Mirror In The Abyss

He’s saying the thing again

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“The Jewish state would form a part of a wall of defence for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilisation against barbarism."

- Theodor Herzl

Oh.

This is an overtly fascist sentiment.

And the exact same sort that was said in the genocide of Native Americans...

You roll up to the Wizard Battle and your opponent takes out his spellbook but it’s just one of these

I'd leave. This is a sign that my opponent has the most fucked up unethical spells imaginable, and I am not about to be subject to Malchezar's Piercing Prostate Bomb or something

squint for me real quick

ok.

ok. >:(

** Blink Repeatedly Fast

I'm not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are "dumped" in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. "As soon as possible" is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.

This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too! All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).

Here are the links given in the screenshot:

Here is the paper that the second link uses as a source:

Reposting this because I need to materialize it somewhere.

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.

You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.

not to be sappy on main BUT one thing that i really loved when studying linguistics was that the more important a word is, the earlier the concept of this thing was given a word. for example, the word water is similar in many similar languages (aqua, agua, água). so, the more important a word is, the more languages it’ll be similar across and the older this word will be, theoretically and generally speaking (many other things also affect this)

AND SO in my years studying linguistics, there was one word that was nearly identical across so many regionally different languages (though there are outliers of course), from europe to most of asia to subsaharan africa to indigenous languages. across nearly all languages this is the first word people learn how to say and maybe the first word humans in general officially named and defined:

this isn’t actually the first word because we teach babies this word (most likely), but because the “mama” or “ama” sounds are the easiest things for babies to say, and it’s nearly always the only thing they can say at first, and adults across all languages defined their language around that.

babies all over the world for thousands and thousands of years all started out blabbering sounds like “mama” and mothers everywhere were all like Oh Shit That’s Me! I’m Mama!

It’s dark in here- *gasps in excitement* OHH SARAH!

OHH SARAH! *giggles like a little kid* OHhHhH!!

My ceiling is filled with blue lights… and stars and everything!!

OH Sarah! I can go to bed at night looking at this. OHHHH it’s beautiful!

ppl forget the innocence of the elderly… if there was ever a glimpse of them as a child, this is it

“I can go to bed at night looking at this!” 🥺✨

I love grandmothers. I miss mine every single day. This is beautiful.

I have one! I’ll deadass be in my room with it on listening to music and disassociating for hours 😂

It has a buncha colors but these are my faves

Purple bc insanely gorgeous 100/10 just beautiful

Then the light blue/green makes me feel like I’m underwater, 11/10 love to imagine I’m drowning

And then dark blue bc it feels like I’m in space, 10/10 would love to go there and stop breathing

@haileyhurts where did you get it?

I would love to cry my eyes out in a room this pretty

@yanderrree from here ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ galaxylight.com

I HAVE ONE TOO ! My cat trips balls when I use it. The “stars” are lasers so she goes nuts thinking it’s a 1000 laser light toys!! Never fails to crack me up.

same energy

the most fucking annoying thing in US politics is, whenever there's a strike, people going "well MY working conditions are even worse and you don't see me complaining". maybe you should complain actually! maybe we should collectively drop the mindset that unnecessary suffering proves merit! how fucking brainwashed do you have to be to BRAG about being treated like shit. I hate this country so much god bless❤️

brock-obama:

I really am tempted to reblog this every time it’s on my dash. That description is one of the best things on the internet.

Yeahhhh, I want this on my blog again.

OMG MY FAVORITE TUMBLR POST EVER IT’S FINALLY BACK YAY!

Here, have another of my all-time favorite Tumblr posts. 

We were just discussing this again and I had to reblog it again because IT IS MY FAVORITE

I’m permanently traumatized that you introduced me to this over lunch, EGT. 

::bows with a flourish::

There’s a gif out there of some people reenacting this that makes me laugh til I puke every damn time.

@revfrog

Three months ago I pitched an idea for a party game. Today, ‘WHAT THE PLOT?!™’ is a real game and available for pre-order! I am so excited. Thank you everyone for your support!

Click on a picture for higher quality! Tumblr compresses pictures so they might look a bit blurry!

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omg they actually did it!!

guys ive been waiting for this. If I get it will you guys play? @folklorefairyqueen @moonxchaos

YES OMG I WANNA PLAY THIS RIGHT NOW @cyhyryth

this by itself already makes me wanna play this game 😂😂😂

UPDATE: Friday 27, March, 2020

It’s a real game now! The manufacturer sent us 5 copies! The quality is amazing! Thank you all for making this game a reality! The games are currently being shipped from Poland to a fulfillment center in the US and the Czech Republic. If you preordered the game, you can expect to have it in your hands at the end of April (so far, the pandemic has not been impeding our schedule).

The print quality of the cards is superb. The photos don’t do it justice! The text is a bit blurry in the pictures, but it’s crystal clear!

If you want to get notified when the next pre-order round drops - click here!

This actually looks so good! I will definitely be getting this!

@whattheplot are you ever gunna bring this back?

What The Plot?!™ is now available in our online store!

Get it here

finally ordered mine!! can’t wait to get my hands on it :>

i want this so bad.

I have it - it’s fun! 10/10 would recommend.

I own it!  Super fun, 5 stars.  Buy it today!

@hufflepuffhuggles I WANT IT

I can see why! I mean…this sounds like the most entertaining chaos i can imagine!

I spontaneously just ordered this wtf

@music2muse @alegitamentblogiswear I bought this for us! We have to play!

I’ve reblogged this like seven times already, but I got mine late last year and oh! My! God! It’s so wonderful; my friends and I love to get drunk/hug and play. The creative opportunities are endless

I also got this game!! It’s super good!! Definitely recommend :)

I am definitely gonna get this!!!

Bought it because it looked like a fun party game, and oh man was it ever, even if you’re a little nervous. 10 Stars!!!!!

i need this now

I Kickstarted this game and let me tell you it is a riot to play!

We are almost out of stock!

Get the game here while stock lasts!

If you need any other reason to buy this: my family and i played this and we came up with the most awful, hilarious stories. Absolutely the best thing to play with friends or family

I.NEED.THIS.

More inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons characters, justifying that proficiency bonus edition:

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issue: the kittens are still trying to learn words. gus knows his name and daisy knows hers, but they don’t seem to quite grasp that when I say “babies!” im referring to both of them.

hypothesis: “babies” is too similar to “daisy” and they’re getting confused

test: start saying “gamers” instead

Outcome: they’re understanding it and it’s hysterically funny

me, calling down the hall from stirring a can of cat food: LET’S GO, GAMERS

the kittens:

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

This happens a TON with mental health medications. It’s why so many bipolar and schizophrenic people go off their meds a lot and it’s very hard to get them back on because a lot of people still hold that “but it didn’t help/do anything” mindset after, especially with a potentially skewed headspace. It’s very easy to start to think maintenance isn’t doing anything. Then people wonder why it “suddenly” starts falling apart when it stops.

A selection of Blooper sprites over the years.

ok what the fuck happened to blooper when mario tried to teach him to type