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bogleech:

uquen:

I somehow just realized I have never in my entire life seen a panda this clearly? Any image or video I can recall was usually lit starker so you couldn’t easily make out the eyes and the panda was kind of facing down or off to the side. This is the first time I’ve really been aware of them like, having a real face like a real animal and not a cartoonish abstract mass of sad fur.

I’m mesmerised watching the jaw muscles on the top of the head moving (and moving the ears along with them) with the chewing.

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drinksss:

ever since @attex said he had “jolly autistic swag” I’ve been a little obsessed with this goddamn creature

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dikdikpronouncedxylophone:

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there’s an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

This, this, a *thousand* times this.

Like when I forget stuff, most of the time I forget I even remembered it, but the few times I’ve been in scenarios like the OP’s post, it’s been - as they correctly put it - terrifying.

I have absolutely been in scenarios where someone has told me something and it’s almost like I can /feel/ the information slip away; I wouldn’t wish this upon my enemies.

And afterwards, I know that something was there, that I have a perfect memory-shaped hole, and I remember being told/learning *something* but the actual content of what it was… Gone. Just, completely gone.

And the *shame* that comes alongside that. Like I don’t wanna ask people to repeat themselves (even though I know that if I did it would not be an issue) because it wasn’t like I just didn’t hear it, I did hear it. And I was like “okay I’ll remember this” and then my brain is like “but what if you… Didn’t?” and whoosh, it’s gone. And then I’m left terrified by this feeling, and then by this point I’ve already missed other stuff as well, and this perpetuates a negative spiral.

I was never really able to articulate this before, as I hadn’t considered the phrase OP used, but as soon as I read it I was like “oh my gosh, yes, this is it! This is one of those weird unexplained feelings I’ve been having!”

Anyway thank you for your time. And thank you to the OP, @dikdikpronouncedxylophone, for finally being able to put a term to something that I knew existed but never how to explain it.

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dikdikpronouncedxylophone:

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there’s an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

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sometiktoksarevalid:

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moth-unit-00:

elenazamos:

Obsessed with this kitchen renovation where they found a 300 year old well under their kitchen and instead of filling it all in they made it a feature, like it’s SO cool this well was so important and then forgotten and now being celebrated as part of the history of this house I love it

The exact inverse of those house flippers who destroy original wood features and make everything soulless hospital white

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reasonsforhope:

Hope is something you learn

Here’s the thing: I’m not a naturally hopeful person.

I’m not running a good news blog because I’ve always naturally gravitated toward good news. I’m not running a blog titled “reasons for hope” because hope is something that comes easily to me

It’s actually the complete opposite. Teenage me was a giant cynic and a sarcastic pessimist and probably regarded as a killjoy, tbh. Picture a young, bespectacled, well-informed raincloud, maybe, idk. I could find a negative point to undermine just about anything

Nowadays, I’m one of the most hopeful people I know when it comes to the future - especially among people who actually follow the news

So, if you’re feeling hopeless or depressed or anxious or despairing - or all and more - about the state of the world, and you’re tired of feeling that way, I want you to know that you absolutely do not have to be a naturally hopeful or optimistic person in order to find hope

I got here because I struggled and clawed my way to hope, deliberately, because I needed it desperately. And the start of that path was bookmarking good news websites and checking them every day - which is why I built this blog

Here’s the thing: the news, social media, and the human brain itself are all very biased toward negativity. The human brain is wired this way to help us survive things like tiger attacks - and since people are biased toward negative information, they click on it more, so negativity generates way more clicks and makes way more money.

It’s a sucky, vicious cycle. But it doesn’t accurately reflect reality - that’s the whole point of bias.

It’s actually kinda irritating that it’s true, imho, but your focus really does determine (a lot of) your reality

If you want to have hope, sometimes you need to build it yourself. Even when it’s so hard you don’t know if you ever can. And then you need to keep building it, because the world isn’t static and neither does your brain. Hope needs maintenance, just like everything else

So it’s lucky, then, that human beings and the world are both generally better than we think - and certainly better than news or social media is willing to tell us

Sources
Human brain negativity bias: x, x, x, x, x, x
News negativity bias: x, x, x, x, x
Social media negativity bias: x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x

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doubleipa:

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homunculus-argument:

If you know anyone who seems really chill to the point of being virtually indestructible, like nothing could ever bother them in any way, could get hit by a train and just shake it off and be totally fine, laughing it off as soon as they’ve dusted themselves off and stopped bleeding, but who occasionally just randomly falls apart to complete fucking smithereens with seemingly no cause nor warning, only to get back up again a few minutes/hours/days later like “ok yeah I’m fine again that was weird lmao”, and you’ve ever wondered what the fuck is up with that:

They are actually not ok and most likely are not ok at any point. The whole “hardiest person you know who just collapses randomly sometimes” thing isn’t a deliberately constructed façade, as a matter of fact it might be something that they actually personally believe themselves to be. But in reality this is somebody who’s either unintentionally learned or has been deliberately trained to hide negative emotions and mask symptoms at all costs, as the #1 priority that goes over any other survival needs.

So even though it may look like they go from 1 to 100 completely at random and unpredictably, and then swing right back again to being totally fine, you have no way of knowing how long they’ve been at 95% before the last line of defense broke down and the system collapsed. And once they flip back up, odds are that they just managed to scrape their shit back together again just enough to get their backup masking systems running. The “check engine” light never turned on because the wire was clipped years ago.

If this is you, this is your callout to seek some sort of help. I’m telling on everyone in this room including myself.

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solarpunks:

WaterLight is a portable lantern that can be charged with salt water or urine

Colombian renewable energy start-up E-Dina has developed a cordless light that converts salt water into electricity as a more reliable alternative to solar lamps in off-grid communities.
The portable device, called WaterLight, needs to be filled with 500 millilitres of seawater – or urine in emergency situations – to emit up to 45 days of light.

Acting as a mini power generator, the device can also be used to charge a mobile phone or another small device via its integrated USB port.

WaterLight works 24 hours a day through ionisation, which sees electrolytes in the saline liquid react with magnesium and copper plates on the interior of the lamp to produce electricity.

Although this is a long-established process, E-Dina has developed a way to sustain the chemical reaction over a prolonged period of time so that it can be used to power a light source.

After the salt particles have evaporated, the lamp can be emptied and refilled while the used water can be repurposed for washing or cleaning.

Read more about the WaterLight and the Wayúu people who have been testing the lamp over on Dezeen.

knifefightscene:

dateamonster:

gargoyle top surgery like

ALT

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dracula61:

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