A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad
I feel this
As someone who primarily sees slugs and snails as nuisances (in some parts of my garden) or parts of a healthy ecosystem (in the rest of my garden) and most importantly not as pets or study objects... I'm not sure I'd have noticed this mutation, but I'm so glad that other people pay attention.
Oh my god this person found a leopard slug with its eyestalks fused together??? One super long stalk but it still has two eyes on the end. That's the cutest thing in the entire world. And then it had a ton of babies but JUST ONE baby inherited the mutation!!
Stay safe in the water
A fly seeking out the most unusual thing in the area.
Unmute !
Solid advice even for folk without ADHD. Especially those who have allowed their attention spans to grow short due to the endless stimulation from our devices.
Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free
Ok, this house is weird. Firstly, I was wondering what was up w/the garage door.
Turns out it's a mirror. Built in 1955 in Palm Springs, CA, it's been remodeled and you must see the choices. 3bds, 3ba, 2,319 sq ft, $1,499,999.
Check out the floor, like a mass murder scene.
Conversation pit decorated with a sofa and tables. Was this once a hot tub?
The stains continue throughout the kitchen.
Two lone side chairs in a corner.
Gray cement walls in the kitchen.
Snacks for the buyers?
Looking out toward the pool from the pit.
Cement dining table. I think it's built-in. It also appears to have a convenient electrical outlet.
It's such a huge space to fill. The sun is casting shadows, but it looks like there are steps here.
The glass wall opens to the pool.
There's a shower room here, but it's open. At least the shower & toilet are behind a wall.
The bedrooms and baths have floors that look watercolor stained. Interesting how they put the bed partly under the arch.
The bed from behind. Is that a fridge?
The ensuite is big, but so sparse and spread out. I would've expected a sink under the neon mirror. This is so ugly.
The secondary bedroom is plain and has floating nightstands installed.
The primary bedroom has folding doors to the patio.
Out by the pool, it looks like they repainted the statues pink and black, themselves. The lamp is broken.
Matching statues.
Nice fruit tree.
Fancy ceiling lights in the garage.
.28 acre lot.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2275-E-Belding-Dr-Palm-Springs-CA-92262/18019319_zpid/
Tortoise: *invents camouflage so it will be left alone*
Humans: oooh, you're an odd one. Let's look at you very closely.
Tell your family, your friends, your social media accounts, your colleagues, your unions and your managers. Tell your elected officials. Tell them this is not okay. I know it feels as though there's so much shit, and nothing is happening, but what we're seeing is not inevitable. People are acting. You can help. Start by talking about it. Find your local activists.
Not talking about it because no one wants to argue about politics, looks the same as quiet acceptance, even if you do so in despair.
It's really bad. Trump has literally posted "He who saves his Country breaks no Laws". That's King shit. It's a 5 alarm fire.
Don't just reblog. Think of a friend. Find 5 things in the list above that will directly affect them (tariffs, insulin, another potential pandemic, dangerous reduction in the staff who take care of the government's nuclear assets....). Gather your evidence. Then call you friend. Give them the above list. Ask them to do the same.
Consumer sentiment matters. Republicans WILL bend if enough people start being loud about their disapproval. Find your local activists and be part of saving what remains. If you don't do anything else yet at least check out Mark Elias's Democracy Docket for updates on where the legal stuff is at.
elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.
trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.
trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.
trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.
trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.
trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women's history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women's equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.
trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.
trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.
trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.
trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.
trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.
when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.
trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.
trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.
trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.
trump changed denali back to mount mckinley.
trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.
trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.
trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.
trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.
trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.
trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.
trump has threatened to invade panama to claim the panama canal.
trump withdrew from the paris climate act.
trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.
trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.
trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.
multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.
trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.
trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.
trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.
trump has told all schools and universities that they have two weeks to end all diversity initiatives, or he will cut federal funding. (as of feb 19, 2025)
trump fired the staff of the federal aviation association after a deadly plane crash in dc.
trump has fired the heads of the tsa and coast guard, and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee.
the official white house twitter account posted an “illegal alien deportation” asmr video where they did closeups of chains and the sound of ankle chains hitting the metal stairs of the airplanes deportees were being loaded onto.
the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.
google and apple maps now display the gulf of mexico as “gulf of america”.
rfk jr. wants to ban SSRIs and put everyone on them into labor camps.
andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.
the us senate confirmed russell vought, one of the main authors of project 2025, will lead the white house budget office.
nancy mace repeatedly used the t-slur during a congressional meeting, three times were out of spite.
andy biggs introduced a bill to abolish osha and completely eliminate federal workplace safety protections.
georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.
florida republican anna paulina luna has introduced a bill to add trump to mount rushmore.
new york republican claudia tenney introduced a bill to make trump’s birthday a federal holiday.
there is a bill named the SAVE act which would require americans to provide their birth certificate, passport, or other citizenship documents every time they vote, and would require the last name on their driver’s license to match that of their birth certificate. this would prevent married women who have changed their last name from voting.
bill h.r.1161, which is available publicly on congress.gov, would authorize trump to enter into negotiations to acquire greenland and to rename it to "red, white, and blueland".
six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.
a bill to ban the mRNA vaccine has passed out of the house committee.
amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.
the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.
the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.
every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.
hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.
EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.