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I'm not lying when I say this tweet brought a tear to my eye

i love this. 😂

that is some galaxy-brain advice that just short-circuited my endless rumination on the similar question, “what is my true self?”

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN ON TUMBLR BUT

reblogging because someone liked it and DIDN'T REBLOG smh 🤦‍♀️

MAINTAIN B A L A N CE

I think it's balanced now???

fantastic work everyone

It is bad that I wanna rb just so it becomes uneven

ngl, didn't expect it to still be going

please look at my favorite comment that has ever been posted on the internet

somebody called ben shapiro a bozo to his face. great fucking day

actually their exact words were “you sound like a bozo, bro. and you get no pussy, and you can’t even make your wife wet, bro, so what’s good” GREAT great day

hero.

here’s the clip

Okay– you guys want another cute story about my parents and food?

So my mother is an amazing baker. And as I mentioned in a reblog of the Oranges post, my parents now always keep fresh fruit in the house – particularly bananas (my dad likes them with his breakfast). And whenever the bananas go brown, mom makes (really goddamn delicious) banana bread.

My parents are very avid outdoorsy folks and do a lot of hiking. They live in a mountainous region and basically climb a mountain every weekend (most of the mountains here are under 6,000 feet, but rocky), including in the middle of winter. Because cold and exertion eat through your blood sugar, they always pack trail snacks, and they developed a tradition of bringing a mini loaf of mom’s banana bread that they share on the summit.

Now a few years ago my father was having a midlife crisis and decided he was going to hike a REALLY big mountain. So he signed up for an expedition to climb Mt. Denali in Alaska – the tallest peak in North America. The group he was going with had a trip planned where everyone would be responsible for hiking with and carrying their own gear, so you had to be prepared to hike up a big fuckoff mountain in potentially treacherous conditions with a heavy pack.

My mother was not going on this expedition (she has problems with altitude sickness) but dammit, she was not going to let my dad go get himself killed by being unprepared. So in the year leading up to his climb, she kinda became his personal trainer. They hiked the local mountains a lot and in all kinds of weather conditions, practiced rope training and crevasse rescue techniques, and she made sure he practiced climbing with increasingly heavy packs until he was hauling around 65lbs of weights on his back. Sometimes she would even sit in a sled in the snow and make him pull her. 

When the trip finally came, dad was incredibly excited, and amused that his gear pack actually ended up being lighter than his practice pack. A number of other folks in the expedition had practiced going up a stair machines with weight on their backs, but mom had dragged dad through all the really rocky, treacherous trails around here with ice and water crossings, so he had solid balance from really moving with that amount of weight. Over the course of the climb (which took a couple weeks), half of the hikers ended up turning back (for various reasons), but despite being the oldest in the group, dad was one of the few to summit. 

And on the day he made it to the top, at 20,310 feet of elevation, he pulled out of his pack, wrapped in foil and mostly frozen but intact despite the long trip, a loaf of my mother’s banana bread, to eat on top of the world. Because, he said later, even if she wasn’t there with him, she was the reason he made it to the top.

“one hundred and fifty years ago people didn’t GET cancer”

no you’re right they just had intense pain and died one day leaving their family to wonder what happened

people weren’t actually healthier in the past, they just died of what was killing them faster, long term chronic or terminal illnesses are not new

“people ate healthier back then! if we only ate like our great great grandparents!” mmmm no, indications of long term starvation are found on most historical remains and food often had toxic additives, conditions like rickets and marasmus are things we’ve only begun to overcome

Hard truth that I’ve had to confront that I’m honestly not proud of:

Constantly voicing your abandonment issues lead to more people abandoning you.

I do not mean in Serious Conversations about what you need in a relationship or anything like that - I mean when your friend plays a video game with a different friend for a few days and you feel like your world is crumbling, that is not the time to talk about them.

I understand the fear that someone will decide they are done with you. I live that fear every single day, but here’s the rub.

If you tell people “you’ll probably leave me anyway” or similar things every time you feel that fear, people will leave you.

Not because they don’t want to be your friend, your partner, your roommate, whatever. Not because you aren’t deserving of friends (you are), but because it is exhausting to be constantly told by someone you like/love to go away.

Because that is how it feels on the other end. I don’t say this to make it worse, or to make you feel like you’re at fault. Your brain is hurting you, and it’s okay to feel things. But if you find that it’s hard to keep people around you, then you need to hear that outside of things like conversations about boundaries and triggers and such, it would be to your benefit to change your language.

Instead of telling people “you probably don’t like me”, try asking. “You like me? It’s much easier for them to reassure you when you don’t start with a negative, because it puts your brain in a different mindset, one that finds it easier to believe their response.

Sit with your issues. Parent them. And when they’re done screaming, hold their little hands and dry their little faces and try to remember that you are worth being loved. I won’t say it’s easy, because it’s really fucking not. I won’t say you’ll get it the first time, or that you’ll never fuck up. I still do. But you deserve friends and partners and love, it’s just that so do they.

Another thing about this is that you are waving a red flag.

Because here's the thing.

When your friend plays a video game with a different friend for a few days, and you talk about how that hurt you? You've just created a situation where you've placed the onus of your emotions on your friend, who did nothing wrong. Now your friend has to worry about what other perfectly reasonable activities are going to get them accused of hurting you, which is what you were doing whether you meant to or not.

And here's the other thing.

When you tell someone "everyone always leaves me", they wonder why. And it's very possible that they've dealt with someone who complained about this, then proceeded to demonstrate why. There is a particular kind of social parasite that will completely use up their friend group, then move on to new friends while shit-talking how they were treated by the last friend group.

Pass it on.

Follow Us For Cats!

Legit I just had this talk with my parents this morning. My day bought an Easter Lilly and I told him to get rid of it

Very important!

Also important to note: Daffodils are part of the lily family, so they pose a threat to cats as well. Be aware and keep the purry friends safe. 

Every time I sold flowers at my old job, I warned about the dangers of lilies if the bouquet contained them.  I really wish that lilies came with warning labels.

To add onto daffodils, any flower that grows from a bulb (including tulips, hyacinth) is toxic to cats. If you want something that is somewhat lily-like, try alstromeria, which is safe (though, like cat grass and all plants, itll give them tummy aches if they eat too much). Regardless, always research flowers before bringing them home if you have pets!!

i believe a lot of essential oils are not good for cats either, so that’s also something you should do some research on before using

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/lily

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/tulip

SUPER USEFUL SITE if you have fur babies.

Also! Lavender Essential oils is definite Hard No. whether you are burning some in an oil burner, candle or wearing some as a lotion/perfume, cats cannot be exposed to it. If inhaled, they can develop asthma or other severe respiratory issues, in a skin product( perfume, lotion, therapeutic oil, bubble bath, etc), if you rub some on, and pet your cat and they lick their fur, it can also cause severe reactions.

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/lavender

If you suspect your pet may have ingested a potentially toxic substance, call the APCC at (888) 426-4435 or contact your local veterinarian as soon as possible.*

Time to feed unprofessional managers what they’ve been dishing out for far too long.

Something I need y’all youngins to understand growing up in the age of crypto and streaming is that digital ownership is not ownership. Digital ownership is renting.

If you have, say, House (2022) on Netflix. That new stop motion movie. You don’t own that movie. You pay to have access, to that movie, but you don’t physically own it. It isn’t yours to take with you or put in a blu ray player. You’re paying to maybe watch it.

The movie is something you can access so long as Netflix is active and you pay for access. If one of those things changes you no longer can see that movie. If the movie goes to a different streaming service it is gone. (You should buy any movie you want to see again or would be sad if it left streaming).

Same with digital video games. Silent Hills PT is a playable trailer that, because of the Kojima/Konami dispute, was pulled from PSN. You cannot download it anymore. A physical disc cannot be taken from you, it can always be put in your console and played. Having the physical game is owning it having the downloaded game is renting it.

You’re promised these things forever but you only have access to rented digital goods for as long as the site supports it. And eventually that will change. You can pop in a Mario 64 cartridge into your N64 anytime you want and play. You cannot download a digital copy of Halo 2 to an original xbox because that support has been shut down (and modern consoles don’t let you carry your entire library on your system storage). If you have a disc of Horizon Zero Dawn you can always play it. If you have a digital copy that will go away given enough time.

Same with digital card games. Magic the Gathering has had multiple online formats. When they close one to make another your entire collection is gone. They offer you the idea of collecting but it only means anything if the servers are active. Physical cards can always be used and can even be used in inventive ways like horde mode. That’s how commander/EDH got its start.

Spotify is great for music exploration but download music you like. Go to the library and check out cd’s to put on your computer or go to bandcamp and get albums DRM free. My family switched itunes email accounts in 2011 and its junked up 3 years of purchases requiring us to rebuy them.

As much as NFT bros want you to believe it digital ownership is NOT ownership. The concept of digital ownership relies on false scarcity (minting a limited number of NFT’s when more could have been made) and a few clever words to make you think the netflix library is YOUR movie library. Its really fucking convenient for big businesses who can squeeze every drop of money out of you without giving anything tangible in return.

Digital ownership is NOT ownership.

That’s a goos point. Files without DRM, or digital rights management, are files you do own. I believe gog.com has DRM free as does bandcamp.

As much as I go on the "PLEASE PAY CREATORS (ESPECIALLY INDIES) FOR THEIR WORK" bandwagon... yes, this.

also, legally, you have a right to make a backup of your data as long as you own it and don't distribute it. you're legally allowed to strip DRM from your ebooks and other media that you purchased. you're allowed to make sure you own the content you paid for- and you're allowed to tell other people how to do so, too.

oH MAN I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SHARE

I FINALLY GOT TO USE THE ‘well i don’t trust the government’ AGAINST AN ANTI-MASKER THIS WEEKEND

i was buying wood at the camp ground and the store clerk pitched a bitch fit about not being able to understand me through the mask and then rolled her eyes and informed me we don’t have to wear those anymore bc the mandate’s already been lifted

AND THE LOOK ON HER FACE

WHEN I LOOKED HER STRAIGHT IN THE EYE

AND SAID

“oh, well I don’t trust what the government says. I’d rather make up my own mind.”

UNO REVERSE MOTHERFUCKER

ID: tweet from @ShotgunWife with text reading “just some ideas” followed by a meme image of a generic, black mask overlayed with the following text.

keeping wearing a mask because it’s fun…

use these lines when asked “why are you wearing that?”

“it’s a free country, I ain’t no sheep, no government gonna tell me when I can wear a mask, my body my choice, it’s for religious reasons, I’m just ugly fuck off.”

The last line of text in the image reads by “now it’s our turn”.

/End ID

responded to a customer with a southern accent why I still wear one with “‘Cause I look like the wrong end of a dead donkey.” using the smallest bit of a twang in my voice, and he stopped, blinked a few times, and went “A'ight. fair ‘nuff.”, nodded, and then I helped him pick out a leaf blower while he self consciously put his hand over his mouth.

[ID: Post by @greelin “like I’m ever going to let some absolute godless pervert see the bottom half of my face again. in a TARGET, no less”]

Bumper stickers shouldn’t be like political opinions and fandoms. They should solely be facts about you and you’re driving that other driver’s might like to know. I want a bumper sticker that says “I’m scared of left turns and I know you can make a right on red but this car doesn’t turn so good in the rain so we’re gonna wait until it’s green.” They’ll still honk but I’ll know I’ve pled my case before my peers.

Okay some of you in the tags are just admitting to traffic crimes

You have no idea how much I want this mass migration to tumblr to be real. I would love it if there was an entire ecosystem on tumblr of tiktokers who don't know or don't want to reblog anything, so they are functionally incapable of interacting with the rest of this website. Nothing is funnier to me

"I understand. You found paradise on TikTok. You had a good fyp, you made good content. The censors protected you and they were friendly for advertisers. So you didn't need a friend like me. Now you come and say "Tumblr, give me content." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer reblogs. You don't even think to call me "Hellsite." You come into my house on the day my blorbo is to be married and you ask me to do content - for likes."

The Zootopia gif after the Godfather reference both destroys my soul and is also the Most Appropriate Thing for Tumblr.

I'm gonna need to remember this prompt for when I'm having a bad day