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Fun fact: you can avoid midlife crisis by literally simply just skipping it. Straight-up just skip being middle-aged. Once I turned 30 and aged out of the "young adult" bracket, I skipped straight into being a weird little old man. Record youngest bizarre old geezer in generations. Now if I'm lucky and play my cards right, I've got like 80 or 90 years of being a weird lttle old man left in me. If I manage to do a hundred, I'm going to start telling people that the secret to living to 130 is that I ate an entire pine cone every single day.

That, or that I can't die because heaven isn't taking me and the devil owes me money so he's avoiding me.

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When a small kid decks their shit and starts screaming, it's apparently useful to ask them "are you more scared or more hurt?" because they might actually pause the shrieking to understand that adults might not automatically know what they are feeling, and that they can and should use words to communicate whether they need emotional support or medical attention.

I wonder if it could be applied to tumblr. Asking shrieking people "are you disagreeing with what OP said, or are you mad about the way they worded it?"

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they should really warn you ahead of time about how much of adult life hinges on being able to navigate other Ppls childhoods. Like lot of the time in order to complete a task or even just communicate effectively you need to get a sense of ‘wtf happened to this guy in high school’

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feeling this rn

[girl who would like to take a break from being a person voice] yeah no I'm just a little tired today

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well

i want all my friends and followers and mutuals and acquaintances to know from the bottom of my heart: i don’t respond to your messages because i’m an insane person, i am insane medieval hermit software running inappropriately on modern queer hardware and social media scares me. it is not your fault

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i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

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Car wash fundraiser for Tboy Wrestling

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Sport in Europe. Edited by F. G. Aflalo. Illustration by Edmund Caldwell. 1901.

Internet Archive

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I am delirious right now so I'm sorry if this sounds rude but do you sleep? I know you've acknowledged how Tumblr is putting your posts on everyone's dash without following you in your bio but it feels like every time I check Tumblr you've made a huge amount of long posts at an incredibly impressive pace. like, most of your blog is just posts you've made, not even many reblogs other than of your own posts. do you just,,, sit and think of and draft posts constantly? do you make them in batches and then queue them? no judgement or hate but I'm just slightly baffled/impressed at how effectively you've inundated the masses with your posts

I don't make tumblr posts the same way someone would craft something they make for a living. I make tumblr posts the same way I make piss. I'll be doing some other stuff while random clutter thoughts keep building up, until there's so much of it that I have to take a break to let it out so I can go back to my work with more focus.

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ref for future goat-mixing if needed

I have no recollection of where I learned this, but when you've got two herds of cows and need to combine them - like you already had your own cows and then buy another whole herd from a market or something, idk how that works - you can't just put them on the same pasture and let them sort it out by themselves all at once. At first you put them in one by one.

You start with the lead cow of the smaller herd, there's always one cow that's the most dominant one in the group, and you put her in the bigger herd. If she was tough enough to establish herself as the head and commander of the first herd, she'll be tough enough to stand up for herself and establish herself in the new herd. And once she has settled in and found her own place in the new herd, you bring in the first one's best friend. It would be a bit too much of a stretch to call this one the "second in command" of the smaller herd, but cows tend to have buddies and this is the one who's the lead cow's closest friend that she hangs out with.

And since the cow that had first been introduced to the big herd has already established herself and found her own place in their ranks, she's definitely making sure that nobody fucks with her homegirl, that's her bestie and none of the original cows better have a problem with her. And after they have accepted the second cow, you keep introducing them in one by one and then two or three at a time, going down the smaller herd's ranks, until the lowest cows that none of the other ones really like are let in as the last ones.

Anyway I don't have any particular point with this, I'm just explaining this because I have no memory of where I would have heard or read this, or did I just fucking hallucinate it. But it sounded sensible enough and I don't know enough about cows to dispute it, so I've never felt the need to question that.

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if you tell yourself “I’ll deal with it later” enough times with enough frequency you can slowly destroy your life. follow for more tips

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u know besides the million other reasons i hate generative ai i also refuse to use it bc i dont trust anything being pushed on me this hard. why does every company desperately want me to get on the bandwagon. whats in it for you. whats in it for me. if ur pushing this shitass product into my life so intrusively u must have nefarious intentions. i dont trust anything being shilled like this

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"Fantasy authors don't know how long a thousand years is!!!!!! Knock a zewo off the end!!!!!!!111!!!1" Did you know that it's never too late to learn whimsy and joy