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june | 27 | artist | probably not a cryptid but who can be sure these days? | 🔞

[finsterwalds]

I just had to

[secondlina]

Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

[markodragic]

my 2022 highlight was when a guy was driving me home after a date and his phone was playing songs on youtube thru the aux on autoplay BUT he was also using it as a satnav so we had to just cope with whatever song came on. anyway we listened to the isolated vocals for "eye of the tiger" in silence because neither of us acknowledged it and it got to a certain point where it would be even weirder if one of us did say something

/edit: I realise a text post doesn't even do it justice, it went exactly like this

[markodragic]

if you're curious there was no second date and I'm pretty sure it's 46% because of this

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i don’t wanna be a killjoy because while andrew tate getting arrested after leaking his own location in an attempt to “clapback” at greta thuberg for ratioing him when he attempted to bait her IS objectively hilarious it’s kind of worrysome that the general response to that has been “wow greta thunberg totally DESTROYED andrew tate, i’m so proud of gen z “ and not “isn’t  it horrifying that a girl who’s been getting sexually harrased by grown men since she was a literal child has been having to constantly defend herself because noone else seems to want to”

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i distinctly remembering greta saying something like “stop looking to young people to fix all your problems, you’ve stolen my childhood” and all anyone seemed to get out of that was “wow gen z is amazing, they’re gonna save the world!!!” somehow.

[ambrosiadreamer]

i think about this tweet literally every single day

[shithowdy]

just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd

[teaboot]

“Have you tried heroin?” I ask the recovering oxycontin addict

[ferrettaur]

happy new year!

in the past year

Disney stock dropped 45%

Amazon stock dropped 50%

Meta (Facebook's shell company) stock dropped 65%

Bitcoin value dropped 65%

Tesla stock dropped 69%

let's keep the good times rolling this year y'all!

[radiofreederry]

[onlyjellyillputinmybelly]

[jame7t]

Um, waiter? I’m bisexual today. Get me something bisexuals would eat.

[demilypyro]

the FN P90

[jame7t]

oh fuck yum the FN P90

[cryptotheism]

Cracks open this bad boy and sucks out the meat like a snow crab

[benk625-blog]

Hold on, I gotta look something up.

[benk625-blog]

Yeah, this is funny.

[jame7t]

sorry did you have to google crabs

[apollos-boyfriend]

tumblr users: hey we don't want twitter users migrating here :/

tumblr: don't worry i got you *fuckign crashes*

[apollos-boyfriend]

[asfgjfkgjnfkjgnkfjg]

Remember.

TumblrClan is no place for a fox-hearted Twittypet like Elon Musk. 

[mobliterated]

[thotsfortherapy]

so for those of you who don't know, I was recently diagnosed with ADHD-I. So far, I think my favourite thing that I've learned is the idea of "embrace the pivot".

Have you ever found a productivity system that works for you (whether it be your Google calendar, bullet journaling, agenda-ing, etc), and you're so pumped because it's like finally! Now I can actually get some stuff done! But then time passes, days or weeks or years, and the novelty of it runs out, and then it kind of just... Stops working. It can be so frustrating, because this thing that used to work no longer works for seemingly no reason.

But, that isn't a failing of the thing, that thing worked for a certain amount of time, and that's good! I used a massive agenda in my first year of uni, and it kept me on track for all my assignments. My second year agenda? Barely touched it. Instead, I started to use a bullet journal, and that was the thing that helped me through most of the year. But as time went on, my spreads got less creative, and in the final term, I didn't even want to touch it because it was too much work. So I switched to Notion.

The agenda didn't fail me, and neither did the bullet journal, it just worked for a certain amount of time. And when that time inevitably runs out, you can just say, "thank you for serving me for so long, I'm going to pivot to the next thing." And then you do it without feeling like you should try harder or like that thing failed you.

This doesn't just have to apply to productivity either. Systems, tools, habits, hobbies, coping mechanisms.. They all serve their purpose. It's okay to let them go when the time comes.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

It’s okay to be pretentious, just don’t forget to also be tacky.

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

If i were in a high fantasy setting i’d be corrupted by the allure of ancient and forbidden magicks SO quickly you have no idea

[themojaveexpress]

Is... matthew perry gonna kill keanu reeves 🤔

[pigeonoveralls]

not if he can help it

[libbyframe]

Cat witch party

[skaldish]

To my international friends: If you ever wonder why Americans are the way they are, just remember that 1/3rd of all US citizens are in a cult that teaches them to suppress the activity of their prefrontal cortex, particularly when it comes to doubt, critical thinking, and differentiating emotional responses from personal values.

[skaldish]

1/3rd of Americans are Evangelical, and Evangelical Protestantism is a cult. We just don’t think of it as one because it’s so normalized. However, it follows the B.I.T.E. model of cult dynamics.

Evangelism teaches its followers to always maintain states of bliss and ecstasy for Jesus. What this does is condition the brain to always operate out of less-evolved parts; areas that are responsible for more primal emotions like euphoria, anger, and fear. Because of how we’ve evolved to survive, the brain will actually shut down our higher functioning—including critical thinking skills—in favor of these primal emotions, when they’re active.

Always feeling bliss = never questioning or feeling doubt. Evangelicals may actually fear the thoughts that do originate from their higher brain-parts because they think it’s the devil tempting them away from their religion. They’ll engage in self-indoctrination techniques to make this stop.

This creates a cognitive dissonance so great that many Americans have no separation between how they feel and what they believe. This is really bad because their minds have literally no defense against undue influence. They’ll vote for the dude who hyped them up enough. They’ll buy into the conspiracy theory that excites them the most. They’ll side with whatever gets the best reaction out of them, and getting a rise out of people is super easy to do.

Things like financial insecurity and low employment make this worse, too.

[skaldish]

And just to be clear, this kind of conditioning can happen to anyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity.

Cult conditioning has nothing to do with how smart or dumb people are. You can condition literally any brain with the right time and environment.

Counteracting undue influence is a skill, and like any skill, it needs to be taught.