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I wore a red checkered shirt today and my coworkers are roasting me RELENTLESSLY for it

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When your therapist tells you dashcon 2 ended 25 days ago and that you need to leave the ball pit

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im at a restaurant right now and there's this like 16 year old kid sitting at the table next to me completely alone with like 6 racks of ribs. hes eating like 1 rib every 10 seconds and the poor server who was assigned to him has to keep getting him new ribs. ive been here for an hour just watching this kid inhale ribs like he's gonna die the next day. he probably will given the amount of hot sauce he put on them

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become ungovernable

White-throated Kingfisher, Photographed by Patricia Lorenz, (Source)

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Plastic is everywhere...

from the deepest ocean trench to remote shorelines. Take action to help stop plastic pollution and protect our ocean for future generations. You, too, have the power to turn the tide on plastic.

Here are three ways you can be a part of the solution!

💙 Use reusable coffee cups, water bottles, and shopping bags instead of single-use ones. Reusable silicone bags and other durable containers can replace single-use plastic sandwich bags.

💙 Choose products with less plastic packaging and support businesses that are working to reduce their plastic waste.

💙Support policies to reduce plastic, contact your state and federal representatives to ask them to hold producers accountable for plastic production, and sign up for our ocean action email so we can alert you to key moments to use your voice. 

We can make a world without plastic that’s healthier for people and our ocean planet!

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As a Human, I enjoy having fingers and toes. High five! For five fingers!

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A Texan farmer went on a vacation to Australia! 

A Texas farmer went on vacation to Australia. He met up with an Australian farmer who prouldly showed off his wheat field.

"That's nothing" said the Texan. "Back home, we have wheat fields that are twice as large as this."

Next the Australian pointed out his cattle.

"They're nothing," said the Texan. "Back home, we have longhorns that are twice as big as your cows."

Just then, half a dozen kangaroos bounded across the road.

"What are those?" asked the Texan.

The Australian replied, "Don't you have grasshoppers in Texas?"

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Geologists claim it's because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that's just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won't tell us about.

Geologic Periods [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A three-column table denoting "period", "my favorite part", and "my biggest complaint", respectively.]

Precambrian; Life develops; Snowball Earth episodes. Cambrian; Trilobites!; Evolution could stand to calm down a little. Ordovician; Earth might have had rings; Scary volcanic eruption in North America. Silurian; First land animals; Earth's newfound mold problem. Devonian; Big mountains in Boston; Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was armor. Carboniferous; Cool forests; Bugs too big. Permian; Pangea; Google "The Great Dying". Triassic; Tanystropheus; [Accompanied by a drawing of a long-necked dinosaur.]; Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan. Jurassic; Birds; Parasitoid wasps. Cretaceous; Raptors; Raptors. Paleogene; Pretty horseys!!!; Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum. Neogene; Forests of Dracaena dragonblood trees; Zanclean flood. Quaternary; Burrito invented; Whoever picked the name for the third period of the Cenozoic.

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Cold take: Credit card companies should not have the unilateral power to decide what is or isn't acceptable art. Also fuck weirdo puritan terfs.

Art is based off this post

For the random terfs seeing this wondering which games I'm referring to, it's every single nsfw game on itch.io, putting tons of indie artists and game devs out of work.

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What's your favorite thing you've learned this year!

I think I learned this a little over a year ago so it might be cheating but I really enjoyed (read: was bewildered and distressed by) learning that your fingers and toes getting wrinkly in water is not a physiological reaction, it in fact occurs in your nervous system and if certain parts of your nervous system are damaged it will not happen.

this is INSANE to me and I'm obsessed with it. like that's not just a feature of skin that happens to be there, it's something that your nervous system does on purpose! we don't know why, but from what I have seen most people think that it is to give us enhanced grip and traction in the water. wild shit

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Devil Eyes was a secret psychological warfare program in 2005–2006 by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to develop an Osama bin Laden action figure and distribute it in South Asia. The CIA worked in conjunction with toymaker Donald Levine, a former Hasbro executive who has been credited as the “father” of G.I. Joe toys.[1] Levine designed a twelve-inch lifelike figure of bin Laden whose face was painted with a material that, when heated, would peel off to reveal a demon-like visage with red skin, green eyes, and black markings. The goal of the program was to scare children and their parents in an effort to turn public opinion against the real bin Laden.[2]

In 2014 the CIA acknowledged the existence of the program but said it had been discontinued after Levine had produced only three prototype figurines. According to The Washington Post, however, an anonymous source with “direct knowledge of the project” said that hundreds of the toys were created and shipped to Karachi, Pakistan in 2006.[2]

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image description: ten slides with a light blue background, rainbows, clouds and stars. text reads:

a note on "going nonverbal"

nonverbal refers to a permanent state of not talking. it means months, years, decades of no talking.

not being able to talk for a few minutes to hours at a time is not nonverbal. i don't want anyone to feel dismissed by saying this. not being able to talk is distressing. it is frustrating and scary. if not being able to talk for short periods is distressing, imagine how nonverbal people feel 24/7.

to quote one of my favorite movies "you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means," the princess bride (1987).

when nonverbal people try to talk about their experiences, it is flooded with people talking about 'going nonverbal'. our voices get drowned out in our own community. it feels incredibly isolating and makes it really hard for us to be listened to or even find others who are nonverbal.

also, we have been saying this for YEARS. but every time we bring it up, y'all act like this is a new concept. that just tells me you have not meaningfully interacted with the nonverbal community, or the MSN/HSN community. it is not new, y'all just don't listen.

what to say instead of "going nonverbal". speech loss / losing speech / speech loss episode. vocal rest. verbal shutdown / vocal shutdown. words are offline. verbal loss. PS - vocal rest is GREAT if you don't want to mention why you can't speak, or have to mask. musicians say they are on vocal rest all the time to protect their voice before performing.

"But Chrome! that doesn't sound as serious as "going nonverbal!" people won't take you seriously either way, sorry. i have had periods of my life where i can talk sometimes and periods where i can't ever. they aren't going to take you seriously if you use our language because they don't take you seriously at all. because of the ableism.

"my therapist / SLP / doctor says 'going nonverbal, though -" that doesn't mean it's ok. professionals don't always listen to the people they are attempting to serve. they should, but they don't. because of the ableism. and racism, sexism, etc.

the autism community already has a problem with driving out higher support needs autistics, nonverbal autistics and especially autistic people of Color. you can be part of the solution. you can support marginalized autistic voices and make your community safer and more inclusive. but first you have to listen.

thank you for listening. i hope something good happens to you today!

with love, chrome.

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we need to give this tweet more credit for im pretty sure coining "die mad about it"

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twitter amazes me. shoutout to all the john lesbians