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Also geese are assholes so there's a good chance a lot of it is arguing too.

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I’ve seen a lot of shit in kin/fictive chats but sometimes people are genuinely supportive and caring for each other and that’s really nice. 

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I didn't want to tack this onto a post about fire safety but here's another really good reason to at least silence or put your phone on vibrate when you go into a forest or wilderness area (this goes for you too, Pokemon Go-ers!): Birds. Most phones have at least one bird call alert sound. Almost every phone has high pitched and often birdlike alert sounds. This confuses the shit out of birds. It can fuck up their mating patterns, their migratory patterns, their danger responses, their food intake, their foraging ability, and more. Birds are very distractable, and high stress. And wild birds (especially in America) are already suffering a lot for the noise pollution (among dozens of other worse affects of habitat destruction and human infrastructure) that our cities put off. Big wilderness spaces are oftentimes really important to migrating birds to catch a quiet rest. And cell phone alert noises can ruin that. So please, this isn't a "technology is evil Thomas Edison was a witch all millenials are addicted to their phones" thing, it's about bird safety. Put your phone on vibrate or silent.

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ok sorry if this is annoying or w/e but i have a friend who keeps trying to control me and all of my choices and im sick of her doing that. every time she texts me i have a panic attack and i dont want to give in anymore. everytime i try to tell her to stop trying to control me she blames it on her mental illness but i cant take it anymore. any advice?? if not im sorry have a good day

Oh man. Okay, first, we’re massive human wreckage, so I cannot in any way say that our advice is good or right. Second, don’t ever worry about annoying us!

Next, I want to say that mental illness is never an excuse to treat another person badly. Whatever your friend thinks she can write off on mental illness, she can’t. Yes, mental illness and abuse both give a lot of explanation as to why abusive behavior might manifest, or how it manifests, but that’s not any excuse to hurt or harm another living being. 

You’ve made some incredible strides just realizing that you don’t want to deal with her behavior anymore! I’m really proud of you for being willing to recognize that and brave enough to stand up to her, even if she didn’t respond well! 

Now the first thing that I want you to do is make sure that any friends you have outside of this person know that you’re going through a hard time (they don’t need to know why! they just need to know that you need a little extra support!), I know it’s hard, but if you can you should go out and try to make more connections too, try to deepen your pool of support and make sure that you have support that’s very separate from your connection to her. You don’t want her to be able to cut all your ties just because you don’t want her hurting you anymore.

Next, you’re going to have to decide how much connection you still want with her, you’re going to have to choose whether or not you want to stay friends but distance yourself or if you want to completely end the relationship. How you do whatever you choose is so dependent on the circumstance you have with her I can’t really give advice, but I wish you a lot of good luck.

I hope everything turns out okay, if you ever need to talk we’re here. 

-Emily

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I have never experienced anything that tastes as bad and works as poorly as this brown bud. Headache and hallucinations but no shtetel actual relief isn't what I wanted after work but whatever nothing's going our way today anyway who cares who gives a single shit. whatever. Pain and frustrated with the fucking computer and the fucking phone and fucking life what does it matter want to cry want to smoke a cigarette but we have four more to last us til Thursday so who fucking cares fucking cats screaming fucking brains buzzing fucking everything hurts and I just wanted to get high but instead I get a fucking headache and hallucinations and an awful taste in my mouth! Wonderful!

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Took over for Jeremy who spent two hours watching three hours of video and shoved us past computer training to have to go in at seven in the fucking morning tomorrow because /he wanted a hat/ Get this disaster out of my system please

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If this is going to be a thing the first rule is: we cannot work with Loki. Period. Fucked us over last time and destroyed our sense of reality. I know we still feel connected to his children, that's fine. But we will not work with Loki again. Ever.