Give the right things a chance to catch you.

i hope that in 2025 u get to take more walks, read more books, connect with more people whom u love and who love u, achieve ur goals (even if ur goals are having no goals and just living in the moment), exercise fun hobbies, move from a place of self-direction, and weave together a beguiling assortment of beautiful little moments. remember that no feeling lasts forever. love u

and i actually hope u learn to forgive urself a little more and operate from self compassion rather than self flagellation. this is ur first time living - there is no rehearsal to any of this. u will live and u will learn. drink lots of water in the morning and dance to ur favorite music first thing. u are not uniquely horrible, but just learning how to live. u got this <3

Mythical Beasts of Italy

by NeilParkinsonMakes

I become consumed with jealousy every time I look at mudlarking instagram pages.

Imagine living near a river with so so many historical artifacts in it that you actually need to buy a licence to pick them up. absolutely wild.

Me, a Canadian who lives near a river: "Yeah my brothers and I used to spend hours poking around on the riverbank when we were younger, it was lots of fun! We found a few neat bottles and a small handful of pottery shards, but mostly we just found bathroom tiles. Hundreds of little square bathroom tiles, and they didn't look very old. I guess someone in the area redid their bathroom a decade or two earlier and just dumped them all in the river."

British people who live near rivers: "Today I've found a Georgian cufflink and a medieval pilgrim badge and a beautiful coloured glass perfume bottle stopper. Ooh and here's another pipe bowl for my clay pipe collection, which I keep right next to my collection of 17th century glassware fragments."

Shut up shut up shut uppp

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

that is CLEARLY two completely different dogs

I'm falling behind on stuff at work so i started making a tasklist of just the stuff i can remember without digging into my tickets or email or putting the big shiny thing that I actually WANT to do on the list and so far we are at

29 things.

Hm. Hmmmmm. Don't like that.

okay with four marked off the list grew to 34 because i collected the to-dos from the three small notebooks on my desk in the big college-ruled notebook for bad times.

Still have not addressed ticket queue or email but email is once again over 100 so email under 75 should be one of the things that goes on my list.

This is another form of rubber ducking/troubleshooting my ADHD. I've had a lot of trouble with focus and initiation recently, likely because I've got so much going on that i feel pulled in ten directions and can't prioritize and am just kind of flailing.

Often when i make a to-do list it is not actually a to-do list, it is just collecting all of my projects and tasks in one place so that i can SEE them rather than being a list of things that I expect myself to get done in any kind of timely manner.

As I'm compiling the list, I can check off things that can be accomplished quickly, and then once the list is complete I can start breaking it down into things that are high priority, things that are low priority but are easy, and things that are actually many steps that i need to define before I can work on them because the thing is too big for it to really feel like something that needs to be done.

To-do lists are TERRIBLE for me as a list of things that I'm going to finish, but are wonderful as a way to stop panicking about too much stuff and move forward on at least a couple of things.

(bonus - it you put your pile of tasks in a list before you work on them you can see if there are handy groups that you can lump together - one of these tasks required collecting client email addresses, another required logging in to my old email address, another required contacting clients from my old email address - these things overlap and if i do them at the same time or while all the same windows are open I can save myself the effort of collecting all those things together in the future)

Anyway, I'm avoiding. Gonna go look at my tickets.

might fuck around and drink the daily recommended amount of water

i have to pee

I know a bunch of people are into this as a kink thing, but as a person who is really into survivalism, this is so cool.

Strap them on like backpack

writers take note if you have a scene where a character needs to move someone

via @swatercolor [insta]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

It was national library workers day yesterday! Thank you for your work!! 📚

u survive literally every single event in your life & still every time a new event happens you feel like this is the event that will kill you and that you will never move on from but actually you will continue to survive like you always have bc u have a 100% win rate of surviving events. btw

I have to hand it to Donald Trump, I didn’t think the sequel to the 1932 Great Emu War would be a trade war against the penguin nation but he truly continues to be an innovator in the stupidity industry

there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

source another source

the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother

every mother who’s critiqued her daughter’s appearance based on ~what men do or do not like~ owes that child an apology

respectfully sir. What??

Wake up, babe. Chocolate guy is back

Shou Xin aka 手訫 aka Xin Shou (Chinese, based Henan, China) - A group of mischievous little line-drawn cats is pouncing your way!, Drawings: Pencil, Eraser, and small Knives for added texture

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

i think janitor should be the highest paying job in a society

im not kidding im not kidding have you ever been inside a public bathroom