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#emily dickinson #my favourite poet #who almost always speaks to me and for me

i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

#really feeling this rn

Feeling Low

I have moved house for the 19th time in my life, within the third country I have lived in. I never thought moving house could match the despair I felt leaving my homeland, but I was wrong. This latest move, and all the shit that came with it, has left me feeling broken, hopeless, anxious and depressed. I am so tired of feeling unsafe. I am so, so tired of it. I am about to have a birthday, and I am dreading that too. I am scared at how much health I have lost before the age of 40 due to chronic stress and trauma, and what will follow after. I have had three nervous breakdowns in 6 weeks, self-harmed and contemplated what I am even still doing here. I try and I try and I try and still I fail at everything in life. I don't know what it feels like to live somewhere safe, with someone safe. As a kid I imagined grown-up me would escape the horrors of my environment, figure it all out and take us somewhere better. I have never found better. And I am beginning to feel I never will.

#tw self harm #tw sui ideation #chronic illness #chronic trauma #PTSD

micromontage

#this

covid-safer-hotties

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a life-changing condition whose etiology is explained by several hypotheses. Recently, a new virus contributed t

Research from the UK’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share sim

Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a control group—of developin

An infectious etiology of Alzheimer’s disease has been postulated for decades. It remains unknown whether SARS-CoV-2 viral infection is asso

With COVID-19 numbers decreasing across the U. S. and the increase in vaccination rates, some states are easing up on mask mandates and othe

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jnc.15985

I'm sure there's *NOTHING* to suggest covid could be responsible for *ANY* of this

grlify

How am I supposed to believe I’m worthy of love if I’ve had to beg for it my whole life

#this

hbmmaster

it might be interesting to make a poll asking which browser people prefer

what web browser do you use?

firefox

safari

a chromium-based browser

other [please actually check if your browser is chromium-based do not guess]

[show results]

Voting ended onJun 20, 2025

stele3

It’s working! It’s actually working!

Switch to Firefox, everyone! All the cool kids are doing it!

qweety-deactivated20131214

A translation of British sayings, what non-British people think they mean, and their actual meaning.

babblingbug

this is basically how i write letters.

chicagos-al-capone-blog

These things make me laugh because I remember that if you are American or Australian or whatever you must think we are just being polite all the time but really we hate it and the total underlying rudeness of my culture is brilliant.

tawdrysquid

I can hear Martin Freeman very clearly reading these in my head.

enigmaticpenguinofdeath

We are clinically incapable of being verbally direct; all points must be meandered towards gently until you jointly stumble across the matter at hand. If you try to force the issue up front our brains go ‘abort! abort!’ we default to commenting about the weather and then excuse ourselves from the conversation to have a lie down and a nice cup of tea to recover.

#being autistic and direct in British culture gets you called rude #and yes this is accurate #dear oh dear

gaynfl-moved

i just feel like. the whole physically abusing his wife and children on a private plane should make you not want to watch the f1 movie. his treatment of women in general should make you not want to watch the f1 movie. there should be so many reasons outside of the content of the movie that makes you not want to support brad pitt.

gaynfl-moved

like the content of the movie was always going to be questionable. it was clearly not made with the athleticism and reality of formula one in mind. that's aside the point.

brad pitt choked his own child. and this is the incident we know about. that should be your line in the sand.

#tw abuse #tw domestic violence #I'm disappointed Lewis Hamilton worked with Pitt #the man is disgusting #also tge plkt looks like a bad rip off of Stalone's Driven which was so hammy #the film looks very silly and is a giant gary stu self insert for Brad Pitt who is too old for the role he cast himself in #I'm disgusted by Pitt and won't be paying to see this film #f1 movie #brad Pitt

jumex

are you okay

is anyone

#I'm so not ok right now

fibro-memes

birds-and-the-birds

are you fucking kidding me

birds-and-the-birds

it’s honestly insulting that they’d just assume we’d be okay with this

#inaturalist #betrayal #generative ai #this is disgusting #the modern world is just a constant bombardment of horrifying shit like this #nothing's scared anymore #I'm so exhausted

taibhsearachd

Your yearly reminder that polyamorous people are queer in every sense that matters.

Unsupported by government, unable to marry the people we love. Risking consequences if we come out within our family, if we come out at our work, in custody arguments against a non-polyamorous person because we are considered a danger or bad influence on children. A challenge to heteronormative conceptions of what love and relationships are meant to be.

Most polyamorous people are queer to start with, because once you start questioning heteronormativity, you start asking other questions about what a sexual or romantic or committed relationship should be. But that doesn't mean that polyamory isn't inherently queer in and of itself.

Please don't forget us in your queer positivity posts. Please don't forget us when you think about what queerness encompasses.

I've seen countless people, many who are fellow queers, talk shit about poly relationships because "they never last", as if most relationships last? As if most people don't have several exes? Meanwhile I'm sitting here in my stable triad polycule that.... in a couple years I will have been in this polycule for as long as I was outside of it (you know, when I was a child). It's an open polycule too, we've all had relationships outside of the triad and we're all still good and happy with each other. My triad has outlasted my heterosexual parents' marriage by many many years.

Stop being weird about poly people. We're exactly as queer as the rest of queer people, and we need you to recognize that.

memewhore

valoricky

This is a stupid conversation! and I'm not going to continue it! literally so fucking correct

shouldabeentwins

What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).

But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.

weirdlylyricalnotes

[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, "Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers." Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:

Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh--

Hartmann: You're nuts, Nicholas.

Caller: --because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.

Hartmann: So Nicholas if you're so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?

Caller: You're missing the point.

Hartmann: No, I'm not missing the point. They're contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you're so healthy?

Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn't do that.

Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?

Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.

Hartmann: No, it's not. Tell that--

Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immune system--

Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.

/end VD]