Aud, 32, nonbinary (they/them). Moody, misanthropic and mentally ill. Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you. BLM, ACAB, Anti-TERF, anti fascist, pro-ace. memes, queer stuff, mental illness, feminism, random fandom bs, occasional politics, and whatever else I see that tickles my fancy. this is a personal blog.
well 🧍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.
in any given fictional situation, there is exactly one character who is At Fault and every other character involved is a passive victim. media literacy is when you correctly identify and condemn this character
Reminder that puffins are extremely social and like to fit in with their friends, so they will adopt mannerisms and interests of the group. So there is a good chance this little guy is trying to be friends with the photographer by showing his interest in the camera.
TIL photographers are a lot like puffins, cuz we also make friends by showing interest in your camera XD
Reminds me of the time researchers were trying to get puffins to land in a specific area so the put decoys up to draw them in but the decoys only had 1 leg and
Get off of google calender get off of google docs get off of microsoft office etc
Corperations cannot be trusted and care for no one.
I understand this sentiment entirely! I am right now working to get myself off Google Docs, and removing Google from my life as much as I can. I will say, that this rhetoric makes me think of the book drive I am running.
In my province, books are being banned in school libraries and there are two important responses to the situation. First we need people fighting to keep queer books in school libraries, because many children have no access to queer books outside of their school library. Second we need to start preserving queer literature in safe places. If we focus too much on only keeping queer books in school libraries, we run the risk of losing access to these books as a whole community in the event the government doesn’t listen to our protests. If we focus too much on only preserving the books, then they will be available only to a specific sect of the community.
All of this to say, we need to leave Google behind where we can. But some of us have jobs that utilize Google in varying ways that we can’t opt out of, or can’t leave Google right yet for accessibility reasons. Google has specifically made it so it is hard to not use their services, so we need to have multiple responses. I think there is value in disentangling from Google, but I also think there is value in purposefully and aggressively maintaining queer history within the platform of Google.
I worked in IT at a private school for a grip, and the fifth grade boys got busted for using a shared google doc named “da chat” to get around the restrictions on messaging platforms almost a decade ago.
“People from [insert country] are all inherently bad” NO. WRONG. VERY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER FOLLOWED BY FLASHING LIGHTS AND AN AUTOMATED RECORDING OVER THE PA SYSTEM WHICH JUST SAYS “XENOPHOBIA IS A VIOLENT AND DEHUMANIZING TRAP THAT SOWS PARANOIA, DISTRUST, AND HATE AND COMPLETELY DESTROYS COMMUNITIES AND LIVES” OVER AND OVER
i cannot begin to explain the emotions i feel every day knowing that this post i made in the middle of playing tf2 when i was 16 is going to be the one thing of mine that has made the largest impact on the world by a fucking mile
Eartha Kitt’s career is just so iconic because there’s no way you don’t know her even if you don’t know you know her. You like Christmas music ok well she’s Santa Baby. You like Disney animated movie ok well she’s Yzma. You like Disney Channel original movie ok well she’s Madame Zeroni. You like comic book ok well she is Cat Woman. She won.
You like making the racist wife of a war mongering president cry on national television? She did that
Remember that if you want to do more of something, you have to do less of something else. It’s that time of year where people set goals for the new year and they have plans and hopes and it’s always focusing on what they want to do more of. More studying, more exercise, more crafting, more socialising, more making things from scratch. Okay, great. What are you going to do less of in order to have the time and energy to do more of those things you really want to do?
And if your answer to this is “less doomscrolling” or “less bedrotting” then great, but please think about why you’re doing those things. No one’s doomscrolling or bedrotting because they don’t have things they’d rather be doing. Actually, I’m willing to bet you have a lot of things you’d rather be doing and you spend your life internally screaming at yourself to do literally any one of the many things you want to be doing instead, but you don’t have the energy for them all and you can’t work out how to prioritize them, so doomscrolling spares you from making that decision. Or perhaps you’re burned out from taking on too many projects and you need to rest your brain, so you lie in bed because you don’t even have the energy to get started anymore.
This is going to be a really hard pill to swallow, but the truth is you might not be able to balance all your hobbies and all your projects the way you’d like. If you want to finish writing that book, you might have to reduce your daily drawing habit to a couple of times a week. If you want to do yoga every morning, you might have to accept not cooking from scratch as often. If you want to spend more time with your family, you might have to cut down on your yearly reading goal. I’m not saying give up on your hobbies; I’m be realistic with your time and your energy and be kind to yourself. Stop expecting yourself to do more and do better every single year. You don’t have to constantly be growing upwards and reaching for the stars; you can be content with where you are, or even cut parts of yourself back to make space for other things in your life to bloom.
Think about what your priorities are and make peace with doing less of other things. Less is okay. Less is not failing. Less is self care.
