Don’t say that! I have small anigdote as to how collecting junk can be actually very usefull!
So basically I would always collect the items you can loot of players in Alterac Valley, mostly the booklets, but they were rather rare. Well, fast forward years later in Legion, those booklets were extremely high in demand and expensive when it came to be that it was required for the Paladin Ashbringer hidden appearance. And basically I had some across my alts, and I cashed out around 150k gold alltogether ^^
So basically this booklet with 2 sentances counted as my WoW gold lottery. (I had spend it on pets in a matter of few days of course)
Ok I know the dredgers themselves are a stereotype of English people with the whole accent and ‘I liek your teef’ but when I saw this I was flat on the floor laughing gdfkfdgkfk
Able bodied parents I’m begging you to teach your kids about disabled people. Not just because they could become disabled themselves one day but also because even if they don’t, they have a very real chance of being rude to us if you don’t teach them.
Yes, kids just say shit. They have no filter. That doesn’t make it any less humiliating when your child sits near me on the bus and incessantly grills me on why I have a stick when I’m not old. Or laughs at us for things our disability causes. It doesn’t take away the hurt when they bully a disabled classmate. For a large part these things could be avoided if you just taught your kids to respect us. It’s really not that hard.
ID from alt text: A yellow image with black text that reads ‘ablebodied people can reblog but dont add anything’. To the left of the text is a black silhouette of a wheelchair user and to the right is a black silhouette of a person with a cane. End of ID.
TheCamden bench evolved from designs developed for Camden Borough Council. It is designed with today’s street seating needs in mind, such as resisting criminal and anti-social behaviour: • Deters rough sleeping – ridged top and sloped surfaces make it difficult to lie on. • Deters drug dealing – no crevices in which to hide such materials. • Deters bag theft – recesses along the bench’s front and back allow people to store bags behind their legs out of harm’s way. • Reduces littering – there are no flat surfaces or crevices where litter usually accumulates. Dirt and water flow off. • Easy to relocate (for example, to move it away from a problem area) – there’s no need to bolt the bench to a foundation and built-in lifting eyes allow the bench to be moved easily by truck crane.
I love how laying down is considered “criminal and anti-social behavior”
for real the criminalization of poverty is one of the worst ways capitalism works
somebody fly me to Camden and give me a fucking sledgehammer
… deters sitting on by people who need stability or support…
That is some ableist design in addition to being super classist…
Hostile design is ableist by nature. A recent design trend, for example, involves taking all sitting areas out of bus stops and replacing them worth “leaning supports” that force people to stand. These are wide hand rail type structures at about hip height on a standing adult.
Aside from the obvious ableist and classist problems, they are also hell for children and their guardians,since children’s short stature makes the rails useless, and because children desperately need rest spaces to accommodate their more delicate health and wellness.
Hostile public design is shit, and it needs to be shot, possibly along with the people who enforce it instead of actually solving the problems they want to “fix”.
I’ve gotten very accustomed to sitting on the ground at bus stops, because my disabilities mean I can’t stand for long enough to wait for a bus, and I can’t properly sit on hostile architecture. (Whether leaning rails that explicitly prevent anyone from sitting, downward sloping seats, missing backs combined with dividers and sharp bits, or whatever other hell concoction they’ve come up with.)
The ground at bus stops, in case anyone was wondering, is not a nice place to sit.
If you’re gonna make people stand, at least be honest about it. Don’t pretend a leaning rail isn’t just a fancy word for standing. Say it with your full chest. “I do not care about disabled people or young people or just plain tired people nearby as much as I hate homeless people.” See? It’s not that hard.
One thing I’ve realized during the pandemic is that NTs are actually pretty rigid. Despite the fact that a certain rigidity of thinking and need for routine are often mentioned as hallmarks of neurodivergence (most often for people on the spectrum, but it does come up occasionally for other things like ADHD, anxiety, etc), the antimask crowd is overwhelmingly NT.
Among ND people I know, the response to masks has varied. Some really like them, because they don’t need to spend a ton of energy thinking about their facial expressions. Some have basically gone “I don’t like them, but whatever. It is what it is.” And a small few have had sensory issues they can’t figure out a work around for, so they just do curbside pickup and avoid situations where a mask is needed as much as possible.
And when you think about it, it’s not very surprising. ND people, whatever our individual issues, are pretty used to having to move through a world not designed for us. Why would a pandemic be any different?
Meanwhile, we got to witness NTs having meltdowns because they couldn’t get a haircut. The pandemic had interrupted their routine, and they couldn’t handle it. For the first time, they were living in a world that wasn’t designed around their desires.
So apparently rigidity and a need for routine aren’t a ND thing, so much as what happens when human beings live in a society that isn’t designed around their preferences.
yep, 95% of nt life is ritual, it’s just so normalised it’s invisible to them but we damn well notice
This is only tangentially related, but as I’ve the chance to interact more with autistic/similar people, I’ve realized - it’s easy. It’s easy, and it’s enjoyable. There aren’t constant miscommunications. There isn’t difficulty “maintaining conversation”. We don’t have eye contact problems. We don’t fail to get each other’s body language. We can even do that NT telepathy thing where you understand other people’s emotions and underlying needs without them telling you.
And I like doing it. It’s not exhausting. I don’t have to rest for ages after an interaction - I’d be happy to talk forever like some sort of neurotypical-karen! To spend 90% of my waking time with someone else! And I like people immediately after meeting them! I talk to them and then go I enjoyed this I want to do it more. We connect on a first meeting, first meetings are actually pleasant. I like meeting people.
…you know. All those things that are normal for Other People. And that autistic people aren’t supposed to be able to do.
Possibly… it’s not that we can’t do it… it’s that those things only work with people Like You?
Possibly… when people respond Like That to autistic people… when they write diagnoses… when they write symptom lists… when they bully, when they instinctively feel uncomfortable around us… when they have autism mom blogs about how they can’t connect to their children, they don’t understand what their children are communicating, their childrens’ body movements make no sense, their kids have unreadable emotions that seem to come out of nowhere…
What they’re actually describing is what it’s like to interact with someone who isn’t Like You, and they’ve never had to do that before?
And, possibly… people from both sides have the exact same problems with cross-interaction, and the same abilities interacting within themselves, and it’s just a matter of who’s writing the diagnosis?
Text is a tweet by @/commukniss (Housing 4 All is Hot) reading:
95% of American mass shooters: “I am a nazi and I do this because I want to ethnically cleansed the world. Here is my manifesto where I detail all of my nazi beliefs.”
The media: The mentally ill lone wolf had a rough life. No one wanted to be his friend.
Not-identifying-as-Nazi-but-promoting-fascist-propaganda-news-commentator: Maybe it’s a false flag operation funded by [wealthy Jew]?
Media: I guess we’ll never know~~~
‘Something, something Soros’
Okay, I get where you’re going with this, but…
This is just the headlines that popped up on my iPhone - from a wide range of media sources - and a couple of the top headlines from a Google search.
The press is not your enemy, the media is not your enemy, journalists are not your enemy. You know who is your enemy? The people calling those “fake news”. The people saying journalists are all biased against [political party] and you shouldn’t listen to them, ONLY get your news from social media, the people you follow on Twitter and Facebook are more informed and trustworthy than the fake news lamestream media!
Note, in case someone was considering commenting on “police say” and “officials say” - that doesn’t mean “some dude said this, but there’s no way to really know…”
It’s citing sources. It means “unlike some people, we aren’t pulling this out of our asses. This is our authoritative source, so you can’t argue with our facts. Unless you believe we’re lying start to finish, you can’t say we’re just biased against [in this case, far-right-ers] and making stuff up.” Without sources, you’re just writing an opinion piece. And that is how you get FOX-style ‘fake news’.
@constructedparadox So I was skimming through the live updates on Wall Street Journal, because I did remember they had a headline about the mental health evaluation. Here are two of the headlines that my phone got from them:
Ah, yes, one does mention the mental health evaluation! Okay, let’s click on that.
It’s the live updates, interesting. It is very VERY long, there are like thirty full articles in here. Let’s skim them and find that mention of the mental health evaluation that the headline alludes to.
Here are some selections. Alongside a lot of other stuff about 4chan, a lot of stuff about the victims, a lot of stuff about how he discussed his plans with others and got advice on what weapons and armor to get, a full article about him streaming this on Twitch and the failure of efforts to restrict racist extremist groups on Twitch.
You may notice nothing about the mental health evaluation. That’s because I literally didn’t see it on my first scroll-through. I went back and finally found it:
That’s it. That’s the only mention I can find, in what’s probably 50 plus pages of text, is that he was evaluated for a threat. The point of mentioning it in their article was that it was known by police that he had previously made a threat and should not have been allowed to purchase heavy weaponry.
But yes! It is mentioned in a headline. …followed by a headline about “descent into racist extremism”. Which is entirely about. The groups. Of Racist extremists. As is 85% of the thing with the other headline, the other 14.9% being about the victims.
Text is a tweet by @/commukniss (Housing 4 All is Hot) reading:
95% of American mass shooters: “I am a nazi and I do this because I want to ethnically cleansed the world. Here is my manifesto where I detail all of my nazi beliefs.”
The media: The mentally ill lone wolf had a rough life. No one wanted to be his friend.
Not-identifying-as-Nazi-but-promoting-fascist-propaganda-news-commentator: Maybe it’s a false flag operation funded by [wealthy Jew]?
Media: I guess we’ll never know~~~
‘Something, something Soros’
Okay, I get where you’re going with this, but…
This is just the headlines that popped up on my iPhone - from a wide range of media sources - and a couple of the top headlines from a Google search.
The press is not your enemy, the media is not your enemy, journalists are not your enemy. You know who is your enemy? The people calling those “fake news”. The people saying journalists are all biased against [political party] and you shouldn’t listen to them, ONLY get your news from social media, the people you follow on Twitter and Facebook are more informed and trustworthy than the fake news lamestream media!
Note, in case someone was considering commenting on “police say” and “officials say” - that doesn’t mean “some dude said this, but there’s no way to really know…”
It’s citing sources. It means “unlike some people, we aren’t pulling this out of our asses. This is our authoritative source, so you can’t argue with our facts. Unless you believe we’re lying start to finish, you can’t say we’re just biased against [in this case, far-right-ers] and making stuff up.” Without sources, you’re just writing an opinion piece. And that is how you get FOX-style ‘fake news’.
Text is a tweet by @/commukniss (Housing 4 All is Hot) reading:
95% of American mass shooters: “I am a nazi and I do this because I want to ethnically cleansed the world. Here is my manifesto where I detail all of my nazi beliefs.”
The media: The mentally ill lone wolf had a rough life. No one wanted to be his friend.
Not-identifying-as-Nazi-but-promoting-fascist-propaganda-news-commentator: Maybe it’s a false flag operation funded by [wealthy Jew]?
Media: I guess we’ll never know~~~
‘Something, something Soros’
Okay, I get where you’re going with this, but…
This is just the headlines that popped up on my iPhone - from a wide range of media sources - and a couple of the top headlines from a Google search.
The press is not your enemy, the media is not your enemy, journalists are not your enemy. You know who is your enemy? The people calling those “fake news”. The people saying journalists are all biased against [political party] and you shouldn’t listen to them, ONLY get your news from social media, the people you follow on Twitter and Facebook are more informed and trustworthy than the fake news lamestream media!
According to a recent paper published by the University of São Paulo, the ABC Federal University, and Columbia University, only 3.1 million hectares of Brazil’s restored Atlantic Forest vegetation managed to survive for more than a decade, out of a 4.5-million-hectare area that had been replanted between 1985 and 2019.
The peak of deforestation that erased one-third of the repaired forest came within the first four to eight years after the revitalization period, resulting in a phenomenon scientists call “ephemeral regeneration.” This outcome, they say, is twice as worrying in a time of increasing climate change.
Experts also highlight that the Atlantic Forest is the biome with the highest incidence of deforestation in Brazil, with less than 30 percent of its original vegetation still preserved. One of the challenges to keeping good levels of preservation is that large swathes of green areas are on private properties, which requires better-structured public policies to raise awareness among landowners.
Just to clarify, it’s not that nature couldn’t sustain itself. 1.5 million hectares of 4-8 year trees were cut down by owners of private property. The failure of this regeneration project was 100% human induced.
im really fucking upset rn. ive been on spiro since i was 16 and reading the list of potential side effects in this article was like reading a walkthrough of all of the worst health problems ive been dealing with for the majority of my adult life. digestive issues, fatigue, medication resistant depression. all of it is shit thats been making my life hell for years.
im fuming. not once did anybody in all the years ive been seeing doctors about this shit bring up that it couldve been spiro. not once!!!! FUCK!!!!!
“Spironolactone, but not finasteride, use was associated with impairment of obtaining desired 17-β estradiol levels. Spironolactone did not enhance testosterone suppression, and finasteride was associated with higher testosterone levels.”
Yes, it does sound like salmon snake to a modern speaker, but etymologically it’s something completely different: it’s an old loan from Old Swedish, floghdrake, that means a flying snake. Finns couldn’t pronounce the many consonants at the beginning of the word, so it changed in their mouths into lohi that sounds quite similar and happens to mean salmon. Käärme is a direct translation of the word drake, snake.
I’ve made a couple of posts about this, and will continue to do so as long as I see these translations going around. This is why language is so interesting.
hey, if you don’t let your limbs dangle over the side of your bed because you’re afraid a demon might drag you off, don’t be! maybe the monster that lives under your bed just wants to hold your hand because she has a huge crush on you
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