“Your job — as students who are receiving an education — is to be aware of your privilege. And use this particular privilege called “education” to do your best to achieve great things, all the while advocating for those in the rows behind you.”
All you have to do is sign up and they call you and get the process started. I was on the phone for ten minutes and left messages for a whole bunch of representatives. Every time I finished a call, I was rerouted to the next person. It’s painless and it really does make a difference. 🙌🏻
A star created 1,800 years ago after the collision of two distant suns is set to appear in the night sky for the first time – as the light from the crash finally reaches the Earth.
Scientists predict that for six months in 2022, stargazers will be able to witness the birth of the new star, by fixing their telescopes near the Pisces and Cygnus constellations. Dubbed the Boom Star, it has taken nearly two millennia for its light to reach earth — where it will be able to be seen by the naked eye. Astronomers expect the collision to increase the brightness of the pair ten thousand fold, making it one of the brightest stars in the heaven for a time. The explosion, known as a Red Nova, will then dissipate and the star will remain visible in our skies as a single bright, but duller, dot.
Your not going to want to miss this appear in our sky as it’s a once in a lifetime event! Source
thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit
but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better
it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better
…i did not know this, thank you
If anyone wants to look it up, the episode was specifically the Deadliest Catch crossover ep, and the myth was that it’s better/safer when working a 30 hour shift to take a 20 minute nap every six hours rather than try to power through. They did an obstacle course test, one without naps and one with, and even though they couldn’t even sleep half the time the naps resulted in their scores doubling.
So actually I undersold it, even if it’s 7:40 and your alarm goes off at 8 just lie down and shut your eyes and it will still be better than nothing
This is what my mom always tells me: “You’ll rest even when you’re just lying down”. Good to know for everyone who has problems sleeping.
This is really important to remember!!
Allow me to add…
A few years ago I had a bout of insomnia (the kind where I could fall asleep, but not stay asleep) that lasted for months, and ended up spending a night in a sleep lab so they could monitor my brain waves while I slept.
The result? Well, they didn’t find out what was causing the insomnia–but they did find out that during the early hours of the morning, when it felt to me like I was just lying there awake, my brainwaves showed that I was actually drifting in and out of sleep. If you lie there and rest, you may be getting at least some sleep, even if it doesn’t feel like it!
I found it very encouraging.
Works better when you close your eyes, but yes. This is a True Thing.
I also heard on a podcast from a British sleep expert that lots of people think they haven’t slept in several hours when experiencing insomnia, especially in the early hours of morning (3 am onward), but they do drift in and out without consciously noticing, so it is more restorative than getting up and doing „awake things“ instead. He recommended mindfulness or grounding exercises (focusing on the tactile sensation of the pillow/bedding, relaxing your muscles etc), because it encourages light sleep that is better than none.
Allow me to throw my two cents into the mockery of Adam Driver’s looks.
Just don’t. Make fun of Kylo Ren’s asshattery all you want, but leave Driver’s looks out of it. He seems like a thoughtful, awkward guy who has expressed hating seeing or hearing himself in interviews and his performances. He’s a former Marine. He runs a non-profit organization. He did a great job acting wise with Kylo.
“I’m like a sight gag, I have this really big face…I don’t totally get it. I mean, when I read for Girls
(2012) I was, like, the script says ‘Handsome Carpenter,’ so someone
else is going to get the part. They’ll have someone handsome, not me. I
mean, I’m not in any danger of getting leading-man parts”- Adam Driver
Just…leave him be if you don’t like his looks.
He’s also said in interviews he’s terrified of the internet for the comments he could get, and that’s why he doesn’t have any web presence.
Adam felt like a waist of space for the longest time, he felt like he wasn’t doing something ‘honorable’ with his life and that’s why he joined the marines, because he didn’t get into Juilliard. For him, is a blessing to get parts.
He has talked about how insecure he is, because yes, he is self-conscious thanks to the way people react to his physics.
Also a super awkward person. He is shy and doesn’t like to do much press, he gets nervous on interviews and doesn’t like red carpets.
DO NOT BE A BITCH TO ADAM.
I swear, I will verbally shred a person to ashes for this kind of crap. You will not get back up when I’m done with you.
If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again
Isn’t it disgusting that 23 people just unfollowed me
Unfollow me too
this goes double if you call paedophilia a disability. unfollow me twice
and if you call pedophilia an “orientation” or in any way compare it to being LGBP+ you can unfollow, delete your blog, and set yourself on fire.
I just lost 50 followers.. bye
clearing out the trash
GO ON AND S M A S H THAT UNFOLLOW BUTTON
BUHBYE U McNASTIES
I’ve seen this circulating forever and genuinely thought “no way do I have any of them following me” until this week when it turned out I had all these fuckin “MAP” (pedophile) followers sad to find out I’m an “anti” (normal person)
You know, I’ve tried writing material where the number of bisexual and gay characters present matches up with real-world demographics, but even that’s apparently enough to get folks passive-aggressively going “wow, is anyone in this setting straight?”, so basically my answer from now on is “no, not a single person in this setting is straight”.
When a room has 30% women in it, men think it’s 50-50. When it is 50-50, they think they’re outnumbered. Just one of the fascinating statistics on how people perceive gender balance, says Laura Bates.
…When a story has 5-10% not-straight people in it, a lot of straight people think “the gays are taking over.”
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