froggybangbang
Froggy Bang-Bang
Frog: /fɹɒɡ/ [noun] a first-language French person born in Canada: Reclaimed slur.
he/she/them. Officially An Old.
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Funniest Ballet routine I've seen! Do yourself a favour and watch this video. I've also found the full play of Jerome Robbins' The Concert, here:
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Tell me when you get bored. A story about doses. [x]
I posted this on twitter and had a variety of aggressive ableism thrown my way.
This is a story about changing what I can in spite of what I cannot for the comfort of my loved ones. The thing that others find to be hurtful about me is that I like to spend time in silent solitude. People who love me often feel hurt that I tend to solve my own problems instead of leaning on them.
When we spend too much time together, people find my neutrality to be concerning, and it becomes too much for people to be unable to read me.
To show the people I love that I enjoy their company in ways they can understand, I pool my energy together to be high-energy, peppy, and social. Since this is not my natural state of being, it takes effort, which can only be expended in small doses. I amplify the things people like in me while filtering out everything they dislike about me when I am in their company.
I change my behaviors for those I love, but at the end of the day, I cannot change my neutral state of being, which is the thing that they want most out of me.
This is a story about me accommodating people in the best way I know how, not the other way around. I would truly appreciate it if people don't misconstrue this anecdote as me asking for dismissal of hurtful behavior when in reality, people find hurt in the fact that I simply exist, and I must change for them.
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A lot of propaganda is not actually misinformation.
A lot of propaganda is not even half-truths.
A lot of propaganda actually is telling you the truth, but is feeding you a specific conclusion that the author wants you to draw from it.
This makes it a lot more robust, because if you go searching for sources to confirm the information, you'll find them!
So an important thing in evaluating information is not just "Is this true?" but also:
"Wait, does this lead inevitably to the conclusion this person is presenting? What other conclusions could I draw here? What other reasons for this piece of info could there be? How does this information fit into what I already know?"
"What are the motivations of the person who wrote or created this? Why did they want me to draw that conclusion? Do they themselves believe the conclusion they're drawing, or are they just trying to convince me? If they do believe it themself, why? If not, why are they trying to convince me? What's going on for them here?"
"What other pieces of information might I be missing? What am I extrapolating without noticing? What did this person deliberately leave out, or want me to ignore or gloss over? What other contexts and comparisons are applicable here?"
"How does this information with in with not only the specific conclusion that is presented, but with the author's overarching thesis? When I use it, how well does it fit into my thesis? When I take a step back, does this piece of information actually make any sense as supporting evidence for this person's thesis?"
Hopefully this is helpful, and can help your skills at evaluating information and arguments become more robust!
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marine biology is so scary because it’s such a small field. i was giving a talk on cetaceans and afterward a woman approached me with her husband and she said, “you did very well. [husband’s name] actually pioneered the research and published the first paper on that. We were very impressed by you.”
Which is such a scientific interpretation/public education win I will cherish forever but also for the rest of my life any time I give a talk I will be haunted by the knowledge that the world’s leading expert who literally discovered/invented the topic might be in the room,
which is like, the opposite of what you’re supposed to do for stage fright. In fact I never used to experience stage fright but now I will.
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Omg this is like 800 metaphors rolled into one megaphor
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I'm experiencing this since i cut my credit cards.
But also. Anither thing they don't tell you.
Because i have never (had the money to) have a insurance for my flat, i am now uninsurable. I mean unless i fancy paying through the roof. The fact the i never needed insurrance means they can't know if I'm a good customer for them. IT'S INSURANCE HOW CAN YOU HAVE GOOD CUSTOMERS anyway yeah think about it
(oh and life insurance is also cheaper if you start your plan before 18)
Capitalism sucks.
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thinkin about how, as a tween, I picked up from somewhere the word fetish as meaning a really particular interest or fixation but, inexplicably, without picking up the sexual context
thinkin about how one time, as a tween, I told my dad I had a knife fetish
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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this
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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone
🔁 pls reblog for sample size
#yeah i came to grips with that#other people don't care#also this way i don't have to seek someone who likes the things i do#travel and concerts are 100% fun with others but why stop yourself?
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Ppl don't even bother to actually read shit or absorb any information before offering unsolicited advice. It's like Google autosuggest out here.
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why does this whole scene look & sound like a YTP
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now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck
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