[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Migraine sufferers, lend me your recommendations

My sister gets migraines, and is struggling to find things that will help. She is currently on week three of the worst one she's ever had. But her birthday is this week! And currently being ruined.

So, what helpful migraine related gifts can I get her? What do you find works?

Thank you muchly, I wish you all pain-free days

[ceeturnalia]

gifts for the migraineuse who has everything:

mint ice cream or gelato (cold + mint)

unsweetened iced tea (cold + caffeine)

silk eye mask (gentle on sensitive skin/eyes/skull)

tabletop air purifier (brains love clean air)

soft clean clothes (washed without perfumed soap/softener)

soft clean bedding (same)

$50 doordash gift card (or other food delivery of choice)

[calamitys-child]

If I catch it in early onset, a bottle of coke (ideally as cold as you can possibly get it) buys me a few extra minutes to take my meds and find a place to lie down! I know that for some folks caffeine is a trigger but I frequently find myself really craving it just before the aura starts to creep in, and apparently for a lot of migraine sufferers there are similar cravings - it may not be that fat/sugar/caffeine is the trigger but rather an early warning sign from your body that we're gonna need to stock up on quick easy cheap energy, bc its about to be a doozy. Ymmv, but if you do frequently find that cravings for those sorts of things coincide with migraines, it may be worth leaning into those cravings - I learned chocolate doesn't help, but the combination of caffeine + hydration + cold does help alleviate my early symptoms a bit

I also will never stop singing the praises of something along these lines (apologies for amazon link but it'll at least give you an idea of what I'm describing). It's sort of wetsuity neopreney material, goes all the way over your head including covering both ears and both eyes, and it's filled with a cooling gel which stays cool at room temp but especially shines if you just whack it in the fridge for a bit. The combination of blackout vision, muffled hearing, pressure, and cooling is absolutely Heavenly for any headache and genuinely game changing for migraines. My pal lent me theirs, I immediately bought one, then got another for my birthday, so I can keep one in the fridge and one by my bed and just rotate em. Helps with the sensory overstimulation and the pain and, as a lifelong insomniac, can be a real pinch hitter for getting me to sleep even without the migraine factor. Truly everyone should try one at least once

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[herbofgraceandpeace]

Thanks to @francesderwent and @itspileofgoodthings for tagging me in this game! The prompt is “you have just met a new person. they seem very cool. you hope they also think you are cool. they ask what your five favorite books are. which books do you say to sum up your coolness and subtextually beg them to be friends?”

Here are my five; I was held at gunpoint to create this list; this list is a live document; I am at peace with this list.

Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

This list is fake and can't hurt me (Pride and Prejudice, ily)

Tagging @clawedandcute, @audreythevaliant, @cannot-all-throw-inkpots, @cogentranting, and anyone else who'd like to join in!

[fieldandgrain]

pyramid lake, nevada || pentax mx | smc 100mm | fuji400

[textpostscymraeg]

Bangar yr Wythnos: Gweld yn Glir ("Seeing Clearly") — Cordia

I reckon a vital part of anyone's language-learning journey should include immersing yourself in every aspect of the language, so I'm starting a new little series: Bangar yr Wythnos, or "Banger of the Week"! As the title suggests, I'm going to share a new Welsh-language bangar every Friday to kickstart everyone's weekends. Ain't I nice?

Now, I jokingly refer to every song I hear as "the song of the summer", but I mean that wholeheartedly with this song. It's just so bloody bouncy and cheerful!

Give it a listen. If your mood doesn't improve tenfold by the end of the track... listen to it again.

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[francesderwent]

it’s been said before but the reason Costis is so humorless throughout the interpersonal machinations of KoA is he’s most comfortable basically being the Steve Irwin of rassling wildlife and then grilling and eating it.

[songpasserine]

@lovesodeepandwideandwell

[songpasserine]

I want a tumblr version of the ‘favorite bookstores’ map! please put your favorite magical bookstores in the tags and I will plan to make a map if we get enough data!

[songpasserine]

left bank books collective in seattle (most lifechanging book find: generation on fire with an interview from fr. daniel berrigan)

myopic books in chicago (best old book smell with nooks&crannies)

word on the water in london (most entrancing ambiance with a houseboat on the canal)

[purlturtle]

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

[elexecution]

i got a new hairbrush today. diary entry of a girl from 1843. mama says a whole boar was killed to make this for me. think of that, dear journal. a whole boar slain for a little girl such as myself.

[cair--paravel]

Interiors of Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, built by Edward Ould for industrialist Theodore Mander in the 1880s and 1890s.

[1five1two]

Leopard Figurine. Mesopotamia. c. 3300-2900 BC.

[eternalgirlscout]

so called "free thinkers" when hi 1 quastion

[softiekurbie]

Maria Del Pilar, Joana Choumali, 2022.

[wherelibertydwells]

[knitmeapony]

Florida Man Finds Easy Way to Stop Flock Cameras From Working Right

A Flock of issues. The post Florida Man Finds Easy Way to Stop Flock Cameras From Working Right appeared first on Mandatory.

[russsiawave]

[is-this-fascism]

its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.

and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer

[is-this-fascism]

see this is exactly what i mean. i thought someone was having a mental break of some kind in my notes until i remembered what i had posted last night

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Humanae Vitae was the biggest flex ever pulled on the Church and I LOVE IT

[hislittleflower-throughconcrete]

And from what I understand, because the sexual revolution was in full swing, at the time many Catholics were clamoring for the Church to “update” their sexual, marital, and family morality positions. Even some clergy, influenced by the times, were complaining for the Church to address its “backwards” view.

So when Humanae Vitae came out, and heard that the topic was sexual and family ethics, everyone thought it was going to be a change on their stance on contraception, divorce, etc.

PVI was like

[eternal-echoes]

To me, this seems to be the reason why people started leaving the Church in droves rather than Vatican II. No one likes to be told that their indulgence in pleasure is wrong.

[fictionadventurer]

I love the history behind Humanae Vitae because it was an even bigger deal than the above makes it sound like. The pope commissioned a group of priests, religious and laypeople to look into the issue of contraception and advise the Pope with their conclusion. The majority opinion was that the Church SHOULD allow artificial birth control.

And THEN, those results were leaked to the press. People were FULLY expecting the Pope to permit use of the Pill. (Some believe the results were leaked precisely for that reason). So when Humanae Vitae came out strongly and unequivocally AGAINST it, people rioted.

Never mind the fact that the commission had a minority opinion that held that, not only shouldn’t the Pope allow it, but he COULDN’T, since it went contrary to natural law. Never mind that the commission was only there in an advisory role and the Pope wasn’t required to take any of their suggestions. People wanted birth control, and they’d been primed to expect that the Church would allow birth control. There was widespread and open rebellion from both laypeople and clergy. (Though, notably, not in Latin America, where the Pill had been tested and where women were pressured into contraception). The bishops of Canada released an official statement saying that birth control was a matter of conscience! This was absolutely a reason why people left the Church, and it’s notable that so many people who did stay in the Church completely ignored it. It was a flaunting of papal authority on a level that has few parallels in Church history.

One of the gutsiest players in all this drama was Karol Wojtyła. According to one John Paul II biography I paged through, he helped write the first draft of Humanae Vitae (of which it’s estimated about 60% of the material made it into the final document). He lived through the public outcry against the encyclical. He watched the stress of it all send Pope Paul VI into a decline. And less than a year after he becomes Pope John Paul II, what does he choose for the subject of his Wednesday addresses? Theology of the Body. 129 weeks of preaching to the open-air crowds in Rome, in intense and exhaustive detail, about why Humanae Vitae was 1000% right. Can you imagine? The nerve that requires?

The reaction against Humanae Vitae is horrible and sad and terrifying, but the history behind it is one amazing example of the Church and her shepherds standing stalwart to defend truth against the spirit of the age.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

beautiful