i am pug

University. Gender studies and anthropology major

[iapislazuli]

idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it

[iapislazuli]

Actually forget what I said. This dream is more important than anything

[itznarcotic]

[lavenderlemniscate]

inaccurate, they will survive.

[super-metroid]

can someone please make it so the cats spit the fireball back and forth

[the-trans-exo]

[luxlightly]

So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

[radialteeth]

Smart girls are the fucking best

[definitely-cursed]

But like

They did such a good job

The poses

[sew-birb]

Massive props to the camera person too

[allsadnshit]

It makes me sad that most people around me are so unbelievably burnt out from work and life that they are just truly emotionally unavailable and don't even wanna use their energy for anything beside going out partying once a weekend

It's like watching friends who you've seen be silly and have deep talks work jobs to the point of stress where they are incoherent and respond to messages like legit 6 days later and not in a rude way but genuinely they don't have the mental capacity to do shit anymore

Working jobs and paying bills shouldn't take everything out of people to the extent it really does

Even when I'm off work and I had a shorter shift most of the time I truly have nothing left in the tank after the combo of emotions and physical labor

[animusrox]

my photos of the total solar eclipse 4.08.24

[guerrillatech]

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

Holy shit that's so cool

[knightofleo]

[beckiboos]

Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience

[kandykittixd]

This is now my favorite photo

[autisticandroids]

every post i see that's like "if you're scared of being like [bad person] that's means you're better than them and won't be like them" and it's like. lmao. my dad used to have crying sessions where he would confess his fear of being like his mother and causing me to grow up to hate him. usually after he did something fucking awful, to redirect the attention to his own pain. the girl who sexually assaulted me had panic attacks sometimes about the idea of maybe being a rapist, making it impossible to set sexual boundaries with her without her freaking out. whether you're afraid of being some kind of bad person has basically no bearing on whether you are that way

[autisticandroids]

LITERALLY ANXIETY ISN'T AN INHERENTLY MORAL SOURCE OF SELF-CRITICISM. BEING AFRAID THAT YOU ARE BAD DOES NOT MAKE YOU GOOD IT JUST MAKES YOU ANXIOUS!!!

[autisticandroids]

#as a person with anxiety I find anxiety is often counterproductive to self-reflection#because you’re too busy spiraling over Bad Thing You Did to actually do anything about it#you need to break that tunnel vision in order to actually make the change#i don’t like to sit with my anxieties for that reason#sitting there feeling guilty over what I did doesn’t do any good#it just made me and anyone I hurt feel worse#striving for actual change and making amends is the best way forward#but you have to break the doom spiral in order to be clearheaded enough to do that#sa tw

literally you get it.

[sexysilverstrider]

the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

[medusasstory]

Honestly this is one of the best formatted jokes of all time.

[sexysilverstrider]

the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

[medusasstory]

Honestly this is one of the best formatted jokes of all time.

[sickened-things]

wish it was easier to tell the difference between ‘pain that will get better if you use the body part’ and ‘pain that will get worse if you use the body part’ and ‘pain that is indifferent to you using the body part’ tbqh

[finding-flight]

It’s going to vary a lot from person to person, but as a rule of thumb:

If it feels tight/locked up/achy it needs to move, but be aware that it almost certainly needs to move slowly and gently until the pain begins to ease

If it feels sharp/hot/tender and/or gets worse with pressure/weight, it needs to rest. Massage, heat, or ice may help.

If you move the body part and feel grinding/clicking that’s new or worse than usual it needs to rest or possibly to get a brace on it

Electrical pain or pain that comes with numbness and tingling is probably nerve pain, and nerve pain cares not what you do with your body but it might care what position it’s in, so it’s less about using the body part and more about how you’re using the body part.

You can have multiple things going on which get worse or better with different things, and the best thing to do here is vary what you’re doing. Lying in bed like a slug is what you’re going to want to do. But you’ll feel better if you get up and move around for just a few minutes before going back to resting.

[remanence-of-love]

[anneemay]

[nellachronism]

[pokemonheritageposts]

yeah well he had me in the second half too

[pokemonheritageposts]

oh this was absolutely the wrong blog

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[amiru-shrubfeast]

And even machines need to rest all the time. Even unfeeling blobs of steel need maintenance, upkeep, and care. They need to be turned of every now and then to cool down.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Rest is sacred

[rylandsgrace]

Barbie (2023) // The Good Place (2016-2020)

[peppapigvevo]

this looks like the same party

[teaboot]

they’re shouting back and forth across the club

[liluglydudefromdetroit]

When people say "defund the police is too scary" ask them how scary this graphic is and ask if the funding police get correlates to the conditions in the city or if that same money would be better off reallocated to... Let's say a fucking library

[electroshocktherapist-deactivat]

people r always saying “get therapy” 2 ppl who have actually had too much therapy and need to do two years of a brutal physical labor job instead Genuinely no more therapy-speak and obsessing over the supposed intricacies of your average mind for you get your ass on the Alaskan salmon fishing boat

[hyumjim]

Putting aside the obvious fact that it is not possible or feasible or healthy for many people to be physical laborers, this is such a weird like… borderline Ayn Randian style of thought. Very conservative, “back to the land,” trad type shit that people are nonetheless eating up I guess because they are just that irritated by “therapy-speak”… which here seems to be conflated with actual therapy.

Obviously I disagree with this post on many levels but here is perhaps a more important point: companies like Amazon, FedEx, and UPS frequently poach young people so they can work them to the bone. I work with young people for a living so I often am told by an 18 year old that they’ve just been hired by UPS etc, and then it’ll usually be about 2 weeks before they quit because these jobs are terrible. That’s why they give them to 18 year old high-school dropouts, because they are looking for people who are vulnerable and desperate for money, and they’ll keep them for as long as it takes before they realize how bottom of the barrel these jobs are. You work insane hours moving heavy boxes, you drop something on your foot and they tell you to keep moving. These huge companies use up young people and throw them away at a shocking rate. Trust me when I tell you they are not better off for it.

Shitty jobs are often deeply detrimental to a person’s health both physically and mentally. Putting aside your thoughts about therapy, the way to happiness is not through labor, of all things. I wonder if there are self-described communists or anti-capitalists on this post, too. Come on, think about what you are saying.