#internet malarkey

[earlgraytay]

Oh, my godddd, miss me with this shit.

Stimming just means 'self-stimulating behaviour". It is anything one does to give oneself A Good Sensory Feeling. That can mean flapping and rocking and spinning but it can also mean twirling your hair, chewing your pencil, blinking repeatedly, singing (under your breath or otherwise), and playing with fucking stim toys...

and everyone stims. I mean everyone. Your mom stims. Your therapist stims. Ableist Neurotypical Steve From Marketing stims. e v e r y o n e no exceptions.

autistic people stim MORE often than neurotypical people and in different ways, for a wide variety of reasons. but you can't gatekeep basic human behaviour because you're tired of people on the internet thinking you're cringe or whatever, jfc

[earlgraytay]

do you ever see someone talking about transhumanism and just think, "man, you need to hang out with more furries"

[earlgraytay]

...I think Wikipedia's system for dealing with serial vandals is probably the best on the internet for dealing with the problem of "person is toxic and won't fuck off"/"person keeps breaking TOUs and won't fuck off", and it mystifies me that more sites don't do something similar.

[earlgraytay]

you should not advocate for any political violence that you would not be willing to do with your own fucking hands

you should not advocate for any political violence that you would not be willing to take on all consequences of, both to yourself and the people around you

even as a joke

even as a meme

even as an expression of your disgust at Capitalist Hell

because sure. to you it might just be a joke or an expression of frustration. you may be intellectually okay with killing certain people, but are being held back by the consequences that'd result from their deaths.

but to the teenager who's marinating in emotions they can't handle, or the guy who thinks God is talking to him through random internet posts, or the person who's suicidal and is looking for an altar to martyr themself on?

your jokes and memes stop looking like jokes and memes and start looking like good ideas

stochastic terrorism never stopped being a thing. making an atmosphere where it's okay to talk about killing or maiming or hurting means that, inevitably, someone will try to hurt or maim or kill. the right wing does it all the fucking time, and it has a fucking body count

if you are not personally willing to pick up a gun and go down the list of 100 CEOs and shoot them yourself- if you're unwilling for any reason- you should not publically joke about doing it

because the blood of whatever poor sucker decides they ought to do it will be on your hands

[earlgraytay]

I'm continuing to work on that guidebook for nonbinary young people and ....

it's really depressing that I have to allude to the existence of things like l/o/lc/ow in a section that's supposed to be about finding community

[earlgraytay]

tbh anyone who reblogs that Mardoll's Law post is getting unfollowed unless they are a Cherished Mutual

i can't believe we are still trying to make a doxxing victim the Main Character Of The Internet just because he was annoying

[earlgraytay]

I’m really really starting to hate the word “simp”. 

[earlgraytay]

The actual point of "acting like they don't know they're wrong" IS in fact to cause you pain. It's because they find corrections annoying and want to hurt you for making them.

....intellectually, I know this.

The part of me that still wants to believe that most people are good and don’t realize the harm they’re causing each other, on the other hand...