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shoutout to my brother for setting me up for this

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- letters from the end of the world

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Not to be a Boomer but your social media should be your own space, not something employers are allowed to look at to judge you beyond the qualifications stated in your resume and cover letter

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Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does

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(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

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what are you supposed to do on the days that absolutely no food sounds appetizing but youre sitting there hungry and getting a headache but everything does not sound appealing

#i keep single-serving bottles of lemonade in my fridge for exactly this reason #also good to keep some ‘always foods’ around. stuff you can force down even when everything sounds gross #small calorie rich stuff #i keep 2 ounce packages of ham bc i struggle to eat real food in the morning #jerky also works great #i can’t do yogurt but i know that’s a popular one too #or cheese cheese is great #any dairy product is basically ideal actually they’ve got a lot of stuff packed in

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Ooh. This is SO GEN X.... hopefully some of you younger ones will get it too.

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Encourage the new butler

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Good news everyone :)

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Social Justice Calvinism

By popular request, and explanation of the term “Social Justice Calvinism”

Social Justice Calvinism, like regular Calvinism, revolves around the idea that human society is so steeped in sin that, not only is it inherently irredeemable, but almost everyone involved is essentially damned (to hell, in the case of real Calvinism, to … I dunno being bad, I guess, in the case of Social Justice Calvinism).

Similarly to real Calvinism, Social Justice Calvinism allows for a small, elect group of people who are miraculously able to rise above the morass of evil that is human society (in real Calvinism this is due to G-d’s will, in Social Justice Calvinism, this comes as a result of their overwhelming moral superiority).

As in real Calvinism, nobody knows who the elect of Social Justice Calvinism are, but they are identified by certain signs (in the case of real Calvinism these signs include prosperity, in Social Justice Calvinism, these signs are things like using trigger warnings or sharing photo sets of queer people of color).

Like real Calvinists, Social Justice Calvinists tend to shun and loudly denounce much of the society that they see as inherently corrupt so as to demonstrate (as much to themselves as to everyone else) that they are likely to be members of the elect. However, because membership in the elect is impossible to determine, a Social Justice Calvinists are often wracked by guilt and anxiety as to whether or not they are actually members of the elect.

Finally, and most importantly, much of Social Justice Calvinism’s appeal comes from its goal of challenging a corrupt and oppressive power structure, and its hints of moral clarity. Social Justice Calvinism so especially frustrating because the things that are being fought for are so important (see I’m one of the elect). As with salvation and prosperity in real Calvinism, many of the signs of goals and signs of the Social Justice Calvinist elect are actually quite desirable, but unfortunately they come at the price of believing that nearly everyone, up to and including you, is damned.

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is this orange or yellow.

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Playing badminton

[eng by me]

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“Sherlock Holmes is King Arthur.” Is that anything. Arthur returns in England’s greatest hour of need, and that’s why we keep getting modern retellings of Sherlock Holmes because he keeps coming back when shit starts looking dire, only for the past dozen or so incarnations he’s been choosing to be a private detective instead of a king

(“Because what the hell can a king do to help people these days?” he asks in 1979 to his Watson [in older days, distant days, he would have said “His Lancelot.”] “Better to be here on the ground floor, actually putting in the effort”)