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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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very good things

when i look at my dog and exclaim “kisses you!” and she comes over so I can give her a kiss on the face

when i look at my dog and exclaim “kisses me?” and her tail goes ballistic as she smooches my face ecstatically 

my dog

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Rice cakes are good for this too, just watch out for the diet ones made with sugar replacers if you can't have that!

In lieu of class sick food saltines I’ve been eating buttered flour tortillas.

My ancestors weep.

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"this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population" dude that's 80 million people can you shut up

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in fanfiction we must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that

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from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist

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It might take some experimentation, but white noise has been a lot more helpful to me than earplugs for helping my brain not hear repetitive, annoying, intrusive sounds while I try to sleep or work.

I prefer the 'LectroFan Classic from ASTI, but there are a lot of good options out there. (Some people (like me!) can hear looping in other brands, so be aware of that.)

Additionally, while I say "white noise", the type of noise I actually prefer is "brown noise", which I find to be closer to ocean waves, heavy rain, or a large waterfall. (I find white noise to be a lot higher pitched and "hissier" than brown noise.)

If you're not sure what kind of white noise you might like, may I recommend one of the best sites on the internet, mynoise.net? While they have many many MANY sound options, here is their Ultimate White Noise Generator. Hit B on your keyboard to hear the brown noise version. (They also have other "colors" if you want to experiment.)

And yes there is also an app!

“if you’re sensitive to sounds when sleeping, just use earplugs!” i cannot stress enough that the sensory feeling of having my ears fully blocked AND now being able to hear my own heartbeat and breathing and every other sound that’s happening inside my own body is a million times worse than whatever ambient noise may be keeping me awake

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The reason I’m not an anarchist is that in the centuries before the Americans with disabilities act people could have all installed safe wheelchair ramps in all of their buildings and they didn’t.

If you’re trying to make a system that relies on people being nice I’m not gonna go with it.

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TUESDAY AGAIN NO PROBLEM

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Fold a tiny bird that can perch on your finger.

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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My friends who just got their first glasses: i need this highly expensive special cloth to wipe them, I also have this eyeglass cleaner from the same company, did you know you shouldn't use your t shirt unless it's specifically soft

Me who's worn glasses since middle school: *slaps soap onto the glasses and washes them in the sink then wipes them with toilet paper* what

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when I was a kid I read a sci-fi story where some researcher discovers that all crocodiles since prehistory have had the same congenital heart defect, so they set about curing it. when they do, suddenly their research specimen starts getting stronger and healthier and growing rapidly and developing new appendages, and it turns out all crocodilians were actually stunted sickly forms of dragons. that story really stuck with me because it's basically an expression of the "what if I went to the doctor and they discovered I was deficient in one special vitamin and then I took a pill and all my problems and ailments vanished immediately" fantasy.

unrelated, I started taking daily antihistamines this month for the first time in my life,

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