having thoughts about a media that my friends aren’t into and thus would need the context of to understand my- AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAH NOT THE HAWK WOUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
the support for ukraine always felt preformative, saccharine, and liberal, but especially now. all the celebrities, bands, musicians, actors, and talk show hosts showing their support for ukraine are silent now. where are the palestinian flags in windows? where is the news coverage? the slogans? the outrage? supporting ukraine gets you approval. supporting palestine gets you fired. it was all fake to begin with. it leaves me feeling bitter and sick. I don’t know how I can ever forgive the world
i get referred to as a purse dog a lot for an adult man but as much as i would like to deny this and say im a large scary dog i think that just reaffirms my purse dog status
Supervilliany isn’t a matter of morality, it’s a matter of obsession. If you have the kind of obsessive interest it takes to pursue a doctorate in a field that’s not readily financially lucrative then you’ve said or heard the phrase “I’ll show you! I’ll show you all!” at some point in academia
• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!
• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!
• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.
• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!
• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!
• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching
• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth
• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns
• play or learn an instrument!
• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)
• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!
I hope this helps :)
(recreated since the original writer of this reply was a terf lol)
I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.
wait. this is hilarious. They were contractually obligated to keep it, so when it was universally hated, they added an option to completely erase it from the dashboard without getting in trouble for removing it …… “snooze tumblr live” is funnier than we thought
Guys literally all of this is good news ,..they’re gonna be changing their approach to everything and focusing more on core functionality. which we all know this site needs. And they’re not downscaling any part of the trust & safety team so moderation should .. at least not be getting any worse
I don’t respect christianity but they kinda popped off with cathedrals but ONLY for the purpose of having a cool backdrop for fighting horrible nightmare beasts
What if they have snails crawling down the outside?
hi hey please talk about this as much as you can constantly over time
so often i’ve seen big-ass Stupid Bullshit News about Stupid Bullshit become absolutely nothing after like 3 days. i’m so fucking tired of it because it means that nothing changes, since we’ve forgotten what we need to change.
now amazon is getting sued. awesome! this is the first time i’ve heard of it. the suit was filed presumably somewhere between a few hours and a day ago, so that’s understandable.
is this really, really going to be covered after, i dunno, three days? i honestly don’t reckon so. amazon has enough money and probably apathy to make this not as much of an important lawsuit as it should - and maybe could - be.
i would love to be reminded every day for weeks and then months that amazon is being sued for operating an illegal monopoly. i want to read every joke, hear every update, see every move that’s made until this shit is wrapped up. i don’t just want to operate on hope and, inversely, a lack of faith on this one.
i want my anger over the way things are run to be grounded in things happening right here and right now, instead of historical events that make you go “that sucks. can’t change the past! :)” and move on, because that changes nothing in the present or the future. please talk about amazon getting sued by the federal trade commission and 17 state attourneys-general for breaking antitrust laws by being an illegal monopoly.
I haven’t personally verified this as I’m not at a computer, but multiple people in multiple places are saying the same thing. This is fucking insane. First the endless war on UBlock, then the Chromium changes to shut out some blocker functionalities entirely next year, now this?
Something is deeply rotten in recent Google/YouTube policy. I can’t imagine that this is legal - how is this not anticompetitive? Google needs to get mega fucked in the press and the courts sooner rather than later.
And I need to switch to Firefox as soon as I get home.
And if they are taken to court, they will use the existence of Firefox to claim that Chrome is not a monopoly. (That’s literally why Google funds the Mozilla foundation. I forget what percentage of Mozilla’s operating funds are from Google, but it’s a lot.)
obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they’re MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you’re done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that’s correct actually, because they’re made with the philosophy that books aren’t meant to be PRETTY, they’re meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you’re reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you’ve read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people’s books.
If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.
Anyway, here’s a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don’t be shamed into not asking questions, and it’s alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don’t let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.
Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.
A further explanation about the diagram:
An analogue clock has at least two “hands”. The shorter hand shows you what hour it is, and the longer hand shows you what minute it is. Some clocks will have a third, skinnier hand, which is the second hand.
The numbers around the clock tell you what the hour is, and they’re also situated at every five minute mark. So for example the 1 correlates to the 5 minute mark within the hour, the 2 correlates to 10 minutes, and so on and so forth. Naturally, the marks between the numbers correlate to the minutes in between each 5 minute interval.
When both of the hands are pointing directly upwards at the 12, that’s either noon or midnight. The hands then move towards the right, and that direction is called “clockwise” for obvious reasons.
(The opposite direction is called counter-clockwise.)
What minute it is is fairly obvious, since it’s whatever mark the minute hand is closest to, but some people might have a difficult time figuring out what hour it is, since there is more space between them on the face of the clock.
The answer is that the hour is shown by whatever number is most recently “behind” the hour hand, if that makes sense to you?
I find it helps me to think of the hour hand almost like a loading bar. If the hour hand is halfway between the 1 and the 2, you’re 50% of the way between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock.
So take a look at this diagram below. What time do you think it is?
It’s 1:45! Because even though the hour hand is closer to the 2, remember you’re supposed to look at the number that it’s most recently passed. It hasn’t reached the 2 yet, so it’s not 2 o'clock yet!
Sorry if this explanation isn’t very helpful, I tried to explain it as simply as possible. If you have any clarifying questions yoy want to ask someone, my ask box is open!
i was reading wikipedia about threats to gorilla conservation and i am deeply ashamed to admit that the mental image upon reading that a gorilla could step on a landmine made me laugh
gotta appreciate the jpegging going on here. already crusty like it’s been screenshotted fifty times over after an egregiously long period of…[checks calendar] 11 days ago
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