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[mornington-the-crescent]

[twoblogger]

Guy who's only ever seen a dog seeing his second thing:

[yamelcakes]

What Big Food Did to Ice Cream

The “encrapification” of the American pint — a chemist’s plain-language dissection

Really good article by a chemist on why most ice cream sucks now— it’s because it’s not really ice cream.

[jmtorres]

part of me wants to be like "do people really not know this" and part of me knows full well i only read the labels because i have gut problems and don't want to suffer

anyway i've had my eye on the fat content for years. actual ice cream made with real cream won't trigger my lactose intolerance, because the higher the fat content of dairy, the lower the lactose content. my personal tipping point is around half-and-half so if you make "ice cream" with with skim milk, the enshittification i experience is unfortunately literal

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[ralfmaximus]

do NOT google "omega heat"

[chocomiking]

prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time

[megafaunaofficial]

never ceases to amaze me that you can make $200k a year doing a fake email job but people who take care of animals and old people make maybe $2 above minimum wage. sick society

[pmamtraveller]

"Beneath The Golden Willow"

Ed Perkins.

[yesornopolls]

If you have a middle name, is it after someone else in your family?

If you have a middle name, is it after someone else in your family?

Yes

No

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Remaining time: 3 days 20 hours

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[resetium]

someone please hit me over the head with this post every day for like the next week thanks. a mention, a reblog with text, a message, something.

[blackwoolncrown]

You must understand that perfectionism isn’t striving for excellence, it’s a crippling fear of being flawed and therefore worth abandonment or punishment. It’s a kind of psychological avoidance. You’re avoiding fear and failure , not embracing the thing you want to do bc if it was about the thing you want to do you’d be fine with partial victory.

[numbuh-7-knd]

One little thing I’ve been doing lately since I saw this post for the first time is using mouthwash. More specifically, on the nights where I have no energy to brush my teeth, I make myself at least go use mouthwash so my mouth is at least cleaner than it was.

[janirandor]

sweater redo process has stalled because i do not want to do the sleeves

[iustuspeccator]

Something is bothering me about the application of "no true Scotsman" to saying something isn't Christian. This is true only up to a point. Because at a certain point, there is a boundary where someone isn't a Scotsman. I'm not a Scotsman, for instance. I could say that I'm Scottish, because I have ancestors who come from Scotland. But you can't compel Scottish people to accept me as Scottish.

Similarly, there is a boundary around what's actually Christian. The definition of Christian isn't actually "everyone who says they are." And it's not everyone who reveres or venerates Christ. Muslims and Manichaeans revere Jesus but aren't Christian. Not everyone accepts non-Nicene Christianity as Christianity. And movements can be destroyed by allowing in everyone who says "I'm a _____" without pushing back. Look at the watering down of feminism. "It's feminist to conform to the status quo, actually," was a devastating boundary shift.

So here we come to a charge that I must accept everyone who says they are a Christian as part of my faith. And it's difficult to create a satisfying response because we have two things that are true:

1. People bearing the name "Christian" are causing significant, real harm in our name and it doesn't do any good and it doesn't repair any harm to tell our neighbors "well, ACTUALLY that was a FAKE Christian and I'm different and better 😌"

2. Some of these beliefs aren't Christian. These are beliefs that cut you off from the body of Christ. White nationalism ISN'T Christian. Jesus crossed boundaries of nation and ethnicity all the time. And this is beyond being a church of wheat and tares. There is a swath of Christianity right now that has set up an idol in the form of a man they call Jesus, but they are not in any way worshipping the God revealed in scripture. I can't accept that as Christianity. Christian nationalism is idol worship.

I think it mainly comes down to we have a secular facing responsibility and a church facing responsibility. It's the difference between I wouldn't tell anyone recounting how they suffered at Christian misbehavior "that wasn't a real Christian™️" but I would tell (and have told) other Christians "that belief is not Christian, it's not scriptural, repent and return to the true faith."

We're not talking about "no TRUE Christian would say cuss word/take the Lord's name in vain." Yes, TRUE Christians would do and have done and will do horrible things and we can't absolve ourselves through distance. But we are also talking about a deep theological sickness in our body. We have the right to fight off that sickness. We have the obligation to fight it off before it kills us.

Mainline Protestants for a really long time have tried the strategy of "just BE a better Christian" while these conservative churches actively prey on our membership and guess what, it's not working. We need to SPEAK BACK to these people. And "this isn't Christian" is not a tool I'm ready to dump from my toolbox.

[darnitjack]

Yeah, I think it's often helpful to call out whatever unchristian beliefs, practices you're dealing with.

[paladin-n-cleric]

what are you wearing rn and is it representative of your style

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

little steps toward better taking care of yourself are not insignificant. getting into a fairly consistent sleep schedule, remembering to take your medications on time, drinking enough water throughout the day, eating things that will make your body feel better during the day, and keeping your space clean before it becomes a depression room again are all amazing accomplishments.

[hiveswap]

that one friend breakup. How do you feel about it

i still miss them a lot and would reconnect

I still miss them but i dont remember any specifics of us hanging out

i still miss them but no desire to reconnect

i got over it by now but i remember stuff

I don't care/remember specifics anymore at all lol

never had one of these/dont know what you mean

Voting ended onJun 26

[lilaccatholic]

No actually I'd be THRILLED to be the reason people didn't use ai, thanks

[janirandor]

Oh goodness, with all the stuff that happened tonight I forgot to share that I finally got to the doctor about the Mystery Pain.

Of course it was fine when she examined me, but she ordered a fairly comprehensive set of tests (they took so much blood) and I feel heard and cared for (medically, appropriately).

[janirandor]

The only real problem with living on the west coast is that most of my online friends are asleep when I post my late night prayer requests

But that's okay because God knows

And hopefully if you see it you will think of me anyway and keep me in your prayers because it's not like this whole thing is resolving very quickly...

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

#i appreciate how genuine and non-judgemental this comic feels #like left one is not upset at right one for caring while being powerless #and right one seems genuinely distraught and not performative

I'm glad the facial expressions are coming across accurately! It can feel so absurd to say gosh I hope the torment maze removes some fire and rusty nails soon, but alas, sometimes that's all one can do.