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That intense, reflexive self-blame trauma survivors experience whenever anything in our vicinity goes wrong is not about having a "guilty conscience"-- it's a PTSD symptom. But framing it as a "guilty conscience" sign is a gaslighting tool abusers & bullies just love to pull out.

Now this is Content

sometimes the best technology is a bunch of rocks

Why isn’t school attendance policy reflecting the research in the Lancet on long covid? @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Children’s long term health should be the priority here! Failure to rest, especially in girls, increases long Covid risks! Over 120k children in UK with long Covid now #CleantheAir

For those who don't know how focal length changes appearance

Delightful thread! Like the quoted post to fuel the goodness!

Timeline cleanse. One like = one thing I think is nice.

Sending love to everyone who needs it tonight. Love and Tom Holland.

The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

No matter how deeply true certain toxic ideas about ourselves seem, we need to remember: CPTSD CONDITIONS-- brainwashes-- us to feel & believe certain things. That deep sense of "truth" isn't about truth. It's about the intensity & duration of our conditioning. Of our abuse.

I hope someone has alerted @weratedogs.com because I feel like they need to know about this very important situation!!!!

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

A closer look at a new wave of parents desperate to raise their children differently.

here is this platypus supercut you may want to watch

short about my hottest take

"This may be because it is the most junior members of the NHS Talking Therapies workforce, who conduct the assessment. The service invites us to consider that, though they are not qualified to treat, they are qualified to assess, even though they are not trained to diagnose!"

Everything is terrible, except the view-from-below paws of this ready-to-sew trompe l’oeil cat issued by Arnold Print Works, MA c. 1892 (courtesy Fashion and Textile Museum London)

Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece. “[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”

I really bloody HATE the A6

My favourite international name for a Mr Men character will never not be the name for Mr Bump in Norwegian, which is Herr Dumpidump. Tragically, the books with that title are now out of print. I’ll therefore be spending much of my remaining time in Norway searching antique bookshops for an old copy.

When your dad is an icon #bi #lgbt

MOAR BAUBLES

Ahhh Manchester, I do love you 😂

Autistic Lexicon Autism Creature, Yippee, TBH In January 2021 .@acmeiku posted this image to Twitter and through the magic of ineffable chaos they were embraced as an Autism mascot by a significant percentage of the Autistic Community.

Lads the HONK I just honked

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

I think I found the perfect music for this one. Get! Eel! Facts!!! EelFacts.Net Advent calendars benefit @skypeascientist.bsky.social so you should buy one and send them to everyone you know too.

Paging @greenleejw.bsky.social

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well: ‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Good morning, folks. The sky says trans rights are human rights.

Wearing a big rosetta stone outfit and goddamned strutting it for halloween this year and calling myself a large language model.

The Mandarin word for a porcupine, 豪豬, could be translated as “luxury pig” or “grand swine.” But the translation I tend to favour is “heroic hog” (and not just because that also happens to be my nickname at the local all-you-can-eat buffet)

y’all this house has *air con* www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Miso has his own elevator to get back in apartment 🐱

There's been an uptick in messages about copies of my tready cats, so I figured it was time to share them all again! I'm the original creator of this cross meme. Drawn last year and he took off! Now available in many different "breeds" 😸💛 #cat #art #artist #kilkennycatart #ohlawdhetreading

LOOK HOW CUUUUUUTE!!!!!! 😍

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today. #wipolitics

What's your sign?

What's your sign?

my current favorite TikTok account is this guy who tries to replicate women fitness influencers

Orca rebellion acquires autonomous drone technology

You gain the ability to dispense any 5 liquids from your fingertips. Which ones do you choose and why? ✨ GO ✨

CW: injury Now accepting cups of tea and gentle head pats