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I love that you can just grab kittens. old cat have achy joints and a sense of dignity that you have to play into, so you gotta be deliberate and respectful in hoisting them, but if a kitten is whirlwinding past you, you can just reach out and snatch them. and they’ll be like ‘mamma mia, I never did nothing :p’ and writhe around and lick your fingers. highly abductable animal
But low key makes me think about how people with adhd have been raised their whole lives to value a day based on what they accomplished vs what they experienced
I think your point is excellent. But also consider:
That list might say things like “Paint a picture. Go birdwatching. Finish that great novel I started reading. Call my grandma. Learn to bake a cake. Visit my sister. Play piano.”
For me at least, the good/fun things are harder without meds too. I can have the best intentions, but following through is hard.
This addition is so important.
Also it turns out it is really helpful to your mental health to be able to accomplish boring chores like dishes when they are a quick few things and not an enormous pile of everything you own?? And then you find yourself doing things like not eating because it will add to the dishes and you know you won’t be able to do them any more than you could earlier so now maybe TECHNICALLY you don’t have an eating disorder but your eating habits look like one. And you feel horrible about yourself because why can’t you just do some damn dishes like a billion other people???
Like it or not being a functional human being does in fact depend on doing something other than ~experiencing things~. Getting rid of capitalism will not fix the fact that I have no executive function and can’t afford an actual adhd assessment and as a result spend a lot of my time just absolutely miserable because I physically cannot make myself start a task, any task. I hate the “value what you experience not what you produce” line SO MUCH because all I want to be able to do is produce clean dishes and laundry on a regular schedule and my brain just doesn’t work that way and it severely negatively impacts my life.
adults: oh silly children with no responsibilities no real trauma no life experience no worries and yet oh so dramatic about nothing
also adults: oh thank fucking GOD i am not in school anymore, i had another nightmare i was THERE again, i woke up in a cold sweat bc i didn’t study for my TEST-there’s nothing not anything like the sweet relief of realizing that you actually don’t have one and you won’t have one in a very very long time, i still remember what the hallways smell like, i graduated years ago but i don’t feel safe yet
can someone please tell me what the fuck I just saw
this guy is just keeping a shit ton of eels in a storm drain? There’s a water filtration system down there? the water is clear?? there’s crawfish?? they possibly ate the other crawfish??? there’s an aquarium above the pool???? he’s just tossing animals in there to be eaten maybe???
what kind of pit is this? what happens when it rains, do the eels get washed away? what’s with the aquarium?? Is this like a well on his property or city infrastructure???
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source is i follow this guy on tiktok
the eel pit is a rain reservoir under his house, yes its his, yes hes allowed to do this
hes set up a filtration system so that all water going in is safe for the fishies and its an reservoir so theyre not getting wooshed away anywhere
its come pretty far along now, and theyre all doing well
the pit also has a few catfish now, and a couple crayfish
everything in the pit is named
the eels are mostly named eel puns and he can in fact tell them apart
one of the eels is named crunchwrap supreme and that one seems to be his favourite, as it he can hand feed it and its friendly with him
as for Why he made this into an eel pit the answer is basically he works at a fish husbandry store and he always wanted a bunch of eels
Eel pit Eel pit Eel pit
I think you all need to understand that if I was on a date and the person across the table from you started telling me about their eel pit all I would be able to think about was making out with that person and their Galaxy brain for the rest of the evening.
man it sucks so many people on here have absolutely convinced themselves that entire categories of consumer goods like perfume are bougie. you are depriving yourself of little treats by just assuming you cant ever afford anything! this isnt an avocado toast post either im not saying ‘just save up and buy it lol’, i would never say that, what im saying is perfume (that is: scents in liquid, paste, oil or solid form intended to be worn as a personal adornment) as a commodity starts at “free” and gradually increases in price from there. my favorite perfumes are priced everywhere between $0 and $300. one of the most lauded amber scents in the world (regrettably JUST discontinued), “Amber Paste” by Kuumba Made, is one of those little hippie oils you get at Whole Foods and it cost $10.
and im not telling you to wear perfume, obviously people have allergies and shit, or just dont care for it, im talking to the people who WANT to own fragrances. im saying they aren’t all going to cost $150.
you can also get unlimited (unlimited over a long enough timeline, they limit you to a couple or three per visit) free samples at a lot of sephoras and nordstroms if you live somewhere that has those stores (this depends on the location and a lot of other organic factors, you’ll have to check ahead of time or just try it if you’re nearby, it’s sort of random). if you’re actually buying something at sephora (and they have a lot of stuff that isn’t a million dollars as well, despite their branding) ask for every free sample at checkout that they have. they will often load you up, and not just with perfume. secondhand outlets like Value Village and Goodwill also do huge business in perfume because people are ALWAYS donating it.
sephora also does perfume refills. if you actually do buy a full size bottle, they can refill it for much less than buying a whole new bottle of the stuff. i don’t know exactly how much it costs because i havent used this service myself. and idk how careful yiou have to be about reeceipts either, but look into it if you bought a full size and its running out
idk it just bums me out there are all these people who actually want perfume and seem to think it’s out of their price range. the really basement-tier dupes of popular brand scents are so good these days it’s often worth dropping the $10 at Walmart or Rite Aid too.
some of my favorite ever perfumes were some weird crap i got in a crystal wizard store, or a drug store, or a goodwill, or whatever. if you want perfume you can get it
Sorry to hijack this post, but I’ve frequently encountered similar attitudes when it comes to attending the opera or a live classical music performance. Ask any regular opera patron and they’ll tell you that opera companies desperately need young people to come out to performances, that they can’t keep solely relying on the financial support of a rapidly shrinking circle of upper class patrons. I’ll hear “oh but it’s so bougie going to the opera”, no it’s not, there’s a reason why “Va, pensiero” from Verdi’s Nabucco became an anthem for the Italian revolutionaries during the Risorgimento. “Opera only caters to elite tastes, besides I don’t know Italian/French/German/Russian etc.” I guarantee that it doesn’t, and most modern opera houses use some kind of subtitle technology in their performance. “Attending the opera or symphony is too expensive.” If you’re under 30 or a student I guarantee that you can get absurdly cheap tickets. The Canadian Opera Company here in Toronto used to (they still might, I don’t know) offer $25 tickets to under-30s, $35 if you wanted the best available seats the day of, which is how I wound up with seats that would’ve cost me hundreds of dollars otherwise on more than one occasion. Just go, please, it’s always a wonderful experience.
Folks need to read more Emma Goldman:
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.’ Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
Don’t fall into this trap of thinking pleasure and beauty are bourgeois. The whole fucking point of reforming the world is so we can all have pleasure and beauty and leisure time to cultivate them. You’re not a martyr to the cause by denying yourself pleasure. You’re just miserable, and your misery only serves the upper class, not the people you should be fighting alongside.
The Hollywood Bowl offers tickets for as low as a dollar for classical and jazz performances. I used to go with my parents ten times a summer because thursday shows were $5 for the cheap seats, and you can show up early with a picnic packed for dinner. People tend to think that the classical events are expensive and exclusive, but you have no idea how many times I listened to Mozart sitting on a bench with a chicken sandwich in my hand because it was cheaper to go see the LA Phil conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Bowl than it was to go to the movies.
I work for a Reasonably Well Known Regional Theater. We’re *dying* out here, and there’s usually a way to get tickets around $35 if not lower to most if not all of our shows. Call the box office and tell them you’re on a budget, be kind, but make it known that you very much want to see a show. Usually there’s a way.
I love when people with carefully themed blogs tag stuff that’s an exception to the theme. you’ll be scrolling through reblogs on a shitpost and someone’s tagged it “#not bugs” or “#not photography” or “#not early medieval siege warfare” and it’s like hey stranger glad you stopped to have fun with us
ID: A screenshot of a Twitter post by Kapree Karter @ _karpreek reading: “Getting tested for STD’s, STI’s, HIV ect. Should not be seen as “nasty”, It should be Standard. Every time you catch a new body, GO. Every time you go back to an old body after a while, GO. Everytime you know your partner messed around with someone else, GO fuck Is wrong with y'all”
Yeah so the Big Think is literally owned by big oil. They’re making shit up so people feel too exhausted to fight for any change. Ignore this kind of environmental nihilism, all it does it help the rich avoid change.
oh so you’re telling me the guy had a 3 page handwritten explanation of his motives and mindset and a gun and silencer that matches the description despite it being a week since the guy was shot? hmmmm interesting
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No literally these were my thoughts! They’re just releasing everything about him and literally ruining him before he’s been proven guilty
Newsflash!!! If your doctor says your baby has “gonads” that need removal or that there is a genital “deformity” these words are code for intersex baby. REFUSE UROLOGY SURGERY FOR YOUR INFANT UNLESS THEY CAN PROVE IT WILL EFFECT YOUR BABY IN THE NEXT YEAR. sometimes urethras are blocked or there’s legitimate impact to functionality. Otherwise almost always surgery can wait till your child is old enough to understand what is happening. As someone who went through pediatric urology- you don’t want them operating unless it’s 100% necessary. The procedures are gruesome and traumatic (and often not anesthetized) most people use it as a first resort when surgery should ALWAYS be a last resort especially for minors.
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