I Wish It Was Easier To Talk About Mobile Phone Addiction Without Sounding Like A Boomer

i don't know which chronically ill mooties need to hear this but

you don't have to listen to the bE pOsItIve crowd

it's okay to grieve for the life that your illness robbed from you.

it's okay to feel sad when you can't do things you would have wanted to.

it's okay to detest that you have to use aids.

it's okay to look at your abled peers and feel empty, because of how you so desperately want to fit in with them but can't.

it's okay to be salty about everything you can't do while being disabled.

it's okay to not be one of the very few who are able to dEfY tHe oDds

it's okay to be terrified of the future.

because that's just what being disabled means. it's not all just pride and 'being strong,' it's absolutely miserable to face these realities sometimes.

and that's okay.

2015 - Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American. [video]

Aight y'all. Here's a lesson I learned from my wife, and I wish I'd learned it years ago:

Before you buy anything, take 5 minutes to search (preferably with a non-Google search engine like DuckDuckGo) "best [whatever] for [specific purpose if necessary]."

Make sure you look at who the reviews are from; there are a lot of bad spam sites out there, but you can find good lists on reputable sites. However, you'll get some of the best lists on Reddit.

Most of what you'll find at the top of the lists on Amazon (and Walmart) are people who have paid for that spot. You'll still have to use discernment to make sure you're picking a good review site, but I'm not kidding when i say that the last time we had to buy a plunger, I ended up on a thread on a plumber's forum where they were discussing which plunger they keep in their own bathroom. (The overwhelming winner was something called a Toilet Saber, and... it's much easier to use than the usual style of plunger, actually.)

She searches "best potato peeler" and "best pastry blender" and "best standing desk" and it seems so obvious, right, but she does it for literally everything and the average quality of things I own has gone way, way up since I started taking 5 minutes to search "best yoga socks" and "best cuticle trimmers" and then going to buy whatever it is.

Her research skills go into overdrive when it comes to big purchases; she's the one who researched our sublimation printer and found the desk I currently use. If there's an extremely passionate subreddit out there about the thing she wants to buy, she'll find it and then read half a dozen reviews.

I cannot stress enough how much she does this. About. Everything. And how much everything we own is better as a result.

It's amazing, honestly.

I see lots of people saying Slime=Blood, and that's true, but I don't think it applies to the first episode. I'll see people say that he's covered in blood, but then why would he be the slime demon? In the Christian Hell bit, he says, "- it's just they don't really like me that much we sort of have a reputation, they kinda think I'm lame cause I'm the slime guy-." It doesn't make sense for him to be unliked if he was the blood guy, y'know? They would probably think he's cooler if he was the blood guy, not calling him lame. And also blood is so much more liquid, and not as sticky as slime is. If he was covered in blood, then he wouldn't stick to everything as well as he does.

Y'know, sometimes I get sad thinking about all the super serious things in the genloss lore, but then I remember that slimecicle was literally a hand towel.

At my school, it's a graduation requirement to complete computer science I, but it doesn't even teach computer literacy. It teaches the basics of a couple scripting languages. That's it.

I have learned how to be computer literate because of my electives, not because of my actual computer class.

Technological literacy only exists in a very slim age demographic of people born from roughly 1980 to roughly 2007

I'm going to start responding to posts on tumblr (that aren't screenshots. Just normal text posts) with "you would do numbers on tumblr"