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one of my favourite human songs-and-dances is when someone notices someone else is lying and, for no particular reason besides love of the game, helps them get away with the lie without ever explicitly acknowledging they noticed. nightmare social animals.

lifeafterpsychiatry

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

teaboot

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

parakeet

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

crowcryptid

awheckery

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

roach-works

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

keeskiwi

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).

sarazanmai

byrdiboo

Imagine losing a game you rigged

Honestly, I think it's a matter of sincerity.

It doesn't matter how ridiculous and stupid and silly the premise is, if you commit to it with your whole ass, your efforts will show and people will be immersed into the world you've created.

I'm so used to shows/movies based on other properties making fun of themselves because "oh look we're that stupid silly game, oh we're mascots, isn't it crazy and dumb that we're that property?? Isn't it silly that we're doing tropes?"

Like idk man I didn't think you were when I went in but now I do because you clearly hate yourself.

And when I saw this was a show now, I was more baffled than anything else, because???? What????

And since it was such a fuckin trend, I could already imagine the stupid bullshit nonsense it was gonna be. They were gonna be making Among Us jokes at every turn. Isn't it so ridiculous that we're doing Among Us. Isn't that person stupid for getting killed. How lame is it that we're voting to kill people, etc.

But to my shock, it wasn't. It wasn't ironic even a little bit. It took its premise of murder beans in space dead seriously, and none of its jokes were the ironic insecure kind that poke fun at itself. It's a smart show with well-written plot twists, natural developments of both plot and character, and it has rewatch value in that you can go "oh of COURSE that one was the imposter the whole time, look at how they're acting!!"

It was SINCERE, and its belief in itself let me get immersed even when the stupidest bullshit ever was happening onscreen.

It's like, an actually good show??? You don't have to have played the game to understand what's going on, and you don't have to know what their references are for the jokes to be funny. It's absolutely fuckin stunning that the bar is that low, but this show still rises above with flying colors.

The whole plot of the season itself does feel very exactly like an actual game session, even with the mechanical liberties they took. It's also very anti-corpo and pro-union and has a message very similar to the first Alien movie.

And, of course, I was infinitely entertained by how these little dudes are not stylized humans- their species (and gender) is simply "crewmate".

The orgy was a surprise, though.

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yiddishfisting

howling

orpheuslament

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

astrodael

oneheadtoanother

tachyon-log

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

fishmech

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

bunniope

can we focus on the gnome for a second

bunniope

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

ladyofspoons

these are the people i have to share a highway with

abby-howard

A couple scenes from a little gay vampire story I was kicking around a couple years ago! I sometimes do little pencils-only scenes for things and never post them. But I was looking back at these and was like why not? They're cute!

I have a whole story for these two, but just for funsies, something to do every now and then when I need to let loose.

beaft

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

beaft

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

beaft

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

beaft

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

wiisagi-maiingan

Radical concept but. . . dehumanizing people at all let alone for where they happened to be born. . . . . . is bad.

ouroborosorder

Shoutouts to the time I had a severe fever and took benedryl and wanted to listen to feel good inc but couldn’t remember the name. I think I was crying over this