Ouchie Palooza

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

When I was younger I was pro-death penalty. And I won't beat myself up too much about that. I was a hurt, damaged abused person who wanted to believe there could be a measure of justice for the things that were done to me.

But, here are some of the reasons I changed my mind

1.) Death by lethal injection is not as painless as we are led to believe.

2.) The death penalty is disproportionately applied to inmates of color and

3.) People with mental or learning disabilities are unfairly sentenced to death row without proper access to reasonable accommodations in their defense. (There has been a significant effort to vacate the death row sentences of those with learning disabilities.

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

I can try to let go and not let it get to me, but it kinda does. Because that kind of stuff? Is exactly why when I was diagnosed, I still had friends say really mean things without realizing how mean it was. 

Because the only way they’d ever seen narcolepsy portrayed was for laughs. So lol, it must not be that serious or hard or anything! It’s just a little disorder or something! Who knows! Lol falling asleep in soup!

It’s not like it’s actually really hard on the psyche and on your general happiness to be in that much physical pain daily and to have to rest so much even though you want to do things and have fun and you need to work for money and then you start getting nervous about events because you know after a few hours you have to sit down and rest. And even though it looks really rude, you HAVE TO rest your head on the table at a restaurant. You HAVE TO, because everything hurts and you’re delirious and heavy and you have hot flashes but your limbs hurt as if they’re frostbitten. 

So cut us some slack, okay? It’s not easy. If you have a narcoleptic friend that has to rest when you’re out somewhere like the zoo, trying to have fun, be there for them. If they’re okay with it, hug them or rub their back a little. It helps me, because it calms the nerves, and narcolepsy can get much worse the more we stress, or if something scares or upsets us it can hit instantly and we have to shake our heads or pat our cheeks every few minutes to try to have a moment of clarity.

[ ArtFight 2026 ] [2] Demise of Our Own Design

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)