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infantry and adultery sound like they'd be opposites but they're in fact completely unrelated

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So the hospital has a strawberry vending machine

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Black Friday lighting appreciation post

aka some of my favorite Black Friday lighting moments/production photos <3

There are so many more photos that I couldn't include so I made a part two here

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Not to be a technical writer on main, but I've been bumping into the idea lately that the only reason explaining yourself in more detail never seems to work is because neurotypical people are misunderstanding you on purpose, or because they have short attention spans, or because they just hate listening to you talk – and sure, occasionally that's even true, but most of the time the problem you're running into is more fundamental.

Every time you add more detail, you're running the risk of tripping over a bad assumption on your part about the listener's prior knowledge, or hitting the tipping point where they become overwhelmed with new information (and remember that you don't know which parts of what you're saying will be new information for them), or making a leap of logic that isn't as self-evident as you think it is, or any of a dozen other potential snags which, by definition, you will not see coming until it's too late to correct course.

Basically, every piece of information you add multiplies the odds of you getting blindsided by some vector of misunderstanding you didn't anticipate, even as it addresses the ones you did anticipate. The point of diminishing returns where continuing to elaborate increases the odds of unexpected miscommunication more than it decreases the odds of expected miscommunication is much nearer than you'd like.

The most effective act of communication is not the one which contains the most possible information, but the one which contains the smallest amount of information it possibly can while still getting its point across. It sucks, but it's the reality of the situation. People far more autistic than you have been trying for hundreds of years to invent a way of communicating which doesn't work this way, without success.

All of which is to say that "getting to the damn point" is legitimately a communication skill, not just an accommodation for people who aren't paying attention. If it's any consolation, it's something neurotypical people struggle with just as much as anyone else – if it was easy, technical writers wouldn't have jobs!

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how do you want to sign in?

text me a code

email me a code

tell us the last meaningful conversation you had with your mother

click on this map the last three places you went to that are not your home

the password you signed up with (don't pick this one)

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Just so we're all on the same page, if we want to get rid of compulsory heterosexuality we also have to get rid of compulsory sexuality and amatonormativity because compulsory heterosexuality is a subset of them ok thank you <2

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One day I woke up and everybody knew what a labubu was

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It’s really strange how there’s not really a good way to say you’re single without implying something else. Like “single” on its own implies that you’re “ready to mingle” —that’s the whole point of the phrase “single and loving it” is for. You have to specific that you’re okay being single or else you’re actively showing your availability.

But answering “not available” insinuates that you’re in a relationship as if the only way you’d be unavailable was if you were partnered already? There’s really no way to simply communicate that you’re single and fine with it.

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before you make that post about how annoyed you are at all these dumb idiots calling their interpretation of these two characters something like oh idk siblings or family or whatever maybe ask yourself this:

is someone flattening this dynamic using a familial term or trying to invent a reason why no one can ship them OR are you just pitching a fit about someone else’s interpretation of this dynamic (that they’re expressing in their own space and on their own time, maybe sometimes saying they don’t like the ship or it makes them personally uncomfortable) (again on their own time and in their own space) because it makes you feel weird about your ship and you have zero distress tolerance because you’re so used to all of fandom catering directly to you and your romantic ships that any deviation from that - which isn’t even addressing people who DO ship them just expresses the op not feeling the same - feels like something is being taken away and you’re under attack.

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It also bothers me how aspecs have been conditioned to not take up space. If you do anything more serious than a vent joke, you're being dramatic and faking oppression. If you demand to be taken seriously in the conversation, you're being childish and annoying. If you speak up about the role that erasing aspec identities plays in the preservation of heteronormativity, you're an idiot. If you implore to be heard in talks about queer issues, you're wasting resources and being ridiculous. Our points of view are thrown aside, we're only tolerable if we're harmless and let others advocate for us, and god forbid we ask our supposed allies to deconstruct their biases, cuz then we're mean and know nothing about the world. It's exhausting.

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"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world

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have you ever thought about how amatonormativity is so prevalent that it twisted the word "relationship" to generally mean "a romantic relationship" in normal conversation. saying "I'm in a relationship" should be an inane statement. everyone is in relationships dipshit it came free with your membership card to a social species. but alas

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How does a non-binary samurai kill people?

They/Them

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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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A spoiler free account of some random funny shit that happened during GWDLM yesterday

During show me your hands, Jeff accidentally popped a lens out of his sunglasses and had to do the scene with just one lens. (Joey then had to dance over to the lens and rescue it.)

When Will was pulling blue shit out of Jeff’s brains he didn’t put it back properly (in the evening show he tucked it back in, which is what I assume was meant to happen) and it flopped down Jeff and onto the floor. (Will then had to later in the scene go and rescue it)

Jaime straight up forgot to do the lines about Emma being escorted to Colorado by a very good friend. She walked off before saying it, leaving Lauren alone to improv (“Do I get an escort to Colorado?”) before Jon walked on. It was super smooth, you might’ve thought they’d just cut that exchange, but it was back for the evening show so I assume it was meant to happen 💀

During the evening show Jeff tried to tip Emma and missed the jar completely, and made a little in character “oop” noise before putting it back in

(But joking aside the show is so so fucking good, they’ve made some insane improvements and I’m so lucky I got to see it 💙)

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They hate me for my redundancies. And also for my tendency to say the same thing but in slightly different ways. And for my repetition of phrases. And for my redundancies.