Free Expression

Say what you need to say. THIS is my place. To BE who I want, SAY what I want, DO what I want. Free of judgment, I can be myself. This is my secret. This is where I shall live.

[sandersstudies]

Me: *makes a post about living with ADHD*

Someone with ASD: hey I dunno if I can add to this since I have ASD and not ADHD but-

Me: *tenderly holds their face between my hands* yes. Always.

[earthdad]

ok but give me one good reason why you wouldn’t date Kermit the frog besides that he is a puppet and a frog

[turtlegirl521]

“miss piggy would make it look like an accident”

[unfavorableinstigation]

This keeps going past on my dash and I can’t let it go any longer. It’s time to see the record straight.

Miss Piggy doesn’t have a subtle bone in her floppy felt body. There is no possible way she could ever make it look like an accident.

Miss Piggy would make you into an example.

[aroace-get-out-of-my-face]

Miss Piggy would kill you in such a way that authorities would be too afraid to offer up any sort of consequence, and therefore not only would your death be an example in violence, but also an example of Miss Piggy’s actions being ungovernable.

[depsidase]

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[storyweavingspider]

@fucking-relax helps a lot with this tbh

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[liberalsarecool]

#MedicareForAll will never get the positive media coverage it deserves.

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

22 studies agree: ‘Medicare for All’ saves money

[cute-catts]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

finally a video you can unmute

[afloweroutofstone]

Every single American is on welfare, they just find ways to pretend that it isn’t welfare. Do you think that your home mortgage interest deduction fell from the sky? Do you think God granted you a child tax credit

[beemovieerotica]

[mbta-unofficial]

Holy shit queen

[depsidase]

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

Interesting how they just have to include fat people in these things. Fatphobia is and always has been a tool for fascism

[pixelartpeach]

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

[bonesbeetle]

can see the pores on that thang

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Reblog to give a trans person a shockingly high resolution mango

[glittergluekintsugi]

target audience reached (me)

[pusheen]

[tedturnerwascrazy]

Disney really didn't need to give Dana more reasons to hate them but by god they gave her some anyway

[sandersstudies]

I think a great way to improve communication with kids (and adults) is to make every yes or no question a this or that question.

I started doing it when after brain surgery my husband had trouble forming responses to questions for a while, and realized that the habit was helping my students engage more truthfully with me.

Some examples:

Yes/No: “Did you clean up your room like I told you?”

This/That: “Did you clean up already, or do you still need to do that?”

Yes/No: “Are you going to sit quietly?”

This/That: “Are you ready to sit and do our quiet activity, or do you need some time by yourself first?”

Yes/No: “Are you doing anything fun for your birthday?”

This/That: “Are you having a party on your birthday, or are you going to relax?”

I think many children (and adults!) are averse to telling adults “No,” especially when a command is implied. (“Did you clean your room?” “Are you going to sit quietly?” Hmmm if I say ‘no’ I will be in trouble with the adult.) So they are actually pretty likely to just lie and say what they think you want to hear.

Presenting a this or that question provides an alternative to lying, a ‘no, but’ scenario where they are presented with the reasonable consequences of a No (“if you’re not ready to sit quietly, you cannot do our quiet activity with us yet.”)

[pdlcomics]

Welcome

[dream-prospector]

I get paid to make maps of the ocean.  This post is going to haunt me like that “mothers and fuckers of the jury” post haunts that trial attorney

[hellenhighwater]

I’m still not free of that phrase…

[foxes-in-love]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

fuck off. I just know if I was a dog and my owner let go of my leash i'd be the dog that stops walking and looks at the owner for reassurance and not the dog that runs free

[despazito]

girls night

[dragkingandreweldritch]

so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.

basically, there's been an ants' nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.

fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what's basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go "holy fuck" start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.

fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.

spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.

tl;dr it's not "oh noes evil ants are on a rampage", it's "ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home"