>We had to block his card because he spent 5k on Genshin Impact at 4AM and almost drained his entire bank account
>The instant we unblock his card he spends 200 more dollars on Genshin Impact
Every 200 notes I wake up to, I see some familiar faces and learn that some of you just have this post ON STANDBY to remind yourselves not to whale for the new bland twink.
Hc baby narinder had little kitten ears but once he hit toddler age they shot up in size. Shamura was bewildered watching him have a growth spurt but just for his ears
But low key makes me think about how people with adhd have been raised their whole lives to value a day based on what they accomplished vs what they experienced
I think your point is excellent. But also consider:
That list might say things like “Paint a picture. Go birdwatching. Finish that great novel I started reading. Call my grandma. Learn to bake a cake. Visit my sister. Play piano.”
For me at least, the good/fun things are harder without meds too. I can have the best intentions, but following through is hard.
This addition is so important.
Also it turns out it is really helpful to your mental health to be able to accomplish boring chores like dishes when they are a quick few things and not an enormous pile of everything you own?? And then you find yourself doing things like not eating because it will add to the dishes and you know you won’t be able to do them any more than you could earlier so now maybe TECHNICALLY you don’t have an eating disorder but your eating habits look like one. And you feel horrible about yourself because why can’t you just do some damn dishes like a billion other people???
Like it or not being a functional human being does in fact depend on doing something other than ~experiencing things~. Getting rid of capitalism will not fix the fact that I have no executive function and can’t afford an actual adhd assessment and as a result spend a lot of my time just absolutely miserable because I physically cannot make myself start a task, any task. I hate the “value what you experience not what you produce” line SO MUCH because all I want to be able to do is produce clean dishes and laundry on a regular schedule and my brain just doesn’t work that way and it severely negatively impacts my life.
I’ve been trying to spread this around to everyone, especially writers and artists, without spamming anyone.
First: Sky Follower Bridge. This is a plugin that enables you to follow any Twitter users you follow who also have Bluesky accounts. I’ve been running it every few days as Bluesky gets more users.
Deleting your account could allow someone else (like trolls or spammers) to take the name. Also, keeping your account allows you to run Sky Follower Bridge regularly.
The new terms of service go into effect Friday November 15th 2024.
Each of these are $13 plus shipping, and are LIMITED in quantity, varying by keychain design. Each keychain will come with a sticker of the same design.
I did make some international shipping options available by request, but the cost of shipping one package internationally from the US is more than one keychain alone is priced, so please keep that in mind. Keep in mind these were not pre-order and were paid for out of pocket (and to test how I could do acrylic charm designs) so some of these designs are very limited in number.
My Kofi store will close on November 27th, and might reopen sometime afterwards, thank you! <3
Edit: Shop sold out quicker than I thought! Will update later.
The wedding charms are finally here and up for sale! I’ve only got a limited stock available from my last convention, so there are extra options for pre-orders as well! (And pre-orders will be shipped between December 15th-January 5th).
I’ve got a few extra products available that you’ll be able to see under the break (including Bishop charms), but other than that my shop can be found here!
biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell
chemists will be like this is a molecule
okay but this is what the best render of a human cell looks like
They are not kidding
We are full of so many fuckign guys
This is actually a full on interactive map! You can put your cursor over any structure to focus on it and see its name, you can focus on all the structures that are part of a specific pathway and, when you click on proteins, you open it up on PhosphoSitePlus, which is a curated database of proteins and their post-translational modifications. It has a helpful description and summary for each protein!
This is a HUGE complementary resource for learning molecular biology! It really helps to make sense of each individual pathway and it puts everything into perspective. It only focuses on human, rat and certain other animal cells, so it won’t have all the pathways one would wish to see… But for the pathways it does include, consider opening the image and accompanying it as you learn or revise them!
oh wow, thank you for the additional information, i had no idea, that’s so much cooler than just the flat picture.
Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they’re just both very true.
Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:
1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.
2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!
3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!
Instead of apologizing for liking “trashy” media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it’s making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?
However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it’s because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.
There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it’s nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.
But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there’s something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there’s something right, about you and about that thing. I’m not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I’m saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.
A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn’t goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren’t really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they’re adaptable.
Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you’re really saying to each other is “hiiiiii~”.
This is why it is important to meow at loved ones.
A largish percentage of human vocalizations are this, too! When your human co-worker says “Workin’ hard or hardly workin’?” or comments on atmospheric conditions or other readily-observable features of your surroundings, or generally statements that seemingly convey no useful or novel information whatsoever, the true purpose of these vocalizations is to develop and/or maintain the social unit of the workplace! In effect, they are saying, “We are experiencing this situation together. We often experience situations together. Let’s be allies!”
Some humans will even make vocalizations of this kind to complete strangers, such as when waiting in a line or using public transportation. This behavior is especially common in situation that may involve some form of inconvenience or frustration, such as waiting in a long line or experiencing a delay. In these contexts, the vocalizations communicate, “We are both experiencing the same unpleasant situation; let’s not make it worse by being aggressive to one another.”
The state-run Korean Central News Agency ran an editorial after the former president said Washington’s relations with the East Asian country would improve if he was re-elected in November.
“No matter what administration takes office in the US, the political climate, which is confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change and, accordingly, we do not care about this,” the state news agency said.
It rejected the idea that Mr Trump’s first presidency had a substantial impact on US-North Korea relations, and said personal connections and diplomacy should be looked at separately.
And it said it had no interest in talking to a possible second Trump administration if all it offers are “dialogue with sinister attempts and dialogue as an extension of confrontation”.
Via Bluesky, here’s a fun graph: Americans all think their local economy is doing much better than the national economy, an effect that really makes sense only through the lens of media (or social media) portraying the economy at large as being much worse than personal experience or local indicators might portray. They can’t all be right!
lol that looks like the classic Chinese GDP forecasts where every province boldly aims for 8+% growth but the country as a whole struggles to hit 5%
psuedomarxist eclecticism is a plague on the net. people will get a random correct view on something injected into them by rote-adopting a post they saw, but without the underlying theoretical basis that developed that view they end up using and combining it in absurd ways
proof I’m terminally online: I know the word ‘eclecticism’
progressive icon: the guy misgendering me and calling me a retard is trans <3
like i’m sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it’s something we “want to see” like destiel kisses. it’s not suddenly fine. we’re not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters “say” stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered “bonus” scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.
I love all the possible implications from: “Mama is trans and wasn’t out back then”, “Mama successfully committed feminist voter fraud”, to “Mama just fucking voted and the people running her local ballot box knew what was fucking good for them and stayed out of her way”.
The right meds should not “alter you forever” I don’t care what facebook moms say. The right meds will lift the weight from your shoulders and you’ll get VERY ANGRY for a bit because everyone else had it this easy the whole time???? I highly recommend trying out some of the medication available for ADHD.
Oh hey btw: that period thing is directly linked to estrogen levels. It’s never been studied in transfemmes, but based on my own medication, discussion with my psych, and looking through primary literature, transfemme ADHD symptoms are 100% related with estrogen levels based on your medication schedule. Whatever you think about transfemme periods, that’s highly likely. Symptoms are typically worse when E is low, just like ADHD symptoms are worse during PMS.
By the way, the southeastern USA is considered a humid subtropical climate. Alabama and Tennessee and Georgia and the Carolinas and Tennessee and all that stuff, that’s considered to be subtropical instead of regular “temperate”
For some reason I did not know this. Maybe it just seemed too “exotic.”
The funniest part of gaining plant knowledge is realizing that regular people in the states I’ve been in think the place they live is just, boring and normal.
Like, NO! You live in a paradise of rare, exotic biodiversity! Kentucky has the world’s most extensive cave system full of rare cave animals evolved to live in a sunless underworld! Do you know where these grow wild?
NORTH CAROLINA
that’s the secret! every place on earth is interesting, unique, and beautiful in a way no other place is!
so tired of having to cook and trying to figure out wtf to eat, can I just have like. Specialized human dog food or something, like some vegetable and protein biscuits and a special drink so that I only have to think about maybe cooking something once a day instead.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ITS HAPPENING NOW. HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP ME OH MY GOD HELP YOU GU;YS CANT TALK ABOUT WOMEN ONA POST ABOUT WOMEN OH MY GO DP LAEASE
