welcome to the disco

[mouseleygraham]

I KNOW when characters are bisexual. even when it’s not explicitly said

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[gayhoediaz]

the best fic you have ever read in your entire fucking stupid life: written by anonymous

[dumbusahana]

daydreaming about having enough energy to do things

[romcom19]

just in case you need a reminder 💘

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[lilithsaintcrow]

“Take year 3 student Emma Glenfield, who started with a simple question about magpies and wound up conducting some cutting-edge research almost by accident."

Do magpies target you? This eight-year-old's viral research could explain why

Emma Glenfield wants to know why magpies swoop. She's conducting some cutting-edge research — and displaying her results with Lego.

[adastra-sf]

"I watched the people he swooped and I recorded it," Emma said.

"Then I got everything I recorded and I figured out that the people Mr Swoopsalot swooped were male, they were tall, and that they had thin or receding hair."

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

[amalg-em]

y'all i don't usually say this shit out loud but please read the link. she got 30 THOUSAND responses to her survey. THIRTY THOUSAND. And she's eight. So learning how to use MS Excel for that data wasn't really an option.

So she made a graph out of Legos. LEGOS!!

This kid is an absolute genius and I am so excited for her.

[lantaren]

@kaity--did you might enjoy some excellent parenting referenced here because my favourite part is how her Mum encourages her to keep a journal with questions and things she is interested in! And encourages her to keep doing stuff she's passionate about (maths) even when other kids her age aren't! ❤

I love the journal thing and might steal that for myself...

[kaity--did]

Oh this is the sweetest and honestly most interesting thing I've ever seen! I don't think we have Magpies where I'm from !!

[funstyle]

having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

[jacobtheloofah]

i was paying attention, i was listening, but you see the problem is....it didnt work

[jlhgiyftr75587ityjgfhdsetljdse]

I am an old person and tumblr is the porch

[im-a-ramblr]

HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY

[faux-friend]

When a black person states that something you did was racist, chill the fuck out. Its annoying dealing with you panicking trying to dissociate yourself from racism. If you're not black, black people already assume youve said nigga or its variant at least once in your life. If they're interacting with you and bringing something up, its because they want you to stop doing that so they can still interact with you(if ur already friends)

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

Be the kind of person black people don't have to gamble on. Shut up and lock in

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

reminder that this is your failing and it's your responsibility to fix it, not the people who actually suffer because of the racism you perpetuate.

this is a great way to let people know that you are not safe to talk to, the entitlement is just fucking staggering.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

sigh. you are being racist. let me break it down for you.

the scenario is, as described by a white person, a racialized person being unreasonably angry with them for being racist. under a post saying that you need to not be a crybaby when you get told you're racist. the sheer fact that you not only granted credence to the white person's POV but felt compelled to step up to defend their aggressive ignorance should concern you.

you are extending an enormous amount of grace to the white person in this scenario while also excusing them from doing the same for the racialized person in the scenario.

racism isn't just fucking running around in klan hoods burning crosses, it's a shitload of unconscious biases that you have to work to unpack and unlearn. you have more work to do

[orkyydorky]

this too shall pass

[orkyydorky]

HURRY UP

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

[haaarpb]

i love both my beautiful daughters

[animentality]

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!