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my dishwasher loves Clunking

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they should invent a staying up late that doesnt guarantee less sleep

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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This minimization keeps the quiet part quiet: that the world is still in a pandemic per the World Health Organization and that more than 73,000 Americans died of COVID in 2023, a higher number than from car accidents or influenza. Among those who have been infected, about 10 percent have long COVID, a serious and often disabling condition with a disease burden comparable to that of cancer or heart disease and an economic cost rivaling that of the Great Recession, for which there are no approved treatments. What’s more, each infection, no matter how mild, is associated with a substantially increased risk of health issues, including cognitive dysfunction, autoimmune disease and cardiovascular problems.

Prepandemic, these statistics would have been eye-popping. Now they constitute “back to normal.” We think we no longer have a problem, when we’ve just changed the standard by which we deem something concerning.

To shore up collective denial, we also rewrite the past. Not only do we repeat that we are better off now, we claim things were never that bad. Contesting the past to remove unwanted memories produces a cultural amnesia about the pandemic. And in burying the past, we sidestep accountability for what went wrong.

Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial because they call attention to what’s being ignored. Thus, another playbook tactic is to hush them up, often by painting them as subversives or deviants. And so those who wear masks are ridiculed, scientists reporting on COVID risks are cast as fearmongers, and those with long COVID are dismissed as having anxiety disorders.

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my beautiful daughter named paranoia. shes right behind me isnt she

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entering this great new phase of my life where, when someone treats me like shit, instead of going "oh man I guess I'm a piece of shit" I can whole-heartedly go "christ alive, what is wrong with you? you can't treat people like that" and it may sound simple but it took a long time to get here and there's no fucking way I'm going back

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I love you thunderstorm lullabies. I love you foggy mornings. I love you misty days. I love you birds playing in puddles. I love you raindrop-bejeweled blades of grass. I love you cool breeze.

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Hazzan reading the Scroll of Esther, Mumbai, India, 1979

Jews started settling in Mumbai from the 2nd century, but an organized community was only established in the mid-18th century. It consisted of Bene Israel as well as Baghdadi, Yemenite, Persian and Cochin Jews. The Bene Israel began migrating from the countryside of the Konkan region into the city in the 1740s. Unlike the Bene Israel, the Arab Jews of Mumbai did not speak the language of their neighbors, Marathi, but carried their Judeo-Arabic dialect and customs with them. For hundreds of years, they were granted religious freedom and didn’t experience any anti-Semitism.

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Oh everyone is falling as their lives play out unplanned And everyone’s connected though they may not understand That falling feels like flying 'Till the moment that you land

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this is us btw <3

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If you’re planning to fast on Yom Kippur, start decreasing your caffeine intake and increasing your hydration today.

Doing both of these things incrementally starting now and throughout the Yomim Noraim will increase your body’s ability to fast so that you can daven with less physical distraction.

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Lonely Eyes - The Front Bottoms

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The Grammont by Ferdinand Hodler

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Anolis Aquaticus (By: Lindsey Swierk)

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top 10 normal behaviors to perform while feeling regular