I think it needs to become common knowledge that “inability to read social cues” can show up as overcompensating.
You don’t know how much misbehaviour is allowed, so you become the perfect child who never tests rules.
You don’t know if someone is irritated with you, so you’ll be extra generous and self-effacing.
You don’t know how much is expected of you at work so you’ll kill yourself in a minimum-wage job and not notice that nobody else is working like this.
“Hardworking and quiet” should be as much of an autism red flag as “ignores rules and doesn’t know when to stop talking”. Or why don’t we just start using words to communicate so i can stop tracking everybody’s eyebrow twitches, that would be great.
Imagine how hurtful it must have been for Crowley to see Gabriel, the person who literally took an active part in the process of traumatising the man he loves into the mindset that he cannot be happy and free, get a happy ending. To see the man, who was one of the reasons Aziraphale haven’t even acknowledged their relationship for such a long time, because they were on “opposite sides”. The man who was one of the reasons they couldn’t be together, even as friends, for 6000 years. The man who wanted to execute Aziraphale with a smile on his face and “shut your stupid mouth and die already” as his “goodbye”. Seeing this man getting what Crowley has always dreamt of: being able to run away with the person he loves, leave Heaven and Hell behind and just be together with his beloved - in Soho or on Alpha Centauri, literally wherever, because “Heaven is wherever Beelzebub is”. Crowley seeing Gabriel get it so… so effortlessly, while he has worked for it so long, nearly died because of it and still haven’t been able to get that, to get the happy ending and sever all the connections with Heaven and Hell. It must have hurt like hell (most literally).
the thing that strikes me about gabriel and beelzebub is that the two of them simply … don’t give a fuck. like, they have no lingering trauma whatsoever, they’re just like “eh we love each other, everything else can sod off” but aziraphale and crowley have been in the TRENCHES FOR YEARS AND CAN’T DO THAT bc they have all these qualms and whatnot
gabriel and beelzebub getting together in 4 years bc they started bitching about bureaucracy makes sense bc they truly dgaf. wish i could say that about aziracrow
I don’t want video games to let me choose whether my character has Penis A or Penis B, I want them to administer a comprehensive twelve-part questionnaire about how I think elves reproduce and procedurally generate a set of genitals based on my answers.
This post has attracted the expected number of this-is-just-Homestucks, but I have several questions for the person who tagged it #pokemon mystery dungeon.
Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn’t already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent’s days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream
Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
Start caring about history and stop hiding behind fake progressive morals to excuse your ignorance.
This person has done THE most impressive job I have ever seen compiling links to many films and books for free
This is an impressive list of film noirs you can watch for free
TubiTV is my favorite streaming site, it has a spectacular list of older films, and you don’t need to even create an account to watch them
Also the amount of great older movies available on youtube always impresses me. Every time I can’t find an obscure movie on torrent, it is usually just there on youtube. Mosfilm has been remastering their most classic releases and uploading them there.
Anyway, be curious! Search “films about <thing you like>” on your searching engine of choice. Chances are someone made a movie about it no matter how weird and crazy it might seem!
I know I jest sometimes, but films are legitimately great! There is so much to discover out there, it keeps me always excited for the next great thing I can discover that I had never heard about! Please, shed you chains of hollywood fast food, there is so much beauty just at your reach
What Oppenheimer is about: A biopic about one man’s decision to sell his soul to the U.S. government, who then went on to live under intense surveillance and ostracization from the very same government
What Oppenheimer is about: A biopic about a man who sold his soul to the scientific community because he desired validation more than anything else, causing him to be ostracized from the scientific community
What Oppenheimer is about: A cautionary tale about what happens when you sell out with no consideration for the greater good of humanity
What Oppenheimer is about: A cautionary tale about trusting the U.S. government
What Oppenheimer is about: The emotional desolation that comes from becoming the very thing you set out to defeat
What Oppenheimer is about: To show people that if you don’t stand for anything, you’ll fall for anything
What Oppenheimer is about: To remind us that life is short and precious and one small group of white men can and will destroy anyone they want to any time they see fit
What Oppenheimer is about: An indictment of power imbalances, systemic racism, and rampant misogyny
What tumblr says Oppenheimer is about: U.S. government & military propaganda, the glorification of white men, excluding minorities on purpose
seeing this makes it look like such an obvious thing that should be installed all over the place.
“The turbine is designed vertically with long blades. It covers less area on the ground and is easy to handle. It can easily be assembled and disassembled which makes it durable. Solar panels are fixed at the top of the turbine to generate extra electricity. The device is capable of producing approximately 1 kilowatt per hour of electricity. A single ENLIL turbine can easily provide the average daily electricity needs of two households.
Apart from that, the turbine also contains inbuilt sensors like carbon footprint sensors, to detect earthquakes and IOT platform. The safety and comfort of the city are also ensured.
The turbine can be installed in parks, near seashores, rooftops, households but the roads are the ideal locations for the device. The big vehicles like buses can provide a lot of wind energy. The speeding vehicles on the highway can provide enough wind for these turbines to work all day and night without stopping. The energy generated can be transported to places or it can be used for maintenance of roadways.“
-Dhruvika Singh, BuzzOnEarth.com
Can we just line the light rail tracks with these?
