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| 30+ | | Runs on queue | | Facing the consequences of letting hockey teams take over my life from across the Atlantic for a decade. With a sprinkle of F1. There may be gifs |

[etirabys]

I deserve more credit for not picking stupid fights on the internet than a nice person who doesn't pick fights does, because I have an unpleasant personality and it's harder for me

[squid-socks]

This is a hard thing to hear but i genuinely say it with care and best wishes:

Keep using your brain and trying that hard thing no matter how foggy. Feel stupid! It's ok! I promise you are not stupid. I promise your brain will appreciate it. And that with time it will be valuable that you tried.

It's so easy to lose a whole week to brain fog. But your brain and body don't just stop existing that week (though it can feel that way). It's so important to try to incorporate puzzles anyway. Cook a meal from a scratch, do a jigsaw, the wordle, sudoku, use your other hand, learn a new card game, watch a brand new show, do simple math equations, write words backwards, learn a new language (or even just random phrases from a few), play a podcast, read a fun article or magazine, try a new creative project. Something! To help you feel better longer and keep your brains synapses synapsing.

Find a way to push yourself into it. Ask a friend to do it with you, set a timer, build it into your routine, have a bunch of fun games on your phone, puzzles by the bed, set your google to open straight to wordle.

TO CLARIFY: neuroplasticity is magic. And CONTRARY to prior belief it does not just stop after like 25. The brain can recover in exceptional ways so if you feel behind, or feel like you lost so much of what you knew due to a deep spell of illness or depression or injury; it's never too late. Never too late to nuture your brain to a better state of health.

So have a glass of water, take a deep breath and please join me in feeling really stupid trying to finish a "simple" puzzle and know we are all doing a very good job. ❤️

[saviorified]

boy who always wanted to race but was seen as too tenderhearted for competition by both of his parents and then had to be shocked out of it through his father's hardness / "anger" ... and then literally "handed over" to mercedes and toto at the age of 12 ...

[tbcl]

[userpironi]

Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty, he perishes as an athlete. Although he looks trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual coordination, the superlative reflexes, the major league reflexes, pass on. At a point when many of his classmates are newly confident and rising in other fields, he finds that he can no longer hit a very good fast ball or reach a grounder four strides to his right. At thirty-five, he is experiencing the truth of finality. As his major league career is ending, all things will end. However he sprang, he was always earthbound. Mortality embraces him. The golden age has passed as in a moment. So will all things. So will all moments. Memento mori.

— Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer

[17waterlillies]

happy anniversary to this incredible set of headlines

[redlipstickresurrected]

Ungfio aka Fio aka Ungfi0 aka Φ• (Chilean, based Chile) - Untitled (Cat Version), 2025, Paintings

[team-orders]

mika hakkinen (2000) & franco colapinto (2026) making double overtakes down the kemmel straight

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i need to read everything ever before the end of the summer

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[beaft]

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

[beaft]

important additions!!!!

[mieux-de-se-taire]

The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit (2011) by Michael Cannell

[let-it-linger]

spaaa

oil on canvas, 16x20

[crybabymarquez]

no caption needed.

[incidentale]

hello the ''silly woman playing dumb at the wheel needing men to instruct her every move to drive a car'' bit the f1 has been pushing with that content creator is so backward especially in the context of the rest of the misplaced ''women in motorsport'' crap they have been pulling in recent memory... like, what are we doing. what's the goal here?

[huariqueje]

Floating - Paul Ferney , 2024.

American , b. 1976 -

Oil on canvas , 36 x 48 in.

[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind