Mandi Marie M @seattleslastautumnleaf - Tumblr Blog

The brain is a wondrous things...

How is it that I misspelled "there" four times before spelling it correctly, it just took me way to long to spell "availability" correctly; yet I was able to spell "gastroenterologist" correctly on the first go?

(the first two being words I use very frequently, and I have never used the third before in writing/email).

wholeheartedsuggestions

it has gotten better before. it will get better again. and again and again and again.

turing-tested

there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world right now and I know we as a species has lost the plot a bit but I didn’t expect part of that would include, like, getting a second moon

turing-tested

my favorite thing about this so far is telling people and their responses consistently being something along the lines of “the moon? like the moon in the fucking sky?”

1anonyymous1

god i love coming home and being at home and sitting inside my home and staying home

captainjonnitkessler

The second you start talking about some mysterious "they" that are controlling society in some fashion, you are engaging in dangerous conspiratorial thinking even if you're being woke about it. "They" did not institute the 40 hour work week specifically so you would be too tired to revolt. "They" did not invent the sleek minimalist aesthetic in order to crush the spirit of art in the common people. "They" are not pushing mediocre media into the mainstream in order to poison people's critical thinking skills.

Your best case scenario after that is you talk to someone who actually knows what the fuck they're talking about and you get embarrassed because you can't answer basic questions about your own ideology because you never learned anything past "the ruling class/capitalists/politicians are making things bad and if we got rid of them the bad things would all go away!"

Your worst case scenario is obviously the woo-to-fascist pipeline and you end up believing Jews are poisoning American food supplies with GMOs in order to turn us all into beta cucks, so like . . . maybe just stop blaming "them" before you fall down that route.

Obligatory round of disclaimers: Yes, sometimes people do bad things. Be specific about exactly who is doing what instead of ascribing it to some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, sometimes things in society are bad. Learn to identify the root causes of complex social issues instead of assuming that they're actually extremely simple to fix and we're just not doing it because of some vague group of shadowy elites. Yes, minimalism isn't for everyone. Learn that some people don't share your tastes and get the fuck over it for the love of god.

hyperlexichypatia

Also, before you blame a vague "they" for a contemporary social norm or law or policy you think is bad, look up what the norm was before it. What did it replace?

"They created the 40-hour workweek to --" QUERY: What was the average working-class person's weekly workload before the 40-hour workweek was standardized?

"They created credit scores to --" QUERY: How did banks determine who was and wasn't worthy of a loan before credit scores?

"They promote bad media to --" QUERY: What was the average working-class person's entertainment before this era of "bad" media?

"They invented schools to crush children's creativity and --" QUERY: What was the average working-class child's daily life like before universal public schooling?

To be clear. Before someone accuses me of pissing on the poor.

I AM NOT SAYING "Stop opposing current social practices because Things Used To Be Worse, stop complaining about a 40 hour workweek because great-grandpa worked 90 hours a week uphill both ways in the snow --"

We should advocate a shorter workweek, actually! We should advocate abolishing credit scores, actually! We should advocate non-authoritarian schooling, actually!

But we should do it from a place of informed historical perspective that doesn't quickly become romanticizing the past and perpetuating the idea that Things Were Great Until They Took Over.

speedlimit15

i think if your account has existed on this site for a certain number of years you should be grandfathered into ad free browsing. a decade seems reasonable like if you signed up in 2012 or prior you have tenure

hickeywiththegoodhair

Were you a victim of the Mishapocalypse? You might be entitled to compensation

natalioovski

melancholic-pigeon

reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026

whywalkwhenyoucanride

the goat didnt burn but the strong winds today have caused it to fall over

homunculus-argument

I'm not a "will help, no questions asked" kind of friend. Because I will ask questions. I'm just not gonna question your answers. Like yeah if we're friends I can help you get rid of a body, no problem, but I still want to know who it was and what happened. Not because I don't trust that you'd kill someone who didn't need killing or would help someone you shouldn't be helping - we wouldn't be friends in the first place if I didn't know you well enough to trust your judgement. I'm just curious as hell and I want to know things.

chaotic-archaeologist

A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

chaotic-archaeologist

Love that some of you are reblogging this. You looked at a picture of a guy with his head in a mailbox and went "yeah"

chaotic-archaeologist

Can't wait to see if everyone did something like this or if they had a normal reaction. I will keep you posted.

arospacecase-moved

[ID: a photo of a pale person wearing a black t-shirt and jeans with his head in a mailbox /END ID]

chaotic-archaeologist

Hello to everyone asking for an update!

The professor has said that he will put all submitted pictures into a powerpoint to be shown in class tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9th). I am very much looking forward to seeing the reaction from him and from the rest of the class. I promise to keep you informed.

chaotic-archaeologist

Update: the professor saved my picture for last. I was told that I had "truly embodied the spirit of the assignment" and that I had gone "above and beyond."

Also, to everyone who is worrying about whether or not I got my head out, I was gifted with a very small head, and while I got out just fine I would NOT recommend this if you have a large head or even a normal sized head.

chaotic-archaeologist

Hey you guys should make this into a meme.