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i'm so. emotional at the thought of this very professional, highly trained crew delaying their first meal (in a day scheduled down to the minute!) in sheer awe at the view of earth receding. and then getting the windows grubby in their excitement ;-;
i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone
I really don’t know what crowd I expected to be in the theatre for carol at 1:20 in the afternoon on a friday but it was probably 85% old people, old het couples and halfway through the movie this old lady in front of me turned to the old dude next to her and just said “harold they’re lesbians”
love how murderbot makes it about six hours as part of an actual crew before contracting a case of o captain my captainitis. classic mistake
“dr mensah is murderbot’s mother figure!” “no, she’s its romantic interest!” you’re all wrong, murderbot is a jaded 19th century royal marine and dr mensah is the first charismatic captain it’s ever had and brother it did not stand a chance
Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), DARING YOU, JUST FUCKIN DARING YOU TO TRY SOME OF THIS!!!, family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, Costa Rica
This bird is the only member of its family.
Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.
photographs by Freddy Madrigal
I made a thing. Happy pride 🏳️🌈
today I was wearing my “yes homo” shirt and some lady told me “you’re going to hell” and I said “with you around it’s like we’re already there” and I swear she made this exact fkn face
I cannot believe this post I made in 2015 is still going around…. anyway plot twist this same lady got famous on my town’s facebook gossip group for divorcing her husband for a woman 💅🏻✨ I like to believe my yes homo shirt pointed her in the right direction
From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!
Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!
The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)
The Sumatran Tiger
The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur
The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon
The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey
And the Mexican Spider Monkey!
Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!
FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.
A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.
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YES.
Strive to learn this, it is an INCREDIBLE skill to have.
If people want to be weird and shitty...you don't have to fix that or bridge that gap or take that negativity into yourself. You can learn to just go "Wow they're acting strangely and negatively, this is very much about them and not me. I'm not going to invest in this any further. The way they are behaving towards me is not consistent with wanting a mutual resolution, this will not make a home in me," or "They're being really passive aggressive and nasty, but I'm not playing their guessing games, I'm going to respond only if they say something out loud, like an adult; I asked if they were all right, they said they were fine, I will take them at their word, and not respond to the snide tone they used," or "This person's nasty personal attacks or negative political remarks are unfounded and unkind. Their feelings are real but I am not responsible for them and I'm not going to accept their thoughts and opinions about me/this issue as valid. I don't even need to respond."
You can improve your life by refusing to respond to subtext in a way that satisfies them.
This has been hugely beneficial for me at work. My mom often espoused the "kill them with kindness" method--not in the sense of letting yourself be mistreated, but in the sense of, responding to neutrality or passive aggressiveness with pleasant positivity. And I've taken it a step further and committed to the stuff mentioned above.
And you know what? It has hugely improved my working relationship with a number of difficult people.
No one technique works on everybody, and it takes some time, but I've genuinely managed to turn the page with multiple people who were passive aggressive, defensive, and treated all my communications as personal attacks--not to mention causing problems and obstructions any time my work interacted with theirs--and get to a place where we work well together and they trust me to build systems that will meet their needs and value their opinions.
The thing is, if someone is regularly passive aggressive, it's probably because they don't like being openly aggressive. So when confronted with someone who is friendly and seems not to read anything out of their conversations that isn't explicitly stated, they are often unwilling to escalate to saying their unreasonable issue out loud. And generally, humans are wired to be friendly towards people who are friendly to us, so it's a struggle to keep being a jerk in the face of that. So it may take awhile, but a lot of times--they eventually crumble, drop their one-sided beef, and start recognizing that you're acting in good faith, because they just don't know what else to do.
It's also a useful thing to "allow" yourself if you're ND. I spent so much time trying to learn all the social "rules", but in truth, this is one we can let go of. Even if you CAN sense that someone's being passive aggressive... Give yourself permission not to notice. Give yourself permission not to spend a lot of time trying to guess what they want you to change--not even neurotypical folks can necessarily guess that, and besides, what they want may require some negotiation--which you can't do until they clearly state what they want.
also on the topic of Cozy Fantasy: I feel like the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce are criminally neglected in this conversation. Like that series has so Many of the popular hallmarks: found fantasy! A magic system based on crafting! Psychic soul bonds! The two main mentor figures are literal cottage core lesbians.
But, crucially, the books manage all of this while having stakes. There are the relationship, personal level ones-- will these orphaned kids become friends? Will they learn to overcome the traumas of their respective backstories? Will they learn to master their magic?
And then there are Larger, life-threatening stakes... but crucially, not 'save-the-world' level. Pierce made the excellent choice for the first quartet (when the kids are like ~10-12 ish) to generally have the threats be natural. An earthquake, a forest fire, a pandemic; there's a pirate raid, but even then the framing feels more like a force of nature. As the kids age, the threats do become more human, but remain generally localized. A crime syndicate, a serial killer. The focus of the story remains what can we do to improve things, here, now, where we are?
They really are such delightful reads and I think they could offer a lot of insight into how stakes don't need to be End of the World to still be tense and impactful.
It’s also really telling I think that when the stakes do creep upward out of this zone they go a single logical step up—to a war.
And the increase is absolutely treated with the gravity it deserves and is considered the worst and most impactful thing to ever happen to any of the characters involved, even in comparison to their tragic backstories. This then has knock-on emotional consequences which trickle back down to the interpersonal stakes which get focus later in the timeline, sidestepping the trap of “yeah we have a medium to high stakes plot and then an unrelated low stakes plot and inexplicably they keep pausing the high stakes plot to indulge the low stakes one”
at some point in your life you are going to do or say something racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted. Your goal is not perfection, your goal is to be the kind of person that the people you've hurt feel safe being honest with when that happens.
