is there a word for a bad miracle?

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit

[saiyanitloudandclear]

So. For the past year plus I’ve been working out more and trying to lose weight. Last year was just about getting in the gym more, learning how to work with a personal trainer, and getting comfortable lifting weights. This year I’ve been doing all that, plus tracking all my food/macros, cutting calories, and adding more intense cardio like HIIT classes and running. And I’ve lost 55 pounds of fat so far. I’m not posting about it on here because I know that can be triggering for people and that’s not what I usually post about. But if you want to follow along with me and see my progress, you can find me at @froglifter

[creekfiend]

sometimes people think I am on Mad At Them Island, when in fact I am far more often paddling around in the waters of Slightly Annoyed With Their Recent Behavior Bay, or perhaps on the beautiful Peninsula of Get Well Soon But I Will Not Be Engaging With All Of That

[imathers]

[389]

[gyratorium]

[killrockstar]

i miss 8tracks. dot com

[sleepyswampgoblin]

[nae-nae-supreme]

Feeling fresh feeling funky

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[etiennelux]

reading a negative review of something you love written by a person who very clearly didn’t understand it at all

[sinni-ok-sessi]

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

[junecast-moonfast]

Album/playlist Kinsey scale

0 Exclusively listens to albums

1 Predominantly listens to albums, rarely listens to playlists

2 Predominantly listens to albums, often listens to playlists

3 Equally listens to albums and playlists

4 Predominantly listens to playlists, often listens to albums

5 Predominantly listens to playlists, rarely listens to albums

6 Exclusively listens to playlists

x Doesn't listen to music

x Listens to music, but not in either of these ways (eg: radio)

idk/i'm bald/results/nuance

Voting ended onJul 1

Reblogs for sample size are appreciated, as I feel like my circle of mutuals would probably fall on the lower end of the scale! :p

[saiyanitloudandclear]

I’m finally getting around to watching The Sopranos and yes, of course it’s like the greatest show of all time. It deserves all the accolades it gets. And I’m DYINGGGGG to talk about it with ANYONE but no one wants to talk about a 25 year old show now

[hsuhaohsuhaohsuhao]

are you free tonight

i woul do anything to be free

[ragsy]

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or

[ragsy]

How to "get it":

Ask yourself, how does this piece make you feel? (No wrong answers)

Look for an artist statement nearby. What does it say about the artist and their relationship to their work? What does the artist say that they are trying to convey with their art? What contextual clues can you pick up from what they say about their background, or what they omit?

Look at the title of the piece. What is the artist saying about their work by naming it that, either explicitly or implicitly?

Look at the medium. Is there anything about the piece that stands out to you, knowing what it's made of?

Look at the year it was made. What cultural events might have been happening around this time? Was this piece part of a particular art movement? What was the purpose of that art movement, and what was it trying to say?

Accept that sometimes, you still might not get it. This is perfectly okay.

[finalgirlianthe]

"but I didnt learn about the usa's wrongs in school 😢 we don't know anything cause they didn't teach us anything 😢" well no one in my school in india told me that our country is a regionally hegemonic war criminal you're just entitled and insultingly uncurious

[nyantara]

in fact they told us completely propagandised nonsense about how pre colonial hindu kingdoms were extremely peaceful but were forced to defend themselves against regular invasions solely by muslims. this is something v easily contradicted by the foundational story of ashoka's turn to buddhist dhamma being the brutality of the kalinga war.

[nyantara]

the point being made is school, everywhere in the world is a deeply political project and is marshalled for the purpose of nation building. you're not going to hear about the sins of your nation in any serious way at school most anywhere in the world, and expecting that it should have betrays a certain lack of uhh, street smarts. its for children and run by the govt.

[brehaaorgana]

To be honest also a huge chunk of these people were simply not paying attention in school when stuff like "wrongs of the USA," *was* being taught. There is no standardized national US curriculum, so yes it can vary!

but also I went to public schools in a conservative state and we absolutely learned parts of US history that did not make the USA look good (chattel slavery, the trail of tears, the use of agent orange in the Vietnam war...for very basic examples).

They're still entitled and insultingly incurious, but also on top of that, a whole lot of them simply didn't pay any attention in school and are complaining as adults that they weren't taught something that was introduced to them in a very basic way aimed at children. It's like, entitled, insultingly incurious, and also adulthood laziness to assume things mentioned to you at a level aimed at eight year olds is all there is to know for adulthood.

I also see people in the tags saying they don't teach history in depth about XYZ but like, they subsequently followed it up with examples I absolutely did learn in school before the age of 18. Even so, history for children isn't going to have a lot of depth when they're trying to build a broad foundation of understanding. You only stop learning when you choose to stop. If you feel ignorant as an American, then educate yourself.

[weepylucifer]

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities