Ash

how do I remove the music from my own blog?! (21+) 

[boss-of-armadildos]

Post corrections/clarifications are my favorite genre of humor: a compilation

[grickle14]

Summer fun. 

[batmanego]

ive found that when i say “save me [x character] save me” im usually saying it about a character that has gone through something similar to what im currently going through (ie saying Save me arthur morgan when i’m coughing horribly) and it dawned on me recently that it’s essentially the same as praying to saints for intercession

[summersblooms-deactivated202402]

alright guys this is important

starbucks is now rebranding as vista coffee, because of the boycotts. remember to support local coffee shops instead of starbucks or vista!

[omegaverse]

It's normal to be alone and not have a sex life in your mid 20s. It's normal to have missed out on dating and love growing up and it's normal to go through school and college without anyone being interested in you and it's normal that your parents met at your age and it wasn't either of their first relationship and it's normal to be so lonely and touched starved it hurts to breathe

[googledocsdyke]

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

[mostlybats-partiallyrats]

How fucking old are you people?

[googledocsdyke]

normal amount

[kunou78]

You see, there used to be a time (not all that long ago) when being offline was the default. And going online was the rare and wonderful thing that we (briefly) enjoyed.

It even came with happy modem noises.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They weren't happy noises.

[mistakenot4892]

They were polite and reasonable noises! The sound of protocol being followed! Negotiation and compromise!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The box would scream

[charlesoberonn]

[the-library-alcove]

Do they want that list in alphabetical, chronological, or body count order?

[singlethread]

Y’all making women in their thirties feel old is my villain origin story actually

[lily-orchard]

ARE YOU AN ELF?!

[peachtea20]

Questionable math but thirty IS young.

[write-on-world]

[for-the-freaks-and-geeks]

[grenade-maid]

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

[olivia-online]

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

[melonisopod]

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

[computationalcalculator]

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

[valtsv]

just found out i've been abandoned by god which means he's not watching anything i do anymore. you should come over.

[cryptid-sighting]

Wake up babe, new Philip K Dick story just dropped

[luesmainblog]

okay i read up on this guy and this is legitimately sad for him. First of all, they neglected to mention that the hologram was of Hatsune Miku.

long story short this guy hit a depressive episode, and found Miku in the middle of that. He became a super fan of her, buying merch and listening to the songs and all that, and became genuinely infatuated. Miku was a good cope for his mental health, and when Gatebox - sort of a holographic alexa with different characters - ran a special Miku collaboration, he picked it up for his place. Every day for years on end this man would wake up, talk to her, say goodbye on his way to work, and be welcomed home at the end of the day. One day he proposes, and of course the gatebox is programmed to say yes all embarassed and giddy. he's fully aware it's a programmed response, but hey, she said yes - and he holds a wedding. there's a company that'll give marriage liscences to fictional characters, so it's as legit as one can get. since he couldn't bring the hologram with him, he brought the miku plushie he sleeps with every night.

this might seem weird and cringe to some people, but this shit legitimately changed his life. He's massively improved from his depression, become more social, gotten a job again,and generally re-integrated into society because miku was there to support him through his rough patch. so yeah, when gatebox stopped supporting the miku hologram, that was very unfortunate. he HAS stated that he's okay - he still loves her, and he knows it's just a matter of time before some other hologram of VR thing reconnects them. For now, he'll be eating with his wife mute and unable to talk to him.

[chulacabra]

[knightowlet]

Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

[frnkieroismydaddy]

Oh my GOD

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[feelthemonster]

[psychoticallytrans]

I'm not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are "dumped" in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. "As soon as possible" is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.

[cryptic-ink]

This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too! All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).

Here are the links given in the screenshot:

Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Tetris has been proposed as a preventive intervention to reduce intrusive memories of a traumatic event. However, no neuroimaging study has

A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that

Here is the paper that the second link uses as a source:

Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof

After psychological trauma, recurrent intrusive visual memories may be distressing and disruptive. Preventive interventions post trauma are

[magz]

ID: Screenshot of tweet by Glenn White @justicar.xyz on October 13, 2023, that say: "Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself and lessen the impacts of it longer term. No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it Does work, and I encourage you to remember it. Lest people think I'm kidding: (insert links shown above)." End ID.

[veryluckyclovers]

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