#Distractions

[cat-cosplay]

Meme Checkpoint

Drop your cutest memes.

[reality-detective]

Things that are not in the news anymore… 👇

-Maui wildfires.

-East Palestine, Ohio

-Joe Biden classified documents as a Senator.

-Fauci working with China to create a bioweapon.

-Pete Buttigieg’s best friend in prison for child porn.

-Cocaine in the White House. (TWICE NOW)

-The BLM and Antifa riots during 2020 causing BILLIONS of dollars of damage. And yes I brought this up on Juneteenth.

-The data collected from the Chinese spy balloons.

-Ukraine intelligence documents released that showed they were suffering massive losses and the American taxpayer was being lied to.

-Nancy Pelosi’s “documentary” film crew on J6.

-Veterans being kicked out of shelters to make room for illegals.

-Pizzagate “debunker” jailed for possession of child pornography.

-Gay porn film in Senate hearing room.

-Veterans Affairs prioritizing healthcare of illegals over Veterans.

-THE SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS.

-Afghanistan drawdown and 13 service members killed in an attack on Kabul International Airport, that they hid the severity of it.

-Obama droning an American citizen in the Middle East.

-George Bush’s false WMDs.

-3 service members killed in Jordan.

-Hunter Biden making over $1M for “paintings”.

-J6 political prisoners that are still in jail.

-85,000 missing children at the southern border.

-Epstein’s clients.

-Obama coordinating with John Brennan and 4 other countries (5 eyes) to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign.

-Mail-in ballots were the cause of the stolen 2020 election.

-Jeffrey Epstein mentioning that Bill Clinton liked his girls “really young”.

-The (NOW TWO) airline whistleblowers that mysteriously died.

-Benghazi (I won’t mention anything more about this because I care about my life.)

-Nancy Pelosi’s daughter stating that January 6th wasn’t an insurrection.

-The January 6th committee destroying encrypted evidence before the GOP took over the House.

-Nancy Pelosi admitting that J6 was “her responsibility”.

-House Speaker Mike Johnson claiming there wouldn’t be foreign aid without border security in the bill, which was a lie.

-The recent riots from illegal criminal aliens at the southern border and the border in general.

-Hunter Biden not complying with a Congressional subpoena and deemed untouchable. Democrat privilege.

-Vaccine side effects.

-“Lab leak” out of China.

-The Secret Service having to basically guide Joe Biden everywhere he goes.

-Who leaked (Sotomayor) the SCOTUS Alito decision.

-Federal instigators inside the Capitol including pipe bomb evidence against them.

-Obama’s chef “passing away”.

-HRC’s chef “passing away”.

-The Sheriff that happened to be in Las Vegas (during the mass shooting) AND the wildfires in Hawaii.

-P Diddy sex-trafficking allegations. Where’s Diddy?

-Gonzalo Lira (an American journalist) that was killed in Ukraine

-Congress approving warrantless spying violating American’s 4th amendment rights while they are exempt.

-Americans that were left in foreign countries (Haiti, Palestine, Afghanistan).

-The billions of dollars of weaponry left in Afghanistan and the Taliban receiving $40M a week in “humanitarian assistance”.

-Biolabs found in California.

-Joe Biden’s impeachment.

-The scum in the UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES waving the Ukrainian flag.

-The over 300k ballot images that could not be found in Fulton County, Georgia; the same county Donald Trump on trial for “election interference”.

-Democrats defunding the police causing massive rises in crime.

-Kamala Harris’s record as DA in California.

-The Transifesto from the school shooting.

-Many U.S. Representatives and Congress receiving FTX funds.

-They’re already working hard to bury Donald Trump’s àssassination attempt but we won’t let them bury that story. July 13th is never going away.

The distractions are out of control.

Share to show that legacy media is dead and that WE are the media now. 🤔

[lefaystrent]

Distractions

Fandom: Sanders Sides

Pairings: all-star cast of platonicness

Summary: The light sides are in a sad state of affairs. The dark sides are pretty good at offering distractions.

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Logan sits on the living room couch, head in his hands, slumped in defeat. Despair. Failure.

He's slightly jostled by someone else sitting on the couch.

"Aliens aren't real," comes Virgil's voice, definitive and assumedly directed at Logan.

Logan lifts his head enough to check. His glasses have made a mighty impression into his forehead but he doesn't move to adjust them. Virgil is very nearly glaring at him.

"Virgil, you yourself have created power point demonstrations centered around the validity of aliens. Since when has your opinion changed?"

"Since now. Fight me, nerd."

Logan leans back a little to properly look at Virgil. He could be mistaken for fuming, the way his jaw is set and the fire burning in his eyes. But no, he is merely adamant to rile Logan up. To what end though?

"Are you...challenging me to a debate?"

Virgil gives a sharp-toothed, satisfied grin. He is willing to play devil's advocate for a good cause.

***

"Hey, wanna dance?"

Roman windmills his arm in the direction of the sultry voice that whispered in his ear. The faint smell of garlic wifts in his nostrils, followed by a gleeful chuckle.

"Remus!! Get out of my room!"

Remus rolls back on his heels. He folds his arms behind his back and looks into the air, a thoughtful hum on his lips.

"Hmmm, how about no?"

"Leave! Out you pest!"

"Make me!"

"You would force the hand of your own brother?" Roman says far too seriously, and Remus gives him an unimpressed stare. "...yeah, you're right, this is very on brand for you. I don't know why I'm acting surprised."

Remus shrugs and throws his hands up in the air. "Alright, if you're done bothering me–"

"You're the one who came in my room!"

"I've got better things to do than listen to you whine, Prince Poopy Pants."

Remus goes to stride out the door. Roman watches him, arms crosses and fingers tapping impatiently on his elbow, haughty expression that says he's one push away from snapping.

Remus pauses at the door.

Roman doesn't have time to anticipate.

Remus snatches up one of Roman's Pop figures off his bookshelf and flees the scene. Roman exits stage right in pursuit, screaming.

***

"You can't stay in bed all day."

"Watch me," Patton says, a pout in his voice. He's buried under blankets with only his hair sticking out at the top.

Janus clicks his tongue and scratches at Patton's scalp. It's less effective with gloves on, but Patton allows the contact.

"Or do, I certainly won't judge you," Janus says flippantly.

Patton whines into the mattress, "That implies that someone is judging me."

"I didn't say that. Did I say that?"

"Janus!" Exasperrated, Patton tosses down his blankets enough to reveal his rumpled onsie and impressive bedhead. He stops when he sees what sits on the bedside table that wasn't there before.

"You never came down for breakfast this morning," Janus explains. "Not that I care or anything. There were just so many pancakes leftover that it would be a shame for them to go to waste."

Patton eyes the tray and the stack of syrupy pancakes. His lip wobbles a little. "You brought me breakfast in bed?"

"Don't get used to it."

Patton finds the will to smile and tucks into breakfast. It tastes freshly made and sweet.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[thirdity]

All the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of all recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the ear-drums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractions — news items, mutually irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

[billowingangel]

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Art included is by @/Titaniumtsar and @/Arumidden (^し^)

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I hope this helps to distract and entertain anyone whose bored (´ヮ`)~*

[philosophybits]

In an all-embracing system conversation becomes ventriloquism. [...] Words in their entirety are coming to resemble the formulae which used to be reserved for greeting and leave-taking. A girl successfully brought up to comply with the most recent desiderata would have to say at every moment what is appropriate to it as a ‘situation’, and would have well-tried guide-lines at her disposal. [...] As soon as this ceases to function and pauses occur that are not provided for in the unwritten law-books, panic ensues. For this reason people have taken recourse to elaborate games and other leisure-time activities intended to dispense them from the burden of conscience-ridden language.

Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 90

[blackswaneuroparedux]

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

[adriankyte-writes]

If anyone cares my Garak and Bashir rabbit hole is getting deeper.

And now includes Parmak.

And...now I found out there's a bunch of books to get through.

[littlemagicalstardust]

Chuckie T with the smoothest slide-in to distract and let Orange hit his Orange Punch on Ryan Nemeth

[whats-up-doc]

A list of “Things to Do Instead of Hurting Yourself” brought to you by- me!

Art: draw the emotions out

Write music: hear the pain

Write poem: write your way out

Listen to music: hear the anxiety fade away

Bake: taste the distraction

Exercise: shake off the negative energy

Write a story: tell your side

Take a nap: dream of freedom

Read a book: join someone’s story

Cook comfort food: taste of home

Meditate: relax your mind

Paint: add color to the world

Fidget: let the sillies out

Journal: show your POV

Watch a comfort show: escape to new lands

Please add more if you have them! Just because life sucks now, it doesn’t mean it won’t get better. Stay safe! You deserve good!

[reality-detective]

Right before the opening ceremony of the Olympics in France. Are the Olympics a child trafficking hotspot like the Superbowl? What's really going on? 🤔

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

[idiotmantalentshow]

I think I'm trying to block out TheHorrors™️ with hobbies. In the last week I have spent hours and hours on digital art, embroidery, and regular sewing. I am sewing my rats a hammock. I don't know if full blown escapism is the way to go but here we are.

[anasvoiceinmyhead]

What to do instead of eating:

1. Draw

2. Word searches

3. Make/drink coffee

4. Make/drink tea

5. Go on a walk

6. Chug water

7. Smoke a cig

8. Exercise

9. Take mirror pics

10. Scroll on tumblr

11. Hang out with someone who you won't eat around

12. Spend time with pets

13. Catch up with an old friend

14. Clean/straighten up

15. Rearrange your room

16. Listen to music

17. Stretch

18. Chew gum

19. Go clothes shopping

20. Online shopping (even just looking at stuff)

21. Paint your nails

22. Do your makeup

23. Work on homework/schoolwork

24. Take a nice hot shower/bath

25. Go chill in a woods

26. Just dance

27. Take a nap

28. Listen to hypnosis meditation (you can install on app store, there is hypnosis for weight loss and liking exercise)

29. Decorate your room

30. Give yourself a fake tattoo

31. Walk in circles in your room

32. Eat ice (maybe with salt)

33. Make your bed

34. Do the dishes

35. Cook something for your family/friends (not for yourself)

36. Drink hot water with seasonings (taste like broth!)

37. Brush your teeth

38. Straighten/curl your hair

39. Watch Eugenia Cooney's YouTube/look at her instagram

40. Go roller skating with friends

41. Wash your face

42. Get a manicure/pedicure

43. Dye your hair

44. Make a thinspo Pinterest board

45. Eyelash extensions

46. Play VR/video games

47. Read a book or comic

48. Climb a tree

I'ma keep adding what I can over time

[gameraboy2]

"Distractions" Stag, April 1969 Story illustration by Samson Pollen