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Mar 18

mexicangrizzlyappreciation:

bpdjennamaroney:

bpdjennamaroney:

I’m just thinking about how many times I’ve heard my dad on a long call with an obvious scammer and I’ll start begging him to get off the phone because I always think he’s a very easy mark and he’ll just keep going and then after a while he’ll say something like “I died 20 years ago” and hang up.

Virgin Millennial Daughter with 20 hrs of screentime a day: Dad! They’re scamming you! Dad! Stop! They will take your savings and your identity! Hang up before they SWAT you!

Chad Boomer dad with a flip phone he has not recharged since 2014: Well gee I wish I could give you my bank account number after you spent all this time on the phone explaining this car deal with me but I don’t have access to my finances because I am in Rikers for felony murder.

a reply by @crematedequally reading: My mom used to just give me (a five year old at the time) the phone. She’d say “okay these are some mean grown ups who want to steal our money. Tell them everything you know about chambered nautiluses and if they hang up by themselves we’ll go to Pizza Hut”. Worked every time. I got to have a captive audience, mom got to see the joy in my eyes, and no one got scammed. They always hung up by the third tangent.ALT

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sagegarnish:

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🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

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batshit-auspol:

lesser-sage-of-stars:

batshit-auspol:

Apparently they’re selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.

Eaglet o written. Beach fork bagel is a bmw. Hockey fire of the nine flare golf runner

Beach 👏 fork 👏 bagel 👏 is 👏 a 👏 bmw!

(via hardmountaindew)

istandonsnowpiles:

cabybapa:

spongebobssquarepants:

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Just realized that this is at the AMC Lincoln Square IMAX, which is the largest IMAX screen in the country. This person is in for the worst possible time

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brady-like-the-bunch:

ayeforscotland:

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British media straight up doxxed F1nn5ster because he donated in support of trans healthcare.

Not linking the article because fuck the Times.

Notice how literally as soon as he came out as genderfluid and on HRT (and not just a guy who’s a little quirky with it) now the papers come for him. He’s done huge fundraisers for trans care before IIRC, but it was never “newsworthy” until now. Curious correlation there, almost like transmisogyny is real or smth 🤔

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Mar 17

gaywrongsactivist:

Hello tumblr user. In front of you is a single marshmallow. I’m going to leave the room, just don’t eat the marshmallow and you’ll get a reward. I’ll be back in fifteen minutes.

Eat the marshmallow immediately

Eat the marshmallow within 1-5 minutes

Eat the marshmallow after 5-10 minutes

Wait 10-14 minutes but then eat the marshmallow

Wait for the reward

I don’t understand the instructions

Reblog for sample size if so inclined, but to keep this ethical all participants must be willing lol

(via gaywrongsactivist)

turtlesandfrogs:

turtlesandfrogs:

What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn’t have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we’re just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn’t being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that’s cool. If you want to read more, I suggest “Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America” by Nancy J. Turner

And then I think about:

How we hunted the beavers to near extinction, and a beaver pond effects the soil moisture level, wetlands, etc.

How we banned intentional fires, and now are dealing with bigger, hotter, more dangerous fires. And that one of the tools in invasive species management is intentional fires.

How we have all these invasive plant species invading everywhere, and if people were still allowed/encouraged to “forage” like they did pre-colonialization, that would include removing those invasive species. And people would have eyes everywhere, so the populations of invasive species would not have had the chance to get established.

The land needs people. Leaving it “wild” and “untouched” is actually neglect.

(via nevershootamockingbird)

purlturtle:

homunculus-argument:

Hey btw, here’s a piece of life advice:

If you know what you’d have to do to solve a problem, but you just don’t want to do it, your main problem isn’t the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.

If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is “how do I make vegetables stop being yucky”. If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is “how do I make exercise stop sucking ass”. You’re not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you’re supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.

I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it’s sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn’t like that, and doesn’t smell and feel gross. Problem solved.

There is no correct way to live that’s just supposed to suck and feel bad all the time. You’re allowed to figure out how to make it not suck so bad.

I HATE running. Hate it hate it hate it. A thousand fiery suns and so on. HATE it.

I tried to make myself. So many people do it, people I know, friends, family, enjoy it, give me advice like “yeah it sucks in the beginning, you just gotta push through.”

It never stopped sucking.

Then I discovered weight training and MY GOD what a difference. I’m still not good at routine; I don’t do it on the regular. But at least the thought of doing it fills me with positive anticipation, and actually doing it is fun (I imagine I’m an Amazon warrior in training 😅).

And I discovered something else: my body takes to weights like a duck to water. I am simply not built to be a long-distance runner. Best I can do is a sprint; anything beyond a 100 yards is Wrong. But weights? My body thrives.

So that’s another thing: listen to your body, about the thing you dislike. If pineapple or banana tastes spicy to you, your body is telling you that it’s allergic to it; find a different fruit to enjoy! If certain forms of exercise keep having you struggle even though you are long past the newbie stage: consider a different way to exercise, or heck, even a “for seniors” way to exercise (those are magic words, I swear, for anyone who’s at the very beginning; a LOT of training videos and other resources are geared towards young healthy able-bodied people (which includes the actors and instructors), and that can be really disheartening!)

purlturtle:

Inspired by a post that’s making the rounds again:

Have you ever cried at/over the death of a fictional character?

No, never

Once or twice. Normally I don’t but I couldn’t help it that time

multiple times over the same character (on a re-read/re-watch/replay)

multiple times over the same character (because they died more than once)

over several characters, but only ever the first time they died

over several characters, several times (re-read/re-watch/replay)

over several characters, several times (died more than once each)

several of the above

different depending on my mood when I watch/read/play

other variant that’s not listed here

Video game characters absolutely included - *anyone* fictional you’ve cried over. Also animal characters, or pet animals, or characters whose role wasn’t very big (don’t care, cry is cry). If a fictional death affected you to tears, it counts. If you only shed one single tear, it also counts. If no tears came but you felt like crying, you may use your own discretion to decide whether that counted or not.

(via purlturtle)

hellofeanor:

sindar-princeling:

sindar-princeling:

one of the top 10 peter jackson’s creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going “I’m going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this”

#and then Howard Shore said hold my beer (@seekingthemacguffin)

AND THEN HOWARD SHORE SAID HOLD MY BEER

Two of the most epic scenes in the trilogy are a) some guys walking single file between two large rocks, and b) a bunch of piles of wood being lit on fire.

Everybody please thank Howard Shore.

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