel GREAT and pumped to do stuff and then i’m like WHY AM I NOT FUNCTIONING WELL and i go lie down in the dark for a while and it gets better??  because i was actually at an 8 which is Can’t Function levels for me, but 90% of that pain was invisible to me, turned into nausea and manic energy and weird sudden mood shifts instead of “pain”.

I don’t experience normal thirst signals most of the time, either.  I get cravings for ice cream and lime popsicles and watermelon instead of being thirsty.  I had to learn that “i suddenly desperately want ice cream” is my body’s way of saying “put some water in this bitch”.

I also get nausea instead of hunger signals a lot of the time.  nausea is one of my body’s favorite go-to signals to send, in general, so it can mean almost anything.  when my stomach turns i have to go through a checklist of possibilities to figure out what i’m actually feeling.  this is a big reason i eat a lot of snacks.  it’s step number 3 or 4 on my “why do i feel sick” list and happens at least once a day.

and anyway this shit is important for non autistic people to know because we can’t always tell you what we’re experiencing, but also sometimes we can get really upset and overwhelmed with trying to even understand what we’re feeling.  doctors especially need to know this.  how can i tell you what’s wrong with my body when my body doesn’t know how to use its own language for communicating what’s wrong?  when it routinely sends me a mishmash of signals that are totally useless for figuring out the problem?  it’s not impossible but it requires an understanding of just how different the place i’m coming from really is.  you can’t get anywhere by treating me just like an NT patient.

but most people aren’t even aware that “body signals” are a real tangible thing that can be effected and “go wrong” when your brain and body are built weirdly.  literally any process in your body can be broken, that should be obvious, but people are so oblivious to the things their body does automatically that they aren’t aware they exist, and therefore don’t know they can break.  it’s really important to make people aware of these functions.  there are so many disabilities that happen when a hidden function breaks and it’s impossible for abled people to grasp those disabilities without comprehending that that’s an actual thing their body does for them.

[spoonie-living]

Autistic and ND folks, this might make sense of a lot of experiences you’ve had, and can help put it into words in a way that can be shared with doctors, friends, and caregivers alike.

[ivapiva]

some of you never experienced the “this isn’t available in your country” situation and it shows

[katiemcgrath]

In the midst of all this brexit shit same sex marriage becoming legal and abortion being decriminalised in Northern Ireland at midnight is fucking amazing and should be celebrated. Congratulations to all those activists who have worked so long and hard for this.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

you guys dont know what a himbo is anymore. youve lost sight. you cant just call every man you like a himbo. theres nuance

[exco]

i’m a horrible texter but i’m also really bad at talking to people in person so i really have nothing going for me

[the-memedaddy]

Me irl

[scorpiofx]

scorpio capricorn virgo aquarius taurus placements rly be like: imagine having a crus🤢🤢🤢 having a cr 🤢🤢🤮 having feelin🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮 emotio🤢🤮 i cant even say it 🤮🤢

[dyke-lix]

Beholding bitches: dream stalk their victims.

The Magnus Institute: and don't come reporting any of your fucking dreams to us that shit's FAKE.

[bogleech]

If God supposedly made humans in his own likeness what IS the deal with apes was he just like "me if I were a ugly hairy bastard lol"

[valtsv]

[gracklegirlfriend]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

when the next season of stranger things drops we all have to promise to keep our memento polaroids on hand with the caption that reads “stranger things isnt actually good youre just bisexual and desperate for scifi fantasy”