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[babyanimalgifs]

More animal snaps

via @animalsnaps

[ovaadosedonconfidence]

Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.

[ifshehadwings]

This is actually called thin slicing. Your brain recognizes patterns from very small “slices” of information by comparing them to things you have experienced before. This all happens very quickly on a subconscious level without our conscious mind being involved. So intuition is actually really fast pattern recognition, and it can be very accurate. So yeah, if you have a gut feeling that a person or situation is not good, get the hell out. Your brain knows what’s up. 

[pyrrhiccomedy]

When I was young - because I’ve always been a big skeptical pain in the ass - I thought that when people were talking about interpersonal “energy,” they were on some Gay Ass Shit.

Years later, after spending hundreds of hours reading studies about intuition and neuroscience and pattern recognition and the processing power of the subconscious mind, I realized that that kind of talk - “she has such good energy,” “you need to read the energy of the room,” “I just got some really bad energy off of that guy” - is a convenient shorthand for the lightning-fast, weirdly-accurate, real-as-fuck subconscious processing of the probability of positive or negative social outcomes likely to result from hundreds or thousands of variables. That “energy” isn’t a tangible thing floating around in the air. It’s your brain updating you constantly with information about your situation. Listen to it. Especially if it’s telling you to be nervous or scared. Your brain is very good at recognizing danger. Let the enormous processing power of your subconscious mind protect you. It’s better at spotting patterns than you are. 

“Bad energy” isn’t some hippie shit. It’s your brain setting off a claxon because it knows something’s not right.

[embyrr922]

Thin slicing is wonderfully helpful, but be aware that if it’s doing its pattern recognition from bad sources, you need to actively override it. We’re raised in a racist society, inundated with racist media, and bombarded with subtly (or unsubtly) racist advice. Thin slicing can save your life, but it’s also the cause behind the unconscious elements of racism (and misogyny/ableism/antisemitism/islamophobia/etc.) that we all suffer from

Trust your instincts, but if your instincts tell you something that seems prejudicial, double check their work.

[vicioushyperbolizer]

A+ addition

[babyanimalgifs]

Lookin wonderful my smol German fren

[kingpinnn]

[blackgirlsreverything]

i don’t think I’ve ever seen a black couple before.

[alacklusteredparadise]

Same. Never.

[molothoo]

Which is crazy because they’re the ones who invented Samba

[brightlotusmoon]

[happifying-things]

[blizzardofjj]

someone doesnt want to face the day

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

This is a mood

[katiemcgrath]

“You clap for us now.”

— Britain’s immigrants and children of immigrants who are key workers 

Credit: created by Sachini Imbuldeniya

[weavemama]

wow how about that

[thetraveler10]

Reblogged so fucking fast.

[abitchistireddddd]

yo, i SMASHED that reblog button 

[accidental-muse]

this was literally my every day when i commuted to work in boston, and especially so when i lived and worked there.  from the second i got on the train until i took it home at the end of the day.

do you have any idea how fucking draining it is to have to factor this into your EVERY GODDAMN DAY?

on top of just, you know, regular shit?

[cherishedproperty]

This is one of the best things about coronavirus. Nobody fucking talks to you. It is MAGIC as a woman who is tired of avoiding men who feel entitled to become part of my day. I can’t wait to cough loudly near the next fucker who tries to get me to take my headphones out so he can hit on me.

[maaarine]

Vice: Shelter in Place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden

“People in power who see that there is a political advantage to disguising, or concealing, or massaging, or denying numbers, may choose to lie about it.

It’s happened before and it’s almost certainly happening now.

We see the Chinese government recently working to expel Western journalists at precisely this moment where we need credible independent reporting from this kind of region.”

[thatspectacularpigeon]

I hate people that are like "oh you shouldn't curse. Use proper words. Only people with a small vocabulary uses curse words" like no Karen fuck is exactly the word I'm looking for.

Because saying you are and idiot is one thing

Saying you are a fucking idiot is another

[arachnofiend]

Similarly, trying to be all fancy and calling someone a “blight on the world” simply has a different energy and weight to it than calling them a fucking asshole.

You wouldn’t use a rapier in the same situation you’d use a folding chair.

[ruffboi-mags]

that last line is on fire tho.

[switchbladesounds-deactivated20]

Jay Pharaoh’s John Mulaney impression

[butchmachine]

Holy shit

[thetaxidermy-ofyouandme]

That wasn’t an impression John Mulaney possessed him

[babyanimalgifs]

More baby animals

[oldfilmsflicker]

[therockandtheroll]

“NONCONSENSUAL GARDENING” HAHAHAHAHAAAA

[babycakesbriauna]

How textbooks describe slavery

[everythingfox]

“Now THAT’S how you quarantine”

(via)

[liberalsarecool]

Postcard from dystopia.

[beaniebaneenie]

And the only way we achieved it was by not having kids in school.

[lizardsexposed]

[musdomus]

Amazon doing business as usual. This is how they treat people who haven’t even been hired yet. Imagine what it’s like once the shackles go on.

Unionise NOW!

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

So when a kid is laying on the floor in a shop screaming u get down to their level n say ohhh noooo darling don't do that pleaaaase that's naughty cmon get up be a good boy or girl. The kids gonna stop n get up lmao. U say if u don't get up right now I'm gonna give ya a whip on the arse..1...2...n I bet they'll get up.

No. You remove your child from the scene (because children are often reacting to overstimulation such as the grocery store is too loud, the room is too bright, there’s people they don’t know around, they’ve been there too long etc) and go somewhere quiet. You then sit with them as they cry, reassuring them that you are present, and once they have stopped crying you offer comfort and ask if they know what it is that they were so upset about. Then you calmly talk to them so they - and you - can understand and fix the problem that was the root of the tantrum.

Bad example;‘Why are you crying?’‘I’m hungry’‘Well we’re going home soon!’

Good example;‘Do you know why you were crying?’‘I’m hungry’ ‘We’re at the grocery store to get food. We only have three more aisles to go. We can count them down together. Then we’ll go home and we can eat.’

Children don’t understand ‘soon’; even for adults, ‘soon’ is a relative term. children understand things like ‘three aisles. Two. One. Now we’re going home!’

Children need communication, understanding and teaching. Not beating, intimidating or belittling.

Get therapy.

[morbidlyqueerious]

I’m always amazed by posts like this, because they get mad at the child for “deciding to cry” without once consider that the child has an internal mental state and is unhappy.  It just never occurs to make the child no longer unhappy, just to make the child shut up.