Notes that fall gently like rain...

I'm an entomologist, ecologist and musician with a love of comedy, roleplaying, board games and photography.

[true-bean]

[murraysiskind-deactivated202511]

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

[allhailklisz]

[yokelfelonking]

One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through...except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.

[authortobenamedlater]

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.

[drgrlfriend]

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

ETA: Here's a link to a safety plan. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/988-safety-plan.pdf

[birues]

PRAISE THE OMNISIAH! ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE IS BANNED!!

[horsegirlhusband]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ekjohnston]

*weeps uncontrollably at 9 o'clock in the morning*

God, I love randos on the internet who just want to be kind.

[magicratfingers]

[blind3dbylight]

accidentally said Shirley instead of Siri and now my phone is stuck in Airplane mode

[processes]

minimalist pencil sketches of cats by Shou Xin (手訫)

substack

[ankhanu]

I enjoy the information signs along the East Bay Hills trail containing English, French, Binomial nomenclature, Mi’kmaq and Gaelic names for plants.

[ratcandy]

we just keep naming bugs like this

[everydaylouie]

there are some pigeons that roost in a traffic light by my house and it delights me every time i see them

[depsidase]

[seravph]

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

[seravph]

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

[drksknbrutha]

In honor of Black History Month ✊🏿

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[ourplague]

[catbatart]

What prevents you from cooking at home?

No time

Don't feel like I have the skills

No space

I do not enjoy it

Don't have the supplies/cookware

I do cook at home and I enjoy it

I do cook at home but I do not enjoy it

Other

Voting ended onMay 1, 2023

SORRY Y'ALL. Twitter took polls away from non-blue-checked people so all of my random curiosities are going on tumblr! (I'll tag as 'poll' for non art stuff so feel free to block or ignore or whatever.)

[dnd-apothecary]

Other: I have adhd and I do not get to choose whether or not I enjoy cooking, it’s entirely dependent on the moment and whether or not my brain is being a bastard. Either cooking is the worst chore in existence and I loathe the fact I have to eat food (disgusting!!), or I get thrown into Hyper Focus and HAVE to make a specific meal for everyone and it will be everyone’s problem. (A delicious problem!!!)

[manfrommars2049]

Hot take that needs to be said via antiwork

[wilwheaton]

[vadergf]

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

[rudolphsboyfriend]

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

[bisexualalexmercer]

tumblr may have censored porn but check this out

i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL

[itsladykit]

Honestly, the word "unalive" has become so frighteningly normal so quickly. It feels like a lot of folks don't realize quite how Orwellian it actually is.

I mean that literally, btw. It would easily fit in with the Newspeak phrases used in 1984.

[cripplepunk-sylveon]

unalive fit in newspeak muchlywell.

(TL: "Unalive" slots into Newspeak so well it might as well be native to it.)