#it's been. a year.

[cerbreus]

what it feels like to come to realizations about yourself that give u a path forward to the person you wanna be.

[twelvemonkeyswere]

it's been a while since we did anything as latino as this so here it goes:

our fridge broke and the electric connection of our stove failed, and for some godforsaken reason we can't find someone to fix them, so after days of issues we find ourselves in need of a kitchen we can temporarily use

my uncle inherited the house next door after my aunt and my grandpa died, so we asked him if we could use the stuff there to cook and store our food. he says of course, he isn't even living there so of course, it's ours to use

now, the fridge in my uncle's now-house is not a new fridge. it used to be our fridge around 20 years ago, then it went to may dad's workshop, and THEN we moved it from my dad's workshop to the house when the house needed a temporary fridge for the people who sometimes spend the night there

because of the way life works, this fridge has no shelves, and because the universe is intent in giving us a hard time, we can't find anywhere shelves that can fit it. meanwhile our food is beginning to rot and we're desperate by now

so my mom and dad take the appropriate measurements, take a bit of the wooden plank below my grandpa's unused bed, and cut out shelves for the fridge

my mom and I have been then wrapping them carefully in aluminium foil so nothing wet can damage the new makeshift shelves

we contemplate how the fuck we ended here

???

profit (now we have shelves for the fridge)

the shelves in question:

[chrismcshell]

northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

[whereisthesun]

I HATE MORAL OCD. well i shouldnt say hate thats a strong word. and i dont want to sound like i hate people WITH moral ocd because i dont of course. i just hate having it. but i shouldnt think that, i do like having morals, its just stressful to be thinking about them so constantly and scrutinizing every little thing i do or think. but really thats the least i could do so i should at least try, right? just because i suffer from— no, struggle with moral ocd doesn’t mean i should just stop thinking about things all together, thats not what im saying and i should make that clear, but i

[mamatater]

The spouse is getting curious about tumblr

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[wormspoodle]

compiled some things

[pumpkinhrat]

[rabid-transcendentalist]

Long week for Cas and Dean

[baba-fett]

for me internet friendships are “we don’t talk all the time but I see you’re online and it makes me happy” and I really hope it’s like that for everyone

[beguilingcorpse]

i am glad queer representation has drastically improved in my lifetime. because now i can say that i dislike a gay book and not feel like i’m invalidating stonewall

[adulthoodisokay]

happy new year, y’all

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[feefal]

I was drawing some sphynx cats, but they turned into aliens somewhere along the way

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[doccywhomst]