Full of Brain Worms (affectionate)

This blog is whatever I want it to be. Right now, that’s American Girl Dolls Vegan, they/them, autistic, white, over 18

[spooniestrong]

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Voting ended onJun 4

[z-a-d-i-e]

i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

[z-a-d-i-e]

it's funny that this is getting notes again, because last night i went to the thai place in my neighborhood. it's run by a family and during covid times i ate there literally almost every day. later i cut back on eating out so much and hadn't been there in two years but last night we went and ate inside for the first time ever and the owner ran over to say hello and ask how i was, and repeated our old regular order. it was sweet. it's so easy to feel like you are an island, but stuff like this reminds you that you are part of a community.

[nuclearfeels]

One time i went to the bakery near my home and just as i entered the put out a fresh tray of spinach cheese ham crossiants, and when i ordered one they just told me its on the house

[shillanov]

u know what i fucking love. is that it's so clear that many of us have important full time jobs. yet you can see us here on tumblr throughout the work day posting about the most unhinged shit possible. like we're really out here going to a meeting then coming back to tumblr like "shane drippy big dick bouncing on that thang" before running back to another meeting like Hi Linda yes I talked to the team earlier and we're ready to send the documents over. How was your weekend

[shillanov]

[thegentlemanstar]

this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is

are you usamerican

yes

no

some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)

Voting ended onJun 5

[wings-of-angels]

How it feels to be a hater but u only hate in private with ur best friend so it hurts nobody

[tam--lin]

Everyone needs three hobbies: one to give you carpel tunnel, one to leave you sore and bruised, and one for your distant relatives to insist you monetize

[godisafujoshi]

Jerking off. Falling down the stairs. Fixing the wifi.

[ndnbutch]

fyi. being intensely self critical is not the same as being self aware. if you’re really self aware you’ll be aware of the good stuff too. just in case anyone needs to hear it. don’t mistake constantly dissecting what you see as your flaws for some kind of personal enlightenment.

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

everyone is always acting like there is some crisis of human interaction with one another because everyone is overly sensitive to how strangers approach them and like. no actually its because nobody has any fucking manners. social etiquette has legitimately vanished. it makes interacting with strangers miserable because people don’t know how to fucking behave in public.

like it is rude to stare. it is rude to point. it is rude to have a loud phone conversation in a quiet place. it’s rude to listen to music or videos or whatever on your device with no headphones on a loud volume, or at any volume in an enclosed or quiet space. these are rude things to do. like i’m sorry while some etiquette is silly, an acceptable level of decorum is necessary to make existing in public bearable for everybody…….it is LITERALLY common courtesy

[ralkana]

Also, do not fucking photograph or film people without their consent!

[quotesandquotability]

Every public place and most private places have security cameras. Existing in public is consenting to be filmed. Which--yeah, sucks. But I'm not about to say that Walmart gets to film us at every conceivable angle, but our fellow humans can't record us from their own perspective. It's already a surveillance state. What's one more camera?

[wokeuphighbyvanessacarlton]

Walmart isn't gonna post videos of people to make fun of them on the internet you fucking weirdo.

[bumblebeerror]

Genuinely if you film in public in order to post it online, you should not be getting clear shots of anyone’s face/recognizable characteristics unless you’ve asked them. Blur them. Cut them out. It isn’t illegal but it’s fucking rude as hell to blast someone’s face online for entertainment without asking them.

Especially because these videos very commonly capture moments like medical emergencies/symptoms, fat people existing, mental illness, and homeless people. If you’re filming someone vulnerable without their consent to laugh at online, you are the worst kind of scum I can think of.

[aquaflv]

when you go to a doctors office their favorite thing to do is tell you "okay check out at the front desk" when you're done. and the front desk tells you ummm you can just go! and you're like don't I have a copay? and they're like we don't know, we have to ask your insurance company first. and you're like well my insurance card says the copay is $30, can I just pay it right now while I'm standing in front of you? there's a card reader right there on the desk. and they're like nooo we have to send a representative on horseback during the next waning moon to meet with their claims adjusting associate director of benefits management and client services in the secret glade to negotiate. and you're like oh okay and go home. and you get twelve emails asking you to take a survey about your experience

[aquaflv]

AND THEN in eight months you start getting phone calls from unknown numbers and when you finally check your voicemail they're like Your Balance Is Past Due We're Going To Kill You (even though by this point you have forgotten that you ever went to the doctor). and so you go to your MyChart account and log in with your username and password and you have to reset your password for security reasons. and you get two emails that say Your Password Has Been Reset. Was This You? and you have to go find your phone and enter your two factor authentication code and then you have to select which location you visited and then you have to click through all the Reminder: Complete Your Health History Profile where they ask if you've had any new surgeries even though you definitely told the nurse about this at your visit and then you have to find the Pay Bills tab and your balance is $179.23 and you're like why is it so expensive I thought the copay was $30? and you download a PDF of the charges and find out that they charged a late fee of $15 a month even though that doesn't add up to $179.23 and you don't even remember being told you had any balance at any point and you could call a representative and ask about it but that would probably take at least half an hour and there's no way it would actually get rid of the charges. so you go pay it anyway and you have to go find a paper check to look up your bank account routing number because they'll charge you an extra 3% if you pay with a credit card and there's a fee of $2.75 for convenience also. and then you get three emails that say We've Received Your Payment! Thank You For Your Payment!

[ihni]

Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

[jacksfoxevangeline]

I’m married to my brother/father

Turning this into a tag game

@the-one-and-only-piper-offical @artemisiamasterofnone @alien-in-washington @lexi-is-short @cleaning-spray-offical @arson-the-artificer-offical @willowxweirdoxthexdayxdreamer @written-by-music @itsuwari-no-kibo-offical @rosedmcenjoyer @confusedfroggirl @thevoidlapidarym @shadow-vex @cicadabee @anonymousdoggie @chickfila-offical @aviewtodeath @livviedaltonvintagedoll @goodplayproductions @ravenswritingdesk231 @allisteristired @duckwithdeviousintent @iminyourbedsheets @nobodysavemysoulitsperfectlyfine @hypnopompic-decay @elliotsaqueenfan @ilovecoveysongs @alchemy-and-royalty @monster-of-the-margins @mirrorballbutmadeoffoil

[alien-in-washington]

Maaaaze

@antjester @burning-britain-official @zeta-finnish @i-garden-a-lot @sashimi55 + open tags

[ipaddres]

you can only use spears and rocks

@mistic404 @ajithink @thehollowmite + open tags

[ajithink]

“You must go to the lands of the Christianity in order to get more Willing Volunteers”

Open tags

[thehollowmite]

“WALK INTO THE YELLOW GRASS YOU FUCKING COWARD”

@echothevessel @toxicrobotyaoi @secret-divinity

[secret-divinity]

Cnyder.

@therunawayvessel

[tanyindrawsandgames]

Rebunak.

@sleepy-echo19 (the tag didnt work despairr)

And then my besties

@morphologist @floohy @zora-thesidecharacter @warblingcritter @andro-m3da @lionacuty @banditbeloathed @that1chaospotato @diverdrivedown @partialpablo @duckofmisfortuneoffical

And otherwise open tags! ^^

[partialpablo]

Whismy.

I forgot who exactly said it so have ALL OF MY FRIENDS ON TUMBLR

@morphologist @floohy @andro-m3da @lionacuty @banditbeloathed @that1chaospotato @duckofmisfortuneoffical @zora-thesidecharacter

[imjustalittlecreature]

Human bone buttons

@kosei-on @wormtimebaby +open tags

[yesornopolls]

whenever my parents went on vacation they would take separate flights so if one crashed we wouldn’t be orphaned. did your parents do this too?

Whenever my parents went on vacation, they would take separate flights, so if one crashed, we wouldn’t be orphaned. did your parents do this too?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 25

[ishimarukiyotaka]

The sign many left wingers have subconsciously accepted moving right on covid and embraced lowering public health standards is when people seem to think “masks should be mandatory in healthcare settings /airplanes “ is somehow a radical position to take in an ongoing pandemic

[jupiterroxx]

its so fucking weird because "masks in healthcare" should be the default all of the time. Doctors and nurses are literally employed to go from sick person to sick person, treating immunocompromised people especially often.

It should have been mandatory BEFORE covid

[desertdollranch]

Just a little something I made as an another addition to Caroline's collection!

This soft crown bonnet appears in her fourth book, Caroline Takes a Chance. Neither it nor this dress were ever produced for her collection, so I decided to just do it myself.

Straw hats are easy to find at thrift stores. I cut one up to make the brim and reinforced it with some extra stitching in matching thread. Now her face can stay shaded from the sun when she goes out fishing in the skiff, which she is going to do in my next post.

[macgyvermedical]

Is the Hantavirus something to be concerned over, or is there a lot of fearmongering occuring?

Unless you were on the MV Hondius or in close contact with someone who was, you're probably safe.

It is extremely unlikely that the Andes strain of hantavirus will be the next pandemic. This is mostly because, unlike COVID or the flu, it requires very close and relatively long contact to spread. It usually spreads only among people living in in the same house or otherwise in very close quarters (including, in this case, a cruise ship).

I think a lot of people, having recently lived through a pandemic, are naturally more observant of a cluster of cases of a rare and deadly virus. There's a lot of news coverage for a relatively small number of cases. But there is a lot being done to isolate those potentially exposed and prevent further spread, and the virus itself is not particularly contagious except in very limited circumstances.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Why we shouldn't rule out airborne spread of hantavirus

The Andes type of the hantavirus is spread by “close contact,” but it’s unclear how much of that transmission occurs by inhaling airborne dr

The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth

Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.

"Close contact" is a narrative, not clear, static, physical reality. The WHO has walked back what they mean by this phrase three times already from "prolonged one-on-one contact" to "shared space for a couple hours" to "within six feet and 15 minutes." Several people on the ship got sick just passing confirmed cases in the hallway, and two flight attendants have come down with Hantavirus from being in proximity to people from the cruise. Sadly, viruses riding on aerosolized spit don't listen when you say "close contact" like a prayer. Andes hantavirus may be the newest, trendiest threat, but wearing a respirator in public is a good idea for many more reasons including a flu season which won't end, continued covid circulation, RSV, HMPV, rising measles cases (your vaccine isn't perfect and there are new outbreaks every day), tuberculosis (nearly an entire high school in California was infected by a few active cases last year), wildfire smoke, air pollution, allergens, and more! With a national healthcare apparatus run by RFK jr, its just a good idea to be a little more cautious, especially since those not in the quarantine center in Nebrasksa are literally just pinky promising not to go out. Okay: what about their families who live in close contact with them? What if they decide "fuck it, I want to go to the bar"? We should follow the precautionary principle specifically because we no longer have a public health apparatus interested in preventing the spread of disease.

It also needs to be said that the longest recorded incubation period for Andes hantavirus is 63 days. It's possible there are already dozens or hundreds more people who have been exposed who simply have no clue they've been exposed. You cannot be effectively PCR tested (the only test we have at the moment) until you are showing symptoms, and by then they have likely been actively shedding virus for a day or two. It's not panic to be prepared, and it's not overzealous to stand up for your own and your community's health with a simple act like wearing a respirator. It breaks the chains of infection from hundreds of diseases, meaning less ER visits in your community, less future cases of Alzheimer's and cancer and hashimoto's and post-viral illness, meaning more healthy kids getting better grades and living happier lives, meaning more time with grandma and grandpa because they're not dying of preventable illness we've decided is normal and dandy.

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[vinnie-vinardi]

vacation

One nerd needed some rest

[lavenderprose]

Things that are ACTUALLY in the Shane Hollander Mic'd Up compilation that we all wish we could watch through the portal:

- "Hey, how was your summer? Good, good."

- "Mic'd up. I'm mic'd up. Don't."

- "Have you ever been to Greece? Told Ilya I would ask you."

- "What? No, man, he didn't say that. He said he was gonna get your ass. Yeah, man, he only fucks one ass. Yeah, I mean, I would say fuck you too but--"

- "Heeeey, davai, davai. Great assist. Hah, no, don't come closer, I'm mic'd and you know I don't trust you."

- "The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal--"

- "HEY MATHESON. You ever been to Vegas? I said, you ever been to VEGAS? I hear they let the good hockey players go there in the summer but I feel like you wouldn't know that."

- "FUCK. Hey, ref, what the fuck was that? Oh, you didn't see that? Fuck you. No, you stay there, my husband's gonna talk to you--fuck you, put me in the bin then, this is bullshit--"

- "You have the smelling salts? Yeah. FUCK--"

- "I am mic'd. Remember I am mic'd. Nope, not even in Russian."

- "Oh, yeah, the pickle video was funny. Harris said it got a lot of views, so. Yeah, no, he actually really does love pickles that much."

- "Sinclair, you got something to say? Yeah, I'm better at hide the pickle than you are at hockey. You want to ask another stupid question?"

- "You know, I run a charity too. Oh, I just assumed that you were doing some kind of Make-A-Wish thing out here with your wingers, since it looks like this is your first day on the ice."

- "Oh, hey, look. Jackie and the kids are waving at us. Okay. Okay, Rozanov, that's enough."

- "Mic'd. Mic'd. Mic'd."

- "Hello Hockey Night, welcome to my husband's shoulder pads--" "Fuck OFF, Rozanov."

- "Great goal. Great goal. Lyublyu tebya. Yes, baby, you did that."