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TIME MANAGEMENT FALLS UNDER EXECUTIVE FUNCTION!?!

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The thing about fiction is that there's stuff that's completely gone from your mind in a few years but there's just some fragment or tidbit about it that follows you around forever.

Like there was this webcomic I read like 15 years ago, remember fuck all else about it but there was a character in it whose name was Saves A Fox. When she was asked about it once she explained that her people are big into prophesies and fate, and that children are named after something they were fated to do. She always hated that. And this one time she unexpectedly walked in on a wild fox gorgeing itself on her food supplies, and she knew that this was it. The fox wasn't even skittish, it wasn't trying to escape, it was almost tame, looking at her gently like just expecting her to choose mercy and let the food thief go. And everyone around her was expecting it too. But while she didn't want to hurt the poor creature, she hated the thought of having her future dictated for her even more than that.

So she snapped the fox's neck. Just to prove herself and everyone bearing witness that she had free will and wasn't a pawn of any fate or prophesy. Needless to say, her community did not like that.

Later on she learned about what rabies is. The fox she had killed had rabies. She had saved the fox from a far more terrible and slow, painful death.

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For those of us in North America who order from LEGO's online Pick-A-Brick selection, the current political situation in the United States has made our LEGO lives that much more complicated. The text from the screenshot is transcribed below and several of the facebook comments had people just saying they would switch to BrickLink, but I don't think that will solve the issue for several reasons. Firstly, BrickLink's website is about to be completely switched over to LEGO, with LEGO and BrickLink accounts merging in September. None of us really know what that's going to look like or what that's going to mean. Secondly, with all postal carriers including the United States Postal Service (USPS), DHL, the Royal Mail, and the French and Spanish national post offices stopping international shipping into the United States, it's possible all LEGO products will become more expensive and more difficult to acquire in the United States. Sources: https://www.newelementary.com/2025/08/pick-brick-standard-bricks-service.html https://www.npr.org/2025/08/23/nx-s1-5513936/dhl-parcel-tariffs The transcript for this screenshot from New Elementary's facebook post dated 25 August 2025 reads:

Today, thousands of Standard elements have been removed from sale on PaB in the US and Canada, and it seems the root cause might be the changes to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

On both the North American PaB stores, "Standard" elements are those stored in and shipped from the European warehouse, while "Bestseller" elements are in the USA. (For the rest of the world, there is no such distinction – everything comes from Europe.)

The Trump government have suspended something called the De Minimis exemption, where packages with a value less than US$800 can enter without paying customs, duties or taxes. Tariffs have to be paid prior to arrival, and it's up to the postage carriers to ensure this happens. As a result, postage carriers in Denmark and other countries are suspending all deliveries there, because of the short window given to them by the US to alter their business practices before this comes into effect on 29 August 2025.

We have not had any official statement from The LEGO Group as yet about how this affects customers, however thousands of Standard elements have been removed from the US & CA PaB services today and we suspect they'll all be gone in the next few hours. New Elementary do NOT recommend you try purchasing before they disappear, given the unpredictability of the situation.

Regrettably the same applies in Canada: obviously this is not a case of Canadian tariffs however. Presumably the whole PaB stock management system is geared towards treating North America as a single entity? After all, who could have predicted they'd need to treat one country so differently, at such short notice!

The rest of the world is not affected by this issue. About 350 elements have been removed from PaB sites in the rest of the world today, but apparently these are simply out of stock rather than due to any unusual problem.

We will bring you information from The LEGO Group if it comes. At this stage we don't know the situation with those who recently placed North American Standard orders... I doubt ANYONE knows yet.

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"Turn slow tigers into fast tigers with this one fucked-up trick" is genuinely a helpful take on dealing with physical symptoms of stress and anxiety.

But! I would like to introduce you to a version of this trick called progressive muscle relaxation.

I've never been able to get into meditation because my brain moves too fast and my stress and anxiety want me to ~do something~ instead of sitting down and acknowledging thoughts. This is nothing against meditation, it just doesn't work for me.

A couple years back, I was introduced to progressive muscle relaxation. It's like meditation, but faster, and with physical tasks which let me deal with physical symptoms very effectively.

Basically, turning slow tigers into fast tigers over the course of 10-ish minutes with the help of a guide so you can target specific muscles one at a time, until your whole body has calmed the heck down.

The one I use (below) is by the Department of Veteran Affairs in Australia. I like this one because the pace is fairly quick and they get right to the point - nothing except for noticing your body, tensing muscles, and then relaxing - so that you can get right back on with your day.

I've also used this in the past when I've been too restless to sleep - if once wasn't enough, I was definitely sleepy by the time I finished it the second time.

I've reccomended this to friends in the past, but I hope knowing that this is a thing will help folks on here too. As someone who has stressed themself into having pretty bad angina before, I cannot overstate how important it is to deal with not just your mental anxiety/stress symptoms, but your physical symptoms too.

The world is stressful, look after yourselves out there.

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minor tumblr user's carrd: over 25 dni!!

25 year old who was going to prey on this minor: oh damn 😔 here I was planning to groom them but i can't because of their dni 😔 what a shame 😔😔😔😔😔

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I know it's like my thousandth time beating this particular dead horse but there's this particular type of conversation that I've seen happen on my dash on at least three separate posts that goes like

Person from the southern hemisphere: It's so annoying whenever I'm talking to someone from the U.S. and I make any mention of it being winter here and they try to correct me about it because when they hear me mention winter in the middle of the year it's easier for them to conclude that I'm fucking stupid and don't know what season it is than that I live outside the U.S. and seasons work differently where I live

American: Well to be fair I don't think you can blame them because we're just never taught that seasons work differently in the southern hemisphere lol our educational system just doesn't teach us anything about the rest of the world

Because like. How the fuck are you trying to frame that as something no one could even hope to know unless they're explicitly taught "hey btw, in the southern hemisphere seasons are offset from ours by six months" and not like. The obvious conclusion to reach the moment you gain an understanding of how seasons work. Like if around the middle of the year the weather gets hotter because the earth's axis tilt makes it so that your side of the world is pointing towards the sun then that by itself implies that people on the other side of the world would necessarily be experiencing the opposite effect because their half of the planet is pointing away from the sun.

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For me, censorship laws are a lot like the death penalty. There are people I wish would die, but I don't want the government to have any say over who lives or dies (because then they can stretch laws out to justify killing someone they dont like). There are stories that I think are reprehensible and should have never been written, but I don't want the government to have any say over which stories are reprehensible (because then they can stretch out what they deem wrong out to fit anything they don't like)

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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Right so this was the initial test of the leitner stamp, and considering this

does that mean I now own canonical leitners or would they be a pretender to the throne?

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Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history https://robertreich.substack.com/p/today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-worst

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me when we start eating billionaires and i have to kill gomez addams

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