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So mad at that tidiness influencer on one of my podcasts that said "hey just set a 15 minute timer on your phone and see what you can clean up in that time." Fucking instant quality of life improvement. So mad. How do i accumulate so many receipts on so many surfaces.

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Oh--this one's actually from "How to Keep House While Drowning," but I also really like it so I'm putting it on this post as well. This is the "Five Things" tidying up method. I really like this because it's object-focused rather than "big scary task" focused and you can significantly improve a space just by running through 1 or 2 of the steps.

Garbage: Take a trash bag and pick up all the loose trash around the house. Don't take the trash out yet as you may run into more trash as you clear the space more and more.

Dishes: Any dishes that have found their way into random rooms all go in the sink. Don't worry about washing them yet.

Clothes: Grab a laundry basket and grab any loose clothes around the house. Toss them into the basket. "But this jacket is dirty but not *that* dirty!" Okay if you're gonna wear it again you can hang it up. If it's stressing you out sitting in a big pile on that chair, just hang it up in the closet. If you're okay with it on the chair, you can leave it on the chair. You might want to invest in a coat rack or wall-mounted coat rack so that outerwear that you usually grab in your "desire paths" around the house have a more official designated spot that's less visually cluttering than the Scary Coat Blob On Chair. Also don't worry about washing the clothes yet, either.

Things on surfaces that have a place they can go. Pens can go in that pen-holder. Books you aren't currently reading can go back on bookshelves. It's okay. Yes, object permanence is hard but I promise you the objects still exist when they have a place to live. You aren't hiding them from yourself and you aren't going to forget about them forever. You're clearing your visual field and making your space functional for when you do decide to pick them up again.

Things that don't have a place they can go. This is where you figure out the place they can go, or if it's time to throw them out. You've taken a lot of the overwhelm and decision fatigue out of the equation at this point by getting all the garbage, clothes, dishes, and Things-That-Have-A-Home out of the way. Maybe you're a little too worn out from steps 1-4 to really tackle this yet, that's okay, you've still probably made a significant improvement in your space and you should be proud of that.

Okay now you can take the garbage out, do the dishes, and run the laundry. Or just take the garbage out if you're really wiped and the dishes and the laundry aren't too significant. Put a podcast or some music on. Let's go hands-on brain-off mode.

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as good of a time as any to share my list of activities I do during what i like to call Scheduled Soul Maintenence to avoid burnout

go on an aimless bike/ride/walk - move your body, do it for as long as you feel like it, discover new places near you weather that is a frog or a cafe

watch a new movie/read a new book/listen to a new album - get inspired, excercise having opinions and longer attention span, break out of consuming content and make a choice about what you want to expirience

create something in a medium i haven't used in a while - get out of a habit, rekindle a flame you haven't been upkeeping, making a friendship bracelet counts

go have a fun new drink/snack - arguably most important, have a little treat without rush, slow down and focus on physical sensations, treat yourself in a way that isn't landfillcore

meet with friends and/or go to a place where you meet strangers - human connection is good for you, (maybe some casual sex if you like that/try something new with your partner)

make some bad art - create for the sake of creating without any expectations

play an instrument - this can be anything that makes you reach a kind of flow state

go see something you haven't yet - get to know the cultural/geographical map of your area, this includes events, places, or just anything that makes you go out of your way to expirience something new, can be like a viewpoint or it can be a museum exhibit, anything you find cool

cook/bake something new - nurish your body, break out of cooking habits and routine, make it an event, plate it nicely too and i would like to point out that none of these have to cost more money than your usual lifestyle.

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Reminder to myself

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The concept of being back on your sticky bullshit and deciding to tag said bullshit with Sam Wilson’s name

Seriously, what’s wrong with y’all?

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30+ Things People Think Are The Same But Are Actually Different

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Introducing Rep Raychell Proudie

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i have to speak my truth. as someone who has watched iwtv from the moment it came out in 2022 and has convinced 4/7 of my friends to watch as well…if jacob is not in AT LEAST 25% of the show i wont be watching. i know that the creators of the show have said louis will still be in the show but given what mark johnson has said recently and there being no black writers anymore, i do not have much hope. i love lestat/sam and im super excited to learn about lestat’s backstory. however, the most compelling part of the show TO ME is jacob’s portrayal of louis and the dynamic between loustat. even though i know the story is shifting, i really hope they remember why people started watching the show to begin with.

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You get it.

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Resist in any way you can, all oligarchs have is their oh so precious money

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I cant believe this actually just happened

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I keep thinking about all of the disabled activists and people before me who stranded themselves on the 4th floor of buildings for weeks and crawled up stairs and fought with airline staff and schools and doctors and refused to stop existing in the face of injustice and bigotry no matter how big and scary and hopeless it seemed. Every time I get angry and scared the protests that lead to the creation of the ADA pop up again and remind me that disabled people are so much fucking stronger than anyone has ever given us credit for, and I can't help but be proud of that. And I know not all disabled people feel like we should take pride in our disabilities and have flags or whatever, but I think not just living, but thriving, in spite of a world that wants us dead and gone, in the face of both illness and persecution, and how we've not only bought ourselves forward, but uplifted the disabled people around us, secured more equal futures for everyone who will come after, and truly changed the way so many abled people have seen us for the better is something to be damn fucking proud of.

We have always been here and we always will be, there will never be a world without disabled people because being disabled is not bad, it's a natural part of the human experience and yeah it sucks some times but even when it sucks we have fought to build beautiful, unique, happy lives with people, both like us and not, and that should be celebrated.

The first sign of human civilization is the healed femur. The body of the profoundly disabled person who would have needed help to even just eat being carefully laid to rest after decades of a full, happy life. The medicinal plants showing even before we were entirely human we were doing what we could to not just survive, but alleviate suffering while we're at it. Above everything, evolution selected not the baby who can walk and eat and be quiet, but the one that can ask for help.

Disabled people are not just angry cockroach motherfuckers who refuse to die, we are proof of humanity's HUMANITY. Proof that natural selection selected a species that takes care of each other. From healed femurs and medicinal plants to vaccines and IVs and insulin to now, we are driven to help one another, we are at our strongest when we don't leave our most vulnerable behind. And I am living proof of that. My mother is living proof of that. Every disabled and chronically and/or mentally ill person I know is living proof of that.

And I don't know about the rest of you, but will carry that shred of humanity's true nature inside me like it's my fucking soul. I am scared and angry and hurt, but I have a lifetime's experience being scared and angry, and I can shake off the kind of pain that would make Atlas crumble to dust like it's nothing but a stiff fucking breeze. Disabled people have always been here, turning fear and anger and pain into joy and beauty and connection, and I'm not going to let everyone who came before me down. I'm not going to give up. Not now, not ever.

It's okay if you're disabled and you've hit your limit, you're too scared and tired and hurt, I won't blame you. But I won't abandon you, either. I might not be able to right all of the wrongs in the world, but I'll be strong, I'll carry all of you with me, I will not give up.

As I've said before, society hates a cripple who won't die, so we must spite them and live anyway.

Please, live anyway. I know if anyone can, it's us.

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Abled people can rb this btw. And when I say I include mentally ill people in with disabled people I fucking mean it. I'm not tolerating ANY division anymore, I don't care if it's EDS or lupus or cancer or bipolar or autism or ADHD if you're disabled you're fucking disabled and we're in this shit together. Just like we always have been, and we always will be.

You don't have to be in a wheelchair to fight alongside me, and I will not leave you behind, so don't leave others behind because they don't have the exact same medical conditions you do. The BEST thing about disabled people is how we bridge gaps, big and small, how varied our communities are because we do not balk at the sight of the other or snidely insist that the only people who could ever understand us are our carbon copies. We are diversity incarnate, and we know more than anyone else that solidarity is everything.

We get there together or we don't get there at all. That's how it's always been and how it always will be. Unity above division, liberation above assimilation, radical acceptance and a vibrant, angry, joyous, rabid refusal to give up and die over all else. That's the plan. Stick to it.