nothing funnier than the shock on someone's face when they try to be condescending to you about your autism & fail miserably. i was in a course and the instructor said something so extremely bigoted it was a genuine safety risk so i raised my hand and when he called on me i very calmly took him to task about it and then a few classmates backed me up and he backpedaled so all in all it worked out.

later one of my colleagues approached me in private and said, "hi. i know you've said that sometimes with your autism it can be difficult to read a room and know when it's appropriate to have certain discussions so i just wanted to tell you that the issue you brought up in class earlier, well, it wasn't the time. you could have waited to talk to the instructor after class or emailed him. it sorta caused a scene, and i know you don't mean to. : )"

i laughed and said, "yes i did. i confronted him about it in front of everyone because what he said needed to be challenged in front of everyone. it would've been dangerous for people to leave today believing what he said with no other points of view."

and my colleague looked SO shocked. he said, "oh! well, huh. okay!"

he really heard an autistic person calmly and succinctly articulate an argument about human rights and thought, "well that must be a mistake."

this doesn't just apply to autism tbh. the issue here is that so many people spend their entire lives desperately trying to adhere to the status quo, whatever it is in any given moment, and remain neutral, that they stand by while bigotry thrives in their company.

obviously there are people who need to do that for safety, but many people, like my colleague, do have the power and position to speak out, but they don't. so when they hear something they might even recognize is unacceptable, and someone says, "that's unacceptable," they see the person challenging the problem as the actual agitator.

my colleague was uncomfortable with conflict, and it was convenient for him that i'm autistic because he could assume it was simply a lapse in judgement that i said anything. not that it was responsible to say something, and i'm the person who did, and perhaps next time HE should.

the rest of my classmates agreeing with me? well, just ignore them i guess.

Cleaning gets easier when you remember it's a thing you're doing to make your life less miserable, and not a thing you're doing as punishment

You can do it a little at a time, too. Oh you’re about to take out the trash? Grab one of those boxes you still haven’t thrown out. Your car desparately need to clean out your car? Just throw a little bit of it out when you get gas. Thirsty? Wash an extra cup.

A little bit is better than none

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

for context, scientists have know about these mfs for like a HUNDRED YEARS but only now have they actually seen one ALIVE !!

@ferronickel i think this will interest you(!)

At one point in film school my professor tried to legally rent a movie to show us and even though she had paid money, it wasn't working. So she went "I'm going to turn around and one of you will find the movie somehow".

A qinggong master

English added by me :)

Hey, y’know that crazy-ass video that was recently making the rounds. yeah. that one. You know the one. Turns out it’s not the whole thing.

So I have some questions.

Im so glad I clicked on this omg.

Pool # 27 -  Ann Goldberg , 2016.

Canadian , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas , 30 x 48 in.

OIL PAINTING.

I found lots more on the artist's website, and then came across Percy in the Pool, which almost did me in 🥺🧡

Eric 😭

bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes

artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.

its like, impossible to come up with anything funnier than the experience of seeing this post

pharoahs fuck better because they ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh put the pussy in a scarmophogoghs

so many leftists here are like “but i can be ableist towards these people right? i can be fatphobic as long as its towards a bad person right? i can be transphobic as long as i don’t like the target right? i can be racist towards bad people right? this person is a bigot so i can be a bigot right back.. right?”

billionaire: i think poor people should die

this person: oh yeah? well you’re fat

billionaire: I see now the error of my ways. I apologize for being fascist bourgeois scum. I shall divide my money and give it away to the people in need. Because you called me fat. Thank you for the much needed self reflection.