we eat cornflakes

stuck in perpetual grishy withdrawal

[a-grishina]

Alright y'all, I did my part and voted. I can't control what happens anymore but I can control who I am and how I treat other people so I'm going keep on trying to be a decent and good human being and that's going to have to be enough for me whichever way the election falls.

It's a little cheesy but it's the only way I know how to deal with potentially another 4 more years of such a hateful man in power.

[sweatermuppet]

do not understand people who get bored of seeing common animals. understand even less when they act with annoyance or hostility just because they're common animals. a deer or a sparrow or a field mouse is like a sunset to me

[novas-grimoire]

I will get annoyed when I have to slam the breaks on my car because a dumbass deer decided to run across the road in front of me.

[sweatermuppet]

the deer is not a dumbass. it is an animal & it lives there

[a-grishina]

I haven't been here in months but I was dissecting a dog today and found most of an iguana in his stomach and that's something I felt I needed to share

[lobaznyuk]

14-year-old Haruka Nakamura of Japan at WOGA Classic (2023)

[kelpforestdwellers]

one thing they don't tell you about hospitals is, you can ask for what you need.

i'm talking about things like asking for food if you're hungry between meals, or asking them to do something in a different way (eg put the blood pressure cuff on your forearm because otherwise it tends to bruise your upper arm). i just asked if we could maybe skip the 4am vitals so i could sleep and the nurse said yeah.

if it's a really shitty place, you have to assess the risk of them judging your request and treating you worse. but if it's decent at all, you can usually at least ask without consequence. it took me a long time to figure this out. if you're as afraid of bothering people or traumatized by medical professionals as i am, you might not have realized this either

[a-grishina]

Lool I'm almost 28 years old and my whole life I thought I was straight but I recently met a girl and if this isn't a crush then idk what is lmao send help

[byjove]

We thought my grandma had a tumor in her heart and it turns out she was born with a small hole in her heart (she was born at home in rural Appalachia in the early 1940s and had two older sisters who died within days of birth, spotty childhood medical care) and her body somehow fixed it. Built up scar tissue until her heart no longer had a hole. She gave birth to two children, lived a normal life and only had this diagnosed in her 70s. How cool is that? How badass is the human body?

[byjove]

My great grandma cut her leg and contracted tetanus in the 1930s and survived lockjaw untreated. It kills about 25% of the people it infects. It’s crazy to me that if either of these ladies weren’t so strong and badass, I wouldn’t be here.

[byjove]

It’s weird to think that your existence on this earth is dependent on a whole lineage of ‘near misses’ going back through eternity. A young lady falling in a stream while doing the washing and managing to pull herself out before her many shirts weighed her down and drowned her. A young man contracting the plague and being a part of that rare population that survived it, living the rest of his life knowing death was so very close. A man being shot with an arrow in war and laying fevered for weeks before his body fought off the infection and he hobbled home to his wife. A little baby girl being so fevered she loses her hearing but recovers and goes on to lead a full life. And backwards further. A young Neanderthal boy breaking his arm quite badly and being unable to hunt but being loved and cared for just the same. A little human girl wandering off and losing toes to frostbite 60000 years ago but returning home to her family and surviving. Surviving.

[byjove]

I actually don’t think that is necessarily true. You’re the product of the strongest communities in your lineage and those who were shown human kindness. You’re the product of midwives making the effort to correct a breech baby and saving your great great great grandmother’s life. You’re the product of neighbors lending their neighbor food in times of famine. You’re the product of the hunter-gatherer tribes taking the time and effort to care for their sick and injured. You’re the product of mercy, grace and the human collective. I think the ability for strength, resilience and endurance lives within us all. There may have been stronger people through history who didn’t have the luck, community and connections your ancestors did.

[janetm74]

You’re the product of mercy, grace and the human collective.

[lobaznyuk]

[lobaznyuk]

i'm a clown for thinking brazil can fill the russia shaped hole in my heart when brazil itself can barely fill the brazil shaped hole in my heart but here we go

[illyria-and-her-pet]

The quadruple turn (Gomez) club

[mustafinaandhergirls]

Taking the gold and becoming Spartakiad All Around Champion - Viktoria Listunova with 115.798 🥇🏆

[aliya-ilyankova]

I’m so confused

[mustafinaandhergirls]

[sunis-banana-vault]

Sabrina Voinea’s routines need some work lmao

[agathacrispies]

Rebeca Andrade of Team Brazil poses with her gold medal after winning the Women’s Vault Event Final during the 2021 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at the Kitakyushu City Gymnasium on October 23, 2021 (Source: Getty Images)

[tutyayilmazz]

i wanted to comment on wxy's dismount but autofill is planning her divorce instead.....

[tutyayilmazz]

congratulations to wei xiaoyuan for getting the divorce (UB gold, apparently)

[tutyayilmazz]

Aliya Mustafina - 2010 World All Around Champion

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Angelina Melnikova - 2021 World All Around Champion