January 2012
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meltedchandelier asked: If you have TMJ, it's super important that you wear the kind of guard that separates your jaw bones from each other. Instead of just damaging your teeth, you're damaging the bones themselves. The discomfort you feel when you have a guard on is likely from muscle strain as you tense your jaw: not nearly as bad as bone/tendon damage you could be doing. I know insurance is a pain, but...
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passivity is corrosive to the soul
isabelthespy:
is my motto for 2012.
the reason i picked up caroline knapp’s drinking: a love story to reread when i did was because of what i remembered her saying about the difficulty and necessity of flexing emotional muscles long out of use or perhaps never fully developed. what kept her and what she used to keep herself from needing to make the choices that built them up over time was...
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Title TK: Anonymous asked: antidepressants can... →
strawbrryf:
perversetoamiracle:
Anonymous asked: antidepressants can (might) make you grind your teeth when you sleep. It’s more like a squeezing, which can crack the teeth, needing root canals and tooth replacement a few years later. Trust me, this happened to me. If I hadn’t had a dental plan at the time, and hadn’t been…
fellow teeth grinders unite!
i don’t grind my teeth because of...
December 2011
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Anonymous asked: antidepressants can (might) make you grind your teeth when you sleep. It’s more like a squeezing, which can crack the teeth, needing root canals and tooth replacement a few years later. Trust me, this happened to me. If I hadn’t had a dental plan at the time, and hadn’t been making good money, it would have been worse that it was. At it was, the pain of having nerves ground out...
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Winter Wonderland by John Darnielle
megachiropteran:
jaaaaade:
or-the best thing i read on twitter yesterday
gone away is the bluebird, here to stay is the vulture. a beautiful sight, he tears at the corpse, walking in a winter wonderland. sleigh bells ring, can you hear them, Satan’s teeth, learn to fear them. a terrible sight, the end of the age, walking in a winter wonderland. later on, we’ll conspire, as we burn in the...
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megachiropteran:
fugue-stasis:
theskinofourteeth:
mosaicofminds:
“In order for the model to work, there has to be some way to tell that the other person has a challenge that needs some extra accommodation and acceptance. But autism is, for the most part at least, an invisible disability. The problem is how can the average person tell the difference between a “typical” person purposely being...
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Random_Nexus: mazarin221b: consultingdepressive:... →
soultired:
prairiehamster:
annlarimer:
mazarin221b:
consultingdepressive:
moonblossom:
thesullengiraffe:
moriartysskull:
toomuchsky:
Okay so I just had a thought. One day, when we’re all like thirty or forty,
people like
Benedict Cumberbatch and
Martin Freeman and
Jensen Ackles and
Jared…
I have nieces and nephews older than Jardacklecki. I believe the phrase I’m...
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“The untrustworthy do not wear special shirts, or marks on their foreheads, and...”
– The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, Martha Stout, Ph.D. (via the-bitterist)
Self-centered asshole is self-centered.
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I beg your pardon?
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I was referring to the end of the quote — suggesting (in what in retrospect is a kind of...
“The untrustworthy do not wear special shirts, or marks on their foreheads, and...”
– The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, Martha Stout, Ph.D. (via the-bitterist)
Self-centered asshole is self-centered.
(via perversetoamiracle)
I beg your pardon?
(via ohthatsterrible)
I was referring to the end of the quote — suggesting (in what in retrospect is a...
“Wrongful detention and deportation is not limited to US citizens with easily...”
– Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported By Immigration Authorities? (via thetart)
“The untrustworthy do not wear special shirts, or marks on their foreheads, and...”
– The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, Martha Stout, Ph.D. (via the-bitterist)
Self-centered asshole is self-centered.
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Serge Gainsbourg - Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur...
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ohthatsterrible:
“This, to me, is comparable to people making personal decisions by “not choosing sides.” What is perceived to be a third option is, in effect, only one of the two options; it’s just masked in a way that feels ethically, morally, or vindictively better. If I have told you that one of your friends raped me, and you tell me you are not taking sides, you have taken a side. Your...
Esoterica: Tell me racism is dead when... →
jsmooth995:
liquornspice:
Never forget the fact people enjoy racism and sexism. People engage in it for pleasure.
And those who engage in it for pleasure will also gladly explain that their very enjoyment is the reason you have no right to object. “Oh come on, we’re just having fun!”
(see here for context)
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don't mind me, I'm just talking to myself
Do not read any more comments on the internet. Take one of your nice happy pills, get your laundry out of the dryer, have a little cry while you fold the towels, and try to forget for a few minutes that human beings exist.
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Morrissey - Interesting Drug
Today’s theme...
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“Across the Washington area, black students are suspended and expelled two to...”
– In Washington area, African American students suspended and expelled two to five times as often as whites - The Washington Post (via robot-heart-politics)
I grew up attending public schools in Prince Georges County, and this is not at all surprising.
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bbbarf:
I like sleeping because it’s like being dead without the commitment.
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“Look you guys, it needed to be said! Obviously someone had to make it clear that...”
– Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists - Skepchick (via notemily)
And this is why I stay off most parts of the internet.
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Daniel de Vise at Washington Post: UC-Berkeley and... →
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
meloukhia:
Not even the nation’s finest public university is immune. The University of California at Berkeley — birthplace of the free-speech movement, home to nine living Nobel laureates — subsists now in perpetual austerity. Star faculty take mandatory furloughs. Classes grow perceptibly larger each year. Roofs leak; e-mail crashes. One employee mows the entire...
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11 Facts From 2011
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.
5. Wall Street’s recession cost 1.5 million times more than securing Occupy Wall Street...
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Daily Trojan publishes blatantly anti-trans* op-ed →
stfuconservatives:
(TW for transphobia, general fuckery)
As a former Bruin — specifically, as the former op-ed editor of the Daily Bruin — I am bemused on a personal level that ‘SC chose to publish this incredibly disgusting and transphobic piece of garbage. Here’s the gist: “California just passed some laws to protect people from discrimination based on gender, specifically including trans*...
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The Black Girls Club →
panasonicyouth:
super-eklectic1:
sundayafternoonsocialclub:
afrostyling:
Here is a compilation of some of the WOC hated on by fandom for no damn reason.
http://www.ankhesen-mie.net/2011/12/black-girls-club.html
This is accurate. The excuse is that “it’s no about race, I just don’t like the character.”
Meanwhile, Me and Idris are side eyeing the fuck out of those fandoms.
this is...
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kittyvonsnowden:
Atheists, rapists top list of people religious believers distrust the most, UBC study finds
I call bullshit. If people distrusted rapists, they’d care about actually convicting them.
kiriamaya:
Reasons to say ‘fuck you’ to the Salvation Army.
strawberryfaerie:
“The Salvation Army has refused assistance to gay couples unless they break up and “go straight”, Muslim families who refuse to attend “Christian Bible classes”, kids who can’t prove their immigration status, and more.”
Admittedly, i only skimmed the article, but this quote alone should give you a pretty good...
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds...”
– Herman Melville (via thecranium)
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