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it used to be 2007 you know

All the adults should put in the tags how old they were in 2007

if you struggle with mental health, one piece of advice i would genuinely give you is learn to knit.

or crochet: something repetitive to do with your hands, assuming you're capable of it. if you're like me and learnt to knit as a kid but let it lie fallow for a long time, it may be that starting a large, simple project (for me it was a cloak, but a blanket could work too) gets you back into it. or maybe doing something smaller, idk. i personally found socks really hard for a while because they felt smaller than my cloak but weren't getting Done quick enough for me. as i've sped up i find it more interesting to knit socks.

regardless, a repetitive task is great for emotional regulation (also see: autistic stimming), and something that you can look at and go hey i've done something, unlike simply using a fidget toy, can also help to pick your mood up when the brain is being cruel.

it's also useful as a conversation starter or distracter if you don't know what to talk about. if you're wanting to talk to older people also you're more likely to reel them in with knitting (i work better with older people, and 99% of people who ask what i'm knitting are older than me). it also gives you the opportunity to not make eye contact because you're busy knitting, even if you're still carrying on a conversation. if you're absolutely stuck for conversation you can count your stitches and people might stop bothering you.

if you have trouble focusing without doing something with your hands, you can knit! i knit a lot in church, and it helps me to focus on what's being said.

i probably have more reasons you should pick up knitting, but i can't recall them right now, so yeah.

Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.

You know what, I got a whole bunch of fabric / old clothes at home and no idea what to do with it. I might just learn how to do this too

Then you might be interested in a database with hundreds of free plushie sewing patterns of just about any animal, as well as dinosaurs, pokemon, etc: https://craftresource.fandom.com/wiki/Plushie_Sewing_Patterns

& If that's a little overwhelming, here's some easy beginners plushies: - Manta Ray https://cholyknight.com/2021/05/14/manta-ray-plush/ - Whale https://craftresource.fandom.com/wiki/Whale_Plushie_Sewing_Pattern_(Lacey) - Simple dino: https://welivedhappilyeverafter.com/diy-long-neck-dino/

and a little more chalenging but my personal favorite: - totally not that one shark from a Swedish furniture chain store that everyone loves: https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/hi

The curious dance moves of the Striped Cuckoo.

I’m sorry???? Excuse me sir???? You have hands and are a bird please explain

The “hands” seen here are really the alula – the bird’s feathered thumb!

So it’s basically doing this: 👍🐦👍

how could you just leave this out

Is anyone else here incapable of scrolling past a poll without clicking an option? Or is that just me

This was a great opportunity to see if they are like you with a poll in the post

Good idea :)

You guys are MASSIVELY failing this poll.

Guys there’s a point to that last button. I was going to say “who ruined it??” But the answer is THE MAJORITY OF YOU

@thefinaljediknight

fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

tis better to have booped and lost than never to have booped at all

hello beloveds ☺️

made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to

You are appreciated

(via meanboysclub)

The last one

Also good on these people for taking the aggressively petty route instead of falsely registering their pets as service animals

I love how everyone intentionally interpreted this not as “your dog must be small” but “your dog must be in a bag”

“aww cute!! big doggies in ba-”

*cry-laughing as i hit the reblog button*

I’m going to point out that this sounds like the system working as intended bc if your dog is actually currently in a bag its not going to like, run off and bother other passengers or piss/shit where is not supposed to.

Like, yep. This works. If your dog’s well behaved enough to stay in a bag, THAT’s when it’s allowed on the subway.

That last comment was my EXACT thought.

This is actually one of the most effective kinds of laws, because it tricks people into complying with the spirit of the law by making them think theyre rebelling against the letter of the law.

New rule everyone in the us is assigned a different Bible verse to be theirs. I'm tired of everyone signing their emails off with Joshua 24:15. Some of y'all are going to have to settle for a begat to hang on your wall alongside your "live laugh love" woodcut. Sorry

tell me what you get

I am. Emphatically okay with this outcome

well I am reading through Jeremiah at the moment

dude whyyyyyyyyyy 😭😭😭😭 I literally got the blasphemous boast of Sennacherib

this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious

Okay actually I wanted to reblog this again with a link to this interactive map where you can select the states you've been to (they also have a countries version) and get a little image of that. I've been to (or driven through/stopped in) 28 states, so here's mine:

I'm curious to see what other people's maps look like 👀

Illinois squeaked on here because I've had two layovers at the Chicago Midway Airport but man. I NEED to get properly west of the Mississippi sometime

18 states for me. I'm counting states that I've driven through as long as I actually stopped in them. Do I remember the Carolinas or Georgia? No, but I was small enough when we drove through them that I'm certain we stopped. Technically we have also driven through Illinois, but we didn't step foot out of the car at any point (my dad very deliberately made sure we got gas and did all that before leaving Indiana), so it doesn't really count.

There is a non-zero chance that I'm missing a state or two, but those would be from before I turned six, so I'm not counting them.

presented without comment to the best of my memory... I've LIVED in 6 of these and visited all the others in some way or another

28 states which includes the ones we moseyed through during our 50 hours on a train from Chicago to California (some of which I’d already been to)

36 states! I'm doing pretty well, I think.

I only assume i've been to Georgia because we drove to Florida when I was like, 5. I remember FL, but I have no other memory of that trip. I've lived in IL and IA all my life, and the rest is just roadtrips.

I would love to visit more but when I was a kid we just didn't take trips

Us in 50 years

unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine i will always care about you no matter what even if we haven't seen each other in forever because i still remember what you were like 7 years ago and i still remember how it felt to be young with you and i still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind

https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007