something deeply insane about opening your comfort high school book that you annotated the shit out of and being transported back to a Time and Place that is very very different but yet also the same

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

OP, hope you don’t mind--this got me thinking abt handling my own internal Sad Little Guy

I need to tell you, the sound is VERY important, and the final frame of the video is 👌👌👌.

The sounds are excited but quiet bird-peeping and the jingling of the ball, unmute recommended.

This is what trying to get info on insects is like and it pisses me off

[ID: A simple sketch of a Google search for, “Cool native bug I saw on a walk." The results are: Wikipedia, six different links for “pest control”, and one link for “actually good info”. End ID.]

apartment dwellers, or those with communal laundry situations.

feel free to explain your choice in the tags, especially how polite/impolite you view your choice.

For the “I don’t” votes: I know someone who set their apartment on fire because they never cleaned out their lint trap. So maybe add that to your to do list going forwards.

even if you for some reason don't care about setting things on fire, unless my parents were wrong, keeping that lint trap clean also helps with airflow in a way that allows for more efficient drying. and if you are a neurodivergent with one set of sheets who forgot to put them in the dryer and you're now staying up late whilst they dry, well.

but, yes, literal risk of burning down your building if you don't clean that tray.

i'll never forget my most peak Dealing With Tech Workers moment which was this twenty-seven year old man not knowing what lint was and my having to patiently explain it to him

“As per my last correspondence-”

I wish there were different words for the different types of forgetting because  when I say I forgot something, I don’t mean “I forgot we had plans on Friday.” I almost always mean “I forgot today was Friday.” I know my friend’s birthday is on March 20th, but I won’t wish her happy birthday on time because I won’t know it’s March 20th on March 20th. My forgetfulness has nothing to do with not caring about/remembering events and everything to do with my inability to keep up with the passage of time.

My most common one is being 100% certain I did the thing already because the memory of doing it and the memory of intending to do it are the same mental images.

I have a clock on my wall that has the DAY as well as the hour and minute

it is not there for hipster ironical reasons.

I frankly recommend them, tbh

My favorite part of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is that if you don't play DnD, it's a solid fantasy movie, but if you DO play DnD, you can feel in your soul the table talk that's almost certainly happening over the events of the movie. Like...

"Are you guys sure you don't want to take a perception check?"

"I said we jump out the window."

or

"And he turns and walks directly northwards away from you guys."

"The map shows a rock-"

"HE WALKS OVER THE ROCK."

or

"Fuck it, I throw a potato."

"Okay... roll for potato, I guess."

"That was a 20."

or

"I know we won, but I have bonus actions and I'm going to use them, damn it."

"What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 millions people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn't carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."

-- "How Far Would He Go", TIME Magazine's interviews with Donald Trump, April 30, 2024.

I know we're saturated in coverage of Trump and it's easy (and probably better for our mental health) to usually ignore most of the articles when we see them, especially since he's so full of shit and infuriating. But it's also important to recognize that he is going to be the Republican nominee for President and he could absolutely be elected in November, and if you thought his first term was scary and dangerous, you need to understand that in a second term he's going to have people around him that are better prepared and VERY willing to do the crazy shit that he wants to do to this country. They aren't even hiding the fact that they are seeking vengeance against political opponents whom they feel have wronged them, and are ready to fundamentally dismantle the democratic foundations that are barely holding this country together after nearly 250 years.

Just look at what Trump says about the people who he incited to attack the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and halt the peaceful transfer of power that has happened every four years since 1789:

Oh, and please note that Trump -- a former President of the United States and possible future President of the United States -- said on the record in these interviews with TIME: "There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country and that can't be allowed either." We are at a point where political leaders are outright saying that in this country again, and it's because of Donald Trump.

So, take the time to recognize that Trump is straight-up telling us the country we're going to be living in if he wins again in November. And understand that your vote matters -- and WHO you vote for matters -- because, as I've been saying for years now, ELECTIONS HAVE FUCKING CONSEQUENCES.

YOU

MUST

VOTE

BIDEN

Or this is what you will get

and it'll be partly YOUR FAULT

and there's justice coming to you for that if you do it-

don't think any forces and powers which exist above or below or beyond

will ignore that bloody weight in any cosmic scales you believe in,

if YOU CAUSE THIS

because Biden wasn't good enough for YOUR precious morals

one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

star trek heritage post (June 9th, 2017)

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

this is not just "look out the window and sigh" longing. i'm talking you're at the grocery store and you're suddenly hit w a wave of grief bc you don't have it. you don't have whatever it is you ache so badly to have. you go about your everyday life and yet it throbs under your skin moment by moment, almost as though it has a life of its own. that's the kind of longing i mean.

Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

"OP you need to read 'Voting is not Harm Reduction" OP has read Voting is not Harm Reduction. It opens with the acknowledgement that for the most vulnerable people, even a tiny degree of harm reduction can mean life or death and then continues to advocate for not participating in that harm reduction lest you "participate in your own oppression". Pardon me for not finding "vulnerable people should die for my ideology" very convincing.

It's ME awareness day and next week is ME awareness week, so here's a post about ME that you may find interesting or helpful!

I have ME it's one of my diagnoses, and I struggle with it on the daily! I wish more people understood how my body works and feels but sometimes the best I can do is a post like this

Anyway enjoy!

ID in Alt

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

― Jamie Anderson

To Stop Trump you MUST Vote Biden: Why? You don't even like Biden!

This needed to be it's own post so here goes,

USA Presidency Voting 101:

We have a One Winner Only system right now. You cannot vote for anyone except Biden unless you WANT Trump to win and deport, kill or jail everyone who opposes him. You will not be spared.

Lemme break it down for you.

If we have a shady gang of Eleven people, voting which of two candidates is going to be our new boss:

and Five of us vote for Dingnut,

and three of us vote for Lessevil,

but the rest vote for Smugness, who isn't even running for Gang Boss because Lessevil is doing one rather evil thing instead of a reign of total terror and murder like Dingnut has TOLD us he wants to do...

WHO HAS THE MOST VOTES?

Lessevil ends up with just three, because of the people who thought it'd be fun to assuage their own sense of righteousness at the cost of Dingnut winning the election with his five loyal cronies

and Dingnut then proceeding to slit throats of everyone who didn't vote for him no matter whether they voted for Smugness or not!

"But I was doing the Right Thing!" they scream as they die,

but feeling Righteous doesn't save you from Evil. FIGHTING IT DOES.

YOU MUST vote for Biden unless you WANT TRUMP and his cult to run the country. Possibly for the rest of your shortened life.

It's fine to hate this. It's a shitty choice to have no candidates on the board that you want to throw your full support behind. But the other options take us much worse places. So vote Blue where you need to, vote further left in the seats that the math says have a legit shot at winning, and then pressure ALL your representatives to move your city / state / the whole country to ranked choice voting.

It's a long game. You'd best start playing it now if you ever want it to become a game that doesn't make you feel angry to play.

hating our system is as American as stealing a person's land and apple pie, but right now it's what we've got. Vote Biden and bitch about him later, trust me. We cannot afford the second option, and more importantly a good deal us will not SURVIVE the second option.

"Vote Biden and bitch about him later, trust me.

We cannot afford the second option,

and more importantly a good deal us will not SURVIVE the second option."

THIS.