doing better and doing worse, the yin and yang of mental healthβ¦ donβt know you personally but I know some degrees of this so I am sending an arm-squeeze across the way. whatever keeps your worst self safe is worth doing
30.07.2025 23:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
wasps I hate you and stay away from me, but also thank you for inventing figs
29.07.2025 18:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
men claiming they are 144 ants tall on dating apps when theyβre only 138
29.07.2025 11:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
calculating how many ants tall I am instead of getting ready for work
29.07.2025 11:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
kind of wild that we measure our height in cms and inches. whatβs the point of comparison, ants? basically I should just say that I am 126 ants tall
29.07.2025 11:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
crazy not to text me back when Iβm manic.... itβs been a full 3 minutes so I donβt know what youβre doing that could be more important
29.07.2025 00:07 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
mental health status: eating pasta on toast
28.07.2025 16:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
say what you will about the soupy heat: it does wonders for my skin and hair
25.07.2025 18:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
reporting live, red-eyed, from having turned in the last homework assignment I had for this program
23.07.2025 05:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
itβs honestly disgraceful how much I like working under pressure. βmy kingdom for a deadline!β-coded
23.07.2025 02:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
1% of free-stuff channel members have claimed 99% of items posted to the free-stuff channel at my office. is this class consciousness
22.07.2025 21:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
(Iβm just living here temporarily while at lingstitute, but thrilling nonetheless)
22.07.2025 16:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I love living in a studio. watching my burrito cook in the microwave while sitting on the toilet
22.07.2025 16:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
drives me crazy when plantsβ official names are like βfalse lilyβ or βfoolβs indigoβ β¦ judgy much
21.07.2025 03:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0
Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)
A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000
Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500
I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
18.07.2025 00:04 β π 6363 π 2198 π¬ 62 π 79
YouTube video by The Language & Life Project
Talking Black in America β Social Justice
ran out of all my remaining Lingstitute notebook space bc of how much I wrote down from this episode. the whole series is worth seeing for context of whatβs being discussed (free on youtube) but if thereβs only one ep you watch let it be this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Ut...
18.07.2025 21:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
slopulism
10.07.2025 09:32 β π 24 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
I feel like βempiricalβ can either be a good or bad word. good in the sense that itβs about facts based on observation, but bad in that it gate-keeps the outer edges of what has been deemed worth observing
17.07.2025 01:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
have there been actual studies about the linguistic microcosm of reality tv? I donβt think Iβve heard comfortability/uncomfortability anywhere but on these shows (also uncomfy, thank you chelsea LiB season 6) and I feel like the use of β[blank] and Iβ as object v subject is also rarer save for there
16.07.2025 14:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
she said it was βbecause I have amazing skinβ and I donβt even care if that was a coded defense, I am taking the compliment
16.07.2025 03:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
pre-21: got carded π
post-31: got carded π
16.07.2025 03:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
hahahaha (yes)
15.07.2025 20:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
a friend has described her disdain for LA chill as βplease do not keep your problems a secret until it is too lateβ
15.07.2025 20:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
academia is not entirely my field and Iβve done only a couple of linguistics/socio surveys so I welcome the feedback β I didnβt know that people mostly included cis/trans as a separate question, and I guess I could have left this one at fem/male/NB (or prefer not to answer) for my purposes
15.07.2025 20:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
academic literature is profoundly unserious
15.07.2025 15:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My phone just autocorrected "duck" to "fuck" when I actually really did mean to say "duck," and I feel like I have finally broken its spirit
14.07.2025 22:05 β π 10007 π 716 π¬ 339 π 72
for some reason it is not a superlative for the mysterious adjective βpalimpsβ and that has me mad
14.07.2025 18:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
not for a single moment in my life have I ever understood what the word βpalimpsestβ means. at this point Iβm just not looking it up on principle
14.07.2025 18:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
iβm in a group chat with some girls on trips, one is currently in paris and the other in florence. theyβre sharing pics of the best-looking pasta and architecture iβve ever seen in my life and iβm sharing this
13.07.2025 03:32 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
or 18 underβ¦!
12.07.2025 15:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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