A Mystery And A Mess

[amysteryandamess]

I'm a 38yo mom of 4 in the land of the 20somethings. After leaving an abusive marriage, I get to be the real me now: a bisexual nerd with complex PTSD and ADHD who makes YouTube videos about wild science, weird history, and true crime while cleaning up my never-ending mess.

[amysteryandamess]

On the one hand, I never want ANYONE to know how messy my house is on an average day. On the other hand, I really wish people could tell exactly how much CLEANER it is when they come over.

[amysteryandamess]

Having ADHD is like Inside Out, but instead of the emotions at the control panel, it's the main cast of Winnie the Pooh.

[amysteryandamess]

I have a chessboard past. It's like a checkered past, but with more queens.

[frogitivity2]

Please take good care of them!

[random-jot]

If Stranger Things was british

[amysteryandamess]

Trying to find actual news on the Canadian wildfires and every article is just about the smoke "infiltrating" the US (and Norway?), and it all just feels like:

MOOOOooooommm! Canada's smoke is touching me!!

[amysteryandamess]

First of the month spell:

Holding roughly 3 teaspoons of cinnamon in your dominant hands, stand outside the threshold of your front door, open it, and blow the cinnamon across the threshold into your home.

Chant three times:

"Just as I blow this cinnamon,

Prosperity to this home flows in."

[amysteryandamess]

Reminding myself to do this December 1st.

[charlesoberonn]

That's not how demographics work.

[steakplissken]

It could be if we’re all brave enough

[wizlor4]

Reblog to turn everybody gay by 2047

[theradicalace]

as always, xkcd has a comic for this

[rozentias-deactivated20240103]

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

[mtfoss]

If you all haven't heard about it yet: https://ratethelandlord.org/

[bitchesgetriches]

[lostinhistory]

It is possible that somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland there is an iceberg shaped like a giant dick.

[lostinhistory]

IT'S REAL

[robotlyra]

AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER COMES FROM DILDO, NEWFOUNDLAND

[ysabelmystic]

ITS REAL

[grimblo-goblin]

Mr. Pretty from Dildo, Newfoundland photographed a Giant Penis Shaped Iceberg

[cipheramnesia]

On their way to sink the Titussy.

[sass-o-matic]

“this ship, why, she will be unfuckable!”

[amysteryandamess]

If they don't play the Charles in Charge theme tune at the coronation, they're really missing a trick.

https://youtu.be/cyWLouFHbIc

[amysteryandamess]

Fill in the missing future.

Yet another oddly ominous fortune cookie.

[amysteryandamess]

I really don't understand to concept of romance. I understand love, companionship, sexual attraction... But somehow 'romance' just seems to vague. All I can ever think of when I think about romance is an idealized, often stereotypical, overt demonstration of those other feelings. It's that it? Am I overthinking it and romance is just demonstrative?

[amysteryandamess]

I'm tired. I want to be clever and motivated and productive and optimistic. I have an important meeting that I am (was? have been? will be?) very excited about in 70 minutes. But I'm just tired.

[amysteryandamess]

I did the meeting and it was very successful because I am an effing professional.

In other news, that was yesterday and I'm still tired.

[squeakitties]

the human eye has evolved to be able to detect more shades of green than any other color! that's because there are so many fucking leafs

[amysteryandamess]

Tasty leafs!