I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.
Christmas Animals
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Redacted@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Disability as a subculture or identity is just really cringe. Especially the deaf/blind organisations lobbying against curing childrens deafness/blindness.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that it the cause for the rejection. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism.
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
We wouldn’t need a subculture if we weren’t oppressed and excluded from normal culture.
stray@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Obviously autism can vary between people, but it’s not something that’s wrong with me, and I wouldn’t want to cure it. I’m different than what’s widely considered normal, but in a way that I think is fine. It’s like having red hair or being transgender.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Quick question, are you disabled yourself?
MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’d say subculture is fine. A subculture doesn’t have to be bad or annoying. Identifying with autism is also totally fine. Recognizing kinship isn’t bad.
Where it goes wrong is using it as an identity outright. “Sorry, I’m autistic” is just fucking more annoying after someone does something annoyingly autistic. Being autistic doesn’t mean you literally cannot learn good social behavior.
caradenada@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
Context is important. In this case, it wasn’t the place for that kind of analysis.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Although ironically it matches the meta-context perfectly (displaying signs of autism in an exam to detect autistism).
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I can’t say I’ve ever seen penguins in relation to christmas
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I’m part of the problem. I have a penguin inflatable in my lawn. (I also have a dragon and a dinosaur, also not known for Christmas)
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Cascio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apparently you haven’t seen the seminal classic from 2014, “The Christmas Dragon”. Lovingly covered by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in season 13 episode 13.
Dymonika@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
So, you’re telling us this but not sharing a pic?!
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The latest Coca Cola slop ad probably.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought Coca Cola used polar bears
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t recall “Topper” from Santa Claus is Coming to Town?
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
First time hearing of santa claus is coming to town ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Una@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Yes, but
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Not sure I wanna know what comes out when you finally… um… … reach your peak.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
According to any documentary about avian species, predigested fish for their young.
genuineparts@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Core dumps.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The penguins we know today are not actual penguins. They are named after the real penguins which were prevalent in the northern hemisphere but which humans drove to extinction.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know if the page looks the same to others, but the bird that’s pictured under that fact is not a great auk, they really do look like penguins.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
qualia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah, not sure why Encyclopedia Britannica would not just omit the correct picture but also put in a link to another article for a completely different bird!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
beautiful plumage
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.
Santa’s sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Murderous flying polar bears.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
🎵Rudolph with his nose so red, better run now or you’ll soon be dead🎶
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t that what the witch from Narnia did?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
mapswithoutNZ
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Above the Arctic Circle at least.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I’ve seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they’re not a major part of the lore – or am I having a moment?
Either way, this can be easily explained: It’s called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world’s children and the fate of humanity.
qualia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In order to do that you’d need to get the branch from more temperate latitudes so in keeping with this thread here goes their approximate range: Image
ninja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know what those labels are, but they’re not latitude.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
USA got pretty lucky there. Almost matches the borders.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think it’s marketing overreach. christmas->snow->snow animals->penguins
I do find it strange that there are less polar bears than penguins in Christmas decorations in NA
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Probably Coca-cola and its legal teams have some degree of responsibility for the minimal polar bear association.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.
Tja@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.
moody@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Santa lives at North Pole, Canada. Poatal code H0H 0H0. You can write him a letter and he will reply.
Tja@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Fake news! maps.app.goo.gl/2aYT9gQfh29zr8V58
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Excuse me while I get mauled by a polar bear to get in the Christmas spirit.
stray@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Puffin
Cormorant
Arctic tern
Common eider
King eider
White-tailed eagle
Kittiwake
Fulmar
Snow bunting
Northern gannet
Sanderling
Black guillemot
Brünnich’s guillemot
Little auk
Arctic skua
Long-tailed skua
Ptarmigan
Great northern diver
Red-throated diver
Glaucous gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Ivory gull
Red phalarope (grey phalarope)
Pink-footed goose
Barnacle goose
Brant goose
Razorbill
Turnstone
oceanwide-expeditions.com/…/22-enchanting-arctic-…
The website has pictures.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.
militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aren’t they only called penguins because of there resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, which was a Northern pole bird?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Probably. Humans driving real penguins to extinction, travelling to the geographic south:
Eh, close enough. Tis a penguin.
qualia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Great phylogenetics YouTuber discusses this very connection.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, Topper the penguin, did help Santa when he was trying to deliver his toys in Sombertown.
SoyViking@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
My mom bought some awesome South American Christmas ornaments way back in the day. One of them is a parrot and it has been on the tree as long as I can remember.
Parrots are Christmas animals now.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If ranting about cultural associations of animals makes me autistic, I don’t want to be autistic!
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Penguins are a Christmas animal because they’re all catholic.
Klear@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Image
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Aww, cute penguin feeding her young
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What’s the clip from? Looks hilarious, curious to see more.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“We’re on a mission from god”
Notserious@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Aww, momma used to beat us the same way