the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

My elementary school is currently hiding these all over the damn place and disrupting classes for them.

3d printed start gate

For @madgedothorse

Wait for it...

i honesty don’t remember waking up and sending this to my friend, but apparently i did. i vaguely remember being awake and thinking about little crabs before getting pulled back under into sleep, but zero memory of sending these messages.

anyway, did y'all know? did y'all know.

You can draw it on the back of an envelope.

my GOD.

i had forgotten about this post!

oh god this was such a joyous event.

the crab with a hat post, for the record.

Love this sentiment. Here’s an art of it from 15 ? years ago

hi, yes, i am the OP and i love this so hard it aches. thank you for sharing. 💜🩵

this crab looks just like my crabsona!! except mine is a rock crab. Truly the power of a little guy in a top hat

When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

I know I’ll never be missing an election in my life again (barring some kind of major medical event).

I just wish it weren’t so damn frustrating, feeling like you’re screaming into the void constantly, fighting against apathy.

CMS just announced that the government will start taking high-cost drugs that were developed with taxpayer dollars and start pulling patents to force competition and low cost generics. That’s fucking momentous.

I saw 1 news article on it. I wouldn’t have known it happened if I didn’t read the news every day. This should have caused the kind of celebration that erupted when companies started announcing $35 insulin caps. Why didn’t it?

Low cost hearing aids, lower and $0 student loans, concrete investments in green architecture…there was an announcement like 2 days ago to replace all leaded pipes out of US cities over the next 10 years, which will be an absolute boon in jobs for construction workers and can make our homes safer for kids. I’m sure I’ll see a headline in a year, “Biden’s lead pipe program causes drivers traffic headaches.”

Republicans want 20 foot concrete barriers topped with barbed wire across the entire southern border, and Democrats want amnesty and ease to citizenship for just about anyone who crosses, and it really seems like until a compromise is made somewhere in there, Republicans will continue to turn out in massive numbers to elections because God told them to, and Democrats will continue to stay home because the last president didn’t accomplish 100% of their goals and voting for an imperfect president is a personal and ethical failing.

Now take that mentality and spread it over every single social and economic issue.

I remember how utterly scared and angry we were sone years ago when Trump was trying to bankrupt the USPS. People were talking about it left right and sideways, asking people to buy from the USPS gift shop, start a stamp collection, anything. Then, Biden got elected and put a huge stop to that by getting rid of the unfair laws that only the USPS had to abide by. Overnight, the USPS was saved, and how did everyone react?

They didn't. It was hardly mentioned. Not a blip.

Same exact thing when it came to net neutrality!! It was DEVASTATING when it was killed. People died in wildfires because Internet providers throttled data of firefighters. Xfinity actually stole identities in order to make it happen.

About a month ago, BAM, it was restored because Biden appointed a Democratic leader to the FFC. Did anyone talk about it? Nope. I saw ONE post.

Adding to this list, the Biden-Harris administration has also:

And honestly, this administration has done so much more that I don’t have time to list - with wide-ranging effects that won’t be fully felt for another few years, but are MONUMENTAL for our country, our healthcare, our environment, our jobs, and our futures.

Please don’t allow shills and bots to convince you that voting doesn’t matter or that your vote is inconsequential.

Please register and vote in 2024.

Please.

Please! Do it for the ones who can't vote! I'm a green card holder, not a citizen, and I can't vote! Kids can't vote, excons can't vote, disabled people who can't make it to the polls and aren't allowed to postal vote - do it for everyone!

always vaguely feeling like im in trouble for something but idk what

Via twitter

The tags on this post lmfaoooo

gems from the tags: round 2

sorry to the sad tumblr girlies but the real cunt is in the room containing these 4

new SuperWhoLock just dropped

#we joke that the first room is a bloodbath#but you couldn't pay me to sit in on the second room#there's mental illness in that room so complex it's only perceivable by shrimp  (via @moorishflower​)

Every artist who sees this post should do the following:

- Watch the video.

- Follow the instructions

- Reblog

I can’t stress you enough about how important these exercises are for your drawing hand. You don’t wanna get CTS of Tendonitis and similar stuff that will prevent you from making art or even hold  a pencil.

Okay, this guy is my HERO. I just did these exercises as I watched the video, and already my arms and hands feel better. I have a degenerative tendon disease that prevents my muscles, tendons and ligaments from retaining their elasticity, and so anything that maintains the health of my bendy parts is important.

I URGE YOU. Even if you don’t draw, do these several times a day. Even just sitting at a computer can do serious damage. My dad, who was a rugby player, a carpenter, and now a handyman, suffered from severe carpal tunnel syndrome, simply as a result of sitting at the computer at the end of the day to play a little solitaire. Don’t let it happen to you!

((Guys, I will reblog this like, 5 times a day just so you all will see this. This is REALLY helpful, and it’s quick and easy.))

Wow, these are REALLY helpful. And yes, this is not just good but IMPORTANT for more than artists — if you type a lot, play a lot of video games, do anything that requires lots of repetitive movements of your hands, wrists, and arms (gardening, sewing, factory work), these can help. Even if you don’t yet get pain these are a great preventative measure, because the damage builds up over time. Youth is no protection.

And like he says, you should feel a stretch, but don’t push it too far!

Signal boosting.  Guys, I just did this and holy cow do I feel incredibly light and limber in my arms.  Again, even if you don’t have any sort of disease, do this as a preventative measure.

Listen I royally fucked my wrists up and it took A YEAR to fully recover, start doing this now to save yourselves.

Just started crocheting, and have cross stitched for years, thinking this will come in handy!

I'm sorry to disillusion people but Neil Gaiman is made up. He's "everywhere" for the same reason mall Santas are everywhere. People dress up as Neil Gaiman and go to bookstores and conventions and run social media accounts to spread joy to all the young adults and queer people. But he's not real. Neil Gaiman is more like a feeling. In Scandinavia he's known as Nail Guaymin and he leaves books in people's shoes every November 10th.

I can't believe there are still people thinking Neil Gaiman is real. Just recently there were articles of him being sighted in Australia. As if such a prolific author would risk get eaten by dropbears. In The Czech Republic he's known as Nýl Gejmen and every November 10th we drink only dark lager instead of normal beer.

In Finland Niilo Hömömies comes to your house on the 10th and hands out the books himself. It can be pretty expensive to hire someone who dresses up as him for your family, but it's a much loved tradition here so we're ready to use a little money to bring joy to the children. It's worth it, most people think.

In Spain, children invite Neil to visit by putting their most precocious prose and drawings into letters, and then he visits them in triplicate as the "three wise Neils" on November 10. (I don't know why, his honorary birthday is just a very busy day for all his impersonators.)

In Switzerland, Niel Chäime goes from door to door reciting prose and sometimes poetry. He usually comes in the company of @reallyndacarter, in case there's leftover cheese.

Tumblr is really delivering on this post 🤣 It's splitting into lots of different posts, so in an effort to bring some of them back together, here are some additions I love:

in Japan we honor Nov. 10, Gaiman-sama no hi.

We eat sushi the night before, chicken and biscuits in the morning. We have a 10-hour writing marathon on the 10th, then celebrate in the evening with a parade carrying small, gorgeous handmade wooden fountain-pen-and-ink sets through the streets, raising them high and chanting ‘wait and see. wait and see’.

the next day, we stand at the temple of 1000 dogs and cats and throw our coins before the ‘book-never -ending’. that money is gathered and sent to support libraries around the world.

in Massachusetts on Neil Gaiman day, Dunks releases a special Dark Donut. it's also the one day a year they offer tea in honor of the exotic British origins of the myth. sadly the tea is horrendous but the donut is void-filled and free if you show your library card. I wish they'd make it a regular item

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

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Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

! This is fucking amazing and I love it!!!

Transcript of tweets below the cut but in short: calling makes the biggest impact, focus on DEI, you can call more than once, and you do not need to be in the US or have a Max subscription to call.

This is an everyday occurrence

Are you in the USA? I cannot stress this enough: search your state's unclaimed property site to see if there is anything in your name.

I just got a check for nearly $900 that I didn't know about. Apparently it was sent to me at the end of 2019 and I never got it, so it was sent on to Unclaimed Property.

My friend checked the state he used to live in. He didn't have any unclaimed property of his own. But his dad, who died 20 years ago, had over $10,000 in unclaimed property. My friend is the heir, so he gets that money.

It involves a little paperwork to get the money but it's so worth it!

You can search ALL states using MissingMoney.com. And I recommend that you search ALL states - sometimes you might get a surprise about post property in another state (as my friend did with his dad!)

Someone asked, "Wait, what is unclaimed property from?"

If a company, like Comcast or AT&T or Blue Cross Blue Shield, tries to send you a check but it's lost in the mail, or you moved, or for other reasons you don't deposit it, after two years they send it to the state you live in. The state then has it in a database under your name.

If you have a relative who died, they probably have funds in here, even if they were poor. If someone didn't close a bank account after their death, or never got the deposit back for the cable box, or never cleared out their PayPal account, that money would wind up in unclaimed property. (All three examples are actual things from my friend's sister that we just found in unclaimed property in her state. She died ten years ago.)

Spreading the good news about unclaimed property! We wrote simple instructions about how to find yours here:

The Magic of Unclaimed Property: How I Made $1,900 in 10 Minutes by Being a Disorganized Mess 

So I found my state site based off this info and I had three things unclaimed even though I’ve been living in the same spot for like a decade. I’m filing a claim now but that’s wild to me.

Thank you OP because I had no idea this was a thing at all.

I have 50-100 bucks from my birth state. I'll have to fill the paperwork out later.

GET THAT MONEY! 🤑

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The best part of waking up

"Richard Nixon" is now my new favorite swear that isnt a swear

Cake i made today that looks like an amnesiacs distant memory

guys stop saying it looks like a burger patty with chees 💔

ITS CAKE ITS A TANGIBLE CAKE

I MIXED cake batter together and i put it in the oven and. I MADE a cake i HOPE this helps

I've never seen death of the author applied to a baked good before, until now that is