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Yall.

I’m disappointed.

I gave you a gizmo. An absolute contraption. A doohickey even. You asked how the MBTA removes snow from its tracks and instead of getting a normal answer like “plow” or “salt” I give you a fucking jet engine bolted to a rail car like I’m looney fucking tunes and you have the gall to give it only 22 notes.

This one has a fucking sneefer

Are you happy now????

There is also this guy who is named Russel

Look at his smile

i hate you egyptomania i hate you orientalism i hate you "mummy brown" i hate you "mummy unwrapping parties" i hate you "medicinal mummies" i hate you europe i hate you

white supremacists will write out the wildest creative writing exercises trying to come up with the most fucked up ''''uncivilized'''' things to attach to cultures of color to justify their hatred and they still won't get anywhere near europeans literally purchasing egyptian corpses to show them off to their friends, mix parts of them into paint, and even EAT THEM. if it wasn't so well documented i wouldn't believe it.

God the prices of tvs have changed so much let me get my graph

wow thats crazy... tvs used to be so expensive!!

i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least

Captain James T. Kirk → Every Episode of Star Trek: The Original Series: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Bester + 5x11

Hummingbird pool party. [full video]

party at the M O I S T U R E C U B E

When teaching an autistic person how to socialize, it's important to be objective.

Being optimistic and being pessimistic will both fail miserably.

Being optimistic will cause them to misinterpret every little thing as a sign of interest. They'll get their hopes up only to be let down.

Being pessimistic will cause them to misinterpret every little thing as a sign of disinterest. They'll assume that they're bothering people and avoid people.

Teach them how to tell the difference between someone showing interest and showing disinterest. Teach them that both are very much possible.

If they complain "no one likes me", don't just tell them "yes they do". Tell them how to tell the difference.

There are also different types of interest. It won't always be "this person wants you to have sex with them" or "this person wants you to not interact with them at all". In many cases, interest is a spectrum, in which someone may want them to do some things and not want other things.

Also, autistic people will often experience events that most people don't. For example, someone could be daring them to do something only to laugh at them when they do it, or pretending to like them in order to make fun of them for believing it, or asking them questions in order to laugh at their answers. Make sure your advice includes how to recognize that.

How would you recommend teaching/advising how to recognize that? Role playing scenarios and talking about the clues in expressions, tones and context?

Whenever teaching a child (autistic or not) anything, how you arrive at the advice matters more than the advice itself.

It's possible to disagree on what to do. It's possible to give advice that doesn't end up working. It's possible to not know what to do. They will have to figure some things out for themself, and that's okay.

What matters is making sure you're answering the correct question. What matters is that you're addressing the correct problem.

Even if you can't perfectly explain how to figure out whether someone's showing interest or what kind of interest, you can at least list what the possibilities are. If you do that, they can eventually figure out how to tell the difference. But if you just give them meaningless confidence boosts, that won't help because they won't know what to look for.

This is actually a useful thing to understand how to spell out. What exactly is wrong with puritanical attitudes towards sexuality? TW: Discusses body image issues, suicide, STIs, sexual assault etc

1. It fosters fear, disgust and loathing of our bodies. By hiding the human body as soon as we are born, and treating it as an object of inherent shame: THAT creates trauma. Shame is one of the primary sources of trauma, its the fuel and lets trauma burn. Those raised in nudist societies, and children raised in households where nudity is treated in a neutral and non-sexual tend to have a much more positive relationship with their bodies as adults. This makes complete sense when you think about it. Going through puberty not knowing if your body is "normal" terrifies children in ways that stick with them for life. In fact, most cultures outside of the Unites States aren't as strange about non-sexual nudity actually...and are healthier for it. We can't have body positivity as long as we are literally criminalized for having an uncovered body. 2. It creates fear, shame and disgust about sex. Most people have sex at some point in their lives. No one would be here at all without it. Most people have sexual desires which lie outside their control. When people are ashamed of those desires, it leads to self hatred, and depression and anxiety. This shame is just as traumatic as bodily shame. When sex is normalized, and treated with the same candor as any other hobby: it becomes less apt to traumatize people.

3. Puritanical attitudes towards sex limit sex education. When people are too ashamed to talk about sex, people don't learn about pregnancy, stis, or consent. All of these things can and do kill people when they aren't addressed with an open dialogue.

Sexual shame leads to people too ashamed to buy condoms, to talk to their doctor about birth control, to ask their partner to use protection, to get tested...the negative health impacts of sexual puritanism have a massive negative effect on society.

4. Sexual shame leads to poorer communication in relationships. Ohh if I had a dime for every person i knew who ruined their relationship because they felt too guilty to talk to their partner about their sexual feelings...Not just that, but the general body shame that comes with puritanism blocks people from connecting to one another too. Have you ever avoided getting close to someone because you were ashamed of your body? If not, I guarantee you know someone who has.

5. Misogyny! Puritanical sexual believes hold that women are not capable of sexual agency. That only men should initiate sex. That women should only ever want babies and not pleasure from sex. All of this rolls right into the next one:

6. Victim blaming in sexual assault. When women are the gatekeepers of sex, its easy to blame them when they 'fail' to protect their chastity when someone violates their trust. This isn't something that just effects women: as the same attitudes hold that men are not capable of experiencing sexual assault. The lack of education and discussion about sex in a sex-negative world inherently prevent the open dialogues necessary for creating and maintaining consent culture.

7. Suppression and marginalization of the queer community. If we're too ashamed to talk about sex, we'll be too ashamed to talk about sexuality. Puritans can't accept any deviation from gender norms either. Anything other than sex between a cis man and a cis woman for the purpose of making a baby is a deviant kink, a mental illness, and needs to be wiped out. Its important to point out that many queer people hold puritanical values about sex: believing that they can achieve sex negativity and queer liberation at the same time. However, sex negative movements always rise with censorship and discrimination of queer people...because queer people are inherently considered deviant by the vast majority of sex negative "allies". It's very dangerous to forget this.

8. Censorship of art. Who decides what is sexual and what is not? Its easy to agree that sex needs to be hidden...but it never takes long before the definition of what is "sexual" expands. Even women's breasts are considered sexual in the United States. Its so normal for Americans to think of them that way that women can't feed their children in public. Drag queens face violence for reading at libraries. Books get taken off the shelves. Artists are bullied offline.

9. Censorship of scientific exploration. Scientific research into reproductive health, sexual behavior, gender identity and more are often hindered due to the "moral objections" of puritans, delaying progress and understanding. That's just off the top of my head. I think its time for people to take how problematic 'puritanism' is more seriously. As we see fascism rear its ugly head all over the world, we're going to see a lot more talk about 'degenerates'...and we know where that kind of talk leads.

Add 'censorship of medical care'. See the famous example that people are not taught how to perform CPR on women since having a training dummy with, by necessity, uncovered "female breasts! gasp!" would be 'sexually explicit'. So no one is taught how to give women CPR and more of them die as a result. But there are lots of other examples; women's health and sexual health is riddled with failings because we can't stop seeing their very bodily existence as sexually obscene. Better they just die.

Rewatching ds9 and I love how they'll refer to aliens that exist on the station that are far, far weirder than anything their budget could ever show.

Also idk if I need to state this publicly again but hello, Ai is my name and I'm an artist but I draw things with my hands. I'm not artificial intelligence; if anything, I'm organic stupidity.

I made a watermark 🌸

/squints

that's it, that's the organic stupidity part

eekljghgekjghekgkejh I'm pinning this

The bean jar

[My Chemical Romance voice]: When I was…. a young boy… my Father… had what he called the bean jar…

have i mentioned recently @allieinarden is the best

Since Gerard Way wrote The Umbrella Acedemy comics, I felt the most powerful need to commission this. It’s finally done. Thank you, @eamhhair

The bean jar has me in tears every damn time

Bean Jar?! On my dash? In 2025?

Fucking wild to be teaching about Rosa Parks at the same time as a trans woman in Florida does an act of civil disobedience to use a women's restroom in the state capitol

As far as I know, she is the first woman arrested bc of this law. The law requires that the trans person be warned to leave the bathroom by a state official, and then if they stay they are guilty of trespassing after a warning.

So like, me, my gf, others just piss and nobody asks or tells, but this young woman sent a statement about the law to over 100 FL lawmakers so they would know she was coming, the cops were ready for her, she brought a reporter and went in anyway and spent the night in a men's jail. She is out on bail, and is hoping this will inspire change of the law. But if found guilty, and the law is upheld as constitutional, then she could spend up to 60 days in a mens county jail.

Seriously, this is extremely Rosa Parks coded. Good looking, religious college girl. It's the whole playbook. She also added this selfie.

I support her and hope this goes as well as it can.

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