i know there's scholarship and resources on how harmful masking is to the mental and emotional wellbeing of autistic people. but putting that aside. there is an inherent hilarity to going to happy hour with my coworkers and sternly keeping an internal monitor on Normal Conversation Topics. There is a man with a rubber stamp in my brain marking proposed topics NORMAL, APPROACH WITH CAUTION, and WEIRD AS FUCK, and he is NOT happy with the number of immortality obsessed health grifter biographies I have submitted for review

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

the rafah border crossing could close as soon as next month, leaving people in gaza with no way out. please continue to fund trusted people who are on the ground. do not donate to anyone who does not know what they are doing or how to get funds moved properly, or those who have no connections to volunteers in cairo who are working tirelessly to transition traumatized people as smoothly as possible while the egyptian government does squat. many sources are aggregating vetted funds like the linktree to several funds below.

Men will literally study Paracelsus, translate 1600s alchemical texts and distill potions for melancholy before going to therapy

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

Having to explain to way too many people that no, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

If I give Kaiba anything politically/ideologically its that based on his nearly all-woman workforce and respect for Ishizu I think he is probably notably less sexist than your standard corporate officer in 90s Japan. Not because he has ever seriously considered women's experiences though. I think he simply believes that constraining people to only certain jobs based on such characteristics means that humanity loses out on the potential advances made by one who turns out to be a really good programmer or whatever, and that this aligns with his self-conception as being a man of science and progress. He has never actually spoken to a woman about non-work things for longer than like ten minutes. But Jonouchi literally told Anzu to get back in the kitchen one time so the bar isn't high

i miss everyone in the whole world but every day i shut myself in and draw tally marks on the walls of my cave with a carefree but steady hand and no regard to the passage of time

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a wretched old man

There's unfortunately very little linguistic research on turn-taking in conversations between autistic adults (or schizotypal adults, while we're at it), but there are some studies that support the idea that autistic people are better able to pick up on conversational cues when speaking with other autistic people, just as allistic people are better able to pick up on cues when speaking with other allistic people.

Furthermore, one study indicates that autistic adults are more likely to prefer longer silent gaps at the beginning of conversations, though the silences tend to shorten as the conversation progresses. That said, the study I mentioned isn't definitive, as the sample size is relatively small. Furthermore, there might be changes based on language and country of origin, as the participants were all native german speakers

you've been told all your childhood that it's rude to interrupt. and now you have grown up and speak only when there is a pause in the conversation. but suddenly you understand that neurotypicals are all interrupting each other and this is quite normal. but you are already used to not interrupting and waiting for a pause in the conversation and do not understand how to normally maintain a conversation in order to talk, but at the same time not to seem rude

Hold the fuck on no way WW3 jokes are trending on Twitter when this is an extremely serious situation that’s threatening to destabilize an entire region. No way everyone’s gleefully looking at this as if it’s the grand show finale they’ve been waiting all along. There is no fucking way

Being transfem really exposes just how completely full of shit society is about breasts, huh? Like apparently there was some nebulous point sometime after I started E where it stopped being okay to have my tits out in public because....... reasons i guess? Just an arbitrary event horizon of indecency

you don’t think i’m a woman? that’s fine i guess that means i can go topless everywhere now

you can be a dickhead to me but my whimsy will always haunt your narrative

UNRWA, ANERA and WCK have all been forced to pause or halt their humanitarian operations in Gaza because Israel has deliberately targeted any means of lifesaving aid to a starved, maimed, and tortured population of over 2 million Palestinians, almost half of which are children.

This has been broadcasted by Israel so that it sets the precedent of what is deemed permissible in the face of "international law". I said it before, it does not get any more obviously genocidal than this.

anera stopped activities in gaza...this is devastating

For the first time, our colleagues in Gaza have expressed that they can not continue to work under the unprecedented conditions they're facing, with more than 200 aid workers killed as they delivered humanitarian relief. After six months of constant bombing and flagrant violations of international law, and with consultation from our Gaza team, Anera has concluded it is best to pause our operations.

This latest attack which killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers is a part of the same pattern of targeted attacks on humanitarian aid workers that claimed the life of Anera’s staff member Mousa Shawwa last month. Like Anera, WCK has taken all required precautions international aid organizations have been told would ensure the safety of their staff, including sharing the coordinates of their workers, having clearly marked trucks, and working in deconflicted zones. However, even with meeting these conditions the attack on WCK has proven that humanitarian aid workers are not safe.

As it stands, currently delivering aid puts not just humanitarian workers at risk but also those who are receiving the aid. Our team in Gaza has determined that at this point the risk of actively delivering aid is far too great.

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Anera’s staff are all from the communities they serve, meaning our team in Gaza understands more than anyone the implications of a pause in aid as they themselves are members of the beneficiary community. Their ability to work is contingent on the ability of Israeli authorities to guarantee that they will not be targeted for distributing humanitarian relief along with the beneficiaries that they serve.