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youtube is pulling this bullshit again

praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...

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the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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I ran out of clean underwear ONCE on a weeklong camping trip when I was like EIGHT and I’ve never recovered.

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I’ve always been a casual but vehement lover of imagine dragons for their musicality and the beats but also because in my teenage years they were one of a scant few artists that always had bangers and popular songs on the radio that WEREN’T about love or sex. I found it endlessly refreshing and is one of many reasons I should’ve figured out I was ace a lot sooner than I did.

I have a confession to make. I enjoy the music of imagine dragons, okay? when I hear one of their songs I find it a pleasant experience. I bop my head along like nobody's business. I formed a psychic bond with "demons" in high school when I. uh. performed it as part of a small acappella group (<- digging myself deeper). and the beat after the last note one of my fellow performers passed out and dropped to the floor like a stone while standing center stage. I like the overproduced pounding beat thing they've got going on. I'm sorry. I'm so fucking sorry. may god have mercy on my soul.

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Okay but can anyone articulate the mindset that leads older people to feel like they NEED to know people's gender identity all the time? Like what's going on there

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Drag Race season 17 Queen Reveal

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As an American living in a country with amazing public transit, half of me is a big fan of being able to walk to the grocery store or take a train downtown but for middle-distance trips with multiple stops at different places that aren’t on the same train line…. I do miss being able to drive…

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My favorite absolutely bonkers Christmas song at my old job at a grocery store tied the line of absurdity and horniness that baffles me to this day.

There’s no way to “Whistle ‘neath the Mistletoe” in a God Honoring Way

an incomplete taxonomy of christmas music

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NOTHING SHOULD GO [ONLINE] YOU WOULDN’T WANT IN THE HANDS OF THE PERSON WHO HATES YOU THE MOST

There's something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.

On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.

But on the other I'm seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, "yeah, sure, the adults know what's safe."

I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn't want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.

Be safe, be smart, be a fucking ghost.

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i genuinely think ocd is incredibly underdiagnosed bc i will see people posting what are obvious rituals, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, spiralling, hyper morality, etc and its like Have You Considered This Might Be An Issue

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I watched exactly one Mr. Beast video out of curiosity a few years ago. Didn’t finish it. Never went back.

let the contemporary record show mr beast was pretty ignorable for his whole career if you were just like, busy.

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In my area (caveat because I have no idea if this is universal or a thing everyone does) when you’re driving and you pass some kind of hazard or anomaly on the road, I.e. a bicyclist, fallen tree, cop in a speed trap, accident, construction, etc. and you see oncoming traffic it’s customary to flash your high beams once or twice to give that person entering where you’re going a heads up that there’s Something Ahead to be Aware of.

i love truck stops in winter bc i love a little good old fashioned reconnaissance. i’m at a wyoming truck stop eating taco bell with a bunch of random truckers discussing road conditions like we’re in a high fantasy tavern & inn and we’re warning each other about monsters and highway men. everyone talking about where we’re coming from and going to and how bad it’ll be getting there.

THE tallest man i’ve ever seen in real life just stopped me in the hallway by the coin operated laundry apropos of nothing and asked “which direction are you going?” i said east and he said “good” and walked away.

i caught up with him and asked why and he said “west’s no good right now. i just came from there.”

apparently a truck jackknifed and has traffic backed up ten miles but he sounded for all the world like he just found his village raised to the ground by an evil mage’s army

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Bruh did I just get clocked wtf

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I don’t know if I’ve spelled it out on tumblr yet, but I want to talk about The Mammal List. 

The Mammal List is something I came up with when I was in a mental health intensive outpatient program four(!!) years ago. The premise is that we are at our core animals, and if I consider myself the way I’d consider a pet cat, I’m much more likely to practice good self-care:

1. Mammals need food. Eat something! If the Hellbeast doesn’t pass judgment on a piece of cheese, neither should you. (She also eats anything small enough to fit in her mouth, so be judicious in that respect. Food is good. Lint is not.)

2. Mammals need hydration. Drink something! It doesn’t have to be water. It could be delicious tuna juice. You’re a discerning creature. I trust you. 

3. Mammals need sleep. Make a soft nest and let yourself enjoy it. Knead it until it’s comfortable. Let yourself rest as long as you need. Just existing is hard. You’ve earned a break. 

4. Mammals need movement. Take your precious body and do something. Don’t hurt yourself. Be kind.

5. Mammals need stimulation. Treat yourself to a new jingle ball or mousie toy. Get a bird feeder and stare at it. Let yourself really enjoy it. Play is in your nature.

6. Mammals need socialization. I know this one is particularly difficult these days, but if you don’t keep reaching out, you’re going to forget yourself and start biting people. 

7. Mammals need cleanliness. Nobody likes scooping the litterbox, but it has to be done. Don’t forget your own body. Make your fur shine. Treat yourself as the luminous creature you are. 

And most important of all: don’t feel guilty. This isn’t about deserving (although you do deserve it). You’re an animal and you need these things to survive, and I very much want you to survive. 

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And even that one is on thin ice. If you only have one bull at a time you gotta replace that dude every now and again to maintain genetic variance.

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

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Afab the way a kitten is when it’s too young to actually tell and then three weeks later the vets like “oh oops he’s a boy”

Amab the way my fish are. Idk how to sex a fucking goldfish. They’re my stupid stepsons and I love them.

The terms afab and amab are very much about the social construct aspect of gender, as in, they refer specifically to the letter on your birth certificate that was assigned to you, not any trait you innately possess. Yet I routinely hear people using these terms as a euphemism for biological aspects of sex, because I guess they think it sounds more progressive or something.

"afab tweens get very emotional at this age due to hormones," "archeologists think this skeleton belonged to an amab individual due to hip measurements," stuff like that. I keep waiting for someone refer to a wild animal as afab or amab.

"afab" is not synonymous with "has a uterus" or "has two X chromosomes," intersex people with XY chromosomes can have an F on their birth certificate.

If you're talking about something biological it's fine to just say "male" or "female" in contexts where that makes more sense.

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The first half was selling you on the concept, the last half was cashing in on the characters.

forgive me while i analyze a sitcom that ended like ten years ago, but i don't think psych degraded in quality at all as it went on. it seems rather like what quality they had got funneled into specific episodes, so instead of a consistent aura of general Sauce like in the first half of the show, in the second half you get absolute banger episodes that leave you barely able to breathe whether through comedy or emotional devastation sprinkled between episodes that feel more unmemorable by comparison.

similarly, while the series is always running on goofy scenarios, they tend to be goofy case scenarios (death during civil war reenactment; a dinosaur did it; a sea lion was murdered) in the first half and then start trending towards goofy character scenarios (gus and shawn accidentally yet totally preventably get their dna all over a crime scene; lassiter becomes a pathetic slobbering mess in the field; Last Night Gus) in the second half.

i think these reasons — combined with 00's nostalgia — are why a lot of fans prefer the vibes of the first four seasons even though a fair portion of highest rated episodes (including the consistently highest ranked one) and honestly most of my favorite episodes come from the latter four seasons.