My heart is taken by huevos rancheros

Stella || She/they; artist, writer, nerd || Activity: sporadic || Current things I'm into: Lies of P; Ghost of Yotei; Gemini (Lies of P); Issun (Okami); horses || Interactions from accounts that look/seem like bots will be immediately blocked and reported (sorry)

[monadsrose]

BLOODBORNE — SCENERY ´ˎ˗

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Street in Algeria’ (detail) by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, c. 1882.

[fluffysheeps]

Snake snacks 🐍

[snake-spotted]

snake spotted!!

[scatterpatter]

Hear me out-

Bonus Speardovich version:

[memeclassheroes]

[greywrenn]

#‘el pastel promedio tiene tres leches’ es en realidad un error estadístico. El pastel promedio tiene 0 leches. Leches Georg#quien vive en una cueva y absorbe 10.000 leches al día#es un valor atípico qeu no debería haberse contado (via @deathbycoldopen)

[adamsmasher]

I don't speak Spanish but I understand every word

[optionalcausality]

I appreciate 'adn' being preserved in the form of 'qeu', that's absolutely beautiful.

[risingpilots]

do you use a meat thermometer when cooking meat

yes

no

it depends/nuance

Remaining time: 13 hours 42 minutes

Everytime I go online looking for like meat recipies or stuff like that everyone always mentions a meat thermometer? Which like i guess is nice to have but I was taught to cook by my Black southern grandma from who's from the country and I dont think I've ever seen her use one before. She (and I) use just experience or cutting into the inside/poking the meat to check for doneness.

[videos-i-didnt-make]

stand_down.mp4

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Just want to add that if you're on the spectrum, you may also experience Autistic Rumination, which is distinct from the obsessive variety, despite the two having some overlapping characteristics!

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[is-it-out-of-touch-thursday]

Yes

[modernmodron]

Okami Damacy

[ckret2]

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

[ckret2]

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

[bogleech]

I still have and treasure this single piece of hate mail from 2002 that I got during the infamous Gamefaqs Greatest Character Poll Drama after I said Sephiroth was dumb

[horsesarecreatures]

Icelandic Horse

[spicymochi]

your month, your seal!

[anarchoanarchist420]

As a security professional / locksmith / general “make this place be locked” guy, there are a few ways that you can disable the ingress/egress points of a building. This information is good to avoid issues with your doors on your business!

There are two general types of ways you can screw with a door: either the door cannot lock, or the door cannot open.

Let’s talk about locks!!

If you use any sort of badge/keyfob/rfid nonsense to enter a building, the door is either locked by a powered lockset, an electric strike, or a maglock. Here’s how you tell.

This is a maglock! If there is a little rectangle in the door frame, this is what it is. This takes 12 or 24 volts of power, rather low amperage, and by fire code there must be a DIRECT INTERRUPT to force these locks to open on the inside of the door. It may look like this:

If this button were to be held down in some way, or if the (likely to be) green and white wires behind this thing were cut and twisted together, the door would remain open. There are also frequently little access doors on these locks where the power wires connect:

If there’s no door, look for access to the wire inside of a box near the door frame as they can just have a wire that comes off of them:

Unlike other locking devices, maglocks NEED CONSTANT POWER TO OPERATE, also known as being “fail safe” opposed to “fail secure”. Fail safe meaning that in the event of a failure, you would be able to egress. The other types of electronic locking systems are typically fail secure, meaning that the door remains secure from the outside.

I’ll add more to this post later but the important thing to remember is that fire code necessitates that any door with an exit sign above it must maintain “one touch opening”, meaning a crash bar to exit with like this:

When there’s a certain occupancy level.

Remember, if you want to keep your business secure, keep in mind that anyone who has access to the inside of your door has the ability to disable the door completely. For example, this crash bar could also be disabled if that little black thing (called a strike) on the left were to be removed via the two phillips 3 screws holding it in.

I’ll be back with more in the future!

[ariokshurg]

This evening, I came across a challenge from @camelidae that became the inspiration for these fast sketches

[writersrandomramblings]

Overlooked.