My friend explained the spoon theory to our DM and he was like “ohhh so it’s like when you’re out of spell slots and you need to take a long rest to regain them all” and now I keep thinking of myself as being out of spell slots instead of out of spoons

It’s perfect actually because taking a shower is like a 2nd level task, whereas making an important phone call is a 5th. If you’re out of 5th level task slots, you can’t do that phone call. However you can expend higher level slots to take that shower if you’ve spent your lower task slots on dishes, eating, and getting dressed.

Browsing social media is a cantrip

I actually say this all the time!

Also if you don’t finish a long rest (ie sleep well, taking your meds as directed etc) you do not regain spell slots and the next day you’re working with what you had left over from yesterday

there are also ritual spells ! where if you’re allowed enough time and a comfortable, quiet environment you might be able to accomplish something without loosing a spell slot ! 😌

a comic about meeting your younger self :)

Thank you for reading :)

Unsafe is pro-life mission.

honest to god can't stop thinking about this song about jeff bezos by philip labes (link takes you to his spotify). it's such a good example of politically driven folk music.

would much like  to point out that the people publishing these articles are trying to needle millennials into treating gen z with the same disgusting vitriol we were treated with.

don’t buy it.

our younger brothers and sisters might eat a tide pod and get us blamed for it, but we have more in common with them than we ever had with boomers or gen x.

they are terrified of the things we can do together. remember that.

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

Yo, don’t forget Salem, Oregon. If you go to downtown Salem, there’s a lot of homeless camps over there.

Salem, Oregon, near the river downtown.

The U.S. is just a third world country trying to cosplay a first world country.

Honestly there are many homeless people and sceneries like these all over europe as well… first world country and third world country look more and more to be words that have too many flaws and that are too ideological to be efficiently used

Hans Gosling’s “factfuless” is a good book on the subject; Essentially most ppl tend to think the world still looks like the 1950s. 

Even world leaders, charity workers and CEOs do. 

There are richer & poorer countries but there is no longer a big definitive gap, and no matter where you live your circumstances are more down to your income than “culture” or whatever

These days only 10% of the world live in extreme poverty (some of that in reservations & crappy minority neighborhoods in the USA, or, here in Europe, illegally underpaid bulgarian immigrants, most is in active warzones; Any amount of it is still too much of course) - there are also the only areas where ppl have crazy amounts of kids anymore, the average earth citizen has 2. The population is only increasing cause the extra kids from the world’s poorer days are growing older.  The number of small children is no longer increasing at all. 

So stop being paranoid about foreigners

I’m sad no one added Cidade da Praia from Cabo Verde in here, so here ya go

This? An utterly scorching take.

he was addressing the president btw and what should have been said to the nazis who marched in Charlottesville

Holy shit.

These tags!!!! Yes!!! 1,000,000 times yes!!

it’s real https://microclimate.com/pages/contact

*smashes your clean air mask with a hammer and you die immediately upon breathing the glorious fresh smog of late capitalism*

isnt this the exact actual plot of the Lorax

I think humans are meant to see the ocean.

fun fact, there may be an explanation for this in something called the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis!  There are some evolutionary biologists who think that at some point after the split from chimpanzees, our ancestors may have briefly become aquatic mammals but bailed out before becoming fully adapted to life in the water.  There are several quirks of human anatomy that may suggest this is the case:

Now, this is only a hypothesis, and it has opponents who argue that aquatic life isn’t the only explanation for any of these traits and there isn’t sufficient evidence in the fossil record, however the fossil record also doesn’t rule the possibility out.  So who knows, this may be the source of your longing for the ocean!

Is that why people in landlocked states/countries always turn into shitbags?

Villain backstory: from Nebraska

Stupid is timeless.

I’m that lady who’s just FEELING it

tbh cables were like that and safety precautions weren’t hard set in yet

Oh wow this is horrifying

Holy shit

Why don’t we see this kind of stuff more in history books?! I’d be way more interested in history if I understood that people were afraid of electricity because they were afraid of power lines slicing them to peices like cheese-wire! History books make it sound like “oh those silly people thought electricity carried demons or something!” Rather than “those poor people opposed electricity because they were terrified that eventually there would be so many power lines they wouldn’t be able to see the sun anymore.”

i love how many people are seeing this as a old time problem. But my city still looks like this:

This things are SOOOO dangerous! I remember as a kid, there were campaigns on TV to teach kids not to play with kites near power lines, because the number of deaths was incredibly high.

Protests against racism, police violence and Bolsonaro's administration are taking over Brazil right now. I could've made an entire post about it but this especific sign caught my attention, it says: "In Brazil everyone has black and indigenous blood. The poor in their veins, and the rich in their hands."

Women in Mexico disappear.

Today is a historic day in my country, we’re fed up with gender violence in Mexico. They’re killing us. Picture this, you can’t walk outside your own house because you fear the worst, you fear that your clothes are too revealing, you fear that you’re too alone, you fear that you’re walking the wrong streets. Day after day you wake up to the news of another feminicide. They’re killing us. You see it, you hear it, you fear it. What if I’m the next one? You’re always wondering. They’re killing us. 

10 women are killed every day, only because they’re women. And it doesn’t matter where we are, what we’re wearing, who we are. It’s not our fault, because they keep killing us. 

If we keep up at this rate? What’ll be of us? 

Yesterday we marched. 

(None of the pictures are mine) 

 “I march because I’m alive and I don’t know until when.” 

“Today, all our voices aren’t together because, from death, one can’t scream.” 

“We’re not hysteric, we’re historic.” 

“Mom, if you don’t find me, look up for me in the stars.” 

Yesterday we screamed. We flourished. 

“Mom, don’t worry, today I’m not alone in the streets.” 

Our monuments bled to represent us. 

We screamed. 

But not today, today march 9th 2020. We silenced ourselves. 

Today, we disappeared. No social networks, not a single woman in the streets, not a single woman working, not a single woman studying, not a single woman at any store.

What would Mexico be without us? If you don’t want us in the streets, fine we’ll disappear.

Without us, you’ll collapse. 

Mexico woke up with no women ticket-sellers in the subway stations, no women tellers at the bank. 

No women’s column on the newspapers. 

No women at their jobs. 

No women at school. 

No women on the streets.

Mexico woke up with no women. 

We can’t accept what we can’t change, but we will change what we can’t accept. 

We are angry, and we will rise. Because without us, you’re nothing. 

This reminds me of the Women in Iceland, I think Iceland, who went on strike and did no work for their professions or their houses. The entire country stopped for the day. 

It’s a very powerful strategy to take. 

-FemaleWarrior