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“The whole truth is that we are all clinging to a lovely blue ball floating in a sea of blackness. Everything else, including and most especially the "truth" you're looking for? Is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

#i want this to be the quote on my headstone #i want to live forever but if (and god forbid) i die this is what I need engraved in stone under my name #it's from a mid-season 5 episode of The Blacklist

jerreeeeeee

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

jerreeeeeee

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 19 hours

#my fellow alchemist

classicintp

Growing up with Christianity, questioning it in my late teens due to the constant dismissive answers and rampant contradictions that wholly bothered me as a theretofore earnest & dedicated believer, and abandoning it as I had felt it and its people had spitefully abandoned me........ It brings me great vindictive pleasure that out of any design that could have caught on as the prominent banner for lgbtqia+ pride, it ended up being the rainbow 🌈; a symbol Christianity is incredibly possessive over, a symbol its followers could have shared as allies in favor of Jesus teaching

"LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF"

But no, it was largely, globally denied that association, so you motherfuckers righteously repurposed it.

"FOR IN THE SAME WAY YOU JUDGE OTHERS, YOU WILL BE JUDGED, AND WITH THE MEASURE YOU USE, IT WILL BE MEASURED TO YOU"

Every time I see a pride flag, I see another example of how people have held man-written laws (both church and state) as justification for their worst behaviors, as if they had to obey and follow violence and abuse because a piece of paper encouraged them to, instead of defying those laws because, at the very least, loving & supporting members of your own species should override anyone or anything that suggests otherwise.

Christianity is certainly not the only institution guilty of moral and legal crimes against this community, but it's the institution I was primarily & critically raised in, and is the institution I witnessed (and continue to witness) perpetrate, uphold, and teach this violence, so it's the only group I'm going to specifically acknowledge. Those particular Christians who cheapen the lives of this community deserve so much worse than "being forced" to covet the use of a symbol they arrogantly and falsely claim as their own. Sooooo much worse. But in the meantime, watching them indignantly throw tantrums over a rainbow is still a small win worth celebrating every. single. time.

classicintp

Reblogging this for pride month

#lgbt #lgbtqia+#pride #pride month

were--ralph

they slayed

lilu-the-almighty

Prev’s tags significantly added to my experience of this video

classicintp

#thegoddessboys #lol

langernameohnebedeutung

is there anything better than starting a book and it's Good. when you just have to accept that this shit is embarrassingly accurately your jam.

classicintp

@wikipedie @doctor-lypten

animentality

#if i was still a student I'd be using screen capture software to record every second spent typing #no way am I getting accused of using AI for using an em dash or semicolon

mysweetoddbird

i actually do think too much emphasis is placed on regret rates in the trans community despite said rates being absurdly low. like even if regret rates were at 90% id still support access to gender affirming care because i think people have the right to do whatever the fuck they want with their own bodies. regret is the price you pay for autonomy man get over it.

#transpeople #transgender #important #wisdom

#my racist co-worker unprepared for my tumblr memes #chats #conversations #texts #text messages

sabertoothwalrus

I hate the videoification of everything. If I have to hear one more video of someone speaking closely into their shitty mic and I have to have all their yucky wet mouth noises and plosives and nose whistles and throat clearings and sniffles I am going to dig a vertical hole the exact dimensions of my body and I’m going to slither in head first

sabertoothwalrus

as someone with misophonia, the widespread popularization of asmr audio editing + people that are being pushed to make video content with no formal training and have no idea how to edit their audio (ex college professors, average joe tiktokers, etc) is literally my nightmare scenario. this is hell I am in hell

sabertoothwalrus

this is actually the last straw for me I need to start sending people emails

theforceisstronginthegirl

I know the email thing is probably a joke but holy shit actually more people should complain directly to companies about this.

For my job I’ve written and overseen the development of hundreds and hundreds of pages of training material and guides and what the fuck ever so you can use the products one your own and my boss is convinced that what people want is videos explaining this shit and I’ve managed to comvince her that if we post a video that we have to include the text article/document with it but this is an argument I have with her every other week so that’s tbh on the chopping block constantly. But now we have hundreds of stupid 1 min videos that each explain how to do X and tbh so many of them are like 3 lines of instruction just to make sure people know which order to press buttons or whatever. Like the opening and ending credits of these videos are longer then the actual instruction part in some cases. It’s such a fucking waste of everyone’s time making them. But according to her, none of the clients have ever complained or said they don’t want videos so she’s having us make them bc everyone is shifting to video instructions now.

#im very much on team read-the-instructions‚ but your boss isn't wrong #there's this huge divide between millennials and the newer generations #where the newer complain when a multi paragraph post “should have” been a short video #and the previous generations complain when a QR code loads a 30 second ad before playing a 15 second YouTube video #when the same information “should have” been two or three quick paragraphs to read instead #I'm not implying the videos should be embraced on principle of others preferring them #just that boss lady isn't making it up or anything #gotta appeal to as many people as makes sense‚ you know?

twiststreet

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

Edited down a long tweet. (x)

#doesn't the explanation of 'default mode network' imply that it's not the walking specifically that the rest of the article says it is?#that your mind is occupied with a mentally low effort task that it doesn't require undivided focus?#couldn't the same be achieved sitting down and‚ I don't know‚ shuffling a deck of cards?#twirling baoding balls? scribbling mindlessly on paper?#or is the bloodflow/increased heartrate strictly part of it? the beginning makes it very clear that it very specifically the act of walking #and then the end says 'mind is occupied but unfocused'#would doing 100 situps achieve the same thing? yoga stretches? practicing the forms of a martial art?#or must it be walking because of the passive navigation required?#i have quastions

Nothing like spending the last 6 hours crying over a god-damned cartoon

#neon genesis evangelion

byjove

here are some additional requirements I would add to the United States presidency:

you are not eligible for the presidency if you are over the age of 65, if you turn 65 in office, that is fine but you cannot campaign if you are over 65

you cannot be president if you are a felon

you cannot be president if you have a personal net worth over $8 million

you cannot be presidency if you have had to file for bankruptcy in a business venture

you cannot be president if you cannot pass a basic neurological exam

you cannot be president if you have been convicted of or found liable for any sex crime, domestic violence or sexual harassment. unproven allegations are cause for investigation and can result in immediate termination from office if proven.

you cannot be president if you have been divorced more than once

you cannot be president if you never smoked weed out of a soda can in high school

you have to be up to date on all of your shots and forklift certification

byjove

straight cis white men are barred from holding executive office, if you’re a cisgender white guy and you want to run for president, you have to kiss another man with tongue for at least 15 minutes on national television and you’re disqualified if you display any sign of disgust

byjove

candidate may choose any American man past the age of majority as a partner for the presidential gayness confirmation ritual as long as they consent

classicintp

"you cannot campaign if you're over 65" and "if you turn 65 while in office that's fine" implies you actually can't campaign if you're over 64.

Anyway, no, if you turn 65 while President that's not fine. The chair immediately goes to your vice president. Campaigning as president when you're 61 is very discouraged for this reason. If the vice president is already over 64 then it goes down the line of succession until someone isn't.

There will be billionaires, corporate executives, and other groups conspiring against encumbents they fear, to get them arrested and charged with an easily faked bogus felony to prohibit them from becoming president. A lot of corrupt judges and police willing to play ball for some extra money. I suggest the substance of the felony should be considered; fraud and financial felonies with established victims like in Trump's case isn't something that can (easily?) be faked. Chelsea Manning was convicted in military court for whistleblowing and holding our military accountable, I don't think she should be barred from becoming the President.

I don't have a direct argument for this but that number should mean something, whereas it looks like it was arbitrarily chosen. Why not 1 million? Why not $500k?

That's a terrible idea for an excrutiating amount of reasons. So many small businesses file for bankruptcy because they got burned for not being ruthless and exploitative, some for getting outpriced by their billion dollar competitors, some for getting sued into oblivion by a sociopath taking advantage of our lawsuit system, some because their spouse or child fell ill and our healthcare system took a toll on finances and time. You're going to bar a lot of good leaders from attempting to become the president. Abraham Lincoln, for example, filed for bankruptcy 25 years before he was elected president.

Supported

See #2. ..... I agree with the essence of the rule, I don't want rapists or domestic violence abusers as our leaders. But Trump admitted to sexual harassment and wasn't convicted of it. He was found liable in a civil lawsuit, but not convicted of any sex crimes or violence despite mountains of evidence, including his own verbal admissions. Regardless, if this becomes a rule, you're going to have encumbents suddenly get accused and charged for rape or sexual violence allegations that never happened, with enough corruption even unproven claims will lead to a conviction if it becomes a hard rule that bars someone from leadership. People with influence who have committed sex crimes will get away with it and still be eligible for Presidency. Like I said I support the rule but history has proven it will not work in our favor.

On the surface I don't think getting divorced should bar you, I was initially going to say that maybe if a candidate is divorced twice they have to get a public endorsement from both their ex-spouses, but that can be easily bought. Then I looked at history again and the two worst U.S. presidents in history were the only ones who ever got divorced, so maybe this is a good rule

Some people are allergic. Some people had very strict parents and they couldn't smoke until college. In high school, some of the poorest people I grew up with scavanged for quarters and saved their tips for two days in order to buy a cheap glass pipe for their weed and never needed a plastic bottle or soda can. This rule needs to be modified.

Supported

15 minutes is excessive for a lot of people. I'm not saying most people. I'm just saying I'm a cishet man and I could do it with 0 disgust, but I'd get bored. My kissing partner would get frustrated, the audience would roll their eyes. Kissing someone you're not attracted to is boring. Drop it down to 2 minutes. Long enough to get the point, not so long that you need a bed. If you personally need more than 2 minutes to be satisfied then make the cishet white man suck a dick instead, 15 minutes makes sense then.

#arguments

I shave with a safety razor and very cheap shave soap sticks, I bought a shave brush from a company called YAQI, but their logo.. Well.