“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
Felonies Donld is now up to 79 felonies, for a statistical average of 1.71 felonies per president
Update:
With 91 felonies, felonies Donld has now broken the 2 felonies per president average average (2.02 felonies per president)
Someone in an autism facebook group I'm in just asked "How am I supposed to earn enough to make a living without burning out?"
Someone replied: "You're not. Even neurotypicals can't right now in the system designed for them. We're the canaries in the coalmine. When we start failing, they know something is wrong."
People keep saying, "Oh, everyone thinks they're neurodivergent now!" or they'll say it's the foods or chemicals or whatever other nonsense they've fallen for, but to me the answer is so obvious?
We've gotten to a point that more and more people are being left behind by the system, making it so that neurodivergent parents who could get by fine *enough* in decades/centuries past are bringing children into a world that cannot and will not attempt to accommodate them. There's nothing in the water and people aren't faking, it's just that this is no longer sustainable or livable and of course people with disabilities will be hit first and hit the hardest. There aren't more people with it, it's just harder to go through life without being aware that you're not functioning the way your peers seem to be able to.
saw someone refer to not knowing how to keep track of your money as "girl math" ......why are we in this weird era of treating women like idiots but repackaging it to sound cute and quirky. We All Need To Stop
at this point i also take issue with those tweets/posts that are of the genre “girls were meant to sit in their bed with treats and do nothing all day” it was fun and #relatable maybe the first few times but it’s really just feeding into this weird mass objectification and dehumanization of women going on all over every social media platform now
This is the plot of a harem anime I just know it.
This is the plot of Humpty Dumpty
I don't think androgyny in general is genuinely valued but can we talk about how "desirable" androgyny is always about neutrality and removing as much as possible (white, super thin, no boobs no bulge no body hair) whereas "ugly" androgyny tends to be fat, hairy, full of gender (visible breasts/bulge), often involves people of color. like whenever we see sci fi Futuristic Androgyny it's always "we've removed all possible characteristics" never "we combined all these characteristics" & me myself? as someone who's androgyny is hairy and genderful and "ugly"? i notice
fuck it, I'm romanticizing underrated ao3 works now. 8,000 word fics with only 13 kudos, even after 5 months. multi-chaptered works with only 11 comments from the same 3 people and the author themself. incredibly specific works featuring OC's mingling with canon characters that only get 5 kudos. rare-pair fics. gift works that are literally ONLY for the receiver.
Maybe it's an unpopular opinion but...
Sorting fics by kudos and/or hits is not always the best idea.
It's a good start for those who are new to a fandom but sticking to this sorting criteria only results in gems getting overlooked and the constant recirculation of the same handful of stories to the detriment of newer, less popular ones that might be just as good or, dare I say, even better.
I get that all fandoms have their classics but how are new authors or authors with a smaller following supposed to get a chance if only the popular fics are brought forward and kept at the front?
For a lot of fandoms, the top kudos'd fics represent what was being written at a time when the fandom was big, experiencing a surge of popularity, and sometimes when not much fic was around yet full stop so everyone read everything. The couple times I've wound up with fics that show up to people taking this approach in a fandom, that has been how it happened. They're nowhere near my best work- they were all written over a decade ago, for a start, lmao- but they got posted at a point where they were just being read by lots of people desperate to read fic for a new, popular thing!
It's made me super aware that this means this method just isn't how you find the stuff you will like most. It's how you will find stuff that appeals to the widest audience, which is completely different. Lots of people finding a popular ship's fic Pretty Good is not always the same as something that is super amazing and creative but, because it drills down into doing something really specific or niche, just catches less people's eye!
This is why I think getting ourselves into the habit of reccing stuff and asking for recs more is needed, tbh. Curation is always better than number crunching. The NYT bestseller list isn't a record of the Best Books TM, so why would fic be any different, yknow? You can totally check the bestseller list for ideas on what to read. Sometimes a book is selling because it's amazing, after all. But it's probably best not to assume it's all you'll ever need.
I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?
FINE! I'll do it myself
Why did 12 people reblog this today??? IT IS ONLY AUGUST!!!
The completely successful normalisation of left handedness in my native culture with zero negative consequences is inspiring to me. It is a deepseated neurological feature! Which correlates with lots of important facts about a person! And was the focus of a long history of violent brain-damaging child abuse! And now is so completely unremarkable as to hardly even be interesting
Today’s youth (at least here) don’t remember it but the times when left-handed people were forced to use his right hand are not that far. My grandpa is forcibly-taught right-hander (as we call them here) and he’s 84. My dad who’s 52 would be forced right-hander if he was like 5 years older.
Like, it’s not sone überdistant future. Dexterity is doom. Sinister people gained freedom mere 50 years ago. And I’m pretty sure there are places where they’re still oppressed and forced right.
This isn’t a joke. This is 100% the truth. My grandma was beaten by teachers as a child for being lefty. She rebelled and is still a lefty today as point of pride.
my gran was left handed and got so abused for it that she still hates writing at the age of 78. She still writes with her right hand too, and complains that she could never learn to draw. Cruelty inflicted in the past is still hurting in the present.
My mother is the age where I’m surprised she was allowed to be left-handed. I assume my grandmother likely stepped up and told the first teacher who tried anything to eat shit (paraphrase).
She also ended up with some of the prettiest handwriting I’ve ever seen:
