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Summary: a self-described grumpy old man complains that the 14th of March is not Pi Day. Because only Americans write out their calendar days as Month, Day, Year. And the rest of the world writes it as either Day, Month, Year, or Year, Month, Day.

And 14.3 is not Pi.

But: the 22 of July is Pi Day. Because:

22/7 = 3.142857142857143

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paulgadzikowski:

thorne-rosenthal:

chiibbo:

jkl-fff:

maramahan:

808lien:

colacharm:

wildlyannoyingdoofus:

colacharm:

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

1. never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
2. find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
3. talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
4. picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
5. if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

… 8|

That’s some pretty good advice. I don’t know what’s left of my humor after ‘guess I’ll just die’ jokes but it’s worth a shot.

Personally i went from “guess I’ll die” jokes to “IF I HAVE TO BE HERE FOR 5 MORE MINUTES I PROMISE YOU I WILL BUY JUST, AN ARRAY OF CLOTHES.” and other wild hyperbolic stuff. Just replace the death part with something ridiculous and off topic. Its very entertaining

This also works with calling myself things like stupid, worthless, trash, etc. Even if you do this jokingly to yourself, your brain still believes it, and keeps up the cycle. Seriously, I found that when I stopped saying these things about myself, even jokingly, it made a massive difference.

Here’s a tip I picked up from a friend that’s helped me a lot — replace self deprecating jokes with ironically self aggrandizing jokes

Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”

Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”

When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?

And eventually it becomes a reflex and you get so used to it that you can say nice stuff about yourself even when you AREN’T joking

This is so important

yeah but all that stuff is cringe tho

:/

Yeah!

Quoted tag:

#cringe is beauty

Beauty is cringe, cringe beauty—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

(or something like that, if I recall correctly)

– John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn” 1819

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algorithmist:

Which browser do you use?

Chrome/Chromium

Firefox

Safari

Edge

Samsung Internet

Brave

Opera

Vivaldi

Firefox derivative (icecat, librewolf, zen, etc.)

Lynx / nyxt / browsh / eww / some other weirdo browser (specify)

Other (normal browser, specify)

idk what a browser is

qualifications, since the last time I made this poll a bunch of genies quibbled with the options here:

• Please select the browser you use most for personal use
• If you use more than one browser just pick the one you use most
• “Chromium” here refers to the open source version of Chrome (the one with the blue icon), not specific Chromium-based derivatives. This would also refer to ungoogled-chromium
• If you use a Chromium derivative not listed here, please just select “Other” and specify
• “weirdo browser” is the opposite of a “normal browser.” by “weirdo browser” I mean “some browser that’s designed for power-users” / “has a UI that’s inhospitable to a normal user.” a normal browser would not be that. Chrome and Firefox are normal browsers. The examples of weirdo browsers here might be slightly dated because I’ve been out of the weirdo browser game for a minute

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rositalagata:

capricorn-0mnikorn:

capricorn-0mnikorn:

In This Post, I mentioned how I used to have physical therapy for my cerebral palsy in the form of riding horses

Here’s a video with a nondisabled rider and a physical therapist narrator demonstrating, and explaining, how horse riding benefits the body … there’s also a brief allusion to how it can provide good a good stim for some autistic folk.

Watch on YouTube

Watching it, I’m also guessing it would be a good reference for anyone one doing an animation of horse and rider (I’m fairly certain there are a few of those folks around these parts).

This is also a sideways writing reference – If you pay attention, you’ll notice how much physical work is involved in just keeping your balance on the back of a moving horse. It’s nothing at all like driving a car.

(And this is just riding around in a nice, flat arena, never mind riding through mountain trails in the forest, ducking branches, and keeping alert for bears while eluding the evil duke’s soldiers.)

Please not be making your hero end a day’s twenty-mile journey alight from the saddle, ready to dance the night away at the royal ball.

Thanks for sharing this Ann. I volunteer with a hippotherapy program, but I don’t have much background knowledge in pt, so it’s helpful for me to see why the therapists choose the activities that they do.

*Nod* I was doing the therapy, and other than generally feeling better for the next several days after a ride (and feeling the lack if I miss a riding session), there were things even I didn’t know were going on until I saw this explanation.

And kudos to the therapist for pointing out the psychological benefit of getting a chance to look down at other people (When you’re a kid in a wheelchair, you’re even looking up at ambulatory peers your own age – unless you’re all on the floor together*).

Though the kid’s view hippotherapy is still being framed as the ‘spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down’: “A lot of the kids think they’re out here just having a good time. But we’re really working them, and getting benefits.”

A) Having a good time is a benefit.**
B) If you have to go to therapy, anyway, it’s better to do it out in “the real world” of fresh air than under the fluorescent lights of a hospital.

And the biggest benefit of all (IMNSHO):

C) You are developing a relationship with a fellow sapient Earthling Who Does Not Care that you are Disabled.

(Raises an imaginary glass to the memory of all the horses I’ve known and befriended).

*Floor-Time = Good Time!

**As someone who grew up seeing how my peers with cerebral palsy were treated (I was extremely lucky that I had a mother who questioned authority, and believed in children’s rights), and later (through the Internet), reading about others’ experiences, very often, when you’re a disabled kid, you’re not allowed to just play for play’s sake – everything has to be turned into a PT session, and monitored and guided by a grownup.

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metanarrates:

the response to “your demographic is full of people who are ugly and weird and undesirable” should not ever be “not true! some of us are in fact hot and normal and desireable.” you should stand with weird ugly bitches bc otherwise you’re just playing a losing game with bigots.

Guess what, Sunshine. I don’t desire you either.

Let’s agree to be better strangers to each other. Deal?

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anexperimentallife:

iteratedextras:

the-grey-tribe:

anexperimentallife:

I think there’s a case to be made for “you’re overreacting” in 2016. Some people really were overreacting in 2016. Trump 2 is really different from Trump 1. If you said in 2016 “Trump will bomb Iran”, is it a vindication of what you said in 2016 that he bombed Iran in 2025 and 2026?

As for knowing it would get that bad, it’s not like he made a secret out of what he intended to do if re-elected. There was a way of knowing it would get this bad in 2023.

All this depends on what the person said in 2016, because some people really were overreacting.

I think “Trump will bomb Iran” counts as a prediction if it’s from an account like yours of bambamramfan, but not from either of the accounts quoted in the above tweets.

Those of us who know history and have good pattern recognition, and especially those of us who were raised around evangelicals, have known all this was the plan since at least the 1960s–yes, including sweeping wars in the Middle East with Israel at the center (part of their plan is for all Jews to return to Israel and die there to hasten the return of Jesus). And we also saw that 2015 was our last real chance to stop it.

Trump is not the disease itself; Trump is simultaneously a symptom, a tool, and a vector of infection.

I can personally attest to evangelicals in the 1960s and 1970s laying out their multi-generational plans to systematically take over any and all positions of authority they could–with no position too small or inconsequential–from dog catcher to city treasurer to sheriff to anything else they could get. They laid out plans to raise their children to infiltrate law enforcement and the military (both of which were already compromised) so that they could ensure “the right people” rose to positions of authority.

In the 1970s, after losing on segregation, they started pushing “abortion is murder” as a new rallying cry, inventing the myth of “promiscuous” women using abortion as their only form of birth control and having multiple abortions a year, as well as the myths of “partial birth” and “post-birth” abortions.

Reagan then threw in with them wholeheartedly to get their votes, which handed them their dream of being a major political force that both main parties bent over backwards to appease. He and his allies also created the myth of the fictional “welfare queen” who had child after child to get more and more government benefits. First as governor of California, then as president, Reagan gutted programs to help the poor while cutting the taxes of the rich, while evangelicals cheered him on.

You see where I’m going with this. I could go on all the way to present day, but the point is this: We didn’t predict what was coming on the basis of Trump alone, or even on the basis of Project 2025 alone. We predicted it based on watching what far right “Christians” had been OPENLY planning for decades, watching their progress towards their goals, and matching up their patterns with previous authoritarian regimes–most notably the Nazis of 1930s-1940s Germany.

The Nazis had studied many other authoritarian regimes and practices, especially–but not exclusively–US race laws, and combined and refined them to the point at which the US far right is now looking to them for inspiration and guidance, and is pretty doggedly following their playbook with just a few variations. (The Nazis were quite popular in the US even in the 1930s, BTW.)

Remember that in his masterwork “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 (comprising in most part interviews with various rank-and-file Nazis after WWII), by Jewish journalist Milton Mayer, the unnamed professor says:

"In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or 'You’re seeing things’ or 'You’re an alarmist.’
"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.”

The difference, however, is that unlike Germans in the early 1930s, we had the example of German fascism to look back on, so no, we weren’t being alarmist at all. We could analyze point by point and compare with history to see exactly where this was going, and what it would lead to if not stopped in its tracks.

We also laid out exactly how to stop it. But for the most part we were told, like Sinclair Lewis’ book title, “It can’t happen here.”

And that disbelief, those “alarmist” accusations–or more precisely the wishful thinking and refusal to look at facts behind those–are WHY it’s happening.

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