I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

Builds character

getting surgery to give me a second head so i can tell twice as many lies as usual

and suck twice as much dick i fucking guess. that's what you all want to hear isn't it.

you. american adult with a drivers license. can you tell me who has the right of way at a 4 way stop

The strongest

whoever stopped first, or if multiple vehicles stopped at the same time, furthest right goes first. if all 4 ways stopped at the same time you have to get out of the cars and suck each other's dicks and whoever makes somebody cum first wins. Proceed counter-clockwise after that vehicle

Conversation between me, and another high educated Jewish women whose opinions I respect

There's the question. Not just for Jews, but for everyone involved in, or concerned with this conflict. How do we move forward if multiple sides of the room dispute the veracity of such basic statements as:

-Jews are a globally oppressed minority ethnic group, the hatred of which is deeply embedded in Western thought and rhetoric.

-The Naqba was a period of ethnic cleansing in which the government and military of the new State of Israel expelled Palestinian Arabs from their homes and property; a dispossession and a series of events which continue to traumatize and negatively impact the lives and livelihoods of Palestinians.

-The Holocaust was a traumatic event in the history of the Jewish people, the legacy of which is embedded in the psyches, world views, and collective trauma of the Jewish people, and invariably impacts how this group views global issues.

-Palestinian Arabs had a full developed sense of identity and statehood before the British Empire fucked off, and made their discomfort with increasing Jewish emigration clear to the British before the outbreak of the Second World War.

-Jews had nowhere to go before, during, or really, after the Holocaust; and the governments of many Arab States ethnically cleaned their own ancient Jewish communities in retribution for the creation of the State of Israel.

-The State of Israel does not exist because the Holocaust happened, or as an "apology" for said event.

THIS POST COMPRISES A SERIES OF RHETORICAL QUESTIONS MEANT TO MAKE US APPRECIATE THE DEPTHS OF THE DISCURSIVE PROBLEMS HERE; NOT A POST FOR "DISCOURSE" AND HATEFUL, AGGRESSIVE SHIT.

If you feel you have to do that, copy & paste into your own separate post.

itsybitsylemonsqueezy: #yep even these statements are frustrating for some #and even if you accept all of them #you immediately see the conflicts and discrepancies in different perspectives #how disagreements can so easily arise #add to that investment and you quickly have an extra impass #I know the popular take right now is that this is easy #I don't think it is #this is painful and complicated and horrific #and the answer isn't do nothing #but it probably isn't shout out people trying to help and trying to understand

VERY FUCKING WELL SAID.

i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

ok because apparently i'm wrong about this, reblog with where you live and whether you got to eat lunch outside during school or not

I grew up in (a suburb of) Houston, Texas. Both my junior high and highschool had areas outside with lunch tables, but would wield the permission to use them with an iron first and revoked it on a hair trigger anytime they thought student behavior was getting unacceptable (even for kids who had nothing to do with it). In highschool I spent most of my lunch periods in the band hall anyway, practicing for 20 minutes and wolfing my lunch down in 5, so it didn't matter

how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!

a caveat on op’s caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled “custom theme.”

tumblr works it’s just a closely guarded secret

Important addition - they have changed the way they incorporate multi-word tags in the url.

blogname.tumblr.com/tagged/two-words will bring up posts tagged "#two-words"

to get posts tagged "#two words" you now must use blogname.tumblr.com/tagged/two%20words

this is better because it's more in line with how literally the entire rest of the internet represents things in URLs but if you don't remember it, it WILL get you.

if you're on mobile use your mobile browser. you'll need to log in separately (and may need to choose desktop view to really get the most out of the site) but archive and blog search work on a mobile browser.

There is one more trick that can be helpful when you are looking for a post but don't remember what blog you saw it on or don't have the time to sort through the results you get from one of the above methods. In the Google search bar, query the following:

"a phrase from the post" site:tumblr.com

You can also omit the quote marks if you're not sure you remember exact phrasing, and use site:blogname.tumblr.com if you want to search a specific blog.

Roof goose. In 35mm

(inspired by this one for the sake of full transparency)

No time passes while you sleep is beyond busted. From everybody else's perspective it's the same as you not having to sleep! You get 24 hours of functional activity every day forever. That's wild.

I had to pick always having the ingredients for anything because it saves so much money and time.

I would select the food one over the sleep, because it doesn't say you don't age while sleeping. Functionally you're going to age faster than everyone else and never get to retire. The benefits would be enormous but you'd be burning the candle at both ends.

It's telling that the three options that easily topped this poll so far are all "Have more time during the day." (either directly in the case of the sleep one, or by removing a persistent chore in the form of shopping or tidying). Objectively, a lot of the other options here are way cooler, but we're all so fucking overworked that the only thing any of us can think of to ask for is more time.

"That's all heaven is really. Time."

I picked the fridge/pantry one, not because it means more time but because that's a free money glitch! I spend a decent chunk of my income on food every month and having that money back in my bank account would enable me to save up for a lot of other things I want to do - I'm sure that goes double for anyone trying to feed family/dependents off their income.

WAIT!

Before you hit send on that ask, reblog, or reply, remember to stop and PROOFREAD!

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT YOURSELF FROM LOOKING LIKE A JACKASS ONLINE!

remember, before you post, think SMART

Start discourse

Make up arguments

Ad hominem

Reading the post is for losers

Talk without thinking

Vintage ads for Levittown houses from the 1950s.

I see a lot of people joking about the adhd thing of "I have a appointment/phone call at 3pm, guess I won't do anything all day!"

But no one seems to make the connection that it's a time blindness thing. One of the symptoms of ADHD is not having a good and accurate sense of time. And not doing stuff prior to an event with a hard deadline is an obvious coping mechanism for that.

Can I go to the store? It's 10am and the appointment is at 3pm. How long does going to the store take? An hour? Three hours? Five hours? I DON'T KNOW!

I get anxious trying to do things before appointments because I'm aware that I don't know how long those things take, and that if I think I do, I may be very wrong. Too often I've been like "hey I can walk to the corner store and grab a drink, that'll take like 15 minutes!" and then an hour later I get back and whoops my rice has burnt.

Plus there's also the fact that ADHD people know that motivation and focus is a two-edged sword.

Like, let's say you decide to play a video game. You've got time, you can pause/save whenever, so this should be a perfect fit to make good use of your waiting-time. So you start playing and WHOOPS you get really focused for some reason today (because people with ADHD do not get to pick when their brain decides to focus) and the next time you look at the clock it's 2:49 and you haven't showered or dressed and the appointment is 30 minutes away. Fuck. (you could have set an alarm, but now you're asking people with the forgetting-things-and-time-ignoring condition to remember it set alarms)

And with motivation, it can be almost worse. Instead of playing a game, you so something useful or creative. You clean your room or fix your plumbing or write a story or draw a picture. And suddenly it's great. Your brain is firing on all cylinders. You've got all the motivation you can ask for, and you are FLYING. the ideas are brilliant, your hands are nimble, you're getting stuff done you've been putting off for weeks or months. And then the alarm goes off. Time to go to your appointment. Fuck.

You drive there, your brain still full of ideas and plans. But by the time you get back, the motivation is gone. You may still have the ideas but you don't have the drive to write them down. You can't force yourself to do it. Your sink is still in pieces. Your room is half-cleaned, and you have to shove all the sorted clothes into one big bin just so you have somewhere to sleep. You've left things half finished again, in a cycle that has been repeating your whole fucking life. It seems sometimes that nothing ever gets finished.

So next time you don't even start. There's not time. You've been burnt too many times. Why add another half-completed project to your pile of shame?

My point is that people seem to be going "lol I can't do anything all day if I have an appointment at 3pm" like this is a quirky "oh I'm so scatterbrained!" weirdness they alone have, and not a major complication of a disabling mental illness.

(and that's not even getting into the secondary effects. If you know that having an appointment ruins your whole damn day, you're going to avoid them. Even when it's things like "going to that party" or "meeting your friends for a drink/game" or "going to a movie with that cute girl from your math class". Things you should enjoy. Things that'd help you be social. Things that make you feel human.)

My youngest sister is an incredibly productive person. She owns her own small business, and so works from home-- well, it's a farm, and she lives on the grounds, so she's never away from her workplace. She is working constantly, working hard, both for the business and for her personal goals. She makes incredible use of the little gaps she has in her schedule to cram new things in. She makes her own granola, which takes hours in the oven, and never burns it, always manages to swing by the house in time to stir it or turn it off or whatever, remembers to come back once it's cooled and put it away. Makes yeast doughs, rising for hours on the counter, comes back to punch them down, never misses it. Sure she sets a lot of alarms on her phone, but what eludes me is not the remembering about these tasks, it's the knowing how long it takes. I've watched her fearlessly begin a complicated task in an idle time of ten minutes, knowing with utter certainty that the thing she needs to do, the complicated, multi-step, intellectually-focus-requiring thing, will take her seven or eight minutes, and she's right. She's right! She gets it done, crosses it off her list, moves on, makes the hard deadline with time to spare, while I've just spent that same time idling because there was nothing I could dare to start that I'd know would be done in time.

Meanwhile that same task is on my to-do list for six months because I have no idea how long it will take, and in my only long stretches of free time in the evenings, I am so tired and scatterbrained that I can't muster the focus to do it. In the mornings, to put her daughter on the bus, I have to go outside ten minutes early because I'm so afraid I'll miss it, because the bus came early once and I missed it because I wasn't ready because it wasn't supposed to come for another four minutes. Child puts up with me and goes outside early with me, but she occasionally points out that if her mother's getting her on the bus they don't go outside for another few minutes. But I am so afraid of missing the bus that I can't bear it, and I'll go stand outside alone and wait for it while she's still getting her shoes on.

Sister listens to audiobooks while she's working, audiobooks and podcasts and the news, she knows what's going on and consumes dozens of books in a year, learns about new topics, expands her mind. I can't do anything and also listen to something i'm expected to retain; if I listen to an audiobook I either don't understand it or lose track of what i'm supposed to be doing and just stand there listening instead. I can't follow a podcast. I get so stressed out trying to understand the news.

We both have 24 hours in our day, but she gets to use all of them, and I feel like some days I can't use any of them.

#I still suspect that timing the shit out of like. life to try to train that intuition is the thing I need to do#but that also sounds exhausting and tbh I really resent needing to <- @ceanothusspinosus

HEAR HEAR. I know it would probably be good for me, maybe even reduce the incidence of fucking hating myself, but at the same time the thought of being that rigidly controlled panics and infuriates me.

Ah! I meant the data-gathering kind of “timing” on this one. Keep a stopwatch around and actually time (and record) how long things take. In particular, the ones that are like “it would be unfair for this task to take *that* long” (whether because it’s one of those boring background ones [what do you MEAN it’s easily 7 min on tooth care if I’m flossing too]/[how the fuck does it take time to transition from doing something to being out the door?? does not compute] or engrossing ones [yeah I can totally finish this row in a few minutes, hang on]. The idea is to help your intuition get more accurate by feeding it actual data instead of impressions. And I guess the next step is a fairly manual calculation of “ok so if these things have to happen then how long is it *actually* going to take and how long from now is the deadline?” that I expect there’s a decent chance of (very eventually) ending up as a more automatic skill.

I*am* pretty sure it would help strengthen my time sense. It took several years of intense martial arts practice (and possibly very late development? but I think mostly the practice) to massively improve my hand-eye coordination. Tight feedback loops with a shitton of drill and now I can fairly reliably toss a ball from hand to hand. Until my late 20s I absolutely could not.

But also thanks I hate it. I hate it less than “be an hour early just in case” or “plan your day down to the minute and melt down when you inevitably can’t actually keep to the schedule because the level of detail in the systems you’d need to do that reliably is not achievable” but I hate that this is so hard for me, and also hard for me to learn, and also valued so highly by most of the rest of the world with so little support.

re: tags yes this is a thing @copperbadge has talked about, their main post on it revolves around the example of timing waiting for your bag at the airport

Yep! I started using the stopwatch on my phone clock app to time how long I was waiting for my luggage, and after a couple of years I determined the average wait time and the average wait time until "I better talk to the luggage office".

But I do this for other things too -- for example, when I changed jobs after years of the same commute, I started timing how long it took me to get to my new bus stop, how long the bus took to arrive, and from there how long it took me to get to work on the bus. I kept a spreadsheet of the times in Google Drive, and after a few weeks I was able to better determine when I needed to start getting dressed and what was the latest time I should leave for the bus in order to get to work "on time" rather than "30-90 minutes early".

Although admittedly I've also structured my life so that if I do get somewhere early and have 30-90 minutes to kill I always have something I can be doing, and I'm very good at finding places to camp out in the meantime. Like, I'm not going to show up to a doctor's office an hour before my appointment, but if I get to the vicinity of the office and I'm an hour early, I know how to find places I can stay warm/cool depending on the time of year and be out of the elements.

It's something that can be done for daily routines, which helps a lot, but I'm still a bit at sea for stuff like "going to a show at a theatre I've never been to before" or "traveling on public transit that's new to me/in a different city." And of course one's ability to do stuff like spend weeks clocking your walk/bus time on a new commute may be limited; just because I like logging that kind of thing doesn't mean everyone wants to or is capable of. But if you can, it does help a great deal. (As does reminding oneself that at a certain point the penalty for, say, missing a bus once in a while is just being late, not punishment and suffering. Usually, anyway. Tough to internalize that, mind you.)

this isn't so much help with the domestic task stuff but for travel times you know that google maps has a feature for that, right? when you look up a place and hit directions it takes you to a screen showing the start and end locations and a map of the route, and if you hit the meatball menu by the start point it gives you this option:

You can set your arrival time for five minutes before you're expected to be there (or ten-fifteen minutes if you're nervous about finding parking or getting to the actual office within a large building or what have you) and Terry Google and Sons will tell you the expected travel time typical for the time of day you plan to arrive, which will help you plan when you need to leave (barring something extraordinary like a major traffic jam, of course)

sorry for the giant blue blob, I'm covering up my location

You can also see that across the top, there are options to choose public transit, walking, ride-sharing and biking routes if you use those instead of driving yourself. It's a very useful tool!

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me