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lucysweatslove · 11 months

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Idk who needs to hear this but unless you haven’t had caffeine recently and go in taking like 250-300mg+ all at once, your coffees, teas, and even sodas ABSOLUTELY are hydrating. They count as water.

The diuretic effect of caffeine is super freakin small when taken in small doses or if you drink it regularly. We’ve literally known this for two decades now but the myth that a coffee or tea is dehydrating due to diuretic effects is still well alive.

#water #remember to hydrate #hydration #idk what else to tag this #I’m just annoyed that there is still this myth #I legit read somebody saying that coffee somehow changes the molecular structure of water to make it less hydrating #my brain broke #that’s not how it works #that’s not how ANY of this works

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dykeredhood · 5 days

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WAAAAAH!!!!!! I want to be pursued!!! It’d be nice if I didn’t have to do everything for myself all the time

#this is my house and I love to complain #I’m aware that I’m not actually Good.#I can do good things for others and that’s all that matters #barely anybody percieved me as butch to begin with #and then the people that do demand that I do violent sex acts to them #that’s not how any of this works #personal

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r0semultiverse · 1 year

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stg I’m already seeing ppl come here trying to be “influencers”

#that’s not how this works #that’s not how any of this works #lmao jfc #twitter migration #tumblr migration #twitter #tumblr #twitter migrator #tumblr migrator #mine #OP

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longlivetv · 11 months

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Not one of my clients putting “Africa” for “Country” like it’s not a whole-ass continent made up of many unique countries 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

#that’s….not how this works #that’s not how any of this works

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usgs-unofficial · 1 year

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Field work in the northern are of the US was cancelled due to the blizzard. Might want to watch out for any flooding because we won’t be able to see if the water is getting too high!

#flooding #usgs #that’s not how water works #that’s not how any of this works #water #hydrology

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beekeeping-up-with-the-joneses · 1 year

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“All-purpose” flour is such a scam. It completely ruined my washing machine!

#that’s not how any of this works #bad dad jokes #one liner jokes #funny one liners #comedy #funny #humor #lol

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jabberamongthetrees · 1 year

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Live reaction to Mick x Janine

#eastenders #mick x janine #mick carter #janine butcher #so y’all want me to believe that after weirdin about all episode and #lookin like he’s on the verge of his one millionth panic attack #he’s just decided he’s truly in love etc #nope #no baby #that’s not how any of this works #that scene in the kitchen he looked genuinely pissed and umm quite scared actually

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mo-mode · 3 months

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I know it’s controversial but I think Annabeth geeking out over the Hephaestus contraptions was adorable

#and yes architectural engineering is STILL on the table #any kind of engineering works honestly but I loved how she geeked out over the machine #annabeth chase #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series #annabeth pjo

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freneticfloetry · 12 days

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new appropriation level unlocked

#y’all #they just invited themselves to the cookout #that’s not how it works #that’s not how any of this works

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chellyfishing · 28 days

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aw man that video about bops in other languages made me look up the background to pumped-up kicks and now i kind of hate it

Foster said to CNN Entertainment, "I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me. It was terrifying how mental illness among youth had skyrocketed in the last decade. I was scared to see where the pattern was headed if we didn't start changing the way we were bringing up the next generation." In writing the song, Foster wanted to "get inside the head of an isolated, psychotic kid" and "bring awareness" to the issue of gun violence among youth, which he feels is an epidemic perpetuated by "lack of family, lack of love, and isolation."

“actually the rise in mental illness is scary because mental illness is scary and makes kids violent, and also mental illness is caused by poor upbringing.” fuck you.

#deep thoughts #ableism #that’s not how any of this works

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tearlessrain · 5 months

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kind of wild how much fiction still treats torture as something that objectively works when every study has shown that it does not work at all and is possibly the least effective way to get correct information

#at the very least it's the worst from a cost/benefit standpoint #there will always be some 'interrogation expert' faction that are all ooh we can get any information from anyone #with our pointlessly complicated and resource intensive methods of beating the shit out of people #like no the fuck you can't that's not how anything works

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unpretty · 1 month

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the thing about having been really broke. averaging $500 a month in a good year broke. using a gamestop credit card i shouldn't have qualified for to buy taco bell gift cards for food broke. is that i am SO bad with money. i have a degree in accounting and i am so bad with money. i do not think of myself as superstitious at all but money feels so cursed. not in a spiritual way, i mean literally. practically.

having 'too much' money feels so bad. money is a thing you spend as soon as you get it because it's so cursed. the more it is the more cursed it is. i save too much money and bad things will happen that cost all my money. money is a thing that summons expenses. if i have no money and the car breaks down i find a way to make it work. i scrounge and resell and pass the hat and talk to my mom's friend's friend who knows a guy and in the end i'm so relieved to be right back where i started. but if i were saving my money for a new computer and then the car broke down, the money is just gone. i spent the money i saved for a thing i wanted on a thing i needed instead and after all that hoping i'm right back where i started.

i get a windfall and i set the money aside because if i'm careful that's enough to pay for gas for months. but then i need to pay for heat and i apply for assistance and they look at my bank account and see i have money and now they won't help pay for heat. soon it's just a habit. i get the money and i spend the money. immediately, as soon as possible, get this money away from me. don't even save enough for cigarettes. i can find money for cigarettes, somehow i can always find money for cigarettes. cigarette money is a weird magical fake money i summon from dark corners whenever i run out of cigarettes. i don't know how it works either. i've tried to summon the cigarette money for things that aren't cigarettes and it never works. just get this out of my bank account. get it out of here before something notices there's money here.

anyway i'm working on it but god it's hard

#original #i think i've made this exact same post before but everyone politely ignore that my memory is bad #i was doing better and then it all crashed and burned in the last couple months #and i'm fixing it but god it feels so stupid #i'd finally worked my way up to having Savings. Any Savings At All. where did it go.#how did i spend that much on pennywhistles and moonpies #that shouldn't be possible that's illegal

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inkskinned · 9 months

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at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.