From the tail end of October 02022
Nov. 4th, 2022 08:10 pmHello. Let's start with the swiftness in which societal attitudes about the poor turn into complaints about how the poor spend their monies. Because, of course, if you're poor, you're not supposed to have anything that might be considered a luxury or to spend your money on anything except the very basics of your existence until your hustle has been rewarded with enough jobs so that you can barely afford what you are trying to do.
The likelihood that an adjective someone uses to describe themselves is not what they turn out to be, in actuality. Which is also brainweasel fodder for people who aren't sure what their good assets are, or who are potentially worried that the things they believe they are (or aspire to be) are little more than self-delusion. And also, there's the thing that's…the thing where people who are actually pretty good at something but also have trauma/neurodivergence often end up disclaiming against that thing, because they've been conditioned to believe that if they took ownership of it in an positive way, there's someone waiting in the wings looking to deliberately cut them down or present them with something that's several degrees of difficulty harder as the standard of what the True Scotsman really is, with the intent of gatekeeping them out of the space for reasons that have nothing to do with actual skill.
( And a few other things are involved, as well )
Last out, the winners of a poll for the very worst science stock photos and some insight into what a hockey goaltender's thought process and monologues are during games.
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The likelihood that an adjective someone uses to describe themselves is not what they turn out to be, in actuality. Which is also brainweasel fodder for people who aren't sure what their good assets are, or who are potentially worried that the things they believe they are (or aspire to be) are little more than self-delusion. And also, there's the thing that's…the thing where people who are actually pretty good at something but also have trauma/neurodivergence often end up disclaiming against that thing, because they've been conditioned to believe that if they took ownership of it in an positive way, there's someone waiting in the wings looking to deliberately cut them down or present them with something that's several degrees of difficulty harder as the standard of what the True Scotsman really is, with the intent of gatekeeping them out of the space for reasons that have nothing to do with actual skill.
( And a few other things are involved, as well )
Last out, the winners of a poll for the very worst science stock photos and some insight into what a hockey goaltender's thought process and monologues are during games.
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adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
