rae: a life in whoops

see above

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[beardedmrbean]

[clustermuck]

Literally me when she said her name was “Perdita”

[loveridden1999]

[ozempicofficial]

[jake-clark]

[meiiiwaku]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame @worldheritagepostorganization

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

is this the ORIGINAL?!???

[laughconfetti]

[creepymutelilbugger]

oh holy shit i didn’t even know where this meme came from

[roses-blog-of-things-deactivate]

OH MY ACTUAL GOD THE ORIGINAL

[thenumberonevelvetcake]

ORIGINALS ON THE ROLL

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[hyacinthlbridgerton]

As a friend, Emma, that, I fear, is a word…

EMMA. (2020)  Dir. Autumn de Wilde

[cavenoreille]

I honestly adore these characters as a couple. True friendship which led to a good marriage.

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[monsieurenjlolras]

you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:

Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more

Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock

Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.

Have a little glass of wine

Take as long as you feel like for lunch

Deeply understand that work doesn't matter

Make sure your boss your boss knows they're always your second priority ❤️

[lerayon]

🗣️ Hey, young Americans:

Old Millennial American speaking here. I need you to adopt this mentality as early as possible and hold to it. The older you get, the harder it is to begin this practice and claw back the extremely unhealthy effects of a workaholic lifestyle. I am speaking from 20 years of experience.

This does not mean having a shitty attitude at work, or not doing your job, or relying on co-workers to carry your water.

This means you do what it says above. It also means not making work and productively your entire personality; not tying your productivity to your value; and not becoming so emotionally enmeshed in your work and workplace so that you are living and dying by what happens there.

Good luck out there. American workplace culture is mostly designed to work you to death. Moving against that tide can be challenging, so having a healthy mindset is important to living a life not consumed by your paid labor.

[captainkirkk]

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

[dragon-in-a-fez]

knowing that the past tense of "hang" is "hanged" when it's a method of execution can be very entertaining because you'll be watching a horror movie and someone goes "local legend says a woman was hung in these woods" and you're like "👀 good for her I guess"

[depsidase]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people

[byjove]

Not only am I agnostic about a god, I am agnostic about most supernatural phenomenon. Do ghosts exist? I dunno, definitely had more personal experiences with them than I have had with god. Does magic exist? Maybe, in a way, I don’t know. Getting rid of absolutes and debbie downer behavior has improved my life immensely.

[byjove]

I can say with 99.5% certainty that Bigfoot is NOT real. But that 0.5% does a lot of heavy lifting when I am in the woods alone…

[clustermuck]

Shayne Topp from Smosh has always articulated my thoughts perfectly: He’s a skeptic of all “other worldly” things, but he’s also VERY AWARE that there is so much we, as humans, don’t know, that he his skepticism remains…flexible.

Like, if he were to see something go by out of the corner of his eye, he’d be like, “look, I don’t believe in ghosts generally speaking - the only thing I know for sure is that something just went past me and I don’t know for certain what it was. Could be a ghost? Unlikely, but perhaps not impossible. Could it have been a pressure change moving dust particles around? More plausible, but I also can’t be sure that’s the conclusion either.”

I think his skepticism with the added acceptance of the totality of an unknown universe around us is how I try to move about the world. It provides a freedom to be more content and at ease with the fact that we will never have conclusions to everything we see and that’s okay…

[lonelyroommp3]

we give buzzfeed a lot of rightful criticism now that it’s not 2014 but that kristin chirico piece where she photographed herself in various different clothes shop fitting rooms to prove that the lighting in them is precision engineered to give you body dysmorphia still regularly salvages me from the verge of anorexic crisis ten years after its publication