Tess the Autesstic

In your plant journey, habe you acquired knowledge on what houseplants are cat-safe? We're tryin to add some greenery as natural air filtration and the roach patrol *usually* leaves plants alone, but we don't trust usually >>.

I yearnforthe day Discord allows the ability to hide the video& voice call buttons, or at *least* puts them behind a hamburger menu to make then harder to bumble push.

Cat!

YouTube video by TheBugglesVEVO The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)

It is time. History begins to repeat once again: m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...

You were right, Buggles.

Talking to people way smarter than me about the things I enjoy is, no bullshit, the best part of my job. So thanks to the folks who talked to me about why Magic’s starting to look like a Fortnite lobby and what this means for the long term health of the game

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So I know Team America wasn't Nazis, but still relevant, I think

...this comes across *entirely* wrong out of context. I hope I conveyed my meaning properly ><.

'Look I'm not gonna slam you for what you like, but if you're gonna promote/support it, you're not comin to Buffalo Wild Wings.'

I don't at all want to kick a hornets' nest; I agree that JKR should be condemned! But we don't have to lambast the folks that find comfort in the books. Instead, suggest ways to access the material while supporting the artist as little as possible. In an era of late-stage capitalism, be Luffy. 👒🏴‍☠️🌊

This is less a subtweet, and more of a thought I just want to get out there:

Bad people can make good art.

When a game that people liked turns out to have been made by someone shitty, it doesn't instantly become bad. You don't have to go full Sour Grapes on it. Two things can be true at once.

A fluffy black cat lays atop a halloween-themed tablecloth, basking in rainbow-tinted sunbeams.

A fluffy black cat lays on her side and looks back at the camera, her eyes wide and her mouth agape, showing her bottom canines and her little front teefies.

For a timeline cleanse, please enjoy this Rainbow Grumpet, Vivienne--thus named because she has a permanent countenance like that of a grumpy muppet.

'Nono, you've been a *naughty* brat. Your screen time will return after these regularly scheduled spankings.'

"Trauma bonding" is the confusing attachment we feel toward people who hurt us-- but we need to remember that it's not "love" or a "choice."

It's the kind of instinctive bond that a kid-- or a person of any age-- who has been starved of connection & forced to be dependent forms.

The *worst* place a jalabraiño can put something is 'someplace safe'--cuz it'll be safe, sure! Safe from everyone and everything, including you finding it again :D

Criteria, damnit. Proofreading, you have failed me.

All this for the sake of a small group of Players, trying to win Grandma's love--but Grandma is dead, and they can never experience it. It would be sad, if it weren't so fucking destructive. | 🧵End

They're all just sad elementary school bullies inside, pushing everyone else around to gain if not the love, the *respect* of their parents. Of their spouse. Of their children. They just happened to have the money/circumstances to never see the consequences of their actions. | 🧵10/11

While it doesn't at all excuse any of the ultra-wealthy, there will come a point when it comes time for history to humanize them and figure out where it went wrong--and underneath...it's boiling things down a lot, but: | 🧵9/11

The factory must grow. The spice must flow. The cookies must bake. Just one more prestige, a higher prestige level obviously means you're better than everyone. One more lootbox, I might get the waifu/husbando I want. | 🧵8/11

Cursors mean nothing, Farms mean nothing, grandmas mean nothing because their contributions to Capital G Grandma mean nothing compared to Fractal Engines, so any lower units must be sold or shipped off. | 🧵7/11

Much like the spice must flow, the numbers must grow--at any cost. Until the numbers grow so large for such a small group that the levels receiving the 'trickle down' start to buckle.

We've reached late-stage capitalism, sure. But we've also in effect reached late-stage Cookie Clicker. | 🧵6/11

They never take a moment to stop and examine themselves, or that they may be wrong--because surely, if they have enough they will be loved. After all, their preceding generations worked that way, why shouldn't theirs?

In effect, life has become an incremental to them. | 🧵5/11

When you combine this abuse with generational wealth, you get someone with a soul devoid of empathy, and void of human compassion--but no tools other than money to try and fill it. They buy, and they buy, and they buy, and they *think* they're happy, but it's a facade. | 🧵4/11

I'm talkin' bout familial abuse/trauma, which can echo through...many generations, as I'm sure many people know. As we've seen memed so often, autistic people have always existed--they just became associated with the most disabled cases writ large thanks to media, and lack of media literacy. | 🧵3/11

A lot--*a lot*--of our diagnostic criterial, especially for mental health, came from Nazi Germany. See also: Asperger's Syndrome only being eliminated as a diagnosis in the DSM-V. I think we can look at a genetic component for autism/ADHD/etc--but not at the disorder itself. | 🧵 2/11

Word vomit train of thought incoming. Please forgive errors or inaccuracies. Thoughts appreciated.

History is written by the victors. This necessitates medical history as well, and realistically speaking, how much of our current diagnostic criteria have come from the wrong victors? | 🧵1/11

I dunno, fellas. Seems to me like it might be time to stop calling traumatized people “dramatic” and recognize that this is an era for heroism, because wisdom doesn’t have to be delivered calmly in order to be wise

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Bu's giving big Boa Hancock vibes

"Gosh thank you for offhandedly saying 'but you don't *look* autistic'! It took a lot of unseen effort and a severe mental/emotional toll, but I'm 'lucky' enough to have lived long enough to seem normal!'

....I'll stop projecting now :p