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me, taking a nap to avoid all my responsibilities: I can have a little unconsciousness. as a treat.

no offence but i think a lot of us me included don’t actually want romantic love as badly as we think and really are just lonely and crave a closeness and intimacy that feels out of reach in friendships because of society’s emphasis on marriage and the nuclear family so we project that into the never ending search for a perfect love and a soulmate when really we all just want to mean something to someone

beaft

types of nap, ranked by me (an experienced napper)

the siesta: the oldest and most reliable form of nap! you go to sleep around noon. you wake up an hour or two later feeling well-rested and prepared to face the rest of the day. this is the pinnacle of nap perfection. 10/10

the businessman’s nap: you have a limited amount of time on your hands, so you schedule a nap into your packed timetable and set an alarm. you spend half the duration of the nap worrying that you’re wasting valuable nap time by lying awake, and the other half sunk into a torpor so deep that when your alarm rings, it takes you a good few minutes to remember your own name. once you’ve splashed some cold water on your face you feel much better. 7/10

EW STICKY: you were cold at first, so you piled on the blankets and wriggled into your favourite comfy sweater. this was nice. now you are awake and trapped in a horrible sweaty gordian knot of your own devising. this is not nice. when you peel off the sweater you find to your horror that you have left an actual damp patch behind on the bed, like some sort of giant dead fish that can’t stop leaking its gross fish juice everywhere. 5/10 it was at least cosy to start with

the interrupted nap: someone barges into your room and starts talking to you. “wtsfhggl?” you enquire. they give you a judgemental look, and ask why you are sleeping in the middle of the day. “ghhfshsxkls,” you reply, graciously. they tell you to get up. you get up. the rest of the day feels like an extension of whatever dream you are having before you were disturbed. you boil with quiet resentment and shame. 4/10

the unsuccessful nap: you are tired. you want to take a nap. you lie down. you wait. you wait. time moves sluggishly forwards. you wait. your brain feels like a cup of mushy porridge but your eyes refuse to close. the noise of your fan is infuriating. you wait. eventually, you are forced to accept that this nap is simply not going to happen, and you have wasted 45 minutes doing absolutely nothing. god fucking dammit. 2/10

the handy-dandy fast-forward button: you really just want this day to be over as soon as possible, and the best way you can think of to do that is to take a nap. you only meant to sleep for an hour, but when you wake up it is already evening. the day is over. you glean no satisfaction from this. you kill time until you feel justified in going back to bed again, and spend the rest of the night tossing and turning, unable to sink back into the blissful stupor from which you so recently emerged. 0/10

The Unpleasantness: when you fall asleep, it is dark. when you awaken, it is light. this is the natural order of sleep, but perverted into a form that is frightening and wrong. you feel deeply unsettled and do not know why. are you sick? what does time mean? what does anything mean? maximum despair. -1000/10.

theradioghost

when the times get rough and I lose sight of the goal i just. reread “the orange” by wendy cope again & remember. that’s where I’m going folks. sooner or later, whatever it takes.

theradioghost

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.

– “The Orange,” Wendy Cope

mapsontheweb

Oceans centered world map.

matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll

You know, even though I grew up knowing it was possible to around circumnavigate the world via the ocean, I had never seen it from this way before. Holy shit.

labbbugs

I love this cause it really puts in to perspective how big the Pacific Ocean is

jedi-anakin

#itty-bitty baby walking on his itty-bitty legs

The Mandalorian (2019)

#baby yoda is the only reason i watched this show

queerangelic

do y’all ever think about how BIZARRE galavant is, as a concept? like it came out before crazy ex-girlfriend, there wasn’t really a successful musical tv show on that i can think of as being memorable; it just snarks at all the edgy golden age of TV shows (just straight up references GoT, “jean hamm”), it looks like it was filmed in 1999 or 2001 and alan menken???? wrote the music???? and it knows it’s like….doomed from the start and just revels in its chaos???

amuseoffyre

First episode of S2 was “A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear” - if that doesn’t spell out the chaotic energy of this wonderful monster, I don’t know what does.

susiephone

Galavant was here for a good time, not a long time

#i loved galavant

crunchbuttsteak

camreejadexo-blog

me, putting a bunch of hand wash only things in the washing machine: you guys look out for each other in there OK

mellebellemethod

It happens this year folks…

gattomeows

super-metroid

mellebellemethod

I wanna take a moment to reblog this one last time while it’s still 2019. All year, i’ve gotten over a hundred reblogs DAILY on THIS POST ONLY. Every day, my notes have been over 99+ and it still makes me laugh that this stupid post I made on a Tuesday night while watching Futurama skyrocketed so much that it showed up on tumblr trending on facebook and crossed back across my dash MULTIPLE times a week. I see people reference this post on OTHER SITES. I’ve met people on twitter and Instagram who’ve sent it to me NOT NOTICING it was me who posted it. And it cracked me up telling people “lol check the OP.” Thanks to everyone for giving me this hilarious experience! Especially @gattomeows for their hysterical addition of the actual article– i’m pretty sure that’s why it got so popular. I know it’s silly, but due to the content, it likely won’t be reblogged as often in 2020 so I wanted to thank everyone~

thepigeongazette

I been spidermannin so hard for him he don’t even know

annabellehectorworldofweird

hometoursandotherstuff

What’s encrypting your internet surfing? An algorithm created by a supercomputer? Well, if the site you’re visiting is encrypted by the cyber security firm Cloudflare, your activity may be protected by a wall of lava lamps.

Cloudflare covers websites for Uber, OKCupid, & FitBit, for instance. The wall of lamps in the San Francisco headquarters generates a random code. Over 100 lamps, in a variety of colors, and their patterns deter hackers from accessing data.

As the lava lamps bubble and swirl, a video camera on the ceiling monitors their unpredictable changes and connects the footage to a computer, which converts the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.

Codes created by machines have relatively predictable patterns, so it’s possible for hackers to guess their algorithms, posing a security risk. Lava lamps, add to the equation the sheer randomness of the physical world, making it nearly impossible for hackers to break through.

You might think that this would be kept secret, but it’s not. Simply go in and ask to see the lava lamp display. By allowing people to affect the video footage, human movement, static, and changes in lighting from the windows work together to make the random code even harder to predict.