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swinecity

holtztiger wild boar & young boar

hecatesbroom

Queen Christina (1933) dir. rouben mamoulian

abandonedandurbex

High Line Railroad Overpass. Tracks to Nowhere. Photo by Brecht Bug. [OS] [3072 x 2304].

polkadotmotmot

Destiny Oyibode - The Flower Girl, 2026 - Acrylic on canvas

aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman

Ecce Homo - I sopravvissuti (1969)

cinematicjourney

Iphigenia (1977) | dir. Michael Cacoyannis

simaalsaig95

Palestinian embroidery on wedding handkerchief. Front and back.

the-sacred-now

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

the-sacred-now

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

the-sacred-now

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

the-sacred-now

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

claypigeonpottery

now it’s a mug!

claypigeonpottery

sold

alexanderwales

It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.

I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.

adhdedrn

#it's fucked and it's bad design #i should be able to write and edit for 20 hours a day #i'm just sitting there how are we even using energy #feels made up (via @softest-punk, emphasis mine)

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.

Feed your brain.

nofomogirl

I find it forever fascinating how stupid a very smart person's brain can become once it's out of spell slots. It's deeply unfair that out society underestimates this effect and treats "intelligence" as a permanent trait.