[squidlydoodles]

Sleeping on the Beach 🏝️

[liberalsarecool]

"We need trilllions to replace all workers" is quite the ask for an industry that has no profits.

[redarmyscreaming]

[teaboot]

How people get nicknames:

Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

Your fate is determined by The Counsel

You hate it

It's accurate

[notsomeoneyouknow]

This reminds me of an article about how callsigns in movies are inaccurate because they're too cool. Generally your callsign in the military is like "Bepis" because you once pronounced "Pepsi" wrong.

[teaboot]

^^^

[pris-cas]

Lesson #19 Throw pt.2

Cause pt. 1 was kinda eh here is another

Credit to whomever came out with shaded stick figure Rocky I couldn’t find the og creator

First lesson Previous lesson Next lesson

Thank you to my awsome beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@the-asexual-winter

@stelosia

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[dogposts]

thank you huma--

[betchi]

a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

[betchi]

do you get it or do you not know anything

[betchi]

more examples that people keep getting upset with me for not adding

[rainbow-lizzard]

[digital-magus]

That’s just how black cats be

[not-evil-anymore-beasty]

[dreamingeternally]

"The fun thing for us for that end sequence was his costume -- what he would have left over from the ship. I don't really think you see it in the film but the trousers that he's wearing, they're cut from one of the flight suits. And we've done a belt buckle that's made of xenonite that Rocky would've made for him. And all of the sewing on it is a little bit - it's nowhere near as good as Jenny would normally do, so we had to purposely ask Jenny to do bad sewing at the top of his trousers, so it'd look like he would've done it.

And then our brilliant breakdown department, run by Tim Shanahan, they break everything down to look like it's 10, 20 years old. So his cardigan and the t-shirt's all faded. And even on the laces -- the laces in his chuck taylors -- because your laces always break after a certain period of time, so we found stuff that was on the ship, like elastics and stuff. There's a nice big close-up actually in the film, so you can see that they're not normal laces, they're like stuff that he would've got from the ship that he's made as make-shift laces."

Glyn Dillon, one of the costume designers on Project Hail Mary

[beguilingcorpse]

and you may tell yourself: this is not my beautiful circus! and you may tell yourself: these are not my beautiful monkeys!!!

[gingermcl]

Enmeshment is a family dynamic where personal boundaries are weak or nonexistent and individual identities are blurred together. Instead of being seen as separate people, family members are treated as emotional extensions of one another. Thoughts, feelings, choices, and even responsibilities are shared in unhealthy ways. In these families closeness is defined by access and control not respect and autonomy. separating or individuating is typically viewed as betrayal or abandonment instead of normal development.

Common signs of enmeshment are parents who overshare adult problems with their children, expect the child to meet their emotional needs, or rely on the child for comfort, validation, or decision-making. Children may be treated like a best friend, a therapist, or partner rather than a child. Privacy is not respected, guilt is used to control behavior, and disagreement is seen as disloyalty. If a child doesn’t think or feel the same way as the parent, the parent will tell the child that they don’t know how they feel and rewrite history in their own mind, Instead of the child is developing their own independent thoughts and desires. The child is saying as a problem or even insane for not viewing the world, the same as the rest of the dysfunctional system. A child might be told things like “You’re all I have,” “After everything I’ve done for you,” or “Family doesn’t keep secrets,” which trains a child that having boundaries is selfish or cruel.

As an adult, enmeshment can show up as chronic guilt, difficulty making decisions without approval, fear of disappointing family - not making decisions without considering what your family is going to say or do, or feeling responsible for other people’s emotions. In healthy families, children make decisions about their own lives confidently because they trust themselves, and then they share with their parents later, not fearing that they will be reprimanded or made to feel like a horrible human for living their lives as they should. Enmeshed individuals may overexplain, overshare, or feel intense anxiety when they try to say no or create distance. Even when the relationship is painful or controlling, separating can feel terrifying or wrong, because their nervous system has been trained to associate closeness with safety and independence with danger.

Escaping enmeshment is about slowly building a sense of self that is separate from the family system. This usually starts with internal boundaries: recognizing that other people’s feelings, crises, and reactions are not yours to manage. From there, it involves practicing small, external boundaries - saying no without overexplaining, keeping some parts of your life private, and making choices without seeking permission.

There is often a strong emotional backlash when someone begins to unmesh. Family members may accuse them of being selfish, cold, or “changed,” because the old system depended on their compliance. This discomfort does not mean you are doing something wrong. It usually means the system is losing control. Learning to tolerate this guilt and anxiety is part of the healing process.

Healthy relationships allow closeness and separateness to exist at the same time. You can love people without being responsible for them, and you can be connected without being fused. Real intimacy is not built on obligation, guilt, or access to your inner world on demand. It is built on mutual respect, choice, and the freedom to be a whole person.

[bloodofelves]

SOMA (2015) ↳ Catherine Chun

[swordy-da-goat]

this game is tragic. neat

[loving-jack-kelly]

replaying soma and it's such a good execution of body horror. you meet the monsters that are just you but not executed as perfectly and think "oh they're terrifying" but you don't know you're one of them, yet. you meet robots convinced they're people. the dead bodies of the people they think they are are only one room away, but the robots cannot be convinced that they are not themselves. you think "that's kind of sad." and then you learn you are one of those robots. you meet a robot who knows she's a robot and has no patience for your existential crisis, who says you're made of circuts and corruption and that doesn't matter right now because we have to finish saving the piece of the world we can. so you reconcile yourself with it and move on, because what else can you do?

and then you learn the horrifying truth, the last piece of what you've become: you're not a robot that thinks it's human, you're a human corpse with a data chip shoved inside that thinks it's somebody it's never been. your name is imogen reed and you were a scientist, but that's not true because you know, you know, you know you're simon jarrett. you're from toronto in 2015, not...wherever this is in the 2100s. you know who you are. you can't be imogen reed. but you are.

and you still have to keep going. because what else can you do?

[p3stie]

what am I

[athenagray]

“So... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:

It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.

You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.

Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.

Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%

During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.

When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.

You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.

You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.

If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Brought to you by America's 250 birthday celebrations, workforce reduction in the FDA and CDC, and viewers like you.

Please feel free to share this.

And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.

And no, ivermectin will not help this at all.”

[ravioliraz]

Well, OP was very much correct!

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[thepeacefulgarden]