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@robotsloth / robotsloth.tumblr.com

I am Caroline. I am a shy introvert who loves knitting and hiking. I post a little of everything, including photos of my tortoise, Greta, and my dachshund, Grey.
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mrpikachuhat

Sobble Amigurumi Pattern

Abbreviations: ML: Magic Loop ST: Stitch/Stitches SC: Single Crochet DEC: Decrease INC: Increase CC: Change Colour CH: Chain SL: Slip Stitch 3TCBOB: Three Triple Crochet Bobble Stitch FO: Finish Off

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sameboot

This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.

Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.

It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself.

As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate.

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If anyone tries to tell you that Shakespeare is stuffy or boring or highbrow, just remember that the word “nothing” was used in Elizabethan era slang as a euphemism for “vagina”. 

Shakespeare has a play called “Much Ado About Nothing”, which you could basically read in modern slang as “Freaking Out Over Pussy”. And that’s pretty much exactly what happens in the play. 

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kiralamouse

It’s also a pun with a third meaning. There’s the sex sense of much ado about “nothing”, there’s the obvious sense that people today see, and then there’s the fact that in Shakespeare’s day, “nothing” was pronounced pretty much the same as “noting”, which was a term used for gossip. So, “Flamewar Over Rumors” works as a title interpretation, too.

The reason we call Shakespeare a genius is that he can make a pussy joke in the same exact words he uses to make biting social commentary about letting unverified gossip take over the discourse.

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ms-demeanor

Hey, hey, hey, you’re forgetting the fourth thing, that noting (again, pronounced note-ing) was a pun on music NOTES and that’s why there’s a shitload of singing and dancing and puns about singing and dancing because Much Ado About Noting is basically Freaking Out Over Pussy The Musical: Gossip Making a Mountain out of a Molehill.

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justalurkr

Today I learned

HAMLET Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

OPHELIA No, my lord.

HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap?

OPHELIA Ay, my lord.

HAMLET Do you think I meant country matters?

OPHELIA I think nothing, my lord.

HAMLET That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.

OPHELIA What is, my lord?

HAMLET Nothing.

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2)

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zobb

christmas eve what about christmas adam

happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists

Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.

Someone isn’t having a good christmas adam

Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.

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shojo

Happy Christmas Adam everyone

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kaity--did

Toddler Learning to Talk Pros & Cons

pro: hearing new sentences in the smallest sweetest voice you could ever imagine is just such a serotonin hit.

con: every time I leave the immediate vicinity she screams “MOMMY YOU WEE WEEIN?” at the top of her lungs. I have no idea why she thinks I’m constantly pissing.

pro: she’s learning animals! It’s so amazing to see a tiny human learn new things and then tell you about those things with so much beautiful enthusiasm

con: she’s terrible at rs and gs so she is frog hopping around the house yelling “FUCK FUCK IM A FUCK” as loud as she can

pro: she is tall enough to reach some counters and is starting to want to HELP with things. She’s recognizing that doing things together is an act of love and she loves her family. Seeing a human you made realize what LOVE is is just awe inspiring.

con: she is tall enough to reach some counters and helping means all of my shoes go in the sink. Can’t find my shoes? Check the sink.

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