Oh god, why didn’t you just let him through?

yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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think about me

i think the way tiktok and tumblr (yes i am unifying these two sites together for this, for shame!) talk about autism and adhd (n honestly ocd too) as this quirky party trick has really damaged The Youths, at least in america (n they enact that damage on the rest of us, per usual)

like you guys will CONTINUE as usual to mock n harass anyone who is slightly "weird" or "offputting" bc well YOURE autistic and YOU dont do that, so it must be a them problem. well, YOU live on your own and YOU have a job and YOU have tons of friends and YOU go to uni and YOU go to the club and YOU arent weird. its not an "autism thing", this persons just weird. weird for being a picky eater, for using scripts in conversations, for avoiding crowded places n having meltdowns while in them, for living w their parents or in assisted living, for going on about their special interests, for missing social ques, for speaking "weird", for stimming, for having little or no friends, for being unemployed, for having motor issues, for being nonverbal, for not being able to handle the school/academy system, for being autistic.

THEYRE clearly just weird, THEYRE wrong for exhibiting signs and symptoms of autism. their autism is WRONG and WEIRD and OFFPUTTING. YOURE autistic and YOU dont do that, so its clearly "not about autism".

Helmethead Gecko (Tarentola chazaliae), family Phyllodactylidae, Sidi R'bat, Morocco

photograph by Søren Nøhr Tang

what if warriors had on-page illustrations?

excerpts taken from skyclan's destiny, squirrelflight's hope, crookedstar's promise, and moth flight's vision

Dracula Parrot aka Pesquet’s Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, endemic to New Guinea

photographs by Peter Tan & Greg Hume 

Why do bluejays have a bad rep?

They just tend to be ‘bullies’ - they’re bossy at feeders, they chase other birds, and they sometimes eat other birds’ eggs. nothing wrong with having a big personality :)

If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula), male, family Icteridae, order Passeriformes, Sabine Woods, TX, USA

New World orioles are in the blackbird family, Icteridae, while Old World orioles are in the family Oriolidae.

This bird nests in the US and Canada, and overwinters in Central America and NE South America

photograph by Sjef N Gail

warrior cats fans will be like "oh my god i fucking hate him he makes me sick to my stomach he is so revolting and twisted i hope he dies a horrible death"

and then this is who they're talking about:

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Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Windsor Nature Park, Singapore

photograph by Tony Wong