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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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My two yr old is looking through a book about prehistoric art and she saw a picture of those cave painting of hands and she held up her own and said "hand!" And I gotta be honest. That hit

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@bundestag-unofficial könnt ihr mich bitte nochmal reinlassen, mir fällt gerade auf, dass ich noch eine Wasserflasche bei euch vergessen habe. Da ist noch Pfand drauf

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When a person with ADHD complains of severe anxiety, I recommend that the clinician not immediately accept the patient’s label for her emotional experience. A clinician should say, “Tell me more about your baseless, apprehensive fear,” which is the definition of anxiety. More times than not, a person with ADHD hyperarousal will give a quizzical look and respond, “I never said I was afraid.” If the patient can drop the label long enough to describe what the feeling is like, a clinician will likely hear, “I am always tense; I can’t relax enough to sit and watch a movie or TV program. I always feel like I have to go do something.” The patients are describing the inner experience of hyperactivity when it is not being expressed physically.

At the same time, people with ADHD also have fears that are based on real events in their lives. People with ADHD nervous systems are consistently inconsistent. The person is never sure that her abilities and intellect will show up when they are needed. Not being able to measure up at the job or at school, or in social circles is humiliating. It is understandable that people with ADHD live with persistent fear. These fears are real, so they do not indicate an anxiety disorder.

holy SHIT

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It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

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Image Description.

Facebook post from Matt Norris.

Post reads like a conversation between 2 people:

Prison labor is a problem we need to address soon.

Convicts in prison should have to work like the rest of us.

You mean like slavery?

No, we’re giving them 3 meals and a bed, at our expense, while they just sit around and watch TV. They should have to work!

Right. Like slavery.

It’s not like slavery!

Can they leave?

No.

Can they refuse work?

No.

So how exactly isn’t this slavery?

We DO pay them!

Do we pay in accordance with labor laws?

No. We pay them between 33 cents and $1.41/hour with a maximum daily wage below $5, then take up to half of that as room&board fees and victim compensation.

Right. So like slavery.

BUT.

No.

Image then links to this url.

Below URL image reads “fun bonus fact: enough of our labor market currently relies on labor at these depressed rates, that it has a substantial downward pressure on both wages and job availability in low-skilled sectors. Immigrants aren’t taking your jobs. Slavery is.

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I’d also like to add it’s not just private prisons. It’s also private detention centers where ICE keeps the immigrants.

-fae

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this is so fucking funny I love sharks

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I was talking about vampire weaknesses from folklore and early vampire fiction like Dracula with my housemate and we eventually came to the conclusion that vampires are very dangerous if you don’t know they’re there but extremely easy to protect yourself from once you’ve caught on to them. You don’t even have to know who the vampire is, just that they’re hunting in your neighborhood.

I fully understand why modern writers ignore a lot of the vampire mythos because what are you supposed to do with a creature that can’t hunt in daylight (either because it weakens them like Dracula or straight up kills them), can’t touch silver, have to count the bag of rice you throw on the floor, has to avoid garlic, can only get in when invited even if the human doesn’t own the house, can’t cross moving water on their own, can’t leave their coffin if you place a rose on top of it, and can’t even wake up and protect themselves if you open their coffin during the day. Dracula got fucked up by a Jack Russell Terrier in the book because he took the shape of a swarm of rats.

I mean, it would be a super interesting idea for a story about how stealthy vampires have to be to survive and how they constantly have to make sure humans don’t believe they exist because otherwise they’re fucked, but I also understand why modern writers can’t have their vampires be this easy to trip up.

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I was talking about vampire weaknesses from folklore and early vampire fiction like Dracula with my housemate and we eventually came to the conclusion that vampires are very dangerous if you don’t know they’re there but extremely easy to protect yourself from once you’ve caught on to them. You don’t even have to know who the vampire is, just that they’re hunting in your neighborhood.

I fully understand why modern writers ignore a lot of the vampire mythos because what are you supposed to do with a creature that can’t hunt in daylight (either because it weakens them like Dracula or straight up kills them), can’t touch silver, have to count the bag of rice you throw on the floor, has to avoid garlic, can only get in when invited even if the human doesn’t own the house, can’t cross moving water on their own, can’t leave their coffin if you place a rose on top of it, and can’t even wake up and protect themselves if you open their coffin during the day. Dracula got fucked up by a Jack Russell Terrier in the book because he took the shape of a swarm of rats.

I mean, it would be a super interesting idea for a story about how stealthy vampires have to be to survive and how they constantly have to make sure humans don’t believe they exist because otherwise they’re fucked, but I also understand why modern writers can’t have their vampires be this easy to trip up.

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happy glorious 25th of may

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Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.

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best part of the og trolley problem image is the big frown on the lever operator

shaking my head as I either pull or don't pull the lever so everyone knows I disapprove of the ethical dilemma

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So apparently Tumblr ate my original post about this but:

A couple weeks ago I’m going to get lunch and as I open the fridge, my mother attempts to communicate to me that any chicken currently in the fridge is ok for people to eat, because the chicken that was intended for the dog to eat has been used up.

What she actually says is, “That’s human chicken.”

After taking a minute to process all horrible implications of the phrase “human chicken”, I decide to go a different route and hold the tupperware of chicken out to my sister, saying, “Behold, a man!”

This was evidently the wrong choice, as it meant I had to explain to my parents who Diogenes was, thereby cementing the incident in their minds and leading to me, just now, opening the fridge to see the following incredibly cursed image:

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La ostia

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all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb