Reblogged what-theactualfuck
*Scrolls past*
*reluctant sigh*
*scrolls back up*
*rebogs*
Reblogged flowersforvax
i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"
@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful
@holyknuckled like that?
oh? my god???
yeah, Exactly like that
Reblogged didelidocus
I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.
Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.
He only took occasional sips of water.
The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.
Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.
Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.
Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."
also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*
for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist
He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.
He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.
Reblogged icantspellthings
For those who are not familiar, the Death Note is a supernatural notebook from the titular manga and anime. The basic rules of the book are as follows:
- If someone writes the name of another person in the book while visualizing their face, that person will die.
- The time, cause, and circumstances of death can be specified within reason.
- If details are not specified or are not possible, the victim will die of a heart attack.
- If the owner gives up the book, they lose all their memories of owning it.
For the sake of the poll, if more than one motivation applies, select the most important one. The definition of the options and the specifics of the fantasy are not particularly important here, I am mostly interested in the moral stances and rationale of other people.
If I had the death note, a LOT of people would highly ever regret knowing me…if I had that my morals for kindness would go wayyyyyy out the window.
Reblogged didelidocus
BOOBS-HAVERS. PLEASE ANSWER:
I lead a strictly no bra household
it only goes on if I’m leaving, and even then maybe not
Reblogged math-is-magic
posting this for no particular reason
Reblogged masked-disciple
Polyam Ships
Semifinals
We're gonna lose, but we can go down yelling!
I really wish they let you turn off the xp share in the newer Pokémon games, like.... sure make it part of the game instead of an item that's fine whatever, yes sure make it apply to all pokemon in my team, whatever but. Just let me turn it off
Back in the day, keeping your team balanced and around the same level was part of the challenge. Levelling up that pokemon that evolved late and was kinda useless until then was part of the challenge! And hey if you wanted to fight the champ with your overlevelled starter and 5 random pokemon, you could do that too
These days you can just bring a pokemon with you, never use it, and it'll still be the same level as the others. Even though you never bonded with it. Where's the excitement in seeing a pokemon evolve if I haven't even used it since two gyms ago? Magikarp and others like it used to be great bc evolving it was difficult, even with the exp share, you only had one of those unless you won an additional one in the lottery or smth. You used to need to carry your weak pokemon at the start of the team and switch out at the beginning of every turn. And yeah sure that could be tedious and I'm cool with them giving us the option of the team wide exp share but I barely used my starter in my shield playthrough in between it's first and second evolution and honestly that's just sad
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I'm CACKLING at this "where's Murph" bit in this Variety piece about Titan Takedown. Invokes an image of:
Brennan: Murph, please, please, please come be involved in the WWE season. ;-; Murph, hunched over a computer in the dark: I gotta edit NADDPOD.
#oh murph lmao#brennan banging on murph's door like#''murph! we're doing a wrestling season! do you wanna be in it? do you wanna dm it? murph! can you hear me? muuurph!''#and murph pulling a blanket over his head and ignoring him bc he's busy doing naddpod lmao#how long until brennan gets him to be in a sidequest?#if he won't do it for wrestling is there any hope at all?
Reblogged what-even-is-thiss
the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.
#all the time#like. There's things I don't forget bc I still read female and if I do them ppl stare#but some stuff is like??? Oh right y'all are weird about this stuff#like me (tall and pretty buff) going to pick up stage pieces with a friend#and the guy giving them to us insisting that my friend should do the majority of the heavy lifting like lmao#I literally came along bc I was the strongest one available#or everytime my mom reacts to me wearing smth from the men's section with a hesitant ''hmm well I guess you can't really tell''#(she doesn't know I'm enby. Not bc she'd react super badly I just don't feel like explaining)#little things like that. It's silly
Reblogged masked-disciple
girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.
Reblogged didelidocus
I'm part of a wood carving club and there are a lot of dads who are dripping with adhd/autism vibes who's special interest is wood carving. One of the master skill level carvers who we'll call... Jim was working on a figure of a super heroine, who was frankly outrageously bodacious. Several women in the club are uncomfortable with this. They tell me they wish he wouldn't carve stuff like that at the club. This is understandable. I felt a bit uneasy too. I ask if they told him, and they say no.
This goes on for months. He's at a point where he's carving the folds of her skin tight suit. It's shockingly impressive. A real Giovanni Strazza with wood here. Many of the women in the club, (also boomers) have stopped talking to him because they're offended.
One afternoon I see a woman we'll call Karen approach him and have this conversation Her: Wow that is really starting to look like actual fabric. Him: Thanks! It's been a really fun challenge. Her: I bet! She sure is - a lot- huh? Him: Yeah a lot of these comic book characters are really outrageously proportioned! Her: They really are! You know, when I was carving a sign that was political in a way i knew would offend some people here, I just felt so much more comfortable carving it at home. Him: *nodding* Her: Okay? Him: Yeah I get that. Her: Yeah. Okay. Good luck with her!" *she walks off and he looks a little confused.* Next week at the meet up Jims working on it again and Karen's furious. Says to me "He said he wouldn't bring it back! So RUDE." So I go up to him and we have this conversation. Me: Hey Jim Him: Hey Neala Me: Some of the ladies around here are feeling a little uncomfortable with the figure you're carving because of her massive cartoon titties. Him: Ah shit, really? I thought they just thought it was funny. Me: Yeah folks laugh a lot when they're uncomfortable and trying to hide it. Him: Mm, yeah and I can never tell which laugh is which. Me: Me either Him: Well I won't work on this here anymore. I have other projects to do. Me: Hey thanks! I wanna see it when you're done tho so take a pic for me, okay? Him: Haha sure! I go sit down. Karen is shocked. Jim puts the figure away and works on a carving of a crane instead. He is not upset.
A week later I over hear Karen telling her friend I screamed at Jim last week.
Another event at the same club. All names fake. Even mine but u only know me by the fake name so
A carver who does a lot of work for the group comes in with a stunning leather bag. When I say a lot of work for the group, I mean a LOT a lot. He plans out monthly projects, makes the blanks for them and shows the rest of the club how to do the carvings. Lets call him Harold.
So I'm gushing over the bags, and so are a few others. He tells us he made these bags himself and that he's really gotten into leather working over the last year. Jim is complementary of the bags, and teasingly says "Woodcarving and now Leather? You know what they say? Jack of all trades, Master of none!"
Now this quote takes on a different meaning coming from someone who is literally a master skill level carver ways it to someone who is not. But he says it in a jokey way. Clearly meant to playfully rib. Thing is, I see the tightness in Harolds eyes when Jim says this. Having Adhd myself, I also hobby hop a lot and know how it feels to be teased about it. Maybe I was projecting as i flashed back to every time someone had told me to "Just stick with" something.
I say, "Go on Jim, finnish the poem!" In a playful way. Jim laughs and shrugs and says he didn't know there was more. I quote the whole thing, "Jack of all trades master of none but still always better than a master of one." Everyone laughs in a good-natured way, Harold visibly relaxes.
Later, Jim tells me i hurt his feelings. He says it felt like i was belittling him for only being good at one thing. I apologize and explain that he had inadvertently hurt my feelings and that I suspected he had hurt Harold's because it felt like he was saying we weren't good at anything because we have multiple hobbies.
He apologized and said he was feeling a little jealous that Harold is good at so many things, and all he's good at is woodcarving. He also went on to say that if Harold entered any of his carvings into any competitions, he would probably have the same rank as him. Harold just didn't do competitions.
At this point Harold overheard and thanked Jim for what he had said, and told him that he didn't enter competitions because as soon as he started doing that with the goal of achieving a certain rank the hobby stopped being fun for him and he no longer wanted to do it and internally I was like "Ahhh i also have pathologic demand avoidance! Me too."
And everything is fine now.
Nature documentary voice "Here we see the interaction between the autistic adult, who has had one special interest that has lasted his whole life, and some Adhd adults, who have collected many special interests over their lives. They are accidentally hurting one anothers feelings about it."
#this is this thing where like#autistic ppl and adhd ppl can be very similar but we can also be very very different#but as adults we kind of? recognize each other? And know how to communicate through the differences?#in ways that neurotypical ppl who were never forced to think about all that never really do#obviously a generalisation#plenty of nt ppl communicate with nd ppl just fine#And plenty of nd ppl are really bad at it#but there is smth there that if you've struggled with communication in the past#you recognise it in others and know how to talk to them#even if they struggle in different ways than you do
Reblogged tanoraqui
UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.
YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.
The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.
Weighing in to say:
YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.
The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info
- there are 14 asks in my inbox from the last ~5 days
- 9 anons, 5 logged in users
- ALL 14 show pfps, including the 9 anons
- ALL THE SHOWN PROFILE PICTURES BELONG TO THE 5 LOGGED IN USERS
I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.
Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.
And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.
But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity
So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.
CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.
Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat
The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!
Reblogged math-memes
The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane