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I think teens need to be able to go to trusted adults and say “I saw something in a porn video that freaked me out and now I’m worried I’ll have to do it too” and then the adult can say “it’s ok to be nervous about sex, but remember that you don’t have to do ANYTHING you don’t want to do, ever, no exceptions” and this should be an ongoing conversation to remind young people that sexual desire isn’t monolithic and they are not uniquely weird, cowardly, or undesirable for expressing their feelings, and they deserve sexual partners who prioritize consent & autonomy always

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my legacy 😭

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Tbh this whole AI discussion has been taken in the completely wrong direction. Like instead of criticizing how big industries are misusing it, the discussion has become "is it really art? Does it rot your brain!? TECHNOLOGY SCARY"

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Sheep sheltering at a bus stop on a rainy day in Ireland.

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I think a lot of autistic taking-things-literally goes under the radar because what the diagnostic tests and shit ask about is not what that generally looks like in an adult and often not in kids either and much more importantly it’s not what generally actually causes problems in real life instead of being irritating for caretakers or funny to bullies or easy to diagnose

I have absolutely no issues understanding metaphors or idioms. When someone says their heart is on their sleeve they mean they’re emotionally expressive and openly display their feelings, not that they have a chunk of cardiac tissue on their shirt. I very rarely have issues with sarcasm. I sometimes have issues telling when someone who’s said something mean is about to say “just kidding”, but tbh I think that’s more on them than me.

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My grandmother asked me “Do you know when the trash was taken out last?” and I said “I think Eliot took it out yesterday” and a few hours later she yelled at me for “not taking out the trash when I asked you to” and I was like???? You didn’t ask me????

I dread filling out forms and am crap at filling out diagnostic tests or personality quizzes because there are always questions I don’t know the exact answers to (how am I supposed to know what day I got dental surgery seven years ago?) or don’t understand exactly what they’re asking or the wording’s unclear and they could mean this or the wording says this but I’m pretty sure what they actually meant was this and should I answer what they said or what they meant, and how does everyone else just whip through the form when surely they can’t know all the answers either? Does everyone else remember the day they got dental surgery seven years ago?

I get tangled up by bureaucracy because the rules on the website say that for this you need that and for that you need the other and for the other you need something else for which you need the first thing, and I go in circles for hours or days or weeks or months or years because their stated rules say there is no way to get what I need, and when I talk to somebody else they’re like “just call them?” and I’m like “how could that help? the rules say that what I’m trying to do is impossible”

And all of that? That’s how “taking things literally” ACTUALLY affects your life as an adult. It’s not “haha you think ‘getting under your skin’ means parasites”. It’s “you have real difficulty functioning in the world because everyone else is conveying things through implication and assuming that you know that rules are flexible and questions are approximate and you’re supposed to lie on job applications, and you don’t”.

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Life in Hell (1977-2012) Matt Groening

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welllll, that sucked

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cops will have firearm related accidents that even the dullest redneck could easily sidestep. like I am from the middle of nowhere where the level of firearm ownership is high and the level of alcoholism and drug usage is also high and I am still astounded by the rate in which cops accidentally shoot themselves and their coworkers. tf you mean you shot your partner in the leg? nobody I know has ever done that and I’ve seen some truly reckless gun ownership in my time.

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Like many bug species, the white beach tiger beetle is easy to overlook for most people. They’re remarkably fast and can dart across the sand so swiftly you’ll lose them in the blink of an eye. As you can imagine they’re very difficult to photograph (and even harder to film- I’ll post evidence of my attempts later) so I’m quite pleased I finally got some good photos of this species.

These beetles are even easier to overlook when they start life in their larval state, tiny and worm-like. Despite their unremarkable appearance, beach tiger beetle larvae do something that almost no other animals do. Like lots of incredible phenomena in the world of science it was discovered entirely by accident!

A graduate student was taking some time off from her studies with a trip to the beach on Cumberland island in Georgia, USA. After she returned from her vacation she was excitedly telling her advisor the neat things she’d seen at the beach, including the Tiger Beetle larvae rolling down the beach. Her advisor was confused… beetle larvae “rolling”? These larvae were known to hide in tiny tunnels along the beach but their behavior was considered to be almost entirely sedentary; the advisor was baffled by his student’s descriptions of what she’d seen. There was only one thing to do- they went back to the beach.

Intensive study of tiger beetle larvae on that beach confirmed what the student had seen. In order to escape predators, a tiger beetle larva could be observed leaping upwards into the wind, curling into a circle, and catching a draft to literally roll like a hula hoop down the beach at high speed. This movement (where the animal rolls forward along a central axis) is called wheel locomotion and true examples of it are amazingly rare in the animal kingdom.

Here’s a Video that discusses this discovery and includes footage of the leaping larvae in action.

Whenever I see tiger beetles on the beach I think of this story and am reminded to embrace my curiosity in every way I can! Noticing the things that other people overlook can become a superpower if you let it.

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It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

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Better get engaged. This does not end by inaction.

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Jaeheon Lee (Korean, 1976) - Three in One (2023-2024)

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Visa and Mastercard may be getting a lot of calls about their adult content policies, but I just called in to PayPal and not only was there no wait, the customer service rep I got had never had one of these calls before (they were very nice about it.)

Don't overlook the online processors - even more than Visa and Mastercard they are the ones pressuring online retailers. PayPal is the one that's been pressuring Patreon over the last year or so.

I've had no luck reaching Stripe, all of the numbers people have dug up ring through as disconnected.

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La plante et ses applications ornementales by  Maurice Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869-1942) Part 5

1.  Chrysanthème (1896)

2. Pavot 2 (1896)

3. Capucine 2 (1896)

4. Pavot

5. Chrysanthème 2 (1896)

6. Chardon 2 (1896)

7. Chardon (1896)

8. Chardon 1 (1896)

9. Capucine (1896)

10. Capucine 3 (1896)

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Not sure if mercy factored into any of this

Mercy by Sir Chloe x The Terror

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"Spirits moaning among the tombstones [...] Someone cries... something ain't alright."

Pet Sematary by The Tiny x The Terror (2018)