PSA: Watch Out For Sea Lions.

No, not the cute blubbery, bouncy bois that occasionally invade your feed and make you smile. I’m talking about:

The Sea Lion™.

“Marley, what’s a Sea Lion™?”

A Sea Lion™ is a type of person that you’ll encounter pretty frequently in any debate or setting that has a “controversial” tone (e.g. women’s rights, abortion, religion, legalization of marijuana, the faulty prison system, racism, etc.). A Sea Lion™ will feign interest in debating something, only to incessantly insist that you provide evidence to your claim.

What sets a Sea Lion™ apart from a decent human being is their lack of interest in an actual discussion. The aim of a Sea Lion™ is to cause emotional distress or frustration so as to supposedly invalidate your argument.

Their repetitive questions aren’t for clarification, they are an attempt to derail any rational discussion and wear a person out so they can continue to exist in their egotistical echo chamber and believe that they are the authority on said topic.

“Wow, I didn’t know there was a word for it!! But then, how do you defend yourself again a Sea Lion™?”

The answer is simple: Don’t wear your sombrero in a goofy fashion, avoid screeching like a chimpanzee, wearing clown shoes or hoop skirts, and always eat sliced cheese.

I’m kidding.

The real answer?: Do onto him as he does onto you.

They ask a question, word your answer in a way that you can remember, so when they ask again, you can answer it the same way. Shut down aggressive cluelessness by not only knowing your stuff, but demand that they provide evidence to their own claims.

Don’t lose your patience over some scum bag that has to be convinced to care about other people or that only seeks to belittle your position.

In an ocean of sea lions, be a killer whale. 🤙🏽

i am never posting advice on this hellsite again, half of you ungrateful bitches saw this and went “actually my way is better” and then had the gall to comment it about it like????

would i have wasted my fucking time writing all this out if i didn’t think it was helpful?? “just don’t talk to them”, “just block them”, oh, okay, so you all live EXCLUSIVELY on the internet??

or is there maybe a chance that you’ll encounter a person like this in your day-to-day life that you won’t be able to get away from? yeah. this post wasn’t about dealing with “internet trolls”, and i never once mentioned the environment you’re supposed to use this in. it was about dealing with your shitty coworker. cuz guess what? you can’t block him, and physically avoiding him is going to cause problems for everyone eventually.

this was to say “hey, when you can’t get away from this situation, here’s what to do”, not “run headfirst into discussions waste your time and energy arguing with someone who doesn’t give a shit”.

“take care of yourself”, yeah, take care of yourself by not acting spineless in the face of someone who is out to invalidate you and make you look stupid lmao, jesus. self-care isn’t just “don’t engage when people are shitty uwu”, it’s also “stand up for yourself when no one else is going to”.

So, you wanna wear your cool pants with your cool shoes.

Your pants have a super cool print and you wanna wear em with some bitchin boots, but the problem is, even though they fit fine, they do this with the boots:

So you’re like, okay, cool, I’ll just cuff them, but then you realize you can’t because they look like this on the inside:

So now you’re like aw man what do I do?? I want the cuff to match the pants but they won’t :(

Step 1! Fold the hem up about to here, make sure the fold is crisp and clean all the way around:

Step 2! Fold the white part up again so it’s the same width as the original hem, keeping it crispy:

Step 3! Fold that original hem down and over, and you guessed it, crispy again:

You have now created a cuff that matches the rest of your pants! Now go, wear your stompy boots with funky pants and be gay

Reblog to save a gay

Useless box that doesn’t let people flick its switch

Distant cousin of knife-wielding tentacle box.

A friend of mine posted this and tagged my old instagram account, asking me to share it. I figured sharing it here where I actually have a following, would be far better.

Please remember that just because the government is giving into pressure and greed, that doesn’t mean that any of this is getting any better, in a lot of ways it’s getting worse. And even if you yourself aren’t being as heavily affected anymore, there are people and communities that are.

Stay safe Darling ones, and help others remain safe too.

Thank you Darling. 

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If I might add…

may i add

modern hieroglyphics

playing a game called “what modern day thing would kill a victorian era child”

victorian era child that got cocaine prescribed for a headache trying 4loko:

I’M IN HYSTERICS

can someone tell me why white europeans think it’s funny to make fun of americans having higher rates of covid because our fascist government does not fucking care if we live or die? do you guys think Black americans being hospitalized and dying from the virus at significantly higher rates is funny? do you think it’s funny that Indigenous people on reservations in the southwest have the highest covid rates in the country?

if you mean WHITE americans, say WHITE americans - your shitty countries are just as complicit in colonialism and white supremacy as the so-called united states and your “jokes” about americans dying aren’t fucking funny

THERE IS A FONT THAT IS DESIGNED TO MAKE U REMEMBER EVERYTHING

I don’t usually share a whole lot but THIS IS INCREDIBLE 

http://sansforgetica.rmit/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Sans_Forgetica&utm_content=Launch_Video

I’ve been using this for my APUSH notes and I absolutely LOVE it! Sure I get strange looks from my teacher when he looks over my shoulder at what I’m typing, but whatever works, works, right?

I’m SO happy that this reached so many people oh my goodness

It’s such an incredible project and I hope it has helped heaps of you amazing students to study <3 

This is so cool 🦔

Reblogging for later.

It’s called Sans Forgetica! Designed by a team of researchers at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, whose idea was to create a slightly more difficult reading experience, forcing the reader to absorb each word as they stare at it. [x]

I know a lot of my followers on here are students, so: this seems cool and might help a few of you!

THIS RIGHT HERE

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

The Evening Star, Washington DC, October 16, 1918

This aged well

also if anyone says that he’s just joking then the fact that he can openly joke about that should ring some alarms