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Translating this into tumblr's preferred public service announcement format for this kind of alert:

Or this preferred Tumblr announcement system:

I was 23 before it even occurred to me that not starting with sex ever was an option. The feeling of relief was so great I actually cried. 

Also, it’s okay to never date anyone ever. It’s okay to never even try it if you don’t want to. 

Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school. 

This is the second time this post passes on my dash and it’s the best advice I ever got. I can’t write consistently in one go, it’s always about 50 words and then I get distracted and just have to do something else for a while. Do the math quickly: trying to write 2000 words a day takes a looooong time that way. So there were many days where I just didn’t even start writing, cause I wouldn’t reach my goal anyways and feel like a failure. Then I stumbled upon this post and I thought: hey, let’s give this a try. And it works! I set my goal between 200-400 words a day and that’s perfectly doable. Some days I get into the flow and I write a whole lot more. On other days, I struggle to get those 200 out but hey, at least I wrote 200 words and reached my goal. Whatever the outcome, t makes me feel good and accomplished. 

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

Putting asterisks in the middle of words and using cutest, similar words absolutely drive me FERAL. People weren't "graped" or 🍇ed, they were raped. It wasn't a "s*xual *ssault," it was sexual assault. They aren't thinking about "sewer slides" where they may "unalive" themselves, they're contemplating suicide.

Reminder that this is the type of art the nazis were referring to:

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

Here is the Gamers Nexus video talking about this subject and doing their own deep dive on the matter:

“People should pass a test before being allowed to have kids.” “Isn’t it scary how white people have this inborn capacity for evil?” “I’ll never pass because males and females have different skull shapes.” “Autistic people have a stronger sense of justice than anyone else.” “I don’t want AMABs in my space because they’re dangerous.” “You shouldn’t have access to hormones if you dress like THAT.” “Anyone who does something that awful isn’t human.” “Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

"Several recent scientific studies have revealed the harmful impacts of AI on cognitive processes. For example, a study by MIT researchers compared participants as they wrote essays using either ChatGPT, Google Search, or no tools. Using EEG scans, the researchers found that participants who used ChatGPT showed reduced neural connectivity, particularly in networks associated with memory and creativity, compared to the other two groups. Memory retention among the AI users also dropped compared to the other groups: Users struggled to recall what they had written just moments after writing it. These findings align with broader research on cognitive offloading (the use of tools to reduce mental effort), which suggests that relying on external tools for memory or problem-solving may reduce people's ability to retain and use information."