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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@thegrumpydeckhand
if you ever interact with someone who is mentally ill/mad/pathologised or disabled in some way, assume they are trying hard enough. act as if they are trying hard enough. dont even consider it an option that they arent trying hard enough. if they are failing to meet some goal or expectation, it is despite trying hard enough.
version for when that person is you: you are trying hard enough. if it's not working, its because of some other barrier unrelated to how hard you are trying.
A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings
You wanna know what's fucked?
Your brain is a 25-watt computer.
Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.
I don't like that fact
No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.
It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable
Art in the Age of Digital Puritanism (2022) by Iness Rychlik The artist reposted it in 2024 "because it feels relevant in social media today".
And also
I ❤️ MY PUBLIC LIBRARY
You shouldn’t be treating nb people like the secret sexy 3rd gender. Nb people don’t look like a mash of male and female, they’re not sexy androgynous twinks
white skinny androgynous nb people reblogging this and saying shit like “Well this is what I look like! So I feel represented!” Are literally part of the problem. I’m not saying that no nb people are white/skinny/andro, I’m saying that those are the only type of nb bodies that get represented
its nice, isnt it, when nonbinary people are visibly distinct from binary people? its easy, isnt it? you can remember to use “they” for people who have no visible breasts or beards, right? no need to challenge the notion of male vs female if nonbinary people have their own look, isnt that right?
its time to step the fuck up and really understand that nonbinary looks like anybody. nonbinary looks like you. nonbinary looks like your family and friends and it looks like the strangers who you thoughtlessly call “he” or “she” because of their appearance.
really supporting nonbinary people means understanding that theres no visual tell - you wont recognise all of us as nonbinary on sight. you have to actually LISTEN to us. you have to BELIEVE us. and it means challenging your assumptions about gender, starting with the assumption that youre an ally to trans people while youre still doing puerile shit like gendering body parts and clothes.
NONBINARY LOOKS LIKE ANYBODY. ANY BODY CAN BE NONBINARY.
fantasy characters: “Geez”
me: who the fuck spread Christianity there
this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up
W H A T
@rogha
In moments like this I always fall back on the fact that they also aren’t speaking English because they don’t have England or the many languages and conquering peoples that contributed to the creation of the English language and therefore the work musr be a translation into recognizable terms in our world’s terms. Call that Tolkien Brainrot.
Definitely funnier if you make fantasy explanations though,
Champagne is a wizard who sells bubbly alcohol.
It’s called English because of the original Lish people, all languages start with En here.
French fries are not potatoes they’re roots of the french plant.
Goodbye is now short for ‘good be your eye’ wishing you luck seeing the path ahead.
Jesus Christ is a long dead lich who used to cause everyone problems and we haven’t stopped saying her name when things go wrong.
And that’s the Pratchett approach
[Image: Screencap from Shrek 2; the text, “They don’t even have dental!” was changed to “They don’t even have France!”]
A reminder that masculinity can be queer, it can be freeing, and it can be desirable
Those Awesome Anxiety Dreams...
I'm an anxious person. I get anxiety dreams, frequently. There's the "missed all semester of class, finals are in an hour" type, the "gotta pee, all the bathrooms are some kind of Echeresque nightmare of public humiliation" ones, and since I started working on boats I got a new one:
We're pulling in to the harbor, which is packed with boats, the fairway is like 5 ft wide and I have no clue where our slip is. I'm getting ready to tie up, I've got the line in my hand, but the cleat is nowhere to be seen. So I'm running around this catwalk-filled industrial monstrosity searching for the cleat while the captain yells at me. Sometimes it's on the roof of the wheelhouse, sometimes it's inside a maze of bulkheads, sometimes I can't find it.
Preferable to the school dreams though, at least they're relevant. Feels a little silly to be dreaming about high school when I'm in my 30s.
Changes Ahead!
I recently left my old company to sign on as deckhand naturalist for a new whale watch venture! New boat, new crew, but my motto is 'people are idiots all over the world', so I'm sure I'll still be grumpy sometimes. At least my new employers aren't malignant narcissists!
I'm actually really excited for the change, and the crew I signed on with seem fantastic. I've been landlocked for too long, super eager to be working on the water again!
My Trans Superpower
I'm on a mic in front of a bunch of strangers all day, and as my voice as dropped I've gotten so many compliments on my speaking voice- it's soothing, I should run for office because of my public speaking skills (?), I should have my own nature show...
It's such a cool, unexpected bonus to my transition.
Working on one of our boats yesterday, the cap couldn't stop saying king nipple. Just. Keep us giggling while we're wading through fiberglass shards and scraps. Well done.
Random boat philosophy encounter
I was talking to a gentleman from Afganistan on the boat today. It was his first time watching whales.
He turned an unexpected corner in our conversation when he mentioned how beautiful humans are in our diversity.
"God created the first human, and we all come from him"
I'm not particularly religious, especially not inclined to the Abrahamic faiths, but this stuck with me.
I've heard the story of Adam and Eve of course, but the context was always loss of innocence, original sin, etc. Hearing the story not as a parable of guilt, but as a reminder of our unity, was completely new.
We all come from the same body.
A brief update
I'm still a full time naturalist! Significantly less vomit. Way more stupid questions.
Recently I overheard a deckhand telling a passenger that whales go south for the winter 'to hibernate.'
XD
Our boat is tied up at a mooring ball these days and someone has been sneaking aboard at night and taking a shit on the deck.
What. The. Fuck.
This is what happens when you get tipped in small bills and then stumble home and toss it all on the desk. All summer long. Literally all $1 bills.
If you get comp tickets to go whale watching
Bring your 5 overstimulated monsters with you
Have the captain announce the monster's birthday birthday
Get applause and attention from the whole crew
Give us all stress headaches trying to prevent your children from killing themselves or others
AND YOU DIDN'T PAY A DIME FOR ANY OF THIS
mmmmaaybe JUST MAYBE
YOU SHOULD TIP
