let’s be clear about one thing: i am a sentient chattering skeleton operated primarily via a pulsating moist ball within me containing 86,000,000,000 neurons firing simultaneously, resident to an extensively exploited piece of rock 8,000 miles in diameter whipping around a slowly decaying, 4,600,000,000 year old ball of plasma at 67,000 miles per hour
i am not “afraid” of the future. i am angry at the prospect of such an improbable and radically chaotic existence being wasted on something as fictitious as “profit”
thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit
but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better
it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better
…i did not know this, thank you
If anyone wants to look it up, the episode was specifically the Deadliest Catch crossover ep, and the myth was that it’s better/safer when working a 30 hour shift to take a 20 minute nap every six hours rather than try to power through. They did an obstacle course test, one without naps and one with, and even though they couldn’t even sleep half the time the naps resulted in their scores doubling.
So actually I undersold it, even if it’s 7:40 and your alarm goes off at 8 just lie down and shut your eyes and it will still be better than nothing
This was immensely huge for me as someone with anxiety issues. I used to drive myself delirious trying to ‘calm down before I went to sleep’ by staying up and just working myself into a panic. Having this knowledge and knowing that laying down and closing my eyes is a better option and counts as rest was way more helpful, eased my mind and actually sends you to sleep faster.
I didn’t know this. This makes me feel a little better
I saw this post a while ago, and my life has been all the better for it. Releasing that stress to fall asleep when you’re on short hours to begin with has been a huge relief.
I shared the info with a coworker who had trouble sleeping the night before a sun-has-just-come-up shift, and it has helped her as well.
everyone. on christmas day, december 25th, we all search up “halloween” to make it a trending search. it would be the FUNNIEST thing ever to see halloween be a trending search on christmas day. tell all your friends, repost this, do everything you can to make sure we can do this. REBLOG AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.
A discord server called bar where strangers who drink alone in their room can go to socialize & there’s channels such as “bar fighting’ & ‘smoking a cigarette outside’ etc.
everyone. on christmas day, december 25th, we all search up “halloween” to make it a trending search. it would be the FUNNIEST thing ever to see halloween be a trending search on christmas day. tell all your friends, repost this, do everything you can to make sure we can do this. REBLOG AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.
[Begin image description: comic with 4 panels. Panel 1- Title: “Progress Report.” A transfeminine person named Riri undressing in a dressing rooms looks in the mirror in surprise, saying “I have boobs now!”
Caption: coming up on 6 months on HRT, I’ve already noticed some big changes.
Panel 2: 2 people are shown wearing backpacks. The first is a male presenting person looking worried, Riri pre-transition. Dark tentacles spill out of their small backpack, representing anxiety and depression. The second figure is Riri post-transition, femme- presenting and looking calm. They have a bigger backpack with the dark tentacles contained.
Caption: I cry a lot more, but I can handle my emotions so much better, instead of letting them crush me.
Panel 3: post-transition Riri, teary eyed, is in a pose implying they just stopped clutching the sides of their head. Stormclouds roll away in the background. Behind Riri is a line of test tubes, with a new sparkling pink chemical just added to the lineup. Riri says “Oh” in relief.
Caption: It feels like I finally got that one missing chemical my brain chemistry has always needed… my noisy, restless brain can finally calm down.
Panel 4: Riri smiles and hugs themself in blissful euphoria. A bandaid is on their tummy.
Caption: I was so nervous to start HRT, but I feel so much more connected to my body and my emotions now. I love the me I’m becoming. End image description]
when people are like “oh yeah i never hang out with my nieces and nephews bc i hate kids. but wait until they’re older haha they’re gonna love me im gonna be the COOL aunt/uncle/whatever” like i hate to break it to you but even when they’re older you will probably just be like any other awkward out of touch relative that they dread seeing because you refuse to engage with anyone that isn’t directly inside the usual circle you socialize with. make an effort bitch
btw its not that hard to be the cool cousin/aunt/uncle/etc, kids are ecstatic to just have someone who listens to them
it’s been reiterated so many times that what’s “fiscally prudent” for a government is completely different to what’s fiscally prudent for a household, but in some ways it’s actually not that different: while households cannot print their own money, they can borrow against future earnings, which is a very similar thing; someone who takes on student debt and then a mortgage is essentially deficit spending on the basis that this investment will grow GDP faster than the debt, otherwise they wouldn’t do it, similarly when a government spends money it just printed it’s ideally a way of driving productive investment that will make everyone richer in the long term.
no one can actually live beyond their means, by definition! but this is a roundabout way of saying that people will stop lending you money if you show no inclination to devote it to productive uses and hence can’t pay it back.
governments can print money instead of borrowing, but if they don’t devote it to productive uses then their money will quickly become worthless.
so fiscal prudence ultimately always boils down to whether you think government spending or private spending is going to be more productive in the long run, and it’s common to assume that governments are terrible at “picking winners” or whatever except of course so are private investors, moreover they often want high returns with no risk and thus chase one speculative bubble after another rather than funding projects that might build up the national industrial base over decades or anything as mundane as that.
Heroes like Mirna El Halbawi are still working tirelessly to connect Gazans to the outside world. With an impending total telecom blackout looming, this has never been more crucial.
Make sure to read their instagram post clarifying some common questions before you send them over!
I truly cannot impress upon you how imperative this is right now. Gazans are pleading for us to hear their voices while they are being massacred and the IDF has responded by limiting any access to fuel sources in an attempt to fully cut them off from the world.
If you want to do something meaningfully helpful in the middle of this crisis, this is how.
This fish belongs to a genus commonly called bristletooth tangs, which get their name from their numerous small flexible teeth! The tomini surgeonfish, also called yellowtip or orangetip bristletooth, sports a caudal fin that is forked in juveniles but becomes crescent-shaped in adulthood.
“The mortality rate of caterpillars is staggering. Some experts believe it hovers around 99% for many species. They are nature’s hotdogs and seemingly everyone wants a bite. Birds and other insects are especially voracious predators.”
[ID: three photos of breams (a silvery fish with an arched back and a spiky dorsal fin) being held by human hands to present them. onto each photo, the caption “Life Could Be A Bream” in glittery pink-purple gradient text has been added. end ID]
Heartrending documentary on the life of martyr Hani Jawharieh, a devoted Palestinian militant filmmaker & photographer who documented Palestinian struggle, as well as his own dying moments, from the frontline, leaving behind a shrapnel-ridden camera.
“violence has left an indelible mark upon the history of Palestinian cinema.”
Yeah men with long hair are hot but are you normal about culturally specific gender presentations. Like are you respectful about men with culturally significant hairstyles or do you just want to fuck them. Do you think of long hair as intrinsically feminine. Are you normal about men of color
Like yeah sure I 100% agree it’s hot. You can think it’s hot. Literally I have long hair in large part due to cultural reasons & I consider it one of my Hot Traits. But can we not be racist about it. Can we stop objectifying people
Every time some white person is like creaming themselves posting about a male character of color (or god forbid a real alive human person) with long hair like “hnngghhgg he’s serving femme realness he’s gnc af I need to fuck him so bad 🥵” they should venmo me 20$
I cannot stand the kind of motherfuckers who do extreme solo hikes, no GPS, just a 20-40 year old straight white man with overconfidence in rugged terrain with minimal gear. Why should we pay millions of dollars in search and rescue resources so you can fuck around and find out?
They should make you sign a waiver of personal responsibility if you want to go hiking in a national or state park alone with no gear.
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