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whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

i'm so glad i happened to see these tags this is the best thing anyone has added to this post so far

@todaysbird

tiktoks like these crack me up because they look so cute and the comments are full of people tagging their partners but like these fish are FIGHTING

they are PISSED at each other and the only weapons they have are their teeny tiny fishy teeth

enemies to lovers

every time I fumble w my phone’s charger cable I think about emailing steven moffat a pipe bomb

we found the coolest moth today

gaudy sphinx

Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.

THE WAYBACK MACHINE STILL HAS IT

this post calling Robot Unicorn Attack ancient was made in 2014. Ten years ago from this reblog. This post is now ancient.

You know there was a famous Babylon king (you know, one of the oldest cities in the world) who was mocked relentlessly for being more interested in the archaeology of his own civilization than in ruling. He explored ruins from thousands of years before his time…. which was 2000BC

so this is pretty much that.

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

He’s helping

Blessed_Nest

i had to draw this ✨

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

Or, as my dad put it,

Sympathy: I know how you feel Empathy: I feel how you feel Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?

Posting this because I see these words used interchangeably in RP writing a lot, and they are - in fact - not the same. Know the differences and impress your writer friends! It really is noticeable when someone has a strong grasp of vocabulary, and thus is a stronger writer.

Also, empathy is not always compassionate or sympathetic!  It very often goes with those two, but empathy itself is not a requirement for feeling sympathy or compassion at all.  Empathy works like a sponge, and can happen whether you care about the people around you or not.  It works with negative emotions such as anger, and can make you question which of the emotions you currently feel are your own.

Having empathy - especially high levels - can also be an obstacle for counselors to work around and manage in order to counsel others effectively. It certainly has its gifts, but a large portion of my energy when I was a professional pastoral care provider was managing my empathy level and making sure it didn’t actually detract from my care.

Doing this benefits these species tremendously. They can become so rare over such a vast area as people destroy the only plants they can eat, every single one that survives makes a positive difference!