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Every body is a yogi body!

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or to put it another way, with the benefit of hindsight we might see that the ability of a random person to publish arbitrary video, to the entire world, with no editorial oversight, for free, was an incredibly weird interlude in human history that began in 2005 and ended in 2015 and may not be repeated.

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one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

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An electric toothbrush and an escalator are two things that can stop working and still accomplish their original goal.

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fun fact: basically every mod on r/legaladvice is a cop. if you see a bunch of comments in a row that have been deleted for “offering bad advice”, you can replace “reddit” in the url with “ceddit” to see the same page with all the deleted comments still there, and roughly half the time the “"bad advice”“ is literally anything that suggests that maybe OP shouldn’t trust the cops

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“Hello 000 what’s your emergency?”

“There are children outside! There’s quite a lot of them!”

“Are they trying to break in?”

“No. But they’re trying to strike against climate change. They’re trying to change the nation’s apathy towards coal!”

“Is this Tony Abbott? You can’t keep calling this number whenever someone mentions climate change.”

“But-but-”

“Stop calling us and deal with it.”

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Just got a baffling survey from Google rewards

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There are a few reasons why I think we should try our best to understand what babies are communicating and to respect their boundaries. First of all, babies are people, and people deserve to have their boundaries respected.

But also I think adults have a really bad habit of talking about toddlers as if the toddlers can’t hear them. Sometimes it’s innocuous, but sometimes an adult will say really mean things about a toddler who’s standing right next to them! I think what’s happening in those situations—besides general disrespect for children—is pattern-forming behavior on the part of the parents. You aren’t accustomed to your child understanding you since, just a little while ago, they couldn’t.

But language skills don’t develop overnight, so it’s a good idea to get in the habit of talking to a baby, rather than talking about and around them. There’s a period where kids can understand you but they can’t communicate yet, and although I can’t remember that far back in my own life, I imagine it’s frustrating enough without people treating you like you don’t exist. And of course sometimes kids won’t develop all the language skills you’d expect for disability-related reasons, and you’ll still have to figure out what they’re communicating and respect their boundaries and foster their autonomy.

I think this doesn’t just apply to language, but also to lots of other “how to person” stuff, including social skills like boundary-respecting. It’s good to get in the habit of respecting children’s boundaries even when they’re just babies, because before you know it they’ll start mimicking your behavior and you’ll really (I hope) want to be modeling respectful behavior for them.

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hmmm

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this kitten weighs over 5 pounds already and he’s only 14 weeks old. He’s half the size of an adult cat and he hasn’t even lost his baby teeth yet

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“homer’s enemy” is such a fascinating simpsons episode because although it was largely panned by viewers for being too dark (even by the show’s standards), it’s gone on to become the number 1-rated simpsons episode of all time [according to IMDB] and most people who were young kids at the time the episode first aired (myself included) consider it one of the most iconic and classic episodes of the series

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A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background. 

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