Perhaps this is yet another failing of medical training: doctors have no idea what is and isn’t reassuring to a patient. “There’s nothing wrong with you” is reassuring if I have a funny-looking mole and the doctor is telling me it’s not cancer. But if I’m so sick I’ve lost my job and my life is falling apart, then “there’s nothing wrong with you” isn’t reassuring, it’s nightmarish. It’s terrifying. It makes you feel like you’re living in a horror film.

Screenshot of tweet: “Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats [location pin emoji] SF Bay Area We still have all these very adoptable kittens waiting for homes somehow: Goomba, Toadette, Carol & Hubert, and Soda Can They're getting close to 1 year old and are getting passed up for younger kittens. They're all extremely sweet” [four photos of of 5 adorable older kittens] 4:38 PM • 4/18/26 from Earth • 121K Views

🚨 Haley/@feederofcats’s Friends of Bear Cat Rescue needs your help! Somehow these adorable kittens STILL haven’t been adopted! As they say “These babies deserve homes and families, not to be sitting in an enclosure for a year”. Please spread the word! In CA? Adopt! www.friendsofbearcatrescue.org!

do u know how dangerous i’d be if i could finish things i start

The big red Jollibee X Final Fantasy XIV box on a kitchen counter

Echo wearing a black sweater with five moogles eating jollibee food

a glass cup with the same moogles as the sweater print

I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO GET THIS?!? Squenix sent me a Jollibee/XIV goodies box??? and a letter with a hand-drawn wiggler head???? Whatever employee(s) over there at squenix who made this happen, thank you so so much I do not have the words 🥹

THANK YOU SO MUCH @en.finalfantasyxiv.com !!

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

[in ransom letters] chronic illness. May I compare thee to a sunset. It's every fuckin' day with you. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.

preview of a sticker of a cat in cyan blue colors with blue flowers. the caption reads "generative ai is shit"

✨generative ai is shit✨

get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art

skyepolk - doctors: you aren't sick enough for us to treat you *comes back sicker as a chronically ill patient* doctors: you are too sick and complex for us to treat you

A promotional image for a Sword&Key game. The background is black and indigo with cloud-like texture over it. All of the text is white and the title of the game is at the top. It is called The Indigo Nexus, an Invisible Sun Game. At the bottom of the image, the game info says it runs on Saturdays at 10am PST/1pm EST/7pm CET on twitch.tv/sword_and_key. The Sword&Key logo is in the corner. In the center is the cast and character art of all the PCs. From left to right there is: - A young black woman with hair in space buns, wearing a periwinkle skirt with a scissor motif, long sleeved blouse, and holding a raven in her arms who she is looking lovingly at. They are played by Ventris (laventuredouble on BlueSky) - A southeast asian person with shoulder length black hair with blue udnertones wearing a long sleeved white shirt that is half unbuttoned to show tattoos on their chest. There is a shawl off their shoulder floating in the wind. They are wearing a variety of bangles on their wrists and around their neck. They are played by Ian (iandepriest on BlueSky) - Short dark haired person with horns over their head, wearing glasses, a maroon button down shirt and black vest. She has a cat on her shoulder that is staring directly at the viewer and there are sooth cards floating around them. This is the GM Mer (archmageofdice on BlueSky) - A white individual in a plain flowy neutral shirt wearing horse blinders and a crown of flowers. Played by Trout (tricksywizard on BlueSky) - A dapper but anxious looking man with strawberry blonde hair, red eyes, and pince-nez glasses with an ornate red button down and blue vest. Played by Asher (tickyhead on BlueSky) - A confident looking man with long brown hair with a blonde streak and bronze skin. Wearing a white button down, blue vest, and buckle harness. There is a tortoiseshell cat on his shoulder. Played by Seth.

Plots of demons and angels alike are afoot in the city of Satyrine. But our vislae have more important tasks to accomplish.

Such as... hunting spidermoths.

Join us at 10am PT for Episode 8 of The Indigo Nexus: A Family's Demons!

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

THIS. If you want teenagers to spend less time on social media, give them back their RL third spaces!

Like I said. Kobo has been over there keeping on keeping on this whole time. If you don't know about them, it's a great time to learn!

AI star symbol.

It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.

Twitch Twitch is the world

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for rage with friends in Super Battle Golf. www.twitch.tv/tickyhead

Twitch Twitch is the world

Assuming the internet doesn't crap out on me again we are LIVE with more Honkai: Star Rail. If I can't catch up on sleep I can at least catch up on whatever the fuck AHA's got going on. www.twitch.tv/tickyhead

Infograph about censorship. It compares it to magnets.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

HBO / Warner Bros shitting the bed and getting their big behemoth stomped out by just a guy on youtube and a crew of LGBTQ+ in an indie company is some real David and Goliath stuff

Ugggghh yeah, half of my visits with the therapist are spent parsing out what's actually the depression and anxiety, and what's a completely normal and human response to how incredibly fucked everything is.

It's not easy, to say the least.

Definitely agree. It's so debilitating, especially when it involves your mental health.

I hate when that happens. Just this week I've been suffering constant asthma attacks with empty inhalers but keep getting tossed around by the Dr and the pharmacy. Supposedly I'll get it tomorrow.

Supposedly.

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

First game: D&D 3.5e (early merchant copy iirc)
Last game: Invisible Sun (AP) and MAID of all things
Longest game: D&D 5e (currently finishing act 3/4 in Curse of Strahd)
Favorite game: Daggerheart
Favorite mechanics: PbtA
Favorite setting: tied - Lancer + Invisible Sun
Favorite Art: Invisible Sun

Twitch Twitch is the world

I need a lower energy game and I'm a bit behind on Honkai: Star Rail, so today we're getting philosophical about the commodification of media and the rise of streamer/hustle culture. Definitely nothing I have opinions on. 👀
www.twitch.tv/tickyhead

Actually I'm not done.

Many people who shy away from discomfort in fiction are the ones who most need to learn to sit with it. The ones who call their friends sharing their troubles "trauma dumping" or distance themselves when a family member is sad or lash out when their biases are confronted.

The Indigo Nexus returns this afternoon at 10am PT!

Friendships are strained over omitted truths, and a contract between Nevar the Demon and Kairos the Goetic is making the rounds for everyone to sign...