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!!!!

#light #colour theory #demonstration #science!

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Whatever I can microwave and consume quickly. Pancake sausage on a stick. Breakfast burrito. Hot pocket. If we don't have those, and the milk is good, cereal. If it's bad, give up and eat protein bar.

Sometimes my love makes me eggs based on a boiled egg done-ness chart he saved from the internet. I like the ones that are *almost* but not quite solid - eight minutes, thirty seconds. I only eat two, but if he makes more I have them for snack later. (We are autistic.)

Also coffee.

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

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#boop #poll #tumblr boop #random polls #cat things

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"Quickly pick up what someone allows you to pick up" is a far cry from "accurately profile complete strangers." That's... my point?

It's really cool that two complete strangers can size each other up and decide whether or not to cooperate so quickly. It's one of the things that makes us so successful as a society. It is not, however, known for its completeness or accuracy, especially on an initial meeting where the brain is going to fill in a bunch of details based on what it thinks should be there. It might feel like you've gotten a good, complete read, but you have not. At all.

Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

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You sorta can, if they cooperate.

Human people have developed a whole complex set of social cues and scripts to communicate basic motivations quickly. A decent chunk of that happens almost subconsciously, and comes across as "vibes." You can't completely trust it - the person could be lying or withholding information, they might not use the exact set of social cues you're used to, or their "vibes" might be affected by their mood, among other possibilities. So they need to be from a similar enough background/culture, not too emotional, and they need to *let* you read them (or at least not conceal).

Not really the same thing, but it's kinda cool that we can do that.

Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

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my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

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Now being informed that my fiancee cannot bend the laws of physics to make more cute vacation outfits fit in our bags. (We could pay for another checked bag, of course, but that costs money.) My wardrobe is being limited to "what fits after we pack the dive gear." Truly unconscionable.

(not serious - being dramatic)

#first world problems #luggage #travel #I'm demoting him to least favorite fiancee (of one) until he bends spacetime for me #or until I'm given an appropriate amount of sympathy for my suffering

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Jasper is the king of unusual requests, but I am the queen of giving him whatever weird thing he wants if it's not actively dangerous, so we often find ourselves in ~situations.~

Sometimes he is screaming because he wants paper to come out of the printer. Sometimes he is screaming because he needs a kitchen stool to sit on while I make breakfast. (He CANNOT SEE from the floor.) Other times he is screaming because he wants to drink from the bathtub, and it is EMPTY. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to own a normal cat.

I have a little paperwork tray next to my computer, and my cat will set next to me and scream until I pick her up and her in the tray like a freshly submitted assignment.

She won't settle for food, or for pets, or for being in my lap. She specifically wants to be in the paperwork tray. There's a stapler there, and a charger, and a bunch of lumpy things that would be annoying to sit on, but she insists.

Really, the worst part is already over, which was figuring out what she wanted. I spent months getting yelled at before I figured out that she wanted to be filed. In my defense it's a pretty unusual request.

#cats #just cat things #scream time #cat requests

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Maybe this is a take and maybe it isn't, but. I have noticed that when you tell someone they're "being racist" (or sexist, or homophobic, or transphobic, or what have you) they take it as some kind of personal insult. As if "racist" was a character defect.

It isn't. It's a thing that's gonna happen from time to time, even to people with the best of intentions, because it's baked into parts of our culture we're not even aware of. When someone tells you you're being racist, you can and should take that as constructive criticism. "Oh shit, you're right, I'll try not to do that again." No meltdown, no defensiveness, no self-flagellation. Acknowledge, apologize, and don't do it again.

#hot take? #white fragility

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@laqueus

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Kids need to understand the social rules of being in a public space, which means

1. kids need to experience public spaces, but also

2. parents/guardians need to know where their child is at socially and supervise them appropriately.

When I was about ten, I was permitted to run about the local mall by myself. I was cute. I bought stuff with my allowance. I never stole or broke anything, didn't get in anyone's personal space, didn't cause any trouble... because my mother had repeatedly escorted me to the mall and corrected any inappropriate behavior.

Now, I go to the water park, and there will be 13, 14 year olds running around with ZERO awareness of others and NO idea how to behave, parents nowhere to be found. They think a kid that age should be able to look out for themselves, and they SHOULD. But they haven't actually had the practice, because the list of places kids are allowed to just exist was increasingly short even BEFORE lockdown.

They're not annoying because they're young, they're annoying because they haven't been socialized properly. Commune life would probably actually do wonders for the little gremlins.

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The Rand McNally Road Atlas lived in our car, and as the oldest child I was in charge of navigation so my parents could nap while they weren't driving. I WAS the GPS, and I got us from Missouri to Florida and back multiple times with no major crises.

This continued into, like, 2010 by the way, my dad just didn't believe in spending money on fancy tech when he had a perfectly good daughter in the backseat.

#why have tech #when you can have child labor #am I right

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Increased demand only leads to an increase in availability + drop in price if

1. There's enough sustained/predictable demand to justify scaling up production and

2. The item in question can be mass-produced at a lower cost per unit.

Sodium alginate is an extract of seaweed. That's a renewable resource, but not one that's easy to cultivate in large quantities, especially as oceans warm and acidify. There is demand for it, but supply hasn't kept up, and that has caused prices to go up instead of down.

I feel like it's not really on the consumer to know all that and make a good decision. Maybe it's more messed up that disabled folks are dependent on the whims of "the free market" for a resource they need to survive. Just sayin'.

apparently people are now purchasing thick water to make slimes with because of a trend on tiktok

thick water is for disabled people who can’t swallow properly. stores usually have extremely limited supplies of it.

please don’t buy thick water for fun or to make slime with. it’s literally the only way some disabled people can drink anything. It’s not a fucking toy

#thick water #slime #disability #economics

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Oh yeah? Well this kitty thinks he is a throw pillow.

He is a shampoo bottle

#cat #cat pictures #camouflage #cute cat #they'll never notice

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Clinton Street Theater, April 1, 2023

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No matter how I looked at it, he didn't like me.

Star (starling) am Max-Eyth-See, Mühlhausen.