This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL
Plotting, scheming, etc.
This was filmed at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which rescues, rehabilitates, and releases orphaned elephants in Kenya (among other conservation efforts). Charity Navigator has given it a 4/4 star rating, and you can make donations here or “adopt” a baby elephant here.
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I have enjoyed this video so much and am very happy to share ways to help the babies!!
That man held it in until he knew for a fact that they’d need another take anyway, and not a moment less.
autism is living by vampire rules. light sensitivity. eating the wrong food makes you want to die. need to be explicitly invited places. weird sleep schedule. eating the same thing every time. specific rituals and routines. burst into flames at the sight of a crucifix. etc.
I haven’t seen this article posted anywhere outside of my immediate library-sphere so I wanted to shout about it - remember that supporting your local libraries is super duper punk rock 📚❤️
I really don’t understand anyone who still posts selfies at this point like. we’re all fully aware that the feds are monitoring us and using our photos to build a surprise database that will help them later it’s just not fucking worth it anymore
Human brain: security culture
Monkey brain: validation nice
I will Not be cockblocked by spy nimrod fucks
I haven’t ever really talked about this before but I’d like to introduce a concept that I’m going to call “security nihilism.”
Here’s the deal: You’re already burned.
It’s over! There’s no going back! Your face is in a database and your DNA is in a database and your social profile is in a database and there’s nothing you can do about it. Even if you didn’t put it there somebody else did. Congrats, we’re all fucked!
Automated license plate readers track your drive. Do you commute? Do you drive the same way every day? Why the sudden change to your routine? What were you doing that you needed to park your car and wander away suddenly? What are you hiding?
I had to track down a guy who didn’t have facebook or social media profiles, didn’t have a listing in the phonebook, didn’t have a linkedin. I started with his first and last name and ended with his supervisor’s phone number, a ten year history of his income, and his home address. I got to it through his son’s little league team.
And I’m fucking J. Random Nobody. I don’t even have shiny databases full of tracking data.
So you’re already burned. There’s no going back, we passed the tipping point. Even if you threw out your computer and shut down all your accounts and smashed your cell phone and lived in the woods there’d be video of you walking out of town for the last time and satellite images of wherever you ended up setting up camp.
I was never going to be able to hide from the cameras on the streets and the data in my cell phone and the scanners that look at the license plate of my car and the information that my school sold about my age and income and interests. So fuck it. Share a selfie.
[fyi the secret to actual opsec is to trust no one and to have no discernible patterns - being in a facial recognition database doesn’t matter if you make a point of not showing your face when you’re doing whatever you’re doing that you want to keep quiet; your goal isn’t to evade the facial recognition software as you’re on the run from the government, your goal is to never even show up on their radar]
Sorry folks, all of this is right. Getting judgmental at other people’s selfies and masking it as an opsec fail is just ignorant :D
@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [5/8] lgbtq+ celebs “I had to free my own mind of what, at that time, what I felt like masculine adrogynous energy looks like. I was living in my own binary, and I was like there’s no way that I can be androgynous with bigger boobs now. How I feel inside is the thing that I needed to work through.” — JANELLEMONÁE
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“I think that I was nonbinary a long time ago. I just did not have… the language for it. I say energy now. I used to do masculine, feminine. But I just sort of use water and rock as the sort of elements. More like water, more like rock, you know? Saying and identifying with being non-binary helped free me a lot.”
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@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [5/8] lgbtq+ celebs “I had to free my own mind of what, at that time, what I felt like masculine androgynous energy looks like. I was living in my own binary, and I was like there’s no way that I can be androgynous with bigger boobs now. How I feel inside is the thing that I needed to work through.” — JANELLE MONÁE
here’s a quick tip for life: if you hate someone and you have a choice in the matter, keep their name out of your mouth and the reasons you hate them out of your head. keep your head on a swivel around people who habitually break this guideline because they’re just as capable of obsessive negativity about you
genuinely “living rent-free in your head” is a curse. obessing yourself with people you find odious who don’t have the actual power to harm you does nothing good for your life. there is immense strength in walking the fuck away and treating someone as dead to you, not half-living in their shadow.
PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like “gatorade is bad actually!” and “don’t drink fruit juice it’ll just dehydrate you!” and neither of these are true!
regarding fruit juice: there’s apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that’s simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won’t do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won’t completely dehydrate you as long as you’re also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can’t go wrong with fruit juice!!!
regarding gatorade: maybe this isn’t an every day drink, but guess what: if it’s 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don’t have AC, or you’re moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you’re sweating buckets: that’s when you drink a gatorade.
gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren’t doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you’re sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that’s intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that’s its intended use case!!!!
no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!
Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It’s fine if you drink things that aren’t water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn’t going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!
honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you’re doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3
Gatorade, to me, tastes like trash unless I need it, in which case it tastes so delicious. might just be me, but like… if the Gatorade tastes like the most delectable thing you’ve ever had?
Have another one, and also some water.
I’ve had a mild case of heatstroke before when camping at a summer festival. No matter how much water my friends helped me drink, I didn’t feel much less dizzy or delirious; even as they managed to cool my body down in other ways (if you’ve got access to a cooler, ice packs or cold cans/bottles under the armpits is a godsend for heatstroke). The first thing the medics did when they got there was feed me Pringles and a bottle of Gatorade; that salt and sugar hitting my tongue was more like finding water in a desert than the actual water. I went from slurred speech and brain fog to cracking jokes in about five minutes. If you have a choice between water and Gatorade, drink both.
Also some of us have health issues that make electrolyte drinks the best option for hydration. I have POTS and drinking only plain water is going to make me feel pretty fucking sick and pee a lot. It’s not even super hot here yet, but I’m already basically surviving on electrolyte drinks because my body really needs the salts in them.
Gatorade and other conventional sports drinks often have too much sugar and too little salt for anyone with similar needs though, and can be pretty expensive, so if you find electrolyte drinks really help you in the heat it’s a good idea to look into electrolyte drink powder mix. There’s a bunch of brands with a lot less sugar, and you can use as much water as you need to make it drinkable if you struggle with the flavour.
Btw when someone says “don’t talk to me like that, I don’t know you” the normal thing to do is apologize for the perceived overfamiliarity and correct the behavior. Just in case anyone was wondering
If someone said that to me I would unironically dig an underground bunker by hand and only ever leave to pick up doordash orders and nobody would ever see me again ever holy shit
Alternatively I would just jump off a bridge immediately god damn even just reading that makes my soul want to fucking die
hey dude this is a really weird thing to say to a stranger!
Buddy you don’t get it I would fucking perish
Hey dude i know rejection sensitive dysphoria is a thing but if you react this strongly to people setting simple boundaries you need to figure out how to work through that
Oh I deal with it. By being incredibly careful about anything I say to anyone in person ever
Although I once asked my cousin if I could join her dnd group (I have noclue how it works) and she went “Uh… No” and basically was like “you’d fuck it up” (she was very nice about it but damn I felt like the dumbest bitch alive ever)
And I haven’t recovered since! So yeah that’s why I’m a freak online because real life is impossible lmao! Hope this explains it!
That’s not dealing with it but good luck I guess
Fyi, this is not only a bad way to deal with it bc it’s straight up leaning into your own disordered thinking, but it’s also EVEN MORE inconsiderate than the original offense of being overly familiar.
Y'all may not realize the things you do are manipulative, but responding to a fair boundary (that isn’t even stated in a rude way) with “If anyone ever set this reasonable boundary with me I would run away into the woods” is manipulation. You are making it more difficult for people to feel safe telling you when you’ve made them uncomfortable or crossed a boundary, which means they’ll likely respond by either cutting you off or allowing you to walk over their boundaries for fear of setting you off.
That’s manipulative. You might genuinely be mortified, but that is something you NEED to work on, because the alternative is forcing everyone to walk on eggshells around you at the risk that politely setting any boundaries will set you off.
If you’d be fucked up if someone said that to you, that’s understandable. I would be. So apologize politely, then deal with your own shit on your own time.
The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I’m sure it’ll give more options soon.
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(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn’t have any. I’m EU so no Live for me).
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