Black,White,and Shades of Gradient

“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

They make me sick btw

I have been struggling

Me reading this realizing tunglr dawt kom gave me more information about my medication than MYDOCTORRRRRSSSSSS MYYYYYYYY FUCKENNNNN DOCTORSSSSS PLURAL MULTIPLE DOCTORSSSSSSSS

Citric Acid is added to A LOT of food items as a preservative and flavoring agent. Things you may not even consider having it. Check ingredient labels on everything!!!❤️

When in doubt, talk to your prescribing physician. Then, if still in doubt, talk to your pharmacist.

IF YOU SEE ANY PAINTING BY "EMILE CORSI" ON HERE, DO NOT REBLOG IT THINKING IT'S REAL AND FROM THE 1800s. IT IS AI-GENERATED AND EMILE CORSI IS NOT A HISTORICAL FIGURE

And if you love the vibes and wish you could find something similar painted by a real person, let me introduce you to John William Waterhouse, on whose work the AI was definitely trained:

Corsi is not real

Imagine being Rocky in your spaceship when the first errors begin and you realize that the predator is eating your fuel and you have absolutely no way to stop it. Imagine thinking that even after all this, the death of your crew, the unlikely partnership, the wild success, the almost self sacrifice, you're never actually going to make it home. Everyone you love is going to die a slow and painful death.

The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.

How to clean a front load washer (with bleach). This should be done monthly or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

Gonna throw another potential resource at the end of this very long list, which may be potentially helpful for others like me who loathe videos. It's... the weirdest thing that has genuinely been helpful to me in housekeeping. Absolutely full of useful advice, and bizarrely still relevant in large part. (Though, caveat, research ANYTHING to do with chemicals or cleaning products more complicated than vinegar + lemon + water for modern information.)

#bingo. migraines start WAY before most people realize #many migraine sufferers don't even know about the prodrome or don't understand it very well #(because their doctors don't understand it/don't explain to them) #prodrome can have different symptoms than the main migraine phase #and if can last a very long time before the pain and other severe highly noticeable symptoms appear #one of my symptoms is craving food but hating water/finding it difficult to drink#anyone would say 'oh you get migraines because you're dehydrated' #naw I am a BIG water drinker. I am an extremely well hydrated person #the only time I stop drinking regularly is when I already have a migraine! #because for some reason one of my symptoms is 'water is disgusting' #(I can manage to drink some gatorade or flavoured sparkling water during my migraines and that's about it) #there are so so so many things like this #sleep is another huge one. migraines cause sleep disruption/insomnia for some people #and also acute fatigue that makes you take a nap for other people #sometimes both in succession #it's not your fault #I think people have trouble letting go of the idea of these kinds of triggers because it feels better to think it's your fault #than to think that it's our of your control #for some people there might be some factors you can control but for many people there just aren't

#migraine is yet another disorder among many that is so maligned as to be entirely misunderstood#did you know the neuropeptide CGRP is one of the neurochemicals associated with migraine.#did you also know tests administrating CGRP to migraineurs seems to be able to induce heache#did you also know elevated CGRP is associated with conditions like cardiac failure and sepsis#and besides this neuropeptide's vasodilator effect it Does play a function in nociception#so if you. say. have a disorder where your brain pumps out large amounts of CGRP and your receptors are sensitized to it. you just Suffer#besides that being why prodrome and postdrome happen (the neurochemical cascade on your body takes time to build up then wind down)#the good news is we know this now and it's why most modern migraine preventative & abortives are CGRP-related#gepants (or CGRP receptor anatagonists) are now first-line therapies for both maintenance and rescue care#alongside botox for chronic migraine (which also has an effect on CGRP receptors!)#all of this to add the additional hope that things have sucked and are hard for migraineurs.#for instance: the first-line treatments are prohibitively expensive and strongly regulated despite poor abuse potential#the wild thing with something like nurtec or ubrelvy is that it has no pain relief potential *unless* you're having a migraine#but things are changing. the care standard is in fact exactly as the post characterizes.#lifestyle changes aren't the standard anymore and disruptions in schedule are now rightfully being treated as symptoms#it's worth mentioning if your doctor doesn't you should absolutely consider a second opinion. doctors can be wrong or just suck!#migraine#disability#favourites#chronic illness#healthcare#ableism#(specifically in the whole “you need to micromanage your life”-thing. you understand.)

Migranes are the weirdest shit ever, a couple of times in the aura phase I have had transient APHASIA! Meaning that I lose most of my language abilities. The times it has happened I have struggled or been unable to understand people, I know that they said something but I don't know what. I struggle to string together a sentence and won't know if I've successfully said anything. I'll look at text and just not know what it means. It's terrifying!

It's very much possible to have a migraine without the head pain. The head pain is just one of the many neurological symptoms you can get with the disorder. I suspect I frequently had abdominal migraine as a kid.

Things in the Project Hail Mary book that aren't in the movie that I think are delightful

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

rocky: im not a scientist, im like the least qualified person on this ship, the only reason i survived while the actual scientists died was pure dumb luck :(

meanwhile grace is like: im a coward, im selfish, i put myself over the entire world, im not brave