Rescued otter learning to get over it's fear of water
This is important.
This is what people are.
We want to be useful, and we want to make people happy
Pay attention to this.
Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for
Jason Anderson
British artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color; but, from afar, his scenes—featuring cityscapes, roads, trains, and marinas—are revealed.
Anderson began his career as a stained glass apprentice, where he worked on restoring the windows of cathedrals. He soon progressed onto designing the glass murals himself, where he learned how to break down subject matter into “jigsaws” of colored sections. This approach still shines through in his paintings today—complex scenes are brought to life with simple shapes and careful consideration to hue and tone.
y'all need to stop legally hatewatching too like a hatewatch is still a view is still a membership to disney+ or whatever.....execs have realized that hatewatching gets as much if not more money to them just pirate please
I am literally begging you to pirate from Disney. Please don't give them a fucking penny for their dumbass live-action remakes that nobody likes. Give them NO reason to think it would be profitable to continue making those. Grant them nary a cent. Nothing. LESS than nothing.
fmovies.wtf
123movies
dailymotion.com
kissanime
soap2day
putlockers
watchseriess.co has subtitles. has movies and tv shows. and cartoons too.
also europixhd.io (havent used this in awhile so im not sure if it's still ok)
yts.mx for torrenting movies
rarbg.to for movie and shows torrents
and prostylex.org is the same but has music and books too. also first cam versions of theater releases
z-lib.org for books (has 5 download limits daily per ip address)
getintopc.com for softwares
apkpure and apkmody.io for android apps (some are premium modded)
artrari-deactivated20211117
Sflix.to for literally every movie
solarmovies.win is my go-to
tumblr guide for new users:
1) there is no algorithm for your dashboard. can’t stress this enough. your dashboard is in chronological order of posts and reblogs from people you follow. “based on your likes!” is a joke and they removed that feature in a week
2) because of the lack of algorithm, likes do nothing. if you want more people to see a post, you have to reblog it so it goes on your follower’s dashes
3) the vast majority of posts on a person’s blog tend to be reblogs. think 90% or so. some of those will have that person commenting on it, and more will have tags
4) comments stay on reblog chains, while tags only show up on your reblog of that post. it’s kind of like a whisper voice. in either case, both op and the person you reblogged from see that in their notifications
5) tags don’t go in the body of the post. writing “staying in #lasvegas” won’t make it appear in the las vegas tag, it’ll just look weird
6) it’s totally normal to reblog and post multiple things in one day. it’s normal to reblog the same post twice in a row. it’s normal to have 100 posts+reblogs in a day. post limit (the total number of original posts and reblogs) for a single day is 250. you heard me. 250. go hog fucking wild
7) it defaults to having a visible likes tab on your blog (but only on your blog, not the dashboard) but most people toggle it off
8) “tumblr clout” is a fucking joke. no one can see your follower count, and no one makes money here. there are no influencers. enjoy not giving a shit about maintaining a public persona. it’s all anonymous and your employers won’t find you here
9) you’re not expected to create a bio/carrd and in fact it often looks weird if you do
10) most people have varied interests and post about many different things, often right after one another. I, for example, post stuff about writing, sewing, about a dozen different fandoms, and anything that catches my interest.
11) actual personal information is rare, and usually only between two users who know each other.
12) Reblogs are encouraged, though it does make the post fucking long. (Often, though, long reblog conversations can turn into talking the the DMs and that’s how you make internet friends, kids)
12b) long posts torture your followers, thus they are common and always inflicted upon everyone. Color of the sky will never die.
13) to reiterate, there is no clout. Popular users suffer because once a post breaches containment people will put all kinds of shit on it and that’s before the fandoms get to it. Be cringe with no fear.
14) tags are both for public use and personal identification, most people have their own tags they use to keep track of their stuff, like #my writing or #sewing information. My personal favorite is #sebastian speaks about space pirates. Sky is the limit guys.
15) we all appreciate yet mildly mistrust staff.
the most important thing to understand about tumblr is that this place is a lawless wasteland, and it’s very hard to get in trouble here. this is the official list of of unacceptable content, but while someone can report you for posting something like pro-self harm or pro-anorexia content, you DO NOT need to censor any words like “die” or “kill” or “sex”. no one is monitoring the words you use.
in fact, one of tumblr’s time-honored traditions is making up the most grandiose, elaborate threats and insults possible. nobody here says “i’m going to kill you,” they say, “i’m going to pop out your eyeballs and fashion them into salt and pepper shakers.” if someone dunks on you on your own post, you are fully expected to reply, “i hope you choke on your saliva in front of your crush, you moldy piece of beef jerky.”
another important thing to know about tumblr is that once you post something, you lose all control over what happens to that post. only the people you have already blocked are incapable of saying and doing whatever they want with that post, and you have to just put up with it. you can delete the post to stop receiving notifications, but deleting the post will only delete it from YOUR blog, and complaining about people being annoying on your post is generally considered poor form. sure, you can SAY “dni if”, but once your post is out there, it’s out there, and people can say whatever they want in the reblogs and the tags. it’s wise to think twice before you post.
one of the benefits of tags is that they allow you to organize your blog and find posts later. if you tag a post as “resources”, then for as long as your blog exists you can go to yoururl.tumblr.com/tagged/resources and find everything you’ve tagged with “resources.” you can also use yoururl.tumblr.com/search/keyword to find any word(s) from any post in your blog, provided the tumblr search function gods have smiled upon you that day.
therefore, tags are used for organization, for allowing others to find your content, for warnings (e.g. “self harm tw” or “suicide mention tw” or “nazi cw”), and also for rambling about whatever you want.
for that matter, it’s also a time-honored tradition for someone to either screenshot or copy/paste your tags into a reblog if they like what you’ve had to say. this is not stealing, this is passing peer review and a high honor. it is polite to credit the person whose tags you’re reblogging, typically by going “tags via @url”
there’s also a hotly-contested practice of simply typing “prev tags” in your tags, which indicates that you like what the person you reblogged from said in their tags. this is fine on occasion, but a lot of us get QUITE peeved if we’re expected to click back through multiple reblogs to find the “prev prev prev tags” that is just some mildly amusing comment.
while you can comment whatever you want on your own blog, it is generally expected that you keep your thoughts in the tags unless you have something significant to offer to the reblog chain. leaving things like “hahaha” or “good to know” in the comments quickly clutters up the post.
it’s pretty normal to just start talking to strangers, as long as you’re polite. most of us enjoy getting asks and messages, so if you find someone whose blog you like, don’t be shy about saying something to them. they might not respond, but they’ll appreciate it nonetheless.
if you wind up stepping into a pile of shit and people start harassing you, turn off anonymous messages and definitely turn off submissions. if you still get hate, block block block. there’s zero shame in blocking anyone who bothers you. if you’re receiving harassment on a sideblog, copy the harasser’s url, go to settings>sideblog in question, then scroll down to “blocked tumblrs” and manually add the url. otherwise they may only be blocked from your primary account.
tumblr loves its long-running jokes. we are still making posts about memes from years ago. if you see a reference that you don’t understand, like “children’s hospital” or a picture of ramen noodles, assume it’s a very old joke that we gleefully beat like a dead horse.
tumblr also loves dates and anniversaries. just go with it and reblog the “it’s october 3rd” mean girls gif on october 3rd.
there’s nothing wrong with “likespamming” someone’s blog, or scrolling through it and liking/reblogging a couple dozen posts in a row. it’s flattering. no one cares.
it’s also perfectly normal to reblog old posts. you can reblog a post from yesterday and then a post from 2012 and no one will bat an eye. it doesn’t matter.
lastly, this is a place to relax and have fun. unless you’re an artist, gifmaker, or writer trying to get some eyes on your work (more power to you), don’t worry about engagement or follower count or anything. having lots of followers on tumblr mostly just means getting people yelling at you more. relax. reblog and post whatever the fuck you want.
this place may be a lawless wasteland, but it’s our lawless wasteland.
hi psa: the second someone apologizes for being excited about something, that is the moment you start talking about it with 10x the enthusiasm because 100% guaranteed they have, at some point in their life, been shamed or told shut up or calm down about something that brought them joy and learned to apologize for taking up space and expressing themselves - learned to make themselves smaller- and that’s the absolute worst feeling in the whole world so please, the moment they apologize or say “I’ll shut up now”, you start talking about it for them, hype it up, encourage them to talk your ear off and participate in their excitement. We want their passion, we want their excitement, joy and love. We do not want to be stunted and bitter and angry like the ones who tried to stifle us, we want to foster and nurture the glow in their eyes and the sound of their voice speeding up with exhilaration
BOOK OF KELLS BOOK OF KELLS BOOK OF KELLS BOOK OF KELLS
@dduane @petermorwood hope you don’t mind I’m tagging you in this
Don’t mind at all!
This is great because (1) you don’t have to go to Dublin; (2) you don’t have to queue; (3) you don’t have to pay; (4) you can look at the whole book, not just the page at which it’s open for that day’s display…
This is a GOOD THING. :)
roswell-greyson
What really fucks me up about a 40 hour work week and I’ve tried to explain to people over and over is that like of you do the math you have maybe 3 hours every day to just like. Rest and be with your family. And that’s kind of it
Like the average adult needs about 8 hours of sleep every night, so that cuts your 24 hours to 16 right off the bat.
You’re working for 8 hours, so 8 left.
But you actually work 8 to 5 at most offices, not 9 to 5, and that lunch is basically just long enough to retrieve food and eat. 7.
It took you 20 minutes to shower this morning, 10 to get dressed, and 45 to make a bowl of oatmeal and eat it. We’ll say 15 to get your stuff together and out to your car. 5 and a half.
You get home and have to cook dinner, 30 minutes min for that, probably more like an hour, so somewhere between 5 and 4.5 hrs left. And then you’ve got to eat it, 30 minutes if you’re being healthy about it.
So at best you’ve MAYBE got 4/4.5 hours left every week day and that’s assuming you ran exactly zero errands, didn’t stop by the gym after work, didn’t have to stay late, have a wicked fast transition time between tasks AND a commute of like 5 minutes by car. If you have to go to the store after a quick run at the gym, pick your kids up from soccer across town, and you factor in a 30 minute commute both ways, you’ve got enough free time for like one episode of show Monday through Friday. And weekends have got to be for cleaning the house and going to visit your mom for a few hours.
When do you write, or paint, or read or sew or go on hikes? When do you go on spur of the moment adventures with your wife and try to perfect your grandma’s soda bread? What happens when it rains on Saturday after being sunny all the rest of the week so you can’t go to the zoo that day and you don’t have enough money for the museum? Why are we all just content to postpone our whole lives, put off “happy” and “healthy” for a miniscule amount of extra value we’re producing for someone else?
And it’s also a thing that fascinates me about hustle culture like. When do y'all rest? When do sleep and food happen? How do you make 3 different jobs work without dying?
Idk idk like I said I’m real fucked up about it. It amazes me that more office workers aren’t great big socialists because we have this miserable job where we’re monitored constantly and just have to sit. Still. And maintain focus on ONE THING for EIGHT HOURS in a BORING GRAY ROOM with exactly two short breaks at designated times and I just?? How does that not suck for literally everyone else?? You said yourself, Angie, you’re useless after 3 pm so just?? Organize with me and negotiate for shorter days??? Like you’re literally already only producing 6 hours of value, you don’t need to be sitting there for longer than that.
…then add the Neurodivergent Tax of taking more time to do these things and recovery time afterward, and you’re looking at a deficit that has to come from somewhere
I saw a discussion of this on Twitter and honestly people defending hustle culture blow my mind. There were so many responses along the lines of “who needs 45 minutes for a bowl of oatmeal?!” and just… missing the point.
Of course you don’t need to take 45 minutes to cook a basic meal and eat it. You could hustle it. You could, say, “optimise” your lifestyle by taking time once a week to cook a batch of nutritious paste or whatever and just grab it out of the fridge each morning and stuff it into your mouth, chew while getting dressed, and be out the door in five minutes.
But is that any way to live? Did we, as a species, spend thousands of years developing the culinary arts and recipes so that most of the population could eat nutripaste each day?
Cooking is an art and a social activity, eating food is a social activity.
Hustle culture defenders are so ready to speedrun every aspect of their lives that doesn’t relate to work and it’s honestly horrifying. Why are you all content to just… not live?
‘enemies to lovers’ sure okay, but nothing wil ever beat THIS dynamic
9 to 5 enemies, 5 to 9 lovers
the annoying thing about adhd is that like, most of the symptoms you can’t even argue are “evolutionary flaws” or “chemical imbalances.” literally it’s just that it’s not good for lining somebody else’s pockets. being “distractible” helps people notice predators or juicy berries out of the corners of their eyes. hyperfocusing on a task until it’s done is literally exactly in line with what an alleged persistence predator would need to do to actually follow through on hunting other animals. there’s so many little things that are obviously beneficial to have outside of a fucking factory assembly line
NEUROLOGICAL DIVERSITY IS AS IMPORTANT TO SURVIVAL AS GENETIC DIVERITY, and OUR CONCEPT OF DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE IS BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF OUR OWN MAKING
When I lived out in the woods and spent my time herding sheep and hunting bullfrogs, nobody gave two shits that I walked around barefoot and said whatever popped into my head out loud.
My hyperfocus and poor sense of time made me a hard worker, my compulsion to sort and organize random crap kept the property clean, and my special interest in native flora and fauna meant I could go out into the woods thanksgiving morning and come home with all the pricy mushrooms and herbs we couldn’t normally afford otherwise.
Who cared that I was awkward? There was nobody around except the occasional customer or temp worker, and those kinds of interactions could be entirely scripted.
Who cared that I dressed funny, had frizzy, dry hair, talked flat, and ate raw onions? Who gave two shits that I built forts out of scrap metal and twine? How did it matter that I passed time running in circles over old truck chassis’?
There were no bright lights, no packed-in crowds, no huge collections of shouty, screamy, smelly people. Nobody stared at me for more than a few seconds. Nobody critiqued my body language.
I was a bit odd, yeah, but all I knew was that I was smart and creative and better than other people at fixing problems.
I went damn near fifteen years out there not even suspecting I might be autistic. Nobody even thought to bring it up.
Now I’m in the city, and I have a hard time going into the middle of a store. I hate the mall. My eyes hurt. Ambulances and fire trucks and cars with bad brakes go by and I cover my ears and nobody else does. I’ve been told I come off as “quirky”.
My question is, though, if an atypical person is in an environment that suits them, can anyone tell?
Most folks only know who’s blind when the lights are on. If the sky went dark tomorrow, we’d have no idea.
I mean, yes, but the general “ADHD is only a “disorder” because it’s not profitable” take is kind of reductive.
Like. Look, I don’t work, for disability reasons. My life is inherently not profitable to others. BUT:
- I like living in a space that doesn’t have stuff all over the floor because I set it down and stopped “seeing” it, and wasn’t able to process what the next step in organizing it is.
- I like being able to do projects that DO interest me and DO make me happy without either a) doing them for 10 hours straight (to the detriment of my health, because it turns out bodies want food and water and stretching sometimes) or b) setting it down and never picking it up again, EVEN THOUGH I WANT TO.
- I really want to be able to read and finish a book again.
- Like “Well I need to start dinner around 4 if I want to eat when I’ll actually be hungry, therefore I Can Not Do Anything between noon and then, because my brain registers this as An Appointment”
- I SUSPECT that RSD is more of a C-PTSD thing than properly an ADHD thing (given that a LOT of neurodivergent folks are traumatized just by living in a society where our needs aren’t met, and I suspect ADHD makes that worse because sometimes your brain’s like “Gonna focus very intensely on this upsetting memory/feeling and can not let anything go ever :)”), but also, emotional dysregulation seriously sucks ass.
- That thing where my brain is like a border collie, and if I don’t have adequate stimulation for it it’s going to instead fixate on horrible anxiety until I spin up into a panic attack? I do not like that thing.
I’ve just been seeing a lot of “ADHD is only a disorder Because Capitalism” takes and that’s really not the case. Yes, neurodiversity is super important, and yes there are plenty of good things about it! But there are also actually disabling things about it, too.
Those are problems for a single person.
They are not problems for a community. Or for a multi-generation, multi-person household, where the person with ADHD is not in charge of getting stuff off the floor; they are in charge of “keep the toddlers entertained while someone else cooks dinner” or “go hang out with the sheep and maybe find us some herbs but mostly just kind of be outside and see if there’s problems, because we need someone who can just wander around the farm area and find out what’s going on and that bores most of us to death, we make one circle around the outskirts and declare it’s done and come back inside and then we don’t notice that hey there’s a new pond starting where the stream got diverted in the last storm.”
Or they get the job of “stack wood for the stove for winter,” and that needs to be done as efficiently as possible - how much can you stack in a small space? Also it needs to vary in size & shape so it’s not all small bits at the top and big ones at the bottom; we need a mix in every row; plz make sure we can grab both small (quick-burning) and large (slow-burning) pieces when we need them. And there’s a LOT of wood so that’s a 20 hour job and of course you don’t do that all at once; someone comes and gets you when it’s time for lunch because “stop task to get lunch” is not part of your responsibilities; that belongs to the people who like keeping track of schedules but who suck at repetitive, highly-focused, problem-solving work.
And y'know what? It doesn’t matter if the wood-stacking person is friendly. If they talk to themselves. If they smile too much, or not at all. If they tap each piece of wood three times as they put it on the stack. If they hum all the time. The point is, the wood gets stacked by someone who’s paying attention to how it’ll need to get un-stacked later.
The person tending the toddlers kind of needs to be friendly. But they don’t need to be interested in linear conversation. They can flap their hands a lot. They can worry too much. (They can’t, actually, worry too much. Did you check the kid three minutes ago to see if they were trying to eat rocks? Well, go ahead and check again. They may have found new rocks.)
Some of ADHD can be a disability in any setting. But a lot of it is “this is fine when it is one person among many, and the many cover other tasks, and this one person handles some of both the extreme-focus tasks and the little-bit-of-everything tasks.
The value of neurodiversity is in communities, not as solitaries. Humans were not meant to be isolated.
…Capitalism doesn’t not like communal living situations, where people share resources and tasks.
teetotailer
judygemstone
first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store
Andrew Garfield: “To heal the most traumatic moment of his own life through doing it for his younger brother. Making sure that he didn’t have the same fate, there’s something cosmically beautiful about that. It meant getting a second chance at saving Gwen.”
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) dir. Jon Watts Screenplay by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers
