Glad to see people offering resources. The VA does amazing work. The doctor who diagnosed me ran the PTSD wing at a nearby VA hospital so I know the info here is legit. Hah. This was actually the page that made me really internalize “oh. I actually *have* this??” because so much of it resonated.

Like o said, I needed this album! 😍

Omg omg omg. New Tori. Can I squee?! I needed this album so badly! I’m so happy.

Screw it. I just bought a cheap fountain pen. Now I’m gonna buy nice stationary and start writing my friends via snail mail. They live 3.5 hrs away from me and we’ve mostly been out of touch since Covid lockdown. Oooh. I’m excited now!! I’m bringing handwriting back.

TIL, I am also a cat and enjoy bird videos. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The only reason America wouldn’t feel fascist to you would be that you’re part of its fascism.

What if - stick with me here - the NFL didn’t choose Bad Bunny to own the maga crowd, but instead chose him because he’s popular, talented and they want to draw eyeballs? Not everything is about them. Some things are just smart business decisions. It hurts their feelings to be on the outside.

Our girl cat has an uncanny ability to wait til I’ve sat down with my smoothie (that is Frosty consistency so I eat it with a spoon) to have a burning *need* for snuggles and cuddles. I was sitting in the same place for an hour before making it and she completely ignored me. But when I wanna…

This is so, so, important. It’s a coping skill! Some of us, because the depravity of our trauma, do it when it’s not helpful or beneficial or healthy. The dissociation itself isn’t the issue at all! It’s being able to have the awareness that it’s happening and use it for good that makes it…

You know. My last interaction with someone here had the same feeling. I wonder if they’re involved in all the drama and that made them all mad and so they lacked the ability to reflect? Or maybe they just really like being offended at everything. If they already had their own thing going on…

People just like being mean and if you tell them to maybe introspect a little on that impulse they go straight to spasming in anger about it

asking people to consider how speech reinforces negative thought patterns is something that should result in you being "shamed out of the square"

so wait. *checks notes* Being pro union, pro green new deal, letting people vote safely, pro tenant rights and supporting bodily autonomy are against the Democratic “agenda,” I’m pretty sure they’ve lost the plot.

My cold brew concentrate didn’t quite fill my cup enough so I did what any caffeine-loving individual would do and added a shot of espresso. I’m gonna enjoy it and not contemplate how I have to make more cold brew + simple syrup later if I want to have a cup tomorrow. But hey - at least I’m…

Vance is responding to a purported quote from Joy Reid THAT SHE DIDN’T SAY. Left is Vance quote-tweeting a BS MAGA account. Right is my transcription of the video. She’s talking about HER PARENTS’ EXPERIENCE OF RACISM NOT HERSELF. SHE’S QUOTING HER MOTHER. Vance didn’t listen / doesn’t care.

You will not outdo my people. You cannot. Selah.

Where does he get to talk about people oozing with contempt?

Why are they so triggered by people sharing their opinions? They feel attacked by what? Words? Get a grip, ffs. “You said something that makes me feel bad. I must attack you now!” That is *not normal behavior.* It’s insane to watch. These people are fragile af.

Oh ok I get the infinite sadness part now

Amen. And this is why I write. Why I doodle. Why I script an idea, record my voice, and share the artifact. Why I listen to music made by humans that gives me full body frisson. Why I have a yoga practice and an altar to my ancestors, lineage holders, and sacred dharma. I am human.

Why aren’t they putting cameras in boardrooms across the city? If you wanna stop crime that costs society millions, if not billions, would that be a better use of their time?

This really resonated for me. I had a professor that I took a few classes with who was big on personal integrity. His definition was simple - doing the right thing while no one is watching. It also resonated because, as someone who grew up in a city where the cops/government wasn’t exactly fair…

a good thread to ponder on this place →

Listen I live with my own thoughts all the time, I completely understand why they drive other people away

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

“We’ve got a funky bunch of Chevys!”

Shoutout to my technical writers! Who else up drafting audit checklists for complex regulated substances, designed for a 6th-8th grade reading level?

Totally normal and not at all unhinged. They’d better charge him as an adult.

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This is stated very well & simply without theatrics. We need more communication like this from our government on both sides of the aisle. Rep Hayes & other strong women have been trying for a while, but the message gets lost in distraction from the right. Facts matter! Knowledge is power.

They are revealing their inner 6 year old children who wore plastic police badges and wrote tickets to people who didn’t wear bike helmets. It’s very telling. The country is being overrun by immature man-children.

My grandpa got us a subscription to National Geographic when I was little. One of the gifts were some books about science/nature (shocker!) and featured a cutout of a space shuttle. I spent so long pouring over that page, appreciating the details! These images reminded me of that. :) Happy memory.

TIL. I am goose.

Beautiful, brilliant, very well explained. 13/10 Recommended viewing for ALL.

Ok. This one had me cackling when she pressed down on them. This is AMAZING and should happen every time people speak “alternative facts.”

Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect

bluesky the company will not last if these decisions keep being made and it's just a matter of time until the rest of the funding goes away since they don't earn any money too, let us be ready for when that happens and finish building the infrastructure that will help that go smoothly

I had to withdraw from school in 2021 to focus on therapy/healing cuz things were just too much. It’s funny to me that the last two classes I took were Social Science stats and Racial & Ethnic relations. They really helped open my eyes and be able to get through the past few years w/ my eyes open.

yeah, it's like anti-government, pro-corporate people shut down the government, and put up propaganda because they know publicly being worse than Reagan at cutting services to citizens would be unpopular.

Even Carroll O’Connor knew that we are a product of our environment and that is why bigots are gonna bigot. The more people let the internet raise their kids? The worse it’s gonna get due to the (R) dominated/owned, hate filled algorithm garbage. We need to spread tolerance, not hate.

Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you. Keep it up. You’re doing great.

It’s a triple shot of caffeine kind of morning.

It’s deliberate conditioning. So, later when your wife or mother is disappeared under “suspicion” of being transgender, maybe she comes home and maybe she’s sent into sex slavery. If you connect all the MAGA dots, that’s where this leads. Today’s policies and procedures are ALWAYS a preamble.

/4 The other side of this is not merely saying “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” it‘s people who say “lol fuck those eggs.” It’s between decency and thuggish, swaggering, nihilistic evil.

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

Gonna ask a favor here of everyone on Bluesky. Allow yourself to feel. When you have a feeling that you don’t like? Instead of being a reactive, petty dumbass and lashing out at the person in front of you? Don’t. Say to yourself “wow. What made me want to do that?” Be curious, not judgmental.

Maybe if grown men didn’t act like young children and need to have their every thought affirmed by a machine, we wouldn’t be in this mess You hear that, parents? Be there for your kids. Listen to them. Care about them. Then your kids won’t turn to machines for validation. Trauma begets trauma.

“Nazism is attractive to those too young to remember a world war” God damn

and the thing is, green energy is our future! China is already outpacing us because they realize the shit works and is worth investing in! We’re being held hostage by a death cult who never moved past the racist black and white teevee shows meemaw had on the box set! It’s all so dumb!!