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RIP, Vine. You’ll be dearly missed.
Here’s just a few of my personal favorites.
Saying “why the fuck would I say printer” when someone clearly hears the wrong thing is an inside joke between my husband and myself now.
So much glory being taken before it’s time…
a drawing about optimism
I don’t know why but that last line made me laugh really hard
this is one of my favourite comic strips of all time
How to call your reps when you have social anxiety
When you struggle with your mental health on a daily basis, it can be hard to take action on the things that matter most to you. The mental barriers anxiety creates often appear insurmountable. But sometimes, when you really need to, you can break those barriers down. This week, with encouragement from some great people on the internet, I pushed against my anxiety and made some calls to members of our government. Here’s a comic about how you can do that, too. (Resources and transcript below.)
Motivational resources: There are a lot! Here are a few I really like:
Emily Ellsworth explains why calling is the most effective way to reach your congressperson.
Sharon Wong posted a great series of tweets that helped me manage my phone anxiety and make some calls.
Kelsey is tweeting pretty much daily with advice and reminders about calling representatives. I found this tweet an especially great reminder that calls aren’t nearly as big a deal as anxiety makes them out to be.
Informational resources: There are a lot of these, as well! These three are good places to start:
Find your representative at house.gov
Find your senators at senate.gov
Use the “We’re His Problem Now” scripts when calling (or write your own!)
Keep reading
You can also send a fax for free to your Senators!
FAX 📠 YOUR 📠 SENATOR
I found this resource that helps facilitate more active resistance in the form calling your local government officials and representatives.
As you can see in the screenshots, once you pick you issue and choose your area, you are directed to your local representative and even given a script (that you should feel free to add to or edit as you see fit)
The link and a blurb is below
https://5calls.org/
5 Calls:
provides phone numbers and scripts so calling is quick and easy uses your location to find your local representatives so your calls have more impact
CONVENIENT AF
The random people in the notes of this post confirm: This works and is super easy to use!
I’ll probably reblog every so often just because, we really need to dig into our representatives on a DAILY BASIS based on the current climate.
me, holding my newborn child: what are its stats??
Class: Infant Race: human Strength: 0 can barely support own head Agility 0 needs to learn to walk Intelligence: 2, understands that crying brings food, replacement of soiled garments with fresh ones Wisdom 1 no object permanence Charisma: 20 becuase people lose their shit around babies, -1 for each month until Terrible Twos and all Charisma drops to 1.
HP: 2
Spells per day: Cloudkill, Telepathic Summons, Sleep (casts on Self),
Infant fingernails: does +1 cutting/slashing damage
I fixed it
Thank you for showing the truth.
“Döden” (“Death”) by artist Janis Rozentāls, 1897. It rare to see death depicted in white.
It’s a refreshing change to see Death in a liberator sort of role rather than a condemner. Here they are shown light with feminine features and scythe held low and non threatening. She is bent forward and speaking as if to apologize for the sadness she will leave in her wake, but also conveying the reverence and respect she has for her position and those souls she reaps.
“I pray that my soul comes to maturity before it is reaped.”
Take heart, Hufflepuffs! Eddie Redmayne is here for you.
THANKS
Just seen the movie and oh god. OH GOD.
I CAN’T FEEL MORE RELATED TO MY HOUSE. HE IS LIT ME. but cuter. I’m glad I’m a hufflepuff <3
Yes?
for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’
jerry is here
my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”
When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”
I was done for the day.
This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.
I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”
I did not find my husband in this way.
In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”
“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.
The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)
Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.
I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English.
When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.
“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”
“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”
Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG
My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…
I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.
That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.
Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.
I love those stories so much…
Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.
She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.
American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)
Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)
that’s hilarious
I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY
Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?
So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.
The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”
What the hell Biblical Hebrew.
Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.
^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one.
Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.
Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English. Or French. Or German. Or Italian. (He tried all of them.)
Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years). He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.
She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.
You see yourself as a loser, a nobody. Little did you know that the birds you feed everyday see you as something else entirely.
This just in: he’s figured out where the laser comes from.
They’ve evolved.
Please help Mark see this...
Hi, Mark. I’m the developer of “Black Rose” “Captured”, and “Otherworld Hospital”, and I’ve been a long-time subscriber and fan of you, ever since your early days of ’Let’s Playing’. You help me with my depression, and you help me feel like I have friends, even though I’ve never actually met you or the gang (I’d be too nervous to, anyway). You help me feel like I’m somewhat normal. Even though I just sit here and cry sometimes, you always make me laugh.
Seeing you play my games helps motivate me to keep developing them and get better at it, as becoming a successful, appreciated game developer has been my entire life dream since I was very young. It’s been a long journey or depression, anxiety, devastation, humiliation, isolation, lack of motivation, and sadness, but you help me press on.
I can only hope that maybe, possibly, if I get lucky, you just might see this. I’m getting emotional now even just typing this out, it’s just that you’ve helped me so much in ways that many people can’t see or understand.
So, thank you. Even though it’s hard, I will keep trying the best I can.
Thank you so much for being here for so long. And definitely keep up the game development because Black Rose was really awesome and I don’t know if I ever connected the dots that you made Captured! I’m so glad that my videos can help you through the darker times and I hope things get better for you as time goes on. To me you’re already succeeding, I’m gonna double check to see if I’ve played other world hospital too and if I haven’t I’ll queue it up very soon!
Wishing you nothing but the best!
Songs that never fail to make white people beyond turnt
Don’t Stop Believing
Bohemian Rhapsody
Living On A Prayer
Come On Eileen
Sweet Caroline
Shot Through the Heart
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Sweet Home Alabama
Under Pressure
Shook Me All Night Long
Ice Ice Baby
Cotton Eyed Joe
500 Miles
Wonderwall
Buddy Holly
A Thousand Miles
Teenage Dirtbag
Red Solo Cup
Mr Brightside
Never Gonna Give You Up
Eye of the Tiger
Chicken Fried
American Pie
I Love Rock and Roll
Dancing Queen
Don’t You Want Me
We Will Rock You
The Time Warp
Hey Jude
Piano Man
This Is How We Do It
Drops of Jupiter
Hey Soul Sister
In The End
All The Small Things
Stacy’s Mom
Kryptonite
All Star
You Found Me
Bad Day
Bring Me To Life
Dance, Dance
Sugar We’re Going Down
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
All The Small Things
Ocean Avenue
Dirty Little Secret
Margaritaville
Sk8er Boi
Brown Eyed Girl
Life Is A Highway
Some Nights
Little Lion Man
Breakeven
Hey There Delilah
Viva La Vida
Use Somebody
Carry On My Wayward Son
Take On Me
1985
Iris
I’m Awesome
Seven Nation Army
September
Since U Been Gone
Skinny Love
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
Bye Bye Bye
Say It Ain’t So
Somewhere Only We Know
I’m Yours
Last Resort
My Girl
Tiny Dancer
Roxanne
Shout
I’m a Believer
Soul Man
Feel Good Inc
Check Yes Juliet
Walking On Sunshine
MMM Bop
Pumped up Kicks
Hooked On A Feeling
It’s A Beautiful Day
Summer Girls
Before He Cheats
Happy Together
You Make My Dreams Come True
Build Me Up Buttercup
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
DONTTRUSTME
Shake It (Metro Station)
Juke Box Hero
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
so i made the playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/haey1/playlist/15HiKjAnUuAymWdqejOTcP
Rebloging with the playlist.
I’ll stop you when you’re lying
Growing up going to white schools I’ve heard most if not all of these
Add ignition (remix) by R Kelly 😂😂😂
i like how most of these are 80s songs
*does laundry but like in a punk way*
*does laundry but in a musical theatre way*
*does musical theatre but in a punk way*
*does punk but in a musical theatre way*
*does musical theater but in a laundry way*
this is my favorite post
i can’t not re blog this
Zuhair Murad
Peacock miraculous
I’ll be honest one of my favorite headcanons is that the pokedex is not scientifically accurate whatsoever but rather the result of sending ten year olds out into the world to gather your research for you
this… this makes a lot of sense.
Wait, wait… maybe, then, the Alolan Pokédex Rotomdex is written by the Rotoms themselves. Since Pokémon, no matter the species, can apparently understand each other despite 90% of their vocalizations either being some variation of their name or just plain animal noises, it’s safe to assume the Rotoms have first- or second-hand knowledge of what’s actually going on.
So, the reason the Alolan ‘dex info is so “uncharacteristically” dark/blunt is because, while in other regions, it’s everything filtered through the yet unburdened view of pre-teens (and the professors that enable employ them), in Alola it’s just your Rotom going, “Oh, that guy? Hoo boy, wait’ll you hear this one.”
