TennyBee

fuck everyone who made me feel like I needed to have a professional diagnosis to be autistic btw it's doing nothing for me except looming over my neck like a guillotine ready to drop at any moment

can't even get disability benefits and my rights can be taken away at the convenience of whoever wants to treat me as subhuman what is even the fucking point

So I shouldn’t get the diagnosis?

when people talk about autism diagnoses they leave out a lot of the negative impacts and risks, if it's the right thing for you then it's the right thing for you but I'd definitely look into what the benifits are for you other than just having it

I can't really think of anything positive it's really done for me except for letting me wear pajamas in high school? other than that I was still told by my mom not to go on T until I was 25 because I'm autistic so I might just be a confused little girl and harassed at my last job for being trans + disabled. I didn't need it for my anxiety meds prescription either so for me it's kinda just sitting there, menacingly. the current political climate is what has me really scared though

some of the negatives of an official autism diagnosis include: not being allowed to foster/adopt kids not being allowed to immigrate to a significant number of other countries access to healthcare being taken away greater risk of discrimination by doctors Having an autism diagnosis can help if you are high support needs and need access to things like a group home for autistics or some sort of other aid from the government (but even then just because you have the diagnosis doesn't mean you'll get that help), but for middle support needs and low support needs it's a much more nebulous thing.

Eugenics

I just felt these tags were too important not to add @blacksasuke

Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard “Black people don’t need sunscreen because they don’t burn.”

Raise your other hand if you were today years old when you found out that not only is that not true, but Black people are more likely than white people to die of skin cancer, because they’re told they don’t need to take precautions, sunburn doesn’t visually appear as quickly on Black skin even as the damage is being done, and then doctors aren’t taught what skin cancer looks like on Black people so by the time they catch it, it’s too fucking late.

I’ve been singing that song for a while tbh. It’s amazing how many times I’ve brought up sunscreen or skin screenings with a dermatologist, and women I know don’t realize they also could develop sun cancer.

If you’re reading this and you’re black, please I am begging you look up what melanoma and the other skin cancers look like on darker skin. It’s on the internet, it’s a quick google search, please do it now while it’s in your mind.

And once you’ve done that give yourself a full body check-over. Remember to include around your eyes, the back of your neck, and the part in your hair. Also! Please make an appointment with a dermatologist in your area (check reviews online to find one who is comfortable checking you) and go see them.

Skin cancer is very treatable if it’s caught early. However it can be very serious and often deadly if it isn’t. Take! This! Seriously! If you’re black you still have skin, and you can still get skin cancer! You really do owe it to yourself to know what to look for, and to check yourself on a monthly basis. It could genuinely be the difference between life and death. 

It is 1880s America, you are about to spawn as a Historically Significant White Guy. Choose a class:

TROUBLEMAKING FRONTIER PREACHER

MANICALLY AMBITIOUS CON ARTIST

EUROPEAN NOBLE FAILSON

DOOMED FRONTIER EXPLORER

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I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.

it’s just like. this broadcasts loud and clear that the people behind the curtain have no pride or faith in this site at all. that tumblr, as a whole, has no worth or merit unless it’s somehow tricking the larger internet community into thinking it’s actually another site. and the users are supposed to celebrate this? where’s the dignity? where’s the self-respect? where’s the joy? it’s disheartening and embarrassing to be forced to conform. smh.

text from my dad (2021) - my dad

“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”

submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup​

Original text for context

op this provides no context

Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don’t need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment’s notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a “locate then press” style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?

This reminds me of the elevator in my friend’s apartment building, it has completely flat touch screen style buttons, with no ridges or edges in between.

But there’s Braille under every number, except that it’s impossible to actually touch the Braille without accidentally pressing the buttons, peak accessibility

This post makes good points, but even if not for blindness-accessibility, I would still fully-oppose touch screens. They’re just so bad! You can’t tell if you’ve pressed the button! The software to which they’re connected is always so laggy! There’s no proper feedback! You can’t tell what you’re doing! Give me big, clicky buttons! Let me feel if I’ve made the input!

My point is, everyone can use proper input devices, more-easily than they can use touch screens!

curb-cut effect

Also the elderly can’t use touch screen as well. Most people don’t know this but touch screens rely on your hands being warm and slightly moist. As you age you lose those two things. Here’s an article.

Three Philosophers (Les trois philosophes) Henri Charles Guérard, c. 1890-1892

Sharecropping.

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

sometimes, the only way i know my roommate is still alive is the $30 cheese that appears and disappears from our fridge

the reviews are in

how do you guys feel about my lock screen

OP do you take constructive criticism?

there is nothing to criticize here

Who the hell organize apps by color

Mind your business

Asymmetrical gameplay in which one group plays as the Mystery Incorporated Scooby Doo gang, and one player is the one who was REALLY behind it all.

No I don't know how that would work. I've come up with ONE IDEA, and NO SPECIFICS on how to implement it.

My work is done here.

MARGOT ROBBIE & RYAN GOSLING "Barbie" Interview | IGV Presents (July 2023)

no webcomic will ever be as funny as this strip from oglaf

i know its been added but the follow up is also hilarious

I don’t know why, but this one is always my favorite!

HEEEEERE’S JOHNNY!

For those who are wondering, this is not Photoshopped. It is not all that unusual for adult sulcatas to walk/burrow through drywall. Not necessarily for any particular reason, just because they feel like digging and can’t be bothered by the frivolity of human structures.

I like that this happens often enough that it is a known problem with this species

Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me

sometimes you do just have to lie to children.

If, when my toddler is, you know, toddling around saying “mama? Big ball?”

If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.

So, for now, instead “big ball went night night!”

Please understand when I say “removed the ball from the premises” I mean I popped it in a fit of exhausted confusion. I murdered the beach ball.

See I’ve lied to you all too and it was better this way.

you can’t just leave this in the tags etc.

You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter

VERY CLEVER WATCHER!!!!!!

i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

the only thing in our new apartment so far

What else do u need