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night owl

[unsuspectingfish]

[ellie5192]

I’d like to remind everyone that this was the spoof episode of SG1.

[picsflip]

Red Eft checking under a mushroom cap for lunch

[fivetrench]

*Whimpers*

[onenicebugperday]

This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.

Dorsal view by the same photographer:

And from the side:

[metaldinleyenpic0]

half of tumblr wants to fuck, the other half wants to die

[belvanabean]

i wanna fuck and then die

[nationalparkcryptid]

cicadas the lot of you

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[beingcompiled]

Luigi Lineri, collector of river stones.

[thoughtportal]

numb hands

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The fact that one of these moves is significantly more difficult for me than the other two at least tells me which nerve is probably the most fucked up

[mothman-etd]

Not sure got to feel when the hobby book says this should only take an hour but it took me 5 hours.

[gallusrostromegalus]

1. Hobby books are often written by the same people who think you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

May I ask what the Allegedly-One-Hour project was? Both because I like hearing about what my friends are doing and I want to see how wildly inaccurate the listed time scope is.

[feralkitten420]

"You need to relax"

Best I can do is dissociate

[lizardho]

I’m reading a book on biofeedback trainings right now and they talk about this. The words “try” or “need” add pressure to stuff. Sometimes switching from “I need to calm down” or “I’m trying to slow my breathing” to “I’m allowing myself to calm down a little more with each exhale” or “I’m giving myself permission to slow my breathing” can be more helpful. There’s a difference between “try to relax the muscle” and “allow the muscle to soften” that is significant enough that for some people it can totally change the outcome of a relaxation exercise.

For other tips and tricks, instead of asking “why” you can’t change a thought/feeling (why being an offensive question, meaning it forces you to respond defensively - in this case defending the emotion you don’t like) you can ask “is there any leeway or wiggle room with this feeling/thought/belief for something else?” Oftentimes we know multiple things at once, and by allowing for a small amount of ambiguity we can start to accept the situation more fully.

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[teaboot]

A lot of the time I look at myself in the mirror, see a disheveled little rat with neuroses, and think, "damn, what a turn off, how could anyone find *that* attractive?". But what I gotta remember is that someone out there is looking for the chihuahua of their dreams

[teaboot]

Like. You know how coyotes and badgers sometimes hunt together, cause of their different skill sets? The badger is compact and close to the ground and can tunnel, while the coyote can run fast and see farther and can corral prey?

I'm saying maybe you're not icky, you're just a badger, and you don't wanna buddy up with a badger like you. Maybe you're looking for your coyote. And that coyote? They're not hooking up with coyotes.

So like. Appreciate what you have, I guess. And kill a large prey animal some time

Confidence

[imqueerandadeer]

I fear I don't get it

[teaboot]

Like. I don't find me attractive so I worry that nobody can. But like. Other people like other things. So maybe while I'm wishing I was different, someone else is looking for exactly who I am right now, even if I don't like it. You know?

[zwoelffarben]

You're not unattractive: you're simply someone else's type.

[vaspider]

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💬 85  🔁 33945  ❤️ 40020 · “But for the people who want to be there, it’s perfect.”

[bigbigbigtruck]

A couple weeks ago, on bsky Trung Le Nguyen said (paraphrasing) "if it feels like the wrong people are dying it may be because there are more beloved people than bastards" and lord how I have been clinging to that sentence

[animentality]

[about-faces]

I dream of a day when all comic books, pulp magazines, and periodicals can be lovingly preserved as an accessible, organized, detailed online archive without ads. Not the remastered digital versions, but high-res scans of the original pages, no matter how cheap or flawed they were, with front and back covers, ads, and letter columns. Readable for both fans and academics alike. And with the ability for users to create curated reading lists, with annotations and commentary.

It’ll never happen because the internet is what it is now, and because of legal issues. Besides, people like me who’d even want such a resource are literally a dying breed, with neither the time, money, nor energy to make it happen.

But man. Man. That’s the dream right there.

[about-faces]

Thinking about this again in the wake of yesterday’s scare, where a certain popular site for comic scans seemed to be taken down. It’s back up, and I’m glad the resource is there, but man… there has GOT to be a better way to archive comics than what we have.

But at least this reminds me to recommend the best legal comic archive online, which should serve as a model for any others:

Comic Book Plus - Free Public Domain Books, Forum & OTR Radio

The best site for legally available Golden and Silver Age comic books, with free downloads, online viewing plus a friendly and lively forum,

All public domain, an absolute treasure trove of comics, pulps, radio, and more.

[thememedaddy]

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[notasapleasure]

this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Friendly reminder that breast cancer does not always appear as a lump.