Saying "ow" not because it hurts but because it seems to be the correct thing to say at the moment is such a weird human trait.

This perfectly encapsulates both marriage and friendship

List of verified Palestinian families that have reached out to me (part 14)

2. @mo-palestinian90 / @moh-hassouna

3. @maram-gaza3 / @maram-gaza

4. @monis-family / @rabah1monis / @rabah2monis / @monis-family2 / @monis-family3 / @rabahmonis1 / @monisfamily2

5. @maramrafat / @raneenrafat

6. @mohammedrabah2 / @mohammedrabah3 / @mohammedrabah4 / @robarabah / @hanarabah / @robarabah1

7. @islamelhalaby / @sadox1

8. @nour-gaza

9. @support-katia-family / @support-katya / @support-hesham / @support-heshem

10. @haniibrahem

11. @shahdquffa / @abdquffa

12. @shadiafamily / @shadiaraed

13. @marymfamily

14. @sameer-gaza0

15. @saveomarfamily / @omarfamily80

16. @rewaida97

17. @ghada-hassan

18. @layan-ramy

19. @monashehab1999

20. @waleedalanqar / @waleed-alanqar / @waleedalanqarfamily / @waleedanqar

21. @mohammedshehab92 / @hyamshehabb / @mohammedshehabneww

hey pal, take it easy! you're scrolling with way too much intensity. look at this horse

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

If you see a post talking about problems related to a behavior you do (or problems related to not doing something) and your first and only reaction is to rant about how the post is insensitive to your very specific circumstances which make changing your behavior impossible, consider:

Post: People who put celery in chili are evil you're my enemy

Reply: OP I have a rare dietary condition that requires me to consume 10lbs of celery per day if I didn't put celery in it I'd never be able to eat celery

Issue: #1, maybe the post just isn't about you

Post: People have got to stop calling the cops on Black teenagers who are just goofing off, you're gonna get someone killed. Either ignore them or go talk to them yourself if you're that concerned about their behavior.

Reply: OP I got attacked and almost killed by teenagers and now I have PTSD that is triggered when I see groups of teenagers regardless of race. I literally can't go talk to them without having a panic attack and so I have to call the police to deal with the issue.

Issue: #2, no you don't get a pass on this one. Your PTSD does not give you a pass to endanger the lives of other people. Your feelings are not more important than someone's life, even when you irrationally feel your life is in danger. Go to therapy or a support group, do internal work, have a friend you can call to help you - whatever the solution, it's your responsibility to find a way to change that behavior.

Post: Other drivers need to keep their cars in the lane lines! I need to not have near death experiences every commute please!

Reply: OP I would love to keep my car in the lane but I have an old shitty car that randomly jerks the wheel out of my hands and causes me to swerve. I can't afford a new car or a mechanic and I have to drive to get to work. What is someone in my situation supposed to do to stay in the lines??

Issue: #3, oh my God shut UP

On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting

Sometimes I make posts that are like “Hey guys, maybe everything being optimized for efficiency and cheapness leaves some major defects in the average person’s ability to thrive psychologically” and some of you pop off like I’ve said I want to kill everyone who uses insulin with my bare hands, when mostly what I’m talking about is this sort of thing.

something that really haunts me about tiktok speak is a couple years ago i was in one of the worst places ive ever been in mental health wise and, after several attempts, nearly succeeded in killing myself and one day i told someone that and she kind of stared at me and then went "you tried to... unalive yourself?" and it made me stop fully in my tracks bc it kind of. shook me to my core how she tried to sanitize my fucking suicide attempt. anyway my point here is that if you cant say suicide you are a fucking pussy and need to grow up

it just sticks with me a bit cause like... idk. i didnt try to "unalive" myself, i tried to kill myself. end my own life. commit suicide. literally there are endless descriptors for what i did that doesnt include making it sound like youre trying to explain the concept of suicide to a kindergartner.

for clarifications sake this post is ok to rb SO LONG AS you dont make any fuckass jokes about other sanitized words to use. no unaliving no irl game overs etc etc. keep that shit outta here thats my one rule ok? ok .:-)

[ID: A cartoon cat giving a massive thumbs up. END ID]

mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter

the world is heartbreaking every day and the world is beautiful every day and we have to pay attention to both

I have Tumblr.... Wow, almost forgot

i led an all-ages hike today for our local Pride organization (which was great!) & there was a 6-year-old on the hike who was super engaged in all my little Naturalist spiels until the very end nearly two hours into the hike as we approached the end of the trail & he became tired and a little over it. I fell to the back to make sure we had everyone & he was at the end of the line with his mom and he stopped suddenly in the middle of the trail and put out his little arm so I bumped into it and I stopped and he said “you can’t come with us.” I said, “you’re leaving me here?!” He said, “you’re for the forest.” I said, “what have I done to you today to deserve this abandonment,” and he said, “it’s not like that.” I said, “oh, like I shouldn’t take it personally?” And he said, verbatim, “yeah, like…don’t make it a thing.”

I’m only able to tell you all this because his mom, in her infinite mercy, told him to keep walking and let me go. I’d still be in that forest.

Im not autistic about cars or makes or models but I AM autistic about crumple points and field of vision and blindspots and conflict points. do you understand. urban design, anti car dependency/anti car centric infrastructure, and so cars themselves are part of that interest. because car design is urban design. cybertrucks SUCK as cars and also dont function well in infrastructure thats designed to care about people. there are good cars and vehicles that are designed good and fit well with good urban design

THIS is how im autistic about cars

the funniest thing about new american trucks is that i was driving last week and saw someone with a dirt bike in the back and they had to have the tail gate propped open becuase the truck bed wasn’t long enough. the dirt bike was not that big. it was funny. you bought that car justifying to yourself that it’s a work horse, a ute. it doesn’t fit a 250cc bike brother

chiming in to point out that forward visibility in full-size american pickups is uh. not great.

I have PERSONALLY had to move/haul heavy shit a lot and the vans with the short noses beat the hell out of the pickups, except for when you’re off-roading/in mud and in that case it’s a matter of low center of gravity + 4wd that really keeps you moving (which a lot of older trucks, being smaller & lower, do a HELL of a lot better.) I have had to GET OUT OF MY CAR and peer around these behemoth trucks parked on streets so that I can see enough to pull out of a driveway. Pedestrian deaths in the US are going UP, and as a person too short to be seen over the hood of one of these fucking things, they need to NOT be a “consumer ‘car’ of choice”.

Tumblr.com is a great place where you can go to traumadump things you’ve never told anyone in your life to thousands of strangers for no reason