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There was a bold lady who swallowed the sun,

I don't know why she swallowed the sun-- perhaps for fun!

A scientist

#love this art #love this concept #and LOVE how you depicted the sun in this

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Part of the problem of being a skeptic is that having the ethos of a skeptic never actually makes you better at spotting lies or misinfo. You can't just decide to be a skeptic and instantly get better at not being fooled, instead it's a process of realizing, again and again, that you've been a dumbass in a million different ways about a million different things, and steadfastly attempting to re-apply the procedures of fact checking regardless of your own personal failures.

But that's really hard. It's much easier to just take a word and wear it as an identity badge than to internalize it as a skill.

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"Freethinker"???? Well that's great for you, but personally I don't work for free. You pay me or I don't think; them's the brakes.

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here’s a compilation of different people driving box trucks into a low bridge over and over

#classic #I got shown this during training

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smoking or steaming

[ID: Stained glass style art of Jon and Martin from TMA. Jon is a dark-skinned person with greying dark hair styled half-up, half-down. He has a short beard and is wearing rectangular glasses and a green jumper. There is a scar visible on his neck and he is holding a cigarette between the first two fingers of his right hand. He is exhaling smoke which blends into the background, a swirling pattern of various shades of grey and purple akin to the colors of the asexuality flag. Martin is a light-skinned person with ginger hair, wearing a blue jumper, round glasses, and a stud in his earlobe. He is holding a purple mug and blowing on his tea, the steam from which blends into the background in shades of gray blue and pink akin to the colors of the trans flag. Jon and Martin are facing each other in profile. End ID.]

(image ID by @saintbleeding)

#pretty art #somehow I never saw this before

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#solid 30 #and sometimes I feel like that's too much

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A lot of younger people have no idea what aging actually looks and feels like, and the reasons behind it. That ignorance is so dangerous. If you don’t want to “be old,” you aren’t talking about a number of years. I have patients in their late 80s who could still handily beat me in a race—one couple still runs marathons together, in their late 80s—and I lost someone who was in her early 60s to COPD last year. What you want is not youth, it is health.

If you want to still be able to enjoy doing things in your 60s and 70s and 80s and even 90s, what you want to do, right now, is quit smoking, get some activity on a regular basis (a couple of walks a week is WAY better for you than nothing; increasing from 1 hour a day of cardio to 1.5 will buy you very little), and eat some plants. That’s it. No magic to it. No secret weird tricks. Don’t poison yourself, move around so your body doesn’t forget how, and eat plants.

If you have trouble moving around now because of mobility limitations, bad news: you still need to move around, not because it’s immoral not to, but because that’s still the best advice we have. I highly recommend looking up the Sit and Be Fit series; it is freely available and has exercises that can be done in a chair, which are suitable for people with limited mobility or poor balance. POTS sufferers, I’m looking at you.

If you have trouble eating plants because of dietary issues (they cause gas, etc.) or just because they’re bitter (super taster with texture issues here!), bad news. You still want to find a way to get some plants into your body on a regular basis. I know. It sucks. The only way I can do it is restaurants—they can make salads taste like food. I can also tolerate some bagged salads. On bad weeks, the OCD with contamination focus gets so bad I just can’t. However, canned beans always seem “safe,” and they taste a bit like candy, so they’re a good fallback.

If you smoke and you have tried quitting a million times and you’re just not ready to, bad news. You still need to quit. Your body needs you to try and keep trying. Your brain needs it, too. Damaging small blood vessels racks up cumulative damage over time that your body can start trying to reverse as soon as you quit. I know it’s insanely, absurdly addictive. You still need to.

You cannot rules lawyer your way past your body’s basic needs. It needs food, sleep, activity, and the absence of poison. Those are both small things and big asks. You cannot sustain a routine based on punishment, so don’t punish your body. Find ways to include these things that are enjoyable and rewarding instead. Experiment. There is no reason not to experiment—you don’t have to know instantly what’s going to work for you and what won’t, you just need to be willing to try things and make changes when things aren’t working for you.

You will still age. Your body will stop making collagen and elastin. Tissues you can see and tissues you can’t see will both sag. Cushioning tissues under your skin will get thinner. You’ll bruise more easily. Skin will tear more easily. Accumulated sun damage will start to show more and more. Joints will begin to show arthritis. Tendons and ligaments will get weaker and get injured more easily, as will muscles. Bones will lose mass and get easier to break. You’ll get tired more easily.

But you know what makes the difference between being dead, or as good as, in your 60s vs your 90s? Activity, plants, and quitting smoking. And don’t do meth. Saw a 58-year-old guy this week who is going to have a heart attack if he doesn’t quit whatever stimulant he’s on. I pretended to believe it was just the cigarettes, and maybe it is, but meth and cocaine will kill you quicker. Stop poisoning yourself.

Baby steps; take it one step at a time; you don’t need to have everything figured out right now. But you do need to be working on figuring things out.

#good advice that everyone should follow #I'd add on some resistance training due to how having muscle mass decreases the risk of deadly falls #as well as due to increasing bone density as you age #but lots of people will scream and vomit if you say they should pick up a weight every now and then so I guess that's a big ask #to most of the population

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you look horrible

#love

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"Just how much of what I feel for you belongs to me?"

(Inspired by this fanfic written by fakeCRfan on a03!)

#damn #nice to see people are still inspired by this fic #this art is BEAUTIFUL thank you so much!

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Ask game: send a ship and I'll put them somewhere on this grid

#alright why not

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Gwen is most likely conventionally pretty, or at least knows how to take care of herself since she has enough money to do so, and showing up untidy at work seems to be an unusual occurrence for her as pointed out by others in the most recent episode. I'm not really sure what I have for her other than that she has ice blonde bob hair and has some skin problems like warts or psoriasis that she insistently tries to hide.

I think Gwen is, at least, very well put together though she probably doesn't have stunning features. And since a good chunk of beauty comes down to money and intentional effort--yes, realistically she probably looks quite nice. She is a woman trying to climb a corporate ladder, so that combined with her status awareness means her appearance is definitely polished and professional.

Bobcut works for sure, since that is one of the most common "professional woman" haircuts. Definitely a short or medium haircut, since all professional advice calls for shorter hair. Her hair is almost certainly straightened out and makes for clean lines/a clear shape. She's put a lot of thought into which side she parts her hair on, as well, and she does it the same every single day.

As for skin problems... hmmmmmmm I don't know. If she has them, they aren't anywhere obvious because we know Alice would ruthlessly poke at that insecurity if it were visible. Psoriasis is possible. Warts--depends on the kind. some are non recurring and easily removed by a good dermatologist, and Gwen absolutely has a good dermatologist.

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Oh gosh I forgot to check "Is the bald video cute" before posting. 😔

In my imagination Colin shares the same appearance as the man I saw in the car next to mine during traffic. He has a chevron mustache, is bald and has the typical physique of an adult man in his 30s-50s. Like all bald men, he has the habit of rubbing the top of his head every time he is very anxious or nervous (like this https://youtu.be/Pkf_p1XUpr4?si=bwQlIUUXMjLN5Fil)

Man I love this. No notes, you're 100% correct.

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In my imagination Colin shares the same appearance as the man I saw in the car next to mine during traffic. He has a chevron mustache, is bald and has the typical physique of an adult man in his 30s-50s. Like all bald men, he has the habit of rubbing the top of his head every time he is very anxious or nervous (like this https://youtu.be/Pkf_p1XUpr4?si=bwQlIUUXMjLN5Fil)

Man I love this. No notes, you're 100% correct.

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Remember everyone that it's absolutely okay to draw the OIAR employees however you want since we're all entitled to our interpretations, even though everyone drawing Gwen with long hair is deadass wrong.

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Women will say "hear me out" and show you a picture of an objectively stunning monster man. Meanwhile, Tumblr users will say "hear me out" and show you this thing:

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Yeah I could tell people they're spreading misinformation, but given facts don't change minds why would I waste my energy when I could sit there, smiling as I quietly lose respect for people and watch the gap between us widen without their knowledge?

#anyway if *I* reblog any misinformation please tell me

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I don't need to think about this. I've been going here since I was 6 years old, though admittedly I've kind of stopped since I've become an adult and my head and schedule became full of other things. Uncanny to see this so well described here after all these years, but I will tell you what I used to do.

Mostly I used to spend my time at Barnes and Noble, sometimes other bookstores depending on the area I was in. I also would go to costume stores and put on silly outfits to run around in, the kind that are childish to wear outside of Halloween. Or sometimes I'd run around naked, especially as a kid, because clothes always felt itchy anyway.

Climbing over cars and things that are not supposed to be climbed was a big thing, as was jumping into fountains. Really, any place that I'd get warned off from was fair game in the empty world. Though I was never the most energetic child so I'd usually tire of the climbing and jumping around pretty quickly and go back to Barnes and Noble to read more. Edit: I forgot when I first typed this out, but I also tried to build a castle a few times! I'd always have to start over from the beginning when I got into the empty world, though.

As for taking things, I never did. I always put things back after I used them. I knew they'd be there when I came back, after all--the empty world was a haven, I felt, not some place to take loot from.

There exist another dimension called The Empty World. It's very much like ours, in fact it seems to have been identical up until a few weeks ago, but it always seems that way. If you go there today, it was identical in late february, and if you go there this october, it'll have been identical until september.

It's empty, as you might guess. There's no humans, and no animals bigger than a cockroach. The sky is grey, and it slowly rains ash. It's colder than our world by a bit, enough to require a jacket even in summer. The streets are empty, the cars parked neatly in their garages or in lots, but they're all empty and abandoned, their doors locked like they expect their owners to return any minute now.

The newspapers left on stands don't mention any oncoming disaster. We have no idea what the TV or internet would have said: the power is out. The power is very, very out. Not just the grid, but batteries are drained. The cars won't start, the emergency lights are out, and anything with solar panels seems to be getting less energy than you'd expect, even with the perpetually overcast sky.

It's a very silent world, like the calm after a snowstorm. Sounds don't seem to echo as much as they should, nor does sound seem to travel as far. The radio spectrum is empty except for static, there's no one transmitting on any frequency.

There's fewer fires than you'd expect. Even places you'd expect to soon catch fire without human intervention are still standing, undamaged. Campfires can be lit but with difficulty: something is keeping them from burning as they should. Even if you pour kerosene on a campfire it'll barely grow, it's like something sucked the energy out of everything.

All the locked buildings are still locked. Alarms don't sound if you break in (understandable, given the power situation), and of course no one comes to investigate. So The Empty World is your oyster: you can break in wherever you want (provided you can physically do it: some doors are pretty hard to pry open even with tools), take whatever you want, and bring it back here.

Everything resets when you leave. You always enter The Empty World like it's your first time there, like this just happened and you're late to the party... but the party keeps getting rescheduled. You can even take something multiple times if you want.

When you enter The Empty World you get there at the same relative position as you are on this world. If you're in New York, you show up in the empty New York. If you're in Topeka, you show up in empty Topeka. So you have to travel around this world to get to where you want, and you can't just appear in the middle of a bank vault... unless you break into the vault from this world. (So it's great if you work at a bank and want to steal from your employer without repercussions, but not so useful otherwise).

You don't just have to take things, you know. You can take computers and files and books and diaries. You will have to deal with recharging laptops and breaking through any security when you get back, but it's doable.

So, imagine you've just gotten access to The Empty World. What are you going to do with it? What will you take, and where will you go?

#so weird to see my exact childhood recurring daydreams laid out like this