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It's also not a coincidence that they're adding several more "types of depression," so that when you're having the usual sane reaction to this batshit world we're living in, they have more excuses to say you're not in your right mind and kidnap you into an institution you might never get out of.

u ever think about how some mental health disorders literally have criminal activity as a criteria…like not even pretending just straight up “if you don���t follow the laws of the state you’re insane” hmmm wonder why that might be

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There are two kinds of Instacart alcohol deliveries:

"um EXCUSE ME you bald, bearded, five-foot-seven homeowning underage scamming piece of SHIT, show me the FRONT of your license"

and

"just need to scan the back thanks"

Together, they are a perpetual motion machine

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I need the entire contents of my Batjokes playlist added to Beat Saber please

Give me the whole eleven hours and four minutes

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Some Astronomy Vocabulary

for your next poem/story

Aphelion - For an object orbiting the sun, the point (distance and time) where/when the object is furthest from the sun in its elliptical orbit.

Celestial sphere - An imaginary sphere of great (or infinite) radius that is centered on the earth and is used for practical purposes in astronomical observing.

Dark matter - A proposed form of matter that has mass, but is completely transparent and does not emit light.

Ecliptic - The apparent path of the sun against the sky background (celestial sphere); formally, the mean plane of the earth's orbit about the sun.

Light pollution - The emission of stray light or glare from lighting fixtures in manners that counter the purpose of the light (which is to light what is below); also known as the waste of money and energy in the form of electric light, usually meant in the form of outdoor night lighting.

Luminosity - The energy output per second from some emitting body such as a star.

Occultation - When one object entirely hides another behind it. When viewed from Earth, the Moon frequently passes in front of stars. These stars are said to be occulted by the Moon.

Oort Cloud - A hypothetical region of the outer Solar System that is thought to be the origin of comets with long orbital periods. The Oort Cloud likely contains many billions of small icy bodies left over from the formation of the Solar System.

Penumbra - (Latin for "almost shadow") the outer, less dark, part of the shadow cast onto a body during an eclipse, in which the light is only partially blocked; the distinct outer and brighter part of a sunspot.

Perigee - The point where (and when) an object's orbit about the earth in which it is closest to the earth; only applicable to objects orbiting the earth (not to objects orbiting the sun).

Perihelion - The point where (and when) an object orbiting the sun is closest to the sun.

Perturbations - Gravitational influences ("tugging" and "pulling") of one astronomical body on another.

Solar wind - (also called Stellar wind) A stream of particles, primarily protons and electrons, flowing outwards from the Sun at up to 900 kilometers per second. It is essentially the hot solar corona expanding into interplanetary space.

Umbra - Latin for "shadow". In the context of eclipses, the umbra is that region of space where an observer sees the one body block the other's light completely.

Zenith - The point directly overhead in the sky.

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Word Lists

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trackbear.app

It took eight of the nineteen sessions I planned to catch up on yesterday's and today's word count of 1,617 (too many errands yesterday, never got to sit down).

Same old ADHD coping skills:

x Just start

x Tell yourself you don't have to finish

x Tell yourself it doesn't have to be perfect or even good

x You'll do more than you think after you get started

x Use timers and race the clock to make it interesting

I may just be a lunatic and do the same thing tomorrow, so that I hit my deadline a day early and can take a day off to prepare the chart for the next 50k, do August's budget, and figure out the logistics of R's upcoming birthday.

I'm going to spread the next 50k out with a deadline of November 14th, so I can deal with the oncoming seasonal affective disorder and my current burnout by doing a bare minimum of about 470 words/day. More if I feel like it, I guess, but I doubt I will.

I also need to figure out how I'm going to get a handle on everything overwhelming me when I don't have the resources to deal with any of it.

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This is the part where they do the astral-projection-type ceremony at the harvest festival, but my brain's so tired of making things up for the fantasy aspect of the story it refuses to do so.

I'm having to get the words in by listening to Henry's internal monologue about gender dynamics and the issues that come with them, with experiencing many of the problems of (all) sides (and then having various people of different genders invalidate your experiences because you're not a 'REAL' man/woman/nonbinary person... as a trans man, you couldn't possibly understand women. As a trans man, you couldn't possibly understand men. How could you understand the experiences of nonbinary people when you're masculine-presenting? And so on), plus being that child in the middle of a hetero couple's abusive relationship who can see where both people are coming from but can't get them to stop perpetuating stereotypical abuses against each other long enough to have a real conversation with each other, because they think you're just a stupid, confused child who doesn't understand their ~worldly ways~

I guess in a way that does relate to the upcoming separation from his body, so there's a bit of symmetry there?

I hate this book and will be glad to see it finished and stored on a hard drive and ignored until that hard drive fails.

That probably means if I published it, it would be a wild success and everyone would greet anything else I write with, "Eh, that first thing was better."

We all saw what happened to A. A. Milne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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makeup isnt enough i need to exit my body and only exist as a concept

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John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

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You need to move off of Google Docs!

I know some people have seen the news recently and may be doubtful of it. To the uninformed, Google Docs has started using AI to find "inappropriate" and "problematic" content, scraping your documents and deleting it. I know some people are unsure if this is real or think this is not going to affect them.

I regret to inform you that this is real.

As I was on a call with some writers and we were moving our documents as a precautionary measure, one person discovered entire pages missing that they did not delete themselves. This is happening to us, it's not a hoax or a rumor, it's happening right now. You need to move everything if you want to preserve it.

If you're a writer with writer mutuals, please reblog this so they know. I rarely write on Google Docs anymore, but I started my fanfics on there, and I would be devastated if I lost works more than ten years old because people decided marketing appeal is more important than creative freedom.

EDIT READ THIS: https://www.tumblr.com/bravehyde/790422701153157120/hi-can-we-have-any-sort-of-source-about-the

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Shoutout to the porn blogs who randomly and inexplicably add likes to mundane shitposts and make us all feel a little less alone in the void

or more alone, I don't know

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We are into true garbage draft territory today

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Autism Anonymous

been thinking about getting into recreational rocking back and forth

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I wish we could do with boomers what we sometimes do with small children, similar to like... 'Sonic the Hedgehog/Dora the Explorer/Bluey knows how to clean THEIR room/tie THEIR shoes/etc, so if you want to be like THEM...'

Only it's like 'Captain Kirk/The Highlander/Matlock doesn't vote for nazis/hate the LGBTQAI+ community/say stupid, racist, ableist, misogynistic things, so if you want to be like THEM...'

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Getting through my WIP word backlog today ninety words at a time every other twenty minutes

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A saint?

For me?

What a wonderful little boy

The guardian of Those Who Live in Death (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

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Remember that oh-so-recent reminder that Elon Musk isn't your friend now just because he's spatting with the Oompa Loompa nazi occupying the White House?

The one no one should need because he's also a transphobic dipshit, among countless other major flaws?

Now he's working with Trader Joe's to end as many employee unions as he can, not just at Trader Joe's, but everywhere.

So, you know.

Boycott Trader Joe's. Not just for a little while. From now on. Like you should be with Starbucks, and so many other companies.

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KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE 1989 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki