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Fatal | He/Him | Queer  This is where I talk about whatever I want. Reblogs blog is @fatalblabs.

[fatal-blow]

Hey You Reading This. Are you in Pain?

Go to this website. See of you can find the thing that's bothering you (pain patterns denoted in red/shaded areas).

Massage the X shown in the diagram. See if it helps.

If you want more information on treating muscle pain, download this book off the Internet Archive:

Trigger Point Therapy Workbook : Your Self-treatment Guide for Pain Relief : Hardin, Kimeron N : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Inte

310p. : 28 cm

You deserve to not be in pain. If nothing else has helped, this might.

[fatal-blow]

WHYYYYYY is the tibialis anterior fucking IMPOSSIBLE to stretch

[fatal-blow]

do any of you guys ever use a theracane while lying in bed. best shit ever

[pennaraptor]

emotional responses are deeply evolutionarily advantageous in any animals that are making complex decisions and behaviors (in many vertebrates, say) because they act as a reinforcer for a behavior. a bird taking a vigorous bath in a puddle is probably happy because if that behavior didnt elicit a positive feeling they wouldn't do it (it is dangerous to be on the ground and wet!). if an animal can feel fear, which i think is a less contested assertion to make, then it can certainly feel the opposite, that is, happy.

[pennaraptor]

Bernd Heinrich in his book Nesting Season

[adonischildsupportcase]

[fatal-blow]

hm. talking is starting to feel good and normal again.

[fatal-blow]

i love how like...unmoved nuthatches are. they lack the high energy of the similar sized chickadees, and it shows in interesting little ways. like if a nuthatches gets displaced from the feeder, it will swoop effortlessly to the nearest branch and patiently watch for an opening to try again. the chickadee are more likely to protest or flutter about a bit, and usually chooses to try another feeder. even when they take seeds from the feeder--with the chickadees they go fast and try a few different spots before they find and pull one. the nuthatches seem to know immediately which seed they want, and they pull it out smoothly and rarely go look for another spot.

but my love for them is equal. little birds my beloveds.

[fatal-blow]

Hello! Will you be posting more of the warriors fatalverse soon? Sorry if you've been asked this heaps lol

Yeah eventually! the blog you prolly want for warriors stuff specifically is @fatal-rewrites-warriors, all the old art and whatnot is over there

[headspace-hotel]

I guess one of the reasons I don't post about gardening and nature and stuff as much as I used to is because so many internet people have this binary view of everything where you either favor "industrialized things, modern things, urban way of life" or "pre-industrial technologies or practices, natural things, rural ways of living" and I don't want to see those conversations at all

Just because a person likes some things about rural life, doesn't mean they automatically think cities are evil. Just because a person talks about some negative impacts of modern technology, doesn't mean they think everything invented after 1700 is from Satan. Just because somebody thinks pre-industrial technologies and old ways of doing things have a place in the modern world, doesn't mean they think factories and industrialization are bad. Just because someone thinks access to nature is important for human beings, doesn't mean they are romanticizing pre-modern life.

"Technology" isn't just something modern. "Modern" isn't just one thing, and "modern way of life" is very different in different places just like "old ways of life" were completely different. Nature in cities is nature too. Neither living in a city nor living in a rural place is inherently bad for environmental or other reasons. Farming isn't a spiritually superior way to live but it also isn't inherently miserable

[galaxianmothman]

Pssst!

Live in the US?

Need to call your representative or senator, but nervous about making the phone call?

Do it at 2 am!

I'm not kidding. It will go to voice mail and you don't have to talk to a human person, and your call still counts!

Signed, someone with major phone anxiety who has pushed through it to do this several times now.

You've got this!

[fatal-blow]

its weird cus the more i treat my hip/lower back the more the pain and tension settles down in my foot again, which is actually a good thing i think because im pretty sure i started overusing the aforementioned hip/lower back muscles because of that foot pain, and now i'll be able to actually deal with the muscles that caused the foot pain instead of passing it down the line, but in the meantime. foot hurty :(

[fatal-blow]

i should be compensated for the amount of squirrel sex crimes ive had to witness in this neighbourhood

[fatal-blow]

me: maybe if i take a picture of my crow friend i can study it and be able to tell him apart from other crows more easily

the picture:

[fatal-blow]

my partner snagged some pics of the warblers at one of the parks in the area :3c

they are much better at getting pictures than i am, evidently

[fatal-blow]

this might be the year i learn about warblers actually

[pnwpol]

hey, here's a link to look up your local MP's email to let them know that 1. we want to see the environmental assessment 2. no more data centres until regulatory law catches up.

for those in BC, write to your MLA.

[viridianmasquerade]

If you want to write your politicians but don't know what to say, under the cut you'll find what I just sent to my MP and MLA, feel free to copy and rework it however you like:

Dear [your MP], [your MLA],

My name is [something] and I have been a resident of [city] for the past [x] years. I have seen the recent government announcements regarding AI data centres in British Columbia and I have serious concerns about the viability of these projects.

I am writing you both, as my MP and MLA respectively, to express these concerns in the hopes that you will push back against these plans as an obvious disaster in the making for BC and Canada.

AI data centres consume massive amounts of power and water, in addition to producing significant noise, heat, and air pollution. We are already living in a world where Vancouver has enacted its Stage 2 water restrictions - in May! Within the last year, BC Hydro has stated that the province will need an enormous increase in our power supply in the upcoming decade to account for rising demand - where on earth is that going to come from if these centres are getting 85% of their enormous power needs from BC Hydro? 

Are we really so short-sighted that we intend to commit ourselves to projects that will consume disproportionate amounts of our precious natural resources, over and above the needs of the actual citizens who live, work, and importantly, pay taxes here? Where are the environmental and viability assessments for these centres? What is the regulatory scheme that will provide oversight and enforcement for these centres? Who is responsible for ensuring that they don't create a negative effect on the lives of your constituents? 

As a [city] resident, I hope you will be pushing back against these plans and raising these concerns in your upcoming legislative sessions. Canada and BC should be investing our limited natural resources in sustainable, renewable projects that will benefit residents in the long term, not line the pockets of Telus executives in the short term.

With respect,

[sign it however]

[fatal-blow]

see now THIS is the type of speculation about neanderthals and sapiens that i love to read about

neanderthals as ambush predators living in woodlands and sapiens as persistence predators on the plains just makes so much sense especially with my own theories about how neanderthal feet still affect how people walk today

(from A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson)