Then When You Start Asking Clarification For Every Ambiguity You Think Might Maybe Be A Problem, They

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.

debating if it would be funnier to have a bumper sticker saying "my other ride is a [exact make and model of the car the sticker is on]" or "my other ride is a [equally shitty but different car]"

hope is a skill

This blog is unapologetically pro sex-workers

No matter whether they stroll or strip, do camwork or full service

Their voices are the ones I listen to on the subject

Anyone who has a problem with that, please find the unfollow button

nytimes.com

Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government

The Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few wee

Oh no. MAGA is mad that the NYT shared the names of DOGE staffers. Don’t share this! Would be a shame

Vorkosigan Saga fanfic where Mark and Kareen, sometime post-Cryoburn, find out that they’ve actually been legally married for years.

I’m not writing it, but here’s the bullet points:

like 15 years ago, they bought a house in Vorwhatever District for tax purposes. As business partners, they had to joint-sign the papers.

today, they receive a form letter in the mail informing them that an assortment of antiquated laws are being cleaned out of the books in Vorwhatever District, including one that if a man and a woman co-inhabit a domestic building for ten years, they are legally assumed to be married in the District - and thus, thanks to federalism, in every other District across three planets. Though the law is being removed and updated, the letter assures them, their marriage will remain binding and valid. If they wish to have it annulled for any reason, they may petition the office of the Count

after a non-zero amount of swearing, they decide to fly down to Vorwhatever District and petition him directly

Count Vorwhatever frowns, staring at the paper. “Wait, Vorkosigan - ah, you’re technically in the line of succession, aren’t you? For the District?”

Mark waves his hand. “After all of Miles’ children, thank god, which will probably be several dozen by the time he dies.”

The Count shakes his head and pushes the paper back across the table. “I cannot interfere with another count’s lineage. I’m afraid you’ll have to take it up with him.”

“Absolutely not,” Mark says promptly. “He’ll laugh himself stupid.”

Some arguing later, Kareen says thoughtfully, “Could we petition Count Vorkosigan’s liege lord instead?”

Gregor, when they sneak in time for an appointment, does not laugh himself stupid. Gregor, it turns out, knew all five years, because of ImpSec’s general alert for for the name “Vorkosigan” showing up in a legal context anywhere in the Empire and also on several other planets. He hadn’t mentioned it because he’d assumed Mark and Kareen knew, and that they hadn’t mentioned it to anything because it was either private or they just regarded it as a fairly irrelevant business thing.

okay, Gregor laughs at them a little bit. He does the Gregor thing where his eyes widen and he smiles just a little and if you know him, you know that he’s trying not to laugh openly.

He also reads over the paperwork they give him and then hands it back with an almost entirely deadpan expression and an apology that no, even as Emperor he cannot annul their marriage, due to not just restrictions on Imperial interference with a Count’s inheritance but the intersection of that and some other fairly esoteric laws - in force across all the Barrayaran Empire, actually, and put into effect during the Regency, that make Vor/prole non-Vor marriages particularly complex to dissolve. 

“Trust me,” Gregor adds, “I studied these laws quite thoroughly, when I was anxious about proposing to Laisa.”

Kareen grimaces. “Miles is going to laugh himself stupid at us.”

Gregor is not foolish enough to disagree. “Not quite as hard as Ivan and Tej will,” he instead says helpfully.

Mark groans.

Smash cut to Mark and Kareen sitting in Miles’ study while Miles laughs so hard he nearly falls out of his chair.

also, I guess, he dissolves their marriage, if they want.

they probably don’t end up doing that. 

they send a letter to select friends and family a week or so later informing them that they are, in fact, married now, do not want gifts or a party or anything but just FYI

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adhd executive dysfunction sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

Getting a lot of comments about how beautiful my 1880s treadle is, and while yes it is lovely, it's fairly plain compared to some of the rarer & earlier machines out there!

This website has pictures of a whole bunch of them, which are worth clicking through if you're interested.

Whight & Mann, 1860s.

Gresham & Craven, 1870s.

Howe.

"The Alexandra", 1860s.

Smith & Starley, 1870s.

D.W.Clark, late 1850s.

JDSM Co., 1860s.

Wilcox & Gibbs. (This one is actually not super rare, there are quite a lot of them! Also it does chain stitch instead of lock stitch.)

Britannia Sewing Machine Co., c. 1870.

Britannia Sewing Machine Co., c. 1870.

Kimball & Morton, c. 1870. Apparently the front leg coverings come off, and the needle and presser foot are inside.

That's only a fraction of them, and I've still only clicked through less than half the list. That lion shaped one isn't even the only lion shaped model on there.