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piratewithvigor

How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

klairenet

i, have seen, 6 movies.

cattatoir

I’ve seen 74 and I cannot emphasize enough you do not need to watch The Searchers. Do not watch the Searchers.

#28 #i only counted the ones i fully watched #more than i expected tbh #this list is very geared towards early 20th century USA

incognitopolls

Adults (18 and older), how often do you see your parents in person?

I live with them

Every day (but I don't live with them)

Multiple times a week

Once a week

A few times a month

Once every 1–2 months

A few times a year

Only on holidays

Once a year

Less than once a year

Literally never

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Voting ended onMar 26, 2025

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bimalewife

#a couple of times a year #i don't live that far from them #it's just.. easier on everyone like this

lesbianswift

FOOD DISCOURSE: reblog with ur opinions on guacamole, olives, mango, hummus, tomatoes, and cannolis

sidescout

I'm a simple vegan, I love the first five as I can eat them, and I've never had the latter, but I've had similar pastries and they were okay? (For more detail: I prefer the guac and hummus way on the spicy side and with lots of lemon juice, i go through periods when i eat olives almost every day but the type changes, and in season locally grown tomatoes -which means picked when completely ripe and not earlier to survive long transport- are a nearly religious experience)

#for being autistic i sure am uncomplicated about food #sure i feel compelled to follow ethical rules about it #but other than that there are very few things that i really dislike

mistchievous

Are you afraid of needles going into your body?

Yes, very.

Shots, no. Into the vein to draw blood or something? Yes.

Shots, yes. Veins, nah.

Nah. I'm good.

I have no experience with this.

My problem is just the blood. Not the needles.

Gimme a special nuance button.

Voting ended onApr 7, 2025

#nuance #totally fine with both normally #but i absolutely will not have blood drawn from my fingertips #for some reason that freaks me THE FUCK out #you can drain me out through my arm veins for all i care tho

adz

does anyone have the screenshot of the comment on the youtube video of molten iron slag being poured where it's a guy describing his experience witnessing the same thing written in the most beautiful prose imaginable

adz

@f2tal @barabones with your key addition of 'seagulls,' i was able to find it!

#this has a william gibson vibe to it to me

nitewrighter

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

#yeah i genuinely don't understand how there are still non-depressed people #even among vulnerable groups #i wish i was made of that stuff #but i'm very much not

donuts-multifandom-hellhole

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

sleepymccoy

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

chaotic-archaeologist

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

aggressivelybicaptainamerica

My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.

The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.

jinkohhh

as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.

thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.

megpie71

Boosting signal.

justgot1

Echoes from the ancient human past, wonderful.

#aborigines #neat

gummi-stims

Moving medieval manuscript art!

#how did you get this picture of my brain #beafts

mothric

executive dysfunction is telling yourself for two and a half hours that you need to shower bc you smell like your workplace and you absolutely Cannot do Anything Else until you shower, doing Any Other Thing before showering is illegal!!! but you still haven’t for some reason??? you’ve just been sitting on your bed in a towel scrolling tumblr for 2+ hours thinking “I need to shower right now immediately” and growing increasingly frustrated that you are still not clean and you haven’t eaten or done your laundry either

mothric

ok actually no I’m reblogging this because a) I am clean now (and I smell amazing, thank you), and b) I had a heckin Realize and I wanted to share it with y’all in the hopes it’ll help someone else with a brain like mine.

I figured something out about myself a long time ago– it’s only just now occurred to me that I was in fact solving a problem caused by executive dysfunction, and I haven’t been implementing this solution lately because my brain went “that’s a relatively new term to me and therefore a Different problem that requires a Different solution”. thanks a lot, brain.

anyway, long long ago, before I knew these fancy schmancy Official words, the problem, as I phrased it to myself, was such:

sometimes I get Stuck. I was doing something, or on my way to doing something, and then… I just. got stuck.

“Stuck” looks like refreshing my feed or dashboard repeatedly. or it looks like staring at a spot on the wall. or chewing my fingernails. or picking at a stubborn sticker. all the while, my brain drifts through various unrelated topics I wouldn’t be able to recall if asked. sometimes I can get Stuck for hours before realizing I am Stuck. sometimes I get so Stuck that I go to bed that way (feeling especially bad for being unproductive) and I have to just reset everything by sleeping.

one day I asked myself, “why is this happening? why am I stuck, right now, at this moment in time?” the answer, as it turns out, was pretty simple: I was trying to make a decision, and I got distracted. I haven’t moved forward because I haven’t answered that one question or made up my mind.

let me rephrase this in terms of executive dysfunction: many people have expressed that it feels like knowing you need to do a thing but not feeling “ready” to do it. many with ADHD may also be familiar with the feeling of needing things to be “just so” before you embark on a task- you need your setup to look a certain way, or you need to set a timer, or have the right music playing, etc.

when I get Stuck it’s often because I got lost somewhere in that setting-up process, and my brain took the opportunity to nyoom off into Distraction Town.

getting myself Unstuck is solved, 95% of the time, by tracing my steps back to the original decision I was trying to make- often something small and inane- and then troubleshooting from there. (out loud! verbal processing is totally punk.)

“what was I trying to do?”

“was I trying to decide between two things?”

(the answer’s usually yes.)

“what were they?”

“okay, let’s decide.

“okay, that’s settled. let’s move on.”

and then I am free as a bird to nyoom in the direction of The Thing I Wanted To Do All Along, in the amazingly disorganized, scattered, yet rapid-fire way that I do many things.

so!!! in the case of my first post, where I hadn’t showered for 2 hours? turns out I had been trying to decide what music to listen to in the shower. (another hack: my chances of getting Stuck while showering decrease by 75% if I have music playing to help me keep track of time.) I couldn’t immediately make up my mind, got lost in thought, got distracted, and drifted. once I stopped and asked- “why am I stuck?”- then I remembered- “oh yeah! I wanted to listen to music”- and then decided- “I want to listen to Daft Punk’s Discovery album”- I was finally heckin able to shower. and also eat, and also throw my clothes in the dryer.

and may I add I only zoned out once, during the slow part of “One More Time.” :P

I’m not saying this is a foolproof method. sometimes I don’t have a reason for being stuck, and that’s okay! I’m also not saying this is how every adhd brain works. it’s just how my brain works, and I’m sure there’s at least a few who can relate. for those few, I hope this helps!!

mothric

a lot of people are reblogging the original post without the update and leaving frustrated comments and that makes me sad! if I can find ways to hack my brain than so can you! executive dysfunction is a real and frustrating challenge, but don’t buy the lie that there’s no way to work with it or around it!!!

sometimesyouhavetobebrave

!!!!

#executive dysfunction #mental health

sanscest69

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

#this may sound made up but #QA for video games

archie-sunshine

not what i was looking for actually.

powersandplanetaries

@elodieunderglass i come bearing tribute.

blur-from-the-north

Ca. January 2002. Oulu, Finland. Wirgin Edixa Prismat, Porst Weitwinkel 1:3.5/35mm, Fuji 400 (?) film.

#snow

micro-usb-deactivated20230625

theparadigmshifts

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

theparadigmshifts

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

#when i say i want to be eloquent #this is what i mean