No matter what happens in these bizarre internet marketing times, we’ll always be your friendly neighborhood
People being like “the only acceptable corporate social media” need to understand that this isn’t a capatalist company looking for brand awareness to get more customers and profit. It’s a non-profit aquarium promoting ocean awareness and preservation. That it why we love the monterey bay aquarium. And also their social media is great.
my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don’t have anything to give you. you’re not just gonna give it to me.
me: i would just give it to you.
my dad:
in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was “playing City,” with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.
anyway, some kid who didn’t buy insurance got hit with a “medical bill” early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.
I do enjoy that one text says “Pringle?” while another says “Pringles?”, possibly implying that at one time the situation called only for a solitary Pringle.
tumblr allowing titties again is cool and all but are they gonna do anything to un-blur all the accounts that have been blurred for things like titties.
Tumblr isn’t doing it themselves, but I was able to get this blog unflagged manually! I went through the process at the end of this page, and in the comment field for the form just put “blog now conforms to new Community Standards,” and in about two hours I was unflagged!
Still reeling from the realization that bullet journaling was essentially created to be a disability aid and got legit fuckin gentrified
Like I’m at work and don’t have the time to properly organize my thoughts atm but like.
-bullet journalling was invented by a man with a learning disability (99% sure it was ADHD but his website now just says learning disability so I can’t be 100%) as a system for organizing his life/way to work WITH his learning disability
-the general concept is bullet point the important things you need to do and use a simple system of symbols to mark whether it’s done, rescheduled, cancelled, etc. with very little fanfare, keeping it all in one notebook so you know where to easily find the information at a glance
-people pick it up and it starts getting popular
-bullet journaling becomes an aesthetic movement largely populated by white neurotypicals
-bullet journaling has turned into creating an extremely pretty notebook that has some function, but largely depends on complicated decoration and aesthetic function that takes more time to set up than is tenable for the people it was created for
-new entries to bullet journaling feel pressure to shop at particular stores, use particular brands, purchase lots of stationery purely for its aesthetic value, and prioritize the artistry of the pages rather than the information being stored on them
-people who would massively benefit from the original system can only really find information on it from members of the aesthetic movement. There is now a barrier to entry for ppl with ADHD and other similar conditions, as bullet journaling now requires a focus and motivation to start that these same people often lack or struggle to maintain consistently
-bullet journaling is no longer a disability aid and has become an aesthetic movement largely for middle class white neurotypicals, pushing out the people who the system was created for to begin with
This is the original guide from the person who made bullet journalling. Super simple. Not at all high maintenance.
It was eye-opening to rewatch this after getting used to bullet journal meaning “work of highly decorative art you might journal in if it doesn’t detract from the decoration” everywhere online.
It’s ADD. Ryder Carroll, who developed the Bullet Journal method to suit his brain, has ADD. (I grabbed the book from my shelf, it’s mentioned in the introduction.)
And yeah, it’s frustrating. I use my bullet journal close to how it’s described there (different bullets/symbols, and a little bit of colour marking to make things more easily findable), and whenever I went looking for ideas to try out to organise stuff, if I found anything, it was buried under mountains of fancy layouts.
I always point people to the introductory video when I recommend it.
I have been bullet journaling for nine years now (oh God undergrad was nine years ago)
My bullet journals are messy. I gave up on a “table of contents” or numbered pages pretty much immediately. I use one (1) color ink and that is black from a pen that I got 15 of for a dollar. Usually the only person who can actually make out what I’ve written is me.
And guess what? It works!! It worked to keep me on track and on schedule through six years and two degrees with a Whopping Case of Undiagnosed ADHD! 12 semesters, with an overload of credits every time! And it’s still working now that I’m a Grown Adult with a House and a Spouse and 3 separate freelancing businesses!
Let yourself be messy. Don’t worry about washi tape or highlighters if they make things harder. Just get stuff down on paper and let it look how it looks. You can doodle if you want, but I promise just letting it be utilitarian makes it so much less stressful and more helpful.
