Southern .45

Abnormality is the normality at this locality 37, Pensive, Techie who loves working with fire. Have a look around; Feel free to chat

[callmemanatee]

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

[southern45acp]

This explains so much about most of my life growing up and my general disdain for paperwork. I would often find it soul crushing how some form maker would cause me to spend 20 minutes on a mundane "fill out this sheet" form with vague 5 word questions.

[kiefbowl]

I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person

[twisted-little-fairy-story]

#spiritual successor is people being like why didnt you read my pinned before you reblogged!!!#dude i am not. i am not vetting every blog#i am here to backread for 45mins and rb 30 posts in a row and disappear#tumblr life

[southern45acp]

This is Tumblr, of you don't want it reblogged don't post it. Also this is Tumblr; the more fucked up the username, most of the time the better the blog LOL.

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[southern45acp]

Growing up in the 90's I remember a MASSIVE push to stop "killing trees" by using paper grocery bags and us plastic instead. To the point you'd get dirty looks in the checkout line by asking for paper. I think it's fair to say that trend didn't age well.

[mens-rights-activia]

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

[ffcrazy15]

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.

[southern45acp]

I feel like this is an often overlooked aspect, patience in the absence of irritation isn't really that virtuous. We don't consider it an exercise in patience to sit through a 2 hour movie we enjoy. Nor would I say patience is the right term for teaching a gifted student who picks up things on the first try.

Patience is what is exercised with the difficult student who struggles and tries failing while sometimes, but not always, making progress. Repeating the same lessons to them again and again till it clicks for them. That is patience; and often the reward of watching them overcome and flourish later is its greatest reward.

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

[dreamer-of-centipedes]

The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

[aztechnology]

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/

[laughterkey]

Just gonna add that the IWW is still kicking and basically anyone who is not an employer can join.

[stasevichstudio]

The 6 hour limit is true for work that you ostensibly like, too.

A sculptor friend of mine who works in the kind of public art that might be $100k projects observed that the real amount of work he gets done in a day is between 4-6 hours. If his day is longer than that, often he’s been scrolling social media, or paused in work to pay more attention to a movie he has going in the background. Some of the same behaviours a person with a desk job might engage in. Not spent productively.

I’ve paid attention to my own studio habits, and that time limit matches his observations. 6 hours is the high limit on the majority of my heavy work days. Working beyond that feels exhausting. This is for something I enjoy. A job I love, that I choose to do, that is a more difficult choice to fight for (you have to want it so, so bad to take the path of the professional artist) than food service, retail, lab work, construction, or any other normal job where you have an employer.

It’s not like I’m totally spent of all energy after 6 hours, I could still do some gardening, or something physical and mindless. But my ability to be a productive worker is gone.

[southern45acp]

Happy Halloween Tumblr!!!

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

YouTube will use AI to monitor your viewing habits to determine if you're under 18 and require an ID for you to view certain content, yes even if you're in the US.

Now. I have some questions. Like if I watch kids shows from the 90s is that a mark for me being over 30 because it's an old TV show? Or under 30 because it's a kid's show?

Okay question aside.

There's legitimate reasons to have "odd" viewing habits. I for one have chronic fatigue. I've fallen asleep with Youtube's autoplay on and will wake up 3 hours later with the weirdest shit playing (sometimes it's kids stuff).

I'm learning 2 languages. I will watch kids shows in those languages to help me practice and pick up the language. (Muzzy in Gondoland is SO CUTE). But it's really helpful to watch shows that are like "Red orange yellow green! One two three!" To learn the basics like your colors, numbers, days of the week.

Also. Bronies... adults like kids shows. Sometimes they got a really good message like MLP. Sometimes for Nostalgia, I mean Pokémon is still going, and I watch that for nostalgia.

"No, but AI would be smarter than that!"

Is it? Is it really? Bitch if kids want to watch YouTube, that's what YouTube Kids is for. We don't need your 1984 bullshit monitoring our fucking watching habits.

"I don't understand why you're so upset. Just give them your ID." Because I'm a developer. I watch programmers increasingly use AI to fucking program their goddamn software every fucking day. And the thing is AI is really fucking bad at it. It leads to issues like the Tea app leak.

The Tea app was an app where women warned other women in the dating scene about red flag men in the area and they could ask other women if the guy that were dating was a red flag. That app had women upload their Drivers Licenses, and they recently had a leak due to shitty security protocols caused by AI coding causing a legacy database to literally be open to the public, with so security features to keep any old random person from accessing it. All of the data in that database what just... dumped to the open internet. Location data. IDs. All of it.

So, no... I'm not gonna me uploading my ID anywhere BECAUSE I'VE SEEN HOW POORLY SOME OF YOUR ASSHOLES CODE. And by "how poorly you code" I mean you don't fucking code. You just give it to AI and the fucking dumbass system wouldn't know a security feature if it punched it in the face.

Suck my dick. You're not "keeping the kids safe" you're exposing everyone to identity threats.

-fae

[girl-who-post-about-communism]

We should stop to infantilize adult spaces on the internet.

YouTube is not meant for children, YouTube kids is.

Not all video-games are for children, a child can play mario kart not GTA.

ALL online games with a free chat aren't safe for children, regardless if there's a filter or not.

Every kind of chat, especially if people can send media or link over it, is not safe for children.

Children aren't safe online.

Governments shouldn't have any word (apart from already illegal content) on what belongs on the internet and what doesn't, kids shouldn't be unsupervised on the internet anyways.

Censors of the media always start from porn, because it's the most indefensible kind of content, and when they start banning other kinds of content they can always say that you just want back porn.

It was never about porn.

They're censoring Spotify, Wikipedia, YouTube... all sites where a kid shouldn't be unsupervised anyway.

They don't care about protecting the kids.

Sorry for the long post, but it is important to know that censors on porn never stop on porn.

[inexchangeforyoursoul]

tl;dr if everyone is guilty, big brother longer needs to differentiate between slave and free man when meting out punishment

(in case anyone needs an example/breakdown to illustrate the current problem)

[southern45acp]

Censorship is a like a mine-cart on a downhill slope with ever worsening brakes.

[boatgrave-deactivated20250901]

[mysteryteacup]

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

[noah-wyles]

idk if it's just me but i'm glad that the majority of people outside of here believe tumblr is a dead site because like i've been here for 13 years and like this is my house??? i don't need thousands upon thousands of people flocking here it'd be like inviting chimps to a house party total fucking carnage

[southern45acp]

Nothing to see here just a dead hellsite posting Goncherov reviews.

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

"came back wrong" but it's food that you heated up in the microwave

[abalidoth]

OK SO

For anyone who hasn't heard my Microwave Rant:

Microwaves are designed to be used at a broad range of power levels. If you're getting bad results reheating your food, and you're doing everything on full blast, try a lower power setting! 50% power for twice the time, just give it a shot. It gives the heat time to spread evenly, and prevents overcooking of parts that are exposed to more radiation.

People complain about reheated pizza a lot -- that's bc overheating the crust makes it tough and chewy. I usually do pizza on 30% power for THREE times as long because it's especially vulnerable -- and my crust always comes out nice and tender.

I think there's a good metaphor for Came Back Wrong here too: if you actually take the time to do your necromantic ritual and/or unholy experiment right, and don't rush it at 100% power, you're likely to get better results.

[mouseonamoose]

Since reading this post and following its advice, my microwaved good comes out so much better.

[archenarrow]

Since reading this post a d following its advice, my necromantic rituals have come out so much better.

[whyenn-reader]

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I really wish more ADHD mental health care told you WHY things like this matter to our quality of life.

The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.

But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.

So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.

Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.

Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.

So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.

When you no longer feel like the world is actively killing you, it's a lot easier to navigate it.

[whyenn-reader]

S++ tier addition to the post, thank you tumblr user butts bouncing on the beltway

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[prismatic-bell]

Just to make this clear as crystal:

This is Timothy McVeigh's perp walk.

If you're not old enough or not American enough to know that name, he blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in the mid-90s. 169 people died in the initial blast, 19 of them children and three of them pregnant women. A rescue worker, not counted in the previous number, was killed by falling debris while evacuating those inside. Close to 700 people were injured, over 300 other buildings were severely damaged, and McVeigh explicitly agreed that what he'd done was terrorism, and stated it was in direct retaliation for the Waco, TX and Ruby Ridge standoffs. It is important to note that McVeigh freely admitted his guilt; what you are seeing is the perp walk of a man who happily admitted to committing the largest act of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States. He wasn't yet convicted, but he himself said he was guilty. Also of note is that over 100 of his victims worked for the federal government, including six Secret Service agents. This is important because it adds additional charges; in the eyes of the law, killing a federal agent is worse than killing some random member of Joe Q. Public.

This is Luigi Mangione's perp walk.

He is alleged to have killed one adult civilian man in a direct and targeted shooting that did not endanger anyone else or cause any property damage.

He has pleaded not guilty and under United States law is considered innocent until determined otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt in a fair trial held by a jury of his peers.

My opinion of a politician has never fallen so far, so fast, as it has with Kathy Hochul and the way she's just shitting herself to console a bunch of rich spoiled white men by throwing this young man under the bus. I need you to understand it does not matter if Luigi Mangione is guilty or not. This is a violation of multiple of his constitutional rights and it makes an absolute mockery out of what's left of our justice system. They could already have a signed confession and this would still be a violation of his constitutional rights.

Do not let them get away with this. This is deliberate and it should lead to a mistrial.

[brightlotusmoon]

[southern45acp]

I appreciate posts like this which take the time to share the relevant history along with sources. I'm old enough to remember the Oklahoma State bombing; and seeing the perp walk he was given vs what in all actuality is a simple and singular homicide speaks volumes.

[loopscereal]

LOOPS STOP FUCKING AROUND AND DRAW

[loopscereal]

my ass shouldnt yave closed my wyes at 4am i shouldve kept going fuck my life

[loopscereal]

im still in the building. ouughhtgh hair.

[loopscereal]

TOP HALF LINED AND BASE COLORS APPLIED TOO thumbs up tiiiiime to do an implied bg, thinking time…

[loopscereal]

implied bg done uh okkkkkk move on loops move on

[loopscereal]

ok top half done bottom half get lined NOW no rough sketch 👹👹👹 no cleaned sketch we dint have time👹👹👹

[loopscereal]

small forcef break by my pen charger wants ti go and die 🙄

[loopscereal]

pia left to go to sleeo im aline in this fight now…… the funal stretch is up to me 🐎

[loopscereal]

im not gonna fucking make it ive been working kn this for like nine hours and nothing dude i need to fix my workflow BADLT.

[southern45acp]

@loopscereal Honestly Netflix has produced much less captivating decents into madness than this post string. I hope tomorrow is a better day for you Loops.

[emmaklee]

[pourquoiwhy]

I learned a new concept

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative. The purpose of graceful degradation is to prevent catastrophic failure. (Tech Target, first result on the search engine)

[biglawbear]

Literal opposite of planned obsolescence. I love you graceful degradation.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Oh neat the first time I heard of the concept the guy described it to me as "catastrophic functionality".

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

I've been having a few bad years mental health wise, and thinking about those robots a lot .

[randomitemdrop]

Item: in the 1950s research was starting to suggest smoking cigarettes might be bad for you, so one company beefed up their filter with asbestos

[mutipede]

Damn they didn't just use asbestos they used the worst asbestos

[southern45acp]

Don't worry the corporations will always look out for you.