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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Executive dysfunction hacks

1) For doing the dishes

Use dishwashing gloves. Get yourself a pair of nice ones that are made of thick latex and soft on the inside if you can. This will minimize the bad sensory experience of touching gross wet food, and you’ll be able to use the hottest water possible, which makes cleaning easier.

If you are sensitive to smells, use unscented dish soap, or a dish soap that has a smell you like.

Instead of filling up the entire sink with water, only fill up individual dishes with water. For example, fill up a mug with hot water, and put the cutlery inside to soak. Fill up bowls with hot water and stack them on top of each other. You get the benefits of soaking without the incredible inconvenience of turning your kitchen sink into a filthy pond of gross, stagnant water.

2) For the bathroom

Get yourself a sponge with a handle on it, one of those that come with a reservoir for soap. Fill it up with dish soap and keep it in your bathtub or shower. That way, whenever you’re showering, you can use that opportunity to give your bathtub or shower a quick scrub.

3) General hacks

Set your timer for 20 minutes, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, whatever you can handle. Then do the thing (you know, that thing you don’t feel like doing) for the duration of this self-alloted time. And once the time has passed, you reward yourself, because you fucking deserve it. Example rewards: watching an episode of your favourite TV show, reading a good novel, etc. It helps to also set a timer for the reward. I often alternate 20 minutes of watching an episode of a TV show, with 20 minutes of doing a chore. This is an adaptation of the 20/10 idea from Unfuck Your Habitat.

If you can’t handle taking out the garbage until later (for whatever reason), double-bag it so that it doesn’t stink up your apartment and leak garbage juice. Yeah yeah, it’s wasteful, you’re using two garbage bags…look, who cares. Better to use twice as many garbage bags than live in an apartment that smells like garbage.

Use an app that gamifies your to-do list, such as Habitica (I might make a separate post with app recommendations).

fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person

Begging people to stop infantilizing art

so this is one of my favorite photos ever from doctor who - it seems normal, but the slight blurriness, weird lighting, expressions, and stances make it seem very candid, like someone was snapping photos and they turned to look... it also has a wonderful and atmospheric "old film" quality.

the coloration? on point. the clothing textures? palpable. the dark/light contrast? excellent. they're literally glowing. i wish doctor who was still filmed on older cameras, it's so soft.

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

“You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft” - Alan Shepard

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Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire