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nodding furiously at every second of this video

Stray cat breaks into Lynx’s enclosure at zoo

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My New job doesn't have enough people for this but my OLD job... the drama kept me going

my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush

Another one:

Too tired to cook, too hungry to sleep

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

Cool

I might've reblogged this already but I have not been counting in 2025, nor do I wish to

It's so strange to reconcile the fact that the US is falling apart and yet all I can do is go on with my life. I feel like everything should stop, everything should have to be changed irrevocably but instead I'm just going to work every day and doing my homework and buying groceries and driving my car, all in the same places I used to go, as if the world is the same place it used to be.

I really think the way to survive is by building community. Constantly doing nice things for the people around you.

I generally try to consider whether my actions are promoting a world I want to live in or not. Do i want to live in a world where everyone ignores each other? No! Compliment strangers! Honk for stupid teenagers who do the fist pump thing! Recommend the book that person is looking at! Help people who look lost!

In order to live in a world where people are kind to each other we have to focus on adding little bits of kindness every day.

the way ppl have designated cuddling as a purely romantic thing and is weird outside of that context has done widespread damage to our pack animal nature

Tonight House Republicans voted 217 to 215 for a budget that'll take $1 TRILLION dollars from Medicaid, attack food benefits for kids, hurt seniors and vets.

but I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about these two Democratic members of Congress you've never ever heard of.

Democrats, Congressman Kevin Mullin of California and Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen of Colorado.

Congressman Mullin had knee surgery that didn't go well, two surgeries, a life threatening blood clot and a week long stay in the hospital, and the moment he was discharged from the hospital he got on a five hour flight to DC to vote against the Republicans evil budget, using a walker to get to the floor of the House

Congresswoman Pettersen gave birth to her son Sam, in the picture, exactly one month ago on January 25th. They flew from Colorado to DC after Republicans refused to allow her to vote by proxy after having a baby. Congresswoman Pettersen took Sam onto the floor of the House to vote to protect the Health care of 400,000 Colorado kids.

why talk about this? because so much of the conversion is about telling people there's no one good, no one worthy, no one fighting. I promise you there are people undergoing personal hardship to do the right thing.

14 year old me thought I would be dead or homeless right now. She would be disgusted that I'm still living in the US (and she'd be right)

Go touch grass, respectfully

This is a fantastic linguistics paper – the researcher observed the artificiality and social pressure imposed on kids when they're asked to produce language on the spot, so instead had them talk to a rabbit in a room with a tape recorder. He found that when talking organically, without an adult authority figure around, their speech was exponentially more sophisticated, socially fluid, and creative.

As someone in the twitter thread points out, this has obvious implications for situations in which cued language production is used in diagnosis e.g. for autism. I'd add that (while this particular paper's remit is limited to children) it should also make us think about situations where adults are pressured to speak by authority figures: court hearings, police encounters, benefit assessments, asylum interviews, etc. If the presence of power hampers your ability to advocate for yourself, these are all rigged propositions.

Anyway, you can read the whole piece here (taken from a talk on his research, so it's very readable):

https://betsysneller.github.io/pdfs/Labov1966-Rabbit.pdf

e: sorry, I should add the context that this is a language study situated in Hawaii in 1970 so there are also some very significant racial socio-linguistic politics discussed here that might be distressing to read about. I don't want to discount that aspect of the power dynamic studied here either.

Everyday is all there is.

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

I will be tired in the morning

well look who it is. my old friend. the conses of my quences.