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I'll never break a bottle of champagne against a ship before her first voyage and I'll never cut a ribbon with giant scissors for the grand opening of a building but by god when I buy a label maker the first label I print is going to be a label that says label maker and it is going on the label maker

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People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???

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incredible scenes in josh johnson's yt comments

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[“Changing the structures in which people operate is often much easier than changing people themselves. Just as a particular habitat will favor certain plants over others, group structure will favor certain behaviors.

In a salt marsh, salt tolerant plants will have a competitive edge and will crowd out other plants. You can uproot all the sedges, but you won’t grow roses unless you change the conditions of the soil.

In a group that allows vicious gossip, backbiting and attacks on leaders, people who thrive on negativity will have a competitive edge and eventually will drive out others who might prefer a different way of functioning. You can kick out the gossips, one by one, but unless you change the group norms and agreements, new attackers will simply take their places. But if you shift the group norms and structure so that negative gossip becomes a liability, people will either stop gossiping or leave.

Lack of structure creates a void where negative behaviors can flourish. If a group has no structure for constructive feedback, it will come in a negative form. If a group provides no structure for accountability, you can predict vicious attacks. If it keeps no financial records or any clear system of accounting, you can guarantee accusations of wrongdoing will arise, that can never be either proven or disproven.

To shift this pattern, we need to provide structures that favor the kinds of behavior we want. We need to develop group norms that both support those who step into leadership and hold them accountable in ways that respect their work and commitment. We need ways of giving constructive feedback.

Structures and norms also protect the group against infiltration and disruption — either by COINTELPRO Operations or by simple human craziness. Rumors, secrets, backstabbing, disinformation campaigns, entrapment and abuse thrive in a swampy habitat of murky secrets and mucky gossip. When we create positive structures of accountability and open feedback, when our communications are clear and when power is fairly and visibly earned, we create solid ground that is not easily undermined.”]

starhawk, from the empowerment manual: a guide for collaborative groups, 2011

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i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though

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I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

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The thing about BBC Merlin is that it's really not very good but somehow at the same time...yes it is

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THE PRINCESS DIARIES (2001) dir. Gary Marshall

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POV you’re a female grasshopper seething helplessly as you watch your 5th attempt at a boyfriend stolen by a giantess who wasn’t even trying

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What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

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I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.

Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"

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Sometimes Tumblr is a lot like trying to explain a toddler that you can't eat bugs and spiders because that's bad for you, and then someone shows up to lecture you about how spiders are a completely different class from insects, also you got "centipede" and "millipede" mixed up, so obviously you don't know anything about what you're talking about.

And if you try to answer like "do you want me to just let this kid just eat bugs or what", they'll get offended because correcting you about being wrong has nothing to do with implying that anyone would be eating bugs off the ground, obviously nobody is stupid enough to be doing that in the first place, that's a straw man and insulting to every group of people ever.

And then you look up at the other side of the yard and the toddler is there right back at it, slurping up centipedes like spagetti.