Honestly man I kind of love telling able people I used to be a support worker. The response is always ableist but sometimes it's in a surreal and fascinating way.
Once I had someone do the whole "that seems so hard, you must be so patient" standard routine. I ask her, "why's that?" You know, why do I need to be some kind of virtuous martyr to watch 90s cartoons with other disabled people for $30 an hour?
And she says to me, with full seriousness and a look of utter dread on her face,
OK mate. What do you mean. What biting. What are you on about.
"The biting," she repeats, as if it's obvious and I ought to intuitively know what she means. Then she kind of snaps her teeth to demonstrate. "You know?"
No I don't know. What do you mean biting.
"They bite," she says. Eyes wide, dead serious. "The, um, the Slow People. They bite."
Melany, I says to her I says, they're not damn draculas.
I've made this exact post like 3 different times atp but. It's endlessly funny when people (especially tech company people) treat Asimov's three laws as a legit proposed framework for Artificial Intelligence safety when like. Nearly every single Asimov story they're featured in involves something going wrong as a result of a robot trying to follow three three laws in a situation that makes execution of the laws ambiguous or contradictory. They're not a guideline for legit AI programming they're a plot device designed to cause problems due to interacting in weird ways with complicated hypothetical situations!
I keep seeing posts claiming that x y or z action you can do to build a better world won’t matter. That capitalism doesn’t care, and your own actions dont amount to much.
It’s so painfully individualistic. Of course me doing that thing isn’t going to save anybody or anything.
Im not trying to be a superhero who personally saves the say.
I am one leaf making oxygen in a massive forest of other trees making oxygen. I am doing my best and having faith that millions of others will do their best as well.
Because that can and has made big changes over time. Like. That is just how change happens. Thats cultural shifts. Thats political shifts. Thats how lasting changes happen.
I don’t plant milkweed because I’m personally gonna save monarch butterflies. I plant milkweed because I know thousands of us are gonna plant milkweed and send money to the people fighting horrible pesticides in court.
The standard for change isn’t “is my doing this going to change the world?” The standard is “is my doing this part of the shift I want to see my community make?” And if the answer is yes, I do my best.
The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.
And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and
some advice for people entering their 20s:
-dont go to the emergency room with dental problems. go to the dentist
-bagged greens are cheaper than pre-made salads
-taco bell is NOT worth the money anymore. 1/4 cup mayo, 1/4 cup sour cream, 3 tblspoons pickled jalapenos+2tblspoons of the jar liquid, 2 tsp paprika 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder salt+pepper. all in your blender. creamy jalapeno sauce
-dont quit your job unless you have a bunch of job interviews lined up immediately after
-use resources. food bank, unemployment, housing assistance, financial aid, etc. yes there will be paperwork. but Do It
-dont stay awake longer than 20 hours. you Will start to become impulsive and cranky. resting for 20 minutes is better than trying to stay awake
-for every 2 hours you spend looking up close at screens, spend 20 minutes looking at something far away from you. stretch your wrists a lot
-dont do that yoga stretch where you roll your head around your shoulders. youre grinding down the joints in your neck
-be nice to your friends, bullying them as a joke gets old. if you need a ride somewhere at least offer them gas money
-brush your teeth at any time of the day but especially before you sleep. dont snack in bed if you can help it. make your bed the Clean Teeth Zone. keep floss picks by your bed
-dont tell your boss youre adhd/autism/depression/suicidal. dont trust your coworkers with that. you NEVER know how people will take it and its none of their business
-train your pets to go to the front door when they hear a fire alarm
seeing support for lazy eye in any form is so fucking rare and it bums me out. shoutout to people who have a constant lazy eye. shoutout to people who have an occasional lazy eye. shoutout to people who have both eyes that are lazy. shoutout to people who are somewhere in between, a mix, or have a lazy eye in an entirely new way or in a way that is hard to describe. i love you. you don't look stupid, you don't look unattractive. you are beautiful as you are, and anyone who sees you lesser for this isn't worth your time.
At this point it's more disappointing than shocking that not a single assassin in the states can aim a fucking gun
My girlfriend manifested this through my hands.
hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"
I think that misogynistic human misconceptions of all mothers selflessly loving their offspring and always knowing the perfect thing to do for them bleeds into a lot of animal rights bullshit. You see this a lot in opposition to pet spay aborts (‘my pregnant cat got depressed after they killed her unborn babies’) and criticisms of separating calves and piglets from their mothers’ in certain animal agriculture scenarios. Most animals are like “fuck them kids” if rearing their offspring is the least bit convenient for them, the situation is not ideal or the wild blows the wrong way. They’re hardwired to survive as individuals and the effort of rearing offspring to maturity is secondary to that goal.
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randomfandom4091Reblogged1hredstonedustMar 21Followwhen the allegedly cishet neurotypical relative hits you with the "well i think everyones a little bit on the spectrum" "its normal to think about kissing your girl friends sometimes" "sure i've never felt like a woman but i can't change what i am." and you have to suddenly carefully evaluate whether theyre just being dismissive or if you've unlocked some very interesting potential information about your grandmother.955,52314,530
randomfandom4091Reblogged1hbedupolker2dFollowIt feels cool to be "in" on celebrity gossip before anyone else. I ran into Californian Condor V9 and looked her up on the condor lookup website. It says her current mate is dead and she has no kids but I saw her with a new man AND a juvenile.taciturn-nerd2dOP I hope you don't mind but I made a tabloid cover out of thisALTI used two more condor photos by Andrew Orr and Alam Clampitt from peregrinefund.orgGotta use the skills I learned from making tabloids out of the Jane Austen novels somewhere right?Great, now I feel like I'm bird shaming. Congrats V9 on your new family!animals-with-fan-art2dThis is art to me4716,73025,072
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randomfandom4091Reblogged foundfamilynonsense18hhomunculus-argumentFeb 21FollowTop 10 branches of science ranked by how bad it would suck to be killed by them (from best to worst)Physics - probably the nicest just on the grounds of how fast that's gonna be. Like if you're a goner before any of the other sciences can get to you, you probably don't even have time to feel anything.Biology - the most standard default way of dying. Most of the time it sucks but not badly enough to warrant you its own wikipedia page.Geology - one of the oldest OG classics. Rock hits Og. Og is gone.Psychology - slow tigers are chasing you.Zoology - fast tigers are chasing you.Sociology - idk me and the rest of the angry mob agree that you had it coming.Chemistry - this is a hard one to place because there's a lot of variation. But anyhow you're getting undone on a cellular level.Mathematics - how the fuck did you even do that.Cosmology - why the fuck did you even do that?Theology - what the fuck did you even do?padnickApr 12This is like ten episodes of Star Trek in a row. 1958,49319,427
randomfandom4091Reblogged5dtrolliticsSep 21, 2017FollowclassicalmonoblogueNov 20, 2017Apparently the dude who runs the crematorium is just fundamentally confused about how advertising works.
He actually thought that the way you made an ad was you found a picture that got people’s attention … and then also included information about your company.
He was genuinely surprised and baffled when people thought there was any relationship between the (independently nonsensical) captioned image and his cremation business.
There were two more ads in the series that are equally, just… so much…_______________________________________________________________cornerof5thandvermouthDec 1, 2017this is somehow incredibly effective tbhpansexualkiba5dmemento mori and all that jazz17899,45392,226
randomfandom4091Reblogged urbanpineapplefarmer5dthestuffedalligatorJul 21, 2022FollowThe urban fantasy show I actually want to see is a hospital drama with a dedicated wing for supernatural illnesses.Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.Someone somewhere out there is having their perception of the world irreparably shattered by the knowledge that magic is real, and at the other side is a team of doctors who have to roll their eyes and pull out Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales because some high school kid tried to go Carrie with a cheap spellbook and turn all the kids at prom into frogs, and the doctors have to wrangle a couple dozen teenagers into admitting if they have a true love who can break the spell. sindri42Jan 15, 2023I want the hospital director to be some dark entity that feeds on human misery but figured out that if you successfully treat the source of the misery then instead of hunting you down as an abomination the humans start bringing more miserable people to your house en masse and things kinda got out of hand from there.omicronus-1326Jan 15, 2023Grimm's Anatomy9534,98040,176
randomfandom4091Reblogged noir-renard6dc-is-for-circinateMar 15FollowForever mourning that I can't simply require all students who attempt to plagiarize assignments to watch the four-hour-long hbomberguy Somerton video and then write me a one-page reaction on it, as penance. I think four hours of 'this is what plagiarism does and also how respectable people think about it' would be good for them.specialagentartemisApr 6I literally assigned this as an extra credit assignment for my class. And like of the people that did it only half put any effort into it at all. I hope they at least retained something. But the other half wrote, apparently in earnest, that they actually understood better what plagiarism was and why it was wrong. It was so validating to be able to make students watch it. live your dreams127412,115
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randomfandom4091Reblogged urbanpineapplefarmer6dcolestyle-deactivated20231123"if you're going to eat that rotisserie chicken please do it in an area where none of us can see" you hate me. you hate me because i have different eating habits than you and you want me to STARVEcolestyle-deactivated20231123look upon my works ye mighty and weep (im not done there's still plenty of good meat on there)colestyle-deactivated20231123reviews are inhexfruitJul 27, 2023"plenty of good meat on there"achivement-unlockedApr 3, 2025Achievement unlocked! RECONSTRUCT WHAT?!?!THERES NOTHING LEFT.14624,41728,721
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randomfandom4091RebloggedApr 20wherevenusholdssomeofficespaceApr 20FollowBaljeet snuck out the bathroom window and ran to his friends house because he couldn't deal with a girl in his house. The fireside girls almost unanimously agree he does not count as a cute boy. But despite this he still has had more success in love than all of his friends combined. He has 13 volumes of useless shoelace facts. All his male ancestors have been mauled by tigers in bike races. He thought his uncle was missing when he was just on vacation. He once completely disregarded the consequences of removing the atmosphere from the earth. He wanted to be a superhero with rainbow powers but his second option was basically the hulk. He is portrayed as a stereotypically wimpy nerd compared to Buford, but it cannot be understated how much he will choose violence when it is available to him. When left alone with a sleeping teenager he started stacking cards on top of her. He thinks listening to the science of canceled tv shows makes for good plans. He once pushed his way into lead singing a spontaneous musical number away from the actual lead singer of the song. 3103259
randomfandom4091Reblogged urbanpineapplefarmerApr 20apollos-boyfriendJul 20, 2025Followjust overheard my dad on the phone going “yeah, i’d be more than happy to buy her daughter off of you, how much would you be willing to trade her for?” and got Very Worried for a second before remembering that he manages dairy farms for a living. surely there’s gotta be a better way to word that manapollos-boyfriendJul 20, 202520,76030,820
randomfandom4091Reblogged looney-mooneyApr 20foxboytailApr 16FollowAs a young adult, I used to think what messed me up as a kid was having completely unfiltered access to things I wasn’t ready for, like NSFW content, gore, heavy discourse, and the existence of predatory adults online. But now that I’m older, I see it differently.The problem wasn’t what I had access to. It was that I didn’t have access to a safe adult I could actually talk to; someone I could trust to help me without immediately cutting me off from everything and everyone. I remember getting messages from strangers on Skype. I didn’t even respond. But when my parents found out, they banned me from using it entirely. That meant losing most of my contact with friends outside of school. So what did I do? I went behind their backs. And once I was hiding, I couldn’t tell them when something actually dangerous was happening, like when I started being groomed. By the time things escalated, I was already alone with it.I think about an episode of Scared Straight where a girl was dragged through a prison because she’d been talking to adult men online. She wasn’t doing that because she was reckless or malicious; she was lonely. Her parents weren’t present, she was being bullied at school, and these men gave her attention, told her she was pretty, told her she mattered. She was already being harmed. And the adults in her life responded by terrorizing her. Humiliating her. Calling her a slut. Telling her she deserved it. Breaking her to pieces.What lesson does that actually teach? Not “this is dangerous, come to us.” It teaches: If you get hurt, we will hurt you more. Do you really think that makes her stop, or does it just make the predators look safer by comparison? They might as well have driven her straight into the jaws of those predators with torches and pitchforks. Because when every path back to safety is lined with punishment, kids don’t run away from danger. They run deeper into it.If you want kids to be safe, stop treating them like problems to control and start treating them like people worth protecting. Stop ripping away their autonomy the second they make a mistake or encounter something risky. Stop teaching them that honesty will cost them everything.Be the person they can come to without fear of losing their entire world. Because safety isn’t built through control, it’s built through trust. And if you aren’t safe for them to tell the truth to, then you aren’t keeping them safe at all.528,49312,230
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randomfandom4091Reblogged mothman-etdApr 20presidentdragonJul 12, 2024Follow"that time of the month" "monthly visitor" "feminine hygiene products" GRRAH!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! PERIOD!! MENSTRUATION!!!! TAMPONS!!! PADS!! MENOPAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!tyke-dykeDec 24, 2024VAGINA!!!! presidentdragonDec 24, 2024lastoneoutApr 230949,25758,705
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randomfandom4091RebloggedApr 20seven-winged-liarMar 1Followthe only place that 'i suffered and because i suffered so should you' belongs is when you see something diabolical or emotionally devastating on the internet so naturally youve gotta call up your best friends277,09813,895
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randomfandom4091RebloggedApr 20systlinApr 3FollowEvery time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you. It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out. And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN. I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment. Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports. 26915,94824,141
randomfandom4091Reblogged looney-mooneyApr 20fangsup-cobrastyleApr 14FollowMaking this its own post because I occasionally remember this and can't stop laughingWhen I was 14, my friends and I went to see Madagascar 3 - told our parents and then walked to and from the theater by ourselves. When I got home, my mom asked me all kinds of questions about the movie, and I told her about it, and I kept singing the stupid Afro Circus songand eventually she gave in and was like, "Wait, you guys really went to see Madagascar? I assumed you were lying to us and sneaking into a rated R movie." And I fear I have never felt so lame as I did in that moment.fangsup-cobrastyleApr 14Adding to this: I was in the closet at the time, and my parents knew that I was going through something incredibly distressing that I wouldn't tell them about. So in their heads, I was doing drugs and sneaking into rated R movies, and in reality, I was going to see Madagascar with my pretty friend who I was afraid to look in the eye.67351,392
randomfandom4091Reblogged looney-mooneyApr 20dragonflavoredcakeMar 25, 2025FollowRejection sensitivity dysphoria is the weirdest ADHD symptom ever. Like hello yes my weird brain chemistry manifests as Whiny Crybaby DisordereroscestlavieNov 25, 2025btw this is not a universally agreed upon "symptom" of ADHD and I think many people would benefit from treating it as part & parcel of ADHD's broad, foundational trait: inability to do emotional regulation. A feeling of total rejection and terror at failure is a treatable and manageable issue. For me, I found it easier to manage once recognized that the reason I was having these reactions is that like many other emotional states, I couldn't "exit" an emotional state related to feelings of rejection once I was in it.imo way too many people are going through life thinking they're just going to be sensitive to rejection for life because of how some people (not OP, but definitely plenty of ADHD influencers) talk about this "symptom." I don't think it's terribly productive that it gets constantly cordoned off as its own thing. like a lot of ADHD, while it sucks to have it shape your life up to the point you realize what it is, it is indeed possible to exposure therapy & DBT your way out of it. signed: someone with ADHD who used to not be able to take critical feedback from anyone every and is now a freelancer and gets critical feedback three times before breakfast. still workin on it but it's very possible to go from "whiny crybaby disorder" to "mostly functional, if slightly sensitive ADHD adult"grison-in-spaceDec 3, 2025I also think it's worth noting that rejection sensitive dysphoria is most parsimoniously interpreted as a trauma reaction—a learned response to a potential signals of social relationship deteriorating for reasons the ADHD person can't necessarily control. Social relationships are incredibly important to humans, and ADHD (especially undiagnosed and undisclosed) really sets us up to fail. This is especially true given that perceived social blame for stressful situations is a massive factor in transmuting stressful experiences into lasting trauma, and ADHDers are typically judged to be personally responsible for the failures that happen as a result of attentional, time awareness, or memory failures. What conceptualizing RSD as a category of trauma response to social triggers does is allow us to treat it like any other trauma response. It pulls RSD out of the bioessentialist framework and into the realm of injuries that can be treated, learned associations that can be unlearned. It turns out that the same techniques that help with PTSD triggers, including the same damn meds (hi, clonidine), are effective for helping reduce RSD. (It also explains why RSD is also common in autistic people, who often have a similar history of social error and narratives of self blame, without requiring inherent neurological differences.) It's a common kind of stress injury, basically. It's not Whiny Crybaby Disorder; it's more like shin splints. Getting better shoes for running, being careful about the ground you run on, and letting the splints heal properly can all help make shin splints go away when you've been running barefoot on concrete roads your whole life. 4310,58116,005
randomfandom4091Reblogged our-queer-experienceApr 20homunculus-argumentJan 28, 2022FollowSaw a post about whether Johnny Bravo would date a trans woman, and now the thought is in my head and I hate being able to picture exactly how that conversation goes, so now I have to write it out.You ask him, as a hypothetical question. He says he doesn't know what that word means, but you said "women" so now he's interested. No, the other word. He doesn't know what "hypothetical" means. He interrupts your explanation to let you know that sounds boring, he doesn't want to know what "hypothetical" means. What was that other word, you said "women". You try to explain as simply as you can, being frequently interrupted by reminders that he is uninterested in abstract concepts and unfamiliar terminology. He doesn't know what a chromosome is. He doesn't want to know what a chromosome is. He is unsure how any of this subject is related to the ladies but he's optimistic about it.After about half an hour, he finishes with asking "ok but what's the difference". After a while of unfruitful back and forth, you understand what he's asking what is the difference to him, how does this distinction affect him and his immediate surroundings. You have no idea how to word this in a way that would be understandable to a gerbil with A1 level english skills."If... If trans women are women, there's... More women?""More women. Nice. Then let's go with that one."He walks into the sunset, leaving you unsure whether anything of value was actually achieved. As a matter of fact it feels likely that instead of you enlightening him, he actually managed to make you stupider.3913,57322,813
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randomfandom4091Reblogged looney-mooneyApr 20kaelioFeb 5, 2022FollowReminder that the original sex pollen flower was just a spray painted artichoke kaelioFeb 5, 2022without a doubt the most famous and influential single artichoke of all timetrekheritagepostsAug 11, 2022star trek heritage post (February 4th, 2022)711,72417,332
