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Engineer Jordy Moos programmed his Christmas tree lights to play Snake.
âSelf-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.
It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.
It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you donât want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that youâre not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.
A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.
True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you donât need to regularly escape from.
And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.
It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people wonât, so maybe you can live in a way that other people canât.
It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isnât going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.
If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, itâs because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with âtreating yourselfâ and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.
It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to âfix yourselfâ and start trying to take care of yourself⊠and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.
It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isnât something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you arenât universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you arenât anxious and dependent on other people.
It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life â not escape from it.â
-Brianna Wiest, in Thought Catalog
please, I am begging you, PLEASE look at this extremely good image my friend just texted me
This is a pure and wholesome game
We should confess things before the tumblr bomb goes off like in a movie
i ate 3 batteries when i was 6 and never told anyone
there i said it
max im the one who stole your secret spy kit from the book fair in 2nd grade im so fucking sorry. im so fucking sorry. im so fucking sorry
As a teenager I totally and honestly ACCIDENTALLY almost made a weapon that could level several city blocks. This terrifies me. I speak of none of the details.Â
That oneâs me. Except for the accidentally partâŠ
when i was 9 I was overclocking a charging block like usual and it blew up and flipped the breaker and i almost set my house on fire it was greatÂ
Ive eaten 3 pennies, 1 dime, hundreds of forks, hundreds of pencils, and probably about 27 sheets of paper in my lifetime. Among other things.
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A well deserved rest
Itâs sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.
Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because itâs free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and Iâm matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic theyâre shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other âfagsâ, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.
I put on my mic and just decide I ainât havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jasonâs grasp I say âgood job!â or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.
The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:
A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that theyâve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. Itâs literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, itâs just that NO ONE does it.
B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who arenât crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.
tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.
I cant agree with this post more
I witnessed something similar with my younger brother (this was when he was In fifth grade so bear with me here) and his friends. The teacher assigned for them to build a somewhat accurate spanish mission in Minecraft because their school had gotten some iPads and she needed to assign them something other than a PowerPoint.
Now hereâs the thing. Most of these boys, my brother included, have ADD/ADHD. About a week into the project all they had in their shared world was chaos. Somebody filled the place with tnt and lit it up. Holes everywhere. Whenever one would attempt to try and build something (mostly wood huts and not the actual project) it would be destroyed within minutes as the boys began to insult each other heavily and complain that the design was ugly.
I brought my own ipad with me and decided to sit with the boys while they continued their reign of terror. I joined the world and built a hallway out of brick at the very center of this war zone. Immediately one of them tried to destroy it under the impression that âit looks badâ.
âWell, what should I make it out of?â
âDiamond.â
The ten year old mind is a mystery to meâŠ
Anyway, then I showed him some pictures similar to these:
I reasoned that it would be easier to sway this kid toward another pretty block than trying to get him to stick to the materials of the time, so I asked him if he would like to help me replace my brick design with quartz (eh, itâs white).
Bam! One of the ten year old anarchists is dutifully building me a glittering gem hallway for our insanely rich monks.
The other three are off somewhere still yelling at each other and setting off explosives, but we have something built. Much to my surprise the kid asked if he could build the church next because he âwanted to build the most important partâ.
Hereâs where I learned something important. I donât have ADD or ADHD but as I said before my brother does. When he gets fixated on something, heâs really gets into it. Once a few minutes had passed and this kid already had four walls up I decided to grid up the entire mission. One gets the church, one gets the farm, etc.
After playing the game with them for an hour, I had a pretty good idea of where each kid should go.
Church kid, I found, was very particular about materials and shape(hence his hangup over the brick). I gave him free reign over the outer walls of the mission and showed him the reference pictures to get him started.
My brother liked the farms most (he was building dirt domes over the cows donât ask me how I made this connection it just worked, okay), so he was in charge of building pens for the animals.
Another kid was, at first glance, very loud and bossy when it came to decorating (constantly said we were making chairs wrong). Turns out he likes interior design, like putting benches and beds in the little rooms, so his bossiness was just frustration with my brotherâs artistic sense I guess.
Another was very good with placing trees and plants around the exterior (I guessed this because he covered the place in a ridiculous amount of trees and I asked him if he would like to know where they are supposed to go). He got to make a vineyard for us and organized how the crops should go.
So how did it turn out?
Actually very nice!!
So what did we learn? Kids actually like to play games and be praised for their creativity and intuition. If I had just told them to stop messing around rather than direct their attention to areas within their interests, they never would have gotten anything done.
After an hour of gaming they:
Mirrored my language; âthank you!â, âwhich part are you working on?â, âI like this block.â
Realized each otherâs strengths; âhey [kid name] can you help me with the roof?â âHow do you make the big trees [kid name]?â
Were able to articulate exactly what they did or didnât like without using force; âthat looks good!â, âhow about we put it there?â, âI donât like that block, how about this one?â
On the plus side, since we moved the game file to my device for safekeeping, I now have a cute little souvenir of the time I played Minecraft with four ten year olds.
This is a really long post, but itâs super important. In games like Fortnite where youâll find lots of kids, itâs important (if you can) to steer them away from toxicity. I canât tell you how many times Iâve run into kids who talk like toxic adults and the act of just being nice to them completely turns them around.
Redesigned The Wizard of Oz for my portfolio this year! It follows Dorothy, a sweet girl from the country trying to make it in LA as an actress.
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imagine being at a class reunion like, yeah remember hot tom? i heard he made all of his friends get ugly matching skull tattoos and call him a really ugly french name and also I heard his nose is gone. weird.
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