Lidster

[butchspace]

We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

[dontbeanassbutt]

take off your glasses if you wear them for 20 seconds

[bluelakeandsky]

Recommended by my optometrist

Look at something 20 feet away, then 10, then 5, then one, then if you can your nose.

Repeat twice, then again without glasses.

Face forward look out of the corner of your eye. As far as you can look. Slowly move to the other corner. Repeat twice.

Look down as far as you can. Slowly look up. Repeat twice.

Roll eyes twice.

Close eyes for five minutes.

I do this every day usually at my halfway point. My migraines went away. My vision go better. Honestly stretching my eyes as she put it feels great too.

[lidster21]

I want to see this everyday ha

[sketchupnfries]

Decided to do more of my Project Hail Mary Atlantis AU crossover thing for fun. Got a little carried away with the mini boards haha

[makesoneteam]

you would think, like, "oh, we've already thought of all the metaphorical ways we can say penis/vagina. we've already come up with the full list of nicknames. we have exhausted the list of innuendos. there is nothing else new to be said about this" and then you'll open a random explicit fic and make the most improbable linguistic discovery of all time

[pochayun]

would you like to share with the class 🤔

[makesoneteam]

saw the term "gummy walls" last night and had to sit alone with god for a minute

[mercury-mage]

would you like to unshare with the class

[taumoebros]

mysterious next door neighbors~

bonus:

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

things to say after fucking up egregiously

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)

[sirfrogsworth]

I found out why there was a wasp hanging near my door. This little lady built a nest and is protecting some pupae (look inside the hexagons!).

Now that I know where she is, I'm not in any danger, so I'm going to leave her be and perhaps try to get some more photos with different lighting.

I do feel a bit bad about killing her friend, but she'll have more company soon.

[thefrogman]

I did a little research. This is the foundress queen of a Metric Paper Wasp brood.

Which inspired this conversation with my friend Ryan.

Froggie: People are digging the wasp. She has a cool name I can't remember.

Ryan: Like surname or biological name?

Froggie: A queen that starts a colony is called a "foundress"

Ryan: That *is* cool. Good word.

Froggie: "ess" is always a good way to make a lady title sound cooler.

Huntress. Lioness. Loch Ness.

Ryan: hahahaa

Didn't know it was Lady Nessy.

Froggie: You're welcome to prove otherwise.

[poppyseed1994]

i forgot i drew this 😭

[justcakethanks]

Rocky never skips leg day

[aw-dag]

You know every show that the premise is like “people find out ghosts/monsters/demons are real and are charged with stopping them” appeal to me way more now as a post-graduate not because I believe in ghosts more or whatever but because can you IMAGINE just being handed a job that you don’t even need to apply for? Like just being told “basically there’s this bad thing and all you do is make sure it doesn’t do what it wants” that’s just customer service baby and I worked that for 6 goddamn years! Just TRY getting past “I have a job to offer you” before I can jump down your throat agreeing.

[aw-dag]

some idiot with a dumb ghost-hunting name who joined the Cause because they love the paranormal: oh fuck oh shit this is really scary guys I’m having second thoughts

me, who knows that if we run away I have to apply to like, a real actual Jobbe again: wakey wakey demons it’s this or retail so guess who’s got nothing to lose

[meret118]

[dotty-literati]

One year retrospective

[forlornmelody]

Feels like a good time to plug Lingonaut. It's 100% AI and ad free and the courses are developed by volunteers. It's in open-beta, so still a bit buggy, but it has the feel of Duo Lingo without the slop.

[himluv]

I'll also add Mango Languages, which you may have access to through your public library!

[azaelyas]

Rocket Languages has also been good for me (learning italian)! They also teach you about culture and what's rude and what isn't, etc. You do have to pay for later lessons, but there no ads and no ai!

[pris-cas]

Lesson #7 smell

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 2k FOLLOWERS IM SO OVERWHELMED AND EXCITED YOU GUYS ARE AWSOME I LOVE EVERYONES IDEAS AND FACTS THAT YOU SHARE XOXO <3 :D

Lesson #1 previous lesson next lesson

[bearsixxx]

I will stand firm in these designations. Simon is a big sweetheart and people don't talk about that enough.

[magicratfingers]

oh well i guess ill just be fat and hot

[magicratfingers]

guess ill be fat and hot and hot

[alivehouse]

lets start blair witching it in the corner. together

[alivehouse]

[kunaigirl]

just casually leaving this here for no particular reason

[kunaigirl]

You know what? Fuck it I'm adding more context. Sesame Street has talked about the topic of death more than once and it's done with such gentle carefulness without watering down or censoring the heaviness of the situations. It treats heavy subject matter with respect and dignity and has been for DECADES. From the early 1980s:

To 2025:

Hell, they even cover the devastating heaviness of MASS SHOOTINGS without censoring or watering anything down.

They've been doing this for YEARS, and it's ALWAYS handled with dignity, respect, seriousness, understanding, and love.

Whenever I see people censoring words because it "might offend" someone or the big ad companies that are currently trying to run everything? I just want to say to them: "What? Is Sesame Street too mature for you?" Because really...what the hell are we doing.

[pancake-surprise]

Mister Roger's Neighborhood also covered difficult topics with respect, age-appropriately, and without pulling a single punch. It's crazy that we've worked ourselves up so much that we're self-censoring like it's always been the norm.

This clip is from 1968 and discussed assassination after Bobby Kennedy died.

I'm not sure when this clip originally aired, but it was likely sometime in the 1980s. They talk about murder and, incredibly by today's standards, what sort of emotions (anger, fear, loneliness) might drive someone to hurt or kill other people + how we can manage our own difficult or painful feelings.

[blumineck]

I don’t know if this will be any good, but either way I feel like I should have been getting ads for this instead of tampons and betting agencies.

[lana-is-reading]

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i want it known that in my sketch notes the part where ryland coughs up a tree is noted down as "*butterfly meme* is this hanahaki?"

i swear they're this 👌 close to figuring out what the fuck the tree wants him to do

part 1, part 2, part 3, part 3.5, part 4