Hate hate hate how when I get angry there is a physical reaction but it's not glowing eyes or growing claws or something it's crying. This feels unfair.

A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Not aware that 9 year old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.

Boy: ‟Dark in here.” Man: ‟Yes it is.” Boy: ‟I have a baseball.” Man: ‟That’s nice.” Boy: ‟Want to buy it?” Man: ‟No, thanks.” Boy: ‟That’s my dad outside.” Man: ‟How much did you say the baseball was again?” Boy: ‟$250.”

In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom’s lover are in the closet together.

Boy: ‟Dark in here.” Man: ‟Yes, it is..” Boy: ‟I have a baseball glove.” Man: ‟That’s nice.” Boy: ‟Want to buy it?” Man: ‟No, thanks.” Boy: ‟I think I just remembered something I needed to tell my dad.” Man: ‟How much did you say the glove was again?” Boy: ‟$750.” Man: ‟Fine.”

A few days later, the father says to the boy, ‟Grab your glove. Let’s go outside and toss the baseball!” The boy says, ‟I can’t. I sold them.” The father asks, ‟How much did you sell them for?” The son says, ‟$1,000.” The father says, ‟It’s terrible to over-charge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.”

They go to church and the father alerts the priest and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.

The boy says, ‟Dark in here.” The priest says, ‟Do not start that shit again.”

my dads response could not have been better

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terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'

and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.

the answer blew my fucking mind.

the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.

an excerpt:

“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”

94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.

other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.

which means, at least from my perspective, that:

a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.

b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.

you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.

This essentially suggests that autistic people are likely to be NB because we are in fact resistant to the relevant brainwashing.

[copied from a reply by @maxens]

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If you use Google Docs for your writing, I highly encourage you to download your work, delete it from Google Docs, and transfer it to a different program/site, unless you want AI to start leeching off your hard work!!!

I personally have switched to Libre Office, but there are many different options. I recommend checking out r/degoogle for options.

Please reblog to spread the word!!

Crypt Pad can be an option too!

I don’t use Docs very much at all, but this looks like a good moment to take a sweep through my account and delete anything that’s in there.

Jesus Christ not this again.

First, note how many times this person says “I take this to mean...” I support people reading the terms and conditions but when you’re this wildly off base about what it means you’re not helping anyone.

First, here’s the actual Terms and Conditions.

Second, the feature that Google Workplace Labs is referring to is basically an advanced search engine. It is a feature you can use to ask questions (the prompt) and receive answers (the output). How do I know this? Because the data it refers to is specified: your prompts and input, prompt and input refinements, generated output, generated output refinements, and feedback. You have to specifically give the Lab information - it is not grabbing the info from anywhere else.

It is up to YOU to not input information you don’t want Google to retain. It works exactly like a Google search - which for the record Google keeps records of and what result you ended up going with. If you don’t want Google to have access to your omegaverse fic then don’t input it into the big box that is set aside specifically to give it to Google.

Third, I mentioned this in a previous post but I am the human reviewer mentioned in “To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers read, annotate, and process your Workspace Labs data.” We’re not supposed to guess what AI we’re working with but I’d bet every dollar I have that the one I review for rhymes with ‘Lard’.

Here’s what we get:

Now I have the info. I can see what you asked (although I have no idea it was you), the response the AI gave you, and why you didn’t like it. I rewrite a new response taking your feedback into account. That response is submitted to the AI so it can learn what it did wrong. If you don’t give feedback I may only get the first two and then I decide if it was a good answer and either accept it or rewrite based on my understanding.

Fourth, I already wrote a whole screed on this so I’m not going to repeat it but take twelve seconds to think of the implications of a company using all of your data. Google has a vested and immediate interest in being able to use your data. No one denies it. But it doesn’t because they cannot pivot their business model to taking all of a person’s data. It will ALWAYS have to be opt in. Too many major players have secrets stored in shit like Google docs (the number of federal agencies and law firms alone would make you wince).

Fifth, this is not to say a BRAND NEW platform might not try to pull some shit. TikTok famously. But Google and Microsoft have a business model based around storing secrets. They are not going to jettison that.

A good article about all this, I get that it’s a valid concern rn but the fact is that there’s absolutely no way if Google did this that they wouldn’t get sued into oblivion. The amount of private and proprietary information stored would simply be grounds for every single company that uses drive to well. Do what companies do.

I will say that I think having a backup is good, and will be looking for one myself. But please please please do research when it comes to stuff like this. Everyone is vulnerable to misinfo. I’ve done it before, so rule of thumb: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is. If it’s too evil to be true, it might be. Always double check.

Also please don’t spread misinformation like this! I’ve heard many a people have panic attacks over having to transfer thousands of documents, and spreading misinformation can cause more anxiety for people and more harm to Google.

Do research and check to make sure before jumping to conclusions!

hot take but none of you are allowed to use deer/antler imagery when working with cannibalistic themes anymore. you need to be honest with yallselves on WHY you're associating deer/antler imagery with cannibalism. just because you aren't naming the name doesn't mean that the original anti-indigenous racism isn't still inherent to what you're doing.

For those who need more explanation, a well known (but often misunderstood) figure in Algonquin and Aanishinabe culture is the wend*go.

No, I'm not fully typing out the name cause we don't say that name and don't want to attract its attention. Yes, all of this is taken very seriously by us Natives.

The problem is that this very serious figure isn't taken seriously at all by non-Natives and, instead of respecting our culture and the fact we don't even say its name, its perceived as this cool monster to add to movies, video games and cool edgy OCs.

And, as with all thing Native being used and abused, misunderstood, and transformed by non-Natives, we are tired of that. It's not okay, it's not respectful.

You want a people eating monster in a story? Use anything else.

As someone who's absolutely guilty of this shite on this account...yeah you have the right to spitroast me for that. Fair is fair.

I do hope we can use creepy deer aesthetics on and about other mythological/fiction monster villains tho. As someone who had a deer almost kill their dog, I just find deer creepy and unsettling regardless.

first off: You are the single person who has responded to this post admitting some variant of having done this that actually listened to what was being said, acknowledged that you did such things while you didn't know any better, expressed an intent to never do it again, and asked for clarification on whether or not "creepy deer aesthetic" is completely off-limits with that in mind. So with that said, I want you to know that you're one of the very few folks in this post I respect sincerely.

To that end: While obviously I can't speak for Native America as a monolith, it would be my opinion that no, creepy deer aesthetics as a concept are fine. Deer can be fucked up and weird. There is a fundamental lure to the idea of a large prey animal behaving as a predator or in ways anathema to our understanding of prey. That juxtaposition and irony has a lot of narrative potential and for good reason--it fucks severely! I don't want to see it go away! It fucks hard, for Christ's sake!

But it is my opinion that the use of deer aesthetics within the specific context of cannibal themes isn't able to be used anymore. The well has been poisoned too deeply. I never said once the specific being I was referring to in nearly any of my responses, but everyone knew exactly what I meant. Even trying to purposefully distance the racism from the imagery would be useless, since the racism is baked in to the assumptions by now. Reclamation may be able to happen in the future, but first we need to accept that setting it down completely is the right play for a while. You can distance racism from creepy deer stuff by purposefully and actively distancing it from Native America and cannibalism--if it becomes a recurring imagery on its own throughout multiple types of horror, rather than being innately tied by implication to the winter hunger, that's when we could maybe begin talking about whether or not to start re-examining our relationship with it.

Hey @inneskeeper , what is the "winter hunger"?

It is the epithet I use to respect the fact that the being I am referring to is not to be named/spoken of.

I would like to apologize. I originally read the first post, without any other context, and I misinterpreted it. I have deleted my post with my misinterpretation.

I would also like to thank you for adding the context.

I genuinely did not know that the original post was about the [winter hunger].

Years ago, I read an article by a Native journalist, which basically said that non-Natives should not have anything to with the [winter hunger] and that even Natives from Nations who do not have a history with the [winter hunger] shouldn’t have anything to do with the [winter hunger]. (I wish that I could find that article again; it was very well-written and stated the point better than I ever could.) So, to be respectful, I have tried to avoid anything to do with the [winter hunger]. Thusly, I had no idea that non-Natives were associating antlers and deer motifs with the [winter hunger].

Hey now, you're all good--perfection is impossible and what matters is a desire and willingness to try our best to learn. That said if you do find that article, let me know--I could use it considering the responses some racists have been forcing me to read in the notes.

I can’t find the article. It might have been back before the big Livejournal bust. I can find these, which echo some of the same sentiments:

(download) https://openjournals.bsu.edu/dlr/article/download/DLR.7.0.101-112/1771/5267 “Writing about the [winter hunger] in non-Native contexts is a type of cultural theft that presents itself not as a legal issue, but as a moral one, perpetuating the cannibalization of Native American belief systems.”

(download) https://web.pdx.edu/~dillong/Windigo%20(Dillon).pdf “Indigenous scholars emphasize that Western perspectives are incapable of accounting for the [winter hunger] phenomenon, which can only be “analyzed from within northern Algonquian cosmologies rather than Western perspectives if it is to be adequately accounted for”

Again, my takeaway is that non-Natives really shouldn’t have anything to do with the [winter hunger] and especially should not be misrepresenting the [winter hunger].

(My misinterpretation of the original post was... I really couldn’t think of any Native stories about deer/antlers and cannibalism, but I could think about European stories that involve deer/antlers and cannibalism. So I couldn’t see how associating deer/antlers and cannibalism was anti-Native. Now that I understand that non-Natives have been mis-associating deer/antlers and the [winter hunger], I see why perpetuating that mis-association would be anti-Native.)

we’re all boring to someone, annoying to someone, ugly to someone, but it’s not that deep

yes i know i like that trope bc of some deep psychological trauma crap i do not care it makes me happy why can’t you let me be happy please let me be happy i am depressed individual and i need the fictional characters to get away okay

The whole “how the hell does this predatory creature get enough sustenance” thing that plagues fantasy and sci-fi occasionally gets so absurd it loops around into being funny, like the scene in Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon is flying through an asteroid field and gets swallowed by a worm.

I could complain about that, but I could also conclude that the supply of reckless space pilots flying into asteroid fields has been consistent enough for the past few million years for animals to evolve to prey upon them.

Who knows. Maybe there are enough adventuring parties roaming about the Forest of Doom to increase the available biomass at their trophic level in order to sustain tertiary consumers like giant spiderwolves...

“You’re going into the Catacombs? No one survives the Catacombs! Many an adventurer has tried!”

“Uh, how many have tried?”

“Enough to form an entire ecological niche for species specialized to prey upon them!”

“Oh. That, uhh, that is a lot.”

“Right? It’s pretty fascinating actually. I’m writing my thesis on it right now.”

Dungeon Meshi (2014 - present), Kui Ryouko

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all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.

baby rabbits have no idea what they doin. they just be boinging around. they're like "mother I have springs in my feets- oh no" [accidentally propels to the moon]

Ohh THAT'S how rabbits ended up on the moon

Rabbit mother dialing phone: Yes hello miss Chang'e? You have one of mine again.

Time for tumblr to witness this comic: T'au Diplomat trying to negotiate with The BLACKMASSQUE

(t'au belongs to DrunkRembrancer on twitter)

surprisingly, the negotiations went really well!!

also she survived WAAAAAGHKEN

(yes, there should be a Wacken in 40k universe called WAAAAGHKEN)

Nothing is simple when you’re poor.

While the above is true, there are ways to handle the question if you get asked it in an interview.

Just bc the interviewer ASKS it, doesn't mean you have to ANSWER it.

"do you have reliable transportation?"

"Yes."

That's it. Do not elaborate. Do. Not.

They do not need to know what that type of transportation is. They do not have the RIGHT to ask what that transportation is. Many questions interviewers ask, they ask because they bank on you not knowing it's illegal.

If they press the issue? Be calm, be polite, but be firm.

"what kind of transportation?"

"Reliable transportation. With respect, you're not legally allowed to ask that question."

If they push again? Get firmer.

"I see what you're doing. You're attempting to stonewall me into answering a question that you're not legally allowed to ask, because of preconceived prejudices you may hold. The way you're handling this issue is proof that you would not be a good fit for me as an employer, and I'm ending the interview."

...then collect your belongings and fucking WALK OUT.

I was going to put this in the tags, but fuck it. Some companies will also list some horseshit like “must have valid drivers license” as a requirement when the job requires no driving as a way to get around this. Be wary of those folks, too.

I grew up in poverty, and I spent a lot of time very poor as an adult, and that thing where you just strongly assert your rights then get up and walk out of an interview?  Yeah, LOL, that doesn’t happen when you have zero money and you desperately need that job.  Because the second you assert your rights, you know for a fact that you aren’t getting that job, and no matter how much of an asshole you know that boss will be, generally speaking, any job that pays money is better than no job and no money.

Lie politely.  Please lie.  Make up a car in advance if you have to so that you can answer questions about it as necessary.  Lie politely, blatantly, with a smile on your face.  If an interviewer presses you on this, you do not owe that person honesty.  You never owe a bad boss (or potential boss) honesty.  Do whatever you need to do to get that job.

And then, after you start working there, if anyone asks (and only if they ask!), your previously-reliable totally-not-at-all-fictional car will have unexpectedly broken down and left you taking public transportation.  Tragic!  What a terrible and unexpected thing to happen!  And so terrible and unexpected that it’s taking so long to replace your totally non-fictional car!  How horrible!

Also, if at all possible, keep looking for another job.  I know it’s really hard to do when you work full-time and you’re exhausted, especially if you have kids, but you can do this.

And yeah, nothing is simple when you’re poor.

This is what I was trying to convey here, but this is more succinct. Like I said, “just walk out” feels like a privileged take that (righteously, if not paternalistically) misses the part about being poor and actually needing a job. So yes, lie. Lie politely, lie creatively, lie with a smile, but if you’re existing in poverty and need a job? Then LIE about having transportation. And don’t feel bad about it either. If an employer illegally asks a question they shouldn’t, then you’re allowed to lie about it. Hell, if they try to fire you about it later, threaten to take them to court for illegally asking to begin with. In the meantime, put some food in your belly. Catch up on a few bills. Buy some warm clothes. Feed that baby. You can work everything else out later.

Bosses, landlords, and cops forfeited their right to being told the truth by signing up for those jobs

Don’t even dodge the question.

Just fucking lie.

Lie about having a car. Just lie. You don’t owe the truth and end of day all they care about is interchangeable warm bodies and active hands. You do not owe your work the truth. Do you have four years experience even if your job shows you worked 3? Yes, you do. If they ask to elaborate tell them you interned at that company for the unlisted year and weren’t hired until the following year. They never check this shit out and as far as work references go all they ever do is confirm you worked there.

The only thing they ever do on a background check is confirm whether you have a criminal record and whether you worked at the places you did or not. That’s it. That’s all. Just lie. You need work to live and they’re blocking you from keeping a roof over your head, so lie. Just lie. They lie to your face about your pay, why the position is open. They lie about the expectations of the position, they lie like dogs about the incentives. So lie back. Lie. Lie!

With all due respect, be careful lying.

I did this at one of my earliest job interviews, told them i had a license when i didnt. It turns out, while the job didnt have it in the initial job listing, they did in fact require me to drive around to different locations. If they ask about this shit, i'd say ask them if driving around is part of your duties first. Then, if they say no, go ahead and lie your ass off. But if they say yes? You cant lie your way through that, and it'll cause some problems.

Another good tip though, is look up what the recording laws in your state are. In Ohio, where I live now, its a one party consent state; meaning that only one party being recorded has to consent to being recorded for that recording to be legal and admissable in a court of law, and it CAN be the person who set the recording! Just quietly set your phone recording before the interview. Then, if they ask any questions they legally cannot ask, you walk out of the interview and say into the recording "my name is [your name here] and i consent to the prior recording." And then you take that to an employee rights lawyer (if you need to find one, check with local unions, theyre guaranteed to know a few), and bam. They work pro-bono on an easy case, you get a nice little payday, and take down an evil employer in one fell swoop.