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punk is the ultimate subculture for autistics!

sensory friendly haircuts (is it bothering you anywhere? shave it off)

heavy boots for weight stimming

heavy leather jackets for pressure stimming

patches give different textures to rub

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dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

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*googles ‘how to nominate reporter for Peabody Award’* x

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I LOVE HIM

Bird the Bird

I have many types of patients, real and fantastical, but interestingly enough, not many birds, and most are Big Birds, so Bird (aka the Bird) was a rarity.  His person originally wrote:

My Bird is in much need of medical attention. He has been with me now for 23 years… Bird has traveled with me across the USA and overseas. I have sewn up a few of his boo boos, but now he needs more than I can do.

His diagnosis photos showed dirt and ankle wounds, but particularly beak wear:

He came to the hospital for a spa and wound repair early this year (yes, it takes me some time to get stories up here!)

Here’s his bubble bath, he was already getting greener, which in his case was a good thing!

His person wrote:

Wow!  He looks like he’s enjoying it!

Once dry, we had to choose a new fabric for the green part of his beak (it was really too worn to sew):

Then the same fabric was used for his heart with a bit of his original stuffing (he had to get restuffed before his worn beak part could be recovered):

Finally, his beak was repaired (as were all his other wounds):

His chubbiness was tested:

Approved!  His spine was closed and he was ready to fly home (it was a bit far, so he took a plane rather than flying himself):

His person wrote:

Bird is home and he looks fantastic!!!!

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Bill Nye for most of his career: Imma do science for kids. Science without politics. Nice, tame science for the kiddos.

Bill Nye now:

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Literally literally hasn’t meant exclusively literally in a *long* time.

Kory Stamper in The Science of Us talking about hyperbolic “literally”. Excerpt: 

The emphatic “literally” is not a millennial invention; it goes back to the 1700s at least, though Smith gets it right that it’s English. John Dryden, a man who is best known as the founder of literary criticism and the prohibition against the terminal preposition, was an early user of the emphatic “literally.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace all used the emphatic “literally” in their works. Even Lindley Murray, 19th-century grammarian, uses the hyperbolic “literally” in his own grammar — and he was such a peever that he thought children, along with animals, shouldn’t be referred to with the pronoun “who,” as “who” conveys personhood, and only creatures with the ability to be rational are actually people.

We only began to take issue with the hyperbolic “literally” in the early 20th century. Ambrose Bierce called it “intolerable,” and usage maven H. W. Fowler said it should be “repudiated.”

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today i told my manager "just because i can handle anything doesn't mean i should have to" and if that isn't just the motto of my life

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canon fact: gudetama is nonbinary

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Hang up this is a Big Thing that isn’t in Australia?

BIG DUCK

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I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it

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men are acting like she hulk didnt exist in 1980s and stan lee himself didn't create her. men are truly a disease. gbless.

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Are you kidding me this is the best video I’ve ever seen

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orange juice is the superior beverage bc it makes ur tongue feel like u ate a bunch of ants which reminds me of my childhood when I would put ants in my mouth and eat em except this time it tastes good too

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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

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viewing queer identities as “this is the label that makes me happy and feels most accurate now” rather than “this is who I am, was, and always will be” will definitely take the pressure off, friends. changing your mind is proof that you have one.

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Fun statistical fact: Cows are about 300 times more likely to kill you than coyotes.

Minor sidenote to statistical fact: If it was common for people to keep several hundred coyotes on their property and routinely chase them into a corral and handle them, this statistic would be different.