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Not me double checking
Map showing Gulf of Mexico is still Gulf of Mexico.
January 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Tumblr user plaguedoctormemes: Trump has ordered the FDA, CDC and NIH to "pause communications with the public" until February 1st, with includes new regulations, announcements, press, we posts and more until they are "approved by a political appointee". Please keep your eyes on this. Trump is about to fuck up FDA shit again and we may potentially see a radical change in regulations on our health and food. Some in my circle were talking about subscribing to European FDA communications and only taking medications and advice vetted in Europe until then or for the foreseeable future.
January 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Tumblr user homunculus-argument: One of my favourite parts about autistic people is how you can use other peoples' reflections of them like an echolocation bullshit detector. Like they personally do not need to do shit for this to work, they just passively emit their own autistic vibe that bounces off every surface around them, and you can assess another person's level of self-awareness by how they reflect it back. "Autistic people do not understand social hierarchy" nope, they understand you're supposed to be an authority here, but they won't politely pretend to respect you if they think you're incompetent. "Autistic people do not understand humour" nope, they just don't politely pretend to laugh to humour you, and you are simply not funny. "Autistic people are rude" nope, they just don't think it's polite to lie to you, and don't care about trying to tell you what they think you want to hear instead of telling you what they think. "Autistic people sometimes have emotional meltdowns for absolutely no reason" nope, you're just insufferable to be around and the person with the lowest tolerance of your shit is simply the canary in the coal mine who breaks first.
January 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Tumblr user nightmare-from-heaven: Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out. If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff. Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else. That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag. Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.
January 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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@amagire.bsky.social‬: [[ google 2012: here's how to make tacos google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin ]]
January 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Tumblr user estrogenesis-evangelion: "guyliner" "man purse" "man bun" "manly tears" you ever notice how cis society feels the need to set apart any "feminine" thing a man does as being somehow its own, masculine version of that thing? the hairstyle is a MAN bun if it's on a MAN and just a BUN if it's on a WOMAN, as if the idea that it could just be gender-neutral as a style is deeply threatening. it's not "some men are now also wearing eyeliner" it's "GUYLINER is a NEW TREND among guys isn't it crazy?!?!" i'm so tired Tumblr user estrogenesis-evangelion: let me also be clear: this is not usually a way of masculinizing or legitimizing these behaviors. men (and "men") are criticized and punished for engaging or experimenting with these "feminine" things but the things themselves are also othered and set apart as their own, aberrant feminine-man behaviors, NOT as men engaging in things women do. do you see the difference? it's the subtle trick of making you a failed man while also saying you can never do anything not as a man. masculinity is prison: you are both inmate & guard Tumblr user estrogenesis-evangelion: if you're wondering how to classify this by the way -- homophobia? misogyny? -- the term you're grasping for is Oppositional Sexism, as coined by Julia Serrano https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism#Oppositional_sexism
January 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Tumblr user tinsnip: “At my old job in public education, my office mate invented the concept of the 8 Weeks of Doom. This was defined as the period between New Year’s and Spring Break where it was dark and gray, there were few holidays, and everyone’s seasonal depression hit an all-time high. To combat the 8 Weeks of Doom, she started a tradition of making me a Doom Calendar, which is an advent calendar but for fighting the Doom. She’d include small fidgets, snacks, stickers, and fun tea, which I’d open whenever the Doom felt very high on a particular day. Eventually this turned into a standing tradition of us making each other Doom Calendars, and the concept spread to our whole department. We would eventually just start our department meetings checking in about how everyone was managing the Doom, and did anyone want to open a Doom Calendar door for a quick pick me up? Even though we’re not longer office mates, I still exchange a Doom Calendar with this friend every year anyway. It really does help with the Doom!” — Ask a Manager Tumblr user ripper-street-thots: I adore this for the same reason I like winter celebrations/special days: humans realizing they can act to change their perception of reality. The longest dark, the coldest time of the year, can be dressed up as a party with lights and shiny things, or firecrackers and dancing wearing a lion costume. We can clean and make music and loud noises and give each other nice things and if we all do it very hard, together, maybe we won’t be so cold and sad.
January 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Me: *simplifies complex subject for NT ppl* Autistic ppl: this is oversimplified Me: *clarifies with complexity* Allistic ppl: [more confused than before] Me: *reiterates original simplified points* Everyone: [upset]
January 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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User Mo @molotics People always ask why poor people don't just revolt and burn shit down. As a poor person I can say with confidence its because there is a startling amount of people cool with shooting us down like animals
January 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Tumblr user shrimpsisbugs: in real life you will probably not respond to harassment in a sexy, clever, scripted way where you come out with the upper hand and everyone claps. you will freeze up and your moment will pass, or your voice will shake when you tell them to stop and you’ll realize two minutes later that you’re gross and sweaty and sticky from the adrenaline. maybe you’ll be on the ball and answer in a way you actually think is pretty smart and get ignored, or they’ll get more aggressive when you mouth off to them. you almost never will walk away feeling victorious. you walk away feeling uncomfortable and relieved that it’s over. you’ll think about it later and imagine that maybe you could have said something else. maybe you’ll feel ashamed that you weren’t quicker-witted, weren’t able to cut them down to size, weren’t able to avoid that lingering sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, as though there’s some kind of magical words you could have said that would have left you feeling less powerless. there really aren’t. Tumblr user xenobot-kin: Honestly this is such an important lesson to learn. If someone threatens, belittles, or verbally assaults you, you will likely feel bad, no matter how you respond. Please don’t beat yourself up for feeling emotions that are perfectly healthy and justified.
January 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Fb user Gin and Tacos: This experiment with letting a small handful of people amass most of the wealth in a society and then inflict something devastating on the world when they reach middle age and realize no one likes them seems to have run its 5000-year course. We might not need to run additional trials.
January 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Twitter user Krystal Ball (@krystalball): Elon plans to destroy as much of the government as possible because he recognizes it as the only force capable of limiting his labor abuses, environmental destruction, tax dollar plunder and limitless robber baron domination. The weaker the elected government, the stronger the plutocrats. Trump aides are irritated Elon seems to think he's co-president but in truth I think he believes he is vastly more powerful than Trump.
January 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Tumblr user jackhawksmoor: It's shitty, it's creepy, it's theft, it makes it impossible to find images and real sources, it's ruining the environment because it takes more power to run all these AI servers than we're currently able to provide with our power grid so they're using the dirtiest sources to get it because it's the only thing left, fucking STOP IT
January 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Twitter user Elle Grittymas is Coming ... (@elle_em): I know Millenial humor is like "lol I have trouble making phone calls because of my anxiety" & "look at this cockatoo playing with a plastic cup, it makes me not want to die for like half a minute" but I prefer that to fucking baby boomer jokes about how much they hate their wives
December 24, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Twitter user Fesshole (@fesshole): As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand. Tumblr user str-ngeloop: new years resolution 2025: do something they can't control or understand
December 24, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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Tumblr user drdemonprince: a lot of behaviors that get attributed to "female socialization" can be so much more easily and accurately understood as a person recognizing the power differential surrounding them and behaving sensibly in response to that. like. does a woman politely listen to a man monologue at her because of some experience she had when she was twelve that magically cursed her to behave that way forever, or does she do it because the man has the power to hurt her and she knows it? does a woman do all the dishes in her household because she is less capable of breaking out of a long-ago conditioned response than, like, your average trained dog, or is she doing that because she knows that all the men in the house will blame her if she doesnt and will make life worse for her if she speaks up? maybe a lot of sexist patterns of behavior that are widely observed in society arent caused by women like, lacking willpower or backbone? maybe it is super fucking weird for supposedly feminist movements to imply this is the case when they talk about female socialization as the end all, be all of predicting human behavior? isnt it both more useful and more respectful toward women to consider that they are perceiving their present circumstances accurately, and recognize when power is already being wielded against them, and take logical measures to deescalate and protect themselves because it works? is it not fucking clear to everybody that trans women in particular have to do this all the fucking time?
December 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Image of a social media post by Nate Postlethwait [blue check] @nate_postlethwt Enablers have no curiosity about the pain you’re in, only protection for the person who caused it.
December 22, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Tumblr user aturinfortheworse: im also a little bit extremely angry about the assumption - by my family or doctors or the government or whatever - that my number one priority wrt to my health would be anything other than "feel as good as possible" it feels almost transgressive to say like "actually, if working isn't going to contribute to my quality of life, I don't care about it" and "The only reason I would want to reduce my amount of medication is if it's impacting my quality of life." my neurologist said in our first appt like "obviously we want you to be on as few medications as possible" and i did not succeed in mentio ning that, actually, i will take 50 pills every day for the rest of my life if it means i get to feel okay most of the time. like i don't even really care about being healthy. "being as healthy as possible" is not my #1 priority. my #1 priority is feeling good, followed closely by being able to do things i want to do. 'taking fewer pills' and 'exercising' don't even make the list. those are not ends, those are means.
December 21, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Tumblr user greater-than-the-sword: If anyone remembers the old story about how male prisoners were found to be calmed when their cells were painted pink; (oft cited to prove that the color pink has a calming effect on men) apparently this research was replicated with other paint colors and it was found that any color of paint has the same effect, including painting the walls the same color that they were before. As it turns out, you have to clean in order to paint, and people are happier when their environment has been recently cleaned. The obvious takeway is that correlation does not equal causation, but the even MORE obvious takeaway is the many times proved but seldom acknowledged law that one should never attempt to extrapolate general principles out of studies done in a prison Tumblr user raineaxolotl: One should never attempt to extrapolate general prinicples out of studies done in a prison
December 11, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Tumblr user derinthescarletpescatarian: Humans are like "let me hold the thing. Let me pick it up. It's cute and I want to hold it, I want to wrap my weird elongated front feet around it, I want to encircle it with my freakishly long, oddly flexible front toes. I HAVE to hold things I HAVE to or I'll die." Tumblr user lisabethdeep-blog: I know normal people can just pass their bill over and around an object and know most things worth knowing about it, but humans don't have electroreceptors At All. They only have mechanoreceptors. Which are most concentrated in the aforementioned 'hands'... and in their mouths. They do also have eyes, and their vision is actually pretty acute. But their optic and mechanic sensory inputs aren't integrated together like electro-mechanic sense is. So they have these two fairly sophisticated sensory complexes that Barely talk to each other. No wonder they try to bring the two inputs together in their environment then; picking things up and turning them around allows them to apply both their mechanical and optical senses to the object. They're just trying to make up for a deficiency of neural organisation. And like. I mentioned the other concentration of mechanoreceptors is in their mouth... So just be glad they mostly grow out of constantly wrapping their viscera-looking tongue around everything.
December 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Tumblr user gay-otlc: Very frustrating when people try to insist ADHD isn't a disability. It is! It's disabling! There are a lot of things that I struggle with or just straight up can't do because of my ADHD, and it makes life more difficult for me. It's a disability! I get that you're trying to push back on the idea that having ADHD is inherently a bad thing, but that doesn't mean it's not a disability! Obviously living with a disability can be really hard and it's okay to have negative or complicated feelings about it, but having a disability isn't inherently bad. The message shouldn't be "ADHD is okay because it's not a disability." it should be "ADHD is a disability and that's okay."
December 10, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Tumblr user sapphling: honestly the way people will talk about fat or poly people is often super indicative of how they would talk about queer or otherwise marginalized people if it was 10% more socially acceptable to do so within their circles Tumblr user sapphling: like genuinely the rate at which i go to block somebody for being an outright bigot and discover that i had already blocked them a while ago for being weird to fat people is just crazy. a lot of people with deeply hateful conservative views like to test the waters with shit like this against groups that "don't really count" while maintaining at least a facade of progressivism outside of that, and while fat people should not have to be canaries in the coal mine for you to care about us, i do think it's worth acknowledging that being hateful about fat people & our bodies is very often a tell that somebody is eventually going to go mask off with more widely frowned upon reactionary politics
December 6, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Tumblr user sexynugget: 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
December 3, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Tumblr user andhumanslovedstories: I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either Tumblr user andhumanslovedstories: Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines Tumblr user thomrainierskies: I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.” every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid
December 3, 2024 at 5:52 AM