That’s why I said it might have something to do with who you’re around.

Look. No one blames you.

This is so weird to me. Maybe it’s about who you are, or who you run with, but when I saw that Discord was about to go that way, I messaged my Pathfinder group and every single person there immediately hit me back with, “so where to next?”

On the plus side, if anybody reading this ever has reason to think that they might need to go into a police station and remove someone being held there, apparently if you and a friend or two look sufficiently the part, you can just walk in, in plainclothes, and claim to be Homeland Security, and just… take a dude and leave.

You’re… jerkin it to the joker from Balatro?

I would download your car, not because I need one, but just to seed it.

We talked about your languages and where you’re from. I remember stuff sometimes.

Thanks for asking- it’s healing! Only a few more days before I can get the stitches out!

Eta after the fact; should make the couple of stupid long comments I’ve made look even more unhinged, given the hand injury.

I was totally going to ping you to come to the comments, glad to see you’re already here!

Francis appointed a majority of the voting cardinals. This isn’t a democracy, where people have groups that lobby in any meaningful way- the Pope is the supreme executive. Like a dictator.

So either he appointed in a stupid fashion, and the next pope is more conservative, or he appointed wisely, and the voters follow him with someone equally progressive in view.

(Progressive here, of course, is very, very relative.)

And to be clear, it’s not like, a slim majority. Of the 135 cardinals who will be voting for the next pope, Francis appointed 108 of them.

Don’t get me wrong- some of those have been quoted as saying some super backwards shit. But statistically, I would put my bet on “around about the same.”

It’s well known that since he came back from the dead but he didn’t decay or lose intelligence or anything, that Jesus was a lich.

I hear they just gave everyone on the Skyblivion mod team a copy of the remaster.

This is amazing. Thank you for this.

“MS-13” here just means “brown people.”

100%. This is the writing on the wall.

The stories I could tell you from my time as a caregiver for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities…

::: TW: neglect, abuse, SA

Here is a link to a lawsuit against Clover Bottom Mental Hospital, which was one of these institutions. The lawsuit happened in 1993. This was not that long ago.

“At the defendant state institutions, plaintiffs spend their days waiting out the hours. They sprawl in ill-fitting wheelchairs or carts. They are parked in dayrooms or hallways unattended, or are left alone in their rooms. Many plaintiffs languish in hospital beds or cribs, with no stimulation except when they are changed or fed. Others are left in wheelchairs, unattended for hours, with no stimulation or human contact available to them.”

“Plaintiffs’ basic care needs are ignored; they are left alone for hours. Clover Bottom residents in diapers are often wet, their clothes soaked through with urine.”

“Defendants have failed to protect residents of the institutions from physical abuse and neglect.”

“Verbal abuse is widespread. Staff at Clover Bottom use abrupt, verbal commands to communicate with residents; often, they scream at them.”

There is so much more, and so much worse. The thing is, some of these folks are still alive, and still members of our community, and they still have the evidence of this ongoing trauma writ large. The current system isn’t ideal. There’s never enough care, and the people who are providing care are often under-trained and under-paid and over-worked. But at least it’s better than this.

ETA: I had to come back and add: I left out all the sexual abuse. There was… a lot. There’s evidence. It’s mentioned in that lawsuit but there are stories I can’t bring myself to tell. :::

Here’s a link to the song “Pet” by A Perfect Circle.

Don’t know why your comment made me want to add this.

Eeeeew I feel like this really diminishes both ADHD and autism.

Especially since it’s so damn difficult to actually get a diagnosis if you have it.

Me, too. I’m proud of you. You’ve come so far and you still have lots left.

I agree that the Reformation was a mistake, but this is a little tasteless under an article talking about a drowned child.

Luckily the NWS offices in Paducah and Nashville have been crushing it because we’re in day 3 of severe weather.

Shout out to Paducah, who had to stop updating warnings and stuff on Thursday because they were in shelter while a tornado went over their office!