goron-king-darunia:

actualaster:

apocalypse-of-the-fucked:

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

This is even WORSE.

To elaborate why this is worse:

Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did.

The entire library and everything within is gone here.

Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen.

So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

itsyaboi-ray:

And they really went all out, here are some of my favorite responses:

And of course, the most confusing of all to cis people:

Link to the original if you wanna see more responses! 

no-this-is-ryan:

no-this-is-ryan:

no-this-is-ryan:

It would be so funny if autistic people started describing allistic experience the same pathologised way doctors describe autism

Symptoms of being neurotypical:

• You have immobile, frozen hands that do not fidget.
• Your interests are shallow.
• You read into phrases past their actual meanings.
• You are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people’s eyeballs.
• You do not notice patterns in numbers and objects even when they are logically connected.
• You don’t mind doing things without planning them out first.
• Instead of saying exactly what you think, you expect others to infer it based on subjective social rules.

Don’t be discouraged if you’re neurotypical. If you work hard, you too can be decent at math and accomplish the same things autistic people can!

guerrillatech:

ayellowbirds:

xekstrin:

firerulezz116:

arondeus:

i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

“Look here pal, I know my religion, and this ain’t it. Whatever this guy is, they’re clearly from your version of things. Mind coming over to help fix things up?”

#not my covenant not my malefactor

Source: Jewish magic and superstition. Trachtenberg, Joshua. 

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

zadabug98:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

timeywimeywerewolf:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

veeaziel:

every day i am percieved™️

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

I feel understood 🥰

a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

brunhiddensmusings:

musicalhell:

beaniebaneenie:

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

guerrillatech:

Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.

Only rich people would think this was a good idea.

Learn your history, people!

We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.

I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.

Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.

#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever

You know the song “Sixteen Tons”? If you don’t or need a reminder, here’s the chorus:

You load sixteen tons, whad’ya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go–
I owe my soul to the company store…

The song is about a coal miner in a company town–a man so far in the hole thanks to the system that even death won’t release him. It was first recorded in 1947–less than a hundred years ago.

Company towns are BARBARIC. It’s a massively exploitative system and when early 20th century workers fought back against them they were evicted, arrested, and murdered (your history reading subject for today: the Coal Wars, especially the events in Matewan, West Virginia and Ludlow, Colorado).

Don’t fall for this shit again.

a part of that song a lot of people miss is how he describes going to work literally the day he was born

in the world we are rocketing towards there is a heavy implication that many teenagers should be shoved directly into the permanent  service of amazon before they even graduate highschool in the name of financial responsibility