what a mess we've made

24y✨she/her🏳️‍🌈latin

[ryebreadgf]

my dad is very intensely involved a battle with his city’s public administration over a playground they have tried to forcibly remove like five times in the past 20 years and DID remove once in like 2005 but then had to rebuild because my dad was such a pain in their asses and came through with undeniable receipts of the zoning plan from the 60s/the historic/cultural value of the urban planning…. like there’s a woman in the city office who is his arch nemesis. he is literally the daredevil of urban planning

[ryebreadgf]

I need you to know the document he has written to oppose the latest removal attempt with is 106 pages long

[sapphireh3arts]

i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.

[3000s]

the grocery store should be open 24/7 but they should let the employees go home and just trust us

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[kosmogrl]

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[crunchygranoladyke]

i know i've said this before but i'm going to say it again because the more i work with geriatric women the stronger i feel about the fact that the only anti-aging that women in their 20s/30s should be obsessed with is building strong bones and muscle mass. that's like the most important thing you can you can do right now to lay a good foundation for healthy aging. you can botox the shit out of your face but that's not going to do anything to save you from dying prematurely from a fatal hip fracture that you can't bounce back from because you didn't do anything to prevent yourself from becoming frail and breakable. like i know that sounds harsh but that is reality for a lot of older women and i don't want that to be you.

[golvio]

Also, strengthen your back (especially your lower back) and your knees to prevent chronic pain from muscle weakness in those areas, and regularly practice getting up off the floor from a lying position.

[sorrelchestnut]

Someone told me once that the biggest predictor for healthy aging (absent other internal factors, like cancer or heart disease) was the ability to get up without using your hands. Ever since I've practiced to the point that I can get from full prone on the floor to standing without having to push myself up off the floor, and I make sure to do it several times a day. It's amazing how much more confident I feel about my body and what I can do with it when I have that baseline to fall back on.

[kristinagehrmann]

All of this!

I started resistance training at 29, not to get jacked (which I'm not, by the way, because I never tried to bulk - it's actually quite difficult), but to stay stronk so I can draw. And it's working! Also, my lower back was hurting because of underdeveloped muscles. Strength training completely fixed that. I will yell about this to everyone who wants to hear it (or not, sorrynotsorry)

Also, if you hate exercise you might appreciate that strength training has lower barriers to entry. With proper instruction, you can't hurt yourself, and unlike with intense cardio you're not getting super sweaty and out of breath.

[paradoxsun]

I am begging you guys to build your muscle strength at 20. That is an investment you absolutely cannot put off. You'll pay for it dearly in your old age otherwise.

[meeowriia]

I bet kissing + heavy touching would do wonders for my mental health

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[czesca]

can't believe we've all been here since we were 14 and now we're all 20000 years old

[syd-s]

[catchymemes]

[r0ttenivy]

if you can’t handle little tummy, do you deserve anything?

[stuckinapril]

I’m not the woman I was a few years ago or even a year ago but I still like to hold her hand and remind her she did her best with what she knew

[medievalthymes]

"Kill them with kindness" WRONG. drop the opera house chandelier on them.

[heavensghost]

Words by Mary Oliver engraved in rock

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over