Yeehaw

this is my favorite comic ever i never don’t want to see it on my dash

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• 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 :)

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.

You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person

"There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.

"No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul."

I’m reblogging this again. Omar El Akkad also wrote a novel called American War. The premise being that Americans will only care about things like the Arab Spring if it happens to them. The novel is a near future dystopia combining the climate destruction of America with a second civil war. His style is very readable. I’d urge everyone to read it.

the student said, "i'm reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes." and the teacher replied, "ah, dogen's instructions for the cook, written in 1237?" "yeah," said the student, "it's saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot"

letting rats fall into the rice pot violates the buddhist concept of nonviolence, ahimsa. and this is one of the more dauntingly advanced cookbooks i've ever seen

ingredients: 1 grain of dust.

step 1 turn the Wheel of Reality within the grain of dust

#i mean the boring answer is that many people go to college here and experience the epic highs and lows of being late teens early 20s. #the less boring answer is it's the molasses curse ( @burins)

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I just got transporter trapped into a mine that i am. Fairly certain im underleveled for.

Worth noting that when i die i. Respawn in the mine.

I cant even use the loot, this place has smithing stone 5s when my main weapon currently takes smithing stone 2s.

You are having the correct, unsullied Elden Ring experience

Welcome to Miyazaki's Funny Trick

“I don’t learn this in school :(“

Hey here’s a question what steps have you taken to increase your education and knowledge since graduating?

12 years is not nearly enough time to teach you everything to know about the world, especially when the starting point is “a says ah” and “1+1=2” and “rain comes from clouds.”

There are people who spend their whole lives in pursuit of knowledge and do not run out of stuff to learn. If you want to be well-informed and knowledgeable as an adult you have to actually make your continued education a priority. The library is free, thousands on online resources are accessible to all, and somewhere near you is an affordable museum or culture center or zoo or art display that can give you information you didn’t know.

Game I would make if I knew how to code:

Pokemon Snap but for himejoshis

that would be so beautiful

"Occult Leftism" is one of those combinations that feels like it should make sense. Marxism and the occult share a countercultural streak that occasionally makes them strange bedfellows, and both share a fascination with the nature of the material, though from opposite ends of the spectrum.

The problem with combining Marxism and Occultism, is that they are both infamously shallowly understood. Comprehensive knowledge requires time, energy, and dedication. Lots of people think they understand marx, and lots of people think they understand western esotericism.

Effective Marxist writing requires a level of logical, philosophical rigor not often found among the occult inclined. And effective occult writing requires carefully applied charisma. As a result, attempting to create Occult Marxism often just reaults in really really cringe shit.

I love a woman with a loud ass laugh. I love a cackle. I love a guffaw. Love when a bitch laughs so hard it scares the dog. Be unapologetic in your joy.

I bet transforming feels good as hell. Like when you have a really good stretch but More So

@ash-rigby @thearomanticsnake @thepppit @kinky-dragon @soft-monstrous YOU GUYS GET IT!!! YOU GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!

the noble and wise perverts discussing transformation on the dash

with musk and trump gunning for social security, now seems like a good time to remind everyone that social security isn’t like government charity or something. it’s fully paid for. always has been. corporate media loves to parrot the conservative lie that social security is running out of money without ever mentioning why: congress stole the money. they literally robbed from peter to pay paul.

the whole idea of social security was always that you pay into it your whole life, and then when you retire the government gives you that money back. it’s your money. always has been. like sure technically the money being paid by working age people now is going to the people who are retired now. but social security was started in the 30’s, the people who are collecting benefits now paid into it their whole lives. the idea was to be a retirement savings account that the government keeps safe for you because it’s almost impossible for working class people to save for retirement under capitalism.

the problem is that congress looked at all that money just sitting there and decided to use it as a slush fund. and never paid it back. because it’s easier to steal that money than it is to raise taxes for new spending. so yeah, it’s a problem now that there are more old people retiring than there are young people working, but only because congress stole the money it was supposed to be saving for the people now retiring. all those savings could have actually earned money for the people who can’t pay in due to disability etc by being used as a massive investment fund. instead it’s the classic austerity misdirection: sabotage a useful functional government program, then claim that it doesn’t work and is too expensive. and the media never talks about it.

I always feel like I sound like a libertarian when I say this but no that's literally YOUR money. The fact that I worked for a little over 4 years having social security deducted from my pay check, something that is not optional, and then when I became disabled and went to the SSA and said "Hi I'm disabled now, can I have that money I gave you to watch specifically so if something happened to me I could take care of myself back so I can take care of myself?" and then they go "haha NO" is unreal. That should not be allowed. It's my fucking money, they took it from me by force under the logic that it was to be kept safe until I became unable to work, either due to age or disability, and then when you actually need it they go "sike, fuck you" and there's basically nothing you can do about it. The government took our money, used it for whatever, and is now trying to cover their asses by making a big fuss about fraud and how expensive it is and isn't it better to just let old and disabled people die? After all they're such a drain on the resources we fucked up managing, honestly fuck you for even expecting to be taken care of when you're sick or in your old age.

(Also this isn't to say that people who have never worked should be left out to dry, you don't have to deserve to be taken care of or work a specific amount to be worthy of not ending up starving and unhoused when you can't work, and the amount I paid in over the course of four years of primarily minimum wage just-under-part-time employment would never be able to take care of me for the rest of my life given that I'm only turning 30 this year and will hopefully live for another 60 at least, but as OP says if the gov had been smart and invested the money they could make bank and have plenty to take care of every single person in this country who needs it forever. But they didn't. And then they act like we're the problem.)

"Is tranny a slur just for trans women?" I think people on this website might actually be too stupid.

Honestly at this point we should just stop pretending trans women exist and might have an experience an iota different from trans men.

I was workshopping a post about how frustrating it is that the history of trans women is so widely seen as apocryphal and not worth caring about that so much of it is poorly documented and relies on oral histories passed down from one transfem to another and that's part of why I find the movement on tumblr to generally malign trans women for any perceived fault to be dangerous but I just.

It's so exhuasting

Nothing has discouraged me more from actually being a queer historian than the realization that queer people here don't want to actually learn history, they want to hear a version of history that aligns with exactly what they believe in. I still have mutuals who never reblogged that post of mine correcting misinformation here.

It's the literal poison of history and we've apparently not learned to stop trying it. History should inform politics, not the other way around.

I know you can't really stop the latter, the way history is even researched is ultimately informed by the politics of the historian in question, but you really shouldn't encourage it.

The great shogun Kier Starmer-dono has ordered a katanagari to disarm the rōnin, shinobi, and ikkō-ikki which have for so long terrorized the good people of Igirisu

being poly and being extremely clingy seems counterintuitive but it's not really. i feel like i am too much for any single person to handle without going nuts, i need to be passed around for everyone to stay sane

i just love like an extremely hyperactive livestock guardian dog on amphetamine

Outer space is impossibly vast, but it’s really not that difficult to learn all the important types of objects that are out there (kinds of stars, kinds of planets, kinds of galaxies, whatever), which sort of weirds me out. There’s a lot of complexity within that, and a fair amount we still don’t know, but it’s eminently plausible to get the gist of it. A precocious preteen could handle it all. We aren’t there yet, but I find it very easy to imagine a future in which space is well understood and seen as nothing but a dull, endless repetition of the same few dozen building blocks. There should be more variety to it!

Hard disagree (says the planetary geologist). Almost every planetary body in our solar system is the only known object in the universe that does [x], and a good chunk of the larger moons too.  Some of these are probably common in a larger extrasolar framework, and we can expect to see them in many solar systems; but others may be very rare, and very precious.  Consider the hemispheric dichotomy of Mars, which places its northern hemisphere kilometers below the southern half of the planet, or the equatorial ridge around Iapetus that circles it like the seam from a cheaply molded plastic toy.  Consider the sulfur raining down on the surface of Europa as its orbit trails in the shadow of Io’s volcanic emissions, gently mixing water ice with potentially bioavailable nutrients from two worlds.  Consider the plumes of Enceladus, the ice of Mercury, the shining salt domes of Ceres. This is true in time as well as space; Mars had a hydrological cycle and surface weathering processes unlike anything we ever saw on Earth (which is causing all kinds of trouble trying to pick up the pieces here in the present, let me tell you); I myself participated in some research not long ago suggesting that mountains on Mars might have grown from the top up.  Earth has had several major climate regimes with a radically different character, none of which exists elsewhere in the solar system.  Venus almost certainly had a very different surface and atmosphere than it does today; whatever that looked like, it’s a safe bet that something unique was lost forever. We have models of planetary formation with some granularity; within broad strokes, planets will evolve along certain pathways and within certain limits.  Yes, the cosmos is ordered.  But those limits are broad enough to encompass literally everything you have ever experienced, and we have not begun to exhaust even the simpler possibilities of worlds that are barren of life.  Other systems with other worlds will do things we never imagined, and probably never will imagine without first going to see what the universe has to offer. In a sufficiently vast universe, all of these will come again.  But then, in a sufficiently vast universe, so will you.  Below that threshold, these things really are incredibly interesting.