squid-of-destiny:

I have a female dog who is constantly referred to by male pronouns by strangers I meet dog walking.

I don’t correct them. She’s a dog. Not like she or I give a shit but I will instinctively use the correct pronouns if I talk back to them.

As soon as people hear me calling the dog ‘her’, they switch. Without any issues through further interactions.

I’ve never heard someone make the mistake again after one mention of the fact she’s not male.

My trans friends are not given the same level of respect.

surskip:

surskip:

i made a fart noise with my mouth and nemo stared at me like this for 30 seconds. sorry buddy…

benevolently, he earlier performed my funeral rites

randomitemdrop:

Item: Morality Deodorant; prevents the wearer’s alignment from detection

sofflepoffle:

KILL HIM

justcaytlin:

thesixthstar:

aphony-cree:

paleograffiti:

naamahdarling:

naamahdarling:

Brb replacing “I should” with “I have the option/opportunity to” in my internal monologue re: beating myself up over shit that needs doing. Let’s see if that works.

It actually really did help and I did the laundry and cat boxes. Guess I’ll keep trying that one.

My psychiatrist told me this early on working with him. Every time I said “I should” he would be horrified and urge me to replace it with “I could.” It took a lot of practice but my life is so much better for it because it replaces the pressure of external obligations with my own agency.

Sometimes it helps to replace “I have to” with “I get to”

Thinking “I have to water my houseplants” makes it a chore. But thinking “I get water my houseplants” reminds you that you keep houseplants for a reason and you can enjoy the time you spend with them

every time i’m caught on a “should” i try to reframe it as “if I want [a certain result], then doing [thing] can help me get there”.
It does double duty of taking the guilt out of the “should” while still reinforcing the motivation of WHY my brain pinged “should” in the first place. Or it even works to make me realize that i care less about the result than i think i’m “”“meant”“” to and I can safely de-prioritize it

When I start getting too deep into the “I should"s, my therapist says "don’t should yourself.” It’s dumb, it’s silly, and it sticks with me haha

huffylemon:

headspace-hotel:

phluphfy:

andmaybegayer:

andmaybegayer:

oh fuck I thought the intro to today’s Money Stuff was going to be a metaphor for some crypto bullshit but no an actual metals futures market was backed by actual bags of rocks.

JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3 million of nickel, but they were all bags of stones. It's happened before.

Swiss trader Mercuria Energy received spray-painted rocks instead of $36 million worth of copper it had ordered.

Business Insider

Ea Nasir Bullshit

THEY LITERALLY VAGUE EA-NASIR IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF ASDFGGHKGJKLSH

ebenrosetaylor:

A picture of Mila to emotionally prepare you for scrolling any further

neko-setsuka:

yeah-yeah-beebiss-1:

cannabiscomrade:

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

‘Empower’ hotline by Arizona Dept. of Education dealing with prank calls in first week

Horne said two staff members are sorting through the calls, and two investigators are working on credible leads.

azfamily.com

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn’t be deterred by the prank calls because they would ‘taper off eventually’. It’d be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇