[cryptolithus]

SO thankful to know that I have adhd (+anxiety and depression mostly caused by the adhd, so treating the adhd itself makes these less prominent issues)

like FINALLY I am healing these years and years of emotional scars that I have based around all aspects of my performance in life (especially school)

the biggest revelation of the past year, easily

[keptyn]

[em-niwa]

weeds, watercolours

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[mustiest]

Sage Sohier - At Home With Themselves: Gay Couples In The 1980s [x]

Tim and Chuck / Stephanie and Monica / Jean and Elaine

[jackawful]

One of the most healing things I’ve strove (striven?) to do in my life is viewing sex as just another thing people do, among a host of other things like eating and pooping and playing with cats.

Our entire society, feminists and puritans alike, pushes the idea that sex is uniquely powerful and dangerous, capable of inflicting The Worst Trauma or the Highest Fulfillment, and that’s…just flat out untrue. Other experiences can cause similar trauma: violence, disasters, war, instability. Other experiences can result in transcendent pleasure: trance states, live music, non-sexual intimacy, tattoos.

I think this is where the disconnect in perception about sex positivity comes from, because the phrase itself makes people who already view sex as being uniquely powerful think sex positivity means viewing sex as uniquely good, when actually…it’s mostly about taking sex off that pedestal. Normalizing sex. Making it into just another thing people do. Because that’s the first step in making sure people can engage with sex on their own terms in a healthy way.

Taking sex off its cultural pedestal was the thing that allowed me to overcome the deeply-instilled shame I developed from being raised within Christian purity culture, and from being queer, and from existing as a woman. I think a failure to do that, in feminist circles, often leads to an overblowing of the (very real) harm that sex has the potential to do at the exclusion of other problems facing women and other marginalized groups, which often leads to more shaming rhetoric - just rhetoric that shames different people for different reasons.

Sex is not the enemy and it’s not our savior. It’s just one more thing people can do with their bodies.

[brightlotusmoon]

If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

[spooniestrong]

Straws aren’t killing the planet, its animals, or people. They’re a microscopic fraction of an iota of a percentage of the problem. You want to do something? Ban plastic fishing nets. Anything else is just a hollow feel-good gesture at the expense of real living disabled people.

[indigorally]

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocean-plastic-fishing-waste_n_5bc47dc9e4b0bd9ed55c1f60

[lake-shark]

i have an environmental degree and i’ve been saying this since this straw ‘debate’ started: its all a tactic by those in power to distract people’s attention from bigger issues such as fishing waste. don’t fall for it. and don’t be a dick to disabled people who need straws to make their lives easier.

[baastard]

every big corporation on social media in june

[vandaliatraveler]

Phase 2 Spring Wildflowers: False Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum racemosum) is a clump-forming perennial closely related to Canada mayflower. This familiar dweller of rich, shady woods (photos 1 - 4) is easily identified by its graceful, arching leaf stalk with alternating lanceolate leaves, which have deep, parallel veins. The stem zigzags between leaf nodes. A member of the asparagus family (Asparagaceae), false Solomon’s seal closely resembles smooth Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum biflorum), but the former produces a cluster of tiny, creamy white flowers from the tip of its stem, while the latter (photo 5) produces greenish-white bell-shaped flowers that hang from the leaf stalk. Both plants spread via branching rhizomes and can form dense colonies in moist, humus-rich woods, especially where dappled sunlight comes through the canopy. The above photos were taken at Ohiopyle State Park and along the Mon River Trail.

[treelet-deactivated20200528]

A true Spring.

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada ranked third-last for health care among developed countries

Out of 11 countries, Canada was ranked ninth for health care, placing just above France and the United States.

A comprehensive new study of health care systems in developed nations has ranked Canadian health care near the bottom.

Out of 11 countries, Canada was ranked ninth for health care, placing just above France and the United States.

That’s well behind countries like the United Kingdom and Australia that led the pack.

The study relied on 72 metrics grouped into five distinct categories care process, access, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes.

Canada’s rating was hurt by its comparatively higher infant mortality rate, the prevalence of chronic conditions, long wait times in emergency rooms and to see specialists, poor availability of after-hours care, and a lack of reliable coverage for things like dental work and many prescription drugs.

Continue Reading.

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

Listen I like Canadian healthcare. It’s a thousand times better than what they have in states.

But I was born in a hospital run by the NHS, which I used for almost 20 years, and honestly?

I would go back to the NHS in a heartbeat.

I live in Nova Scotia now, and compared to Britain it’s abysmal.

My girlfriend had a dental checkup and it cost ~$130. In Britain, it would be free.

My prescription for antibiotics when I had an ear infection was $40. Again, in Britain it would be free.

An ambulance in NS? About $150. In Britain? Free.

I’ve been on a waiting list for a GP for almost a year. If I need a doctor’s note for work, I have to spend eight hours in outpatients.

What the hell am I paying taxes for when THIS is what I get?

[alloftheworldandcats]

When I lived in Canada, I only heard about the States, so I assumed many other countries health care was like ours.

Then I moved to Germany.

Here, people think it’s obscene if you have to wait for more than one month for an appointment. Doctors offices are all over the place. Generally you only pay 5€ for prescriptions when your doctors states you need it. Hospital stays? I paid 10€/day.

Canada needs to look to other proper examples of functioning countries - and stop just saying “well we’re better than the US”.

[1337n00b-deactivated20210119]

Basically every problem Canada has gets ignored because we plug our ears and keep going “uhhh we’re better than the US so shut up”

if more Canadians were actually aware how much our country sucks I bet elections would have way better outcomes

[guccixcucci]

I once had to wait 3 hours in the Emergency room. At a kid’s hospital. When I was 12. It’s ridiculous

[not-a-carrot]

Without my parents insurance, that’s paid for by the government as part of the public service healthcare plan, I would have owed 3600$ alone in prescriptions when I started HRT. Not to mention the 2500$ I paid out of pocket for my wisdom teeth this year. I don’t know how I’m going to cover my glasses this year

Vision and dental aren’t cosmetic

Doctors are useless if you can’t afford the prescription they give you

[mj-spooks]

It’s really interesting as an American to hear this because by and large the people I know who are against socialized medicine are against it specifically because they’re pointing to Canada specifically and talking about wait times and all of that.

So while I always assumed that their complaints were coming from an uninformed place, it’s nice to have that confirmed.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Let me be clear the wait times exist in Canada and are a major issue, but it’s not because of socialized medicine.

It’s because our two major status quo political parties (Liberals and Conservatives) have been slashing health funding for decades. The NDP our 3rd major political party wants to increase healthcare funding and completely cover the cost of prescriptions and dental care.

This is not inevitable, the NDP a left of centre party has managed to drastically cut wait times for MRI’s in the province of British Columbia by increasing funding for healthcare and buying new MRI’s and running them for longer hours.

[hello-birdies]

Pnoepyga formosana by Changer

[hello-birdies]

Acryllium vulturinum by jeanot94

[pointlesslypointing]

Me: Alright brain, we’ve got things to do, and we’ve got a deadline coming up. Let’s get to it.

Brain: Wait :)

Me: But we have to get this done! We don’t have time to hang around!

Brain: ….. Wait :) it’s special :) :) :)

Deadline: *coming up*

Me: NOW can we do the thing?

Brain: Too much :( Too much to do :( Sorry, can’t do it :(

Me: F U C K

[rileyav-moving]

artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

[suchirolle]

as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further

if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well

BUT

please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.

this has been a public service announcement

[inactive-ironic-ken]

Want a good picture to save as? PNG

Want a good printed picture? JPEG

[beasee]

People without ADD or ADHD will never know how emotionally stressful it is to hear the phrase “then pay attention next time”

[unfuckyourhabitat]

Here’s a really simple thing a lot of messy people never learned: clean people are clean people because they do little household tasks as soon as they need to be done. Messy people? We leave it for some undefined future time, which often ends up being never. It’s much, much easier to wash one meal’s worth of dishes, or put away one load of laundry, or clean off a countertop with only a day’s mess on it than it is to handle those things that have been left for days or weeks or months.

Becoming a less messy person is about doing the little stuff more often. Put everything away when you get home from the store. Clear off the coffee table once a day instead of every few weeks. Over time, those little tasks and habits will become instinctive, and you’ll be on your way to being a recovered messy person. You’ll also find you have no need for intense, whole-house marathon cleans.

If you’re a messy person, you can change. You’ll probably never be an effortlessly neat person, but that’s fine! You’ll be a kinda messy person who cleans up after yourself, and who has a not-messy home. And that’s a great goal to have.

And spare us the comments like, “Who doesn’t know this already?” Lots of us, so hush. If you already know and do this, congratulations on your immaculate home. This advice isn’t meant for you, so feel free to take a seat on the nearest (undoubtedly spotless) chair or couch.

[backyard-photography-by-a-fish]

Acorn Woodpecker, Melanerpes formicvorus, Flagstaff, Arizona, May 2019