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\\ dagger of the mind ( TOS 1x09 ) \\
\\ amok time ( TOS 2x 01 ) \\
Don’t ask someone with dementia if they “know your name” or “remember you”
If I can, I always opt to ditch my name tag in a dementia care environment. I let my friends with dementia decide what my name is: I’ve been Susan, Gwendolyn, and various peoples’ kids. I’ve been so many identities to my residents, too: a coworker, a boss, a student, a sibling, a friend from home, and more.
Don’t ask your friend with dementia if they “remember your name” — especially if that person is your parent, spouse, or other family member. It’s quite likely to embarrass them if they can’t place you, and, frankly, it doesn’t really matter what your name is. What matters is how they feel about you.
Here’s my absolute favorite story about what I call, “Timeline Confusion”:
Alicia danced down the hallway, both hands steadily on her walker. She moved her hips from side to side, singing a little song, and smiled at everyone she passed. Her son, Nick, was walking next to her.
Nick was probably one of the best caregivers I’d ever met. It wasn’t just that he visited his mother often, it was how he visited her. He was patient and kind—really, he just understood dementia care. He got it.
Alicia was what I like to call, “pleasantly confused.” She thought it was a different year than it was, liked to sing and dance, and generally enjoyed her life.
One day, I approached the pair as they walked quietly down the hall. Alicia smiled and nodded at everyone she passed, sometimes whispering a, “How do you do!”
“Hey, Alicia,” I said. “We’re having a piano player come in to sing and play music for us. Would you like to come listen?”
“Ah, yes!” she smiled back. “My husband is a great singer,” she said, motioning to her son.
Nick smiled and did not correct her. He put his hand gently on her shoulder and said to me, “We’ll be over there soon.”
I saw Nick again a few minutes later while his mom was occupied with some other residents. “Nick,” I said. “Does your mom usually think that you’re her husband?”
Nick said something that I’ll never forget.
“Sometimes I’m me, sometimes I’m my brother, sometimes I’m my dad, and sometimes I’m just a friend. But she always knows that she loves me,” he smiled.
Nick had nailed it. He understood that, because his mom thought it was 1960, she would have trouble placing him on a timeline.
He knew that his mom recognized him and he knew that she loved him. However, because of her dementia, she thought it was a different year. And, in that year, he would’ve been a teenager.
Using context clues (however mixed up the clues were) Alicia had determined that Nick was her husband: he was the right age, he sure sounded and looked like her husband, and she believed that her son was a young man.
This is the concept that I like to call timeline confusion. It’s not that your loved one doesn’t recognize you, it’s that they can’t place you on a timeline.
What matters is how they feel about you. Not your name or your exact identity.
Beware the Ides of March 🔪
people really love to say “no one is pro abortion” and I’d like to clarify that I’m very pro-abortion. I think abortion is good and we should make it super accesible and easy.
“Abortion is good actually” is a take we don’t see often enough. It’s not a tragic-but-necessary procedure, nothing is being lost, abortion is a good thing and we should absolutely stop treating it like somethinge we have to put up with
me: does anything
the mean 15 year old girl who lives inside my brain:
I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.
Whoever fucked this up should be stabbed
Today’s your lucky day
This is how shit feels lately
I found this really important tiktok about what to do if a Jehovah's Witness or Morman missionary comes to your door:
I spent some time in a Jehovah's Witness church. They're exceptionally skilled at recruiting people into their church. (And I was an ATHEIST)
I left after a couple months, I stayed just long enough to see that they explicitly believe women are inferior to men, and of course, that homosexuality is a sin on par with murder.
The whole missionary door to door thing is NOT how Jehovah's Witnesses recruit. That is how they convince their members that the world is out to get them. One of the first things they teach is that Jesus requires you to try to convert non Christians to the faith. (They say non Christian but mean non JW.)
Then they say, "look how people treat us, just for the crime of wanting to save their soul"
They have long time church members tutor the incoming members to smooth the process over. They're trained to smooth away any doubts you may have about the church.
It is a textbook cult but because it's a Christian cult, nobody will do anything about it.
^^THIS so much this...
The local Mormon church used to send these 3 young ladies to my house/neighborhood and I knew they were getting turned away at every door. I invited them in, they sat with me and even helped me with chores while we discussed the bible (mind you I'm spiritual not religious) and I gave them a few views on bible stories and lessons (life lessons) to the point they commented that I should teach a bible study class.
After about 3 months the girls stopped coming, I figured I gave them enough to think on they were starting to question or not but if even that little bit helps them recognize that you can know the bible/God without all the bs they were also being taught then I feel like I did them a favor. But I have never been one of those ‘I’m gonna scare them’ because I’ve had friends in both religions so I know what their heads are being filled with. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar ya know? Just be kind even if you are saying “no thank” show them people aren’t awful.
yea i have adhd Always Dumb and Hot Disorder
This is how the Falcon and Winter Soldier show'll start
on a spiritual level I am wildly and irresponsibly brandishing a knife as I gesture
reverse kinning by projecting all my personality traits onto my favorite characters until they’re me whether they like it or not
why is my teacher roleplaying with me in a formal email
*pulls you closer* youre failing trigonometry
resources to support dc residents
alright this isn’t much but some resources yall can be financially supporting to try and make sure our vulnerable community members in DC are as safe as possible. i live several hours from DC, so i’m not personally familiar with all of these orgs, if you have corrections or additions please let me know. <3 stay safe yall.
DC BLM twitter donate
DC’s divided up into wards, here’s some mutual aid funds for each ward. DC Mutual Aid Network Instagram
Ward 1: patreon venmo @Ward1-DCMutualAid cashapp: $Ward1MutualAid twitter Ward 2: donate (both monthly support and one-time donations) twitter
Ward 3: donate (both monthly support and one-time donations)
Ward 4: donate (both recurring support and one-time donations) twitter
Ward 5: donate (both monthly support and one-time donations) venmo: @ward5mutualaid cashapp: $w5mutualaid
Ward 6: i can’t find any donation links for ward, so if you have any let me know. hotline number is: 202-683-9962 hotline email: [email protected]
Wards 7 and 8: no donation links again, but here’s a sign up link to volunteer in-person if you live in the area hotline number is: 202-630-0336 hotline email: [email protected]
DC Bread for the City (from what i can see, mostly fighting food insecurity, but offers a variety of social services and links to other local mutual aid groups) resource list, including ward-specific places to donate donate to Bread for the City
DC Fridge Collective: $dcfridgecollective
Protest After Care Fund (support Black activists and organizers across the country) patreon website (other donation links like venmo and paypal there)
This isn’t based in DC, but i currently live in Richmond, which has been another big hotspot for white supremacist violence in the past. This group of protestors met up in Richmond yesterday prior to their storming of the Capital, so if you’re so inclined you can donate to our local mutual aid group.
Richmond MAD Fund website venmo: @MutualAidDisasterRelief paypal: [email protected] patreon
i’m currently talking to some folks from DC to try and get more specific donation links, but again please lmk if you have better information
more donation links:
Sunrise DC (they’re helping fulfill individual requests for aid tonight, if you want your money to be going to help people get through the night safely, they’re gonna help.) twitter venmo: @ auraaangelica cashapp: $SunriseDC
I’ve been personally getting connected/keeping track through this group on Facebook, here.
Again, DC is now under curfew (6pm EST), with the metro train ending service at 8pm EST and the buses ending service at 9pm EST. If you need help getting out of the city before them, DM me and I can get you in contact with organizers in the area.
feels weird to be sitting in my living room while there's an attempted coup happening on a wednesday afternoon
slept in today, what’d I miss?
go back to bed