Sleepy Bitch

36. Queer, chronically tired. Soft bitch, extremely unavailable.

[sleepybitchcity]

SUGGESTIONS REQUESTED

I made this request last year and had a great time with it, so I’m making it again:

I am looking to listen to entire albums. My criteria for recommendations - it needs to be an all time fave of yours, or (maybe more importantly) it needs to be a no skips album. Any genre, any era.

[anarchistmemedistro]

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

[sd-d0-l1y]

The conclusion, and one of the harder hitting parts of the article. Solving poverty does not require complex solutions and long timeframes.

[theunusualchameleon]

I'm reminded of that one part in Frederick Douglass's autobiography where he gets to the north for the first time and assumed, since they didn't have slaves, that everyone was about as poor as non-slaveowning white southerners. And they weren't! There were poor people, sure, but there were lots of people living very comfortably or in luxury.

He mentions how angry it made him, that not only were thousands and thousands of people suffering to create luxury for a few, but that slavery wasn't even necessary for wealth to exist. That's really stuck with me.

[itsabear]

we have the solutions. We are watching the powers that be continually create golden calves to pray to, hoping maybe this next god will give them a different answer other than the obvious. It's socialism or barbarism.

[lutalical]

[pixeljade]

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[sleepybitchcity]

I am not going to freak out about my hair falling out. I am going to go to sleep like a normal person and take iron tomorrow and everything will be fine. If I need to cut all my hair off again, so be it. I have spent five years trying to grow it out, but it is literally just hair. It’s fine.

[doubleca5t]

The other day my wife told me about this influencer who said she needed to go on ozempic so she could go from 130 lbs down to 115 and I really cannot stress the degree to which we have so COMPLETELY lost the plot with this glp1 shit. Like not only are people are going on this shit for purely cosmetic purposes, the cosmetic purposes are delusional. This is the kind of mindset that gives people eating disorders but now because you can get a prescription instead of having to starve yourself or enduce vomiting a big swath of the general public seems eager to go along with it. Body Positivity did not go fucking far enough because I am being so real when I say that fatphobia is more of a public health crisis than obesity has ever been

[doubleca5t]

People making a choice feminism argument for Ariana Grande looking skeletal have me feeling like this

[citadelofthestars]

why is being sent to the seaside no longer a medical prescription. i know it would fix me.

[baradragon]

life could be so much easier if i could oscillate between a pussy and a dick at will but im sure many people feel this way

[anh3-donia]

the fact that i rejected napping as a kid makes me sick

[sleepybitchcity]

Going to see if I can get the naturopath I saw a while back to get me an iron infusion 😭 I’m trying to just lift some light weights and I am so faint and out of breath. Going to take the least-awful of my iron supplements to work and try to start taking them again. Ugh ugh.

[swiftthefox]

Inka Essenhigh - Kittens! (2022)

[sleepybitchcity]

I bought a ticket to the monthly ecstatic dance night with a local group for this Friday. Please bully me into actually going!!!! I miss dancing so much, and I think I’m pretty much done drinking for the rest of my life. So I need to find non-clubbing forms of dance.

[sleepybitchcity]

Got a little old lady out to explore today ☺️🐰 She’s like… cool love that I’m out, but I’d really just like to sit in one place and be pet like I do in my run.

[soft-honey]

I want to cook for you. I want to bake for you. I want to share homemade meals and love with you.

[werenotreallystrangers]

We don’t know how much time we get with people

[txttletale]

its so fucking funny that nuclear waste is such a contentious topic. like yeah those damn nuclear advocates need to figure out somewhere reasonable to put that nuclear waste. for now we will  be sticking with coal power because it puts its waste products safe and sound In Our Lungs, where they cannot hurt anybody,

[mc-cookies]

coal byproducts also give people cancer en masse is the thing though. coal smoke is a carcinogen that contributes to lung cancer, and ash and other waste products can also contain significant amounts of uranium and thorium, so coal as a power source can totally expose people to ionizing radiation as well.

[mangonetics]

The thing is that for every hazard of nuclear waste, pretty much the worst case scenario is that it might do something that coal power is already doing. You could aerosolize nuclear waste and just spray it out of a chimney and it would have less environmental and health impacts than coal because you’d only be spraying like a gram of it for every billion tons of coal smoke for the same amount of power.

[afriendofblahaj]

Im already pretty vocal about my advocation and belief in nuclear power and I have been for years, but I saw something a few weeks ago that just

It so perfectly sums up everything that’s wrong, but also it’s incredibly horrifying

So, basically, someone not very involved in nuclear science but still discussing it posed the question “could we retrofit coal power plants to be nuclear power plants?”. And on the face, this is a fairly good idea actually. Coal and nuclear power both generate electricity the same way (heated water turns to steam which turns a turbine) so you would only need to do some modifications, making new nuclear reactors much cheaper, and killing coal plants.

Well, someone actually involved in the nuclear industry (I think they were a researcher but I might be misremmebering) responded to the question with (paraphrased from memory)

“that’s something many of us have proposed in the past, and unfortunately we can’t do that, because coal plants currently have much higher radiation levels than the EPA allowed a nuclear plant to be operated at. And cleaning up the site would cost more than just building a new plant in an uncontaminated site.”

It’s fucking wild

Not only is coal so much more dangerous in so many other ways, but the very thing people worry about with nuclear power is higher because coal isn’t regulated at all.