Game Changer & Make Some Noise
oozey mess
KIROKAZE
noise dept.
Keni
YOU ARE THE REASON
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#extradirty
Monterey Bay Aquarium
shark vs the universe
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
if i look back, i am lost
Cosimo Galluzzi
The Stonewall Inn
Phantogram Three
izzy's playlists!
Fai_Ryy
almost home
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@undulatingtwill
I’ve been asked what the hell an undulating twill is. This. It’s a type of weaving pattern that makes undulating lines across the surface of the fabric, and the name makes me laugh.
I’m a spinner and weaver, a literal doctor of folklore, and I love the wonderful weirdness of human cultures. I’m here for queer little posts about crafts and crafty little posts about queerness, and I think the name makes perfect sense for that.
your muscles being pleasantly sore after exercise is such a nice incentive I can see why they patched that in. the forced regular logins to avoid losing progress however are a predatory practice and deserve nothing but scorn.
everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her
let’s travel through the vast unknown with mama
Space chickens
Posts like this are why I'll never leave Tumblr
The one thing I love about Helsinki is the city centre tunnels. There's a shopping mall labrinth under the main hotspot area of the city so you can walk all the way from the central bus station to the railway station without stepping a foot outside even once. You also walk past two metro stations on the way so I don't even know the full extent of how far this network goes.
People that don’t live on fault lines have such beautiful and exciting opportunities for urban engineering
There's positives and negatives to all climates and regions. Some places have to plan their cities around the unpredictably inevitable occurrence of earthquakes, and some places have to plan their cities around the unpredictably inevitable occurrence of russian invasion.
i have a suggestion
maybe being loved and cared for would fix me
nevermind. crow army
What they don't tell you about Crow Army is that it's a lot of effort to maintain. Earlier today I went out in the freezing rain with a screwdriver to tighten up the screws on the platform so it stops wobbling when it has multiple crows on it. Here I am in the kitchen cutting up apples and grapes at 10pm to put in the feeder before I go to bed because it's going to snow overnight and I want my army to have a nice breakfast ready when they show up at dawn. They eat five pounds of peanuts a week. The pet store down the street has been giving me a 10% discount on peanuts because I'm buying so many. My neighbors want to know what their names are.
"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.
Sometimes "they" are us who got an entire graduate degree for the explicit purpose of saying this stuff where academics might take it seriously.
having online friends who are busy is just like. I LOVE YOU. I miss you. YOU GOT THIS. I'm giving you space to work. I LOVE YOU.
reminder to everyone i haven't talked to lately: I love you. we'll be fine. I LOVE YOU. I am waiting for you. I hope you are well. I love you.
Completed crochet beetroot bag.
Constructed completely from handspun. Pattern by Brookes Imaginings.
Don’t forget OCT 3d
there is something erotic about watching someone be extraordinarily competent at something especially if they're also really passionate about it
the eurasian bullfinch is a small, round passerine bird in the finch family, found across europe and temperate asia. while many of them are residents in their area, birds in the northernmost portion of their range will migrate south for warmer weather. they primarily feed on seeds and young buds of fruit trees (with their young primarily consuming insects) due to a loss of orchards and woodlands, their numbers have declined in the UK since the 1970s. their fondness for feeding on fruit buds sometimes leads orchards owners to consider them nuisances. they produce two to three broods of offspring per year; outside of the breeding season, they are social but not gregarious, and are typically found in pairs or in small family groups.
What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.
The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.
The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.
The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.
The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.
So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner
And this is just the terrestrial resources. Sea gardens were also a thing along the coast.
Sea Gardens Across the Pacific
i dont care if mondays blue. tuesday coo and wednesday coo. thursday yea im gonna coo it's friday im a dove
idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time
What grows from the ashes of your old life?
The data does not support the assumption that all burned out people can “recover.” And when we fully appreciate what burnout signals in the body, and where it comes from on a social, economic, and psychological level, it should become clear to us that there’s nothing beneficial in returning to an unsustainable status quo.
The term “burned out” is sometimes used to simply mean “stressed” or “tired,” and many organizations benefit from framing the condition in such light terms. Short-term, casual burnout (like you might get after one particularly stressful work deadline, or following final exams) has a positive prognosis: within three months of enjoying a reduced workload and increased time for rest and leisure, 80% of mildly burned-out workers are able to make a full return to their jobs.
But there’s a lot of unanswered questions lurking behind this happy statistic. For instance, how many workers in this economy actually have the ability to take three months off work to focus on burnout recovery? What happens if a mildly burnt-out person does not get that rest, and has to keep toiling away as more deadlines pile up? And what is the point of returning to work if the job is going to remain as grueling and uncontrollable as it was when it first burned the worker out?
Burnout that is not treated swiftly can become far more severe. Clinical psychologist and burnout expert Arno van Dam writes that when left unattended (or forcibly pushed through), mild burnout can metastasize into clinical burnout, which the International Classification of Diseases defines as feelings of energy depletion, increased mental distance, and a reduced sense of personal agency. Clinically burned-out people are not only tired, they also feel detached from other people and no longer in control of their lives, in other words.
Unfortunately, clinical burnout has quite a dismal trajectory. Multiple studies by van Dam and others have found that clinical burnout sufferers may require a year or more of rest following treatment before they can feel better, and that some of burnout’s lingering effects don’t go away easily, if at all.
In one study conducted by Anita Eskildsen, for example, burnout sufferers continued to show memory and processing speed declines one year after burnout. Their cognitive processing skills improved slightly since seeking treatment, but the experience of having been burnt out had still left them operating significantly below their non-burned-out peers or their prior self, with no signs of bouncing back.
It took two years for subjects in one of van Dam’s studies to return to “normal” levels of involvement and competence at work. following an incident of clinical burnout. However, even after a multi-year recovery period they still performed worse than the non-burned-out control group on a cognitive task designed to test their planning and preparation abilities. Though they no longer qualified as clinically burned out, former burnout sufferers still reported greater exhaustion, fatigue, depression, and distress than controls.
In his review of the scientific literature, van Dam reports that anywhere from 25% to 50% of clinical burnout sufferers do not make a full recovery even four years after their illness. Studies generally find that burnout sufferers make most of their mental and physical health gains in the first year after treatment, but continue to underperform on neuropsychological tests for many years afterward, compared to control subjects who were never burned out.
People who have experienced burnout report worse memories, slower reaction times, less attentiveness, lower motivation, greater exhaustion, reduced work capability, and more negative health symptoms, long after their period of overwork has stopped. It’s as if burnout sufferers have fallen off their previous life trajectory, and cannot ever climb fully back up.
And that’s just among the people who receive some kind of treatment for their burnout and have the opportunity to rest. I found one study that followed burned-out teachers for seven years and reported over 14% of them remained highly burnt-out the entire time. These teachers continued feeling depersonalized, emotionally drained, ineffective, dizzy, sick to their stomachs, and desperate to leave their jobs for the better part of a decade. But they kept working in spite of it (or more likely, from a lack of other options), lowering their odds of ever healing all the while.
Van Dam observes that clinical burnout patients tend to suffer from an excess of perseverance, rather than the opposite: “Patients with clinical burnout…report that they ignored stress symptoms for several years,” he writes. “Living a stressful life was a normal condition for them. Some were not even aware of the stressfulness of their lives, until they collapsed.”
Instead of seeking help for workplace problems or reducing their workload, as most people do, clinical burnout sufferers typically push themselves through unpleasant circumstances and avoid asking for help. They’re also less likely to give up when placed under frustrating circumstances, instead throttling the gas in hopes that their problems can be fixed with extra effort. They become hyperactive, unable to rest or enjoy holidays, their bodies wired to treat work as the solution to every problem. It is only after living at this unrelenting pace for years that they tumble into severe burnout.
Among both masked Autistics and overworked employees, the people most likely to reach catastrophic, body-breaking levels of burnout are the people most primed to ignore their own physical boundaries for as long as possible. Clinical burnout sufferers work far past the point that virtually anyone else would ask for help, take a break, or stop caring about their work.
And when viewed from this perspective, we can see burnout as the saving grace of the compulsive workaholic — and the path to liberation for the masked disabled person who has nearly killed themselves trying to pass as a diligent worker bee.
I wrote about the latest data on burnout "recovery," and the similarities and differences between Autistic burnout and conventional clinical burnout. The full piece is free to read or have narrated to you in the Substack app at drdevonprice.substack.com
#I can sense I'm not at full capacity and I don't think I ever will be again#when things start to get even a bit too stressful these days I start getting insane psychosomatic symptoms#I get migraines my nose bleeds my ears ring I can't eat I can't sleep I get dizzy and asthmatic and depressed#my therapist and I like to talk about it as if I was poisoned by stress and now my body has an out of control instinctive reaction to it#but also I just accept that the good part of burning out was that I can just never push myself that hard anymore#I will never again what I was but also being that sucked ass. so. these days I'm just taking it easy but taking it
#i clinically burned out in high school#i lost the ability for adrenaline/stress to motivate me to do anything#i had to relearn how to do EVERYTHING#i do sort of have a stress response back now#but it definitely does not work as well as pre-burnout#not that i’m testing that. lol#but the few years after burnout were actually very peaceful. i simply could not be stressed out i was incapable of it#i’m forever greatful i hit this point in high school because otherwise i would have inevitably hit it in college#where it would have had way worse consequences
Two sets of responses on this post that I think are so illuminating of what happens behind the scenes during a burnout. The body becomes so stress reactive that the cocktail of urgency/overwhelm/guilt/etc that you were running on previously no longer works, and strikes you as threatening, which means you become a lot more sensitive to smaller signs of stress in your life, which forces you to take things easier for a very long time. which given adequate supports can be great.
