Nowhere Gal

I am a nowhere gal and here is my nowhere land of fun! You should come play!

[frostedmagnolias]

vintage photos of women posing with Christmas trees 🎄

[stars-bean]

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) dir. Bill Melendez

[lake-erie]

[sourvape-deactivated20251109]

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[depsidase]

[headdunk]

great image, helpful infographic. that being said this is the most useful reaction image ive seen in my life

[edenfenixblogs]

I love 100% of this

[pumpkin-femme-deactivated201411]

Your feminism isn’t worth shit if it doesn’t defend trans women

[curlicuecal]

Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I’m always like “why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day.”

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you’re inside the car, inside the situation, it’s easy not to notice all the extra work you’re doing just to maintain the status quo.

There’s all sorts of type of work that we think of as “free” that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you’re tired from “nothing”, consider instead that you’re probably in situation where you’re doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

[ceekari]

opening my body’s task manager to see what’s taking up all my cpu

[mikkeneko]

Also, just to add: we should not lose sight of the fact that the mammalian brain is a ridiculously  energy-hungry organ. A human brain makes up 2% of the body’s weight and volume and 20% of its caloric requirement. Thinking is physical work.

[hasufin]

Competitive chess players carb-load before tournaments. And lose weight in the process.

[headspace-hotel]

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that thinking physically takes up energy. I would be like “why don’t i have energy I’ve been sitting inside studying all day” ma'am it’s because the phrasings, evidences and vocabularies in your brain are eating the energy

[jabberwockypie]

If I’ve been really focused on crafting or something, there will invariably come a point where my brain is just like “Warning! Warning! Out of Energy!”.

Getting a snack usually fixes it.

[kipplekipple]

I get post-exertional malaise from just… Going places. I sit in a wheelchair, I take one bus and spend some time in a different building… And when I get home, I’m sick.

This post helped a little cause I always feel bad about it.

[aniseandspearmint]

leaving the house is abso-effing-lutely EXHAUSTING and it’s okay to BE exhausted after having to do stuff

[elljayvee]

Legit, the exertion of driving a vehicle is why you should have a water bottle and some snacks in your car if you have to drive any sort of distance.

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

Bringing this back to metabolism: if up to 80% of the brain’s energy is consumed by neurons and autistic brains indeed have 67% more neurons, we don’t even need to do any math equations to conclude that the autistic brain requires much more energy to function than a neurotypical one. But because I love math, let’s calculate this – just for fun!

Now considering that people with PTSD and c-PTSD have a brain that is hypervigilance

I assume that they too need more energy just for existing

Also, depression

I once read somwehre that during depression your body basicalyl screams at itself all day (like with chronic pain, tons of neurotransmitter)

Which would explain why a lot of especially chronically depressed people aren’t so much sad as just exhausted …

Which also explains why protein deficiency and depression are best friends …

Association between dietary protein intake and the risk of depressive symptoms in adults | British Journal of Nutrition | Cambridge Core

Association between dietary protein intake and the risk of depressive symptoms in adults - Volume 123 Issue 11

[brightlotusmoon]

Is… is that why I felt suddenly really happy the other day when I had steak for breakfast and for lunch?

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

Propably

The body screams in neurotransmitter (aka proteins)

If it uses up all teh protein for screaming there is no more protein for teh happy chemicals

And since you are in chronic pain, your body is already doing a lot of screaming just by existing

[brightlotusmoon]

I feel like this is something my husband told me once after he brought home a massive piece of meat to cut up and store in the freezer. I bet I had pondered the animal proteins and he probably went on a biochemistry rant about the interactions between proteins and the brain and neurotransmitters and ADHD and chronic pain-

I appreciate this handy reminder.

I have a chocolate protein shake for a reason, I should mix it into my water or milk every day and see what happens.

[socialmaya]

[lierdumoa]

This is why I have no sympathy whatsoever for anti-intellectuals who complain when discussion posts use too much academic language. "You can't expect me to whip out a dictionary every time you post—" BITCH I LOOKED UP "AHEGAO" FOR YOU. OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF MY HEART.

[ogdening]

astute observation there Julia

[kaijuno]

Look at these koi

[ianmalcolmptsd]

Terrence Meyers wants to fuck Murdoch so bad it makes him look- well, not actually stupider than normal. But it certainly doesn’t help.

[nightvaleofficial]

[hymnsofheresy]

so my parents speak czech decently, but when they were learning it they were obsessed with the words hedgehog and baby jesus. both words sound similar to each other; "ježek" and "ježíšek" respectively. They used to get them mixed up in their heads all the time. but even after they eventually figured out the difference, as a joke they would still call the baby Jesus a hedgehog. and every time they saw a hedgehog, they would act like it's the most venerable thing in the world and refer to it as the blessed baby Jesus.

[hymnsofheresy]

my dad pointing to a hedgehog: “ježíšek!!!”

my mom, absolutely fucking going along with it: “little ježíšek !!! beautiful ježíšek!!! who else is worthy of our praise??”

[vigilantsycamore]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I'm a native czech speaker and I assure you 90% of native czech kids also mix them up and many adults continue with the joke

[ximajs]

[hyperpussy-deactivated20230924]

no you fucking monster i don’t sanitize my countertops. i gently pick up the bacteria and place them outside

[despazito]

He is once again so right

[write-on-world]