"The washer idling speed... lavation."

⚛ Atlas ⚛ he/they/it ⚛ Writer, musician, artist ⚛ Nominee for ordination in the Episcopal Church ⚛ Caffeine addict ⚛

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

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personal soundboard for when i'm scrolling various social media websites

[bookravager]

I think I was put on this earth to read good books but unfortunately I have to be "employed" to "live"

[girlbossfranziskavonkarma]

just laughed hysterically at the gripping foods with force twitter account

[girlbossfranziskavonkarma]

_-#(#)@/($_+$()@)@)#)

[thesleepytimes]

It’s so good

[adamsmasher]

[beardedmrbean]

[beardedmrbean]

[squishranger]

man i just dont know why im so afraid all the time (<- has the disorder that makes you afraid all the time)

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Yeah so apparently this is not a cute flower symbol like my dumb ass thought, it's a defective utility pole tag.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[theweirdwideweb]

[alex51324]

The ocean is so fucking weird. Imagine if you were just living your life and then all of the sudden here comes one of these.

Here on land there are only so many ways a creature can move, and by the time you're six or so, you've seen pretty much all of them that you're ever likely to.

Down there in the ocean they can just do anything. You could see a new weird animal every week for your whole life, and then when you're 80 this guy rocks up to you.

[littlefluffbutt]

I love this thing 💕

[leadhoovesies]

Jumpies

[dollfairy]

my mom called our lazy susan a sleazy susan by accident once and now I can't call it anything else

[cherishedproperty]

Can’t let a piece of gold like that stay in the tags.

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[orthodoxadventure]

I spoke with the Hieromonk (priest-monk) at my Church about my suicidal thoughts. And he told me that therapists, psychologists, support workers etc are all manifestations of God's love for us. That we should try and make use of these supports for our troubles. Sometimes because of our brokenness, we need other people to come in and help us out. Yes, we should turn to God in prayer for help. But we are also commanded to love one another and help one another. And I think that's a really beautiful way of looking at support systems.

[animentality]

[househunting]

$799,000 / 3 br / 2 ba Callicoon, NY Built in 1908

[creatingblackcharacters]

Not feeling too well; turning off asks for a little bit.

[creatingblackcharacters]

All right, I ate and I took my medicine 👍🏾 remember to take your anti-depressants kids! If you think you don't need em because you "feel fine", that's the depression devil talking.

[imaginarycircus]

Remember calming cat? Remember when tumblr was this color? If you don’t that’s fine. I just feel old and alone.

[should-be-sleeping]

You’re never alone. There is always calming cat.

[landmineblogging]

fur mew

[inpursuitof2015]

Omg