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Auctober 2024 day 17 : Repetitions

There are many things I repeat over and over. Emojis, answers to certain things, and most importantly : Videos. I've had various comfort videos over time, but I'd start by watching them almost every time I would go on YouTube ! Recently, I'm really getting into movie analysis, wether it's animation, horror movies that I could never watch because I'm a coward or something else.

The current one is about how the Lego Movie does a wonderful job at depicting and criticizing capitalism and is almost 30 minutes long, I really can't get enough of it ! Also there's the entire spaceship Benny scene, everyone's favorite Autistic little guy (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+

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Rb if you were/are a gifted kid I wanna see how many of us ended up here

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Free bumper sticker design for any Floridians who want it

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Saw this baby on Facebook & they deserve to be shared

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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

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Reminds me of that time my highschool forced us to do a scavenger hunt in an actual graveyard for PE credits and made us hide behind trees so a funeral wouldn't see us

Recalling that he hid it somewhere among the dozens of sarcophagi underneath St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis was reportedly scouring the papal tombs Thursday in search of the final egg from the Vatican Easter Egg Hunt. “If I can’t find this egg, the catacombs will totally reek,” said the frustrated bishop of Rome while rifling through the final resting place of holy pontiffs, crawling on his hands and knees on the crypt floor to peek under the reliquary of Saint Peter. 

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I love most of The Good Place, but I cannot express just how mad Doug Forcett makes me.

"Oh, I don't name the snails in case they have preferred names already" but you GENDER them??!? They're snails! You cannot "him-her" willpower your way into snails having binary genders, THEY ARE SNAILS.

My god, he makes me so mad.

The Good Place has that fun thing where they default to she/her for unspecified people, which is interesting. I appreciate it because it's uncommon, and it's nice to try and balance out how much people default to he, when not using they. This is a language choice that I don't want to universally switch to, they is literally right there, but it is not angering.

Any and all variations of "he/she"? Disgusting. I always report people who use it. Sometimes as spam, sometimes hate speech, "poorly written", if possible.

As a guide, if, when referring to an unspecified person, you are using:

"He or she"? You suck, and you're probably a slimy politician.

"He/she"? You clearly want to use less characters, if only there were an obvious solution used by %100 of all sane people literally right there, using four characters and you don't even have to use forward slash.

"(S)he"? Wow, you really went all out to use parentheses over including people.

"They"? Thank you, for using decency.

"He/she/they"? I don't know why you did all that, but thanks? I guess?

This should, hopefully, be obvious, but having he/she or she/he or similar variations as personal pronouns is reasonable if you feel most comfortable being called by those. It is, as I specified above, referring to other people with a forced binary that is problematic.

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When my mom told me she was watching atla, I was very surprised to see it was The Wrong One, when I came downstairs. I gave it a few minutes just to make sure Aang's name was pronounced correctly. It was, thankfully, but I saw So Many Egregious Errors.

When I was explaining just how very incorrect That Thing was, my watch announced that I had apparently been exercising for 10 minutes. My watch basically called me dramatic.

That part was funny, but seriously— WHY ARE FIRE BENDERS JUST CASUALLY BENDING IN PUBLIC??? IN THE EARTH KINGDOM?????? WHY IS JET THERE???? WHERE ARE HIS FERAL ORPHANS????? SHOULDN'T IROH BE SHORTER?? WHAT??????????????

(I am very calm about this. No dramatics here. Don't even worry about it.)

this is the worst fucking day of my life, and yet i am not surprised in the slightest.

toph is an icon for disabled people. she’s one of so few blind characters who is a hero and whose disability is not her weakness or fatal flaw. while it does make her life harder, as any disability does, it also gives her strength. she is the greatest earthbender of her generation. she invented a whole new subsection of bending. the people behind the live action production had a chance to make history just by doing the bare minimum: casting a blind actress to play a blind character. they couldn’t even do that.

not only that, but they’re making her “slightly more feminine” to “humanize” her. as if there weren’t so many young girls out there who looked up to toph because she was weird and didn’t fit the mold. in “tales of ba sing se” she tells katara, “i don’t care what i look like. i’m not looking for anyone’s approval. i know who i am.” to have a female character who doesn’t conform to beauty standards is so important especially right now with the prevalent beauty influencer culture.

while the original cartoon’s representation of women wasn’t perfect, it was diverse. katara and ty lee were both feminine. they liked to dress up and look pretty. toph is not feminine. she grew up forced to dress in formal clothes and style herself a certain way and decided to liberate herself from that. all three of these women are incredibly strong and incredibly talented at what they do, and none of that is impacted by their appearance or gender presentation.

every day, my hatred for the netflix version of avatar grows.

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You take wild guesses at how to talk to people. You sometimes talk about your special interests too much and people find you annoying. You sometimes underestimate people's interest and avoid people who would have liked you. You sometimes overestimate people's interest and continue to try to talk to people when they want you to leave them alone. You sometimes talk to someone too often and end up being clingy and turning someone off who otherwise would have liked you. You sometimes go out of your way to think of something to say and end up having an awkward and forced conversation. You sometimes accidentally say something rude and people hate you for it. You sometimes say something and it gets misinterpreted.

You ask for advice. The advice you receive is "talk to people".

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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

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For some reason, tumblr keeps turning off "show mature content" in my settings? It's like every update, at least. As much as I'm glad to have it blurred just in case, a lot of "mature content" isn't actually anything bad, just too sensitive for minors, so I would rather it still be there on my dash to unblur if I'm curious. I've definitely seen some pretty inane posts get flagged.

Has anyone else been noticing that setting getting toggled in app updates? There was a time when tumblr somehow forgot I was an adult and tried to age restrict me, but that only happened once and it was months ago. It hasn't actually accused me of being a minor since then, so I don't think it's that again.

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Congratulations, friend!

🔔🔔🔔HEAR YE, HEAR YE🔔🔔🔔

I have received the results of my Autism Assessment, and it is OFFICIAL:

I am autistic. Which is apparently only a surprise to my family, as my friends have known for years and I've just been gaslighting myself into thinking I'm just "weird" and "eccentric" because of my mother.

But hey! This is EXCELLENT NEWS! WOOOOOOO!!!

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me? :>

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The laws that govern the hydraulics are always interesting ..

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First ever pinned post. Not because I really wanted to make one, but because it has become necessary, somehow.

Any and all asks requesting donations will be immediately blocked. I do not care why you thought I could help you, but I have neither money nor traction. If I receive an ask requesting anything like this, no matter your claimed cause, I will assume you are a bot.

This means:

It does not matter who you say has vetted you.

It does not matter what cause you are asking me to support.

I will not magically gain money to give you.

I will not magically become famous to advertise for you.

This pinned post should be plenty enough warning that you will be blocked, so ignoring it can only mean that you either are actually a bot, or don't really care about your cause, and are therefore attempting a scam.

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Go little guy, go!🎵

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in celebration of april 13, i present all four known photos of neil, who banged out the tunes 19 years ago today

source: theagilerat.com (click right to see all four photos!)