#presume competence

[schar-aac]

"presume competence"

Images: a figure with a slight smile thinking about another person, who has their hands on their hips and is wearing a cape. in the first image, the person being thought about is green and has a gold cape. in the second, they're emoji yellow and have a green cape.

[thechekhov]

I have this conversation with myself at least once a month. 

[stimpunks]

Changelog: Presume Competence. “Nonspeaking” or “Nonverbal”?

We updated “Presume competence. Never assume that the ability to speak equals intelligence.” with a selection from “AAC and autism resources | This Is Not About Me”. Presuming competence is essential to inclusive education. When we presume competence, we assume that everyone can think and learn. This is often called, the “least dangerous assumption” tied to the most basic pillar of medicine to…

[columboscreens]

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

intellectual disability real.

yes, some people misdiagnosed with it, because “look like it” because apraxia motor hard control body. or because not give way communicate all thoughts and fact that always do understand. because different struggles make see their actual intellectual functioning hard.

once hard work learn control motor, or once get tool communicate, able show that hey, am highly intelligent all along! able go write long about own experience closest to norm “normal”—long sentence, correct grammar, big words. so more people listen.

but. there are real people who ID diagnosis. is correct diagnosis. who do struggle intellectually.

ignore people w ID because secret genius misdiagnose ID, not right.

“do ID/intellectual functioning actual matter?”

well, no, because everyone deserve be give respect and help and support and resource learn and live life. smart or average or mild ID or profound ID.

but also yes, very much yes, because there people who do struggle intellectually, some severely, and experience thing different need different type help than those who not struggle intellectually.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - Braig / Xigbar

[redbean-nom]

quite poetically ironic for demagol to do all those jedi torture-experiments in the name of "finding out how the force works" only to turn out to be force-sensitive himself

[pilots-and-protons]

How do people on here make gif sets? Is it photoshop? Are there any ways to make gif sets if you don't have photoshop?

I really want a specific Star Trek gif set, but I don't know how to make one - and I don't have any friends to ask either. :/

[duckapus]

Dumb Danny Phantom/Invader Zim idea:

Dani ends up in whatever city IZ takes place in and decides to go to school Because Why Not, and she and Gaz develop crushes on each other. Unfortunately, Gaz immediately figures out that Dani is part ghost and assumes that these Weird New Feelings are the result of a curse that she has to cure by getting rid of Dani, because she is not nearly as different from Dib and their Dad as she likes to think she is.

Meanwhile Dani is dealing with the realization that she has the same taste in girls as Danny...and is also dealing with the teasing from the rest of Team Phantom when they find out about it.

[green-mountain-goose]

whatever happens i cant fail is an *abysmal* strategy for living life. and yet rn....

[ms-hells-bells]

props to the iranian male football team refusing to sing the iranian national anthem

[airyairyaucontraire]

further criticism of "Christmas With the Joker":

quite apart from the question of where on earth the Joker, an incarcerated mental patient, obtained the resources to build undetected a rocket inside a Christmas tree upon which to escape through an Arkham Asylum skylight, then send a (presumably remote-controlled) tank with a crude figure of Santa on top of it rumbling through the streets of Gotham before launching a custom pyrotechnic display of his face, then shoot and broadcast a mock TV holiday special (with title graphics, a soundstage, functional lighting, laugh-track and cameras, and an audience of cardboard cutouts of his enemies) blocking all other TV broadcasts in the city, and abduct the commissioner of police, a senior detective and a prominent journalist

we can all go along with that

there is no reason why a healthy adult should be unable to spit a candy cane out of their mouth

use a fucking ball gag like everyone else

[malcolmschmitz]

So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

[six-of-ravens]

anyway on a lighter note: funny truck fact I learned today.

according to my dad, Toyota (and maybe other companies I lost track) are having to redesign their Big Hypermasculine Dick Extender Fuckoff Can't Drive In One Lane Trucks because....the cabs are too small for big men. like, big fuckoff hypermasculine dudes who are their main customer target can't comfortably fit in the cabs, because the floor slopes up and the roof is low so they're all squinched up as if they were driving a Yaris. Even my dad who's only 5'8" was having a hard time getting in/out of a truck he was looking at bc the roof was too low.

How...how do you fuck up design that bad. "We're gonna make this truck look sooooooo big!! But big people can't actually fit in it. And the bed is actually shorter than normal. What are we doing with that extra space? Unimportant!"

[clueless1995]

ok not to fairy tail post but i would Not participate in the grand magic games like. you’re telling me everyone thought just over 20 fairy tail guild members Including their master and all their strongest wizard went missing and were presumed dead for Seven years and instead of like. showing kindness and compassion to the members left behind everyone belittled and took advantage of them??? and now you want to participate in the stupid magic tournament to prove to everyone that you’re the strongest guild now that everyone is back?? fuck no i’m not going to be a little performing circus clown to entertain the people who treated my friends like that i’ve got nothing to prove to anyone who would behave that way ok BYE

[phantomrose96]

The timeline for Pikmin 2 is so funny because like, Olimar's been missing-presumed-dead for an entire month (rightfully so, considering how very dead Olimar should have been with the events in Pikmin 1) and he escapes by the skin of his teeth and beelines it back home with the desperate desire to see his wife and children who've probably been starring on Dateline: Hocotate every day for the last month to be grilled about their tragically missing father.

And instead. Instead. The absolute literal second Olimar's ship docks down, his fucking boss of all people comes running out of the woodwork and shakes him by the shoulders going "Terrible news Olimar your new coworker fucked up and now we're $10 million in debt! Go immediately back to that planet you escaped from and hunt its wildlife to extinction in order to collect enough valuable treasure to pay this off."

Like we're not even gonna let Olimar brush his teeth huh? Not gonna shove some antibiotics in him for the undiscovered foreign pathogens clinging to his suit? This man survived 30 days on 10 days of emergency rations and probably a few bulborbs once he got hungry enough to no longer care about the parasites. Not a hello? Not a 'you're alive'? Not a coffee?

What the hell does this even look like from the President's perspective? Your shipwrecked presumed dead employee whose life insurance policy paperwork is sitting on your desk shows back up out of the literal sky, down 20% of his bodyweight covered in superficial injuries smelling like gangrene and carrying himself with the haunted and (no, dare I say, passionate?) look in his eyes of someone who has learned to indiscriminately kill for the sake of survival.

And your first thought is "oh thank god my single competent employee isn't actually dead. I need to exploit him as soon as possible."

President's so fucking lucky Olimar is both a broken salaryman and also deranged enough to find wonder in the hostile world that so very wants to rip him to pieces. If I were Olimar I'd have killed President and Louie on the spot.