this reminds me of a similarly incredible Terry Pratchett story - he switched publishers in Germany because his original publisher inserted soup ads directly into the text of his books and wouldn’t promise to stop doing it
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
You are not an inconvenience or burden to your therapist. You give your therapist the opportunity to do meaningful work in the career they chose. Their job exists because you have the courage to do therapy.
They-- we-- are lucky & privileged to work w/ you.
This is a brilliantly subtle burn, lol
“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.” “It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
Just found out TWO AMAZING FUN FACTS
1) tomorrow is “respect your cat” day
2) Thomas Hardy’s cat is rumored to have eaten his heart
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan ). The post reads: "HAHA, folks in Greenland are making these hats go viral ahead of Usha Vance’s visit there. I LOVE THIS!!! " Below the text, there is an image of a red baseball cap being held by a hand. The cap has the text "MAKE AMERICA GO AWAY" written on it in white letters, along with a small circular logo on the side that appears to be the Greenland flag.
The whole world now feels this way toward us, TBH.
Many complex trauma struggles & symptoms don't lead back to things the culture-- or even the DSM-- register as "trauma."
Many of them lead back to things as simple-- & destructive-- as parents who just weren't very interested in us.
We can't just tell our nervous system to "stop" scanning for threats. We have to support it in feeling safe-- & that might start w/ what we say to ourselves, but it doesn't end there.
Realistic trauma recovery is a mind, body, and often spirit project.
If anyone needs soothing right now I highly recommend this video of a day in the life of a Japanese bakery. Warning: this WILL make you feel hungry youtu.be/PSCFIZa4b3I?...
The worst thing is not Trump's evil. You can fight evil. But what do you do about people who know better, but won't do better?
I dreamed terrible things were happening, that I didn’t know what to do about any of them
A woman sat in front of me, calm, like an apparition drinking tea as chaos abounded
“If you think the story of reality is too hard,” she said, “you’re being called to change it”
You're doing amazing! Love the anatomy of this one, in particular.
A friend of mine asked me to tell a story about hope, its absurdity, its necessity
All of the witches I know woke up crying today, and none of us know why we were doing it; our bodies just... cried
When he asked me to tell a story, the only one I could think of was when I found out I was pregnant
Look at these adorable baby goats
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS
Brain radio playing a song - can’t control song, maybe can control volume. And there is the Play-by-play announcer and Details commentator. Plus the list of things to do being announced overhead like at a trainstation - Now Boarding Dinner 6:23pm. And then just My Own Thoughts That I Control.
Ok this thread is absolutely hilarious
I have spent some time thinking about how we attach all this social meaning to turning 30 or turning 40, but the only reason is because of the base 10 number systems. nothing actually Happens. no one magically transforms into a crone. a 30-year-old is a 29-year-old plus one.
Hayao Miyazaki’s image with a text/quote from him saying, “I am utterly disgusted. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.”
If you using Studio Ghibli AI ChatGPT—Miyazaki should personally get to hunt you for sport.
Telling a trauma survivor who has been functionally on their own since they were a kid that they "have" to "reach out" for "relational healing" disrespects & misunderstands their wound.
The only "have to" in trauma recovery is, we have to find a recovery path that works for us.
A nervous system that has been shaped by the necessity of playing defense for years against the most powerful people in your life, isn't going to be open to superficial declarations that "you're safe now."
The feeling & reality of safety is going to require time-- & tests.
Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this BEAUTY by @live2draw over on the blue bird - Such a brilliant trick for and helping you UNDERSTAND FORM and FORESHORTENING ARMS! So useful! #drawingtutorial #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #comicart #characterdesign #manga #anime #drawing #anatomy
Best part is the original was Canadian.
Plushie bought from Square Enix at SDCC
Still Life Painting of my Chocobo White Mage
When following the headlines fills me with despair, it's comforting to cuddle with a family member who remains blissfully unconcerned about fascism.
That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).
Jess holding a ferret while looking absolutely ecstatic
Jess grinning like an absolute dork while a bear wanders by on the other side of a fence
"But you're a biologist, don't you just...get used to seeing animals?"
Nope, it will never not be super fucking cool to see animals up close, it literally never gets old
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