Commander of the Grey

"defend your thesis" why are you attacking my thesis

African students fleeing Ukraine aren’t being allowed into Poland or are being met with difficulty. There is a literal war and white people are being racist as hell, still. There is absolutely nothing that can excuse or explain that. 

i’m constantly grieving for people who’ve hurt and abandoned me

I literally need to go to a museum and look at the how thick the layers of paint are for an hour. I need to look at brushstrokes

the human stress response seems so maladaptive!

To be fair 99% of our evolutionary stress response was meant to deal with far more immediately conclusive scenarios than the tedious bullshit we put up with these days.

very very slow tigers are chasing me

not to leave a serious comment on a silly post but one of the best pieces of advice I ever got about stress was to SLEEP but secondly, when overwhelmed, lay in a bed and intentionally hold all your muscles clenched. clench EVERYTHING. hold it for a few seconds, then let go. It tricks your animal fight-or-flight monkey brain into thinking it had, and won, a fight, and some of the stress response will leave you

#turn a slow tiger into a fast tiger with this fucked up trick