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One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

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I know, without a doubt, that if I was a vampire, I would be the kind that stops to pick up a box of spilled pencils, count them all, and then put them back into the box in order from longest to shortest. Or, if they're one of those artist pencil sets, in order of softest to hardest, but WHILE being secretly upset that the lengths are chaotic.

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I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

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I am so irritated that one of the most common side effects of medication is making your symptoms worse.

It's like I went to the hospital because someone stabbed me, and to fix it, the doctor decided to stab me.

Thanks, buddy, real helpful.

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Fellow immigrants, raise your hand if this is you:

Local: Omg, what do you mean you dont even have (food) in your home country?

You: Never heard of it before.

Local: But you have to have (food)! Everyone has had (food)!

You: Oh, you really like it?

Local: God no, it's awful.

You: 😑

Local: Let's get you to the grocery right now!

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Inspired by @bowldrips' cool bindrunes I wanted to see if I could make a bindrune that looks like what it says. Pretty sure bowldrips could make this look a lot better (tbh, I could make it look better, but don't feel like it) but I think this is reasonably close to the goal

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my browser displays ᛑ with the staff dotted but putting the dot under the twig was pretty common

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When ur latest tic/stim/whatever is blowing raspberries when struggling to think of something, and you accidentally do it right in the middle of talking to a customer

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Btw, if one of your relatives has become much more angry and aggressive than is usual for them, get their brain checked out. (if you can, I understand not every relative is in a position where you can make them listen to you).

This is honestly especially a problem with older generations who were once centrists and are now super aggressively conservative. A lot of people will dismiss it as "finally showing their true colours" or "getting swept up in trends." And yeah, that's often true. BUT it could also legitimately be brain damage.

I'm not kidding. There's a lot of people finding out the relatives who became total assholes later in life actually had brain damage.

In the case of my relative, it was brain tumors related to blood cancer that turned him into someone angry, aggressive, racist, sexist, and sexually harassing slowly over the course of a decade when he was know to be gentle and kind when he was younger. But A LOT of people who are 50+ have decades of lead poisoning causing the problems. (MANY communities are still being poisoned by lead and heavy metals.) I have personally noticed people from mining towns seem to have a much higher risk of cancer, and people in rural areas are much less likely to go to doctors over "little things" like concerning behaviours. (OR might only have one doctor in town who is totally shit.)

So... yeah. This is real. If you have the ability (and money, if you live in the US), to get your relative who has changed personalities to become more aggressive in front of a neurologist... please do. You might end up saving a life.

(Honestly? It also gets slightly easier, if more painful, to deal with their bullshit when you know it's not who they really are.)

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I need to find a way to tell tumblr that the official way to talk about getting mail for the next mailbox ready in the USPS is literally, hand to g-d, called “fingering the mail”. Please incorporate this knowledge into your hornyposting about the usps.

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Boston trans girls searching for a name should know that you get free lifetime admission to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum if your name is Isabella

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Out-of-context Farscape

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Let’s be honest - Everest should be cut off from climbers, and the only people that should be allowed up there are ppl who volunteer to clean up all the garbage and human excrement adrenaline junkies have left up there over the decades, and anyone who volunteers to attempt to bring down any bodies of those who died.

The ascent is too dangerous, too many ill-equipped and unprepared climbers try to make the climb, and too much garbage is piling up and poisoning the run off that communities around Everest rely on to live.