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This is one of the best stories we read in a long time. An arborist AKA a tree caretaker and tree surgeon from Redondo Beach, California had to watch the death of one of his favorite trees, which was ordered by the mayor. Although he lost a great battle, he won the war. Find out how he avenged the death of his 30-year-old pepper tree named Clyde.

His story was recently shared online and has already been shared over 150k times. RIP Clyde.

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fuck yes

Real direct action

The most solarpunk of solarpunks

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crisis/urgent support lines and sites

• hotlines/crisis lines for depression, domestic abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, teens, pregnancy, lgbt and more
• mental support community - a forum where you can post that you are in a crisis right now and need peer support as soon as possible
• imalive crisis chat - online one-on-one chat for if you’re in at risk of hurting yourself etc
• self harm alternatives
• si urges alternatives

relaxation/anxiety relief

• do nothing for two minutes
• interactive silk art
• guided relaxation
• watch a dream
• 100,000 stars
• thisissand - create sandscapes on your screen with your mouse
• calming gif

the quiet place project

• the quiet place - find some quiet
• the thoughts room - a super calm page to unburden yourself from bad thoughts
• the comfort spot - a place for anonymous venting with out anybody judging you for who you are
• the dawn room - my personal favourite, especially good for when you feel alone
• know that it will be okay - when a moment is too hard for you - come here.

music and sounds

• my anxiety relief playlist - on 8tracks
• my positivity/recovery playlist - on 8tracks
• ‘stay strong’ playlists - on 8tracks
• coffee shop sounds
• rain sounds
• calmsound - nature sounds
• rainycafe

comfort food

• one minute cookie in a mug
• brownie in a mug
• several cookie recipes
• 25 hot chocolate recipes
• loads and loads of snacks - 533 quick and easy recipes for a range of snacks on studentrecipe
• lots of different in-a-mug recipes
• chocolate pudding in a mug - my personal fave (lil tip: add mini marshmallows for extra gooey yumminess)

advice and tips

• how to be okay with yourself
• 25 resolutions
• life hacks
• more life hacks
• a hella ton more life hacks - so many life hacks dude soon ur gonna never have a day-to-day stress again
• school masterpost - school sucks so bad but hopefully this can help ease the stress
• how to love yourself
• how to bypass restricted wifi omg
• alleviate menstrual cramps
• boost your confidence
• love yourself!
• self help after anxiety
• stop biting your nails
• stop procrastinating
• stop skipping breakfast

videos and movies

• cure to sadness (video)
• the movie blog - a blog dedicated to movie masterposts you will never be without a movie to watch again
• cute roulette - THE BEST PLACE ON THE INTERNET ITS LITERALLY JUST A HUGE ROULETTE OF VIDEOS OF CUTE ANIMALS WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FROM LIFE
• random acts of kindness caught on film
• disney movies
• movies for angsty teens

distractions etc

• rice questions - answer simple questions and donate free rice to people in poverty!!
• click to give - just click a button to donate (it costs nothing) food to animals shelters, people in poverty and homeless veterans; mammograms to fight breast cancer; therapy for people on the autism spectrum; alzheimer’s and diabetes research; a book to a child; protect wildlife habitat
• break something - good for anger
• loads of cute games
• how to make a blanket nest
• learn something new - a masterpost of hobbies
• exercise like a superhero
• nice words
• things to do when your sad
• slap a bald guy with an eel - this is ridiculously entertaining
• watch a dog lick your screen - it loops, so you could literally watch for hours if you want
• calmingmanatee
• daily puppy
• how to make a comfort box
• download free books

extras

• emergency compliment!
• lots of compliments - they even include ur name aw
• huge list of bloggers who have put themselves forward as willing to listen/chat without judgement
• getting anon hate?
• :) tag - all the posts that i’ve tagged for making me happy
• 7cupsoftea - free, anonymous, confidential talks with trained listeners
• get a hug

Calming songs, playlists and instrumentals:

• Sing Me to Sleep
• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Boost your Mood (peppier and happy songs)
• The Driving Mixtape
• Study
• Summer Nights
• It’s Going to be Fine
• Calm & Collected
• Once Upon a December - Piano (song)
• Clair de Lune (song)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (song)

Calming/distracting Websites

• The Quiet Place
• Rainymood.com
• Calm.com
• Soundrown.com - calming sounds to mix and match
• A website to distract yourself
• A recovery masterpost
• A post of interesting things
• Ungruntle yourself
• Press a magic button and fix everything
• Play cute games
• Almost every movie your little heart desires (i suggest you use with adblocker)
• How to love yourself
• A website that compliments you

Crafts and activities, easy and fun DYI projects

• Glitter calm jars
• A list of things to do to curb anxiety
• Make a blanket nest
• Silky summer legs
• Lots of food recipes; mostly desserts  
• For bad days masterpost
• Make some microwave snacks
• Five minute fudge
• Make a phone case
• A bunch of hobbies!
• Self care list!
• Pretty gold-dipped feathers (for decorating or anything)

What to do when:

• You’ve been triggered
• You’re having an anxiety attack
• You’re having a panic attack
• Your face is red and puffy after crying
• You just had a fight
• You hate yourself
• You want to avoid being stressed
• You want to get over your ex

Meditation and breathing

• Guided Meditations
• Do Nothing for 2 Minutes
• Calm Down
• Meditation Tips
• 90 second relaxation exercise

Simple things

• Pretty Tree
• When You Feel You Have Lost Everything
• See Some BLOOD
• Press a Button to Make Everything OK
• Calming Manatee
• Calming Gif

Make Something!

• Jump into a Sofa Fort!
• Make a Comfort Box
• Glitter Jar Or This One

Other Nice Things

• A Page To Help You Recover!!!
• Coping Skills & Distractions
• The Quiet Place. Shhhhh
• For When You’re Upset
• The Nicest Place on the Internet
• Player 2
• 10 Most Relaxing Online Games
• Talk To Someone That Will Listen
• Not Having a Good Day?
• How-to Love Yourself
• Ground Yourself X X  X
• Mood Chart
• Do Nothing For Two Minutes
• Rainymood
• The Comfort Spot
• Weave Silk
• Seed Plant Breeder
• This Is Sand
• C.A.L.M

Calming/Relaxing Music:

• Soft Piano: x, x, x, x, x
• The Sound of Waves: x
• The Sound of a Storm + Waves: x

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Decided today that I was gonna focus on props in my final year and then saw Lin’s tweets 😄 Props is just the coolest

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Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY

*Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.)

After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

WHAT
Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

Keeping this.

Guess who out here rinsing with vinegar as fabric softener??? MEEEEE try it you’ll like it (and it’s cheap as shit)

I love this post so much

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At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA.

At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job. 

At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.  

At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook.

At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. 

At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker. 

At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.

Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.

Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.

Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.

Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42.

Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52.

Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57.

Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76.

Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78.

Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow.

Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

This is so worth reblogging!

Thank you!

@infinitychanges

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I needed to see this. Thank you baby 😘

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this still cracks me up like can you imagine you’re 130 years old and suddenly a gigantic alien baby starts following you around

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1. hates donald trump
2. got his ear pierced at claires because why not
3. legit asks people to beat him up in action scenes EVEN NOW AS AN OLD MAN
4. is arguably one of the most iconic star wars characters yet couldnt give less of a crap abt star wars
5. the universe tried to kill him (or at least permanently incapacitate him) twice in 2015 and it only mildly inconvenienced him
6. flies helicopters in search and rescue missions
7. was in his 40s for the majority of the indiana jones series which is insane when you think about all the stunts involved
8. quote “the director yells cut and harrison cracks open a beer and then builds a fucking shed”
9. arguably sexy
10. points angrily and its super effective

11. is just a really sweet person
12. no really my dad worked with him on firewall as the tech advisor and he was just a really swell guy
13. got my mom’s birth date from my dad and sent her flowers
14. he sent my mom flowers for her birthday
15. he didn’t even know her he just wanted to be sweet

this was a beautiful and necessary edition to this post thank you oh my god

Awwwww

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When he was asked to be in Jimmy Kimmel’s “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck” video, in which he pulled up alongside them in a car and gave Jimmy a little wink and an air-kiss, when he showed up at the set he looked kind of put out. Kimmel was afraid he wasn’t down with what they were asking. But he just said, “I don’t know, this wardrobe…don’t you have anything mesh that I could wear?”

When he was filming “Witness” he rented a small farm from a friend of mine. At the end of the filming my friend went and checked out the property as usual. He noticed the barn door had been leveled so it no longer would swing open on it’s own. Went into the house and saw the closets had been redone, in the kitchen the cabinets had been replaced and all the drawers now opened really well. Turns out that there were thousands of dollars of work and materials put into fixing up everything at the place.

My friend called Ford and asked him how much he was asking for the work. Ford told him doing that kind of thing helped him relax and stay sane when he was filming. Would not take a dime. Plus he paid for a new water heater and got the sewage system cleaned out.

And he paid rent to live there the entire time.

Local Carpenter Stumbles Into Stardom, Worries This May Interfere With His Carpentry

My step sister was driving through Wyoming once, near Ford’s ranch. She stops for gas, and as she’s filling up, this huge motorcycle roars in behind her, scared the pants off her. The rider, dressed in all black steps off, and she yells at him “who do you think you are blasting in here like that, you Darth Vader looking motherfucker?”. He takes off the helmet, and it’s Harrison Ford, and without missing a beat he says

“Hey! I’m not Darth Vader, I’m Luke Skywalker”

From the co-production designer on The Force Awakens, Darren Gilford:

“The Millennium Falcon was the first thing we were actually building. I had been in London and I came home back to L.A. for Christmas. So I go to Sports Chalet to do some last-minute shopping; I get there early, run to the back of the store, get what I need. I’m coming back through the store, and I just happen to pass this person holding up a pair of ski pants, and it’s Harrison Ford. I look at him, he looks at me and puts his head right down. I can tell he doesn’t want to be bothered; I’m sure from the look on my face he knew I knew who he was. 

So I walk past him, and after about 10 feet I think, ‘If there’s ever a time to say hello to Harrison Ford, I’m building the Millennium Falcon!’ So I turn around very hesitantly and go, ‘Harrison, I’m sorry to bother you. I’m co-production designer on the new Star Wars, I’m just back from London, and I’ve been building the Falcon.’ A big smile came across his face, he put his hand out, and we had such a great conversation — he couldn’t have been sweeter. 

As I’m walking away, he goes, ‘Darren!’ and calls me back. He goes, ‘The toggle switches.’ I go, ‘Toggle switches.’ He goes, ‘The toggle switches on the Falcon. When they built it the first time, they bought cheap toggle switches without any springs in them. Every time I threw a toggle switch, it fell back; it wouldn’t hold. It drove me crazy. Please, make sure the toggle switches are fixed this time.’ I go, ‘No problem! I’ll take care of it!’ 

So months go by, I’m back in London, we’re getting close [to principal photography], and I get a phone call saying J.J.’s headed down to check out the cockpit, and Harrison’s with him. I run down there and I see J.J. in the passenger seat and Harrison in the pilot seat. They’re just giddy; they’re having so much fun. And then I see Harrison look up, and he just starts throwing all the toggle switches: boom, boom, boom, boom. [Laughs.] And I remember thinking, ‘Phew, minor victory. Take solace in that and move on. Next task.’ That’s my favorite story.”

HARRISON FORD SMILES WHEN MEETING CREW MEMBERS AND IS A NERD FOR FUNCTIONING PRODUCTION DESIGN

Don’t forget about his Halloween costumes

Harrison ford is a chaotic-good-aligned cryptid, confirmed

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