if a neurodivergent person is holding perfect eye contact with you, she is not listening. she is performing listening. her entire brain is spent keeping her body still and her face neutral. if you actually want her to remember what you said, let her look at the floor. let her fidget. let her doodle. she can either look at you or she can hear you. pick one.
I hate AI with a passion.
It’s an unregulated, unconsidered, human-ingenuity-wrecking, resource-sucking, climate-destroying theft-machine being pushed by short-sighted, greedy individuals putting product and profit over people and planet.
But it turns out… I can hate it more.
If you’re thinking about clearing your twitter due to the TOS changes, get on it!
You’ve got 4 days. If you want to download your archive, you need to request it ASAP, it’s not just available when you want it, it takes a day or two!
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Shitty Character Idea:
A Warforged divine soul sorcerer who gains their powers by acting as regeneration chamber for a dismembered and comatose god.
The Warforged needs to find all the pieces and consume them so the god can be whole again.
Newbie: Does anyone have any dice I can borrow?
DM, side-eyeing: Kevin…
Kevin: No!
DM: You have hundreds!
Kevin: And I never know when I’m going to need a specific set! I’ve been training them for weeks! I can’t just give them away!
This 26-second clip, taken out of context of a nearly 18-minute video, is Alanah trying to help people who are not disabled understand and relate to people with disabilities. She said kids can suddenly interrupt your gameplay because they need you—the same way a disability can suddenly flare up and make you stop playing. So a pause button would be really welcome—a completely benign request.
These gotcha-style tweets and posts are a large part of why advocates suffer extremely high burnout rates. Why you see so many familiar advocate names suddenly go silent. Weak-minded attention seekers who just want views pick apart every single thing you say, constantly, just waiting for you to be tired or off your game for one moment and say something that can be twisted out of context. It doesn't matter if you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help disability causes or donate your time to charity, People like this are constantly out there just waiting for their 3 minutes on Twitter to feel superior off the back of being purposely obtuse and misconstruing an attempt to make a difficult and sensitive subject relatable to those without disabilities.
The people who enjoy doing this kind of thing need to shut their bubbling fart volcano mouths and do something more productive with their time like watching paint dry.
Today's news feels like an assault on disabled people.
We are in a cost-of-living crisis. Government looking to slash disabled people’s income by hitting personal independence payment (PIP) is a horrific proposal.
It's dangerous and risks leaving disabled people destitute.
https://t.co/pU99SQUMTi