Ramblings from a Sleep-Deprived Mind

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.

ok so when you insult someone by saying they are mentally underdeveloped or arrested or an adult child that is what the word retarded means and what that medical category is supposed to identify. thats what youre saying like lets just all be up front. it's not actually better because you conveyed the same meaning with different letters. you can keep swapping them around all day long but you still mean the same thing its not slick

I originally thought those were supposed to be mushrooms, implying that this cat is moldy

i'm happy y'all made fan art of my cat. i tried to show her and she just rubbed her face on my phone

met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

the worst part is I can't dare ask her that last question because then she might say something like "You don't remember, do you?" and pull out a katana and obviously I'm not stupid enough to take that risk

"Shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove" was meant to be a joke about needless posturing in preemptive defense against a hypothetical bad faith crowd, but I fear it's pmuch now a lifestyle

Shaking my head but catching the cameras eye and giving a sick grin nobody in the scene notices so you know i have evil intentions

idk who needs to hear this but it’s healthier for you to just accept that you’re gonna be kinda fat than it is to live the rest of your life miserably trying to monitor yourself to maintain a skinny weight your body doesn’t want to hold onto

ohhhh I see so this feeling of alienation and never belonging anywhere will follow me endlessly ok alright

WRONG!!! you were WRONG!!! you needed to move out of your parents’ house and be friends with people who actually care about you and not just what you can do for them!!! it all turned out ok!!!

Like. Ok. It took me a long time and a lot of work to get to this point but tldr, it’s a combo of feeling confident in your presence and taking the space you deserve AND the people around you sparking said confidence and making space for you. Both need to exist. If either of those are lacking then the feeling will present itself, and you simply have to do something about it. I was drowning in the sea of that feeling everywhere I went until I had enough of suffering needlessly and made my own pond. Doing so is no small task by any means but my GOD it is worth it.

If you too want to label your tags with... whatever you want, you can find this code on my github

Also, bring entertainment and headphones. I don't know that I've ever donated through Red Cross, but the local blood bank where I was donating every eight weeks for years, they always had the TV on and it was never something I wanted to watch. And while bringing a friend with plans to keep each other entertained sometimes works according to plan, sometimes you'll instead end up on opposite ends of the donation area.

[Image: White text on a red background. Text reads, "Warning: Blood Crisis. The American Red Cross has declared the second national blood crisis in its history. All blood types are needed, but the situation is especially dire for type O. The blood supply fell nearly 25% in June, and blood donations are now at a four-year summer low. Donors are asked to take action immediately to help save lives."]

imagine you're in a pokemon battle on the side of some random road and this little girl calls back her wartortle and throws out a fresh ball and out pops kyubey. it's fucking kyubey from PMMM

she's like kyubey use quick attack! and you're trying to call a time-out to ask what the fuck is going on and the next thing you see kyubey has grabbed your pidgey by the head like a cat and snapped its fucking neck. no red light, no "fainted," pidgey is fucking limp & dead. the girl is giggling like yeah kyubey you won! like it's normal

extremely important: from my perspective, is this trainer just sending out a strange yet sinister creature that kills my Pokemon, or does Puella Magi Madoka Magica exist as a media franchise within the world of this scenario just like it does in real life and I am in fact recognizing that it's literally Kyubey on the spot

it's fucking kubey from PMMM he's right there!

so venezuela has become a usamerican colony. like that happened and everything carried on like normal

like i know venezuela is going through a huge humanitarian crisis right now and their political regime is low in the list of priorities when tallinmg about it obviously it's just it shocked me to read trump congratulating his secretary of energy on how well he's running what used to be a sovereign country until a few months back you know

He wants to do that to Canada, Cuba, and Greenland too and is simply shocked that it hasn't happened yet.

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

People universally seem to parse it as Mean but sometimes what you really, really need to hear is "this is not a socially appropriate thing to say, and you should not have said it"