I Apologise If You Expected Consistency

you know, some people get weird about it. mostly white suburbanites with golden retrievers named bella who HAVE to put her in a pink collar or else.

Absolutely bonkers that I'm now one of those weirdos you hear about on Twitter

I committed to the bit so hard that I also committed misdemeanor impersonation of a government official

@huffy-the-bicycle-slayer honestly I think this was a massive missed opportunity on the part of the government. I literally learned stuff from osha-official that I proceeded to use IN A VERY REAL OSHA COMPLAINT that resulted in my (now-former) job facing some very serious consequences (as in “you have 48 hours to present a plan and timeline to fix this or we’re shutting you down” consequences). The OSHA employee who handled my complaint said it was one of the best-written and most comprehensive he’d seen in the 20 years he’d been doing the job. The bullet-pointing and management jargon I learned elsewhere, but the forklift certification issues and the lack of adequate safety exits? That was YOU.

It’s not a joke that your blog may have saved lives at my job, because out of eleven infractions I turned in, five were deemed to be “an immediate threat to life and safety.” The government should have offered you a paycheck to keep going as an actual OSHA employee, because you were absolutely teaching us stuff that makes our jobs safer and told us what resources to use if we needed to swing the OSHA club at our bosses and you were doing it in a format that was accessible and popular with your audience. That should be any organization’s absolute DREAM.

So if they won’t thank you, I will: on behalf of about 100 employees who are no longer working in a building full of flammables with no fire extinguishers and no exits from the entire back half of the building, a building where uncertified forklift drivers rammed into support columns and made the walls shake, a building where the HVAC system was full of black mold, thank you, for giving me the tools and courage to pick up the phone and fix the problem.

I may basically find the Hardeen arc too silly to take completely seriously, and I may have no interest at all in the various takes about how horribly mean it was to fake his death, but nevertheless I have a hill I will die on here and that's that Obi Wan was riding high on this shit. I'm lost the minute Obi Wan is a Conscientious Objector cruelly pressured into a plan he knows is foolishness. No. I watch that man grinning while asking how his funeral went. He stabbed some guy with a fork and threatened to eat him and commed Mace to say teehee, I'm having fun playing the bad guy!! Mace and Yoda had reservations. Obi Wan did not. This is not the council. This is Obi Wan being a stupid goblin.

Aspencore

the tone makes this sound like they have a recurring problem with people trying to join after a bad breakup and are just sick of this shit

'People who are getting away from a bad breakup' was a major source of recruits for the French Foreign Legion.

I have worked a lot of remote jobs and you have no idea how common it is for someone who just had or got out of a bad interpersonal relationship to decide that they need to find themselves out in the woods and work on their issues, so then they go and get a job that requires close contact with limited group of people and no one else for months on end. And then when they make their bad decisions, (the rebound boyfriend, the one night stand, the long drawn out cry sesh with a bottle of booze in the middle of the night on a work day) they're still stuck with the same 6 people on a mountaintop for another 7 weeks who are all forced into front row seats to bear witness to the ongoing character development until the guy who is nominally in charge has to make a rule about no fucking in the cook tent, because its the only structure big enough for us all to get out of the rain and while we're all glad that Sarah is taking charge of her own life after her boyfriend cheated on her by fucking literally the only eligible man for 200 miles in every direction, the rest of us would like a hot meal.

"Based on data gleaned from the nearly 10 million military dependents it insures, the U.S. Department of Defense has repeatedly called the evidence supporting ABA “weak,” noting there is no research to determine whether the small number of participants who show improvement — 15% — do so because of treatment or simply because a child has matured. After a year of the therapy, the department reported to Congress in 2019, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children saw no change, and 9% worsened."

Okay before we get anyone on here saying "water is wet", here are some other bullet points about the article.

Honestly, this whole article is a gem. Remember, while "water is wet" studies seem trivial, we need them in order to get our side of the story taken seriously. Research with credible data that backs up what we've been saying is important!

TL; DR?

Huge study with lots of input from autistic people tells us ABA sucks!

Thank you for this addition. A better encouragement for this article than I managed!

andrew minyard and neil josten are literally the epitome of having absolute faith and trust in a person and giving them your heart and trusting that not only will they be careful with it, but they’ll treat it the way it deserves to be treated

Kon to the rescue

Neil’s done a lot of unhinged shit in his life, but the first time he gets absolutely shitfaced at Eden’s, he obtains a pigeon.

On the drive home, Andrew allows himself to think “Okay, no big events tonight. All around a successful evening. No one started any fights, nobody died,” but SOMEHOW between Eden’s and the car which is parked right outside, Neil obtains a pigeon.

It turns out Nicky has a deep-seated fear of pigeons. Andrew has to pull over in a random suburban street, mostly because Nicky's already opened the door and is trying to throw himself out of the car. So, they all scramble out onto the sidewalk. Nicky then turns and in a fit of phobia-induced hysteria, tries to fucking drop kick the pigeon. He misses. The pigeon is unperturbed, hopping around them curiously.

Meanwhile, Aaron is waffling about how the pigeon is a government spy and they're being surveyed for mafia-related crimes. This just freaks Nicky out even more.

Neil begins muttering about child abuse and being arrested for kidnap and assault of a minor. He convinces Aaron they're going to jail.

Andrew, watching silently the entire time, is smoking out the driver-side door, and filming on his phone. He may or may not send it to Allison immediately after, accompanied by the words "You owe me."

Meanwhile, Kevin is laying starfished on the tarmac. He tells them he simply does not believe in pigeons and says no more the entire interaction.

anyone else live under the assumption that they’re constantly doing something wrong

How about the assumption that everyone’s just being polite and any minute now they’re going to snap and let you know how awful you are

Everyone who reblogs this post, please read about the psychological phenomena of Childhood Emotional Neglect.

lets just say Clark’s heart is not immune to his crush performing paternal displays of affection

i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol

people with cis mutuals rb this pleeeeaseee

trojans social media au (pt. 1): yes i caved in and did it anyways :) also who knew the little bit of french i learned in high school would be used for kevjean interactions

Apparently, my decision to be silly and make fanart of someone's writing (because I genuinely enjoy the story the person is writing and I was struck with inspiration upon reading a particular scene) has benevolent and wildly unforeseen consequences.

2. Writer put said artwork into the document of his story right below the scene, so now it's IN the story where people who read the story will see it (with a link to me)

3. He sent the artwork to all his friends and people he knows because he was so excited

Wholesome interaction and I watched him do all that in real time, good stuff. However...there are two more consequences I was notified of today...nearly a full week after I gave the artwork.

Uhh...I'm pretty sure there's a moral here but I am tired and have a great deal of emotions about this.