it's come to my attention that a lot of people don't know about bluemaxima's flashpoint and genuinely think they'll never be able to play their favorite 00s internet games ever again so i just want to remind everyone that flashpoint is a huge internet flash game preservation project that allows you to play just about any internet flash game/animation despite the death of flash. if they've got it in their database (and they probably do) you can play it. go forth and drink in the 00s nostalgia

even if you think there's no way they'll have the game u want. they probably do anyway. when i first downloaded flashpoint i thought for sure theres no way they will have the obscure flash game i played for hours as a kid that was only even available on the internet for like 2 months in 2006. but you know what. they had it. seriously, download flashpoint

fucking hate the "well it's not technically marriage inequality that disabled people can't get married without losing their benefits because no one's stopping you from getting married" yeah something is stopping us from getting married. Loss of medical care. Homelessness. Hunger. Death. I don't know how to tell you this but SSI is not a thing that you get because you could technically get a job but you don't feel like it. The process is awful, it's dehumanizing and it can take years even if you're clearly disabled. If you can work you do work, and if you can't work you can't afford to lose your "benefits". It's eugenics plain and simple, it came from a time where you could only fuck if you were married and they wanted to de-incentivize disabled people from fucking so we would stop existing.

This isn't an exaggeration, btw. This is literal and accurate.

They also keep the processing times long in an attempt to "weed out those that don't really need it" ie they die or go to work despite not being able to or else they'll die.

trans bears are literally stronger than any US marine

How on earth would they be able to tell that a bear is trans. I’m not saying they can’t be but how would they communicate that.

:/

this is so fucking funny

update:

we the jury find the defendant not guilty your honor

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

my white friends that have reblogged this give me life

4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP

If ur white and like this post I fux with u

^absolutely

5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.

i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this

6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death

Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌

today in “things i’m disproportionately emotional about”:

it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!

like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:

doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed

what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever

people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what

they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly

they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves

they all sang songs

they all drew pictures

they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests

they fell in love

they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them

they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole

Oh I like him he looks like he would appreciate my jokes

This dude would have great stories at a get-together and would bring some really great homemade dip. 

I feel like he really digs Lo-Fi Music

This guy was sculpted by Alfons and Adrie Kennis, and their Neanderthal reconstructions are all delightful. 

I love the kid in the last picture a lot- they look like a kid, just a little kid who’s done some mischief and is trying not to laugh about it.

I also adore their Lucy- they’ve struck a wonderful balance between the falling angel and the rising ape.

And their Turkana boy- there’s something precious and wistful in those eyes. 

But my favorite has got to be their reconstruction of H. floresiensis.

Just look at her. That’s a face of someone who’s lived and seen a lot, but also a face that’s known love and joy and laughter. That’s a face with a soul. 

Yes! When we honor the ancestors, these are the faces we’re reaching out to. (Minus a couple depending on each of our unique ancestries.) 💜

I have a really complex relationship with religion, but here’s something positive

actually nothing but respect for the local sex toy store in my city just telling people they can shoplift morning after pills if they need to.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

Reblogging to add amazing tags from @meta-theory

#this both makes things more fun and also is a really good analogy#because there are four types of system maintenance and that makes the term much more exact than the nebulous ''self-care''#and therefore much more helpful to those of us who uhhh struggle with nebulosity#for anyone curious the four types are:#1. corrective (to fix current problems)#2. preventative (to avoid future problems)#3. adaptative (to re-adjust to any changes)#4. perfective (to work towards a better system)#I really like this idea I'm gonna make a checklist

shoutout to all the jews, muslims, and vegetarians who had to live through the “bacon as a personality trait” era of the early 2000s

these are the three genders btw

Something that I think it's good to know for people who might be wondering whether they have some form of chronic fatigue* or if they're "just lazy":

[*Symptom of many different types of physiological illnesses or conditions]

When (currently healthy, only decently stressed) able-bodied people don't do anything at all for too long, when they rest genuinely too much, they get a sense of being over-charged of energy that they've been building up without using, to the point that it's genuinely annoying and uncomfortable to them, and they feel a very strong need to expend that energy in some activity. I know this because I've had that feeling literally once (1) in the last 4 years and it was amazing but also a little exasperating I literally couldn't stop moving.

(These healthy able-bodied people often will assume that everyone around them feels this way every time they get what looks like decent sleep, so if they see someone who does nothing and yet doesn't seem to have an impulse to do anything above the barest minimum, they'll call that laziness instead of pondering the possibility that they're still tired.)

If you rest, and rest, and rest, and rest, and don't ever literally feel you're spilling over energy, there's an issue. Healthy able-bodied human beings without any particular situation working against them in this sense (a stressful home life, too much work, stressful studies, etc), can and do get enough rest and get extremely tired OF RESTING when it's been too much. That's why when they're in vacations (if they have the money for it) they don't just sleep in all day until they return to normal activities; they go on tourist attractions, get to know new places, go hiking, go partying, go dancing, and so on.

It's not normal to rest abundantly and still not feel rested, unless there's something else going on with you.

#i am not 100% sure but i suspect the over-energized feeling referenced by op is somewhat fundamentally different from my frequent state #of buzzing with energy while still being exhausted #this still hit me like a brick to the face

Love, what you're describing there sounds to me like powering through by running on adrenaline instead of on real energy reserves and you're right, that is FUNDAMENTALLY different from what I'm describing. :(

Running on adrenaline is what happens when the body is under persistent stress from things such as exhaustion, pain, anxiety or other similar stressors that deplete your actual energies without allowing you to renew your reserves properly, but since you still have to keep going your body increases adrenaline levels (a self-produced stimulant) which gives you a boost of momentary energy that can even feel manic (part of the reason I was misdiagnosed first as BPD, then as bipolar 1 for my physical chronic illnesses) and just like coffee or an energy drink, that will get you through tasks while ignoring your physical pain (if you have it) as well as other physiological needs such as hunger, sleep, or the need to go to the bathroom, and it will make you hyperalert.

However, for those same reasons, it will also cause insomnia, constipation, anxiety symptoms (especially tachycardia/heart palpitations, but also irritability, mood instability, possibly even tremors) and affect ability to concentrate, and it's very easy to unleash a vicious cycle of high adrenaline, which once you get started it's very hard to stop. Tired/in pain/stressed > increased adrenaline > insomnia > no proper rest > tired again > increase adrenaline again.

The energy overfilling I'm describing as normal to healthy able-bodied people who don't experience unhealthy stress persistently isn't the result of stress like the adrenaline one, but of proper rest and lack of (enough) activity. They do not feel a "buzzing" or simultaneously exhausted in the type of state I'm describing.

If you do, that sounds a lot like high adrenaline and I'd recommend you research methods to calm down your sympathetic nervous system. Solutions can range from meditation, to herbal remedies (mint, chamomille, maypop, lavender and such), to CBD/medical weed, to anxiety meds and beta-blockers. Beta-blockers are meds that block adrenaline receptors and are the method I used to get myself out of the adrenaline cycle I'd been trapped in for years (also helps with the tachycardia I get from having POTS), but like with any med you should ask a professional about possibly taking them first, especially if your blood pressure tends to be low.

#got 12+ hours of sleep last night (wish i was exaggerating) #and i still feel tired and in which makes me very... dizzy. moreso than usual #literally the audio of ethan in unus annus #'knees weak arms heavy n e r v o u s' #i can get what seems like a dramatically ridiculous amount of sleep #and nearly pass out trying to do something #legs nearly gave out in the shower so #and dont even get me started on the heart palpitations and chest pain #but im just 'lazy' according to mom :')

Oh, sweetheart, this is very possibly POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). Maybe it's something else and by all means do proper research yourself and/or seek professional help before trusting the words of an online stranger, but to me this sounds like textbook POTS. It's a treatable but disabling chronic illness. I have it too, I've gone through exactly that. I'm doing much better now but I'm still ill and can't drop my treatment without going back to being semi bedridden. If you need any help with this don't be afraid to reach out to me.

anyway……..literally love is stored in the action of making hot drinks for people. no i won’t elaborate.

Fuck I’m at a fencing tournament and literally a minute after I reblogged this my dad told me that he talked to the point people and I’m probably going to win a medal.

BURN BAGEL BURN

OH WHY NOT?

I need to follow up to say I reblogged this last night, and this morning I got some of the best news of my life, like, a life dream come true news thing.

Bagel what are your powers

FUCK, I though it was just another lucky meme but LISTEN. Since a week ago I was waiting a phone call to confirm me if I got a job or not in my university. I reblogged this yesterday’s night “just for fun and because I don’t want any bagel to be mad with me”, and today’s afternoon, while I was losing my time as always, the professor I was supposed to work with called me and asked me for my personal information to start working with her.

THE BAGEL POWERS ARE WAY TOO MUCH FOR THIS WORLD

I GOT A JOB THE DAY AFTER MY QUEUE POSTED THIS THE FIRST TIME AND I JUST REALIZED IT WHEN I SAW IT AGAIN HOLY GOD

The bagel hasn’t let me down yet!

I got a job offer after reblogging the bagel. Believe in the bagel!

Worth a try lol

i could use some good news or even a good girl 

Go lil bagle! Show me your power!

Okii then!

THIS IS THE FIRST THING ON MY BLOG

I GOT ASKED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER I REBLOGGED IT

wait but whats happening with the bagel tho

Giv news

This bagel better do me and my skinnies some wonders.

im passed my drivers test🙏🏽

pls

Oh hope this works, i need some good news in my life lmao

plz bagel plssss 🙏

BLESS US ALL OH HOLY FIRE BAGEL

Bagel, pls

bagel please i need this thank you

And this kids is how you start a cult

I don’t normally participate in these kinds of posts buuut I’m desperately trying to convince my folks to let me get a chinchilla so I’m gonna give this one a shot even if I typiodont believe in these things.

Gotta see if this actually works or not, wish me luck!

Come on Bagel!

boba T

if this doesnt give you balls i dont know what will

AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

this post is about plastic dinosaurs

I don't know anything about YuGiOh but "Overworked" is the greatest card art they've ever done

Yeah that’s good but check out the original OCG art:

Me checking my inbox on tumblr dot com

why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

th

the what

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs. 

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders

i hope i’m annoying. i hope you’re annoying. i hope we’re both annoying 

me and @purronronner in a nutshell

THIS SHOW IS SO PURE!

It’s worth noting that Kenneth spent the entire episode making the game (and the subsequent fight) as inclusive as possible for JJ and his disabled friends (all of whom were played by disabled actors/actresses).

BONUS:

Bonus #2

Of course I had to show the best part:

i am a:

⚪ man

⚪ woman

🔘 gorgeous youth

seeking a:

⚪ man

⚪ woman

🔘 equal opportunity death match