zebulontheplanet:

five-thousand-loaves-of-bread:

zebulontheplanet:

One of the things I don’t like is people saying they have suspected ID (intellectual disability).

It might be a personal problem, it might be a community problem, I’m not sure. However, I do know that it just gives me an icky feeling. The ID community has asked that people without ID, don’t self diagnose it.

ID is such a complicated thing, with a variety of severity. Saying suspected, means that you suspect you have it. But you don’t know what severity. You don’t know how it affects you. You don’t even know if you have it. And I think I get the icky feeling, because a lot of times, people who say they suspect they have ID is for the wrong reasons.

“Well my comprehension skills are bad” “well I’m stupid” “well I never did good in school” “well I never did this or that” and all of this just makes my skin crawl, because none of these automatically scream “I have ID”.

Comprehension problems can be from many things, like autism, Auditory processing disorder, brain damage, a different processing disorder, learning disabilities, etc etc. none of it screams ID. Why? Because Mild ID(what most people believe they suspect they have) doesn’t have a definitive thing that screams it. It’s like a spicy add on for most people with Mild ID. It’s something that makes your life harder but you just can’t usually pinpoint. Know what I mean? Although it does greatly affect my life, and there’s no doubt about that.

I don’t like people saying they suspect they have ID, because in the long run, you TRULY don’t know unless you get the testing. It’s not a disorder that comes with a book that says “yeah this is definitely this” like autism or ADHD. It affects everyone differently, and that needs to be talked about.

I’m not saying stop saying it, I’m just saying really think about it.

if may…

don’t have ID, but here list summarized from hear friends & others with ID talk about why from hesitant to against self diagnose ID (EDIT: for other people who not know about it. not at OP). (say suspect have slight different from say self diagnose but same points apply)

1. like said above: reason say for suspect/self dx ID not automatic mean ID, & instead often come from not fully understand ID (that it disorder that affect *general everything* functioning) or from own stigma ableism against ID (like the “i’m stupid”). not do differential diagnosis (which need do for any diagnosis professional or self)
2. there not much self diagnosis guides for ID like there is for (low support needs/level 1/mild/whatever language use) autism. there not much first-person-account lived experience information for ID. there not much info about ID in general. this “have LOT less (lived experience) information” difference between ID & (LSN/level 1/etc) autism reason why self diagnosis should be approached differently.
3. ID very serious thing that again affect everything. “even” mild ID very serious. if really genuinely wonder about ID, reallly need see someone professional.
4. you or people around. really Would Have Known Something Wrong before you see tumblr post about ID n suddenly Everything Click. now, are there people with borderline & mild ID who never been diagnosed ID even as adult, because inequalities or severe abuse neglect? maybe, yeah. except again, it not comparable to (LSN/level 1/etc) autism not diagnosed until adult, because once again “even” mild ID affect general everything functioning in giant way. these people with undiagnosed ID am talking about *that still alive as teen or adult (many aren’t)*… most of them illiterate, low/no education, in prison, institutionalized, or gotten some level of at least bare minimum support through other diagnoses or like, extreme family privilege. n select few who not any of that, still would have realized something different before see tumblr post (there plenty people w ID who not have self awareness realize. but they tend not be in this group). if you ever had full neuropsych assessment (way to Officially Diagnose autism ADHD etc) which 99% time include full scale IQ n some amount of adaptive functioning assessment, & ID n intellectual functioning concerns never been brought up in it, then there pretty much no chance have ID

No cause you explained this perfectly and this is such a good addition. Thank you so much!!

Yes. I think that’s why I get so defensive at times. I don’t think people who see my posts that talk about ID and go “omg..wait..” really understand ID. It affects everything.

When I was younger, my mom KNEW something was wrong. Said so to multiple doctors. Saw MULTIPLE doctors. Finally saw a doctor who was like “oh yeah, something here is wrong”.

When people meet me, they know something is wrong. Sometimes they can’t pinpoint it, sometimes they can. But they do. Even though I have Mild ID, it affects everything. It’s not just brain, it’s everything.

severianrising:

pangur-and-grim:

honestly, the radicalizing event that made me ditch faux-ironic detachment is when I sent a hard-to-write sentimental message to someone I was (at the time) close with, and they sent the vomiting emoji back. it was like oh okay, that sucks. I am now of the opinion that it is 100x cooler and braver to be sappy with the people you care about.

wizardpotions:

reblog this to put a silly little wizard hat on the person you reblogged it from

rattatuwu:

Pookie <33

pseuddamntired:

keenkryptonut:

ierotits:

hello adam savage calling the mythbusters “ambiguously gay weirdos”

Important psa, thanks prev for pulling it out of the tags

carbonfiberpersonality:

jayalaw:

friendlytroll:

cat–77:

toloveviceforitself:

onewit-torulethem-all:

prokopetz:

toloveviceforitself:

prokopetz:

andersonsallpurpose:

prokopetz:

moonbelowsea:

prokopetz:

If you ever feel like you must be the most unobservant person in the world, remember: I once spent half a year failing to notice that my new favourite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the Ukrainian mafia.

(I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but in retrospect, the fact that it was always dead no matter the time of day - I think the busiest I ever saw it was five people, myself included - well, that should have been a tipoff. Also, the waitstaff kept calling me “Mr. Prokopetz”, which I had assumed was just part of the restaurant’s gimmick, but given that “Prokopetz” is a Ukrainian surname, I’m now force to wonder whether they’d thought I was, you know, in the business. I just liked the pierogi!)

What I need to know is how on earth did OP finally realize his favorite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the mafia.

I’d like to say I put together the clues, but in reality, I just showed up one day to find that the place had been indefinitely shut down, and later learned it was because the managers had all been arrested.

What I really want to know is how good the food was?

Excellent, if your tastes run to the “heavy cream and too much garlic” end of the spectrum.

Every crime front I’ve ever eaten at has had completely amazing food, honestly. I am pretty convinced that if you want to open a front, you don’t choose “restaurant” as your front-business unless you have a relative who loves to cook.

It tickles me that this is evidently a sufficiently common experience that people find it relatable. (Seriously, check the notes!) We should write reviews or something.

did I just read the line “every crime front I’ve ever eaten at” with my own two eyes

Look, I went to college and lived my early adulthood in a town whose entire thing was import/export, and we had a lot of restaurants that were suspiciously empty except when they were closed and filled with very serious men in nice clothes.

They were usually run by someone who was about the right age to be some adult’s parents or grandparents, and in the case of the two Korean restaurants matching this description, they didn’t speak English. Universally though, they were very pleased to see customers, very proud of their cooking, and very very interested in keeping us far away from the aforementioned serious men in nice clothes. And despite having huge dining rooms and never having more than a couple customers, they never went out of business.

Also, because I am very, very stupid and sometimes don’t think before I talk, I once said loudly, over the phone, while sitting in one of these places, “Hey! Yeah if you want to meet us, we’re eating at [place]. You know…[place]? You totally know it. The Front, on Warwick st!”

The looks I got from every single employee were amazing and then I left.

We had a corner store/deli-place near our apartment in college. Everyone knew they were in on something and no one cared because they looked out for their customers and their neighborhood as a whole.

They started stocking my favorites because I mentioned them within hearing range once, would tell their “vendors” to move out of the way if we stopped in. I walked a different route home and got harassed one night and they asked after me. When they found out what happened, they declared “Consider it taken care of, you should never be afraid around here.” Never happened again.

Everyone needs their friendly neighborhood crime lord.

This is both my favorite and makes me fondly remember home. Less of the  eateries, more of the mysterious retail joints that never seem to close despite no one ever buying anything, though. Well. Aside from the juice bar. Didnt last, though. 

Wow. My God

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American gothic

Love it

warningengine:

caats:

pointnclick:

why did i invite the freaky psycho sexual clown to our dodge ball game? well, because he is good at dodge ball

notahorseindisguise:

notahorseindisguise:

girls will be boys and boys will be girls

this song came out in 1970 but fags today still cant wrap theur heads around this

dogmotif-deactivated20240505:

the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can’t wear any cool jackets. and everyone’s going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you’re the crazy one

asteroidtroglodyte:

asteroidtroglodyte:

Are Centaurs Insects?

Of course! Head/Abdomen/Thorax; 6 limb body plan; checks out

What!? No! They’re Mammals!

Calm down, they’re not Real

[Diogenes enters, holding a Coconut] Behold, a Centaur!

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I will as soon as I get the chance, promise

notamobboss:

guerrillatech:

kyraneko:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

u can become fully immune to a lot of scaremongering transphobic headlines simply by being chill about otherkin stuff. ‘what’s next? children identifying as CATS and DOGS??’ why not! i hope they have a lovely time doing it.

obviously being trans & being otherkin aren’t directly equivalent to each other but like. a major part of LGBT acceptance is u know 'people should be able to do whatever they want so long as it’s not harming anyone’ so a lot of these slippery slope type arguments are just. very silly. it literally doesn’t effect me at all if people want to identify as animals. also people have been doing that for years and it hasn’t brought about the downfall of society yet so i think we are okay.

like. there’s a whole goddamn spectrum of becoming, from “momentary whim” to “this is who I am now.” most kids spend huge amounts of time being cats and dogs, knights and princesses, space heroes and cowboys, characters in the last book they read, themselves visiting the setting of the last book they read, doctors and mothers and astronauts and outlaws, grown men and women.

some of them grow up and become things they once played at being. some of them become things they played at being and then grow up. some of them are things they cannot become yet, and pass the time by pretending to be them. some people can’t become the things they are because it’s not physically possible (dog) or culturally available (medieval princess, superhero) and devote significant aspects of their lives to an acceptable mimicry or remaking (furries, ren faires, conventions).

some of these things are transient, and some of these things will become a permanent part of you, and even some of the things you hold and let go will still play their part in shaping you.

but, like.

we’re getting to the point of people unironically being the anti-imagination mom from Miracle on 34th St or the headmistress from A Little Princess (who stopped the servant children from having a little tea party in their garret with pretty decorations and saved treats), just downright ugly beliefs about forcing humans to stick to “their place” and demonizing even imagination as too subversive to be allowed.

and that’s appalling.

the-giik:

Emmie’s mute, but she’s got some pretty expressive horns.

…hey where did you get that one

itseasytoremember:

Bro I loved buying used books people literally do not care about their books at all. I got a copy of an out of print art book that I’ve wanted for a while.

I got it on sale because it was listed as damaged, with the damage being “pen markings” on the title page.

Those pen markings are a fucking signature by the artist

pallidprincess:

byjove:

byjove:

A new cat color has been spotted in Finland. This is really interesting. A lot of common cat coat patterns have only evolved in the last 1,000 years. The tabby cat coloration only evolved in the Middle Ages.

they’re calling it salty licorice because of its visual similarity to the popular Finnish sweet, it reminds me of blue tick coloring in dogs or the blue roan coloring in horses and cows.

i loooove when a cat is posing for a photo documenting it bro you are a specimen and you have no idea

emeraldastral:

anexperimentallife:

See also, “We’re in a drought; conserve water!” Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

ALT

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“Coding with python”

“Don’t you mean Coding IN Python”

“Did I stutter?”

(code snatched from somewhere online I am not dedicated enough to code snake for the bit)

bruntalism:

iloveabortions:

Picture of the die of Intel 8086, which was released all the way back in 1978, started the x86 architecture that still domintes the computer industry today.

itseasytoremember:

itseasytoremember:

In my first year university course there was a class I remember as being mandatory (at least for English majors) about fallacies and biases in writing. And this prof was all about reading the whole article before you formed your argument. That was his whole thing. You know measure twice cut once he was read twice respond once. He stressed this so much that on our final exam (which was two long form essay questions and a few short answer questions) that I decided to read the WHOLE exam booklet before I grabbed my pen.

Turns out that is what he wanted. The final page, the final question, informed the student that if they wrote 1. Their name, 2. Their student number 3. Their favourite fallacy, and wait for 30 minutes so they don’t arouse suspicion, you will literally be given 100 percent for the exam WORTH 40 PERCENT OF YOUR GRADE.

I think about it to this day. The prof literally saw the “reading comprehension on this site is piss poor” and said I can fix them

I feel like I need to stress. This was not done out of the goodness of his heart. This man thrives in chaos. About 4 seconds after me and the maybe 12 other students who read through packed up our stuff and left, the rest of the class discovered his little joke. First they cried out, but then they tried to argue with him. The man that had, at that point, spent two semesters teaching them about flawed arguments.

He was in heaven

moriamori:

pangur-and-grim:

two “cats” interacting

Got possessed in the middle of my work shift.

piralea:

1. trump shooter misses
2. biden doesn’t die from covid
3. they have the second debate
4. the bullet from the jfk assassination finally finishes flying around the world and goes through both of them

zannolin:

shirt that says IF YOU LIKE ME YOU HAVE TO TELL ME EXPLICITLY. the back says I AM IMMUNE TO SOCIAL CUES.

amvs:

squareallworthy:

amvs:

walkietalkiesaki:

amvs:

amvs:

interesting fact i have titanium in my spine

Fun Fact!

Titanium not only is crazy durable, but it noo magnet! Thas wy Dock chok jjiun spi; surgyr ad pater noster, qui es in cœlis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum; fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris: et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo.

dude got hit with the ol’ Lorum Ipsem beam😞

Fun fact! Titanium is often used for medical implants because it’s *dodges lorem ipsum beam* because it’s strong, nontoxic, won’t corrode inside the body, and best of all, *dodges* bone will directly grow onto it! This is called “osseointegration” and it means that your titanium artificial hip, dental implant, or whatever will have greater *dodges* greater mechanical stability and will ARRRGGH! aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit!

gooddoggirl:

blemgoid:

Time to take estrogen

sunshine-tattoo:

finalgirlabigailhobbs:

finalgirlabigailhobbs:

people saying white rice is a harmful carb.. they could never make me hate you my beautiful princess..

if white rice has a million fans, i am one of them. if white rice has ten fans, i am one of them. if white rice has only one fan, then that is me. if white rice has no fans, that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against white rice, i am against the world. I love #white rice till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of white rice. Hit Like if you think white rice Best food & Good in the world

white rice has literally fed the world for thousands of years put some respect on her name

one-time-i-dreamt:

one-time-i-dreamt:

Goofy was wearing bikini and he had big naturals.

hungdykes:

fullcravings:

Mixed Berry Ice Box Cake

posts-with-10000-notes-in-spirit:

telamonshedletsky:

luke drinks motor oil

current note count: 24

Lukoil

posts-with-10000-notes-in-spirit:

telamonshedletsky:

luke drinks motor oil

current note count: 24

moriamori:

pangur-and-grim:

two “cats” interacting

Got possessed in the middle of my work shift.

kropotkindersurprise:

27-moons:

QudsNetwork

Hmmm

The red triangle on blue and white stripes is the flag of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists, antifascists who were made to wear the red triangle by the Nazis in the concentration camps where they were incarcerated for their anti-nazi actions or ideology.

Germany is once again on the wrong side of history, once again choosing to support genocide. Germany is actively making part of its own antifascist history illegal to support an ongoing genocide!

Germany is banning a German antifascist symbol to stop criticism of the genocide being committed by Israel!

kropotkindersurprise:

27-moons:

QudsNetwork

Hmmm

The red triangle on blue and white stripes is the flag of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists, antifascists who were made to wear the red triangle by the Nazis in the concentration camps where they were incarcerated for their anti-nazi actions or ideology.

Germany is once again on the wrong side of history, once again choosing to support genocide. Germany is actively making part of its own antifascist history illegal to support an ongoing genocide!

Germany is banning a German antifascist symbol to stop criticism of the genocide being committed by Israel!

theshitpostcalligrapher:

vervainium:

paper-mario-wiki:

superjacobworld:

paper-mario-wiki:

Potatoes kind of went awff when they invented hash browns

look at this Perfect Potato Patty im grillin

American behavior trying to turn everything into hamburger.

Tumblr user behavior trying to turn everything into something to be ashamed of.

this didn’t deserve to be hidden in the tags

lmao

thydungeongal:

thydungeongal:

thydungeongal:

Sorry English, but Finnish has you beat when it comes to the common name of otocyon megalotis, or the “bat-eared fox.” It’s “korvakoira.” Ear dog.

look at this and tell me this isn’t an ear dog

dog, why are you so ears

strangestcase:

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Best place to suck blood from

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wrist

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The fuck is a mammary?

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TITTY

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Can we talk about how that guy’s blog is full of pictures of him eating garlic bread?

🧄 spicysucker Follow

I’m a masochist

meduseld:

frozenartscapes:

galindathegay:

neveragainfools:

galindathegay:

Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.

For those who don’t know, this piece is titled ‘Unfinished Painting’, by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn’t have time to make more art. 'Finishing’ Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring’s grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn’t even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity

Thank you for typing this out! I couldn’t formulate my thoughts at the time because it really and truly goes beyond “they didn’t match the pattern”. There is significance behind this piece never being completed. “Unfinished Painting” is historical on at *minimum* three different layers - reflecting one person’s struggle with AIDS, encapsulating a very terrifying time in the LGBT+ community (though AIDS doesn’t discriminate by sexuality), and showing how the LGBT+ community was (and still is) all woven together with the same struggles. And while the completion *could be* a symbol of how even HIV can be overcome (at least two people have been cured!!!!), the fact that it was completed by a fucking computer rings this symbol as hollow. Our lives are not bits of data. We are not statistics. We never fucking were.

AI advocates, go pick up a brush.

The thing with this kind of use for AI is that it all too often is excused with something innocent. “It’s so sad this was never finished! But we can now use AI to finish it! We’re helping the artist!”

But you’re not helping the artist. You’re tacking your own name onto their work in an attempt to milk some of their credit for yourself. In one of the laziest ways possible.

Sometimes art doesn’t get finished. Sometimes a song is never fully written. Sometimes a novel series isn’t completed. Maybe it’s because the artist died, or maybe it’s because the spark they had for the art in question went out before they completed the work. But that’s life. It’s unfortunate, and often sad. It leaves the fans of that artist feeling empty, because they want what they’ll never get. But that does not justify taking it upon yourself to “complete” a work for an artist, especially when the artist does not ask you to. Especially this painting, which was very obviously intentionally left unfinished by the artist. But even if it hadn’t been, and it truly wasn’t finished before he died, then that does not mean it is ok to ask a computer to finish it.

People look to AI as the big solution to completing all these things that were lost to time. They want to use actors who have died for those big, touching cameos in movies. They want to hear songs that were never completed, sung by voices who are long gone. They want to see more artwork, more creativity, by artists who aren’t here anymore. But all throughout human history, people have accepted that once someone is dead, then that’s it. The only way we can appreciate them is in what they have left us, not in what a computer might be able to create by stealing their work and creating a false image. It’s not their work. They didn’t make it. To call it theirs would be nothing short of a lie.

Kelly Carlin, daughter of the late and all time great George Carlin, shared this statement regarding an AI-generated special imitating him:

She’s right. Part of the beauty of humanity and its creations is that it is ephemeral. Death enhances our lives, not detracts for it. AI making a ghoulish reanimation of the dead should strike you with such horror that you understand why necromancy is banned by man and God.

thickness-protection-program:

were–ralph:

im going to do this so i can go in sam’s club and throw a tantrum and get rewarded with free apple fritters

I’m gonna do this and yell at a cracker barrel manager on an employees behalf

waspsinyouryard:

Every time someone says something hateful and/or grossly misinformed about wasps I inch closer and closer to becoming a genuine wasp therian

raiasintended:

bogleech:

It’s funny when Tumblr screenshots circulate other websites or you show one to someone who’s not super online and they think they’re supposed to pay attention to the usernames as a part of it so they get really hung up on the fact that a comment comes from a handle like “SloppyMuppetBalls” or “werewolf-smegma-collector.” No not that part. That’s the normal part. Don’t laugh at our dear friend ClownHoleSlurper I’m trying to show you their insightful takes on economics