Jack Has A Brain

or does he? Basically where I (Jack) put stuff. Random stuff. Mostly finnpoe stuff.

[jack-has-a-brain]

Sorry guys nobody is allowed to be involved with episode 9 if they don’t ship it

[fuocsniperbot98]

is it just me or did the new trailer say finnpoe rights

[jack-has-a-brain]

[jack-has-a-brain]

I’ve decided to become just a finnpoe meme hub. Enjoy

[jack-has-a-brain]

A meme for all your finnpoe needs.

[logarto]

u know what... it may be true that most pollution is caused by large corporations but repeating that like a mantra over and over whenever youre asked to do something environmentally conscious but personally inconvenient really makes it feel like youre just shirking responsibility... recycling and using public transport and eating less meat or taking the bus or using reusable water bottles/coffee cups maybe wont change the world overnight but these are all things that will impact the environment over time, and to just go “well im not CEO of a fuel company so i wont bother” is so lazy and... irresponsible

[unpretty]

today i bought a chocolate bar just because i really liked the graphic design

but the bar itself is also really cool looking? i found a diagram that says exactly how big each piece is

the wikipedia article reads like an ad but i gotta say, this part in particular is pretty fun

[unpretty]

#why is the bar designed like that #it doesnt make it easier to eat #it doesnt make it easy to track portion size??? #this makes no sense #the slavery free thing is just a cherry on top of this weird cake 

it is, apparently, intended as a metaphor for the inequality of distribution of profit in the chocolate industry

[theygender]

Tony’s Chocolonely’s entire thing is that they’re fighting for a slavery free chocolate industry, you guys should check them out!

[jack-has-a-brain]

Also this chocolate is REALLY GOOD M8

[fat-gold-fish]

how do u actually save bees?

[viva-la-bees]

Plant bee-friendly flowers

Support your local beekeepers

Set up bee hotels for solitary bees

If you see a lethargic bee feed it sugar water

Spread awareness of the importance off bees

[l0veyu]

+Don’t eat honey✌🏻

[ogaycanyousee]

NO.

That will not help save the bees at all. They need the excess honey removed from their hives. That’s the beekeepers entire livelihood.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Seriously refusing to eat honey is one of those well-meaning but ultimately terrible ideas. The bees make way too much honey and need it out in order to thrive (not being funny but that was literally a side effect in Bee Movie). Plus that’s the only way for the beekeepers to make the money they need to keep the bees healthy. Do not stop eating honey because somebody on Tumblr told you too.

[jumpingjacktrash]

excess honey, if not removed, can ferment and poison the bees. even if it doesn’t, it attracts animals and other insects which can hurt the bees or even damage the hive. why vegans think letting bees stew in their own drippings is ‘cruelty-free’ is beyond me. >:[

the fact that we find honey yummy and nutritious is part of why we keep bees, true, but the truth is we mostly keep them to pollinate our crops. the vegetable crops you seem to imagine would still magically sustain us if we stopped cultivating bees.

and when you get right down to it… domestic bees aren’t confined in any way. if they wanted to fly away, they could, and would. they come back to the wood frame hives humans build because those are nice places to nest.

so pretending domestic bees have it worse than wild bees is just the most childish kind of anthropomorphizing.

[foxthebeekeeper]

If anything, man-made hives are MORE suitable for bees to live in because we have mathematically determined their optimal living space and conditions, and can control them better in our hives. We also can treat them for diseases and pests much easier than we could if they were living in, say, a tree.

Tl;dr for all of this: eating honey saves the bees from themselves, and keeping them in man-made hives is good for them.

[thebeeblogger]

✌️✌️✌️

[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

Plus, buying honey supports bee owners, which helps them maintain the hives, and if they get more money they can buy more hives, which means more bees!

[alwayshere195]

I tell people this. About the honey and what to do to save bees. I also have two large bottles of honey in my cabinet currently. Trying to get some flowers for them to thrive on. Support your bees guys

[nanonaturalist]

… uh guys… the whole “Save the Bees!” thing is not about honeybees. It’s about the decline of native bees almost to the point of extinction. Native bees do not make honey. Honeybees are domesticated. Taking measures to protect honeybees is as irrelevant to helping the environment as protecting Farmer John’s chickens.

To help save native bees, yes, plant NATIVE flowers (what naturally grows where you live? That’s what your bees eat!), set up “bee hotels,” which can be something as simple as a partially buried jar or flower pot for carpenter bees, and don’t use pesticides. Having a source of water (like a bird bath or “puddles” you frequently refresh) is also good for a variety of wildlife.

[nanonaturalist]

Want to know more about bees that are not honeybees?

Dark Bee Tumblr is here to help [link to post chain about forbidden bees]

[nanonaturalist]

ALSO also also

Every place has different types of bees. Every place has different types of plants/flowers. Those hyped-up “save the bees” seed packets that are distributed across North America are garbage because none of those flowers are native in every habitat. Don’t look up “how to make a bee hotel” and make something that only bees from the great plains areas would use if you live on the west coast.

Look up what bees you have in your home! Here’s a great (excellent) resource: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/630955-Anthophila

This is every bee that has been observed and uploaded to the citizen science network of iNaturalist. You can filter by location (anywhere in the world! This is not restricted to the US!), and you can view photos of every species people have added. Here’s the page for all bees, sorted by taxonomy, not filtered to any specific location [link]. Have you seen a bee and want to know more about it, but you don’t know what kind of bee it is? Take a picture, upload it to iNat, and people like me will help you identify it–and it will also become part of the database other people will use to learn about nature!

Some native Texan bees I’ve met!

A sweat bee! [link to iNat]. These flowers are tiny, no larger than a dime.

A ligated furrow bee! [link to iNat] They burrow and nest underground.

A longhorn bee! [link to iNat] I don’t know where they nest, but I often find them sleeping on the tips of flowers at night (so cute!)

Meet your local bees! Befriend them! Feed them! Make them homes! Love them!

[thegreatpigeonking]

This is one of the native bees I met in Arizona! This handsome man is a male Melissodes sp., AKA a type of long-horned bee. I saved him when he was drowning in a puddle.

[nanonaturalist]

I love him

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

This is a great post all in all but I’d just like to note that colony collapse syndrome is definitely a thing, so domestic honeybees are absolutely in danger as well

[trantares]

Europen Honey Bees are an invasive species in the US and compete with native bees.

[arborescesarchive]

Native bee populations are specifically evolved to pollinate certain native plants. Most are unlikely to have a significant effect on the pollination of the non-native crops that people need to grow to survive. It’s true that honeybees will compete with native bees as well, and can be classified as an invasive species, but so long as native bees are supported and native flora is maintained, there is no reason why they shouldn’t be able to coexist. And while there’s a whole different argument to be had about the negative effects of growing nonnative crops at all, if they fail, as they likely would without the honeybees that a large percentage of farmers keep to pollinate their and other local crops, the effects on humanity will be catastrophic 

[nanonaturalist]

Lest people think I am anti-honeybee (no? I love honeybees?? They are precious??), the above is correct. Like it or not, the way we grow our food (much of which is not native to where it’s farmed) absolutely requires pollinators like honeybees. We would have a hugely massive food crisis on our hands without honeybees.

But, because so much $$$ is tied into the continued production of food, governments and food production companies will do whatever they can to mitigate the effects of colony collapse and other honeybee health issues. What can you do to help honeybees? Buy and eat food. Easy, right?

What is being done to protect native bees? Well,

1) Scientists and researchers are feverishly trying to get them listed as protected species and absolutely failing (see @thelepidopteragirl’s post about colleagues of hers: [link]).

2) Scientists and researchers are trying to get pesticides known to have devastating effects on bees and other pollinators banned and absolutely failing ([link]).

3) Scientists and science communicators (like me now, apparently) are trying to spread this information about native bees and their importance so more people can do little things like plant native flowers (lookup North American species for your zip code here: [link]), change how often they mow their lawns ([link]), and vote out the assholes who are profiting by destroying our environment ([link]). Success on this one: TBD, and by people like us.

As a gift to the honeybee lovers out there, please accept this photo of one making out with a stinkhorn mushroom:

[the-awkward-turt]

^An excellent post on the complexities of the “Save the Bees” movement

[systlin]

To add, honeybees are also having problems in, you know, Europe and Asia, where they are native!

I feel like that gets forgotten by many, as Tumblr is very USA centered. 

[honeycomb-bear]

Also! Did you know native bees in some counties DO MAKE HONEY?

Australia (where I live) has honey bees that are a native, non-invasive species AND who make honey!?

They aren’t at all like “honey bees” and don’t usually make enough to share (but can with certain care); you can find out more HERE!

Bees are a complex topic all but one thing we can agree on, we need their cute little bee-hinds!

[whzzrbrwn]

anyway if stormpilot ends up not happening, i don’t wanna see any of y’all coming for oscar or john. they did not write the script and their intention is probably not to queerbait, just to tell their lgbt fanbase that they do have people in their corner. the actors clearly support stormpilot but that doesn’t mean they can strongarm jj or anyone else into incorporating it into the story. they’re people, too, with their own opinions, and they have the right to death-of-the-author just as much as any fan. if the only thing that comes out of ix is that actors openly endorsed and normalized the idea of a mlm interracial couple in one of the biggest franchises in the world and maybe let one little queer kid know they’re not alone, that’s an incredible feat! would it be disappointing? would it feel like being let on? maybe so. i’m absolutely not saying we should be okay with just this, stop at just this, that this will be enough to ‘placate’ us, that the actors saying “it could happen” is any form of real representation. but it is something, and if they only achieve paving the way for a queer couple in star wars in the future then that is still something. and if it doesn’t happen, it is absolutely not the fault of the actors who have done nothing but give their fans support.

[stormpilot-and-finnpoe-trash]

People 👏🏻 should 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 go 👏🏻 after 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 actors 👏🏻

[fuocsniperbot98]

aka respect people

if i see idiots going after them imma wreck avoc

[annasdiops]

me getting obsessed with finnpoe again because john and oscar wont stop teasing it in episode ix

[stormpilot-and-finnpoe-trash]

Me walking into the theater December 20th

[harrowharkwife]

okay because i love to project, Gansey has ADHD like im sorry i don’t make the rules 

I mean think about it 

-his special interest is like Welsh king/Glendower stuff and has anything else ever really held his attention for more than five minutes 

-the 4am hyperfocus research spirals are too real honestly 

-insomnia, lots of folks with ADHD have severe trouble sleeping 

-he’s canonically a picky eater and has like his one go to nino’s order and this part is probably just me projecting, but me & a few other folks I’ve talked to that are on meds agree that our meds severely reduce appetite except for a couple very specific things we like 

-the thumb on lower lip thing could be a favorite fidget/potentially even stim? not sure abt that tho 

-he just has like zero interest in school honestly like he tries but it doesn’t hold his interest and he’s daydreaming a lot 

-he has a lot of insecurity and anxiety over not knowing when to shut up and saying things impulsively without thinking them through and like… hello, ADHD 

-he starts talking about Glendower and he just. keeps going because he’s very very very hyperfocused af on that 

-I know a lot of the anxiety thing stems from beefuck2k05 or whatever, but also tons of people with ADHD develop anxiety as a shitty half assed internal motivator and procrastination prevention mechanism 

-I’ve heard some people with ADHD say that driving a car that’s really mentally taxing to drive helps them focus while driving; Gansey drives a piece of shit stick with a Fucked alternator and a gearbox made of molasses 

-do I even need to get into the way Monmouth is constantly a mess, or 

-“his words were unerring tools of destruction" 

-his whole getting tired of places and itching to travel and constantly shifting and moving thing 

-overemotional 

 that’s all I’ve got for now, but like. yeah. I’m not by any means saying Maggie meant to write him as an ADHD character or anything bc IMO she didn’t, but I identify really strongly with him and I’m choosing to interpret it this way and y'all can fight me tbh. feel free to reblog this if u agree

[jack-has-a-brain]

yess

[jack-has-a-brain]

also the thumb on lip thing?? Totally a stim! I do it too and it’s just like. Good. 10/10

Also, I relate so heavily to gansey and this is like... this is why

[harrowharkwife]

okay because i love to project, Gansey has ADHD like im sorry i don’t make the rules 

I mean think about it 

-his special interest is like Welsh king/Glendower stuff and has anything else ever really held his attention for more than five minutes 

-the 4am hyperfocus research spirals are too real honestly 

-insomnia, lots of folks with ADHD have severe trouble sleeping 

-he’s canonically a picky eater and has like his one go to nino’s order and this part is probably just me projecting, but me & a few other folks I’ve talked to that are on meds agree that our meds severely reduce appetite except for a couple very specific things we like 

-the thumb on lower lip thing could be a favorite fidget/potentially even stim? not sure abt that tho 

-he just has like zero interest in school honestly like he tries but it doesn’t hold his interest and he’s daydreaming a lot 

-he has a lot of insecurity and anxiety over not knowing when to shut up and saying things impulsively without thinking them through and like… hello, ADHD 

-he starts talking about Glendower and he just. keeps going because he’s very very very hyperfocused af on that 

-I know a lot of the anxiety thing stems from beefuck2k05 or whatever, but also tons of people with ADHD develop anxiety as a shitty half assed internal motivator and procrastination prevention mechanism 

-I’ve heard some people with ADHD say that driving a car that’s really mentally taxing to drive helps them focus while driving; Gansey drives a piece of shit stick with a Fucked alternator and a gearbox made of molasses 

-do I even need to get into the way Monmouth is constantly a mess, or 

-“his words were unerring tools of destruction" 

-his whole getting tired of places and itching to travel and constantly shifting and moving thing 

-overemotional 

 that’s all I’ve got for now, but like. yeah. I’m not by any means saying Maggie meant to write him as an ADHD character or anything bc IMO she didn’t, but I identify really strongly with him and I’m choosing to interpret it this way and y'all can fight me tbh. feel free to reblog this if u agree

[jack-has-a-brain]

yess

[babylapin]

Little ADHD class time things

~taking a sip of water every 5-10 seconds

~clicking your pen repeatedly until you realize you’re doing it

~doing that pen shaking thing with your fingers

~doodling

~more doodling

~WAIT SHIT TOO MUCH DOODLING

~tuning in in the middle of a sentence

~wait what was the professor saying about this right before this very second when I started listening again

~staring at the teacher without hearing anything they’re saying

~looking everywhere but the teacher and comprehending everything they’re saying

~looking around the room wait did I just see something looks again oh wait no that was something else looks at clock when is this class over looks at teacher looks lOOKS

~BLESS VISUAL AIDS

[zeldaspeaks]

cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and

[jumpingjacktrash]

i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.

have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.

how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.

go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.

nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.

not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.

this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.

plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D

[spoonie-living]

Don’t let the adorable name fool you—this is some Seriously Good Advice. May be useful for brain fog and depression, too!

[lovelystimmy]

when you touch a Bad Texture™ and have to scrub at ur hands until the feeling is gone

[egregiousoveruseofnormalcy-deac]

When your teeth scrape against something they don’t like and your entire body tries to escape the upper atmosphere.

[betaferret]

When your nails drag across an Unpleasant Thing so your arms stop working from the elbows down and your ears ring.

[floraroyal]

when something nearby makes a Bad Sound and you’re actively trying to get onto the astral plane in your corporeal form

[jack-has-a-brain]

When you touch your ear lightly and it has cartilage and it is Very Bad and you almost die and have to press down on it really hard to not think about it

[mothqes]

adhd things no-one really talks about

- skewed sense of time eg; i can easily get there and back before my eggs cook!

- altered sense of reality//tendency to get sucked up in daydreams and temporarily lose track of real life

- extremely vivid daydreams// alternative realities

- feeling really lonely but getting the urge to isolate yourself for no reason

- getting overwhelmed by too many choices and freaking out

- hearing the instructions but not really being able to hold onto them

- people cant speak to you while you’re really focused on something because you can’t hold on to multiple things in your brain at once

- repeating things over and over in your head to try and remember them

- feeling like you never really appreciate things as much as you should because you get too sidetracked

- getting super excited by small things but sometimes feeling indifferent towards the things everyone’s raving about

- being self conscious from everyone telling you you’re annoying but being scared you’ll come off as boring

- getting hyperfixations on a certain person and getting really wrapped up on them regardless of if they like you back

- putting too much into things and getting disappointed when it’s not reciprocated

- constantly being told that you’re too intense and need to chill it out a bit

- ^ thinking you’re cool and desperately wanting to just be chill and laid back but your personality is just 24/7 overdrive

- building things up so much in your head to the point that it gets stressful because what if it doesn’t live up to expectations??

- extremely over-emotional (this includes when it’s inappropriate such as giggling at sad things and then feeling really bad after)

- feeling when you just don’t know when to stop

- getting increasingly uncomfortable in a situation for no apparent reason until you feel like you’re gonna cry or scream but you do none of that and just sit there

feel free to add on!

[jack-has-a-brain]

very much too real.

also:

- talking to someone for like thirty minutes and naming them your new best friend for the week even though you barely know them but like time to hyperfixate on them all the time

- knowing you’re being annoying but NEEDING TO TALK ABOUT THE THING

- having constant very long conversations with random people in your head when you can’t talk about the thing out loud

- messing one little thing up and crying because you think you’re a horrible person and having it be seen as overreacting and drama

[icetones]

adhd and technology is such an insidious killer like. I COULD work on a project for class but I could also go on the Instant Gratification Machine. Guess which one wins.