my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

Girl……

This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!

Kudos to @chavisory for writing this. The reduction of any strong convictions an autistic person may have to "just rigidity" isn't just an oversimplification.

It's dangerous. It makes it far easier for others to dismiss us when we say "This is wrong."

(Also, something inside me died a little when I saw one autistic person refer to their own defense of a fellow student against a mean teacher as "displaying cognitive rigidity".)

The Jersey Devil is a Hoax

Local official try to put down a Jersey Devil scare in Gibbstown in 1951.

Hope isn't a white dove. It's a beat-to-shit sewer rat gnashing its fucking teeth.

Don't take your eyes off Minneapolis. It's so much worse here than the news is reporting, but we won't stop making a better world.

Beaver supermoon, rising over the fields, lighting the way for the geese.

000007 by rie ichihara

Walter Püttner, Sirene und Scaphandler (Siren and Deep-Sea Diver), 1896.

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#ok look. autistic barbie represents real autism about as well as pregnant barbie represented real pregnancy#and i don't know how much more could really be expected to be fair#idk woke barbie to me always looks like mcdonalds salad. come on lads you know this isn't your area

You know, I think this gets at part of it for me?

Like I feel like we have spent so long fighting so hard for autistic people to be seen, more than anything else, as three-dimensional...

And I don't blame anyone who does feel in any way meaningfully represented by this, I don't, but.

Barbie is, by definition, not that.

"Love and Protect your Neighbors Don't Trust the Feds"

Seen in South Minneapolis, January 2026