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THIS IS SO GOOD. This is so good for explaining what the sensory part of autism is like!!!!

blink182times

More Daredevil set pics!

thefloralmenace

If you're struggling with the cost of living right now (reasonable), this is your PSA to...

Google universities/colleges near you.

If you can't get out to more than one, look up which one has the highest tuition.

Look-up when the graduation date is

Drive neighborhoods near the university the week before graduation

So much stuff gets left out on the curb. Wealthy college students tend to prioritize convenience over money, so instead of carefully reselling their perfectly good stuff, they frequently give it away or put it out with the trash because that's easier than moving, reselling, or donating. Take advantage of this.

I furnished pretty much my entire apartment from college giveaways and yardsales.

What I got for free:

Mattress and box springs

2 10 ft area rugs

The massive 9-drawer chest (that has a label on the back that it was custom-made and shipped across the country) that my TV sits on.

Two 13 x 2 ft raised garden beds

My desk - just sanded it down and refinished it.

Three short stools

An organizer rack

Watering can

Tommy Bahama outdoor cooler (retails for $350)

Chairs

Shelves

What I got for cheap:

Two futons for $50

Custom coffee table with storage for $25

Three tall stools for $30

everythingstarstuff

whitepeopletwitter

pseudodesigner

sameboot

This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.

Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.

oldmanyellsatcloud

It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself.

gardenofroseandthorn

As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate.

ghostofapineapple

No joke, this is one of my biggest fears. That one day I might be manipulated so thoroughly that I will lose the very ability to question things.

I was also raised in a cult, and the thought of ever being manipulated like that again is genuinely terrifying. More terrifying than death.

I uhh… hope you guys are doing good? 😊

alex-guerin

This is literally what has been happening to my mom the last few years. She almost exclusively watches youtube now, and it’s almost always something political (which until about a year or two after Dump got elected, she never gave two shits about politics) or religious. She has gotten fanatical over them, to the point that I am legit terrified some days over what she’s watching and accepting as truth.

We used to laugh and joke and quote the ‘Friends’ line of “because if it’s on the internet it’s true because the internet is never. Ever. Wrong.” Well…guess what. Apparently now it’s not, as far as she’s concerned. This woman is going to be 68 years old in December and has seemingly lost the ability to think critically. Because a youtube prophet told her such and such a thing. Or she watched a youtube video of tiktok compilations about how horrible the government is and they’re trying to buy up all the farmland in North Dakota.

She stopped eating at McDonalds because someone on youtube claimed to have proof that McDs used HUMAN MEAT in their burgers. Even after I found solid, reliable sources (good enough to use as sources in a college research paper, type reliable sources) stating this was false, it was a rumor started YEARS ago…nope. She refuses to eat at McDs because she believes a random youtuber over her own child.

No joke, Youtube has become a SERIOUSLY dangerous place. An armchair politician can spew their conspiracy theories to MILLIONS of people now and for some reason the older generations are just blindly believing it all. I have only been half joking when I tell my dad and my partner in crime that I think she’s either gone off the deep end, joined a cult, or both.

I’ll watch something on Youtube and if I find myself going, “huh…no…that doesn’t seem/feel right” I will go searching for more evidence to support or disprove it. I have been telling her for years now that if it doesn’t sound right or sounds fishy somehow DO A SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE SOURCE! Nope. Everything I deem a reliable source, youtube has told her is “mainstream media and they are CONSTANTLY LYING TO YOU!”

whereserpentswalk

Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...

halondrus

cpunkhobie

this came to me in a dream etc

gay_irl

Production houses: but if the writers stay on strike we can't guarantee the future safety of your favorite shows 🥺🥺😭😭

Viewers who 1, have already lost their favorite shows because they were cancelled in spite of good ratings and good reviews or 2, have stopped watching new content entirely until the entire series has aired and concluded as a result of so many good shows getting cancelled on cliffhangers and thus leaving said viewers unable to gain closure with those characters and with a hollow viewing experience, so they've begun a, watching older shows they know came to a planned conclusion or b, revisiting their old favorites and enjoying the nostalgia or c, reading new books or fanfic instead: YOU ALREADY CAN'T GUARANTEE THE FUTURE OF OUR SHOWS SO GET FUCKING WRECKED AND PAY WRITERS WHAT THEY DESERVE!

stele3

Part of what the WGA is asking for is residuals prior to season 3. Netflix especially keeps canceling shows before they hit season 3 because they want to avoid paying residuals.

The WGA strike, if successful, will guarantee the future of shows. It will fix the problem. Production houses, if left to their own devices, won’t.

emmaziadarcy

the-tree-line

the weather is getting hot here so fair warning that i’m entering my insufferable hater season ✌️ peace and love tho

the-tree-line

hot weather lovers be like yessss i love when my asscrack is sweaty and my skin is sticky and when every insect in a 4 mile radius is sent real time GPS coordinates of my legs

vaspider

The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are pers

When we moved to Oregon in 2019, we always planned eventually to move back "home" to Pennsylvania, the state where, before that, I'd spent all but a year of my life since we moved there in '88.

Today, I'm going to have a conversation with my partners. I think we just have to assume I -- we -- can't go home.

Maybe ever.

Pennsylvania itself is in a low-risk category within two years, but it could easily -- well I know it -- swing into red if the next election cycle breaks another way.

That's not the kind of place where you buy the house that you intend them to "take you out of toes first," as I joked with my wives when we last talked about our plans.

That's what these laws mean to people like me. They mean "the state you consider home might become actively hostile to you within the next 5 years, so you can't plan to buy a home there." They mean "you shouldn't even board a plane that has a likelihood of having a layover in Florida, and you're definitely not going to repeat your 2019 drive across the country, one of the best and worst experiences of your life and the most time you've gotten to spend with your brother in one week since you graduated from high school." They mean half the states in this country are actively hostile to you, legally speaking, in a way you thought was finally behind you.

Sometime soon, I'm going to call my mother and tell her that we're not planning on moving back.

I don't have a clever closing line for this. I'm just sad.

everythingfox

Corgi swim

(via)

calkestis

PEDRO PASCAL in Explain This by Esquire

paulcotter

love 2 learn new things

cannabiscomrade

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

Horne said two staff members are sorting through the calls, and two investigators are working on credible leads.

yeah-yeah-beebiss-1

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

neko-setsuka

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

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