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don’t abandon joy because it is brief. don’t commit to solitude because happiness is fleeting. it’s okay that good things do not last forever. it’s okay to simply enjoy a thing for as long as you have it.
^ relevant art by @catcrumb that legitimately rewired my brain
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Giving a facsist rapist felon fraud a 79th birthday parade that costs the taxpayers $92 million?
Christians will love the military theme. The fiscally conservative will say nothing. The taxed too much crowd will gladly waste the money.
This is the worst timeline.
A capybara with an orange on its head in the annual capybara open-air bath at the Izu Shaboten Zoo 🍊
[Image Description: A series of 4 gifs of a capybara in a pool. It is surrounded by mandarin oranges floating all around it. In the first gif it is sort of slumped over, with the lower part of its head in the water. There’s an orange perfectly perched on its head. It blinks a few times in the second gif and moves slightly, turning towards the camera. In the third gif and fourth gifs the capybara has its head fully out of the water, looking directly at the camera, blinking and moving its head slightly back and forth. The last photo is text that reads “do not delete caption.” End description]
the ear nose and throat being all connected is so heinous
Also, your eyes! It is so deeply cursed that doing simple eye exercises can cause the jaw to relax, which can relieve pressure and ringing in the ears.
whoa, cursed indeed. I'd like to experience this—what are the eye exercises?
So, I exaggerated very slightly - the best way to do these exercises is with a combination of eye and jaw motion. (You can do it with just your eyes, but it tends to take a little bit longer.) These three exercises can be done independently, or one after another in any order.
The reason it works is because the jaw is an absolute mess of muscles. But, it means that a little work anywhere ends up helping problems everywhere.*
Exercise 1: Eye motion for jaw tension
Lie on your back, or sit in comfortable upright posture
Set your jaw into a neutral position. (You can move it around later)
Close your eyes
Slowly scan your eyes side/side across your field of vision, and then up/down. Keep your eyes shut while you do this, and try to keep the motions small and smooth.
This should literally be as slowly and smoothly as possible. It even works if you basically just imagine that your eyes are moving. Later on, you can build on this and move further. Your eyes will feel weird and jerky and that's fine. They always are, you're just going to notice it. If you do this a lot, they'll get smoother.
Take 3 paths side/side and 3 up/down. You're going slow, so this should take at least a minute.
When you finish, move your jaw to another position. I like to try closed (use your hands, so you do not clench while you're doing this), neutral, and open.
Exercise 2: Jaw motion for eye tension
Move your eyes as far as they'll go in a direction (you'll go in others soon enough). If you have jaw tension, you're going to quickly hit a point where you feel pain behind your eyes, and also probably some pain deep in the back of your jaw.
Move your eyes into the point where it is uncomfortable, but not painful.
Holding your eyes at that spot, slowly (literally as slow as you can) move your jaw side/side, front/back, and open/closed. These motions should be extremely small and very slow. You can also, again very slowly, move your jaw all the way open and all the way closed.
As you do this, your eye muscles will start to relax, so keep reminding yourself to sit at that point of discomfort (but not pain, never pain).
At some point, you're going to realize your eyes don't really hurt in that direction anymore, so start looking in a different direction. I like to move around 8 compass points.
You can also do the jaw exercises without the eye positioning.
Exercise 3: Jaw and eye motion for jaw and eye tension
This is a combo of the two above techniques
Move your jaw side/side or up/down while your eyes do the same thing.
Move your eyes up/down while your jaw goes up/down, then do a set where your eyes go down/up while your jaw goes up/down.
For bonus points, try to have your eyes go up/down and your jaw go side/side. You will end up clenching your jaw with the focus, so don't do that. If you notice the tension, set your jaw neutral and eyes centered.
Slow. as. possible.
You can also do tiny movements, again. Doesn't have to be big.
Your eyes and face will feel kind of droopy after this, and your eyeballs will feel sort of weird with how easily they can move.
These are based on Feldenkrais exercises, which are about slow, small movements to build neural pathways. They're boring as shit because you feel like you're not doing anything, and then you realize that it's helped a lot.
These exercises should be very small I know I emphasized this a lot) because the point is to build healthier movement pathways, not to stretch or exercise. If, at any point, you feel your jaw starting to tense, stop the exercise you're doing and reset to a neutral jaw position and go again. Again, the point is practicing not having jaw/eye tension, so you completely miss the point if you tense up and allow yourself to stay tensed.
Bonus exercise: jaw tension resetting exercise
This one is to train the pathways that help your jaw relax, so you can get better at it. You're going to tense slightly and then practice undoing that.
You're welcome to use your hands here to help guide your jaw into a relaxed position, or super gentle pressure on the tension points. But, this is not a massage. You are using the fingers to help focus the relaxation or to guide your jaw, but the point of this is that your jaw is learning to relax itself.
Tense your jaw slightly. For most of us, that's going to be "stop trying to relax your jaw" and it'll go somewhere tense.
Consciously try to relax. Give it a couple seconds. You do not have to relax fully, and you don't have to do it completely. Even letting go of a little tension is good.
Let your jaw go back into whatever natural tension it has, but see if you can keep this from going to full tension. Consciously relax it over a couple seconds.
Try to do this at least 10 times. Over the course of these exercises, you're going to end up relaxing other spots in your jaw than you originally felt.
This sort of exercise can be used to help train you into not hunching as well. Slowly training the reflex to get back into good posture every time you lose it.
* Fuck, you can help jaw pain by rolling a golf or lacrosse ball underneath your foot at the pressure points. The relaxation runs all the way up your back and onto the back of your head. If you roll the ball under your feet for about 30 seconds each foot and then try for a hamstring stretch, you're going to discover you have like 6" more range of motion without having actually stretched. And on the flip side, rubbing your temples or the muscles over the top of your head can help your hamstring range of motion slightly.
It's not a leash, it's an indicator wand. He's training the plane to taxi and park on command.
baby capybara named Tupi via san antonio zoo
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Theres no fukin betterer way zum flyen.
(Sound on.) We’re all doomed.
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
can ppl pls reblog this version
guys you don't understand i love big buff horses so much
draft horses you are gods most perfectest creations
Percheron, Brabant, Vanner cob, Clydesdale, another Brabant, and Ardennais, in order.
Some more buff horses for your consideration:
Ban'Ei
Boulonnais
Drum horse
Muraközi
Shire
Rhenish German Coldblood
Noriker
Dutch draft
Suffolk Punch
Sztumski Polish Draft
Clydesdale
And lastly.. More Brabants, my very favourite!
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
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When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.
'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.
I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.
The opposite of “manic pixie dream girl” is “depressed goblin nightmare man,” and, judging by this site, it’s just as attractive to some.
People have known this for decades
I've finally found someone I want to protect.
The conversation around abortion shouldn’t be “are you absolutely sure you want an abortion” it should be “are you absolutely sure you want a child”. You can get pregnant again. You can adopt. But you can’t half-heartedly raise a child or change your mind midway through parenthood. Children are a huge responsibility and if someone isn’t 110% sure they are willing and able to do it, they shouldn’t. Having a baby shouldn’t be the default because of how extremely demanding and difficult parenthood is and the irreversible damage it does to a kid to be raised by someone who didn’t even fully want parenthood and wasn’t prepared for that level of responsibility.
#NOT HAVING A BABY SHOULD BE THE DEFAULT. HAVING A BABY SHOULD BE SOMETHING YOU ONLY DO IF YOU’RE SURE YOU WANT TO.
Pregnancy and birth are also MUCH higher risk medically than abortion, especially for teenagers who may not have reached their full adult size yet.
(And especially for people in countries with poor maternity care/high maternal mortality, such as the US.)
Not having a baby should be the default option, for the sake of the pregnant person AND for the sake of the potential child. It’s a much weightier decision than having an abortion.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo e Daphne.
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
