A Mind in the Making

You break with an inconsistency known only to mankind. How fragile you become I hope you find serenity You hope too. --Hiba Ali

[fullpraxisnow]

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

[bae-in-maine]

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

[taraljc]

what $$$ does is buy TIME. Which poor women know, and rich men barely understand.

[hiddendesktopfolder]

[avenue]

brilliant

[parasailin-sarahpalin]

IT’S 2 O CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING AND I’M HOWLING MY MOM JUST WALKED IN AND NOW I HAVE TO TURN THE COMPUTER OFF FUCK IT WAS SO WORTH IT

[jackalovski]

The chicken doenst even articulate and it’s more convincing as a living entity than 90% of Hollywood movie monsters

[sixpenceee]

An airplane made out of 9 smaller interconnected single engine airplanes (Source)

[alllithinkaboutis-karma]

SCIENCE!

[lifesgrandparade]

Imagine typing out this letter and not stopping halfway and thinking “Hmmm, this makes me sound like the worst human being in the world.”

[bogleech]

Holy fucking shit

[catnipkittie5-deactivated202101]

I found the response for anyone else who was curious

[shesells136seashells]

Response is gold! I’d ALWAYS want a handmade gift more than some random store bought thing!

[artisticlog-deactivated20231213]

Starfish walking on land 😱🌠

[setheverman]

stranger things season 3 looking wild

[psych2go]

If you like more of this, follow @psych2go​.

[islamicrays]

[goodreadss]

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

— Steve Maraboli (via goodreadss)

[cheese24k]

[markdoesstuff-deactivated202210]

worth every second

[sephiramy]

Oh… my… God… I’m not even putting this onto the personal blog… I need this on my main. Right now.

[windcave]

i was expecting this video to be 4 seconds like, i can barely even hold my own attention for that long let alone two kittens

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[best-shower-thoughts]

“So easy a caveman can do it” completely ignores the fact that cavemen were able to start fires without matches and could kill animals several times their size with nothing but very basic weaponry (source)

[racingbarakarts]

I used to have geese so here’s a tip for everyone:

If a goose is attacking you, don’t run. No matter what, stand your ground. They can fly but when they’re mad, they don’t usually try to fly. Hold your hands in front of you, ready to grasp. When the goose gets close, grab it by the neck bit closest to the head and squeeze. Not tight enough to choke the goose, but tight enough so they can’t break free. You can hold them until they calm down or just do the next step right away. The next step is literally just to chuck them as far as possible and run for your life. It makes the goose know you’re in charge and you have a better chance of getting away. Trust me I’ve done this so many times that I’ve lost count

[myblogisnotinteresting]

I can’t tell if this is a shitpost or actual advice. But I do know geese are the fucking worst.

[racingbarakarts]

Actual advice! Just yeet a goose

[taur]

[marzipanandminutiae]

the thing about millennials who don’t want kids is I feel like a lot of them are deeply On Board for their friends’ kids

like I’m among the minority of my friends in definitely for sure wanting kids someday

but each of my parenthood-eschewing friends has claimed a different role in my future offspring’s life and they seem very excited to play it

so we as a generation may have fewer children

but I feel like they’ll be the most supported and loved children imaginable

[pfdiva]

As a millennial who doesn’t want children, I am seconding this, because it’s not like we don’t want children to exist in the world!  We do!  Children can be lovely and amazing and they are literally our future!  It’s just So Very Difficult to raise children in our nuclear-family society, especially as a millennial, and you want to do the job RIGHT.

Well, if you can’t do the job right yourself, the least you can do is help a friend raise THEIR child right, help take the burden off their shoulders, and give that kid all the love and attention they can stand.

I’d be damned excited to do that, too.

[thelongestpuzzle]

this generation is so excited and ready to be weird uncle/aunt so-and-so

[micaxiii]

I hope this generation makes communal families a thing again and this time it won’t be treated like a “taboo hippie thing”

[tallteal]

Takes a village to raise a kid

[catchymemes]

10 tricks you didn’t know you could do with your food.

By Blossom

[audrey-hepbae]

The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week. 

[jaspertheshark]

make an engagement ring for your partner with a hot coal and some skippy you got on sale

[audreyii-fic]

[source]

[prince-of-legba]

I’ve been screaming about this all week! That’s literally Nazi shit. Hitler stripped German citizenship from Jewish, Romani, and black citizens which resulted in genocide, segregation, experimentation, sterilization, and exile.

[anarchetypalarchive]

i saw this post earlier about therapists and it reminded me of my old therapist paul, who in my opinion is one of the greatest men alive and who did not put up with my bullshit for even one second

anyway i go in to see paul one week in the summer of 2016, and i’m doing my usual bullshit which consists of me talking shit about myself, and paul is staring at me, and then he cuts me off and says that he’s got a new tool for helping people recognize when they’re using negative language, and gets up and goes over to his desk

and i’m like alright hit me with that sweet sweet self-help article my man, because i’m a linguistic learner and whenever paul’s like here i have a tool for you to use it’s pretty much always an article or a book or something

paul opens a drawer, takes something out, and turns back around. i stare.

i say, paul.

is that a nerf gun.

yeah, says paul.

i say, are you gonna shoot me with a nerf gun in this professional setting.

he happily informs me that that’s really up to me, isn’t it. and sits back down. and gestures, like, go ahead, what were you saying?

and i squint suspiciously and start back up about how i’m having too much anxiety to leave the house to run errands, like it was a miracle to even get here, like i’ve forgone getting groceries for the past week and that’s so stupid, what a stupid issue, i’m an idiot, how could i–

a foam dart hits me in the leg.

i go, hey! because my therapist just shot me in the leg. paul blinks at me placidly and raises an eyebrow. i squint again.

i say, slowly, it’s– not a stupid issue, i’m not stupid, but it’s frustrating me and i don’t want it to be a problem i’m having.

no dart this time. okay. sweet.

so the rest of the hour passes with me intermittently getting nailed with tiny foam darts and then swearing and then fixing my language and, wouldn’t you know it, i start liking myself a little more by the end of the session, which is mildly infuriating because paul can tell and he’s very smug about it 

anyway i leave his office and the lady having the next appointment walks in and i hear what’s all over the floor? and paul very seriously says cognitive behavioral therapy tools.

[satan-graffitied-my-soul]

The “I won’t hesitate, bitch” vine but @ friends who don’t love themselves