#Talking Buttons

[nandorelentlessdelacruz]

I want to say those talking buttons for dogs are not bullshit.

However, be warned: Mf dog just ask me for corn flakes by pressing "Food" button and staring at me while I ate it 😂

It's been just a week since he's had those, I'm kinda scared.

[aizakahatake]

Alfred the Cat Talks

I want to find and read a fic where Damian gets Alfred the cat some of those buttons that talk. You know, the ones that each button is a different word? And the cat 'communicates' through them?

I don't know what else could happen. I just want to see the wholesomeness or chaos or humor that could happen from it. :3

(Ooh! Alfred the cat could 'talk' to Alfred the human! ^_^)

[dataangel-blog]

Buttons

I am low-level obsessed with the button boards that people have been using to communicate with their pets. And how sometimes pre-verbal children have figured them out. I’ve tried them with Ramona, but even at six years old she’d still rather eat the button than press it. I’m thinking about this again because Ramona has suddenly gotten very vocal. She’s always been a barky dog, but lately she’s…

[bribinart]

something something the wireeee

[burnt-scone]

Saw someone on tiktok mentioning Bunny the dog with the buttons.

They mentioned how she was taught communicate, and then she became sentient & talks about mortality, and now she's on anxiety medication.

I don't think she gained sentience, I think it's just now she has a way to communicate what she already felt. She learned a form of communication we understand & communicated.

Like, she's like a toddler learning new ways to communicate her thoughts & feelings. It's interesting to see that animals think & feel similarly to us, but kinda sad she deals with mental health stuff just like humans, but I guess it's good she could voice it?

Like did they find out through communication with her? Or was it her behaviors?

I saw one person mention how she uses her communication devices to say when her brother (the other dog, who I think they're also teaching the buttons) poops. She'll also say when her dad poops, and someone else replied saying they think that in itself is more communication because dogs get information from poop. Y'know.

Basically what I'm saying is, animals are already sentient, they just communicate differently than us so we just don't know apart from body language, how they feel. But by animals like Bunny learning to communicate with the buttons we can see they think similarly to us, and they deal with similar stuff to us.

It's believed dogs and cats have the same brain capacity as a Three year-old child, meaning they can grasp what their feelings mean and how to start communicating them, they just don't have a natural way to tell us all they feel.

[lemonlurkrr]

I like it when the snakes say things

[audrinawf]

I got my cat an intelligence toy and it’s been so fun to see her play with it and it’s only been two days but I can already see her get bored with it. She needs something more advanced. Talking buttons is the next step.

[laddertek]

desperation at the postal service

[sully-s]

Lawyer Boys Doodles

[fridayiminlovemp3]

HELP

[hinamie]

fire nation festival wear aka a blatant excuse for me to push atla clothing design conventions to the absolute Limit

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[kiophen]

genuine question, do you think callout posts are inherently evil? like if someone's doing some weird shit and hiding it i think people would want to be warned about that at least. just try to discourage harassment as much as possible

The existence of a callout posts means that the targeted person will be harassed if enough people see it. There is no amount of "don't harass anyone mentioned in this doc/video" disclaimers that will prevent that. The post is now potentially a permanent record that anyone can cite for years into the future. You are now at the whims of unknown strangers to be banned from communities, kicked out of creative projects, or be blocked by friends, at any time with no warning. I would consider this to be harassment, but to people who don't know about how these things usually go down they would be seen as righteous whistle blowers.

No matter what you actually did, if your awkward interaction with someone was too sexual, or if you stated a shitty opinion about a complex topic, or if you misjudged someone's boundaries, or if you engaged with kink in a way that made someone outside the scene uncomfortable, you are now a predator. I have seen firsthand the game of telephone starting from "this person did/said something sexualized on an online platform where teenagers could have been present," to "acted creepy around teenagers," to "regularly sexually assaulted children," to "pedophile".

Callout posts do not actually stop the person from "doing weird shit". It depends on what you mean by "weird shit", but if you mean "secretly draws/engages with Bad Porn", which is what a lot of callout posts are about, I implore you to recognize that it is truly not your business to know every private action someone takes just because you follow them on social media. This applies to awkward interactions people have in private too. Sometimes it's patterns of abuse, but a lot of the time it's interpersonal drama that is not anyone else's business.

If by "weird shit" you mean that someone has demonstrated ongoing patterns of real emotional/financial/sexual/etc abuse, and it's something that cannot be handled by any other means (either privately or with legal action if relevant), then in those cases a callout post can potentially do more good than harm if it reaches the people that need to know about it.

The level of long-term mental anguish that a target can go through is absolutely no fucking joke. A callout post has the potential to be a gun to someone's head, especially if they're socially/mentally/physically disadvantaged to begin with, which conveniently describes the most likely people to be targeted with high profile callout posts. [This is because: 1.) Our communities are wayy more likely to self-police than the rest of the internet and 2.) there are groups such as kiwifarms that love when a trans girl does something they can suicide bait her with and they also love it when we infight, isolate, and attack each other.]

I don't think callout posts are inherently evil, but they do nothing to make the target not continue their unwanted behavior. The only good function a callout post can serve is to warn potential future victims. If there are no victims, no behavior that will DIRECTLY lead to someone being victimized, no scam being uncovered, no patterns of abuse being shared, then the only victim is the target of the callout post. Everyone else involved is just gawking at gossip and/or contributing to suicidal levels of anxiety to a stranger.

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

[boygirlctommy]

i love the bit from oct 17 2020 when tommy and quackity trapped wilbur in a cobblestone box to keep him from pressing the button... wilbur punching through the blocks with his bare hand to try to get to the button... tommy frantically replacing the block in front of him yelling for quackity to do something... the moment when tommy stops, blocks the exit, and tells wilbur to do it. press the button. but then theyd die with him. quackitys like "wait, wait-" but tommy holds his ground and wilbur. ohh wilbur. "why'd you have to make it so hard?"

[galoogamelady]

Do you think he could kill a man if need be?

[backmarkerr]

anyway here's wonderwall