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I hate that on time is even late for me. Because I know with my adhd theres probably several things I haven't accounted for, so I need extra time to account for the time it takes me to realize what I'm missing along the way.

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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ghost stories are alarmingly easy to spread tbh

when I was like ten I was walking back from the chip shop near my gran's house with a neighbour and we took a short cut down an alley which was enclosed by garages except for one part which was wire fenced and led to the electricity shack

and while I was walking I chucked a chip over the fence. the girl walking with me, C, reasonably asks why I did that

"oh, don't you know?" I say, as if I'm not equally out of my own loop

she shakes her head. the enclosed alleyway has no streetlights. it's after dark. the shack is isolated in the distance.

"a little girl who lived up on the court climbed the fence once on a dare. she went up to the shack and touched it, but there was a wire sticking out, and when she touched it, she got electrocuted and died, right there. if you come back in the daylight, you can still see the black mark."

[editor's note: the court was the smaller road off the side of the crescent, which was the one C's family and my gran lived on. the houses there were slightly more expensive and newer, almost all occupied by wealthy commuters to the city, where most of the crescent houses were occupied by retirees and locals who worked on the trading estate. naturally, crescent kids hated the court. houses there got bricked about once a month.]

"no she didn't," C says

I made up this story for absolutely no reason and with no plan, but I'm not gonna back down now. "sure she did. and if you go past on your way back from the shops and you don't leave her an offering, she'll follow you home through the streetlights. one flickers behind you, then the next, then the next, until you get home. and then the lights start to flocked inside the house. even if you turn out all the electrics before bed, it'll be too late. she's inside. and you'll wake up on the night and see her, and she'll be so awful to see it'll stop your heart."

[editor's note: the streetlights always flickered. this was because our neighbour monkey george kept setting the junction boxes on fire]

"I never did before and she never followed me home!"

"do you come down the alley after dark? or do you take the main road with the streetlights?" I knew she didn't use the shortcut, because I'd been the one to talk her into it that night. she was three years younger than me and scared of the dark.

C claims not to believe me, but she throws a chip over the fence too, and walks the rest of the way looking over her shoulder. I get to pride myself for the night on being good at scary stories, and don't think much more about it.

fast forward six or seven years. I'm back in town. I'm on my way back from the chip shop, taking the same shortcut home. ahead of me on the road are a couple of kids I vaguely recognise as old playmates' younger siblings.

they stop, and I watch one fish out three sweeties from the pack they're sharing. they take one each and throw them over the fence. they carry on walking.

I realise that this is probably my fault, as are any resulting pest control issues around the old electricity shack.

when I get to the fence, I throw a chip over.

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A 10-millionth visitor to the  Rijksmuseum of Netherlands was allowed to spend the night at Rembrandt's painting "Night Watch" with a bottle of wine and dinner.

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Help us get a hotel room in this heat wave!

I currently am with my cat living in my car. This heat wave for the next three days is a little dangerous territory. Yesterday I was able to keep things cool but I was running my '08 car on and off quite often yesterday (used almost a qaurter of the tank) and I don't want to completely ruin the car by having it constantly running the next few days, its already have problems with the electricity. Its like driving Herbie.

I am trying to save up money for a hotel room, even if its just for the last night of this heatwave.

Even if it's just for one night, one night is still enough.

My paypal is @peaceflora

If you could even just reblog this post it would be so helpful!!! Thank you.

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Help us get a hotel room in this heat wave!

I currently am with my cat living in my car. This heat wave for the next three days is a little dangerous territory. Yesterday I was able to keep things cool but I was running my '08 car on and off quite often yesterday (used almost a qaurter of the tank) and I don't want to completely ruin the car by having it constantly running the next few days, its already have problems with the electricity. Its like driving Herbie.

I am trying to save up money for a hotel room, even if its just for the last night of this heatwave.

Even if it's just for one night, one night is still enough.

My paypal is @peaceflora

If you could even just reblog this post it would be so helpful!!! Thank you.

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Heat wave-!

I am still in my vehicle with my cat Florence. There's said to be a heatwave and I'm currently trying to save money to buy more fans for the days. Half debating getting a hotel room but its gonna be like 4 days and I dont have that kinda money.

I will be with florence during these 4 days so if you'd like to donate for getting a few more fans/(we're trying to save up for the ecoflow) or perhaps even a hotel room heres my paypal and venmo

And my paypal is @peaceflora

Thank you!

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problematic time zone gap

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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i support being a hater unless youre hating on something i enjoy and love and then you need to lighten up buddy wheres your sense of whimsy

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why is this framed all cutesy??

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Every single time Trump does anything it comes out that someone said, exactly, that he would do that if elected & there were a dozen articles going "FACTCHECK: Um, no he won't. FIVE PINOCCHIOS!" and then when you read them it turns out Trump also said, exactly, that he would do that if elected & they just declared he didn't mean it off of vibes

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Bystander Intervention Training

so, the US just attacked Iran, and that is fucking terrible. Something we all need to think about right now is how we can stop the harassment and violence against Muslims and Arabs in the US that got so much worse in the early 2000s from happening again to people now.

To that end, I wanted to share some resources on Bystander Intervention. One of the biggest things I learned from training like this is that there are many ways to intervene, and they don't all involve putting yourself in front of the person who may harm you or others. It's ok if you feel intimidated by that because there are more ways to help! And once you do the training, it might not be so scary.

Right to Be has Bystander trainings based on the 5Ds of Bystander Intervention (Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct). The trainings are free!! sign up here.

I took one of their trainings a few years ago (when the org was called Hollaback!) and it was really very good, they have trainings at multiple levels and focused on various topics. They also partner with other orgs to focus on specific issues (like anti-AAPI harassment and with CAIR Chicago for anti-Muslim harassment, etc.).

Here are a few more resources:

APA Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet

RAINN Practicing Bystander Intervention

I think I'll sign up for one as a refresher.