[solarsyrup]

the unimaginable power of saying "huh, guess that's not for me" and moving on with your life

[hyperculture]

OH OKAY......

[sarakipin]

Anything to walk on land 🔪 2021

[prinnay]

[ pondering... ]

[ceruleanheaven]

being on the internet for more than three minutes

[weird-goodbyes]

[52stations]

these days you cant even relate to morrissey because he was looking for a job and then he actually found one

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

[64mpg]

let’s be positive today team

[64mpg]

nevermind. malice

[bish0ps]

Remember when you could look things up online. Do you remember how we used to search

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[vamptits]

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

[hareofhrair]

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

[nothorses]

Learning styles as well btw.

This was something we read about in my undergrad teacher prep program because it is such a prevalent myth, and it encourages people to think of people as having these psychologically and biologically essentialist, immutable traits-- that everyone can be sorted and categorized, that those categories tell you something about them (and it's therefore safe or even a good practice to make certain assumptions about them), and that those categories are predetermined and inflexible.

Even a less rigid/extreme belief in these ideas is harmful; teachers in particular waste a lot of time teaching some kids in the particular ways they've been determined to need, rather than just teaching in a variety of ways to all of their students, all of whom likely benefit from having all of those options available. And again, thinking of people as categorizable like this just encourages folks to make assumptions about one another.

[diacetylmorphine-android-deacti]

slut

[transmechanicus]

loyal knight

[jadeharleyinc]

tamed dragon.

[dumbtrannybitch]

all 3

[worldhammerer-old]

i’m at a loss for worms

[jessss-ica]

if anyone needs me i’ll be alone in my tower

[amvs]

[amvs]

same this shit rocks

[were--ralph]

this is genuinely one of my favorite videos

[megamindsupremacy]

first rule of storing tupperware is have fun and be yourself. second suggestion is slam the cabinet door quickly and don’t worry ‘bout it.

[what-is-what-minor]

Strong earthquake in Colombia as officials report deaths, injuries and collapsed buildings

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake that hit about 250 miles west of Bogotá resulted in serious damage with people trapped inside some of the build

Hi everyone. Some of you might not know, but today August 10 at 7:34 am , a 7.4 Earthquake hit Colombia.

To my knowledge, the more affected areas have been Chocó and Pereira, but I guess we'll know more as more time passes

These are some of the donstion links that I've managed to find.

SOS Chocó - Fundación Plan

La situación que atraviesan miles de familias en el departamento del Chocó es grave, urgente y exige nuestra respuesta humanitaria. Desde fi

ABACO- Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia Unidos por nuestro país. 2026

ABACO- Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia Unidos por nuestro país. 2026

And ciricearts on twitter has a thread with emergency numbers, missing persons, missing pets and anything that other colombians can add as it goes.

As a venezuelan, my heart goes to my colombian neighbors. I unfortunately know from experience how devastating a disaster like this can be.