grjohnson.bsky.social
Mental health and disability worker. I've written a comedy-horror novel, A BAD DREAM WHERE YOU'RE BACK AT SCHOOL, about kids navigating middle school in a universe that runs on nightmare logic. DM if you wanna read it (which you do).
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Right. It has a useful purpose (diagnosing specific cognitive disabilities) but there are so many people who want to use it as proof that they're better than everyone else and all those people are, as a matter of fact, super dumb
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Elon Musk has no respect for what I do, to be sure. He would see me as a massive inefficiency. But that's such a terminally dumb way to think about what my coworkers and I actually do and why we're employed.
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Still gotta be able to make it work somehow, right. Grimes might have left him, but he'll always have his true love, Crimes. Is that anything?
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If he were still with her I would call her CRIMES for the purpose of the joke
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If you're ever worried that this isn't your story to tell, well, it definitionally is, you're the one who thought it into existence. Whether it's *good* is another thing entirely, but your story is always yours.
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God, working for the state rocks so hard. And I'm like, good at it. You need a serious mental health crisis deescalated? I'm ya boy.
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vary your sentence and paragraph length. let your verbosity ebb and flow, let your music swell and fade. don't be afraid to luxuriate in longer sentences and thicker paragraphs—within reason, of course—but don't get lost in those weeds.
short? punctuates.
but all short is like jagged stones
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Dont think he practiced it. Did it to impress his moron buddies from a discord server or some shit
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So many wonderful possibilities: butterflies in the sky, the ability to go twice as high. Take a look.
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You can always enter a world that's good through the magic of reading
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She had only seen boss baby. She thought 300 had boss baby vibes.
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Yeah man, some autistic people are going to be drawn to the people who promise that the trains will run on time.
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But yeah, the only reason people read silver's work in the first place is statistical expertise. He can crunch those numbers, but he's bad at they why so hard
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The funniest thing about Kanye's inclusion is that his exceptional level of talent is music production specifically. He's even not even that good rapping or writing lyrics!
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Like I don't doubt he's like, *pretty good* at rocketry or coding but not like, a freak at them or anything. The level of skill normal people get to through lots of hard work and study.
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I love how the title and thumbnail for that sketch tell me everything I need to know about it and it rocks.
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Streets could be saltes but I don't know if VA keeps big piles of salt around to do that. It does look at least a little melted all around tho
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Leaving most men in that society dreaming of the day they'll get their own harem, and then they die unmarried because Leader needed a forty-sixth bride. The women suffer the most, but it's not like most of these men gained anything, either.
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This is of course most devastating to the women involved, treated like chattel sex slaves.
But it is also a hoarding of women by the most powerful men and the most powerful men only. There aren't enough wives to go around.
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"You're a white man and that makes you inherently worthy of respect" has been the draw of the right since the dawn of modernity. I don't know how to fix that but I do know we've got to cut the inherent disrespect pronto.
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I'm never going to the side of the fascists because I have some actual convictions damn it, but I am not at all surprised that so many men think that the right will offer them more respect, compassion, and human connection. A lot of them are probably not wrong.
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"Here are countless opinions about how it's every man's nature to be a gross opportunistic rapist, signed off on by people you respect and like. By the way, developing a healthy masculinity is easy and if it isn't easy for you it's your fault. If any of this gets to your head, you're the problem."
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"Here! Here's the good social media. This is where you get to see people denigrate your intellect, courage, hygiene, and right to live on a daily basis on account of your gender. It's just jokes! Please make one of these jokes every so often so we know you're a Good Feminist."
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I know we're living in a nightmare prison of masculinity's weirdest neuroses built by weird gross dudes rn but I haven't been hanging out with those dudes, I've been over in Men Are Trash land my whole adult life and I don't know the degree folks over here want me to internalize that.
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I have no idea what their gender is. Like, we've all done it. We've all made the Men Are Trash jokes in order to signal allegiance to the left or whatever.
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And the wild part is I don't think that first part is sincere--not in a "they're joking" way but in a "they're worried they won't be taken seriously in their social groups unless they demonstrate truly disordered levels of hate" way.
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Now. States should consider it now. Plan for it now. Build up the infrastructure and systems to do so now.
Even if we never do leave, it will make us more resilient
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Hell yeah, this one slaps