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you know that program where they tried to train crows to pick up litter for a treat that backfired because they started attacking people to grab half eaten food wrappers out of their hand. i feel like 2012 tumblr did the same thing, but instead of litter it was covert bigotry and instead of crows it was a whole generation of leftists who now have moral OCD where their critical thinking should be

they became sort of like dangerous crows, you could say. i bet some of them were boys

okay i walked into that one

So....if food wrappers on the ground represent bigotry, what is it when it's in their hands and they're shoveling it into their mouths? The crows have the right idea. Attack the bigotry at its source that way we don't have to clean up the mess it left behind.

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say "I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report" and you bring me just a first aid kit, it's so much more efficient to say "thanks now can you bring me an accident report" than "I asked you to bring an accident report why didn't you bring me one".

Once you've internalized "a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument" you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing

I can't get over "and comes fucks me".

This video ruined all those aesthetic photos of fog for me. I can’t see a foggy landscape without this video playing in my head.

make your own foot scrub

please stop making me read this

“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.

And to everyone going "Oh, but he probably had other qualities", you're kind of missing the point. Sure, he could have been a storyteller, a philosopher, world's best babysitter, a genius at thinking up dirty jokes - but he could also have been grumpy old uncle Nandy who never really enriched anyone's existence and he still had value as a person.

The first sign of civilization is a healed femur. The first sign of humanity is an old scar. The first sign we were people at all is the grave Of a child Laid to rest as though sleeping With flowers all around.

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

ps5 brain monday

Oh so THIS is the ps5 post. I can see why you all imprinted on it now that’s hilarious

happy 1 year ps5 brain monday

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Happy 4 year ps5 brain monday

This is weird bevause ive had this exact thought before

Actually it really does help to paint the picture

"why don't you set an alarm to remind yourself to put your marbles in your bag?" i will fill your shoes with goo