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October is one of my favorite months because of Halloween (yippee) but it’s also a month full of queer holidays! *
🍂October 8: International Lesbian Day
🍄October 11: National Coming Out Day
🥀Third Wednesday in October (in 2024 it’s the 16th): International Pronouns Day
🍁Last week in October (in 2024 it’s the 20th-26th): Asexual Awareness Week
🌾October 26: Intersex Awareness Day
🥧October as a whole: LGBTQ history month (in the U.S., Canada, and Australia)
* Remember that all LGBTQ+ identities should be celebrated all year round, but these are just some specific days meant to uplift and celebrate certain members of our community.
Happy October 🧡
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Hi everyone, welcome to my tumblr. This isn’t the main social media I use, and I’m not always consistently active on here, but I wanted to create an intro/DNI post. If you’re new here, please read this before following me!
First of all, feel free to reblog things from me. You’re also welcome to share my original posts to other social media platforms if you want! My instagram and threads are both cozy_lake; please do tag me. I’m also more active on my instagram so follow me there if you want!
A little bit about me: my name is Lake, I use they/it/xe pronouns, I’m 20 years old, and I live in Michigan. Some of my interests include writing, hockey, video games, star trek, psychology, and social justice. I am engaged to my partner, Jay, whom I’ve been dating for almost 5 years and plan to marry once we’re finished with college!
Finally, I wanted to make a DNI (do not interact). If you fit any of the things on this list, please don’t message me or reblog my posts.
DNI if you are: homophobic, transphobic, a TERF, a zionist/pro-israel, racist, ableist, misogynistic, pro-trump, anti-choice/“pro-life”, anti-gun control, anti-neopronouns, or a religious person who plans to try to “convert” me (religious folks are welcome here, just be respectful if I don’t share your beliefs).
I’ll edit/update this post as needed. Thanks everyone for reading and checking out my tumblr :D
ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself
My theory of adhd management is that in order to focus there are 4 things that need to be sufficiently occupied:
Eyes
Ears
Hands (or body)
Brain
And if you aren’t occupying them enough or there’s too many things demanding the use of one, it’ll start to wreck havoc on your ability to do things.
So for example, listening to a podcast. This occupies your ears and brain as you focus on both listening and processing what you hear, but it leaves your hands and eyes completely without anything to do. If you tried to sit down and just listen to a podcast by itself you’d probably get unbearably bored and stop doing it.
But if you pair that activity with something that uses your hands and eyes, like a craft, household chore, or commute, suddenly you’re fully plugged in and can in fact focus better on both tasks than you could if you tried doing them separately.
It’s also why you can’t listen to a podcast while doing homework; you’re trying to use your brain for two different tasks. To occupy your ears while doing homework (which is already using eyes, brain, and hands) you need something for your ears that doesn’t require your brain: music. Specifically music that doesn’t use too much brain power, which is why some people prefer instrumentals or songs in other languages.
Hyperfixation and sensory overload change this by moving the threshold for how much sensory input you need to be able to function. If I’m extremely focused on a craft project (eyes, hands, brain) I might not even need something for my ears; my interest in the project makes up for it. If i’ve had a very overwhelming day, trying to listen to an audiobook while I do some stretches could be too much to process. My brain needs a break.
Video games, which pretty much universally occupy all 4 areas, are basically instant, easy focus wrapped up in a neat little bow. No wonder adhd-havers tend to love them.
If you’re struggling with a task, try looking at which areas it occupies and which are left unattended. Then try to find something enjoyable to fill those gaps, and see if that helps.
October is one of my favorite months because of Halloween (yippee) but it’s also a month full of queer holidays! *
🍂October 8: International Lesbian Day
🍄October 11: National Coming Out Day
🥀Third Wednesday in October (in 2024 it’s the 16th): International Pronouns Day
🍁Last week in October (in 2024 it’s the 20th-26th): Asexual Awareness Week
🌾October 26: Intersex Awareness Day
🥧October as a whole: LGBTQ history month (in the U.S., Canada, and Australia)
* Remember that all LGBTQ+ identities should be celebrated all year round, but these are just some specific days meant to uplift and celebrate certain members of our community.
Happy October 🧡
appalachia is devastated. towns i loved, towns i visited all the time, are gone. not damaged, GONE. they are leveled to the ground. there is nothing left but rubble and ruin. people are dead. appalachia is poor to begin with and relies on tourism for a lot of its income, and multiple of those tourist locations are just...gone.
my town is okay, but it's flooded and wrecked. trees are blocking all but one way out of our neighborhood. power lines are hanging limp in the roads. we've been without power for over 24 hours and will continue to be without power for likely another 24+. disabled people and poor people are GOING to die from this. gods save appalachia.
Are you trapped on tumblr right now?
Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Consider this your save point.
Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.
Markiplier was passionately making out with me.
When we stopped, he vanished and was replaced by a Caesar salad.
god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything
buying four things that are about sixteen dollars adds up to over sixty dollars. that doesn't make any sense they are each sixteen dollars (small price) and it is only four (small amount) they should not make over sixty dollars (big cost) this is why the economy is in shambles
Just a reminder with spring on the horizon and gifts of flowers being more common, LILIES ARE TOXIC TO CATS!
And by TOXIC I mean even just a few pollen grains or the water from a vase holding cut lilies or even just biting into a stem or leaf can cause fatal kidney failure.
If you have cats, please keep true lilies (any plant from the genus Lilium) out of your home or garden
also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck
Happy bisexual/biromantic pride month!
Remember to celebrate and uplift:
- aromantic bisexual people
- biromantic asexual people
- transgender bi people
- nonbinary/genderqueer/genderfluid bis
- bi people of color
- disabled bi people
- bi people in “straight” relationships
- bi people in “gay” relationships
- bi people with nonbinary/genderqueer partners
- polyamorous bis
- bi people who use neopronouns
- people who discovered they were bi after getting into a long term relationship
- people who are questioning if they’re bi
- people who “technically” fit a different mspec label (pan/omni/poly) but choose to ID as bi instead
- people who ID as both pan and bi
- bi people who have a complicated relationship with gender
- closeted bi people
not just this month, but all year!
Bi people decide what that means for THEM and it’s not up to YOU to police bi folks’ identities! Bisexual/biromantic people have such an important place in the queer community. Celebrate ALL bi folks this month!
op turned off reblogs but this needs to be shared
Critical PSA for anyone with Android devices!
I got the following email this morning:
Basically Google is rolling out the ability to track you via your android devices even when you're offline and you have to manually opt out of it. Many android devices no longer come with a wired headphone jack, so if you have Bluetooth headphones or a keyboard or anything, your location will be tracked and stored by your device unless you opt out of this.
I tried using the link they gave me in the email to opt out of it, but it didn't really seem to do anything. So I looked up how to opt out and found the following steps, which worked for my phone:
Opting out from the Find My Device network is as simple as tapping a toggle in your phone's settings. 1. On your Android device, go to Settings. 2. Tap the Google setting. 3. Tap the Find My Device setting. 4. Tap the toggle to off next to "Use Find My Device." 5. Confirm with pin, pattern, or biometrics. That's it. Your device is no longer participating in the Find My Device network. To rejoin, just flip the toggle back on.
Please reblog to spread awareness. My husband has the same phone as me and he didn't get any emails about this.