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we bought a shirt at a thrift store that says "best mom in louisiana" for some reason (as a reminder we are in midwest germany) and now my spouse keeps walking around the house wearing it and saying shit like "WHO STANDS BEFORE THE GREATEST MOM OF LOUISIANA?"
Word already had a word count?! That WORKED?
You made a computer that can't COUNT?!
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i still think about the fucking quesadilla terf
iirc it was like this terf who was absolutely fuming because her brother was dating a trans woman and she started claiming that she was clearly male socialized because the terf made quesadillas for dinner and the trans woman was like "wow :) this is really good, what is it?" and if she was a REAL woman she would instinctively KNOW what a quesadilla is
anyway it turns out the reason the poor woman didn't know what it was was because the terf had used hummus instead of cheese for some fucking reason so it wasn't even a quesadilla
âhey this dog looks to be struggling to perform very basic functions and that is very worryingâ âwell ACTUALLY if you STUDIED THE BREED STANDARD youâd see that this dog is actually the IDEAL ______â YEAH. THIS TOO IS THE PROBLEM. WHAT ARE YOU NOT GETTING.
âyou canât blame breeders for breeding to standard :/â i actually find it very easy to blame them. they are the ones creating the dogs on purpose, you see
literally the worst way of ending a series is âall the survivors are happily straight married with tons and tons of babies!âÂ
people still getting mad at this post i made in 2014 so I will add here. in 2026. that the point of this post isnât âhappy endings badâ its when the storyâs only way to imagine a happy ending is a heterosexual nuclear family for everyone.
I wonder WHY breathing exercises have always been such a dogshit "coping skill" for me.
It just feels so incredibly wrong to try to force my breaths to be a certain length. Usually, when I've tried them, it gives me the sense that I'm not getting enough air or I'm starting to suffocate, which slowly increases the longer I do the breathing exercises, and it's a very stressful feeling.
Last time I tried doing breathing exercises to relax, my back and torso became slowly more and more and more tense and locked up and tight until my back was very painful. It was like I was clenching down with all the muscles of my body to try to make the breaths start and end when they were supposed to.
It sucks because therapists usually think "breathing exercises" are the gold standard for anxiety coping skills, and I had one therapist tell me that it was impossible that they didn't work because scientifically, you Cannot have a fear/stress response if you're doing breathing exercises. Lady, if it was that easy no one would need therapy. Also I guess I'm some kind of alien or something.
In yoga class, I think I finally "got" some of the benefits of what breathing exercises were supposed to do from paying attention to breathing in different poses and feeling how that biological cycle affects the parts of the body that are holding the pose. That isn't trying to control the breathing though.
Also, it's engaging the whole body: trying to focus on my breathing while not doing anything else I think causes that tension to build in my muscles.
I'm just thinking like. I notice that my breaths become faster and shallower when I'm stressed or afraid, but when I try to force myself to breathe slowly, it's like my body is wrestling against me.
I think it's much easier and less pain- and panic-inducing to do breathing exercises when I'm already calm?
I kept trying to do breathing exercises for years after I knew they didn't work for me. I think I had the idea from therapy that coping skills weren't necessarily supposed to feel good or different or helpful at all, and that I had to keep doing them to "get better" which was something independent from "feeling better."
ive been wondering when id have my bananas arent supposed to be spicy moment but i cannot fucking believe this
what do you mean breathing exercises arent supposed to make you feel out of breath???? what???
also why the fuck did i need to be told the feel better exercise is supposed to make me. feel better? what went wrong here. genuinely asking.
jesus. what a revelation.
I don't think they are. It seems counter-intuitive, right? I'm just as perplexed at how they're supposed to feel as you.
fun fact about breathing exercises is that they just. don't work for a lot of people with anxiety/people who get panic attacks. and nobody tells you that. which like. idk what the point of breathing exercises is then
I knew this from my own experience, but therapists kept telling me I was wrong.
The foundation of most therapeutic techniques for "anxiety" seems to assume that what your body does, what your body knows, how your body reacts, it's all fake and wrong and you have to forcibly make your body do the right things.
It has been hard as fuck to unlearn all that, and to re-learn how to just. Be an animal with survival instincts.
Like, my "anxious" feelings/thoughts are not "lies." They're information about my survival needs as an organism, even if the way they explicitly articulate themselves is weird or unrealistic.
New local scandal is an old woman who will walk down to her mailbox in her robe, then, when no cars are driving by, lay down next to her mailbox as if sheâs fallen or been hit by a car. Tourists will stop, help her up, and walk her to her house. Then, after they leave, sheâll repeat this until sheâs bored with it.
Her neighbors have called the cops a bunch but have been told that itâs not illegal to fake being an old lady in peril so soft-hearted tourists or newcomers are nice to you. One of the neighbors sometimes yells âoh, get up, Lois!â at her. But overall local sentiment is that this is at least somewhat enviable levels of not giving a fuck.
it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there
I did not spend years of my life at university studying rome in classes that were over 50% women to let someone say "rome may be for the guys" on my post!!!
men aren't obsessed with Rome they're obsessed with being patriarchs who get to subjugate everyone around them. He doesn't care about Pliny the Elder, he's having wet dreams where he gets to be Caesar. It's unironically the new vegas thing, we're living in an age beyond on-the-nose satire. This was also mussolini's deal
the cat was sleeping cutely so i took a picture and went to show it to my mom and she burst out laughing and pulled out her phone and showed me a near identical one she'd taken a few minutes before
self-proclaimed free thinkers when the cat is doing a snooze:
I also enjoy video of this manâs dead wife
The glare from the sun occasionally obscuring her face does kinda make me think that the viewer is struggling to remember her
The immediate cut to the most dead wife video ever took me out lmao
