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Hey did you know there’s a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?
The good news is however that it’s already published and can’t be stifled and whoever didn’t sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.
She’s not allowed to promote it?
Well then, I guess we’ll have to do it for her.
It’s available from bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. It’s on the front page of the B&N website and they’re advertising $5 off currently.
Also request it at your local library if they don’t already have a copy!
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so last year during a period of intense suicidal depression i made this necklace that i always wear, right, and the thing is it’s genuinely brought me a lot of comfort and relief and i’ve developed a strong sentimental attachment to it, to the point that i can inarguably state that it’s had a net positive effect on my mental wellbeing. however i did now just have to stop to almost throw up laughing because i realised that i’ve succumbed to the amulet.
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i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain
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A good chunk of tumblr is someone making a post like “I wonder if anyone has ever applied this unusual, unconventional method to serve this commonplace function”, speculating something that could potentially exist, hypothetically.
And there’s people in the comments going “I don’t know about that, but omg did you know that people actually 100% really do this function in this conventional method normal style? :DD”
If you read someone going “I wonder if you could make a camel pull a sled” and your first thought is “I bet this person has never heard of horse sleds!”, then please block me right now. I don’t want to be reminded about your existence.
Okay now that I’m done being mad about silly things, it’s time to be glad about silly things. Like @twyella ’s tags:
And I just wanted to draw a snail getting pulled by a tortoise sled. Look at this speed freak. Absolute out of control daredevil. Renegade rebel without a cause.
Assuming we still had enough of them, Galapagos tortoises could actually make decent burden beasts as long as you’re not like, in a hurry or anything
Time to bring back Galapagos tortoises so we can start breeding them to be used as adventuring coffee tables. Whenever you’ve got your hands full and need both hands for something, you can put whatever you were holding on a tortoise like it’s a desk, and by the time you’re done with the task you find that it has fucked off with your coffee.
There’s a breeding farm in Florida that does exactly that. I talked to the guy at Crocfest once and he showed me the contraption he made for his nicest female. It’s basically a saddle with cup holders and she follows him around the farm holding his water bottle.
He can’t do that with the males tho bc they like to mount things too much and they dump the load when they do it.
Florida Man Too Horny To Work As Cupholder
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In hindsight it’s very insulting to be told that flunking out of college due to adhd is actually “quite common”
just like, if there’s a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that’s your fault right. like why don’t you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.
only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!
that should disgust and enrage you.
if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening
when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.
but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student
at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.
but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just can’t do it, short bus
Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that I’m unsure if I’ll finish but… yeah. Makes me feel better to know it’s not just me.
PSA: The Job Accommodation Network maintains a searchable database of accommodation suggestions for a wide variety of disabilities.
The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.
Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here
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ALTThe ADHD page linked above also includes case examples and strategies for determining what sort of accommodations might be necessary. More broadly, the JAN website as a whole is a treasure trove of information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and resources for both individuals and employers.
Oh fuck that’s really nice, I will read it
Also just heard a podcast interview with a software developer who had good suggestions
The head of disability accommodations at my college just kept ablesplaining to me that “accommodations are to level the playing field, not give you an advantage,” and that her job is to “protect the school’s rights” rather than help disabled students. The only accommodations they would offer me were 1. extra time on tests, and 2. an alternative test-taking location - neither of which I needed. I ended up getting (most of) what I actually needed by unofficially asking the individual professors, but it should have been legally protected.
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Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying “I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store.” The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen’s face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.
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One reply says “I understand; I too ‘lost track’ of my father when he accompanied me to the Vulcan Learning Centre in a garish and unnecessary shade of grey”
Replies are split between Vulcans agreeing he took the correct course of action and humans begging to see a “garish and unnecessary shade of grey”
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Not saying anything nobody’s said before, but the way Fallout is a foundationally anti-capitalist story that got turned into funkopop sci-fi pastiche slop for morons is painful to the point of brilliance. Makes its points about greed and power that much more salient.
People are, years later, still writing paragraph after paragraph on this post to tell me I’m full of shit. About the game where half of everything is plastered in conspicuous branding, the plot of the first game is caused by shady corporate scheming, the guys who caused all this shit to happen are businessmen from centuries ago, and the most iconic line in the franchise comes from a speech about military expansionism for resources to fuel economic function. That speech is the first verbal statement of the series. The first point of contact period in the entire series is an advertisement, shot panning out to reveal it is displayed on a television playing a series of commercials, and that this television is in a completely destroyed urban center, yet hauntingly continues to play.
What do you think this represents? What do you think the authors of this work may have been attempting to communicate through these images? Do you think it was simple coincidence? See me after class, so I can kill you.
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