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Interaction witnessed at post office today:

Elderly lady mail clerk and young customer are chatting. Customer says, "oh! I'm wearing my boss's coat right now, give me something weird to put in the pocket!" Others within earshot all start looking for something because, hey, important quest. Mail clerk finally reaches under counter, pulls out a large roll of labels, and tears one off.

Twas this

horusinatorus

I saw the pic and thought "the band's name is Ashes Remains, you've almost got it right"

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theoutcastrogue

geigergearz

I showed them to my mom once and she pointed at the kitten and said “petty theft” and pointed to the big cat and said “grand larceny”

horusinatorus

How does your mom feel about taking the title of the funniest person on earth that day?

maidthings

cadmium is slutty as hell

maidthings

mommy's little neutronpig

horusinatorus

So I guess the rumours are true. There is a significant population of furries among nuclear engineers.

iwait4youalexg

Oh!

doh007

Thank you all, i needed further explanation - And i do find it might help me!

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horusinatorus

Same

lizardho

I remember one time I was doing an ADHD evaluation with a kid who had asked to go to the bathroom like 3 times during the 30-ish minute part of the interview where we asked his mom questions, so I knew that was his go-to excuse when bored. We get started on the WISC-V after the interview and within 30 seconds of vocab starting he asks if he can go to the bathroom, and I say:

“No.”

And this kid rolls his eyes because DUH and he says “Why not?” all cranky-styles, so I said

“Because you don’t need to go to the bathroom, you’re bored and you need to move. If you need to move, tell me and I’ll let you know if we’re at a part of the test where we can pause. Like, for example, we can pause right now if you wanna race me around the building.”

And this kids face fucken LIT up. We did three laps around the outside of the building and came back in and he finished like 3 subtests and asked if he could move so we got up and tried to see how high we could jump for 3 minutes and the finished the rest of the assessment with one bathroom break. And that was all it took tbh, this kid was SO capable he just needed to move and hadn’t been allowed to do so before. I also like making people mad by pointing out that I know what they’re up to, then just giving them permission to do the thing they were sneakily trying to do in the first place. It’s like being affectionately annoying and it’s part of how I connect to others.

crazysodomite

stone and rock are like bouba and kiki

these are stones

these are rocks

hangsawoman

a rock or a stone by mary oliver

honuofhawaii

One of my favorite “you can hear the shape” is the Hawaiian (and scientific) names for two major categories of lava. A’a and Pahoehoe. A’a is rocky/sharp (and you probably will start saying it’s name if you try to walk on it barefoot). Pahoehoe is smooth billowy and or ropy. (A’a is pronounced Ah Ah the ’ (okina) is a glottal stop that’s super common in the language)

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Why Your Childhood Memories Feel Magical (But Weren't)

I was in my parents' back garden a few years ago when I heard a blackbird singing in the old apple tree. Suddenly I was seven years old again, and that same patch of grass felt bathed in this warm, golden light - like something from a fairy tale.

But here's what puzzled me: I knew that garden wasn't actually 'magical' back then. I remember it being mostly weeds and patchy lawn. My mum was always moaning about the slugs eating her plants, and I must have spent most summer afternoons there complaining I was bored.

Yet now, in memory, those same mundane hours feel precious and enchanted. The wonky shed seems charming rather than falling apart and the overgrown borders look 'romantic', rather than neglected.

How does that happen? How do perfectly ordinary childhood experiences - experiences I knew were ordinary as a kid - somehow transform into something that feels magical decades later?

The Same Feeling, Over and Over

Once I started paying attention, I noticed something strange. That mysterious "glow" from childhood memories? I'd get the exact same feeling from completely different experiences.

When I hear certain pieces of classical music, there's this sense of connecting with something profound and timeless - the same feeling. When I visit old churches or historical sites, I get that same inexplicable sense that something deeply special exists within that place. In abstract artworks, luxury brands and glamour - again, it's identical.

There's now a word for this: hagioptasia. Basically, it's our natural tendency to see certain things as having this special, almost 'sacred' quality of meaning that feels so authentic, even when we know it is not.

Your Brain on Meaning

Recent research looked at nearly 3,000 people and found that about 80% of us recognise this feeling from childhood. We're apparently hardwired to take ordinary stuff and somehow transform it into something that feels extraordinary.

Think about it - you probably have songs that don't just sound good, they feel inexplicably wonderful. Places that aren't just pretty, they feel deeply significant. Objects that aren't just mementoes, but feel strangely meaningful.

None of these things actually possess magical properties, but your brain treats them like they do.

So What's Really Going On?

The uncomfortable truth is that all that profound meaning we experience - in nostalgia, in art, in spiritual moments - is something our minds are actively creating. The magic isn't "out there" waiting to be discovered. We're making it ourselves.

Although this revelation may seem rather disheartening at first, an understanding of the influence of hagioptasia provides us with a very helpful tool indeed. Recognising hagioptasia for what it is doesn't need to diminish the magic, but can allow us to foster that magic more constructively - an insight, which helps us to distinguish between the magic worth pursuing and the illusions that lead us astray. And in a world full of manufactured 'specialness', that distinction might be more valuable than ever. To find out more about hagioptasia, the supporting evidence, and why we possess such a natural trait, please see Hagioptasia: A Fundamental Perceptual Tendency in Human Psychology

Source: Why Your Childhood Memories Feel Magical (But Weren't)

oleander-teacup

and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024

no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended

yeahokayillreblogthat

Yeah okay, I'll rebark that!

magicratfingers

mysharona1987

theprofessional-amateur

A ceo leaves for a week, very few people notice.

The custodial staff leave for a day, everyone notices.

Sanitation and custodial workers deserve far more money and respect than they generally get.

ohnoitstbskyen

I don't think people understand the degree to which society is kept alive by the labor of the least well-regarded professions. If sewage technicians and sanitation workers and their expertise and knowledge were to disappear tomorrow, the streets would pile high with bodies in every city. We live in a world where we get to be blessedly ignorant to just how fast, how brutally and how violently cholera can rip through a community. How many babies it can kill. How many elderly bodies it can devour alive. You've never seen what it's like when typhoid takes root.

"Oh but we have modern medicine" if you don't have clean drinking water and a way to dispose of your piss and shit and trash you are going to fucking die. No if or but or maybe, you are dead, and so are half the people you know.

parakeet

Tumblr is not the place to advertise the ball pit

thegamewhiz

No it’s the EXACT place to advertise a ball pit

normal-horoscopes

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

theslowesthnery

ohhhhhh my godddddd

cupcraft

Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

kingxanthesecond

Honestly I would rather be politically pure. Your neighbors would never help you, so why help them?

cupcraft

Youre who this post is talking about. Individualism and elitism is not going to help the revolution and grassroots activism and mutual aid.

gean-grey-blog

When the pandemic hit this old church lady joined our tattooed queer leftist mutual aid group bc her church soup kitchen closed. We shrugged and told her she was welcome as long as she didn't proselytize.

That woman never gendered me right once, but she shut up about Jesus long enough to feed people next to us bc she cared more about action than ideology. She also had a whole network of other church people who helped contribute $ to ingredients. We provided more and better meals together than in our "correct" silos

That's how any of us get out of any of this

syn4k

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

syn4k

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

unashamedly-enthusiastic

"It was later said that he came under a bad influence at this stage. But the secret of the history of Edward d'Eath was that he came under no outside influence at all, unless you count those dead kings. He just came under the influence of himself. That's where people get it wrong. Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are... well... human beings. He was also spiraling inwards, as tends to happen in cases like this."

- Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

dumbpuppyfag

we need to legalise learning for adults

dumbpuppyfag

"the education system here is so bad 😭" they taught u how to open a book didn't they?

dumbpuppyfag

how is it that revolutionary movements in the world's poorest countries can understand dialectical materialism but ppl in the global imperial core can't learn basic history? ur phone has access to every major published work in history for free (in ur own language no less!) but first u gotta stop pretending they hit u with a bolt gun when u turned 18. the problem isn't that this information wasn't spoon-fed to u, the problem is that u think it has to be.

horusinatorus

I mean, if I can choose between two worlds where everyone is fed a little bit of history (even if that's force-fed), v.s. a world where they don't teach any history at all, I'd rather choose the former. Speaking as someone who grew up disliking the two history subjects at my school, I wish I paid more attention & knew how useful it would've been. After 18, people have full-time jobs/other education degrees and lives to live, you can't expect everyone to become literate in every subject using their own time. (The same applies for the sciences/STEM, but I don't think that's as controversial.)

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me: how do churches deal with gluten at communion

first response on a catholic forum:

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The Roman Catholic church is the only Christian faith with any mettle.

hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124

It’s not bread. It’s Jesus, dipshit. Next question.

regrettablyjake

It’s jesus, but also jesus’ body activates Celiac’s

horusinatorus

Celiacs are clearly heretics

cantanopeshitthatwastaken

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

thatgiraffebutt

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

literallyaflame

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”