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it's amazing that we were put on this earth to serve cats

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If I ever wrote a superhero story I’d want there to be a recurring shitty C-list supervillain in the background whose power was changing something’s colour and all her villainous plots would be colour-themed things like “If the city council doesn’t give me a million dollars, I will turn the city of GREEN Bay into the city of RED Bay!” and she’d turn the Golden Gate Bridge magenta or whatever.

So it’s all low-stakes villainy, but everyone absolutely hates fighting her because her very shitty superpower works really really well, and there are dozens of background characters who’ve fought her that are just permanently green now

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Night blooming cereus under flashlight and UV light.  It only lasted the night, but was glorious while it lasted.

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Mieczysław Naruszewicz, 1923-2006

Relaxing Cat figure, designed by M.Naruszewicz in 1958 for Cmielow (Poland, 1950s/1960s), porcelain, 31x17x13 cm

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Yeah well...

The Favorite Kid: part 1/ part 2/ part 3 is here... There will be more parts.. I will make a fuller link version when I make a pinned post <3 yippe

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Donate!!!!!! Boost!!!!!

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No words exist to cover how badly I want to see this whole thing now

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Just in case!

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over the summer i crossed an important milestone of understanding my body, I went for a hike with my brother and after an hour or so I was feeling so angry, uncomfortable and unhappy. And it got worse and worse until I was just FURIOUS inside my head and wanted to cry and I thought, okay, there must be a cause? What is different? What did I do different?

And then I realized

The Fucking Sunscreen.

That day I was wearing shorts and short sleeves, so i had put on sunscreen, a lotion-style sunscreen. I don't usually put it on. I wear long sleeve linen shirt and linen pants (mostly), and do my work in mornings and evenings (usually), and sometimes I wear a hat, and sometimes I just get burnt. Not ideal. But maybe I now realize why.

I got more and more and more irritable and upset until I got back to the bathroom at the nature center, at which point I washed off as much of the sunscreen I could with the sink, and felt almost immediate relief.

And I thought to myself, it will probably take twenty-four hours to get un-overloaded, and i turned out to be right. Normally I would dismiss this thought, but I went ahead and emailed my professor and said I wasn't coming to class because I had a situation occur. And this was the right decision.

It occurred to me later that I've never been able to identify the cause of sensory overload and proactively deal with the problem so quickly.

I have spent so much of my life painfully bending the perceptions of my body into something that more closely matches what I imagine other people must feel. It's warped my ability to feel distress and discomfort and regulate my own stress.

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What my body feels is different from what it is socially expected to feel.

I have lost much of my ability to consciously recognize and name what my body feels.

I habitually dismiss body-perceptions of distress or pain that seem to contradict social expectation.

I experience distress and/or suffering from my body's perceptions, but fail to consciously acknowledge it as reality until it becomes intense enough that it distorts cognition.

I am often not consciously aware of the specific sensation or sensory input that the distress relates to, though I do feel it.

My habitual behavior often manifests avoidance of things causing me sensory distress, but if asked, I couldn't explain why my habitual behavior took that shape. Such as not wearing sunscreen even though I knew I should, or avoiding certain clothes even though I didn't consciously dislike them.

I don't think I have what autistic community refers to as alexithymia. I am very, very good at identifying and describing feelings and emotions within certain parameters

At the same time, my brain receives sensory inputs from my body that I feel and am affected by but can't completely consciously experience. I couldn't precisely locate a feeling in my body that was "the bad feeling of the sunscreen on my skin" until I began washing it off, and then I could tell that the parts of my skin that were still sticky and greasy felt Bad.

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Leafeon

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Dragapult + Drakloak + Dreepy

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BTW please do not forget your daily clicks! Any myth of this NOT going to Palestine has been debunked, and it doesn't take any time to simply click one button.

You click the button and the ad money goes directly to Palestinian relief funds!!! It's safe, and if you haven't done it before I'd highly encourage you to start now!

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Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

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The President

The 3200 year old tree so massive that it had never been captured in a single image until recently.

This giant sequoia stands 247 feet tall and measures 45,000 cubic feet in volume. The trunk alone measures 27 feet and the branches hold 2 billion needles (more than any tree on the planet).

This picture took a team of photographers from Nat Geo, 32 days and stitching together 126 different photos to make.

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