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I just had a psychological epiphany so incredibly intrinsic to my self, so mentally divulging of my psyche, that the left side of my brain de-clenched and I think my eyeball prescription changed.

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My physical sense of anxiety is off the charts rn

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It would be just as effective as a full on strike, without risking their jobs in anti union states. Especially if they made public newspaper announcements that this is what they will ALL be doing.

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This is called “Work-To-Rule” (a form of malicious compliance), and is a very useful and effective tool in labor organization!

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My dad did this! He’s a high school teacher, and he and all his colleagues refused to write college recommendation letters - which was dozens of hours of unpaid labor not in their contract - until they got a renegotiated contract, and it worked in like less than a week cause parents went apeshit. The education system would fucking collapse without unpaid teacher labor, and that’s a huge source of leverage

We're narrating the plot line written by a 12 year old. Connor's highest pitch is a cracking pubescent and its a one woman show over here.

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Annoyingly, my thoughts feel like they're in a loop of anxiety or stuck, I can't decide what it is, honestly. Is it the dread of the election cycle and knowing more than is helpful about the election process? I type this as I feed my corgi carrots - because apparently while I've been gone my grandma has been feeding him carrots and he's obsessed. Is it the upheaval in life recently? That can't be helping. Or is there something specific about turning 30 that's just deeply horrifying?

I have the urge to slow things down, and it's why I'm back at tumblr. This thing was a staple of processing my thoughts and feelings when I was younger - I'll give it a go now. Journaling has benefits - so that's what we're gonna get

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Everyday I'm tumblin

It's been a minute, but I think some old fashioned screaming into the void is exactly what the universe ordered for this millennial.

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Do they not have skulls!? Why is it mushy there!?!? @bunjywunjy

bunjywunjy

well of course beluga has a skull!! that's just not where it is.

see, you wouldn't necessarily pick up on this, but beluga skulls (and most cetacean skulls in general) are pretty much

flat...

so what's going on up there? well, most of the beluga's head is taken up by soft tissue and a large organ called the melon, which is basically a big ol waterballoon of semiliquid fat!

(boob. it's a head boob.)

this organ is found in every toothed whale and dolphin species on the planet and it's INCREDIBLY important, because the melon is what lets them echolocate!

the actual sound-producing organ is inside their nasal passage of all places, which sits up behind there, but the melon is what's actually used to fine-tune the soundwaves into the laser-accurate pinpoints that dolphins and toothed whales are so famous for.

tldr: without their head boob, belugas and their relatives would be literally flying blind!

puppetbilly

does slapping the melon like that hurt it ? like does it affect how it works or anything

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@weirdgirlwambsgans @vampire-juicebox you guys are in luck bc it does not! Belugas will squish their melons voluntarily against things like rocks and glass. Think of it like when you squish your butt (but at the same time not, bc they have no nerve endings beyond the skin) they even voluntarily let humans play with it!

This is a strong creature, if that hurt or bothered it, you would know

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See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

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REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.