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one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”

sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference

yujateaandpi

This helped me today hope it helps someone else too

huariqueje

Upside Down . Pompon (Detail) - Olivier Neuray , 2025.

Belgian , b. 1962 -

Oil on panel

1five1two

'Die Nacht'. Willy Kriegel. 1943.

retroject

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

scififantasystuff

sunlitmcgee

@rozugold

honey002

In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.

P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3

teathattast

freezerfridays

@an-undisclosed-number-of-worms

cryiling

it's the weekend!!

m-carrick

being a hater is so fun until you see someone who is a hater 80% of the time and then you're like christ i hope i dont sound like that person and you stay on your best behaviour for 3 days

despazito

girls night

dragkingandreweldritch

so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.

basically, there's been an ants' nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.

fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what's basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go "holy fuck" start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.

fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.

spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.

tl;dr it's not "oh noes evil ants are on a rampage", it's "ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home"

anarchistmemedistro

everyone in the crab bucket just wants to go home

mariacallous

mockiatoh

When the hurricane hit, the were SO many conspiracy theories floating around about it. That the hurricane was deliberately created via cloud seeding in order to kill off Christian republican voters and take the land. That the death toll was in the thousands and that the ~250 was a deliberate lie. That the entire population of towns were dead and missing. That the mainstream media was covering it up. You had disaster influencers on TikTok fundraising for basic necessities claiming that thousands were dead and dying of cold and the like. (Pocketing the funds of course).

They created this weird mass hysteria about a natural disaster being created to attack republicans and… republicans left them out in the cold.

(Obligatory ‘no one deserves this based on who they voted for & also the margin was pretty thin.) These rural communities are overwhelmingly republican, with urban NC being where most of those dem votes are… and still the republicans can’t even pretend to care about their core constituents. Unfortunately, we’ve seen time and time again that no matter how hard rural America gets fucked by republicans, they see it as ‘the government’, while anything that benefits anyone but them is a crime by ‘the liberals’… and even the things they do benefit from are a crime by ‘the liberals’.

Regardless of who is actually responsible for what, the GOP is credited with any positive changes, the dems are raked over the coals for anything that’s less-than-perfect, and anything that is undeniably a republican decision is simply The Government (with no expectation of accountability).

the-library-alcove

Oh my. I've been waiting for this to happen for almost fifteen years.

Not the "(((they))) are controlling the weather to wipe out Christian Republicans" and all of the other conspiracy shit, no. What I've been waiting for is the storm that would wipe out coastal homes in North Carolina, and I've been waiting since 2012.

Why 2012?

Because in 2012, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Replacement House Bill 819, which, being blunt and sarcastic, tried to outlaw sea level rise.

More technically, in order to keep the high valuation of beachside developments and properties from crashing due to the accurate fact-based assessment that they'd be worthless in a few decades due to climate change, as "beachfront property" is worth a lot, but "underwater property" is not...

Well, to keep those properties and investments from having to face that reality of their future residents being shellfish and tidal pools, the General Assembly made it illegal to use science-based models to predict how high sea level change would go over the next century. Instead, they mandated that a simple linear increase based on historical data would be used--saying that the sea level would change by only 8 inches (20 cm) by 2100... instead of the 3 feet (1 meter) that climate science was predicting. That way, all of those pricy developments on the Outer Banks and beachfronts would maintain their high assessed worth... at least until the sea and storms showed up and said to the General Assembly, "What, are you going to arrest the ocean?"

Which has now happened.

And, just as predicted back in 2012, the insurance companies are taking one look at this and going, "Nuh uh".

As that article I linked up above notes at the close...

In short, HB819 proposes a number of potentially far-reaching changes that may result in unintended consequences for coastal property owners, local governments, insurers, emergency managers and other organizations and agencies.

And now those consequences are here.

thatdisasterauthor

I want to be very clear here, what happened with Helene and the fallout is not just an issue effecting North Carolina. It is effecting disaster response as a whole. After disasters, FEMA does what's called door-knocking. Essentially they go on foot in these effected areas and go door to door/encampment to encampment to make sure everyone knows what help is available to them, help people fill out forms, provide resources to do it if you don't have internet and such, etc..

Except they don't do it anymore. And it is in large part because of Helene. The rhetoric around it was so violent, and the rumors that FEMA was going to steal people's houses were so pervasive, the door-knockers were threatened over and over, even had guns pulled on them. How true this is doesn't particularly matter, it may have just been more rumors, but either way it resulted in door-knocking being stopped for Helene and eventually stopped entirely. It is not a thing FEMA does anymore.

Now, to get individual post-disaster assistance if you don't have a way to access the internet or a working phone, you will have to go to dedicated facilities. Can't get there due to disability or injury? Don't have a way to access news about where those facilities even are and how they work? All the roads washed out or impassible due to debris? Too bad, you're on your own now.

So not only is the aid being delayed if not fully withheld for the Helene survivors, many of them may not have even had help in the initial application process the way they should have, and now in every disaster going forward, other people are going to face the exact same thing.

This government has done so many horrific things, but FEMA specifically has drawn some of the highest levels of ire and destruction. We'll be feeling the effects for a long, long time, and I truly hope we find ways to fix things sooner rather than later.

digitalmagpie

Side note:

If you live in a disaster-prone part of the USA, it might be worthwhile to download and fill out the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit, especially if FEMA isn't going to be helping you work through that anymore. We initially got ours from the FEMA site, but it looks like there are a few other places out there.

If/when you need to evacuate your home, take it with you.

It'll give you a head start on all the paperwork mess you're going to have to fill out and you'll have all the information you need with you already.

If a disaster or other emergency strikes, you may only have seconds or minutes to react. In those critical moments, your focus will be on yo

pukicho

Invasive species versus a second, stronger invasive species

doctorpotatomd

Australia did this at one point, intentionally releasing cats into the bush in an attempt to control the invasive rabbit population. Now we have invasive feral cats as well as invasive rabbits👌

pukicho

A third, even stronger invasive species will surely do the trick

ivy-michaels

You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

ivy-michaels

"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.

prokopetz

“Which spices go with which foods” lists are of limited value to me because, like, I have functioning taste buds. What I really need is a “spices that need to be added at the start of the cooking time in order to properly develop versus spices that need to be added in the last five minutes because extended heating fucks up the flavour profile” list – that shit is not intuitive.