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So my boss's neighbor won a lobster a few years back and decided to keep it as a pet. Since we're in Massachusetts they worried about how the lobster would handle the cold so they made it a sweater and mittens

#i thought i would share #weird pets #orignal content #im going to keep reblogging all iterations of my lobster

cherryhatter-deactivated2015072

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

visibun

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

drtanner

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

quantumshade

everyone be quiet. marsha with her snoopy.

eebie

I just ate one

eebie

You can lie when you name things

imapuppetqueer

Gotta catch em all

weirdtranssexual

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

if you can’t read or write 500-1000 words with relative ease you have a serious problem

weirdtranssexual

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

how are you going to function in society if you can’t read 1000 words at a time

prof-grace-aspen

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

Pick a topic you like, and that's what you're going to read about. Set a minimum word count, and read until you get to it. Start small. Smart easy. First try, it might actually be agonizing.

That's it for the day. Just hit the word count.

Next day, read to the word count again. Read something new! It will be easier today.

And easier the next.

And you will naturally find yourself extending how much you read per day.

weirdtranssexual

yes! the brain must be exercised like any other part of the body to get stronger! no matter what place you’re at you can do stimulating activities to exercise your brain!

mageofthemarsh

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.

"I ain't reading that" becomes "I can't read that" which becomes "I didn't read before I signed it because the guy telling me to was convincing and now I don't have anything".

heywriters

^^ There is so much profit in exploiting illiteracy and ignorance.

On top of being scammed, receiving accurate medical treatment relies on you knowing how to do your own research, and too many doctors take illiterate patients less seriously.

If you become a victim of a crime or are accused of a crime, you need to be able to read the papers a cop or lawyer puts in front of you. They can happily take advantage of your ignorance if you give them a chance.

This list goes on! Landlords, real estate agents, accountants, car mechanics, bankers, phone companies, customer service, contractors, childcare workers, e.g. any other human you rely on just to live your life will expect you to be literate and capable of making smart decisions. It is not their job to supplement your ignorance. It is not any well-meaning individual's job to make sure you paid attention in the same classes they did. And most of them know this and will not wait for you to figure things out.

It won't be a scam, it will just be business.

deliverancefromfear

wifemoji

white ppl with small dogs will go places u never thought possible

wifemoji

this was about a dog i saw inside mcdonalds but ur right . ur so right.

musiicpix3l

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

fluffmugger

"Love is love" is a milquetoast cishet marketing phrase

Pride is a FUCK YOU to a society that wants us dead.

dearheen

My drawing of Yuzuki from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns

redstonedust

people will insist humans are naturally selfish when feeding the birds is a common hobby. when there are wildlife hospitals you can call when you find an injured fox outside. do we get anything from helping wild animals? i don't think so. it's not personal. it's just nice. it's something we have the resources to do, so we do it. i think thats worth remembering.

objectivistnerd

It's selfish because I want bird more than bread. Not that complicated.

leviathan-supersystem

great that was easy mode. now explain how you fit people who throw themselves on a grenade to save other people into a descriptive egoist framework without stretching the concept of "self-interest" beyond the breaking point and rendering it meaningless (ie no "oh well they want those other people to be alive more than they want to be alive" that's obviously prioritizing other people's needs over one's own and redefining "self interest" to be just "a thing someone wants")