Consistently research shows the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most reliable predictor of positive outcomes in therapy settings, and yet the vast majority of research money is still dedicated to finding something other than time spent building trust, and creating safety.

one the one hand I could write today... OR I could spend the day playing Payphone Tag... tricky decision

the high cost of bouncy castles is largely due to inflation

Jokes on you, my hair is green

Probably because it was turned off

The Five Genders: Mom Lesbian Sexy Lamp Love Interest Human Being

My 10 year old refers to Maccas having a new Happy Meal Promotion as them “releasing a new update” 😅

So today’s solution to the “shopping before (waiting mode) or after (executive dysfunction mode) Pilates stressdilemma” is splitting the difference by doing both! I feel great about this (genuine)

Omg what if my “I can’t brain after exercise” thing isn’t “exercise sucks” but actually “music sucks”?

Chips

Here we go again

Since some fetal tissue transfers to the mother during pregnancy, would the human mother of a half-elven child end up living substantially longer? Could this lead to human women having half-elven children as a longevity enhancer?

A man goes to his doctor, depressed. His girlfriend’s just dumped him, he says, and he’s too sad to function. “You have to get out of the house!” the doctor says. “Take yourself on a date. See the new Paul Schrader film about a guy who gets an AI girlfriend and then she dumps him.”

Gather round, naughty children, it’s learning time. Insulting bigots is not as simple as “call them the same thing they call marginalized people”, because at the end of the day, marginalized people are the butts of that joke, not the person you’re trying to insult. “Ha ha you’re disabled!”

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

Souperman obviously

You should all* be SO excited about this!! I’ve been lucky enough to participate in some of the testing for this and I’m not joking when I say FT2 is my all time favourite game! 😍😍😍 * people who like chill and cozy factory/city builders/resource management games

I didn't go to the shops before my clinical pilates class because I was in "waiting mode" and couldn't do a thing before I had to do the other thing. Now I'm in post-excercise-executive-dysfunction mode and also don't feel like I can go to the shops

There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

This mid 40s thing where your face just suddenly ages out of nowhere and you have to start recognising your own face again and it's actually the face of your mum when you were a teen Is bullshit actually

A low-grade irritation in the shift in body politics in recent years: a resurgence of thin women posting mirror selfies captioned "and the BMI says this is overweight." The point they are making isn't liberatory, it's anti-fat. It's "the BMI is bad because it categorizes some thin people as fat."

When I take my small child on a little adventure

I hate that doing any kind of exercise just makes me feel immediately dreadful. I know that it makes me feel better overall and is important… but also it’s hard to be motivated when it causes me such emotional instability and lack of concentration and motivation for hours afterward.

So many thinkpieces like this just boil down to "I miss being a teen and being in my 20's." And yeah, we all do. I miss not needing glasses and not having sleep problems and aches and pains, and friends without responsibilities so we could hang out. The world wasn't better, you were just young.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

A lot of people think “well IF he did it (and I don’t want to think he did)… he’s dead so I don’t have to feel bad for liking his music” and give themselves permission to not feel complicated about it…

The insistence on turning everything into long running franchises or setting stories in existing “universes” is at least partially to blame for why everyone is media illiterate now, people talk about “lore implications” instead of just digesting the fucking story

are there any more things like this

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

If you or someone close has been called a “picky eater,” COLOR TASTE TEXTURE may be right for you! I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide that’s all about finding what works for individual sensory needs. For all ages and cooking ability.

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

I have like $200AUD steam credits right now, for reasons (the reasons are that I’m amazing 💅🏻). What should I buy?? 😅

my dad shared an ai generated video on facebook claiming that Al Capone invented expiration dates to trick people into buying more milk

I appreciated a comment I saw on this that said it’s amazing that someone could write stories about world governments coming together to solve existential problems with their well funded space programs and not think there was any political content there.

Actually the biggest thing when I comment on how lucky I've been is people assuring me that I'm quite talented. My response to that is, thank you, I am in fact really really good at what I do, one of the best, and also, I am extraordinarily lucky. People as good as me haven't had the same luck.

I made mini Nutella cheesecakes for my husband’s birthday yesterday. They turned out pretty amazing!

April Fools Day is supposed to end at midday on the first, but it actually lasts for days. I have to double-check the publication date of everything I see for the rest of the week and most of the things aren't fun or funny?

The existence of Forky in Toy Story 4 opens up a lot of uncomfortable questions about the existential nature of toy consciousness.

The only April Fools Day joke I have enjoyed this year. archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

This guy like "I've always wanted to be a marathoner, but I didn't want to run long distances. But now, with the help of this handy SUV, I'm crossing finish lines like there's no tomorrow! 😁"

of course, artist buckaroos should always trot for better conditions and i personally believe ALL ARTS are undervalued. but IN ADDITION, it is wild for me to be in the author community now, because i just think 'if you think THATS bad wait until you hear how return of the jedi 'never made a profit'

I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

I’m sad that Starfleet Academy was cancelled, because I really like it! But I’m even more sad that it doesn’t seem possible to talk online about liking it and being sad about it being cancelled without a bunch of people barging in and hatersplaining why everyone who likes it is wrong.

Why is it suddenly so cold in Sydney wtf

Viral math posts are like "What's 3x2? HAHAHAHA, you thought it was 6? You utter fool! You benighted simpleton! You dunderheaded neanderthal! That's not the multiplication sign ×, it's the variable 𝑥, so the answer is UNDEFINED!!!"