other people have said this but elon musk might actually be the dumbest person alive for thinking it’s a good idea to limit views on a website that makes money through advertising
a bunch of ppl who run websites have pointed out that the first thing that platforms/hosts will do if u don't pay your bills is to rate limit you, the limiting views thing is just elon's PR copefest in my opinion
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Pls do not reblog anything with the old disability pride flag, it does cause seizure and migraines, please use the new one which was created by the same person with the feedbacks of many other disabled people.
This is the safe one:
ALTDont use the zigzag one, your making disabled space inaccessible for a part of the community.
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if its 1:00am when you're reading this you know what to do!
that's right! it's research traditional methods of moroccan architecture, which follow strict mathematic structures and formulas to create stunning tilework and arches, often also utilizing a special form of clay endemic to morocco famed for its sculptural qualities which are difficult and even impossible to reproduce in other regions! additionally, the cultural significance of the various motifs and colors used throughout moroccan architecture, both in religious and in secular buildings, are distinct and highly formalized, honed over many h
FUCK YEAH MOROCCAN ARCHITECTURE
have you looked into muqarnas yet?
yes! i was actually referencing muqarnas when speaking about the clay! morocco's carved clay and plaster muqarnas are famous for their intricacy and detailed fretting!
Sometimes muqarnas are carved wood. Regardless, Moroccan architecture is ABSOLUTELY BONKERS.
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you mothers fucker don’t need to make us scroll forty goddamn linear feet.
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This is why I honestly feel like Biden was the best possible choice in a shitty situation, even with his age and potential health issues. Because if nothing else, he is NOT REACTIONARY. He is methodical and dedicated. Do I wish he acted a little faster and with more of an eye towards progressive policies? Obviously yes. But given the choices, and given everything else that's happened, Biden has absolutely made the best of a bad situation. Sometimes you don't need a hero, you need a fucking repairman to come and just make it work until it can be fixed. And he's a damn good repairman.
Okay, I’ll give him the W for this one.
This is his biggest problem unfortunately. He's the kind who "doesn't want to gloat" but he NEEDS to let people know what he's accomplishing! Most young voters are never going to see this article and just remember him "busting the strike." The Democrats need to learn how to do a victory lap.
i also think it's a massive mistake to attribute the kind of lateral disability violence i'm speaking of to the so-called "high functioning" mentally disabled committing violence on the physically disabled; with all due respect, i've absolutely seen visibly physically disabled people engage in this violence and vibes-based clout-chasing ostracism over and over again.
the common factors are ability to conform to social hegemonies, particularly nt ones; attractiveness and social competence are major players in this realm. i have seen thin white cane and crutch users able to 1) do makeup and dress themselves to socially acceptable standards 2) respond appropriately in social situations, read and display socially appropriate body language, and ingratiate themselves into neurotypical-hegemony-dominated social spaces; and importantly, i have seen them weaponize these factors to commit violence on other disabled people with about as much regularity as i have autistics and adhd-havers who fit these traits. (in fact, frequently people who do this check multiple of these boxes.) this is obviously not an inherent trait to autistics or adhd-havers or cane users, and to attribute it to the specific disability in question is also laterally violent nonsense.
like... basically if someone has a tiktok account with hundreds of thousands of views, is white, does perfect makeup, and has a ton of thin white friends with professionally dyed hair and trendy shein fits, i am equally unlikely to trust them whether they tell me they're autistic or if they use a cane in front of me. people like that are likely to point & laugh at the homeless mobility-impaired schizophrenic and lead violent witchhunt pedojacketing campaigns against the too-autistic-to-naturally-conform-to-unspoken-social-rules transfem regardless of whether or not they id as disabled and what disabilities they id with.
i feel like before you complain about how "former gifted kids are always acting like they're oppressed because everyone doesn't treat them like they're special anymore," i think you should probably try to understand the common timeline that a kid getting funneled into the gifted program follows.
usually, a child starts getting funneled into gifted tracks around preschool-to-kindergarten. typically, what will happen is a kid will show socially unusual interest in and affinity for a basic life skill that also happens to be taught in school--usually either verbality, reading/writing, understanding and manipulating shapes, or basic numerical concepts, or some combination of the above. they might start talking fairly early, for example, or start reading complete sentences earlier than their peers, or show a lot of unusual interest in basic arithmetic. they might get IQ tested, they might not; this is pretty irrelevant because IQ both has almost no correlation with any measure of "intelligence" other than the IQ test itself, and is an extremely poor predictor of academic success.
based on this, the parents are encouraged to push this child into academic settings earlier and at a faster pace than their peers. once in grade school, they'll be funneled into the gifted track. often, they'll have to "test in" to the gifted track, but they tend to weight what the kid is showing an affinity for the most when "testing in." what the gifted track looks like is different for every school, but generally the common factors are more work, assigned at a faster pace, and dealing with concepts that their "typical" peers are not taught until a year or more later.
this is where the most common timeline becomes important, and diverges from what i think a lot of people's perceptions of gifted kids are. the kid fails. the kid does not have some kind of magical universal affinity for every aspect of academia. in fact, the kid has, in the context of their neurotypical peers setting the standard by which they have to live up to, significant deficits in areas other than the one they showed interest in at a young age. for example, maybe they started reading incredibly early, but once they get to grade school, they start failing every math test. they write numbers backwards and copy them from the board in the wrong order. they get basic arithmetic wrong.
here's the thing: the gifted kid program accidentally self-selects for developmentally disabled children with academic splinter skills. splinter skills are incredibly common in people with developmental disabilities; frequently, they don't get perceived as such because they're very often completely nonacademic (and may not be perceived as a "skill" at all, particularly in the context of more profound developmental disabilities--someone learning to use AAC very quickly, for example, is still perceived as a deficit no matter how quickly they do it, instead of a skill in developing communication methods with significantly less support and interaction than those who learn to communicate verbally). developmentally disabled people with academic splinter skills are significantly more common than abled people with an uncommon affinity for all areas of academia, or abled people with splinter skills.
once a kid starts failing, generally the timeline splits off into two possibilities, mostly dependent on how supportive their parents are, how well-funded their school is, and what psychiatric resources are available in their area of the country. option one is that they just keep failing, and get punished more and more violently over time for their perceived "stubbornness." they are perceived as obviously capable of doing the work the gifted program is assigning them, since they were tracked into the gifted program to begin with, and their grades in this other specific subject are stellar, so obviously they're just lazy and need to be whipped into shape via punishment.
the other option is that the kid's developmental disability is clocked by a teacher or counselor, or even their parents, and enough strings are pulled to get them evaluated by a school psychologist. then, they'll get dual-tracked into the gifted program and the special ed program, with classes divided along where their splinter skills and deficits lie. the special ed program is not actually a good place for disabled children and is incredibly traumatizing to be in.
either way, they come out of school with a significant amount of trauma. legitimate trauma. from being a disabled person in the public education system, which fucking sucks and is an awful experience i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
