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I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat.
In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.
[ID: A screengrab of a LinkedIn page that is trying to show me companies hiring people with my skills. It reads "Companies with the most job openings in your role." Beneath that is the company it thinks I should work for, which is simply called "Outlier."]
Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.
Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’
To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’
The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’
We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.
I think maybe I don’t like the new book I’m reading very much. But also maybe I’m just very low on good brain chemicals. And maybe also tired. And also the other book I finished today was objectively better written.
But actually I probably don’t like it very much and I’m tired AND I need to find some Good Brain Chemistry by doing something so I’m less stressed out (honestly ngl at this point I am getting really tired of having the middle of every single Saturday or Sunday devoted to talking to scone because that’s basically the only time either of us is free, but it really cuts into my ability to do things like “go to a cafe”, to say nothing of like, day trips somewhere. It’s a GOOD THING there are only a few of these left.)
the haunting of hill house tv series: love is stronger than trauma! family is the most important thing, and together, we can overcome the literal and metaphorical ghosts of our past!
put down the chat gpt. consume too much caffeine and nicotine and write a paper that you barely understand while you approach hallucination territory from too little sleep and too much raging. engage with academia in the way god intended
using ai to write your papers is so embarrassing stop being a pussy and just dont turn anything in if you dont want to do the work... have strength in your convictions