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99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

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This gotta be the funniest Enterprise-Klingon exchange ever:

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There was a hole left behind by a ripped out stump just outside our apartment, and for awhile, some absolute jackass decided that would be the perfect place to dump used cat litter. It made the entire parking lot and side yard reek of ammonia, especially after it rained.

A little while ago, we came home with a massive bag of bird seed that turned out to be infested with weevils. Perfectly fine for the birds, but we didn't want them getting all over the house/garden. I had already tried to pack as much dirt over the hole as possible with out just digging out another one, and thought "fuck it, let the birds feast" so I just dumped the entire bag of bird seed out into the hole and spread it out nice and even.

Lo and behold, a fucking sunflower has now sprouted from the cat shit hole.

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by Laerte Coutinho

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Ceramic Little Wizards Frog // Gnomalent

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One of my favorite things about Leverage is when a bad guy points a gun at Eliot and there’s that moment of,”well, this is gonna be awkward for you,” that crosses Eliot’s face.

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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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And now for something completely different.

This is the ADHD Teapot. I made it in a ceramics class a few years ago. I use it to explain executive dysfunction to people who haven’t come across the term before (and those who think of ADHD mostly as Hyperactive Eight Year Old Boy Syndrome).

So, most people’s brains are like a regular shaped teapot with a single spout. Let’s say that your time, energy, focus etc is the liquid you have in the teapot. Your executive function is the spout, that directs the tea into the specific cup you want to fill-aka the task that you’re meant to be doing. Spills happen occasionally, but generally most of the tea goes in the right cup.

If you have executive dysfunction, (a symptom of ADHD, trauma, autism, schizophrenia etc.) you have multiple spouts going in different directions. You can try pointing one of them at your chosen cup and you will probably get some liquid in there, perhaps you will even fill it right up (finish the task). But meanwhile, tea is also pouring out of several other places and not going where you want it. If you have another container nearby, perhaps some of it will end up in there. But quite a lot of it is going to end up on the floor and accomplish nothing.

And at the end of the day you’ll have filled one or two cups ( or sometimes not even one) compared to the five or six that somebody with the same sized teapot (but only one spout) has filled, and everyone wonders why you’re so bad at getting tea poured, and why you make such a mess in the process.

One day I’d like to spend more time learning pottery and create a really technically good fucked up little adhd teapot. But that’s a long way off since i currently live in the outback and the nearest pottery workshop is some 400km away. But I figure that for now, it might be a useful or interesting metaphor to somebody even in its rough draft form.

This post is the cup I filled instead of cleaning my house btw.

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Kurt Russell - Escape from New York (1981)

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BUDDY you're a BOY you're a BIG BIG BOY you're a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BOY you got mud on your face you BIG BIG BOY kicking your can all over the place singing WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee

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A while back I had been seeing a girl for a while and while we were discussing movies the topic of The Shape of Water came up (this was back when the movie was recent) and she told me she did not like it because she thought it was "too weird" that the girl fucks the fish guy. And I did not break up with her on the spot, y'know, because that would be a really weird and petty dealbreaker and this was like the fifth date or something. But I sort of felt it click in my brain immediately? That if Guillermo Del Toro's fishfucking movie was too weird for her we were never going to be compatible. That movie won an Oscar. You have a lower weirdness tolerance than the Oscar's? We could never be

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EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

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Old Lighters 🤔

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and did you have to look it up