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@flipthatguy
cursed emojis that no one asked for but I don’t care
free to use!
I have an addiction.
free to use!
who needs coherent words when you have cursed emojis
free to use!!!
@queenie-meanie
OP These are genuine works of art and belong on a gallery wall somewhere (I especially like the NOmoji with the O as their mouth and “looking disrespectfully”)
Literally all things you can do for adults as well! Especially those of us who have childhood trauma.
I’m crying over how much this would have changed the course of my life. If you’re a parent or child adjacent, please practice this. Please.
[photo transcription:
13 helpful phrases you can say to calm an anxious child
“i am here; you are safe” anxiety has a way of making things look worse and feel scarier than when we are not feeling worried. these words can offer comfort and safety when your child feeling out of control, especially if they are at the height of their worry.
“tell me about it” give your child room to talk about their fears without interrupting. some children need to have time to process through their thoughts.
“how big is your worry?” help your child verbalize the size of their worry and give you an accurate picture of how it feels to them.
“what do you want to tell your worry?” give your child room to talk about their fears without interrupting. some children need to have time to process through their thoughts.
“can you draw it?” many kids cannot express their emotions with words. encourage them to draw, paint or create their worries on paper.
“let’s change the ending.” anxious children often feel stuck in the same pattern without a way out. help them see different options by telling their story, but leaving off the ending.
“what other things do you know about (fill in the blank)?” some children feel empowered when they have more information about their fear (especially things like tornadoes, bees, elevators, etc).
“which calming strategy do you want to use?” work proactively to create a long list of calming strategies your child enjoys. practice them during the day, at random times when you child feels calm.
“i’m going to take a deep breath.” sometimes our children are so worried they resist our encouragement to pick a calming strategy. in this case, use yourself as the calming skill! verbalize what you are doing and how it makes you feel.
“it’s scary and…” acknowledge your child’s fear without making it even more frightening by using the word “AND.” after the word “and” you can add phrases like, “you are safe” or “you’ve conquered this fear before” or “you have a plan.”
“i can’t wait to hear about…” it’s hard to see our kids suffer with worry. many parents rush in to rescue their child from an anxiety-producing situation.
“what do you need from me?” instead of assuming that you know what your child needs, give them an opportunity to tell you what would help.
“this feeling will pass.” this may be a phrase you can both use when your child is at the height of panic. all feelings pass eventually. it often feels like they will never end, you won’t make it through, or it’s too hard. and that’s okay. don’t let your brain get stuck in that moment; focus on the relief that is on the horizon.
source: this infographic was created based on a wonderful article written by nicole schwawrz found at limeadventures.com. nicole’s blog can be found at imperfectfamilies.com.
get tips and tools to alleviate childhood anxiety: www.gozen.com
/end photo transcription]
fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.
the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.
YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that
This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data
Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.
Ooh I know this one!
Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money
TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)
WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it
Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me
@afraidofamericans
Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE
just as an FYI after using trackmenot for about a month, google flagged me as a bot and was forcing captchas on every search. i ended up having to disable it.
Today I learned
Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.
Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.
Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL
You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.
Hey, highkey from a library worker:
Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use. It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile. Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.
Can confirm Overdrive is amazing.
I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).
I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.
Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:
Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)
Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)
Kanopy (stream movies; also available on Roku!)
Axis360 (usually hot or just released ebooks)
If you don’t have a library card…
GET ONE!
If someone says libraries are a thing of the past…
BOOP THEM IN THE NOSE WITH YOUR KINDLE!
Don’t discount libraries as “quiet” places.
THEY ARE ALIVE!!!
THEY ARE LOUD!!!
THEY ARE YOUR DOORWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE!!
I rarely have a visceral reaction to a TikTok but this one... this one got me
List of wild things in this video:
- The guy whose computer screen you can see at the start is looking up “what to do if a dog has rabies”
- The unbroken wall of hydroflasks in front of the teacher’s podium
- Good Mythical Morning poster
- Inexplicable “NO TALKING DURING RAZOR LOVE” sign
- The guy next to the videographer just has the letters “WBOEOADRS” in giant font on his computer screen
- The teacher knowing to pause for booing after he mentione Ashe County Middle School
- The kid that yells “I hate them!” enthusiastically
- A sign that says “NO FREAKING” with a picture of two stick figures having sex
- Hand-painted “educasion is overated” poster
- The fact that the class knows to say “standing by” when he tells them to stand by
- The woman literally waiting outside the door to hand over the dog
- The tenderness with which he handles the dog before he announces its imminent demise
- “DO YOUR BUCKING VOCAB”
“My mother, father and I are all borrowers. We borrow things like soap and cookies and sugar - things that beans won’t miss if they’re gone.”
Because I keep getting messages from people who didn’t google it.
he want burger extra cheese
exquisite comedic timing
YOU hates terfs
Always reblogging ❤️
Mai and Ty Lee have the best dynamics :’)
based on this post by @your-royal-momoness
It’s often been remarked that Spider-Man’s schtick wouldn’t work nearly so well if he didn’t live in a town with so many tall buildings, but consider: how well would Batman’s “I am the night” routine work if he was operating out of a normal city where people actually live, rather than a perpetually twilit urban hellscape that looks like the Art Deco movement had a one-night stand with Soviet Brutalism in a wrought-iron-and-gargoyle factory?
That is my favorite description of the Batman aesthetic ever.
OMDFG that’s a perfect description.
Imagine Spiderman ballooning in wide open areas. No, sorry, can’t get to that crime, its against the prevailing wind.
Also, Batman brooding on top of a Wafflehouse.
Batman: God, this stupid city with its sufficient lighting and lack of crumbling infrastructure to shoot grappling hooks into
Superman: Everyone for miles has lead poisoning, I’ve spent the entire night stopping crossword puzzle museum robberies and heists at the Second National Bank of Gotham on the corner of second street and second avenue, and earlier the wall of…clouds? smog?…cleared up for a minute and I’m pretty sure the sky was literally blood red
I just learned yesterday that Pikachu, my favorite Pokemon, was originally designed not by Ken Sugimori (he only finalized the design), but by a female graphic designer named Atsuko Nishida.
Also after googling her, I found out that she’s also designed Sylveon–another favorite PKMN of mine. She’s also illustrated some very pretty Pokemon cards!!
Thank you Ms. Nishida! :-) May you get more credit and love for your contribution to the Pokemon franchise.
as a camera shy person myself, knowing she hides behind plushies is just amazing
Her and Yoko Taro are legends at hiding from cameras. xD
Here’s some other Pokemon she’s designed, for anyone curious:
source: x
and not to derail this post into anything overtly political, but: If it weren’t for a woman in the gaming industry, we wouldn’t have freakin’ Charizard. I feel like that’s something more people should know about!
the fact that most of my favorite pokemon are on that gives me life
when we have to be stuck in quarantine for another three months because people have to go protest for their right to die in mcdonalds
i am on another plane right now and this video has me convinced that I reached nirvana for a few seconds
the first time i watched this video i was stoned out of my motherfucking MIND and i watched it on loop for 25 minutes
this is the only fucking post on this entire fucking site
i LOVE pictures of all the rainbow rocket leaders standing next to each other because it always just looks like this
