I have my main bedroom lights hooked up to a clicker. There’s one for the plants grow lamp that stays on during the day, and one for the twinkle lights. When I’m getting ready for bed I’ll click off the grow lamp and turn on the twinkle lights.
Now the problem. Is there’s three cats in this house. And the clickers live on my nightstand adjacent to the window. So sometimes. In the middle of the night. One of the cats will step on a clicker on their way to the windowsill and bring hell. I feel like the witches in Hocus Pocus when the car lights turn on them. The panic of being suddenly blitzed and overwhelmed with unexpected light is just like, daylight?! Now?! I’m dying!
My cats have shown no remorse when I’ve tried to explain their misdeed.
to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years…
1. DO NOT censor your posts
dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)
2. we dont really have an algorithm
you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the ‘for you page’ is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points
3. dont crosstag
we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old “repost comments” on tiktok)
4. dont expect to go viral/be famous
“viral” isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is
5. blocking is your best friend
tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on
6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture
this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we’ve been here longer and we’re familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app
Another important point
You need to actually reblog posts for this site to work as it should.
Liking posts only saves them in a spot that no one checks except for the user who liked them. Most people have their liked posts hidden.
Also, this site has a spam bot problem. One way we weed those out is to check the blog to see if it’s actually being used to post legitimate content. If there is absolutely nothing on your blog you’re getting blocked and some users may just straight up report you as spam as a precaution.
Not to mention that the posts you reblog will only be seen by you and whoever follows you. Tagging it “fyp” does absolutely nothing.
the uncanny valley between “this academic article doesn’t make sense because i’m an idiot” and “this academic article doesn’t make sense because the author is an idiot”
So you don’t have to watch the video every time you need one of these hacks immediately:
1. If you feel nauseated, smell rubbing alcohol.
2. If you feel like throwing up, start humming.
3. If you have a runny nose, put your tongue to the roof of your mouth and press your thumb to your forehead for about 20 seconds.
4. If you have a headache, pinch the webbing between your fingers and rub it back and forth for about 1 minute.
5. If you’re lightheaded from standing up too quickly, clench your butt cheeks.
6. If your arm’s dead/has the pins and needles feeling, rock your head back and forth.
7. If you need to pee badly, think of sex to trick your brain and relieve the pressure.
8. If you have a migraine, stick your hands in ice water.
9. If you wanna calm your racing heart, blow on your thumb.
If you’re lightheaded while standing up, opening and closing your fists is also something to do. Also try stretching before getting up!
(These are vasovagal syncope tricks, to get the blood pumping where it should be)
Thanks for adding another hack!
I used the humming one when I randomly started dry heaving today, and that shit worked so fast!👌🏼
A trick I have used often when I stand up too fast/start to see my vision black out is to quickly hold my hands up over my head. A doctor taught me this, it has always helped!
“CBS has a merger it’s trying to get approved. And the Trump team, including incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr (who has promised to abuse his power starting on day one), have made it clear that companies have to give Trump cash and prizes if they don’t want trouble. CBS and Paramount have gotten the message. People toss out jargon about “obeying in advance.” But there’s a much more immediate issue here. CBS still has a news division, I think. If they’re making clear they’re this desperate to give Trump cash and prizes, particularly with their news division, everyone should be on notice that they’re going to be looking for opportunities to stick it to Democrats as a way to grease the skids for their merger deal. They’re saying it out loud. There’s no other way to interpret it. I don’t know if Democrats should boycott CBS. But any Democrat going on CBS should make sure to say on air that CBS News has decided to curry favor with Trump and Carr on the merger deal.”
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