Proudly a nerd. I love unicorns and Rubik's cubes and math and science. Anxious, autistic, queer :)
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No meeting is ever that important
Cat understood the assignment
focus on the likes and not the wants
you may not want to clean your room, but you like the peace and call it brings you after
you may not want to study, but you like the confidence and satisfaction you get from being prepared
you may not not want to apologise, but you like the relief and connection that reconciliation brings
you may not want to cook, but you like the satisfaction of eating a healthy come cooked meal prepared with love
you may not want to exercise, but you like how you feel afterwards and how it makes you confident
you may not want to journal or write, but you like the reflection and calm it brings you
you may not want to step out of your comfort zone, but you like the new experiences and growth you gain from it
my insta @ malusokay
one of the most boring lessons I’ve learned is that when a task feels overwhelming, you just have to start doing it. Even if you’re not sure how to do 90% of it, look for one small component that seems close and start there. Sometimes it’s reading one article on the topic, or searching one related term, or literally just googling how to do the task. Do anything other than thinking about it. The process of working on a thing inherently makes it less scary.
i’m proud of you for facing the days you really don’t want to face
Cold feet
The look of shame
It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.
for a long time i lived alone, but then i got a service dog. after a lot of training, the service dog came to live with me—except, the same day the trainers brought quincy, an orange tabby tomcat also showed up.
"you didn't tell us you had a cat!" said the trainers, both very upset (because they hadn't trained quincy to live with a cat).
"i don't have a cat," i said. "I don't know who this is."
the cat never went away. i named him poe dameron and he lived with me and quincy. they got along fine, in their own way.
we had our quiet adventures. poe was very cuddly but sometimes he just took off for a day or two. once he got into some paint.
after a while, i found out that poe dameron really lived across the alleyway, and belonged to my neighbor elizabeth's teenaged son, and his real name was PUMPKIN. but poe apparently didn't like the teenaged son (probably not least because he named him PUMPKIN), so he had come to live with us instead. elizabeth was fine with it.
the years went by and one day poe dameron crossed the rainbow bridge too soon. i took his ashes to elizabeth. we were very sad.
a few weeks later, she asked me to come over to see something.
it turned out that poe dameron had also lived with a THIRD lady, a few streets over. this lady, whom neither of us knew, was a painter, and she had made this painting of poe dameron. i don't know what she called him, but she painted him like one of your french girls.
"i think you should have it," elizabeth said, tactfully. "after all, he spent the most time with you." i was quite sure she just didn't want this hideous painting in her gabillion-dollar house, but i agreed.
the painting now hangs in the kitchen over my stove—not least because its brick-red frame matches my curtains. and because it delights me to see poe dameron every day, looking so fluffy and sultry, like an orientalist renaissance odalisque.
honestly even the highest concept sci-fi seems tame once you learn BioSteel™ Goats exist irl
Hitler and the Nazi party took over Germany in 53 days. March 1st marks 41 days of the Trump administration. My hope for March is that the list you’re about to read won’t be the in-real-time evidence of America sliding further into autocracy.
Here we go again…
January 2025
February 2025
March 2025:
Trump has made English the official language of the country [x]
Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine [x]
Trump has imposed new tariffs on China and Canada and they have retaliated [x]
Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Secretary of Education [x]
The Department of Education has set up a witch-hunt for DEI in schools [x]
Trump has delayed his tariffs on the auto industry [x]
Trump suspends tariffs on Mexico [x]
ICE is now targeting migrant families who entered the US with their children [x]
Trump is threatening new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tariffs on dairy products [x]
The Department of Homeland Security is performing polygraph tests on employees [x]
Because of cuts to USAID, Afghan women who fled the Taliban might be forced to return [x]
The Department of Health and Human Services is offering all of their employees a $25,000 buyout [x]
Trump says he will double Canadian tariffs on steel and aluminum [x]
Trump administration has rebranded the CBP One app as the CBP Home app for migrants to self-deport [x]
Trump created a strategic crypto reserve [x]
The Department of Education is cutting nearly half its workforce [x]
The Department of Agriculture has cut $1 billion in funding to bring fresh food to schools [x]
The Trump administration is rolling back dozens of environmental protections and regulations [x]
The Senate passed the spending bill that had been passed by the Housw earlier this month [x]
Trump administration has shut down the media organization Voice of America [x]
The US is bombing Houthi targets in Yemen [x]
The EPA has dismissed a case against a chemical plant in Louisiana [x][x]
Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education [x]
Homeland Security is going after foreign-born academics and scholars [x]
Trump says the Small Business Administration will take over the oversight of federal student loans [x]
Trump administration has deported Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador without due process [x]
NOAA is making cuts to weather data collection due to layoffs [x]
Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn and Charlie Kirk [x]
Trump tells the Attorney General to sanction lawyers who file lawsuits against his administration [x][x]
The IRS is going to share tax data with ICE to help them track down undocumented immigrants [x]
Trump signs executive order that requires proof of citizenship to vote [x][x]
Supreme Court upholds regulations on ghost guns [x]
An endangered sea turtle is stranded in Wales because of Trump’s funding freeze [x]
Federal appeals court maintains temporary block on Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations [x]
Trump is imposing 25% tariffs on all automobiles brought into the US [x]
HHS has cut 10,000 employees [x]
A Tufts University graduate student from Turkey has been arrested by ICE agents who wore masks as they grabbed her off the street [x]
This happened in February but I didn’t learn about it until just now — Trump created a White House Faith Office [x][x]
Trump signed an executive order to control the Smithsonian [x][x][x]
Ohio has passed a bill coined the Higher Education Destruction Act by opponents. It bans all DEI from Ohio public universities, bans faculty from going on strike, and eliminates services to veterans and people with disabilities [x]
Trump has pardoned Trevor Milton [x]
Trump won’t rule out a third term [x] (that’s not allowed)
Miscellaneous News:
A federal judge has ruled against another one of Trump’s attempted firings. [x]
Federal workers are fighting back against DOGE cuts [x]
Musk had a closed-door meeting with Republican senators to cement DOGE cuts in law [x]
There was a heated exchange in the House over the misgendering of Sarah McBride [x]
House Republicans block a vote to end Trump’s tariffs [x]
A federal judge has ordered that thousands of federal employees be reinstated [x]
Trump says he wants to use the Justice Department to go after his political enemies [x]
A judge has blocked Trump’s transgender military ban [x]
Elon Musk is spending millions of dollars on a Wisconsin Supreme Court election [x]
Arlington National Cemetery has taken down information about female veterans and veterans of color from their website [x]
The person in charge of defending DOGE cuts is a social media fashion influencer [x]
A chorus of ladies wrote a song for Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) [x]
The UK, Germany, and Nordic countries have all issued travel warnings about traveling to the US [x]
Columbia University has given in to Trump’s demands in order to restore federal funding [x]
Usha Vance and Mike Waltz, along with other US officials are planning to visit Greenland this week [x]
Trump administration accidentally sent secret war plans to the editor of a magazine [x]
Trump defends Mike Waltz who accidentally added a journalist to text chain about secret war plans [x]
The White House is seeking corporate sponsorships for its annual Easter Egg roll [x]
Florida is trying to loosen their child labor laws [x]
Ohio is trying to pass a bill to completely ban all DEI in public universities [x]
Alabama board defunds local library in first action under new book ban law [x]
Utah has banned fluoride in its drinking water [x] (I hope you like tooth decay)
JD Vance says Greenlanders want to join the US [x]
This post is constantly being updated so if this comes across your dash, check OP’s blog to see the most up-to-date version.
Remember that you have a voice. Remember that Donald Trump and his spineless cronies want you to just give up and accept their control. REMEMBER: NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.
"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."
- Turkish Proverb
Okay, trees, I know it's hard to understand but those billionaires? That orange stain now in office? They're the axe, honey. They've always been the axe.
And we've never been anything but kindling to them.
daily affirmations: you are isildur’s heir, not isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.
everyone who ever tried to kill you failed btw
I hate when people ask me about my preference but I don’t understand their preference level. Like yes I kinda want Chinese food 10% more than I want a sandwich but if you want a sandwich like 40% more than Chinese food then I would say it’s totally reasonable we get sandwiches.
If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...
Start helping with citizen science projects
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help
Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.
fucking love the pitt. they let the autistic girl chill with a dog fo a bit then her boss came in like "fucking love u girl my least troublesome intern wanna pick sooo much gravel out a dudes leg wound?" and she was just like 😀😀😀 incredible. banger autistic rep shes so me.
happy Thursday the 20th
oh my god...
so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.
the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.
THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.
How to explain AuDHD things to NTs, by my therapist
"Imagine you're playing chess all day, every day, on a timer, where any wrong move could result in confusion or awkwardness. You are constantly anticipating, strategizing, and analyzing every move."
"Imagine you’re an actor performing a role for 8-12 hours a day, acting as ‘normal.’ You’re following rules you’ve studied your whole life, but one small slip, like showing your interests or being yourself, might make people question you or treat you differently. It’s exhausting because the role never ends and it feels like I’m always one wrong word away from the audience turning on me.”
“Imagine that your phone battery dies by lunchtime every day and the only way to recharge it is by sitting in complete silence for 12 hours. Even then, it only gets to 50%.”
"Imagine trying to use an old laptop with too many tabs open. It lags, freezes and crashes. That’s my brain on a regular workday. No matter how much I try to "push through", the system just shuts down.”
"It’s like sprinting with a permanently broken ankle: it’s possible but it hurts, and it’s not sustainable forever.”
born to infodump forced to constantly worry if the other person actually cares or if im making sense or if i said something wrong or if im embarrassing myself or if they want me to stop talking or
rejection sensitivity is so fucking lame. like boo hoo look at me i felt mildly ignored for 30 seconds and already started planning my own funeral liKE BITCH CHILL it was never that serious
never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"