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A traffic camera in Montreal

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My writing red flag is editing as I write. I will edit myself into a corner so I have to restart everything or give up on the project.

Calling out writers and mutuals

What's your red flag as a writer?

I'll go first:

Literally all I can write is straight smut. (I struggle with everything else 💀)

@writingwisterias @nessbunnie

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You never know what you're going to get when you crack open a geode-like rock called an agate, but a new specimen is even more surprising than usual: It looks just like Cookie Monster.

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Amazing fire agate with its beautiful sparkles from Mexico.

Photo ©️ @opalos_tamayo

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Breathtaking beauty of this naturally polished dendritic agate stone.

Photo: ©️ gallery_rahimi110

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Gorgeous Tourmaline, Albite & Lepidolite from São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Credit: Mardani Fine Minerals

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If somebody asks me what executive dysfunction is, I’m gonna point them to a web article or suchlike that explains it better than I can. 

If somebody asks me what executive dysfunctions feels like, though, I’d say that it’s like waiting for a video stream to buffer or for a web page to load. You could do so many other things, except you’ve only got a few minutes at most to wait, so most of them aren’t worth starting. So instead you read a few lines of an article or check out your tumblr dash or go get a glass of water. You fill time, because most people don’t like to stare at a loading bar for several minutes if they have other options. Sure, you’re doing things, but if anyone asked what you were up to you’d probably just say “waiting,” because you’re really just doing whatever you can to make the time go faster. 

Now just imagine that instead of doing this for a couple minutes, you’re stuck in this state for hours on end. You’re waiting for the thing to finish, but every time you check it’s still not done so you just keep waiting, breaking your day down into chunks too small to do anything with. You think about playing a game, but you don’t actually start it up. You get a drink, but you don’t make lunch. You open your word processor, but you don’t actually start writing. You’re stuck in a holding pattern, killing time minute by minute, and by the time you realize you don’t actually know what you’re waiting for, the day is already gone. 

It isn’t a matter of being lazy or undisciplined, or a case of making bad decisions. Executive dysfunction is a problem with the organ responsible for making decisions in the first place. When it stops working properly, stops being able to decide between doing this or doing that or doing nothing at all, you end up just going with what comes naturally. You fidget. You kill time. You wait, in expectation of a decision to wait no longer. It may be a long time coming.   

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Single funniest piece of Shakespeare merch I have ever seen.

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Dog with Plate of Sausages (also known as Caesar at the Rubicon) and Dog with Sausages (also known as Hail Caesar, We Who are about to Die Salute You) Wilhelm Trübner - 1878 Private collection Painting Oil on cardboard  

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5 Random Resources For Those Who Need Them.

Okay, there is a lot of scary shit going on right now and it is sometimes hard to figure stuff out what is going on. I am going to pass on some links to resources that hopefully will help. I am going to try to make this accessible resources that you should be able to get to regardless of age. These are things that I find to be helpful and would like to pass on. If these are not useful to you, than you can skip them and find resources that are. 1 newslit.org This is the website for the News Literacy Project. They are a nonpartisan group trying to help teach media literacy. They split up their site into educator resources and resources for everyone. Whether you are an educator or not, take a look at their site. Some of the features like RumorGuard help break down misinformation, webinars - yes, they have passed but you can still watch them. They also have a newsletter that breaks down news articles. If you don't know where to start with analyzing sources and media literacy, it is probably a good start.

2 splcenter.org This is the Southern Poverty Law Center website. There are several resources here. From the Hatemap - warning to those who have not seen this before, but you are probably going to be uncomfortable to how close active hate groups live to you - to Hopewatch, and various toolkits, articles, and resources as well as updates on their court cases. Look through, especially if you are in the southern US - They are based out of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia. 3 Mr. Beat's YouTube channel Social studies teacher turned YouTuber, but he does break down a lot of different information about different parts of the government. In particular, I have gone through a lot of his Supreme Court Briefs, because honestly, this is not something that I learned a lot about in school and how some of those laws impact us. Since there are cases such as about previous times the government has made decisions regarding birthright citizenship, internment camps for US citizens, and the forced sterilization policies (yes, of the US) that were used as defenses in the Nuremberg trials - I highly recommend that playlist. 4 MeidasTouch Networks (Mostly watch Meidas Touch and Legal AF channels, but there is a true crime channel - I just watch it less) There are a few of these, from the true crime channel, to the more political channel, to the legal/political channel - they also have several podcasts. Mainly I have been listening to the Miss Trial and Unprecedented podcases recently, but they also have videos from Court Accountability as well. I just find that these give a different perspective than I am otherwise hearing and breaks it down in a way I understand it. Will I say it is unbiased? Everyone has a bias, so no. I just happen to enjoy the channel and style of presenting and if I see they have something covering a news event, it tends to give me a different perspective to look at it with. 5 PBS Origins and PBS Voices These YouTube channels have some interesting shows like In The Margins, Roots of Resistance, Citizen Better and Brave Spaces - this helps highlight a lot of marginal histories and culture. So while we still have PBS, hopefully you are able to check them out.

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Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

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I have a lot of people in my life that voted for Trump, and a lot I can't talk with even remotely about politics. But I have one elderly relative that I regularly talk to before and since the election.

They were having a rough time with being told what the media was saying and we went over some of the points. She agreed a lot were bad points but thought a lot of news was being falsified or exaggerated. And is realizing now that was not the case.

Ever since the election, when I go to visit she has been talking with me about community action and support to try to help.

She also was very uncomfortable when she asked me about how I decided to vote and I told her that I was worried that I had to go into my Dad's hobby to follow some of the policies and their origins.

Since most of the internet never met my father, my dad was a history buff -like read battle reports for fun history buff- specifically obsessed with the Western front of WWII and everything connected before and after. Who would tell anyone willing to listen what he knew.

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"Someday for sure you'll find friends who will protect you"

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Dick's puppy dog eyes are extremely powerful

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