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I’m getting pretty good at simply clicking away from things on the internet that make me mad. The level of sublimation it takes for me to actually accomplish this will probably have me screaming horrific obscenities in my sleep sometime soon, but it works in the moment. I encourage you to try it, too. You [...]
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Tags: cute, internet, psychology
We’ve had a higher frequency of large earthquakes lately, it’s no secret. But what causes earthquakes to happen? A cursory glance around the internet reveals that there are many schools of thought: 1. Boring old plate tectonics and plate shifting. 2. Global warming and the melting of glaciers. 3. Moon phases. 4. Pacts with the [...]
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Tags: climate change, earthquakes, feminism, global climate change, information, mythology, pseudoscience, quackery, science, thinking
Instant gratification
Months ago, I signed up for a Twitter account, under the username I use for most of my personal internet business (incidentally, it’s nothing to do with ‘catastrophizing,’ so please don’t go looking for it and adding anyone under that name, thinking it’s me), just to preserve my personal online identity because it is fairly [...]
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Tags: photo, twitter
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