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Agreed, SSL, I am working on convincing myself to send off those stories to Analog or Asimov's. I have plenty of time to write now that I'm laid off.

Also, editing. Damn you passive voice! BEGONE!

right now writing feels like wading through glue but I am viciously determined to keep going. I will kill this block.

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Hmm ... 🤔

Isn't there a computer version where it starts the game with all the pieces randomly scattered around the board? It's a vague memory so probably from that golden idealistic age of the 1990s.

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For you the fam and for the files.

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Frantically taking notes ...

How about "One more time for the folks in the cheap seats ... "

jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

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Guys ...

We need a break.

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Oh it was. 35 stories tall.

And the kind if thrust that sends you to the Moon.

😉

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Planning to do later in the week!

AUTISTIC RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS WANTED

My name is Joules Emerson, I am an autistic clinical psychology graduate student at Idaho State University. I am conducting a research study on possible factors related to suicidality in autistic adults for my master’s thesis. The purpose of the research is to evaluate how acceptance, social support, and loneliness relate to an autistic individual’s risk of suicidality. 

The study will take approximately 20 minutes.

Eligibility

Live in the United States of America or US Territories

Be proficient in English

Be 16 years old or older

Be self or clinician diagnosed with Autism OR identify as Autistic

You can participate even if there is no history of suicidality.

There is a raffle for a $50 Amazon Gift Card for those who are interested.

 Please message @isucarelab if interested!

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Oooohh, have I got a drink for you!

We have energy drink concentrate liquid. They just sell the stuff, perfectly legal, in pretty much any standard grocery store or WallyWorld. Comes in these little squirt bottles in all kinds of flavors. Typically 90mg of caffeine in every squirt.

In the same spot where you find this stuff you will usually find iced tea flavor drink concentrate as well, tho without caffeine. Pick up your choice of both the energy stuff and the tea.

If you like, get some lemon or lime juice for extra flavor and the Vitamin C.

Get a large-ish glass, put in ice, squirt 2 squirts of the energy concentrate, a glug of lemon / lime if using, and fill up with the prepared iced tea. Mix well and enjoy!

I call it the Appalachian Wake-up Call.

I chain drink these while I work.

Goes well with the Adderall. 🤣

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I had 5 channels -- the 3 networks at the time, ABC, NBC and CBS plus 2 state Public Broadcasting networks. I had both Tennessee and Georgia public TV due to my hometown being on the border between the two. Which was fabulous as Georgia's ran an hour and a half of Dr. Who every Saturday night! Summer nights and Tom Baker, you can't beat it!

Also, our phone had a rotary dial.

Yes.

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BB is the only movie that can ask "why is there a watermelon there?" and never answer the question.

CORRECTION, it was Reno not Pecos who said "I'll tell you later" because Pecos was in Tibet.

I’m really not sure what to make of Buckaroo Banzai, but I respect it as a piece of art.

You simultaneously cannot make a movie like that anymore, and can only make movies like that anymore.

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Oh god, oh god ... thank you for passing this on @teaboot ...

I needed this. Badly.

Laying here at 3 AM, sobbing.

Going to try to get in touch with this person. I spent my formative years buried in comic books, unable to connect with anyone around me, male or female. Now, I'm non-binary and neurodiverse and trying to find my way out.

Our future is so often in our past.

DC Pride #1 - "Master Planner" (2025)

written by Jenny Blake art by Sara Soler

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Nothing like scrolling around a corner and seeing part of your childhood going "OOGA BOOGA ASSHOLE!"

Thanks for the larfs, @musingsfromanautisticmind and everyone associated. Needed it but ow my ribs ...

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My safe place is thinking about the future, how humankind will one day make our lives in space. Remembering the several Apollo command modules I've seen and standing in front of Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center. Watching launch videos. Watching the BBC's "Thirteen Minutes to the Moon".

space travel is actually cool as hell and it sucks that people are being negatively polarized against it for the sake of dunking on elon musk. a guy can be shitty without that immediately discrediting everything they have ever expressed an interest in.

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Autism peeps, the first one hits partcularly hard for us. So many times I've felt so excluded, so alienated, so other that I planned or tried to die. When you find that it's ASD and/or ADHD or any ND really, you start looking around and you find your tribe in places like Tumblr or Facebook or real life if you're lucky. You find you're not alone. There are people who get it. People who don't want you to go.

Knowledge is power. Unity is strength. Together we survive!

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Just a reminder, folks ...

We have Autistic Pride Day coming up on June 18th!

Should you be so inclined to celebrate ...

What kind of shenanigans can we get up to here on Tumblr? 🤔

We have time and advance notice, let's make plans!

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And then, it all went to hell in a handbasket.

Was heading out to an appointment this afternoon and got in a car wreck.

No word yet if car was totaled, or details as determined by the police. I'm sore, but nothing is broken. My 18 year old Honda proved yet again Hondas rock when the airbags blew like they were brand new.

I'm alive, I work from home so I can still work, but no idea how I'll afford another car or what the insurance will pay out. If anything.

Will have to take an Uber to go get my pain meds as no way to drive myself and they don't deliver pharmacy meds.

Y'all post some crazy funny shit so I don't start catastrophizing, m'kay?

/sigh

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Word.

I've been trying to keep this under my hat because my anger can become an issue. But this is Tumblr, y'all are my peeps, and most of you may be in the same boat. So ...

As you all know, I'm in my mid-50s. I've been working full time since my early 20s. Did my time at the Post Office, and after some shuffling around I finally found the place where I work now and I'm happy. Upshot is, despite my autism, ADHD, and NVLD, I have been a tax paying member of society. Also, have paid my property taxes and will continue to do. God willing and the creek don't rise, as we say here in Tennessee.

I understand that covenant the American populace have with their government: you work, you pay your taxes according to your means, and the government provides a range of services free of charge. Arguably the most important of which are medical care and an income for your retirement years and help for those less fortunate. Medicare and Social Security for the old farts, and Medicaid for the poor and disabled.

People treat these as structural members of their lives. They are givens. They are not maybes. Yes, you save for retirement, but you know SS will be the bulk of your monthly income. Yes, you can get other insurance, but you get supplemental coverage that covers whatever you've not chosen to cover with Medicare. Your retirement plans start with these.

And now, I may have to leave the city where my family has lived since my great great grandfather arrived on American shores in the 1840s. I am the fifth generation of my name and the fourth generation to be born as an American.

Why?

Because I am in fear for my life.

Why?

Because I was born Autistic, ADHD, NVLD, non-binary and bisexual.

If I leave -- to return to Ireland, ideally -- I would lose the house I've built and endured harassment to earn. I would lose my Social Security and Medicare, meaning I could never retire. Given my age, I may not be abke to find a job there that could support me.

So stay in the States under a eugenicist authoritarian regime that wants to kill me, living in fear and waiting for the bullet? Or lose everything I own, everything I've legitimately earned, to escape to a foreign land where I may end up homeless, penniless and alone? A political football kicked around the House of Commons, a ten second talking point for the King.

Well. At least Charles isn't trying to kill me.

I think.

Not sure. You neurotypicals are hard to read.

Anyway.

So yeah, my therapist is earning his fees lately.

/sigh