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[queermasculine]

they should invent an extreme codependent lesbian situationship that's actually good for you

[shamebats]

Cats getting caught doing crimes

[flipocrite]

it takes quite a bit of social intelligence for a creature to understand:

I know what I am doing is wrong

I know there is an activity that looks similar that is not wrong

If I am quick I can plausibly pass one off as the other

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

these cats are displaying remarkable theory of mind skills by not only registering that the humans can perceive them but actively trying to manipulate that perception! that requires one to be aware that other individuals have complicated interior thoughts of their own, to know that those thoughts are not always based on truth, and to quickly decide on the best possible “lie” for the situation. this is why I despise animal intelligence tasks based on obedience— some of the most clever moments stem from intelligent disobedience.

[midnightssea]

Excluding the crucial fact that office jobs pay you an income….if staying home to raise children and do chores and bake bread was really so much easier and more joyful than working in an office on some objective level, why aren’t men doing it? Why aren’t they chomping at the bit to be ~leisurely house husbands~ to a working wife? Why aren’t they stepping up to depend solely on someone else’s income in exchange for round-the-clock domestic labor, if it’s really as blissful and their propaganda suggests? Curious.

[midnightssea]

Thank you! This is such an important reminder.

[orpheuslament]

sorry for romanticising the mundane. i have little else

[elodieunderglass]

[spelldealer]

me in five years when i still don’t have my life together:

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

It's been 5 years.

[meanya]

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[charlesoberonn]

I’m really into internet discourse but only pointless and stupid internet discourse like how many holes there are in a straw (it’s 2)

[charlesoberonn]

This is exactly what I’m talking about.

[evilscientist3]

I’m sorry but mathematically speaking this question has a single objectively correct answer, which is 1 hole. This can be very simply proven; a straw and a torus are homotopic, and a torus has one hole.

[thyrell]

i odnt think thats true one of my friends is a taurus and hes fine with gay people

[bismuth-209]

[pityboy]

affirmations for when you have to send emails

[montrealvictoire]

same vibes

[sartred]

[pixielight-dee-foxfire]

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

[latetothepartyandconfused]

[ID: edit of the classical trolley problem picture It shows a trolley heading down a track with a person tied to it. Next to the track is a person with a lever which could divert the trolley to a 1000 mile long track that also has person tied to it. There is text at the top that says “Ship of theseus trolley problem: If you do not pull the lever, one person will be crushed to death instantly. If you do pull the lever, the trolley will divert onto a thousand-mile stretch of track with one person tied down at the end of it. If as the trolley rolls down this thousand-mile track, a crew systematicaly swithes out every piece of the original trolley with a replacement part, did the trolley which you diverted kill the man?” end ID]

[maybuds]

being in your 20s is like: i’m so young i’m so old. i should do everything i should rest. i can do what i want but i need to be careful. i’m an Adult™ but i need help from an Adult™. i’m so smart i’m so stupid. i’m leaving i feel left behind. i want to be a kid again and i can’t wait to be old. i’ve done a lot i’ve done nothing. i wanna be alone but i’m so lonely. like.... what the hell ??

[henk-heijmans]

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

[clementiens]

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

[spotchka]

reblog to give your mutuals a djungelskog

[findingfeather]

A free tip for work (and life, but especially work):

Thank/praise/explicitly show or verbalize appreciation every time a coworker does something helpful or useful, even if that thing is part of their job description. Turn it into a rote habit if possible - this will involve a certain small outlay of effort, but at this point it is mostly just an automatic reaction, like "excuse me" etc.

Even if you don't like the person. Even if they've explicitly been a dick about something else, whatever: dig up a "thank you" or a "fantastic" or some other positive response when they are in fact helpful/useful/etc, again, even if it's "just" because that's what their job is supposed to be.

Don't do this because it's "good". Do it because you're actually contributing to a little reward circuit in their heads that at the very least erodes a little bit at them being unpleasant, even, because down in the human social subconscious things go DING and dump out some reward chemicals when another human recognizes our efforts.

Also because it's nice to be able to point out that you were always polite and appreciative of their work even if they turn out to be your Work Enemy.

(It'll also make people who like you like you more, and incline people who are neutral to you to like you.)

[tropiyas]

[pompadourpink]

Pourtant je m’élève - Maya Angelou