Gaia Sure Showed Us Who's The April's Fool!

Question: is the anti-vaxer movement prevalent around the world or is it just Americans who are trying so hard to be dumb af?

No regrets

They had something to eat. They had a drink.  They were at the inn...had a room for the night.  They argued about philosophy...he was right.  She hated that he was right, but he was.  It was as if he'd seen all the details of her life and read all the lessons she'd learned through her 30-some years:  no one ever stayed for long.  They did what was socially expected; not what they really wanted... or needed. 

They had another drink... something called "to-kill-ya" or something like that.  It was sweet...like his smile.  It was tart, like his sense of humour. 

No one ever stayed.  She knew it, but did it matter?  One sweet night is all she wanted, then whatever the next day brought, it brought...no obligations, no regrets.  She laughed a lot.  How long had it been since she laughed?  Really laughed?  She laughed so hard that she couldn't breathe. 

When they finally staggered up to their room...why had they only gotten one room anyway...she wished she hadn't drunk so much; she'd be asleep in minutes and awake in just a couple hours.... regretting.... wondering what it was like to have a normal life, whatever that meant, and then moving on.  Maybe he'd move on with her.  She'd like that.  Maybe she'd never see him again and he'd be stacked among the possibilities she never tried hard enough to explore.  Possibilities... eventualities... who could say?   But she did laugh.

Gotta keep moving or the other part will catch me...

High-functioning anxiety sounds like…

You’re not good enough. You’re a bad friend. You’re not good at your job. You’re wasting time. You’re a waste of time. Your boyfriend doesn’t love you. You’re so needy. What are you doing with yourself? Why would you say that? What if they hate it? Why can’t you have your shit together? You’re going to get anxious and because you’re going to get anxious, you’re going to mess everything up. You’re a fraud. Just good at faking it. You’re letting everybody down. No one here likes you.

All the while, it appears perfectly calm.

It’s always looking for the next outlet, something to channel the never-ending energy. Writing. Running. List-making. Mindless tasks (whatever keeps you busy). Doing jumping jacks in the kitchen. Dancing in the living room, pretending it’s for fun, when really it’s a choreographed routine of desperation, trying to tire out the thoughts stuck in your head.

Nice! So, what were your awesome meals? Did you know that pictures of meals are nearly as common on Facebook as selfies?

So today was much more eventful, as illustrated by the pictures below, including my first-ever selfie! The day started off with me discovering that my biological clock set itself, as I woke up 6:00 am, local time. Following an absolutely superb breakfast and finding an imperial system of ants...

Echoing what @swindle94 said...

*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

Reblog every day. Act. ACT!

The FCC will soon vote to kill net neutrality. But Congress can stop them if they hear from constituents now.

Yesterday afternoon the House subcommittee that provides Congressional oversight for the FCC held an important hearing about the agency’s current plans, including current Chairman (and former Verizon lawyer) Ajit Pai’s move to gut Title II net neutrality protections that prevent ISPs from controlling what we do online with throttling, censorship, and extra fees.

With Capitol Hill’s attention now on the FCC, and Pai’s final plan to gut net neutrality protections expected in the coming weeks, it’s extra important that Congress gets flooded with phone calls from Internet users telling them to stand up and defend the open Internet.

We’re also hearing there are key members of Congress considering whether to step in and force Pai to slow down. This means best chance to stop the FCC from breaking the fundamental principle that makes the Internet awesome is to pound Congress with phone calls right now.

You can call your reps easily with just one click here: battleforthenet.com

You’ll see a script on your screen, or you can say something like this:

“I support Title Two net neutrality rules and I urge you to oppose the FCC’s plan to repeal them. Specifically, I’d like you to contact the FCC Chairman and demand he abandon his current plan.”

You can also just call this number directly and enter your zipcode to get connected to your legislators: 202-930-8550.

If you run a website, blog, tumblr, or forum, help spread the word by putting up a sticky post, or use one of these widgets, ads, or banners: https://www.battleforthenet.com/#join

Ajit Pai is expected to circulate the text of his rule killing net neutrality on November 22, the day before Thanksgiving. Once that happens, it will move to a vote at the FCC’s open meeting in December, and it will become much much harder to stop him.

It’s clear that the FCC remains set on killing net neutrality. But Congress can stop the FCC from gutting the rules that keep the web open, affordable, and awesome.

“English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”

— Terry Pratchett

I watched the original Toy Story the other day... the characters had that funky marionette walk. This truly is masterful programming.

very serious progressive fighter game

10 reasons not to vaccinate my kid:

1. I believe in god and don’t understand statistics. 2. I have no idea of chemistry and biology and therefore believe that any association with a harmful element is automatically harmful. Even if the amount is insignificant. 3. I do not understand the difference between correlation and causality. 4. I ignore the most obvious studies and prefer to believe quacks that have been refuted a thousand times, that either have never treated or rightly no longer treat patients. 5. I cannot distinguish serious and scientific sources from lies and false promises and therefore believe that [insert arbitrary facebook/twitter/random page]  is a credible source. 6. I know that there are problems with the pharmaceutical industry, therefore I consistently ignore everything that has to do with science and real medicine. 7. I do not understand the concept of herd immunity. 8. I do not watch news and therefore do not know what is going on in countries and regions lacking adequate vaccination protection. 9. I am not able to think logically and I don’t even realize that a conspiracy of this magnitude (with millions of people involved) could never be kept secret. 10. I want my child to die.