[knifefightscene]

[kayvsworld]

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

[rizaoftheowls]

me: okay, finally now is sleep

my body: no. wrong.

[facelessoldgargoyle]

i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

[yvfu]

this is the statistically reasonable post, reblogging it will have no effect except for putting this post on your blog

[moral-autism]

guys this post really works! I reblogged it and it really did put the post on my blog! you need to try it!

[ralfmaximus]

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.

There are good things happening in the world.

[meret118]

You can read about it here without a paywall.

Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemic’s early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.

[cinnamonsugarnspice]

My life improved so much when I started forcing myself to do things: forcing myself to exercise, to cook from scratch; forcing myself to go to the movies or to museums alone, to wear that really cute outfit just to run errands; forcing myself to read a book, to strike up a conversation with a stranger, to ask for a raise.

Once you begin forcing yourself to do the things that you had been too scared or too lazy to do, you feel a sense of accomplishment that gives you momentum to do even more. It gets easier to get out of your comfort zone & to do hard things.

[traumatised-mum]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

[anisetheapothecary]

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

[malcolmcooks]

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

[fairycosmos]

a small thing i learned from my sister dying is that i really would rather the people i love be a burden than be whatever the hell else they'd be if they weren't. yes even if it's messy and not always fair and hard completely inconvenient for everyone involved. even if it's weird. even if i'm rolling my eyes a bit inside sometimes. i just want you to bother me. please always bother me

[fairycosmos]

like "it's rotten work" "not to me not if it's you" actually sometimes it's still rotten work. even if it's you. and i'd still do it a million times over

[steampowerednarwhal]

The (Un)official Tumblr Census 2026

This census was not written by and is not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with @staff in any way whatsoever. Your personal data will not be gathered by this census beyond your responses to the polls. Participating in the census is voluntary, but strongly encouraged.

[steampowerednarwhal]

1. Please select your age

< 18

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Voting ended onAug 5

[steampowerednarwhal]

2. Where do you live?

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The United States

South America

Western Europe

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Voting ended onAug 3

[steampowerednarwhal]

3. Describe your living situation

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[steampowerednarwhal]

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[steampowerednarwhal]

8. Where would you place yourself on the traditional left-right political spectrum?

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[steampowerednarwhal]

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[steampowerednarwhal]

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[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[argumate]

huh an airliner has similar fuel efficiency per passenger mile to a car if that car is fully loaded, they're significantly better than a car seating only one to two people; trains of course are at least twice as good or better.

[klatchianmist]

Citation on this? Big reframe in my head if true.

[argumate]

the key is that an aeroplane can seat 200-300 people and modern jet engines are quite efficient at cruise, so on a per passenger mile basis it ends up being pretty good! short flights won't be so great though.

[firebendinglemur]

since @lookingshitupforargumate is falling down on the job, here's the source:

different studies will find slightly different values, but they tend to fall around this level*.

*unless you're in america where passenger rail sucks

[businesstiramisu]

I was curious where they draw the boundary between "domestic" and "short haul" mean (I think my intuition about this as an American who flies cross-country sometimes is probably different than a British news reporter), fortunately the link also give some numbers on that!

This chart, with carbon intensity given as the red line, shows that at very short flight distances (less than 1,000 km), the carbon intensity is very high. It falls with distance until around 1,500 to 2,000 km, then levels out and changes very little with increasing distance.

So my most common flight (between SF and LA, roughly 500k) counts as "domestic" for the first chart, but when I used to fly to Texas or the Seattle that as definitely at least "short haul".

^circle of radius 1000km around san francisco

[huariqueje]

Seascape - Saskia Boelsums, 2026.

Ducht, b. 1960-

Archival pigment print on dibond,  30 x 30 cm.  

[intosnarkness]

legit the best advice i can give you: feed your friends

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don't have to choose what it is if they can't make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you're just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone's relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that's what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

legit i do this all the time, and it is 100% always appreciated. i have taught all my friends that when something happens, we feed each other. it makes people feel extremely cared for, and I cannot recommend it enough.

[emziess]

Hey! Who wants to play a game of the bean bag is lava! Lava! Lava! Lava!

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[soup-mother]

Step back everyone. This post requires the delicate touch of an annoying gimmick blog

[archivalhaven]

Statement of Y/N, regarding their time in servitude to the entity formerly known as One Direction. Statement begins.

[pansytheleia]

please vote for new European bank notes

if there is two things you should remember me by it's both loving birds and being very pro Europe.

Anyway we'll apparently get new bank notes with either historic figures or nature and I'm not telling you to vote for birds buuuuuuut -

[pansytheleia]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/

[official-kultur]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share

[saltedume]