Stuff I Find Around

That anything also includes trauma and stressors.

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

the thing is. knowing someone experiences hallucinations or trouble reading facial expressions or communication difficulties or any other symptom CAN help you to understand their behaviour and respond to it appropriately. but knowing someones diagnosis is never as helpful as it is to listen to them when they talk about how they can best be accommodated. and if “can you please speak slower” (for example) sounds like a ridiculous request from someone without a diagnosis and a reasonable one from someone with a diagnosis. well you’re the dick in that situation

I think we (yanks) have a possible Victory Gardens 2.0 situation emerging, except the soil is poisoned in a looooot of places now and having arable land is a crazy luxury to people who can't afford to buy a home and who don't own property, and, well. you know. even if the homestead act hadn't ended in the 1970s (80s for Alaska) they'd have to buy or steal the lumber to build a shack and squat long enough for ownership rights to apply. anyway look into sweet potatoes

good year for learning your local shelf stable foragables

great idea! let's all post our names, addresses, and operation plans on TikTok, too, just to make extra sure the feds notice us

Who needs veggies when you have a.. mass movement? Sustain yourself on revolutionary fervor, comrade.

if you have to rely on specific scripts or turns of phrase to socialise that's totally fine, but you must NOT reveal them to your friends while slightly drunk. it's like showing how the magic trick works, you can't do it in front of them afterwards

i like dogs a lot but i can never remember the differences between breeds (apart from the few types i've actually owned/interacted with). but i know people looove their dogs and love talking about their dogs, so whenever im talking to a dog owner i'll ask what breed it is, and no matter what breed they say i'll say "oh! i've heard they have a really nice nature :D" and they always go YESSS THEY'RE GREAT and start gushing about their dog and we have a nice conversation and i build social credit with this person. anyway i told my friends about this script a few weeks ago when slightly drunk and now every time we're in public together and a dog goes past they turn to me and ask "does that one have a nice nature?" im in a hell of my own making

i fuckin hate games where u furnish/decorate a house because it reminds me i truly have no fucking idea what youre supposed to have in a room

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

For me the example of this was, when watching the film (thought it was pretty goddamned good), I got to the point where we see Agamemnon and that armor. I was already enjoying it, I'll admit, so I was probably primed to be more flexible in my response...but when I saw the trailer I thought, 'Holy shit does that look stupid,' on seeing exactly the same character in exactly the same armor. Sitting in the theater, though, watching, I saw it and realized at once, 'This is stylized. This is an interpretation of Agamemnon, and it's not an accident he looks like menacing power, threatening and indifferent and extremely dangerous. He doesn't look like the other characters because his worldly power isn't like the other characters.' I've got a layman's familiarity with how stupid the notion that there is a single 'canon' Odyssey is, but I hadn't expected to change my mind about that character in that armor so much.

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