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When it comes to chronic illnesses, mental illnesses, and disabilities, I've noticed that a lot of able-bodied people either don't take names seriously, or don't understand and ask you to explain what it is to them.

Now, if you have any kind of disability, you know it's fucking annoying go have people make you explain something over and over again, or have people go "oh, you have X? You mean, like the [awful stereotype] thing?"

So, I have realized recently that being Vague As Shit is great for making people leave you the hell alone.

I have autism and anxiety, and with that comes the symptom of selective mutism. If you don't know what that is, Firefox is free. But I had an episode where I couldn't speak today in one of my classes, and knew I would have to explain it to my partner and probably my professor.

This usually goes with me writing that I can't speak, them asking why, me saying selective mutism, and them asking me what that is. Then I have to painstakingly write out an explanation. And, obviously, I'm tired of this. So I tried something new. When he asked, I simply told him I couldn't speak, and when he asked if I physically couldn't or just didn't want to, I just opened my mouth and unleashed the terrifying, awful, broken stuttering that comes out when I try to speak while mute.

His response was "OKAY OKAY OKAY YOU CAN STOP NOW" and he did not question me for the rest of class, and even explained to the professor what was wrong when she tried to make me popcorn read.

This also works on doctors. When I tell doctors I have PCOS, POTS, or hEDS, they usually hear "oh the crazy women self diagnosis disabilities" and treat me accordingly. So, instead I drop unhinged symptoms until they leave me alone.

"Yes, my last menstrual cycle started on December 12th, 2025 and ended January 28th, 2026." "I have experienced several events where I have passed out randomly, yes." "My hip has subluxated six times in the past week."

It's like in the principles of writing horror. If you name and describe the problem, it's easier for people to minimize and ignore. Don't let them. You live with this fucking bullshit every day. Let your symptoms haunt people. They don't need to know everything about you. Besides, it makes them treat you better than when you give them names.

homunculus-argument

A grand fantasy city-state that has developed a consistent, uniform system of "best by"-dates, not just for food safety reasons and to reduce food waste, but to also significantly reduce crime and conflict between residents. The matter at hand is goblins.

Goblin residents of the city are legal citizens with equal rights just the same as everyone else, but their natural lifestyle differs dramatically from the rest of the peoples living in the city. They are scavengers by nature, having no problems with eating carrion, overripe fruits and plants, and building everything they own from things that other races throw away as junk and trash. As the city produces plenty of waste that goblins would love to take and the city is glad to be rid of, any well-organised city is not just a paradise for goblins, but welcomes them with open arms. They save the city a fortune in waste disposal costs.

Problems mainly arise by differing ideas of what counts as "discarded". Goblins are unfairly labelled as thieves, when they are merely opportunistic and optimistic by nature, and will interpret any unclear situation to their own benefit, and will argue "how was I supposed to know that you still wanted it?" over things that looked lovely and were left unattended. And while yoinked items of clothing and other tools are easily returned or financially reimbursed (paying for what they already took is the only use that goblins have for money, which they do not steal), but foodstuff is gone faster than you can blink.

So, the city needed to determine laws for how to define and clearly label when consumable goods are no longer fit to most peoples' consumption, both to help people keep track on how old their groceries are, and also to mark them for goblins. So even though the food that's past the date on it can still be good to eat, it might also be gone by the next time you reach for it.

viralfrog

hms-no-fun

THE SPIRIT OF BUSTER KEATON LIVES ON

razielim

imagine you're don abene for a second.

you encounter a secunit for the first time.

it saves your life in a situation where no one else would have been fast, strong, agile, and composed enough to do so.

your security team is immediately more alarmed by its presence than the attack that is obvious to you as the bigger issue at the moment

they insist it's dangerous and struggle to relax enough to take their weapons off of it

then a combatbot attacks your group

somehow this secunit, much smaller than the bot, unarmored, without any heavy weaponry on its person, manages to take it down. some real jaw-dropping action, all over in less than a minute

then it leaps into a room with two combatbots and not only survives, but it gets your unconscious friend out alive

then it immediately comes to your own rescue, disabling impressive combat armor

it then is dead-set on killing your attacker who is already immobilized and harmless

clearly this is an incredibly competent and dangerous and powerful person

then miki tells you that it IS rin and you finally put it together that not only is this person competent in the field, but it is also calling all its own shots and has truly come here all on its own and volunteered its services to help and protect you without needing to be asked or ordered

so this person is incredibly competent, dangerous, powerful, AND kind, AND fiercely protective, AND reassuring, AND intelligent, AND selfless

and it's still coming up with great ideas and still thinking proactively about how it's going to face down or distract another combatbot as though there's no doubt in the world that it, still bleeding heavily, still unarmored and barely armed, is ready for another round with a terrifying machine that appears to be nothing BUT armor and weapons

so you step forward to help treat its injuries

and it jerks back a step with the single most frightened face you've ever seen, as though you had lifted your arm to inflict pain and it was helpless to stop you

behind you, even miki can read the devastating expression that's breaking your heart and says "abene won't hurt you, secunit"

where did the fearsome fighter from moments ago disappear to?

who did this to it?

asthedeathoflight

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

achillbeing

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

achillbeing

Amazing concept

butchfagminotaur

just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

butchfagminotaur

like the reason this exists is because none of the words sound like each other, which means that even with a terrible signal both parties should be able to clearly understand the words being spelled

i am dead serious that i believe this should be taught in school

unicorncryptid

I am firmly of the belief that if Wheel of Fortune had enforced this spelling alphabet we would have a far easier time on the phone today.

digitaldiscipline

At my old job, I'd have to improvise occasionally, with the best/worst one being, "X as in wife."

monidoll

instant loss 2koma

prokopetz

The really funny part is that many modern sources that want to gas up Sparta will bring up this specific anecdote, but stop at the "if" and just not mention what happened immediately afterwards.

vympr

Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery

i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......

sassytail

also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.

brunhiddensmusings

oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated he then revealed that the original xbox logo...

is a sourdough boule

redrook

stuffedeggplants

I love medieval travelogues where the author casually mentions seeing "big frogs" or something in the Nile river, followed by an irritated comment about how the locals bodily prevented the author from seeing these big frogs up close.

The big frogs, doing their best to be innocent and frog-like, they would never hurt anyone, certainly not: 🌴🐊🐊🐊🌊

stuffedeggplants

"So they call it a 'crocodile' but it's basically a giant frog. ANYWAY, about the hydrology..."

"I was amazed at such lack of manners, I was just trying to look at the crocodile."

Large frogs deprived of lunch yet again. Very sad to be a frog.

hyperpotamianarch

The idea that the Plague of Frogs was actually one of crocodiles is something that exists in Jewish thought abd exegesis! Not that common and well known, but it exists. That's what Obadiah di Bartinoro means when he mentions Nahmanides.

On the one hand, they supposedly made a comment on a Hebrew word of meaning that was unknown to them. Meaning, one might think that they just believe the Hebrew word "Tzfardea‘" means crocodile. However, it's just as likely that they considered crocodiles bog frogs. However, the only reason I find that idea compelling is that a plague of frogs sounds ridiculous, while one of crocodiles sounds legitimately scary. Meaning, they might not mean "it's a frog, so basically harmless", but "it's the kind of frog that's actually dangerous, the one that troubled the Egyptians in the Plague of Frogs".

majingojira

Suddenly, Hellboy's "Plague of Frogs" makes a lot more sense.

cipheramnesia

Probably the main difference with Pathfinder 1/2e is that its developer, Paizo, keeps every single rule online free and also organized with a mind boggling degree of efficiency, which means anywhere you have internet access you can put [rule name] and [Pathfinder edition] into a search engine and go directly to the rule, and if parts of that rule aren't clear it takes you via embedded links to a clarification, plus also every list of stuff is organized and filterable so if you're ever not sure about anything for a single second you're able to find out with a ten second search. Even games with way less rules take more time to figure out rules questions purely because you gotta find em in a book or a PDF. Like dammmmnnnn those rules are organized as fuck.

random-transfem-witch-punk

Archives of Nethys is a beloved resource :3

Tho, its actually a passion project thats *partnered* with paizo :3

cipheramnesia

That explains why it's so excellent.

smallestbubs

like whack a mole

rat-council-official

official they can't win against us all post

arborealgargoyle

notice how they pause instead of all-out running? rat want grab-toss. they are playing a game! and pausing to make sure human has time to grab them and gently toss like the football!

aquilacalvitium

If I was a rat I would enjoy this too

thewuzzy

i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

brainrotdotorg

ideal woman to me and i am not kidding

poisonedcure

SHE SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB

lastoneout

I don’t think the club could handle her

euphreana-reblogs

WAIT IS IT??

angstandhappiness

LMAO YES

charlesoberonn

*chuckles randomly because I remembered "Man stop wasting them peoples time"*

maxattax

charlesoberonn

The one case where he's not wasting them people's time.

charlesoberonn

Okay I don't know where you got that idea from but I found the original episode on YouTube and he has no twin brother nor claimed the kids were his brother's.