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The entire point of, OK, my phone really wants to call it Anastasia so I guess we’re doing that? The entire point of Anastasia (as administered by a board-certified Anastasiologist) during sugary. Sugary? Haven’t I suffered enough? The entire point of Anastasia during augury. Jesus Christ. Hold up. You know what, augury is preferable to sugary. Augury is obviously performed by an auger (makes sense if you give it a think) whereas sugary is performed by…? A sugardaddy? NO THANK YOU. Anyway. The entire point of Anastasia is so that you don’t know what music your sturgeon. Fuck right off. Was playing. While you were under. You’re not supposed to wake up from Anastasia and immediately realize you managed to get earwormed by Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” during your sugary.

dogposts

This is Lucky. She found a stick and that stick is lucky to have her

alexisknits

Marilyn Whirlwind knitting on Northern Exposure.

starcures

new boot goofin

seralicetarrant

Tracking those paw prints all over the place...

zip-bomb-dog

The beast will run rampant tomorrow... For now, Tired Beast Thursday

moveoversun

@c-rowlesdraws

c-rowlesdraws

she's holding her paw out for a high five! Don't leave her hanging!

autistic-af

"Why did you bother getting diagnosed as an adult if there isn't much available for you?"

I did it for the toddler who couldn't talk until she was nearly 4 despite her mother taking her to the doctor with worry. Who spent her time alone, lining up her toys by colours, but was told she was just "taking her time" talking and walking.

I did it for the little girl who told her mother at the age of 5: "I don't think I was meant to be born here", because how else did she explain that she felt so different?

I did it for the little girl who had meltdowns, left in agonising mental pain before being sent to her room for "throwing a temper tantrum". So she learned to hold in that pain. Suffering lights, noise, smells, tastes and touch.

I did it for the little girl who couldn't make friends because she didn't understand what a friend was, or even how to keep one. Who would repeatedly be pulled into cruel jokes by others and not realise it until too late, so she became suspicious of everyone, distrusting before she reached high school.

I did it for the teenager who suffered through bullying, ostracised for reasons she couldn't understand, left sitting by herself despite the group who insisted they were "friends". Who would spend the summer break alone in a cool library only to find out these friends spent the summer together and never invited her.

I did it for the teenager who didn't know trends, didn't dress right, act right, look right. Who felt wrong, broken and frightened.

I did it for the young adult who searched for the missing pieces in religion, then therapy, then alcohol. Who was destroying the one and only pure relationship she had with her husband and best (only) friend because she felt broken, unworthy, unfixable.

I did it because even though I can't get much help (mind you, others can, so this is highly personal) I know what I'm experiencing is normal for me.

I did it because I'm not broken. I'm not unworthy. I do not need fixing.

I did it for me.

importantcatpics

karlaosouzadaily

I was at the end of my first of three years of acting school in London, and one day for no reason I lost the ability to speak. For three months, I couldn’t talk. For three months I couldn’t say one miserable sentence. And neither doctors nor electroencephalograms have ever been able to explain to me what really happened. What I can tell you is that I arrived at a moment of such great frustration and desperation that it led me to want to take my own life. […] But this pain began to feel a bit less heavy when I saw my pain, the exact same type of pain, reflected in the works of art of others. In plays, movies, paintings. Little by little, I began to see my pain and read it in poems. The words of the poets began to fill my silence. It became the only form in which I felt like I could express my emotions. Art became something alive.

– Karla Souza, Tedx Talk

euphorictruths

Big Dipper- Natalia Shchipakina; 2019

high-quality-tiktoks

it’s been a few days and he loves it

claptrap14

snapcracklepop-myjoints

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

hannah-snow

Children might not know what ratios are in the sense of 1:1 notation, but they are more than capable of understanding 'you have to use the same amount of water and rice otherwise it goes wrong'.

hannah-snow

In addition to this, cooking is an excellent way to teach children scaling and ratio in Real Life.

ohifonlyx33

"Children don't understand-" AND THAT'S WHY IT IS YOUR JOB TO TEACH THEM????? LIKE HELLO??? THEY CAN LEARN??????

ninefoldrin

I can assure you, children always are able to understand more than you think they are. Even if you have extremely high opinions of what children can understand, they will still surprise you.

My mom taught me to cook by the time I was probably 7 or 8. On a stove even! It wasn't much, but I learned the essentials to following a recipe and making a nice meal.

I desperately hope that the "I wasn't allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16" is an exaggeration because omfg! When I was 2 I took the batteries out of the TV remote. I put them back in. My dad took the remote to fix the batteries, assuming I put them in wrong. I had not. Never even needed to be taught which way batteries go. I was taught how to work a VCR at 2 as well because my parents got tired of rewinding Lion King for me. By the time I had a video game console, I was taking it with me to other places to plug into other TVs. I was 5 or 6.

Kids aren't unintelligent, they just haven't learned things yet. That's why you teach them. They learn far quicker and easier than adults do and will often figure things out on their own as well if given the space and opportunity to try. Teach the kids in your life whatever skills you can that they're willing to learn.

starlit-meadow

foodffs

15 Minute Kimchi Fried Rice

ellipsus-writes

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)