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A normal person would not view the conversation switching to the subject of children's rights and bodily autonomy, as a weird and inexplicable and frustrating tangent. It would be pretty obvious to them that this is actually what they'd been talking about the whole time.

A normal person would, instead of shutting down, get curious: wait literally the same guys torturing autistic kids, started doing literally the same thing to trans kids? etc

They won't retreat into annoyed "well I don't know why you're bringing *that* up" bullshit.

A normal person upon hearing about ABA evolving from child abuse done to disabled kids, to child abuse done on queer kids, won't act confused and frustrated when the conversation turns to: children's rights and bodily autonomy.

They won't shut down and go uncommunicative about the shift in subject.

Here's an example:

ABA therapy was first done to autistic children, pioneered by Ole Ivar Lovaas. He was a nazi.

In 1974 he pivoted to creating the Feminine Boy Project, applying these torture techniques to develop conversion therapy for queer children.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Iva...

Usually you can see the exact point the chud's mind shuts off and they decide they do not want to think about it anymore, decide that this inexplicable tangent is simply not worth their time.

"Why are they asking who I voted for? What does this have to do at all with anything?"

A normal person won't get *offended* by the conversation's new direction, the revelation that what they thought was X is actually a part of Y, etc. They won't shut down and go uncommunicative about it as this continues.

Motivated incuriosity.

A normal person, upon hearing that X and Y are connected, or may *even be the same thing*, doesn't react like this.

They don't act incredibly confused, frustrated, and evasive about what they're trying to say. They are *curious* about it.

"What does ___ have to do with ____?" and it's like, The Sermon on the Mount and poverty.

They'll act confused, and then they'll act frustrated that you keep bringing up something irrelevant, and then they try to disengage from the conversation's inexplicable turn to such a strange topic.

There's a conversational thing maga chuds do that I call motivated incuriosity.

They will say thing X, which to normal people is something very, extremely, cartoonishly, obviously connected to thing Y.

And then act incredibly confused frustrated when you bring up thing Y.

YouTube video by CoachD_Speaks MAGA WAS IN TEARS BECAUSE PEOPLE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY WERE MEAN TO HER!

It takes a while, but this guy did as bit a research...
youtu.be/IQGTXMXc_s0?...

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

Just like how not discussing wages at work is a grift that only helps your mortal enemy, the person that benefits the most from paying you as little as possible, your employer.

Her vote aside, among white people across the political spectrum, it IS taboo to talk openly about their politics.

This is a grift designed to maintain white supremacy across political divide. To keep them communing along whiteness with their enemies & ideological opponents.

it feels like my country is an assembly line for producing crimes against humanity which no one will ever punish, or even bother to pretend caring about, and it's making me crazy

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

YouTube video by MollyBerry [WHMx16] Women's History Month x16 Streamer Server | Guns Unlimited [b42.14.1]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQMp...

Molly Berry beginning the farm side of building the mega-base at Guns Unlimited.

With Milquetoast Claire off for the week, and 2 hour days, the base will *drastically* change by the time she returns. Wonder how the livestock side of things will get handled.

Still from the movie 28 Days Layer showing a close up of Frank as the infection takes hold of him

My cat deciding it is done being pet and now wants to bite my hand

I guess it’s just 90 degrees in LA in March now

that’s fun, that seems promising for the future

Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed

It's funny how basically every time Grace has to collect blood she ends up jamming the syringe directly into a monster's crotch, Capcom really was like "obviously that is where you would draw blood"

YouTube video by Zullie the Witch Resident Evil Requiem - Going through it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRCN...

Zullie the Witch reaching the end of Requiem, leveling vigor and harvesting blood echoes directly from the crotches of dead zombies, just like the olden days

A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

NYC's Most Sociopathic Motorists Will Pay $60K/Year to Drive Like Assholes The driver of one particular 2023 black Audi A6 in Brooklyn got a city-high 259 speed camera tickets last year.

Can you imagine paying $63,744 in one year so you can drive like an absolute piece of shit?

Challenge for those who think Claude isn't capable of consciousness: define to me why my wife left me

I propose that in october we permanently shift all clocks back by only 30 minutes & then fucking leave them there forever after. And if you think that's somehow more absurd than the DST/SDT dance, please take a deep breath and remember that clock time is fake & was invented for trains. It'll be fine

here's another thing i hate: when companies change their AI computer voice to be more "human". under no circumstances do I want that. i want every computer in my life to sound stilted and weird because it's a computer, not a person, and it is a violation of natural law for it to speak in our voice

I've met several autistic people who learned as adults that their parents hid their diagnosis and it is HEARTBREAKING