#silicone baby

[enchantedbabydolls]

[sticks-pics]

douglas cuddle toy teethers!!!!!!

[shelby-reborn-artist]

My fave set of twin😍 still available 🔥☺️

[boxheadpaint]

me: i woild like to purchase new surface pen nibs

best buy: we have those

me: you have those?

best buy: no <3

office depot: we have those

me: dp you have them

office depot: yes <3

me: really

office depot: hehe <3 No

target: w

[beeftendergroin]

celebrating may the fourth and mother's day in one post to reduce my carbon footprint

[lovelyfirebouquet]

If you're ADHD or Autistic or just really like chewing things oh my GOSH do yourself a favor and get chewy jewelry. There's so many necklaces in funky shapes and things you can get and there's a lot that honestly aren't that expensive (but make sure they're meant for chewing!!)

And DON'T feel bad about getting it if you think it would help you.

"Oh, but I'm not autistic, it would be wrong for-" Nope.

"I don't want to look weird." Then chew it in private.

If it helps you? Do it!!

I'm ADHD and my partner got me a pack of chewlery so I'd stop biting him (which will never happen, it's a sign of love) and I've been gnawing on this thing for days. It has really been helping when I'm anxious or having trouble focusing on a task. And with a lot of these, you can get ones based on how hard or soft you want them to be chew-wise!!

[lovelyhellokitty]

Hello Kitty x Bumkins Baby Collaboration

[enchantedbabydolls]

Full body silicone babies available

[sticks-pics]

teethers!!!

[witheredgardenparty]

Has anyone talked about how each member of the Genius Society represents the over reliance on the belief of intelligence but not the act of intelligence?

[bunnyboy-juice]

lets hear it for the femmes who have strong boundaries re: eating ppl out but will gag themselves on all forms of cock without a second thought 🥰

this post is about lesbian sex

[desertdollranch]

I'm mildly obsessed with these adorable My Mini Baby silicone baby dolls by the brand Zuru. They're teeny tiny and come in a surprise ball with a surprise accessory. I know they're available in Australia and maybe parts of Asia, but I don't think they're available in the United States yet.

[venacoeurva]

What is with those random accounts like [insert a few random words here]-blog just popping up flooded with machine fabricated images. Are they the new spam bots, because if so they've finally found a spam bot more annoying than the p[]rn ones: silicon valley type machine learning bros...

[hidefdoritos]

Was walking down the dorm hallway with my Duolingo and somehow stepped on glass??

Just had a random tiny sharp pain in my toe. Tried to take a second step and it still hurt. Sat down and finished my Match Madness. Then took off the sock and was surprised by seeing a little blood, and also a tiny thin shard of glass sticking out of my big toe.

Carefully pulled it out and then limped to my sister's room (my roommate is asleep). Embalmed the glass in duct tape so I can throw it out without re-stabbing anyone. Got sympathy and a band-aid. It doesn't look like a point broke off anywhere deeper, but I can't be sure. It hurts a surprising amount.

Gives me way more respect for the Die Hard guy.

[literaryspinster]

I legitimately think I only like white male characters when they're the right combination of affable and mentally ill.

[linisiane]

Been thinking about a Modern!Babel AU centered around colleges aimed around Silicon Valley

Immigrant kids being funneled into CS because it’s the field where the money is (linguistics? Where’s the money in that? You want to starve?).

International students coming to America because all the Big Programming Languages and their documentation are in English, because translations of documentation is to err and to betray, because English is the programming lingua franca, because if you don’t know English then you’ll be “trailing edge.” Source

“As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.” Source

So they come to America to improve their English because you have to be fluent to be taken seriously. Or maybe they’re born in America and can feel the rot of their native tongue as they grow up, even as they learn more and more programming languages.

Java, C++, Ruby, XML, Python, Swift, PHP, etc.

It’s funny, but programmers, even as they’ve decided on English as the one true language, they create more and more programming languages to suit their needs/problem solving efficiency:

Source

[ID: XKCD comic that is titled "How Standards Proliferate (See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)" It reads,

Situation: There are 14 competing standards. Cueball (stick figure): 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Ponytail (other stick figure): Yeah! Soon: Situation: There are 15 competing standards.

End ID]

(transcript taken from the ExplainXKCD wiki)

And of course, the students from countries on the Indian subcontinent are acutely aware of the unbalanced nature of the work they do, the way they’re expected to do export IT work, despite the digital divide in India, Bengal, Pakistan, etc. Especially since it’s a sign of being well-educated (wealthy) to speak English fluently thanks to the history of British Imperialism on the subcontinent.

Chinese IT students sink or swim thanks Mandarin monolinguism making it difficult to learn English. Americans programmers struggle not to link choppy English with choppy code, even while being monolingual themselves!

Not to mention the heavy sexism in the IT field! Female programmers taking on nicknames on emails and resumes to pretend to be men, so they’ll be taken seriously. Despite the history of women like Ada Lovelace being foundational to computers.

And of course we gotta bring up the ethics of AI, how it’s a march towards the inevitable that only Luddites would oppose. Despite the millions who’d lose their jobs once implemented into the workplace.

Commercial transportation sector lost to self-driving cars.

Digital artists lost to DALL-E.

Manufacturers automated.

But can’t they tell that progress is inevitable? That this is the future and to try to stop it is foolish?

As Anand Giridharadas put it in Winners Take All:

“In [Silicon] Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely to be describing what has yet to occur”

Elon Musk is a genius. Bill Gates is so charitable. Bezos is customer obsessed, and they’re the future, don’t you see? Infinite growth forever and ever.

Tower of Babel? Valley of Silicon.

Unfortunately I suck at STEM, and I’m an uncultured Asian American, so I don’t know programming languages well, nor do I know enough about other cultures to do Ramy, Victoire, Robin, or Letty justice. Just the bare bones to see the structure of this AU and put it out in the world to see if anybody would like to play with it or add on.