Realizing the depression is not seasonal is like: Wow! What a beautiful flower! The birds are singing! I sure do love spring! I think I am fundamentally unlovable as a person.
[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
My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)
This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.
Hudson Williams | Best Lead Performer in a Drama Series
I didn't write a speech but I do have a little thank you list. Immediately to all the other nominees, it's just an honor to be nominated alongside you. I'm honored to be Canadian and this is fantastic.
#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so
"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)
"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)
"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools
Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.
I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"
That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.
I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.
Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.
to be fair even children’s media that goes out of its way to establish characters as using Ms. still mispronounce it half the time. Ms. Frizzle gets called Miss Frizzle as often as “mizz” even though it’s supposed to rhyme with her surname
cringe and demeaning nature aside what is it about ‘spicy’ that codes it and not other flavors as a synonym for diverse, divergent, or other. I mean I know why but I think you need to explain it anyways.
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit
i need somewhere to process my current thoughts about dieting and weight loss, so here we go! cw for both of those things under the cut
review of the situation: for the last 8 years, until august of 2025, i experienced a significant amount dietary restrictions that severely impacted my life. they got worse during covid, when i had to adopt a low fodmap diet to manage GI symptoms, and my eating patterns went haywire once i started having to work full-time, was experiencing extreme fatigue from health problems (and insufficient nutrition, looking back). unfortunately, that particular diet was very low fiber, likely low in protein, and high fat. i gained about 20 pounds since i started my job in 2022, and it's severely impacted my self-image and self-confidence, and i decided pretty quickly after resolving my food intolerances that i seriously wanted to lose weight, but it took several months to really figure out a plan and commit.
i've been in a calorie deficit successfully for 5ish out of the last 6 weeks, i believe. i actually currently have no idea how much weight i've lost because i do not have a scale in my apartment. i know i've lost some based on how my clothes fit. i feel pretty confident in my ability to keep up with it; i've settled into the expectation that it will be a long-haul (depending on my goal weight, which frankly keeps changing, and may also depend on how i actually look + what impact exercise might have.) this helps temper my expectations but it also helps when i fall off -- for instance i was planning to take a break from the deficit right before/during my period, but it ended up lasting the full week instead of 3-4 days. that actually did make it very difficult to 'restart', because i had to force myself to resist cravings i'd been indulging for a little bit. but once i got back, i was back.
this first month also helped me learn that there are going to be fluctuations in my appetite due to hormonal changes, and i just need to roll with it. filling up with fiber and such definitely helps, but there are at least 2-4 days (mid cycle and PMS) when i am just starving, so planning to expect those days is probably helpful.
i have also had to google a few tips during this time, and it's introduced me to just how fucking toxic and ridiculous the fitness/weight loss community is. something i think that's really interesting is the assumed relationship between weight loss and health. i saw reddit comments criticizing someone for drinking diet coke (granted, they were drinking a fuckton of it daily lmao) as a weight loss aid bc it wasn't "healthy". respectfully, bitch, who cares lmao. personally, trying to add another layer of restriction to the diet (e.g., only eating things that are 'healthy'), just makes it way harder to commit to. the health is the long-term goal, the weight loss is a temporary one. i frankly want to do whatever i can to get to the latter as quickly as possible (importantly, without fucking starving myself). i've found zero sugar drinks to be super helpful bc they often fully satisfy sugar cravings and fulfill that dopamine req during acute stress. and i guess to me it's especially ridiculous because i don't think there's anything remotely healthy about being in a calorie deficit in the first place; it's a temporary tactic to reach a different health goal. i've been watching more fitness content (i want to understand more about strength training and how to do it safely, as well as manage hunger bc even a little of it increases my appetite significantly), and you can't tell me there's anything healthy about how these people operate. and i'm talking about the relatively non-toxic ones! tracking every calorie and macro is not a healthy way to live and you can't convince me otherwise. and again, that isn't always the point! it's just so annoying when ppl hold up their perspectives as the 'correct' one when everyone has different goals.
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