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How to Cope with Blah Days

1. Recognise that it’s a feeling – and our moods go up and down. Shrug your shoulders, grit your teeth and choose to make it through the day. Nothing’s really wrong – and there is nothing wrong with you. It’s just the way you’re feeling – and our feelings usually change.

2. Don’t be hard and condemn yourself. Don’t beat yourself up for feeling miserable and blah, or for feeling apathetic and low on energy. Be patient, understanding and gentle with yourself. You’re no worse than others as we ALL have blah days

3. Do something rather that nothing. Do a few mindless tasks so you don’t just waste the day – and you’re likely to feel better once those you’ve got those out the way as they’re usually the things that you never want to do!

4. Only do as much as you have to. It’s going to take all your strength just to make it through the day. Preserve your energy – and allow some things to slide. You can always get round to them another day.

5. Be extra nice to yourself. One of the best ways to fight a bleary day is to be nice to yourself and to do the kinds of things that help to lift your mood and to brighten up your day. For example, go out for a coffee, or have a bubble bath, turn up your favourite music or call a bunch of friends. Do all the kinds of things you know will help to boost your mood.

6. Remind yourself that it’s likely to pass. A bad day is just a day. It’s not the whole of your life. It just means that right now you want to crawl back into bed. It doesn’t mean your goals are wrong or that you won’t succeed in life! You’re just having a bad day – and it’s likely to pass.

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dolores abernathy is just bender from futurama. Discuss.

Bonus:

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That post about the ephemerality of video games as an artistic medium bugs the hell out of me because it correctly identifies the problem, but entirely misunderstands the reason the problem exists.

Like, yeah, Super Nintendo decks are getting increasingly hard to find these days, but there’s absolutely no danger of Super Nintendo games becoming unplayable, because of a little thing called emulation. You can download a small program right now that will run on any modern operating system and perfectly simulate a Super Nintendo right down to the last transistor. Load up your cart image and away you go!

In principle, this can be done for any hardware or software platform, and considerable efforts have been made to do just that. The primary barriers standing in the way of doing so are not technical, but legal. The reason there isn’t a widely available emulator that will simulate, say, Windows 95 running on a 233 Mhz Pentium II so you can boot up that dusty old copy of Septerra Core you found in the back of your closet isn’t because there’s no demand for it, nor because it’s technically impossible, but because Intel and Microsoft will sue anyone who tries to distribute such an emulator into a smoking crater.

And make no mistake, this isn’t because they’re reflexively litigious assholes, though they’re certainly that. It’s part of a calculated strategy on the part of major hardware manufacturers and media publishers to enforce artificial obsolescence of legacy software - particularly entertainment software, though by no means limited to such - so that you have to keep buying the same media over and over again in order to have a version that’s compatible with available platforms. The ability to force you to buy a fresh copy of your favourite game every five years or so if you want to continue playing it is free money for them - of course they’ll do everything in their power to grab it.

Like, absolutely, lament the fact that you can’t play the favourite video games of your childhood anymore, but recognise that this isn’t some bullshit object lesson about the impermanence of human achievement. It’s part of a deliberate and ongoing destruction of our cultural history by entrenched media monopolies in order to force you to buy more shit.

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Westworld Timeline - Actualización Season Finale

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“One of the best feelings is finding someone who really gets you. A person who lets you be vulnerable and honest. The kind of person who encourages you to push past your flaws because they accept you as you are. Someone who never tells you that you’re too much of this and too little of that. Because to them you’re just enough of everything they love.”

— Sylvester McNutt

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Severe Lord…

Суровые господа

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I’m a big fan of that post-laundry feeling when you’ve got all your A-list clothes back in the game.

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Black Panther (2018)

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Hike today was so perfect. The forest feels A+ right now. 😊❤️🐶

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Ah yes.. The forest is so majestic. 🍑🌿

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It’s a good thing farts aren’t contagious like yawns. That would be bad.

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Flat Earth society was (probably) a social experiment to prove how many idiot followers could be gathered by giving a totally insane idea enough momentum on the Internet … and it’s working

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Letting someone give you a blowjob is a big gamble of trust that they won’t bite your dick off.

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Me when I’m being bitter.

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12th May, Cook Vaults in Liverpool, UK.

Glamour, Glitz and Grit, Amore Rocks will be performing.

Tickets available on Skiddle but selling fast

It’s nearly new act debut time. 2 weeks. #burlesque #burlesquedancer #portraitofred #amorerocks #manchesterburlesque #performer #chesttattoo #battattoo #featherfans

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