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one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”

sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference

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Had to witness yet another lukewarm take on how Superman 2025's optimism is because all Americans are deluded and think their country is perfect and I feel compelled to remind people that in this movie the U.S. government:

A) Is supporting the Boravian state dictatorship and genocide of a neighboring state B) Arrests Superman, denies him any rights because he's not a real U.S. citizen, and then disappears him into a billionaire's prison to be "interrogated". C) Allows Lex Luthor to abduct a second immigrant and kill him for the purposes of "interrogating" Superman, and possibly allowed or else turned a blind eye to the rest of the people that Luthor has been abducting as long as he imprisoned Superman.

Now, I could be wrong, but it does not seem like this movie blindly trusts the U.S. government.

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i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

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Judith Lanster

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it's true and you should say it.

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For a palaeontology student I sure am bad at typing the word palaetnology. Like every time I try to type apleontology I always mess it up which is really annoying when I'm trying to write actual palentogloy essays. Like I don't think anyone who saw me typing could take me seriously as a paleontolfoy, given how many times I misspell paleaotnology and have to go back and rewrite the word paaleontolgoy until it's correct. I could get an autocorrect thing that fixes it for me but I don't think I could program it with every possible misspelling of palaeontlgooly that I could make.

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Quote of the day

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John Brosio (American, 1967) - Two Earthlings (2003)

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the circle mage origin is so wild like you can prove yourself completely untrustworthy to any authority and duncan will be like "you know what? i like that. shows initiative. also blood magic isn't even that bad you're all pussies."

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I think parents don't understand how punishing a child isn't for when they make you upset, it's for when they do something wrong. Like, you don't just punish them for stress relief, it's so they can learn right from wrong.

So if your kid learns, for example, that helping mom make dinner = getting in the way, but not helping = being lazy, but asking if mom needs help = being annoying and asking stupid questions, then you have basically trained a person to see the only option that doesn't lead to scolding as 'hide and don't be thought of until dinner is done'. So now what relationship is your kid going to have with cooking or cleaning or chores in general? How is that going to affect them as an adult?

If there is no right answer regarding the things that bother a parent, then your kid is going to associate those things with being punished no matter what they do. If talking during a car ride is bad and annoying, but being quiet and staring out the window is bad and disrespectful, then what are they going to do every time they're in the car with you but count every word they say? If texting is suspicious, but why don't they have friends, but going out with people is irresponsible, but why don't they ever leave their room, but their friends are all bad influences, but why did they stop hanging out with them, they were nice kids, then what are you even doing?

If playing video games is lazy, going outside is unsafe, playing is ignoring chores and doing chores is being in the way, then YOU'VE CREATED A CHILD WHO'S LEARNED THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID BEING SCOLDED IS TO DISAPPEAR WHENEVER YOU'RE IN A BAD MOOD! You've created a person who is hardwired to feel guilty no matter what they choose to do. You turned them into a confrontation ninja, who can vanish as soon as a hard conversation enters the picture. You've trained a person to disregard why rules exist and instead focus on who they can placate and suck up to in order to make the rules change. Because to them, rules and punishments are just who gets on the bosses nerves at the wrong time.

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Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria is such a weird theory because it's like there's a very obvious explanation for why middle school kids who didn't have dysphoria before might suddenly have dysphoria. Like huh weird I wonder what very obvious and widely known change that could cause kids to suddenly become very uncomfortable in their gender or sexual identity starts in between the ages of 10 and 14. Guess we'll never know. Must be peer pressure to *checks notes* become the only gender minority in your whole school singling you out for harassment by your peers. Couldn't be puberty suddenly giving you new body parts/bodily functions that are wrong for you.

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best typo ive ever made i think

reblog if you feep stupid

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normalise saying ''what the fuck is wrong with you'' to mean people

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“Last year, progressive ballot measures thrived even as Democratic candidates struggled. Voters across the country approved minimum wage increases, paid leave expansions, and other progressive economic policies, with red states embracing progressive measures even while supporting Trump, like Missouri where voters passed a $15 minimum wage and paid sick leave, or Nebraska where voters approved guaranteed paid time off. A July 2025 poll by the Democratic pollster Celinda Lake for progressive network Way to Win found that Democratic voters who skipped 2024 want candidates more like the independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and New York member of congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, suggesting the party’s problem may be insufficient progressivism rather than too much.”

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Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’

Some of us have been saying this since 2004.