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1am visions 🧠⚡

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アルビノオシドリ、メスもいてアルビノカップルになっていた。

掛川花鳥園

They’re not a pair of ducks with pink beaks — they’re albino mandarin ducks.

Kakegawa Kachoen

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My boyfriend has really vivid, elaborate dreams. He’ll often wake up and talk about some grand narrative- travel, exploration, politics, performances. I’ve always been a little jealous, he can hold really good plots together for them sometimes.

But anyway, this does have a downside; vivid, elaborate dreams make for vivid, elaborate nightmares. I can usually tell when it’s one of those nights, since he grinds his teeth pretty badly.

I was never quite sure what to do when I knew he was having a bad time of it, though the grinding alone was enough to worry me and push me towards intervening. I used to just shake him gently, hope to rouse him just enough to reset the dream or something, but it wasn’t too effective and anyway waking him up all the time isn’t good for rest.

I’m rather proud of the strategy I eventually settled on: gently, so as not to wake him up, I’d lay one arm across his hands, wrapping his fingers around me so that he was holding on. Nightmares being nightmares, I can usually count on a pretty tight grip when this happens.

It may seem a little odd, but consider that holding on to something with both hands is typically a very agentic frame of mind. We hold on to things that give us power, in one way or another, and possessing objects often makes us feel powerful in some respects. That has consequences, even for a dreaming mind.

I knew it was working when he woke up rather mystified from one such dream, and told me that he’d been running through the caverns of some dungeon or cave system, pursued by monsters, but then all of a sudden he was holding a giant anime sword and fought them off instead. So I got to be a sword for him that night, I was delighted.

I don’t usually get to know exactly what happened, since even for a very vivid dreamer like Ritter, nine tenths of these things get forgotten. But I know I’ve been things like door handles, steering wheels, stuff like that. And even when I don’t know what I am to him, he doesn’t grind his teeth nearly as much- the sleep is deeper and more peaceful, so I get plenty of feedback that it’s working.

It’s such a perfect encapsulation of love in microcosm, isn’t it? No matter how much you mean to them, and how much they mean to you, the gap between two conscious lives is fundamentally separating you. But fundamental does not mean insurmountable. There’s this whole world in him, full of dreams and perspectives that I’ll never truly experience. But I will be a part of those worlds all the same, finding little ways here and there to make sure that the dreams of me make him a better, stronger, and happier person.

Or at least, so one hopes. It’s a difficult challenge, and things often go awry. But usually you get at least a little lucky.

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abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

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obviously everything happening in the us is horrific but (like everything in trump's traveling carnival of government) it's mostly exceptional in now slapdash and clownish the cruelty is. let us please not forget that the EU has been paying foreign governments to torture and murder asylum seekers for years -- and australia's been doing the 'sending refugees to unaccountable offshore camps' thing for more than two decades. & like i say this not to detract from the justified fury and outrage for the situation in the usa but to urge everyone to analyse it not as some bizarre abberation but as something that fits alongside a long list of policies long pursued by the usa and other imperial core nations

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I HAVE BRAIN WORMS THEYRE LITERALLY BESTIES YOUR HONOR!! ;0;

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severely disabled intersex person saving up for rent & bills

i recently added some items to my Ko-fi shop if you're interested in checking them out! i am a severely disabled intersex trans person who deals with health conditions such as schizophrenia, hypermobile ehler's danlos, and crohn's disease. i am currently saving up for my monthly rent & bills at the moment- it has been over 100 degrees fahrenheit regularly where I live, so my power bill has been a little higher than normal. if you're interested in helping me out, you can check out my shop here:

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I am Kareman Dohan، From besieged Gaza

I record this message in the 21st century, specifically in the year 2025, fully aware and in sound mind. I hereby testify, confess, and declare that a criminal entity—ruled by violent gangs—has revived the horrors of Nazism, and has even surpassed them. For over 600 days, it has committed one of the greatest atrocities of our modern age, in a place called Gaza. They murdered our children before our men, our women before our youth. They destroyed homes, displaced families, and starved the innocent. And this brutal campaign has not stopped—not even as I speak these words. The world today counts more than 8.2 billion people, Yet not a single force has been able to stop the bloodshed, or protect the defenseless.

I call upon every free soul, every conscience still alive, Spread this message far and wide.

Speak up. Act.

Support my people. Support my family.

Let your silence not be another weapon used against us.

Silence is complicity.

Solidarity is a duty.

Donate to my family and my little boy, donation links below the post or by clicking here

Short video of 600 days of war

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My campaing vetted by/ @90-ghost here @gaza-evacuation-funds here My number in post 6

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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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I feel like starting an urban legend about a demon that kills you if you don't have headphones on when browsing tiktok in public

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Aika as still a full time magical girl must be insane to have that kind of responsibility as a teen

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instagram comment i saw and loved

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greek amphora cardi

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i am constantly amazed by the sheer power of old ladies at church. i think they could save the world

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like it would be convenient if you could just assess someone's support needs by checking yes or no on "do they struggle with bADLs" but it's not that simple. for example, toileting. you can struggle to wipe and still be low support needs. certain tools or products help people wipe independently even if they can't do it without those tools. that's not high support needs. there's so much to consider. if someone needs toileting, can they recognise that? that is, will they be able to tell they need to go? and then if they can recognise that, will they be able to communicate to someone that they need to go? but it's not even that simple. if someone can recognise and then communicate that they need the bathroom, can they bring this up unprompted? or does a caregiver need to periodically ask them if they need to go to the bathroom, and they will never communicate it without those prompts? can they be calm and allow people to give them the help they need to toilet? will they hurt themselves in the bathroom if left alone? needing one person to remind you to go to the bathroom because you forget is an entirely different experience than needing someone to prompt you, or even decide themselves it's time for you to go, and then have a caregiver, or multiple, support you through every step of the process of toileting. the support needs are apparent before you even get to the bathroom.

i use toileting as an example because most abled, and many disabled people think that having anything but complete independence with toileting is a huge big deal that indicates a severe lack of ability. they constantly talk about how they wouldn't want to live if they couldn't wipe themselves after the bathroom. and there's many, many, many, more people who struggle in some way with this bADL than ever gets talked about. it's quite normal even. but i think people are so distracted by surface level ableism they can't even conceptualise the level of care someone might need to do a single activity of daily living.

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beavers have the lifestyle that most children dream of. dig and travel through underwater canals. dam a river and flood the local woodlands. stomp mud into dam to seal. swim to flooded trees and destroy them. live in a secret hideout with a underwater entrance. full ownership over an engineering project