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Besides, it's hypocritical: one early display of his disgustingness was when he mocked a disabled reporter. But now it's OK and righteous to turn around and do the same thing? That's not how this works. You want to be one of the good guys? Then actually be a good guy.
Like the man is an execrable person, a malevolent ghoul, a rapist and pedophile, one of the most morally bankrupt individuals ever to ascend to country leadership, and he chooses physical ugliness. Plenty of material there, no need to go "aha! An excuse to make fun of disability!"
He's a terrible human being. If you really must mock his appearance, maybe focus on the orange skin, cuz he actively chooses thatβit's not a colour found in nature. But like... I know some really good people who have bowel issues. How do you think they feel hearing people laugh about adult diapers?
I don't give a single shriveled shit about the Scrotum-in-Chief's feelings, & I'll celebrate with great enthusiasm when he expires, but it's gross watching people mock him for being incontinent, having a rash, whatever. All you're doing is showing you think illness & disability are fine to laugh at.
LOL I promise I am not gaseous
I'm very curious what a fully sublimated homosexual or bisexual would be. I don't have a partner and I read a lot of books. How many books do I have to read to be fully sublimated? Inquiring minds want to know!!
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Oooh YES thank you, excellent rec! I will add it to my get-it list!
PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: βWeβve let the lies be far too successful, and thatβs significantly hurt our cities. No more.β
Itβs our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why weβve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
I do love a cannibalism book. Hmmm...
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen stateβembroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Clearly I need to visit Pompeii
Haha nice! Well I am glad you're here, with apologies to your wallet. π Those are beautiful jewelry pieces, happy belated! π₯³
Hm. Well, again, in my experience, it wasn't presented as therapeutic in any way. It was just about providing extra intellectual challenge for kids who were in a higher capacity bracket than the standard classroom and were understimulated. I don't think divergence needs to require treatment.
I don't know enough about the landscape here to even speculate. So I will get my hands on a couple of the books and see how they land with me. Not really sure what to expect here. I will report back with whatever I find out! /fin
Well in my experience it wasn't treated as a diagnosis at all. And I'm not sure I would see it as such even now, and it doesn't seem to be approached that way in most of what I can find online about it. More like a set of traits, I think, but I'm just starting to explore so have no clarity yet.
I wasn't expecting that. With the enormous cultural conversation about neurodiversity going on these days, new books on autism and ADHD seem to be emerging every ten minutes. But for giftedness: crickets. I am very curious what is going on with that.
So, of course, I got curious about it and went searching for books on the topic - my primary tool for learning about any topic that piques my interest (which is why I have nearly 2,000 books eeep). Turns out there are, like, six books about giftedness, and three of them were written 25+ years ago??
And of course, when you pursue higher levels of schooling (grad school etc.), you're no longer especially exceptional, cuz the path kinda selects for bright folks, so you don't stand out. All this to say, the notion that giftedness might be relevant to me *now* is kinda novel.
"Gifted" didn't mean something especially formal, or if it did, I was never made privy to it. It felt more like "we better do something to keep this insatiable kid amused so, uh, here's some extra homework." And after elementary school I was just grouped with the bright kids and that was it.
This tracks with my sense that I'm probably some kind of neurodivergent, but the struggles and traits my autistic and ADHD pals talk about don't resonate for me. I was put in various gifted programs as a kid, too, but we weren't really talking about neurodiversity in the 80s.
A little while ago I came across this Venn diagram of common traits within autism, ADHD and giftedness. Turns out that my own traits cluster heavily under giftedness, with a couple of tendrils into autism and almost none in ADHD. π§΅
Display of 3 packages of sausages, each with a sticker: hot, mild and new
Ah yes, the three genders
This whole thread, yup
Jesse Singal: βI donβt understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??β
There is a global boycott underway against Chat GPT. Open AI is working with the Pentagon and ICE. They have donated $25 million to Trump. They are working for the authoritarians. People have the power to resist and send a message to the toxic tech bros.
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Two-part image. Top is one man saying to another, while looking down, "your fly is down." Bottom is a close-up of a housefly saying "existence is pain and suffering."
I can only hope that the combination of public disapproval, action from within the US government (LOLsob?!) and complaints - or, dare we hope, refusal of duty?? - from the rank-and-file will somehow help end this fucking atrocity as soon as humanly possible. What a disgrace, in every way.
I have always been uneasy at the insertion of religion into *literally any context* apart from religious institutions themselves, and even then only when people aren't coerced into attending. So the idea of far-right religious zealots running the biggest armed forces on the planet is *terrifying.*