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Terrarium? Oh no, I'm sorry, this is the Terrare-um. Yeah that's him right down in there. Yeah it's sort of empty looking because he keeps eating the substrate.

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There was a show about this on during my lunch at work a couple days ago!

I need to emphasize that Bell Labs was AT&T. They'd been posed to monopolize the telephone industry and send Motorola under, so Motorola made a hail mary play - develop the first mobile telephone.

And what did they do for their first ever mobile phone call? They called the competition to say "guess where I am right now". What a power move.

The first mobile phone call was made on this day in 1973. Martin Cooper, using a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC, placed a call from the streets of New York to Bell Labs in New Jersey. The device was 9 inches tall, had a talk-time of 35 minutes, and took 10 hours to recharge.

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#oh no i like all of these things #folks all hating on omegaverse but it does genuinely have some really interesting worldbuilding fics

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I do this. This is Final Pam. You remember how your backyard barbecue go, the Smiths. Pretty good it doesn’t seem. Haha, I tell little joke.

NEXT TIME YOU INVITE PAM!

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Those are his galoshes you bastard

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reblog for sample size !!

#black #proper void creature

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do you buckle your food into the seat of the car to keep it safe??

example:

Only if I'm taping those fake-nose glasses to the bag so I can use the carpool lane

#from the desk of anachron #asks

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One big misunderstanding I see people have is that contamination OCD isn't the only or most common type, just one of the easiest to notice from the outside. Maybe it's specific, like you're afraid your family will die if you don't check on them at your lunch break to make sure. Maybe it's more general, like a sense that something terrible will happen if you don't follow an exact route to work or school every day.

There's also medical OCD, stemming from fear of illness, where you may compulsively go to doctors or check webmd, as the comic touches on. I used to spend a lot of time laying in bed, paralyzed with the fear that I may be actively dying and that no one would take me seriously if I said anything. Obviously it wasn't a rational fear, considering I'm not dead, but OCD had me checking webmd on a daily basis.

One people don't often talk about due to lack of understanding from others or fear of backlash is the fear that you (straight) are secretly gay, or that you (gay) are secretly straight. The underlying fear can stem from a lot of different things, and doesn't affect your sexuality in any way, nor is it a reflection on your personal morals. It's purely anxiety.

Similarly, other OCD types people tend to not think about include violent or sexual intrusive thoughts. That person does not want to do horrible things to family, friends, children, or animals. It's a terrible fear that they maybe they do want to do those things and just don't know it, or that other people will for some reason think they do. In some cases, a person with sexual OCD might compulsively watch porn to prove to themselves they have normal sexual interests, which can lead to porn or sex addiction even outside those compulsions.

Working at a call center, I had to have disability accommodation through my therapist because I was so terrified I would say something massively fucked up to a customer for no reason that I would avoid taking calls. I had to get extra time to psych myself up. I compulsively went to sit in the bathroom for five minutes after every call because my intrusive thoughts would spiral to worse and worse things until I left my desk. I avoided my family because the spiral of worsening thoughts that they hated me gave me panic attacks on a regular basis. I sat in my car for fifteen hours a day. I could not live a life.

It took me years to get therapy for it, and that only happened because I went to therapy for a completely unrelated event and my therapist recognized something else was up later. It's important to talk about OCD frankly, because it is SO hard to recognize that those thoughts are your worst fears, not secret truths. Since starting medication for it I've been SO MUCH BETTER, and I cannot emphasize enough how much I did not realize it wasn't normal until I did. I didn't have any point of reference.

Greetings bugs and worms!

This comic is a little different than what I usually do but I worked real hard on it—Maybe I'll make more infographic stuff in the future this ended up being fun. Hope you learned something new :)

If you are still curious and want to learn more about OCD, you can visit the International OCD Foundation's website. I also recommend this amazing TED ED video "Starving The Monster", which was my first introduction to the disorder and this video by John Green about his own experience with OCD.

The IOCDF's website can also help you find support groups, therapy, and has lots of online guides and resources as well if you or a loved one is struggling with the disorder. It is very comprehensive!

Reblog to teach your followers about OCD

(But also not reblogging doesn't make you evil, silly goose)

#ocd #mental health #intrusive thoughts #this is also why I hate when people make intrusive thought jokes when they mean impulsive thoughts #intrusive thoughts can't win #that's why they're intrusive #by definition they will never actually occur

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

#someone take me to the cool caves I may actually cry

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And they're right

fanfiction writers when a character is remotely non-human

#look it makes like no sense but I'm a sucker for it #maybe it's just the idea of giving a nonhuman humanoid character traits that separate them from humans

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🎵Only made time for the company, but he is the richest man in the cemetary🎵

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

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If you haven't heard the new The Funeral Portrait song, you really should

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Isn't Hannibal a bad person though?

I can't think of anything bad he did

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Turns out when someone mentions someone not laughing at their joke and then tells me a poor-taste shock value joke my autistic ass' immediate response is "oh they didn't laugh because ìt's not funny :)"

Like it wasn't even sarcastic or condescending I was 100% earnest, it was just my instant helpful reaction

#from the desk of anachron

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I am sorry to everyone who tagged me in some tag game and I never responded. I saw it and thought “aww they thought of me” and proceeded to forget about it right after