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It's spring, and I personally think this should be the time to make resolutions, the temps warming up, the SADs (if yours is winter based) are recovering, the sun is finally awake, the flowers are starting to bloom, and the trees are no longer bald. In general, I think everyone is overall happier and has more energy.

In fact, if you made your new years resolutions, it's still be a good time to look them over again and see what you want to change, what you dropped and want to start again, and if you think you'll reach your goals when you thought you would.

My resolutions are

- go outside for at least 10 minutes every day, even if just to watch the sunset or sit in the lawn with my dog

- try to get a 30 day uninterrupted streak of showering OR brushing teeth OR changing my clothes (or all 3), if not, aim for more than half of each month.

- do yoga/qi gong/go for walks/exercise for at least 100 days total until the next spring (or ~March 20 2026 to May 14th, today)

- find a place to socialize/socialize more with strangers/make an irl friend/hang out more with people

- study Japanese for the entire year, possibly attempt to pass the JLPT N5

- get the terrain portion of the library of Alexandria Minecraft project done

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YouTube Channels for Kids by JLPT Levels

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こんにちは, Japanese learners! Learning a language is an exciting adventure, isn't it? To add a spark of joy to your Japanese learning journey, here's a collection of YouTube channels tailored for kids. Organized by JLPT levels, these channels offer a blend of education and entertainment for learners at different stages. Keep in mind, though, that JLPT levels aren't an exact science like math – language learning can be subjective in terms of difficulty. However, these resources provide a fantastic starting point and a fun way to explore the world of Japanese language and culture. Let's hop into this delightful world of animated learning and playful discoveries!

Friendly reminder to adjust your way of learning in order to make the most of what you're studying to reach the goal you truly want! read my post about it (ᵔ◡ᵔ)

꒰ა ˚₊ ✧・┈・╴N 5 ╴・┈・𐑺 ‧₊˚໒꒱

— Curious George (N5 level)

— Japanese folk tales/anime series (Japanese audio/Japanese subtitles) from BomBom Academy (N5 level)

— Peppa Pig (N5-4 level)

— Anpanman (N5-4 level)

— NHK education (N5-4 level)

꒰ა ˚₊ ✧・┈・╴N4 ╴・┈・𐑺 ‧₊˚໒꒱

— Cinnamon Roll, Sanrio (N4 level)

— [Anime] Atashin'chi (N4-3 level)

꒰ა ˚₊ ✧・┈・╴N3 ╴・┈・𐑺 ‧₊˚໒꒱

— Sesame Street Japan (N3 level)

— Chibi Maruko Chan (N3-2 level)

꒰ა ˚₊ ✧・┈・╴N2 ╴・┈・𐑺 ‧₊˚໒꒱

— Precure (N2 level)

またね～@inkichan

꒰ა ˚₊ ✧・┈・╴﹕꒰ ᐢ｡- ༝ -｡ᐢ ꒱﹕╴・┈・𐑺 ‧₊˚໒꒱

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Brother relapsed on H, my contamination delusion came back, stress slowly getting worse.

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Today I drove a car for the first time in my life and it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.

Tomorrow? Total world domination, fight club irl, stealing a rocket and flying the fuck out of here.

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I don't even care about much any more, little internet beings are going to judge me for making post that doesn't follow blogs theme? Who cares.

This post is directly asking anyone in the entire world to make kenpachi zarachi hentai. Please, I neeeeeeeed it. Bleach game got me going awooooga. Feelings I haven't felt in years are bubbling up. Gimme gimme

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My hallucinations be like: "haha penis entering your nose"

My anxiety be like: "don't let them know penis is IN your nose or else you will die"

And then I have to sit there and tell myself "there's no fucking penis entering my nose, there isn't even a fucking human being around to stick a penis in my nose, why do I get the stupid hallucinations, what the fuck"

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... Where do they think the people who lived in the burned down homes went? Do they think they live in a magic world of living in free houses, or... In their burned down house?

good article on mutual aid more broadly worth reading in full but this paragraph

WILD

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14 March 2025

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

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i guess i'm not as despairing as many people about the future of the planet simply because the fact that we're not in way worse shape today suggests the earth is crazy resilient

Reading anything about environmental history is like "and by 1956 the river was so full of uranium and bubonic plague that the only living organism found in it was an single amoeba which died immediately after being documented" and I'm like okay maybe today's problems aren't necessarily uniquely disastrous and unsolvable

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PSA/rant - severe mental illness, able mindedness, sanity, memory, etc.

Can't wait for people to start popularizing the term able-minded and realizing that their sanity, intelligence, ability to properly apply logic to things, ability to tell what is going on at any given moment, memorize things, learn in an appropriate amount of time, speak without clanging or swerving so far off track that they themselves are confused, IS a privilege.

I'm absolutely certain people will read that, not be able to internalize it, and lash out with anger, so let me explain

People with neurological conditions and severe mental illnesses, autism, seizures, Alzheimer's, dementia, Downs, psychotic spectrum disorders, narcolepsy, maladaptive daydreaming, OCD, psychological mutism, PTSD, and so much more that effects the brains ability to interact with daily life in severe ways can't do the things you view as absolutely basic, more basic than brushing your teeth and wiping your ass.

Your emotional regulation, your simple conversations, your remembering what you did 2 seconds ago, your ability to fall or stay asleep, your knowing what you're seeing/hearing/feeling/tasting/smelling is real, your thought process making sense to yourself or when put into words, your ability to get RESTFUL sleep

To you, 2+2 always equals 4, to me, sometimes 2+2 means duality of man or grand conspiracy of two spies tracking me and my brother, and the best answer to that is infinity or 2, or anything in between, beyond, or behind. It's nonsensical to people who didn't know the context of what my brain connected it to, if I said that in public, people's reaction would not be an attempt to understand or help me come back to reality, it would be avoidance or calling the police/911. There's no reality where my brain and the connections it forms would be a help, outside of spirituality and places where my condition would worsen instead of improve.

Would you be able to wipe your ass if you were convinced you already wiped your ass? Would you be able to shower if you couldn't tell if the stranger in your shower was real or if the sound of the running shower was real or not? Would you be able to buy yourself food if you couldn't remember no matter how many times you saw the amount in your bank if you had money or not? Would you be able to go outside if you felt you KNEW there was a murderer outside waiting to kill you? Would you talk to people if you were convinced every single one of our words brings genuine, real, bad luck?

If you would, you're lying to yourself, or at the very least, you wipe your ass multiple times just to be sure, and in which case, you're probably a little bit of a perfectionist or clean freak.

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At the end of the day you have to understand some people are mentally ill like really really mentally ill on a level you can’t understand. I see this a lot when someone does something weird or incomprehensible and people are shocked trying to figure out their intentions and why they’d do it and it’s like there’s people who are psychotic or delusional or have rapid mood swings you’ll never be able to comprehend and very often people with other mental illnesses who are able to function more acceptably have a bad lack of understanding of that and compare what they can do and act like as the standard not understanding that’s not the same playing field

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i love what the internet has done to the english language

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Update: it was right and wrong at the same time. I thought ws meant working side, when it means f******uckingFUCKING WRONG SIDE? okay, I guess that's straight forward.

So, it wrote it as working side, which it is on the working side (just.. RIGHT SIDE, RS? NOT reverse side), but also the wrong stitches, k4 p5 k8 p5 k4, not k9 p8 k9.

It was cool to have AI be able to tell what's going on, before, y'know, inevitably frogging the line because it... Halfway... Got it wrong

I think I'm starting to get why people are really enthusiastic about AI.

If only it wasn't ruined by content theft and a rise in unwillingness to do basic research

This definitely beats repeatedly frogging hoping my memory and situational awareness finally turns on, yes, I'll still eventually learn to recognize which side is the working side, just with 10x less annoyance.

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I think I'm starting to get why people are really enthusiastic about AI.

If only it wasn't ruined by content theft and a rise in unwillingness to do basic research

This definitely beats repeatedly frogging hoping my memory and situational awareness finally turns on, yes, I'll still eventually learn to recognize which side is the working side, just with 10x less annoyance.

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"Eavesdropping on whale songs over the last six years is providing new information vital to answering questions about these giants of the ocean.

The number of whale songs detected is associated with shifting food sources, according to the California scientists—and the number of days humpbacks have been singing has nearly doubled.

When monitoring baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean, researchers found year-to-year variations correlated with changes in the availability of the species they forage on.

In vast oceans, monitoring populations of large marine animals can be a “major challenge” for ecologists, explained Dr. John Ryan, a biological oceanographer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California (MBARI).

Their team deployed underwater microphones called hydrophones to study and track baleen whales, which communicate over long distances through sound.

“Surprisingly, the acoustic behavior of baleen whales provides insights about which species can better adapt to changing ocean conditions,” said Dr. Ryan, a lead author of the study.

They also monitored songs from blue, fin, and humpback whales off the West Coast of the U.S. to see what the song data could reveal about the health of their ecosystem.

The findings, published in the journal PLOS One, showed “large” year-to-year variations in whale song detection.

“The amount of humpback whale song continually increased, with their songs being detected on 34% of days at the beginning of the study and rising to 76% of days after six years,” said Dr. Ryan.

“These increases consistently tracked improved foraging conditions for humpback whales across all study years—large increases in krill abundance, followed by large increases in anchovy abundance.

“In contrast, blue and fin whale song rose primarily during the years of increasing krill abundance.

“This distinction of humpback whales is consistent with their ability to switch between dominant prey. An analysis of skin biopsy samples confirmed that changes had occurred in the whales’ diets.”

He explained that other factors, including the local abundance of whales, may have contributed to patterns in song detections observed in some years, but changes in foraging conditions were the most consistent factor.

“Overall, the study indicates that seasonal and annual changes in the amount of baleen whale song detected may mirror shifts in the local food web.”

WHALES ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL: • Gray Whale, Extinct for Centuries in Atlantic, Is Spotted in Cape Cod • Sighting of Many Blue Whales Around Seychelles is First in Decades – ‘Phenomenal’ • Majestic Sei Whales Reappear in Argentine Waters After Nearly a Century

“The results suggest that an understanding of the relationship between whale song detection and food availability may help researchers to interpret future hydrophone data, both for scientific research and whale management efforts”, which could better protect endangered species."

-via Good News Network, March 1, 2025

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I am a stealth trans man, the privilege I have is being treated like a man as soon as they see me

If I'm applying for a job, I am treated like a woman trying to be perceived as a man, because they still see my legal name and gender marker on my ID.

If I'm trying to date, I'm perceived as a predator by straight women, a confused lesbian by bi/lesbian women (these demographics I rarely, if never go after), a tomboy by straight/bisexual men, and a gay fetishizer by gay men. At best with trans women, I become the therapist, and with trans men, it becomes an argument of passing better or worse and jealousy. That's not to say out of every demographic there are people who handle the relationship properly, but that the majority don't.

In friendships, things can go great for months and months, sometimes even years before they find out I'm trans and they start acting weird about it.

Suddenly they recommend more "feminine" music, hobbies, activities to do with me, they suddenly view me as their therapist to vent about difficulties with women, and that's all the BEST case scenario, that's the BEST thing that could happen from them finding out, this one's also the easiest to handle, "I thought you might like to see my grandmas garden.... My grandpa also likes it... Haha" - "no, nah, I wanna get back to playing eve online with you though, I mean, I do have some fake plants, heard they help with depression, think real ones would last a month at most".

An unfortunate amount of people react to things they don't understand with anger and attacks, whether that be verbal or physical.

I used to be nearly best friends with a girl named Kat. Unknown to me at the time, she had a crush on me. She invited me over, we got to her bedroom (in my mind, to hang out), she pushed me on the bed (I thought it was playful, like wrestling), and she pulled my shirt up and saw my binder, jumped away, and started apologizing. I went home straight after that. After that, she avoided me, and called me a faggot, rapist, molester, and creep after that. I wasn't interested in her at all before or after that, and I wasn't the one who initiated or caused that situation to happen.

Another incident was while I was at the mental ward, in which they usually refused to put my chosen name on the cards, and I would turn it around and write my chosen name every time I saw it. Unfortunately, I usually wasn't fast enough and someone saw my dead name on the card. He started asking me inappropriate questions, calling me a tranny, and eventually lead to him punching me in the face, the police being called, and the police did nothing besides give me a court date in an entire state over, which I had no way to get to, meaning nothing happened and the case was dropped.

A lot of people react to things they don't understand with suddenly disappearing from your life too.

You join a hobby discord server, talk, people think you're cool, they add and DM you, you get along fine talking to each other, you mention as relevant to the conversation that you're trans, the conversation magically fizzles out and becomes dry, and then they stop responding all together, usually intermitten with one or 2 inappropriate questions about your genitals or body or kids or hormones or surgery.

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