be gentle

23. survivor. she/they. queer. ucsb feminist scholar.

[jujanon]

[chipsprites]

me: look, a crab eating a strawberry

my roommate: but he’s eating such small pieces..

me: …he’s a crab

[glowithin-deactivated20220219]

Sometimes it’s better to let things go and leave people and situations alone. Stop looking for explanations, excuses, closure, validation or answers. Stop living a life centered on what others did or didn’t do. Focus on how you want to feel and what you can do about it. Peace comes when you realize that your happiness was created by you. You are your own responsibility.

[encanto-side-blog]

[isweartogodididnteatit]

Can you tell what’s been stuck in my head since I have woken up? Rats

[grimlykid]

Dolores "I cannot keep my cousin Mirabel's secret for even a minute but if tio Bruno wants to live in the walls for ten years then that is HIS business" Madrigal

[sleazyjanet]

has this been done yet?

[moosopp-art]

This meme has been on my mind

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

[everythingfox]

[curlymcclain]

brah... breaks my heart that you think gays can't talk about sports 😔

forgot about the exception of my lesbian mom bringing my brother to so many wnba games as a kid that he turned to her and said “mom i wish boys could play basketball”

[whitepeopletwitter]

[atlas-prime]

From the same thread

[pastel-goth-milf]

This is my kind of energy lol. VOID HIS WARRANTY SIS

[soracities]

genuinely cant stop thinking about whatever early human first looked a literal wolf full in the face and thought domestication would be fun but ALSO cant stop thinking about the ENTIRE early human tribe that absolutely did NOT think to stop them

[soracities]

HOLD THE PHONE

[tuulikki]

Slightly related: I read a book by Rick McIntyre, who was official Wolf Guy at Yellowstone Park for 25 years (and studied wolves for 40 yrs total). He describes how, when they’re alone, wolves—both adults and pups—will pick up sticks or bones or bits of animal skin and toss them around to entertain themselves, the way you might toss a ball up and down. They essentially play catch by themselves.

So if wolves do this by themselves, in nature, that means that we saw them playing this game and thought “huh, that wolf enjoys fetching the stick it’s throwing for itself, maybe I could throw it further and it would like that more?” And thus began our two species’ mutual favourite game to play together

But the point is that they invented fetch

[sierra-romeo-blog]

they made fetch happen

[everythingfox]

“My mom adopted a cat that brings her slippers to her every morning. I didn’t believe her until she got it on camera finally”

(Source)

[mangonetics]

I bet Ariana Grande died like 8 years ago and they replaced her with a body double that looks nothing like her and they’re trying to cover it up by convincing everybody that she’s just racist.

[wheatforme]

[spellmannewyork-deactivated2022]

here y’all go with the shits

[kirianthedivorce]

Absolutely losing it at this Reddit post

And the update

She buttered Jorts

[anoonzee]

The outrage summed in a perfect Tweet:

[notemily]

FINALLY

I've been collecting the best Jorts tweets and waiting until the moment he showed up on my dash to post them. So here you are, the curated best of the past, oh, day or so:

[jaubaius]

Found in a 120 year old time capsule.

Full VDO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDj4mXdqmc

[justanotherweirdarchaeologist]

Worth it.

[whitebookposts]

I’m sorry I might sound like a madwoman for going on a rant about this but man, it’s… I don’t know how to express it but just the thought of some person, 120 years ago, taking a photo of their cat, which back then wasn’t easy - they didn’t have phones with cameras, each photo required a lot of time and dedication, so not only the person “wasted” a whole photo on their cat, they also did their fricking best to save this photo and carefully put it into an envelope to preserve it so that people in the future will know that there was this cat and it looked like this and it’s owner thought the cat looked lovely that day so much that they decided to take a photo of it and then they loved the photo so much that they went out of their way to preserve it for future generations like “hello people from the future! this is what my cat loos like!” because they loved their cat so much they wanted people from the future to know about it is… crazy to me… and here we are, 120 years later, long after the cat and it’s owners passed away, looking at an old photo of a cat and gushing about it. The cat died so long ago and wouldn’t even know it existed if not for the owner that loved their cat so much that they decided this photo was worth preserving and put it into a time capsule. and seeing now how people dedicate whole blogs to their cats and take countless pictures of them just to show to other people really hits because you realize that in the end, people from today aren’t that much different from people that were 120 years ago. We all just love our cats and want people to look at them.

[null-is-sparing-you]

I bet this woman was imagining the photo may be seen by like… a family some day. But no. It survived till the age of the internet. It has now transcended the original media. It is now being seen by far more eyes in far more places than the media she chose would normally allow. I hope the taker of this 120 year old photo is PROUD.

[danhoemei]

My friends who just got their first glasses: i need this highly expensive special cloth to wipe them, I also have this eyeglass cleaner from the same company, did you know you shouldn't use your t shirt unless it's specifically soft

Me who's worn glasses since middle school: *slaps soap onto the glasses and washes them in the sink then wipes them with toilet paper* what

[danhoemei]

Did I stutter

[danhoemei]

No

[danhoemei]

Mah men

[danhoemei]

Our ranks are getting stronger

[annalyticall]

[hotdoghowitzer]

Science nerd here: the reason dish soap works so goddamn well is because it's a surfactant. It specifically lifts and encases oil droplets and allows them to be washed away with water. Alcohol on the other hand is a solvent. It dissolves things, but it's not as good as a surfactant for removing oils. And it can strip lens coatings.

Dish soap is great. Esp when ur a fry cook.

[bogleech]

Rub with dish soap, run them under water until soap is gone, blow them dry and they're as clean as brand new, absolutely nothing else does it. Special glasses cleaner and microfiber cloths are only good for emergencies when soap and water aren't around.

[veteratorianvillainy]

Hey friends!

My parents own a lens lab (ie they make the rx lenses that go into people's glasses) so let me just throw in what the industry uses -

Dish soap

My parents have a fancy little thing with the soap and the warm water and the ultra sonic pulse, but for washing glasses at home, dish soap and warm water is 100% where it's at. You'll want to rinse the glasses with warm water before turning to the soap, to rinse off small particles that can scratch your lenses if you rub them in (this is, btw, why the spray and microfiber route is generally not preferred). Also you can tap the water off at the end or use a microfiber cloth (my personal preference) to dry it.