The Blog of a Female Gamer from New Jersey

Frank Paton - Witness my Act and Deed (1882)

Absolutely fucking dying over the name of this painting. We've had cats figured out since day fucking one

Simple enjoyment

“Don’t stop”

TODAY: faculty at northwestern university have been operating on a 24 hour shift schedule so theyre always there in groups protecting their students.

here’s transparent salamander hand for you guys to blap against things

*blap*

i made some more hands to blap with. well. bap. theyre not as wet i dont think

Teamwork makes the dream work!

as newspapers today dont tend to hire children, a modern day Tintin would run a clickbait YouTube channel, except the clickbait is 100% real every single time

he starts off as an irritating conservative pundit at 14, meets Chang then leaves the think tank paying him and launches his own independent channel and blows up shortly after. Chang helps with video editing and managing his socials and they often chat on video calls between adventures. Haddock, his foster dad, has absolutely no knowledge of his earlier videos.

It's so incredibly frustrating to see non-black and indigenous leftists act like the level of police violence being exhibited towards the student protestors is unprecedented/has Never Ever been seen before

Tags: @thottybrucewayne

From water hoses to police dogs to tear gas to rubber bullets (to real bullets!). The LA/Rodney King/Latasha Harlins riots. May 15th, 1970- the black students protesting Vietnam at Jackson State whose violent murders were overshadowed by the rightful horror of the Kent State shootings. Hell, the time Trump had all those BLM protestors tear gassed so he could have his Bible photo op. That was just 2020! It really makes me feel like y'all were not really listening during that whole "2020 BLM summer".

Seriously they release new animals every week what the hell is this

Every Ben-Gurion quote is like "Settler Colonialism, which I think is extremely cool, is essential to the Zionist project."

Ben Gurion voice: "If we have to commit genocide to be settler colonialists, so be it."

Oh yeah. For those that don't know. David Ben Gurion was the founder and first prime minister of Israel.

Not enough people say it, so here's a reminder that trans men are:

My Wife: babe I think my dad might be autistic

Me: your face-blind, emotionally oblivious, picky eater of a father, who has numerous niche interests and the best-organized fly-tackle-box I have ever seen, might be autistic?

My Wife: you knew?

Me: you didn’t?

My Wife: babe I’m not ok I’m having a whole-

Me: you can hear the TVs, babe.

My Wife: What

Me, pointing at the special no-flicker lighting I installed in our house so that we never actually have to have the Big Overhead Light on: babe!

My Wife: … oh my god am I autistic?

Me:

My Wife:

Me: you didn’t know!?

My Wife: YOU DID!?

@disasterhimbo

So there’s a lot of diversity in neurodivergence, but a fairly common symptom is being unable to “tune out” unpleasant or irrelevant stimulus. So, a dripping faucet, a ticking clock, the sensation of a shirt tag against the back of your neck; these are examples of stimulus which many people can tune out but which autists often cannot.

A fairly keen example for autists of a particular age are televisions and lightbulbs. Televisions, particularly the bulky old Cathode-Ray Tube televisions from the 20th century, often contained power transformers which resonated at a frequency at the upper limit of human hearing. Now, most folks do not perceive this, they just fold that sound in with the general Room Tone. But for someone sensitive to such stimulus it could very well feel like tinnitus.

Similarly, all lightbulbs experience some variability in luminosity due the frequency of mains power (typically 50/60 hz, producing a flicker rate of 110/120 hz) but different lightbulb technologies are more and less affected by this. Fluorescent bulbs are notorious for degrading to a point where even folks who aren’t particularly sensitive will notice the flicker, whereas LEDs are generally nearly flicker free. Once again, not a problem for a lot of folks, but potentially migraine inducing for a brain that can’t detune the signal.

I put a LED light strip around the perimeter of my ceiling. Provides even, indirect, clean white light without flicker. A bit of work but I like it quite a lot. Plus you spend a little more up front and you can get fun color-changing ones!

I finally watched The Sound of Music and like I get it now, I get it. 

It’s a beautiful two hour love story of a strict man finally opening his heart again and then a fifty minute public service announcement to hate the nazis. Brilliant.

You’re not wrong there…

Reblogging this version cuz those two gifs show the sexiest duality a man can have.

2 things a man should do

The second time I quilted Joan of Ark.

This one just got first place at the Utah State Fair

Wait. That's a QUILT?!

YOU GUYS. THAT IS A QUILT.

"you sound smart" that's because i've spent years doing academic writing to the point that it's my default cadence plus or minus the use of profanity as a tone indicator

"you sound stupid" that's because i'm dumb as fuck

Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it

Antique can openers (still not sure why he thought the 1920's one wouldn't work that well considering it's the same design we use today)

Can openers of history. Some work better than today's models!

Can openers of

history. Some work better

than today’s models!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

this is a niche one but instead of "they would not fuckin say that" it's "they would not fucking use American sign language".

ASL is not the only sign language. two british characters in your fanfiction would not be using ASL. England in fact has its own kind of sign language, BSL, that forms a sign family with many other sign languages around the world.

ASL isn't even the original member of its sign family, it comes from french sign language. do you know sign languages aren't related to spoken languages? that's an important one! it's not a direct 1:1 with people speaking English around the world. people in other countries don't learn ASL just in case they run into an usamerican or Canadian (who do often use it)

i know the entire world is the USA or whatever and sign languages do sometimes borrow from ASL for signs they don't have, but please be aware that there are other sign languages and families in the world that are not in fact ASL.

and on a mostly related note, a lot of media seems to only ever depict sign language in the context of mutism instead of the WAY WAY more common deafness. especially in fanworks where they don't want to have to deal with a character being more inconveniently disabled than just "can't talk", but it's still noticeable in normal media also.

going to a collection of signing characters and going "well you can't all be hearing but mute". like the ratio of deaf to mute characters would be so disproportionately innacurate it's almost insulting. past a certain point it feels like you just don't want to deal with deaf people.

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First: Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon.[1] Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutually intelligible,[2] although there are also similarities among different sign languages.

and

Second: The number of sign languages worldwide is not precisely known. Each country generally has its own native sign language; some have more than one. The 2021 edition of Ethnologue lists 150 sign languages,[5] while the SIGN-HUB Atlas of Sign Language Structures lists over 200 and notes that there are more that have not been documented or discovered yet.[6] As of 2021, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language is the most used sign language in the world, and Ethnologue ranks it as the 151st most "spoken" language in the world.[7]

just wanted to add that sign languages, like spoken languages, have regional dialects - for example when we were trying to learn BSL in the 80s in Bristol, our teacher explained that Bristol signing had its own sign for sugar (scratching the cheek), based on generations of deaf people in the past working on the docks there where sugar was imported, and getting a skin condition called sugar dermatitis from carrying the sacks over their shoulders

we just wanted to draw further attention to how rich these languages are