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trent reznor, lowlands festival, 2013

#favorite post #nine inch nails

little-grey-dowitcher

So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show

little-grey-dowitcher

“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.

breelandwalker

Addendum:

"But it makes me uncomfortable!" The world is an uncomfortable place and complete strangers are not required to fix that for you. Learning to endure harmless discomfort is a life skill for existing in public.

"But I don't like it!" There's plenty of things in the world and not all of them are fun or enjoyable or For You. This applies to everyone and we all have to deal with that in a mature fashion.

"But I want to do the thing!" You can't always do what you want. Most people learn this in preschool. Wanting something does not entitle you to be inconsiderate to the people around you.

imaginarylands4000

clonerightsagenda

Usually when the electrician goes 'hey.... there's something you should see' it's because someone set up shoddy wiring. This time it was because he pulled two snakes out of my wall

the worst thing about living alone (and i love living alone, don't get me wrong) is that i can't really be Annoying On Top Of Things. that was my main activity in shared social spaces, but i don't really have those outside of work anymore, and i'm pretty sure like 75% of my coworkers hate me now bc i spend so much time being Annoying On Top Of Things during meetings and stuff

#sorrows speaks #like. sitting on a washing machine chatting while kari did laundry #or sitting a table and singing while sister assembled a cat tree #or sitting on the counter and watching as kari started a kitchen fire (before i put it out)#or sitting on the counter and chatting while sister cooked #i'm annoying and intolerable and i have to express it somehow #or else it goes rotten inside me and then i'm annoying and intolerable in a different worse way #hey! today's success: i smiled so so convincingly after an awful end of school day experience that even i believed it!

heyy isn't it fucked up how you can spend a whole week using multiple sleep aids to fix your sleep schedule and it only takes one night and a halfway interesting show to ruin all that work?

#sorrows speaks #someone will suffer for it and that someone is me #lately i Have been washing my benadryl down with chamomile tea and i have to say i like the effects #my limbs go heavy just like when i overdosed on sleeping pills (which time?) but without the part where my body freaks out bc i'm dying #or close to it. or maybe my body just freaks out for no reason and i took a normal amount of sleeping pills #anyway. big fan of the heavy limb feeling without the other less fun effects #damn shame i fucked up that hard-won sleep schedule bc i got curious

my best classroom management technique is going entirely still. everything, even my eyes. even my thoughts. after even a day stuck with me, the students know i'm always moving, so it's a big thing when i stop

#sorrows speaks #teaching tag #even just standing and listening to a student share a thought my hands are moving the whole time #of course i save the stillness for very important moments. can't use it too often or it loses its potency #but i've trained them to respond to a little hotel bell i got #they freeze like it's a police raid with their hands up it's so funny #(i didn't ask them to do that. i said i wanted their hands off the science materials when the bell rings)#(they decided that means ''freeze with your hands where i can see them'' and it's too funny to change now)

transiting

don’t make other people’s decisions for them. apply for the job you don’t think you’ll get. let them decide if you have the skills they’re looking for. tell that person you like them even though you think they’re out of your league. let them decide if they like you. stop trying to predict and control everything. bring what you have to the table. let the rest go.

zoazoaa

If you are attracted to a girl it's important to show her sinister artifacts and relics

meret118

A recall for nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs has been upgraded to the highest risk warning by the FDA. Here's what that means for consumers.

On Aug. 12, the FDA reclassified a recall for nearly 1.6 million dozen white and brown cage-free eggs due to potential salmonella contamination. The recall is now Class I, which is considered "a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death," according to the FDA.

As of July 24, a salmonella outbreak linked to the recalled eggs has sickened at least 98 people and hospitalized 26 across 17 states. The illnesses were reported between Nov. 21, 2025, and June 30, 2026. The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were aware of 26 hospitalizations due to the recall, but no deaths.

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There's a link to the egg list in the article.

me: sooo, new teacher was trying to have a serious conversation—

sister: with you in the room? rookie mistake

#sorrows speaks #the resource teacher said he should ‘ignore sorrows bc they have adhd’ and now the district’s on the hook for the cost of doing an eval #that’s how it works! she diagnosed me so now the district has to screen me for it & pay for it!#i can’t help that every conversation with me (at least the ones where i’m actually Present for) devolves into tangents & sidetracks #but i will say i’m more intolerable without obscene amounts of coffee #i’m never tolerable but i’m really intolerable without it

freegiftjones

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

chicknparm

greelin

genuinely cannot stop repeating My neighbor michael i’ve known for thirty years is purple for some reason

greelin

like this has been detrimental. for me

#another haunted michael for the collection

antiquesintheattic

stonednegativecreep

@so-i-did-this-thing

hearing the neighbor children play outside in the rain reminds me that joy and terror can be very close cousins

#they like the rain but the lightning frightens them #and their shrieks of delight & their shrieks of fear sound very similar #another nothing post from a nothing blogger

traniform

it should make you angrier how few black transfems are on this site let alone active

traniform

like i feel insane. why do so few people notice this disparity? so many black transfems have fled, deactivated, or been terminated. the few who are left are usually getting targeted by harassment campaigns, denied autonomy, treated as mere scapegoats, and are often forced to stay in this murderously hostile environment for mutual aid reasons. why do we not notice this more???

traniform

like genuine question how many black transfems (let alone vocal transfeminists) active or semi-active on here can you name off the top of your head

traniform

so many black transfems in these tags and replies talking about how they're afraid to be too open about themselves because of how hostile this site is to us. and i swear something breaks inside me with each additional tag or reply i've been getting. the girls are either gone, in the process of getting driven off, or in hiding for their own safety. i hate every single one of you that does this to us.

a long time ago probably, i was transformed into something that doesn’t understand time

so yeah, that’s why we were two minutes late to dismissal

#sorrows speaks #guess who just got yelled at by their principal in front of the students ^_^#i set alarms & i’m gonna go back to setting the class clock early #but she won’t comment on the improvement. she never does #she only talks to me if she’s observing me or if she’s criticizing me

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