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Sharing this here too

I do not usually make posts like this but recently I have seen a lot of content on Instagram, Twitter and I think tiktok too misunderstanding the meaning of intrusive thoughts, which may cause people experiencing them to be upset.

I have tried to shortly explain the difference of impulsive and intrusive and hope it will help people to understand and use the words correctly.

Reblogs are very much appreciated!

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on my hands and knees begging ppl to recognize platonic content. sometimes 2 guys r just friends . i dont mean this in the 'stop making everything romantic way' i mean this in the 'stop calling 2 friends who bicker siblings and stop treating any remotely caring remotely older character like a parental figure' ohhhh my god . they are not siblings they r buddies . u are all underestimating the power of having a buddy

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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why the FUCK are weekends only 2 days long do you really think that's enough to recover from the horrors of the work week. really.

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Reading anything horror after listening to the Magnus Archives is a trip. The solutions seem so clear. Creepy child-murdering ghost in basement? Cement. Animated bones? Cement. Woman coming out of fireplace where she was burned to death? Cement. Talk about a concrete solution.

#tma

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

#reference

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it rained today ^^ livin my best life

#rained here too! #mostly just a nice consistent drizzle with a few more heavy downpours between #very nice

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you can think someone's an idiot and not hate them. anyone who doesn't understand this has never had a coworker

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I'm aware that this is a pretty big blog, so I try to avoid putting people on blast- mostly cause I don't want anyone tracking folks down and dogpiling on them for the unforgivable sin of "being wrong about a thing",

Because we are all hilariously, ridiculously and unabashedly incorrect about things at times, and that doesn't deserve the embarrassment of a thousand jeering, judging strangers with their careless mockery and casual insults,

That being said

BITCH THAT SHIT DO KILLS PEOPLE

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Glasses people love to make you try their glasses on to see how fucked up their eyes are. It's a sign of respect in their culture.

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

#as a gen z currently teaching gen alpha their really not as bad as some of ya make them out to be #yeah their cringe and whatever but that’s a normal stage of development! you gotta be a little weird especially in childhood

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

#oh hun…

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What a terrible world we live in where you can google wild plants or bugs because you're interested in them and the first results are all "how do I kill this"

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#I save all the full moons on my calendars every year #not for any particular reason #I just like to #not my art

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Ghost Stories

Po'o-uli

On another branch of the Hawai'ian honeycreeper tree, we have the po'o-uli (Melamprosops phaeosoma). These manu were endemic to the Hawai'ian island of Maui.

Po'o-uli were stocky passerines with black faces, white cheeks & neck, and brown wings & back. They lived in the wet forests of Maui, where they fed on small invertebrates, often in mixed-species foraging flocks. Nests were placed in 'ōhi'a trees, where females brooded the eggs and males delivered food.

Though undoubtedly known by indigenous people long before, the po'o-uli wasn't known to western researchers until 1973. Fossils have revealed that these birds once inhabited larger portions of the island, but were driven to higher elevations on the wetter eastern side by the time of their study, likely due to introduced mosquitoes and their invasive malaria brought by European colonizers. Feral pigs, rats, and other invasive species have also impacted their populations. Only a couple hundred po'o-uli were estimated to exist at the time of their "discovery", which declined rapidly to just 5 by 1997, and 3 by 2002. Conservationists captured and released a male in 1997, and later captured a female in that 2002 to release her into the territory of the last male, in the hopes they would breed, but the effort was unsuccessful. In 2004, the male was recaptured, missing an eye, to hopefully establish captive breeding. Unfortunately the old male did not take to captivity well. On 26 November 2004, sometime between 10 and 11:30 p.m., he passed away from organ failure. This would be the last time a po'o-uli would ever be seen. The researcher who worked with him, Paul Baker, recalls weeping for the species when he heard the news, another manu of Hawai'i lost forever.

(Art by Ricardo M Lalinde)

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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#I already make bird noises I want to look at the SUN!!