Thinking about how people think about what they think

sorry for letting my disability disable me it WILL happen again

Holy fucking shit of all the possibilities I did not see that one coming.

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i just want to assure everyone that the money from this sale did not go to Alex Jones, he was legally forced to sell it and not get any of the money from the sale

2010. A Japanese woman sits down to take photos of her shiba inu dog for her blog. Suddenly, a man leaps out of a time portal. "Sorry, I can't let you do this. I cannot tell you why." She asks: "Is it forbidden knowledge from the future?" He sighs: "No, it's just too fucking stupid to explain."

all the “peer pressure is bad” education we give kids is practically useless because all it cares about is telling them that Drugs Are Evil rather than the much more useful lesson of ‘the person who responds to you saying you don’t drink by telling you they’ll find a way to get you to is also going to be shitty about all your other boundaries’.

suspiciously non-grieving widow and her new boytoy

This is one of my fave lewks for them both

I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.

You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.

We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason "If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!"

The clinic here that long served the HIV+, children in poverty, and homeless population and became a hub for trans care for a couple of counties in this century. The one that provides sliding scale dental care and medication.

That one? The one that has saved my life a bunch of times?

A grant pays for most of that. The grant keeps expanding to let them provide more services because they can show how desperately needed those services are.

Use the services; save lives.

If you’re pining you need to stop and pick a different tree. You know, spruce it up a little

I’m still proud of this post. It’s evergreen

You sap.

Jacob Anderson and his animal co-stars

Do you ever just come up with a fic idea and you're like 'Oh wow this is evil. This is so angsty and emotionally devastating why would anyone do this.' but it's you doing it

Explain yourself.

some people might not have seen all of them yet

bringing this back for thanksgiving