#Blog Post Optimizer

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nomming it

[the-kipsabian]

[gaywarcriminals]

This is my greatest accomplishment in life

[sandhya17]

Moths: The Silent Pollinators 🌼

While butterflies often steal the spotlight, moths play a crucial role in pollinating silently.

Moths are night pollinators and play a crucial role in the ecosystem. Let’s appreciate every moth be it a majestic or the tiniest one.

Discover the stunning Atlas Moth and its incredible impact in just 60 seconds! Watch my latest YouTube short for a glimpse into the life of this majestic creature.

[thelifeofthewhimsical]

Unlocking Potential and Stepping Outside the Comfort Zone

We all have a comfort zone—a mental space where we feel safe and at ease, filled with routines and familiarity. While this zone provides a sense of security, it can also become a barrier to growth and fulfillment. I've been really recognizing the important of stepping outside of this one in my own life. By sticking to what's familiar, I'm constantly shutting myself off from opportunities to make connections with people, and even to grow my business. Stepping outside of your comfort zone is essential for personal development, creativity, and achieving your true potential.

Life is full of unexpected changes. When you challenge yourself to step outside of your comfort zone, to try new things, you're bound to face new challenges. When you challenge yourself in this way, you expand your horizons, and learn more about your strengths and weaknesses. By regularly stepping outside of your comfort zone, you become for adaptable and better prepared to handle unforeseen circumstances. Adaptability is a valuable skill set that enhances one's ability to navigate life's ups and downs with greater ease and confidence.

This process of self-discovery is vital for personal growth. Build resilience. Boost your confidence. Moments that push us outside of our comfort zone can, and should, be used as a tool that helps teach us all that we are truly capable of. When you step into unfamiliar territory, you're forced to think differently and find innovative solutions to whatever problems you're facing. These fresh ideas and perspectives can be applied to various aspects of your life, from personal projects to professional endeavors.

Stepping outside of your comfort zone is not just about taking risks; it’s about embracing opportunities for growth and transformation. It’s where the magic happens — where you discover new strengths, unleash your creativity, and find the path to your true potential. The most significant accomplishments often require taking risks. By daring to venture into the unknown, you unlock a world of possibilities that staying within your comfort zone could never offer. Whether it's pursuing a dream career, starting a new business, or embarking on a grand adventure, these experiences bring a sense of achievement and fulfillment that staying within your comfort zone cannot provide.

So, take that first step. Embrace the discomfort and uncertainty. Allow yourself to grow, adapt, and thrive. Remember, the journey outside your comfort zone is where the most rewarding and life-changing experiences await.

[reigningmax]

The post race event spams you do of content makes it so hard to follow you

so don't follow me?

i am a max blog. i like posting the things the teams post on socials, and I like to do so cleanly and with sources. i also like posting edits of photos. i like making sure I have a lot of key posts for ~archival purposes. i am genuinely not a blog to follow if you a) don't like max, or b) don't want max content.

[no-light-left-on]

regularly wonder if it's worth posting on weekends in this fandom or not and at what hours

[pandemic-info]

Staring at the tsunami - by Nate Bear - ¡Do Not Panic!

In the 1980s researcher Neil Weinstein identified what he called unrealistic optimism. In Weinstein’s experiment, people were given a variety of bad outcomes (ill health, tragic accident) and asked to rank their chance of the bad thing happening to them versus the chance that thing would happen to someone similar to them. In almost all cases people believed the bad thing was more likely to happen to others and less likely to happen to them.

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But by the law of probabilities, this can’t be true. Not everyone can be less likely to experience a particular bad outcome. We can’t all be top quartile. Weinstein identified four cognitive factors contributing to unrealistic optimism. 1. Lack of personal experience with the problem/bad thing 2. Belief that if the problem hasn’t yet appeared it will never appear in the future 3. Belief that the problem is uncommon 4. Belief that the problem is preventable by individual action

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[The] freeze response is well-documented in other disasters. The passengers whose plane crashed on the runway and stayed strapped into their seats, reassuring each other everything would be fine before they burned to death. The workers in the south tower who returned calmly to their offices on September 11th and watched with their own eyes as flames poured from the huge gaping hole punched in the building across from them. Everything about these situations should have screamed run. But in their novelty and sudden out-of-context appearance, some people found it impossible to readjust their ideas about the future. Cognitively, they found it easier to fall back on an old mental model of the world and their experience of that world than adjust the model in the face of immediate, observable realities.

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[In a 2011 update to Weinstein's experiment], researchers twice asked people to rate their likelihood of eighty disturbing things happening to them. On their first go, the subjects weren’t told how often statistically these events happened in the real world. The second time, they were. The researchers found that on both occasions people underestimated the chance of the bad thing happening to them, and over-estimated the likelihood of a more favourable outcome. In other words, even knowing how likely they were to experience a negative event didn’t make people any more likely to believe it would happen to them personally.

Unlike in Weinstein’s experiment, subjects were hooked up to an MRI, giving us a more detailed understanding of what was going on in the brain. And it turns out we may be programmed for optimism. The researchers found that those who wrongly assessed their risk levels experienced “diminishing coding in a region in the frontal cortex.” They concluded that “the human propensity toward optimism is facilitated by the brain's failure to code errors in estimation when those call for pessimistic updates. This failure results in selective updating, which supports unrealistic optimism that is resistant to change.”

But the experiment also revealed something else. It revealed that some people did code for errors in estimation. One group of people did have the ability to over-ride innate optimism and accurately calculate risk - the clinically depressed.

& This response on Twitter lmao:

Key words for search: tsunami, optimism bias, "won't be me", psychology,

[meowzersdotcom]

To all the older ladies who compliment me:

Thank you so much, It makes me so happy that you feel like you can compliment me, thank you for not being scared of me, thank you for taking time out of your day to acknowledge this little bug!

You may not be reading this, but I am sending you "thank you's" through love and light. And I hope you continue to live happily

Thank you, much Love, and many blessings: Amelie

[albontology]

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[sehtoast]

i have like 17 wips rn

[haru-dipthong]

Imagine languages are race cars 🏎️

There are two ways to be a language nerd: the race car driver, or the engineer.

The driver knows how to use their machine back to front. They make split second decisions without even noticing it. Their conscious mind dictates direction, while their subconscious mind controls the car with no hesitation. They are one with their tool.

The engineer knows how every little piece of the car works in tandem. They might be able to drive the race car semi-competently due to their extensive technical knowledge, but driving is not their specialty. Their focus is on knowledge of the internal workings of the car, not how to use it.

Langblr is full of people who are engineers. It can be seen throughout the “language is art” rhetoric so commonly reblogged. It’s true: language is art, and it is culture, and history. But it is also a tool. And the driver focuses all of their effort on how to use their tool (it takes a lot of time to train your subconscious mind). Meanwhile, the engineer can afford to appreciate the art in its construction, the history of the technology.

In my opinion, if you are an engineer, you are not “learning a language”. You are learning about a language.

[deafeninggardenerpanda]

if it needed to be said, friendly reminder to change your pfp from the default/add something to your bio/Anything to make sure you dont look like a bot if you choose to follow me, because ill probably block you otherwise. tyty

[moonlit-tulip]

I have started an experimental writing-practice tumblr! @ten-thousand-clay-pots, for anyone interested in following it.

(Although be warned that, since it's for experimental practice writing, its content is likely to be of dubious coherence and quality; thus my keeping it contained in a sideblog rather than posting it here.)

Currently I'm attempting an experiment involving posting one short thing (of arbitrary length and quality) per day, there. Activity in the long run is likely to be a lot more intermittent, though, unless the current experiment goes substantially better than I'm expecting it to.

[oysterie]

Whats the longevity of these 'new users' like this feels like a lot of change for a wave of ppl that you dk will be here past the one year mark versus the risk of pissing off and alienating your long time users lol.

[key-to-everything]

Motörhead - I Don’t Believe A Word Overnight Sensation

I have seen the devil laugh I have seen god turn his face away