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Olafur Eliasson Designs a Canonical Structure with 832 Vibrant Glass Panels That Reflect Sonoma’s Weather
Drawing on the microclimate of the vineyard, the studio constructed the mosaic of translucent and transparent panels using meteorological measurements of solar radiance, wind intensity, temperature, and humidity. A winding gravel path leads to the outdoor seating area, and as the sun passes over the area, it drenches the brick construction in a full spectrum of color, a contrast to the Northern California landscape.
Ream more at thisiscolossal.com
Plant Machete by David Bowen
This installation enables a live plant to control a machete. plant machete has a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical noises found in a live philodendron. The system uses an open source micro-controller connected to the plant to read varying resistance signals across the plant’s leaves. Using custom software, these signals are mapped in real-time to the movements of the joints of the industrial robot holding a machete. In this way, the movements of the machete are determined based on input from the plant. Essentially the plant is the brain of the robot controlling the machete determining how it swings, jabs, slices and interacts in space.
Maybe not. Give it a paintbrush
This book was given to me by my mother-in-law in the early 90′s. I was desperately trying to improve my marriage and seeking God with all my heart. So I read and believed and applied these principals -full measure. The authors premise is that God put your husband in charge of you so if you want to please God, you must be submissive to your husband. I had heard all my life the saying “Too many chiefs-not enough Indians”. I felt convicted. So I gave up my No’s. I no longer had any mission other than being a good wife and that meant I could no longer say anything against anything he wanted. In return the Author promised “that God will not put a wife in the position of having to make the choice between disobeying God and disobeying her husband, so long as she faithfully follows God and submits to her husband. Even if her husband does ask her to do something wrong or sinful, God will provide a way out.”
Now couple that with THIS gem
“It is only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him, and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him. She becomes a priceless jewel, the glory of femininity, his queen!“
The rest of the book is sex tips which I added to my knowledge gained from reading
THIS BOOK
The book designed to make you the woman every man yearns to make love to -- the woman you yearn to be.
It taught me sex techniques and how to give blow jobs.
By all standards, I should have been the perfect wife, and according to the promises made in the books, God would be pleased, my husband would love me and our sex life would be fulfilling i.e. He wouldn’t be tempted by other women.
Shit totally doesn’t work
grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. ugly man. shitty palm tree. clear evidence of air pollution. conservative bumper stickers. roadkill. why do i feel worse
I used to do the 5 things you see, 4 things you hear etc with my daughter when she was spiralling, but it had a low success rate. Just didn't engage her brain, was too easy to just list shit things that made her feel shit.
I had to get creative.
Now we do shit like:
5 things you can see that you could easily steal without being noticed
4 things you think might be sticky if you licked them
3 things that you could fit in your mouth at once
2 inanimate objects that in another dimension, might fall in love
1 thing you can see that isn't made of cheese, but would be better if was
Obviously not those ones every time, I gotta keep mixing things up, else she doesn't have to really focus. Your mileage may vary, but it mostly works for us.
sorry if i was weird the other day i'm but a conduit for powers as terrible as they are strange
Can we crowdfund this shit and make this show really happen? It’s desperately needed.
Like the cat whisperer show when the Cat Parents are all “he just hates us and we don’t know why” 🙁
and the guy is like “Your cat doesn’t like being picked up like baby Simba on The Lion King, don’t do that”
and they’re like “OMG he loves us now, you’re BRILLIANT”
Would be nice & good to normalize Experts™️ who actually cared about *us* & what *we* need, rather than strategizing on how to bully us into being Less Annoying.
[Image Description: a tweet by Antifascist Awareness Month reading, “I love when autism parents sarcastically invite me to come and “fix” their child another way when like
I’d literally go to your house and point out all the ways it isn’t accessible to your child. I’d show you how to set up AAC properly. But you don’t want to hear that.“
Beth replies, “Queer eye but disabled adults come into your house and teach abled parents how to actually raise their kid and accommodate their needs.” End ID]
I want to do this for stores and schools.
Compost Ratio
20 Brown : 1 Green
BROWN
Old or Dry Leaves
Pine needles
Twigs- pencil size or smaller
Wood chipper scraps
Dried corn stalks or husks
Paper- non-shiny with no coating
Newspaper, Homework, brown bags, coffee filters
Straw or Hay
Sawdust from real wood- no particle board, melamine, or treated wood
Nut shells- unsalted
Animal hair
GREEN
Vegetable and fruit scraps
Coffee grounds
Eggshells
Grass clippings
Flowers
*Extras : Wood ash, chicken poo, old cow or horse manure, juicy earthworms (Live)
Nopes
Sugar, oil, grease, dog/cat poo, onions, milk, cheese, yogurt, meat, sunflowers, Sick or diseased plants Dryer lint is full of micro plastics and chemicals from detergents Cardboard boxes are sometimes treated with flame retardant or coated in shiny paper or wax
Gots the ‘Tism
So when I first discovered that I was Autistic I had a 20 something smile and say “Cool! What’s your super power? And I now realize that I don’t just have one, I inhabit a super-suit that doesn’t quite function in the way one would think it would. More like extra features that I didn’t ask for , don’t know how to use, and no instruction manual. Did I mention that it’s invisible unless it glitches or blows fuses in my nervous system. I hear things you probably can’t hear. All sound is louder, a lot of it is painfully so. Sometimes it’s like a stadium speaker that is so loud it’s distorted and some times there is like a half second delay . I have found that watching lips sometimes synchs it up. To experience a whiff of this first hand, you will need : 6 radios, one television, and a phone or tablet.
Place the radios around the room, tune them all to different genred stations and set them all at to the same high volume. Turn on the television and set it to the same volume as the radios. Now pull up a podcast on your phone or tablet and set the volume for this device for the same volume as the rest of the electronics.
The cacophony
The Mask. Camouflaging. Copy Cat. Undercover. The corset. The girdle. The Tie.
Neurotypicals mask. You see it in the movies all the time when someone psyches themselves up in the mirror before their first date or before a major presentation.
Imagine doing it with every encounter of every other human on the planet. You’re on. Sit up straight.
Pingpong Amygdala
My Amygdala is like a pinball machine
The ANXIETY, PTSD Special Edition
It’s got all the flashing lights and bells and whistles
Lots of strobing lights and clamorous theme song
a quarter for a trigger,
the hard pullback of the ball launch
the thrust
upwards
The morbid fascination
malignant breath holding anticipation
watching the upward trajectory
…
and the descent into
The bumpers
Panic
Pain
Fear
Shame
Humiliation
bouncing around violently
hitting
connecting
leaving bruises
with bells and flashing lights ricocheting over all the nerves and pain centers
drawing blood
extra points scored for hitting the abandonment bonus =
more lights more sound
more points of destruction
Please God let it end
The little inward sigh of relief as the ball drops towards the return
until something or someone hits the flippers and off it goes again
The worst are the wizards that know the toll exacted
exulting in their mastery of the game
shooting for the high score
leaving their initials
FC
AGH
AT
MAM
for the love of God I pray for a TILT
Tilt the fucking thing! Shut it the fuck down!
I wish I could unplug it
peace
quiet
rest
but
NO.
There are pockets full of quarters
just waiting to play
Fuck that, I’m out of order now
every day. every single day i wish my taxes went to making the train and the hospital free instead of innovating new ways to kill people in other countries
Walk it off they say
but they don’t know it follows you around
lurks in the corners of your eyes
sneaks into your dreams
it stalks you
waiting until you think you’re safe
Quit wallowing they say
but they don’t know how it sticks like being dipped in tar
and seeps into your pores like permanent ink
It won’t wash away, you can’t walk it off
They say it will heal, time will heal
but they don’t mention the scars
or the pity for your limp
The evil tattooed on your soul
the scarlet letter of someone else’s shame
Rich men’s sons don’t go to war
Who the fuck you fighting for?
Nukes and Oil mostly
Defending democracy for anyone but you
but you don’t have any if it isn’t for sale
and if it isn’t for everybody then it isn’t free
Isn’t freedom sacred in the Land of the Free
Who’s the terrorist now?
Guantanamo
Standing Rock
Ice Camps
Teargas
Bulldozing homeless camps
least of these
Who are the least of these? Is that like the weakest link?
Word trip of the day
Wack
or maybe whack
I suppose both are interchangeable given that both are of the slang vernacular (Note to self, -Do not go off on the word “slang”)
I am feeling out of wack.
Is there a place that I can procure some wack?
Nah, they only sell the future perfect tense of that.
so I can get wacked- but not wack?
oh, you can get wack naturally I suppose -perhaps it’s in the air
but that variety isn’t very helpful at all actually.
I could give you a wack, but you won’t like it.
most people just take them
Are autism and dyspraxia comorbid? I've always been 'clumsy' and dyspraxia seems to explain a lot. Could I get some more information about dyspraxia?
Yes, autism and dyspraxia are often comorbid. The following is a list of dyspraxia symptoms in adults according to Dyspraxia USA:
Gross motor co-ordination skills (large movements):
Poor balance. Difficulty in riding a bicycle, going up and down hills
Poor posture and fatigue. Difficulty in standing for a long time as a result of weak muscle tone. Floppy, unstable round the joints. Some people with dyspraxia may have flat feet
Poor integration of the two sides of the body. Difficulty with some sports involving jumping and cycling
Poor hand-eye co-ordination. Difficulty with team sports especially those which involve catching a ball and batting. Difficulties with driving a car
Lack of rhythm when dancing, doing aerobics
Clumsy gait and movement. Difficulty changing direction, stopping and starting actions
Exaggerated ‘accessory movements’ such as flapping arms when running
Tendency to fall, trip, bump into things and people
Fine motor co-ordination skills (small movements):
Lack of manual dexterity. Poor at two-handed tasks, causing problems with using cutlery, cleaning, cooking, ironing, craft work, playing musical instruments
Poor manipulative skills. Difficulty with typing, handwriting and drawing. May have a poor pen grip, press too hard when writing and have difficulty when writing along a line
Inadequate grasp. Difficulty using tools and domestic implements, locks and keys
Difficulty with dressing and grooming activities, such as putting on makeup, shaving, doing hair, fastening clothes and tying shoelaces
Poorly established hand dominance:
May use either hand for different tasks at different times
Speech and language:
May talk continuously and repeat themselves. Some people with dyspraxia have difficulty with organizing the content and sequence of their language
May have unclear speech and be unable to pronounce some words
Speech may have uncontrolled pitch, volume and rate
Eye movements:
Tracking. Difficulty in following a moving object smoothly with eyes without moving head excessively. Tendency to lose the place while reading
Poor relocating. Cannot look quickly and effectively from one object to another (for example, looking from a TV to a magazine)
Perception (interpretation of the different senses):
Poor visual perception
Over-sensitive to light
Difficulty in distinguishing sounds from background noise. Tendency to be over-sensitive to noise
Over- or under-sensitive to touch. Can result in dislike of being touched and/or aversion to over-loose or tight clothing – tactile defensiveness
Over- or under-sensitive to smell and taste, temperature and pain
Lack of awareness of body position in space and spatial relationships. Can result in bumping into and tripping over things and people, dropping and spilling things
Little sense of time, speed, distance or weight. Leading to difficulties driving, cooking
Inadequate sense of direction. Difficulty distinguishing right from left means map reading skills are poor
Learning, thought and memory:
Difficulty in planning and organizing thought
Poor memory, especially short-term memory. May forget and lose things
Unfocused and erratic. Can be messy and cluttered
Poor sequencing causes problems with maths, reading and spelling and writing reports at work
Accuracy problems. Difficulty with copying sounds, writing, movements, proofreading
Difficulty in following instructions, especially more than one at a time
Difficulty with concentration. May be easily distracted
May do only one thing at a time properly, though may try to do many things at once
Slow to finish a task. May daydream and wander about aimlessly
Emotion and behavior:
Difficulty in listening to people, especially in large groups. Can be tactless, interrupt frequently. Problems with team work
Difficulty in picking up non-verbal signals or in judging tone or pitch of voice in themselves and or others. Tendency to take things literally. May listen but not understand
Slow to adapt to new or unpredictable situations. Sometimes avoids them altogether
Impulsive. Tendency to be easily frustrated, wanting immediate gratification
Tendency to be erratic have ‘good and bad days’
Tendency to opt out of things that are too difficult
Emotions as a result of difficulties experienced:
Tend to get stressed, depressed and anxious easily
May have difficulty sleeping
Prone to low self-esteem, emotional outbursts, phobias, fears, obsessions, compulsions and addictive behavior
-Sabrina
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ooooh omg thank you so much!!!!!!!!
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”.
I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask.
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.
9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.
8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.
3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 - I have no pain.
It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly.
For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day.
There’s also a similarly useful “Fatigue Scale”
I haven’t been below a 5 on this scale for 4 years
Here’s the fatigue scale
Fatigue scale image desc:
10: can barely move; can’t talk
9: can barely move; can talk
8: can move, but can’t do much more than watch TV
7: can watch TV and play a game on my phone simultaneously
6: can do work on my computer lying in bed
5: can get around the house, but definitely couldn’t go out
4: can run a light errand
3: can get in my 10,000 steps, making my fitbit happy
2: can do three or more activities in a single day
1: going clubbing!
See also the Mental Health Pain Scale by Graceful Patient:
Mental Health Pain Scale transcription:
MILD
1 - Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. You’re probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!
2 - You’re a bit frustrated or disappointed, but you’re easily distracted and cheered up with a little effort.
3 - Things are bothering you, but you’re coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.
MODERATE
4 - Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.
5 - Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.
6 - You can’t do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.
SEVERE
7 - You’re avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.
8 - You can’t hide your struggles any more. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socialising, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.
9 - You’re at a critical point. You aren’t functioning any more. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.
10 - The worst mental and emotional distress possible. You can no longer care for yourself. You can’t imagine things getting any worse. Contact a crisis line immediately.
These are so important! SO SO IMPORTANT SHARE THIS AND SAVE IT TO SHOW YOUR DOCTORS!
@good-ho-mens please share this
These are important and super helpful. These are the best I have ever seen. They make SENSE.
I’ve been at a constant 8 for the past several months and the whole year I’ve probably not gone under a 6 but if anyone had asked me without showing me this scale, I would have said I was at a 3, because I have no idea anymore what a 3 actually feels like, not to mention a 0.