Bird Brained

My creative blog Here!! Yes that is two very desperate exclamation points. Do you feel excited? You should. That link leads to an awesome blog of awesomeness. Not that this blog isn't awesome. But I made all the stuff on the other blog. So yeah. Awesome.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I didn't know bucket toothpaste was only a thing here!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

WAIT! How do people in other countries put toothpaste on their toothbrushes??? You d-don't use your toothpaste spoon????

[one-time-i-dreamt]

You keep your toothpaste in condiment tubes???

[one-time-i-dreamt]

This whole thread is making me so sad 😔😔

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[nameless-glitter-official]

For the americans out there, 1kg is about 2lbs. Rewriting this bost gives:

"To answer a lot of people's question: this package is [4lbs] there's also, [10lbs] and [20lbs] ones (which used to be sold in most stores, but you can find them only in specialized ones nowadays). There are some tiny ones, like 1lb! Those are the ones you buy to carry when you travel."

Croatians apparently take a pound of toothpast with them when they travel.

I now live in fear of the Croatians.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[rippedstitches]

The Coming of the Lord + The Ecstasy - Fabián Cháirez

[theyilinglaozus]

“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” ↳ Happy one year anniversary to Word of Honor.

[rumade]

I’d divorce him too lmao

[sustainableseparatists]

[sisyphereantask]

It’s never JUST about the tomatoes.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Basically!

Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls “bids.” For example, say that the husband is a bird enthusiast and notices a goldfinch fly across the yard. He might say to his wife, “Look at that beautiful bird outside!” He’s not just commenting on the bird here: He’s requesting a response from his wife—a sign of interest or support—hoping they’ll connect, however momentarily, over the bird.

The wife now has a choice. She can respond by either “turning toward” or “turning away” from her husband, as Gottman puts it. Though the bird-bid might seem minor and silly, it can actually reveal a lot about the health of the relationship. The husband thought the bird was important enough to bring it up in conversation and the question is whether his wife recognizes and respects that.

These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. Couples who had divorced after a six-year follow-up had “turn-toward bids” 33 percent of the time. Only three in 10 of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy. The couples who were still together after six years had “turn-toward bids” 87 percent of the time. Nine times out of 10, they were meeting their partner’s emotional needs.

The Secret to Love Is Just Kindness

Those who showed genuine interest in their partner’s joys were more likely to be together.

[educatedsavage]

Damn, this made me think of all the “shouting into the void” social media posts everyone makes. Just bids for connection. From ANYONE.

[c-ptsdrecovery]

I think that is ABSOLUTELY what a lot of that is. Our culture is very isolated (even BEFORE covid!), and we’re desperate to connect with others. I read an article one time that suggested that childcare workers stop saying that a child is “Just wants attention” and start saying that the child is “looking for connection.” We’re starved for it even from childhood.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[sosayset]

When they are speaking about a passion, respond to children as if you would a tenured professor at a prestigious university, and to an adult as if you would a child free of the burdens of adulthood. 

Children are desperate to teach the wonders of the world that they know, that they have just learned, and share it with anyone interested.  Adults pour passion they didn’t know they had into voluntary obligations, and crave a simple acknowledgment of that passion as being worthy and valid. 

“Dear third grader, tell me exactly why you chose <x> as you third favorite carnivorous dinosaur instead of second, as specifically as possible.”

“Hey neighbor, your vegetable garden is absolutely gorgeous this year…and no I’m not just saying that because the tomatoes you gave me last year were absolute perfection.”

[utopians]

The fact that humans can be killed through physical means is so ridiculous to me

[utopians]

Like this sounds wild but like. hear me out. a person is such a ridiculously infinitely complicated web of thoughts and feelings and beliefs and such an unbelievably huge amount of knowledge and the idea that you can destroy that by holding a pillow over someone’s face for three minutes is absolutely surreal. The idea that you can remove knowledge and emotion and memory from the world with a physical object is literally unbelievable. people are literally infinitely huge and complex and the fact that you can kill the person by killing the body is wild. I’m sure this is incoherent but I hope you get it

[utopians]

It’s like. Imagine you threw a fist-sized rock at the empire state building and the entire thing and everything inside it collapsed into dust. That’s what the existence of human death feels like

[unionizecatgirls]

Put the blunt down

[utopians]

NO drugs here legend just a healthy amount of existential despair. I’m a clean livin teen

[cyberxbattalion]

[memesandmylife]

[nosleepforaiba-deactivated20251]

Every time I get lower back pain at work I think about that scene from the incredibles where Mr. Incredible is being stretched by the giant robot and his back clicks in juuuust the right way and he laughs triumphantly and proceeds to tear the robot to pieces

[nosleepforaiba-deactivated20251]

God I wish that were me

[gen-z-culture-is]

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

well yeah how is shakespeare gonna recognize a blue hedgehog when he’s dead

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

i have misunderstood the post

[sonicheritageposts]

sonic heritage post

[jca-archive]

Thomas Blackshear, from Illustrators 25 (1984)

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Jarlock (Jeans Warlock)

[animalcrossingmemes]

[everythingfox]

A big boy

(via)

[depsidase]

[maruti-bitamin]

おこ

[ratzmatazz]

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-city-councillor-is-knitting-to-prove-men-speak-too-much-at-meetings

QUEEN SHIT OH MY GOD

[iffathenna]

Oranges! 🍊🍊🍊

Iffathenna

Kofi

[cityrun]

i like to run and jump in my own home just for the hell of it. i will sprint from the kitchen to my bedroom for no reason whatsoever. is it necessary? no. will i do it anyway? absolutely

[ace-bestos]

op is a cat

[cityrun]

mind your business

[trashyeggroll]

tumblr is great and all but ya’ll are missing the woman in one of my cat fb groups that has birthed her own tier 1 meme