The Coconut Slut

So I'm a Gryffindor, with a cat patronus, born under the sign of leo in the year of the tiger and to top it all off I'm Allergic to Cats 😺

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[x0401x]

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

[x0401x]

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

[starfieldcanvas]

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

[westiec]

this is the '10 year mutuals you've never spoken to once' site

[startrekgifs]

Follow! REBLOG! It's how the site works!!

[kaijuno]

🧜🏻‍♀️

[acidhues]

[animusrox]

[paledreamy]

THESE GLASSES HAVE SPECIAL LENSES WHICH TURN LIGHTS INTO HEARTS

edit: for everyone asking they’re called love lenses & they were $20 on lovelenses.com

[darknightwing]

Bitches really paying $20 for an astigmatism… its me, im bitches

[hotwreck]

Good news! They’re only $9 at the moment

[bitchin--wiccan]

THEY ACTUALLT WORK this changes everything

[lifeasisabella]

THESE MAKE LATE NIGHT WALKS AMAZING

The hearts are way clearer than you’d expect and they don’t mess with your vision too much to walk in them

[harrryhasmyheart]

this is how harry styles sees the world

[sensitivelilghost]

these seem like a truly necessary purchase

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lostwolfling]

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

[colossalfauna-moved-deactivated]

y'all will circlejerk yourself to the mysticisms of faeries and elves in european countries for centuries and take it as fact but the second native americans ask you to respect our spirituality and culture suddenly you're all aetheists

[colossalfauna-moved-deactivated]

non natives can, should, and will reblog this.

[chamomile-bruxawitch]

same goes for african rooted religions.

[ladykalila]

goes without saying, but also Asian and Pacific Islands' indigenous spiritualities and religions.

[dykeapostate]

Everything is designed to accommodate the male body, sexism is deeply entrenched in every aspect of our lives.

[sbcassidy]

The book Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez is about this. It touches on some of the topics mentioned in the thread, including the statistic regarding crash test dummies. I haven’t read it yet but it is on my tbr list.

[gender-studies]

Invisible Women is an excellent book. Highly recommend!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[wetwareproblem]

Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?

[kedreeva]

Here’s the link if anyone wants it!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men

[kayasurin]

We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.

[jenniferrpovey]

Past experiments have shown that UBI:

Increases high school graduation rates

Reduces:

Domestic violence

Alcoholism

Emergency room visits related to mental health

Road traffic accidents.

All while not disincentivizing employment for most groups (the exceptions being high school students, who were able to focus on their studies, and new mothers…who were using it as maternity leave!)

People, for the most part, want to work.

UBI would allow us to expand the definition of “work.” If somebody can live off of UBI, then they can devote themselves to things which we don’t currently value financially such as the arts, raising children well, etc.

And if somebody wants to stay home and play video games all day…then so be it. Not that many will.,..and of those who do most will probably find some way to make that into their “work,” whether by providing play throughs and tutorials or competing seriously.

[jabberwockypie]

If somebody stops working all together as soon as they get UBI and stays home to play video games, they probably desperately needed a break.

There are so many people who are struggling with mental and physical illnesses, and chronic pain, who are still breaking themselves working because they don’t have another option - because it can take years to get on disability, and it’s not enough to survive on, so people keep going as long as they possibly can.

Even if it’s not a matter of disability, as such … people get burned out?

We’re not really built to do school and work with minimal breaks to the extent that we do.

Despite what our puritanical culture says, there’s no shame in needing a break.

[solarpunkcast]

Biologically we need a break. 40 hour work weeks are complete and utter bullshit. We feel like sleeping forever for a reason.

[hapalopus]

Pros of having ADHD:

Can track prey for hours without losing focus

Special interest: basket weaving

Always fidgeting - banging rocks together and discovers flint-knabbing

Distracted by berries

Stimming by making noises, discovers the sksksk that lures out squirrels

Can't sleep at night, great at guarding the cave while family sleeps

Sensitive senses means discovering and refusing to eat rotten/poisonous food

Sees bird eat nut - impulsively tries it too and discovers that nuts taste good

Cons of having ADHD:

Can't do homework

Impulse buys

Can't use a calendar

Can't sit still in classroom

[smute]

born in the wrong generation

[specificfuckery]

[lyrapuppy]

Well fuck

[paganinpurple]

Disability exists in the context of the environment

[modernsuperhero]

...dude i’m going to be using that^^ quote in the future

[conjuringtheroot]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[thebestoftumbling]

[bookoisseur]

I miss this show.

[party-wok]

the way he claps when he says HOT DAMN is what makes it.

[aimee-b-loved]

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a gift and I’m SO MAD for not watching sooner.

BTW, season 4 premieres September 20.

[iloveyoualeclightwood]

the best thing about this is still the fact that the “hot damn” was improvised and thats why they cut away so fast because everyone breaks

[allisonpregler]

Might be my favorite joke of the series

[twink-on-the-brink]

HOT DAMN

[whitepeopletwitter]

[dating-villains]

I will never get tired of reblogging this

[throwbackjoe]

Coping with life generally but especially in 2020 in a nutshell

[astrodidact]

[aenariasbookshelf]

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

[drek-odradek-deactivated2022031]

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

[mamakay93-deactivated20190129]

Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues

[the-real-seebs]

this sounds oddly plausible

[jumpingjacktrash]

a good doctor will pester the insurance company on your behalf. a couple times in my Back Pain Odyssey my insurance noped out on a procedure, and my doctor called them up and was like “no, really” and they gave in.

so if your insurance is in the habit of going “you don’t actually need TWO months of physical therapy, just walk it off,” tell the doctor who ordered it, and they may very well volunteer to, or agree to, call up the insurance people and go “simon says pay for the fucking therapy.”

[breelandwalker]

For all my peeps out there fighting the good fight against Big Pharma Bureaucratic Bullshit.

[konekorambles]

Seconding that, my doctor got to call up my insurance when they deemed my hysterectomy “not medically necessary” to ask them “do you think I’m giving out major organ removals for shits and giggles???” and it turned out they just actually wanted confirmation that I understood that it is a sterilizing procedure.  A good doctor will be in your corner and will help you out when the insurance company is trying to bog you down in paperwork.

[kneworder]

someone said that luther and diego have opposite himbo energies this season which got me to making this

plus ben

i will not be taking criticism at this time

[duskodair]

im queer as in gay, yes, but also queer as in really very peculiar

[mumblingsage]

#queer as in fuck you#but also#queer as in what the fuck ( @morethanonepage)