A thread on living with a neurodivergent brain--from a professor
First, a story. (For those who are just meeting me, I always start with a story.)
Once upon a time, I was course coordinator for general chemat a Large Urban University. I was the only FT instructor & supervised multiple adjuncts.
But--and this is key--each professor has to accept that students may be doing things in class to help them concentrate...that make NO SENSE to the professor.
As long as it's not keeping other students from learning, WHO FUCKING CARES WHAT THEY DO
Three panel comic. Panel 1: three witches stand around a cauldron while one of them stirs. Panel 2: one of the witches adds a scoop of pre workout into the pot. Panel 3: the three witches are getting absolutely shredded in the gym.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!
Special education teacher and Air Force medic
So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.
So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.
Shut it all down.
PRIMARY. THEM. INTO. DUST.
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI
Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for!
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DESTROY THEM
"Abolish ICE" is, very literally, the moderate position
Do something nice for yourself every day.
Enjoy a fancy coffee, take a little walk, or craft a den of twigs & wildflowers in the old forest, retreat inside, and sleep for 1,000 years in mossy peace.
The numbers are staggering:
Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.
Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.
What do you get when you cross a sheepdog and a brassica?
A collie-flower!
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Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who
In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER
Instead of spraying for mosquitos this summer, try the Mosquito Murder Bucket!
It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area.
#garden #gardening
I really need the Republicans who are retiring because their dreams of plausibly deniable racism and gentlemanly corruption have died to just burn everything down on their way out. Not to be good, as they are not, but surely they can at least be vengeful traitors.
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I'm truly sorry to report that you still feel like shit because you can't self-care/drink/shop/eat/sleep/ignore your way out of fascism.
Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever
Timeline clense
39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.
"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon
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Quite possibly selection bias, but not a single GWOT veteran I still keep in touch with has expressed any sort of support or praise for the war. The general consensus is dread and dismay.
Ends tomorrow, get your dice and fight ICE!
listen, never let it be said I don't commit to a bit
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Anyway, now that we have our supply on lock, some of the whistle goblins are really enjoying getting to branch out into custom requests, so hit us up.
There are 12 new bunnies looking for homes in the shop. Each one is unique and incredibly huggable!
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