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I first read “if you were lazy you would be having fun” on your blog and it has genuinely been a life-changing piece of advice for me and my friends - I’ve said it to like four of my other executive dysfunction judies and without fail it earns a ten second silence followed by a single revelatory “fuck”

My dad and I actually ran into the speech language pathologist who told me that over 20 years ago at a town hall a few months back—she is retired now, but still advocating for disabled students at IEP meetings and being a nuisance to school administrators. I thanked her for everything, and she was delighted to hear that I was passing her words along to other people who needed to hear them!

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No lines in any film or book have ever filled me with such feelings of dread as "We cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums. Drums in the deep. They are coming."

#LOTR

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Tumblr has made me realize that Christianity might be fairly unique in the degree to which “my religious narratives are accurate records of 5000 year old events” has been politically polarized

Not even slightly true lmao. You are simply on the English language internet.

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The phenomenally talented Lola Falana performs the song I Am Love on her limited TV series Lola! in 1976. Known as “The Queen of Las Vegas” during the 1970s, Lola’s talents as a riveting singer and dancer definitely warranted the praise she received during the height of her fame. Following her success performing at The Sands, The Riviera, and the MGM Grand hotels, The Aladdin Hotel ultimately signed her for $100,000 per week, making her the highest paid female artist in Las Vegas during the era. Still around at the age of 80, Lola deserves to be re-discovered and appreciated by new audiences.

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Colorized photo of Vincent van Gogh at his home in Arles in 1869.

#but also #source source source actual information #you could post the picture of a random farmer in 1937 Poland with the same legend #he'd have the right number of fingers but still wouldn't be Van Gogh in Arles in 1869

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One of the conceptual reasons I find it difficult to accept that all of these US military "UAP" incidents are aliens is that they make so little strategic sense from the alien's perspective.

So let's say I'm the outer space exploration commander for planet Beblorp, and we know of this planet called Earth that doesn't yet know about our existence and our interstellar travels. Planet Beblorp has technology vastly superior to Earth, as proven by the fact that we have interstellar travel and they don't. Presumably this would mean that we have the ability to access communications on Earth and to get an understanding of their society.

As leader, my natural inclination would be to study them from a distance until, depending on Beblorp's protocol, we either leave them alone completely or make a formal introduction of some kind that makes it crystal clear who we are and what our intentions are.

Our worst case scenario would be to have a few random Beblorp ships travel down into Earth's atmosphere, repeatedly revisit the same location for weeks at a time, get spotted by their primitive sensor systems, and then whiz back off into space without explanation. Why would we do that? We're giving away our presence for no reason and also setting off a chain of events on Earth that we can't possibly predict the outcome of. Whether we're friendly, evil, or something in between what could possibly explain this behavior?

Of course the fun speculation comes from the idea that there are multiple different alien planets visiting us, or even that there are multiple different civilizations on Beblorp which don't coordinate with one another on their exploration efforts. But I feel like that arrangement requires a level of stupidity incompatible with the level of technology needed to even visit Earth. IDK

#mmmmmmmmmkay but what if we're on North Sentinel Island seeing the lights of planes and ships pass us by in the darkness #I honestly don’t believe ufo sighting are spaceships from other civilization #but there’s reasons spaceships would pass by the earth regularly and not even try to interact

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sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

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#this but politicaly

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I’ve been looking for this really helpful post about artist growth… where you get to these points where your skill doesn’t match your knowledge of what SHOULD look good, and then it flips… it looked like a double helix on the graph, if that helps. If anyone happens to have that pic I’d love to see it again!

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is there tumblr drama? i would be invested in that.

like people arguing in text would be SO funny

Are you new here

#tumblr reflecting on tumblr

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

#we had a tv would give a clear image depending on where people were standing in the room #someone would enter the room and we’d get static and the person has to find the right spot to stand

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"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

#languages

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#k but she has a rock #someone ‘bout to be serial killed right back

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Natee Utarit — The Invisible Rhyme of Romantic Disaster and The Radical (Spider) [oil on canvas, 2023]

#ooooooooooooooooh

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Natee Utarit — The Invisible Rhyme of Romantic Disaster and The Radical (Fly) [oil on canvas, 2023]

#ooooh

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ULTIMATE ULTIMATE YURI-OFF

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@mnvart // Kaveh Akbar, 'Calling A Wolf A Wolf' // @PinkRangerLB on Twitter // @kosmogrl // @devinsturk, '15 Proverbs for the Fellow Chronically Ill' // Jasmine Deporta // Anaïs Nin, House of Incest // the gentle wisdom uquiz by @inkskinned // Rora Blue, 'Sweet Dreams' // Hala Alyan, Dear Layal

#the rest is also work