#july 30th 2023

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a Pokemon trainer and my only Pokemon was Benadryl (the pill but with anime eyes).

[honey-bri-books]

[jreed1703]

[madscientiststoybox]

ITS ALMOST TIME

[am-3w]

How do you nest while high risk? How do you nest with debilitating hip/pelvic pain? Like when I've taken tylenol I feel okay for a few hours at a time when I dont move too much. But how do I prepare for baby when I'm scared to move too much? Like if i nest and push myself when im feeling good, im definitely going to be in more pain later. So wtf do I do??? 😩

[irecordmywordle]

771

3/6

bathe

[inconsistently--consistent]

July 30th, 2023

I droped one of my summer courses. I just wasn't able to keep up with the workload. This is gonna make it impossible to graduate on time but I can't afford another D. I've never dropped a class before I feel like such a failure.

I also feel so much less stressed.

Watched the Barbie movie LOVED IT. Thinking about petitioning mattel for an electrical engineering barbie because I swear I remember that being a thing in the barbie life in the dreamhouse show but I couldn't find it on wiki or mattel's site.

[royalchildreneurope]

King Philippe of Belgium, Princess Eléonore of Belgium and Queen Sofía of Spain attend a commemorative event for the 30th anniversary of the death of King Baudouin of Belgium, in Motril, Spain -July 31st 2023.

[mimeticpolyalloy1000]

Happy International Friendship Day to all my mutuals 🥰🥰💞💖💕

[songspiral]

"Lover, You Should've Come Over" by Jeff Buckley

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was trapped in a Minecraft world with Kermit the Frog. The world border was extremely small, so we ran into each other almost right away. When we finally escaped, we sang Rainbow Connection together.

[letusrollon]

Tuned in to some shit fucking news 😭 STUART WHAT THE HELL MAN

I'm reeling. Fucking stumped.

[bunnie-the-idiot]

the kids online safety act passed the u.s. senate.

long story short (for anyone who hadn't heard of this before) the kids online safety act, aka kosa, is a bill that will censor online content and resources for lgbtq+ matters, reproductive healthcare, activism (INCLUDING PALESTINE AND LIKELY OTHER CRISES GOING ON LIKE IN CONGO OR SUDAN), mental health, etc. everywhere--its effects likely won't be contained to just america.

today, july 30th, 2024, the senate passed it 91-3. it has officially moved to the house of representatives.

is this a pretty massive setback? yes. do you have every right to be scared, sad, angry, or whatever else about this happening? absolutely. but should you give up hope completely? NO!

even though kosa passed the senate, the house is on break/august recess at the moment. we have around an entire month to get emails, calls, and faxes in to house reps, maybe more depending on when they decide to vote on it.

should it pass the house and get signed into law, we still have a whole 18 months before it actually goes into effect. this is plenty of time for digital rights orgs (e.g. fight for the future, the electronic frontier foundation) and other groups that oppose it to file a lawsuit against it. even if, worst-case scenario, it flies through the house immediately after the recess ends, we can still fight this up to march 2026.

so, yes, remember what's at stake here, but also remember that it's not over yet. we lost a battle, not the war.

below are some resources to learn more about kosa and how to contact your reps (first link) + a page that lets you directly contact progressive house reps, sign an open letter opposing the bill, and view others' testimonies against it (second link):

FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.

[sk3l3t0n444]

2024 please be nice to me im begging you

[1984-daily]

It was too great a coincidence. Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered. It was enough that she was watching him. Probably she had seen him go into the pub as well.

It was an effort to walk. The lump of glass in his pocket banged against his thigh at each step, and he was half-minded to take it out and throw it away. The worst thing was the pain in his belly. For a couple of minutes, he had the feeling that he would die if he did not reach a lavatory soon. But there would be no public lavatories in a quarter like this. Then the spasm passed, leaving a dull ache behind.

The street was a blind alley. Winston halted, stood for several seconds wondering vaguely what to do, then turned round and began to retrace his steps.

[the-abyss-gazes-into-you]

hi, so uhhh... i guess some introduction is in order :D please be patient, i'll try to keep it brief.

Alright. So, about half a year ago, I experienced skill regression after finding out I might be autistic (want to get diagnosed, it's in progress.) on top of the ADHD I already knew about. And since then, my world turned completely upside down.

Skill regression in neurodivergent people is basically losing the part of yourself that had been running on the need to appear neurotypical and once all the masking is dropped, you fall into identity crisis and temporarily lose certain skills (including social skills) and enjoyment of them, so you have to relearn all of that again.

After a kind of nervous breakdown in spring, I ended up on antidepressants because I lost the entirety of my personal philosophy and fell into months of nihilism, depression, self-pity and it just kept spiralling until some days my brain felt like it was in flames. A lot of that time has been a blur to me, my MBTI went from ENFJ to INTJ (yeah, I'm still trying to find out what the hell happened) and I barely got my grades up in the last minute at the end of the academic year.

But why am I telling you.

Today I started getting better again after a period when it got worse, and remembered that one of the things that might be seen as a special interest for me and genuinely makes me happy is the whole thing about self-improvement.

I've been cosuming content about it basically ever since the first lockdown, have found a lot of methods that work for me that I'd love to pass on, and take photos of my workplace anyway, so I told myself I needed some external push to keep my head above water by doing the same for other people. So I don't forget everything I learn again, and if I do, so I know where to find it again.

The url comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's quote:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

The thought behind this blog is basically trying to stay good in the fight with the bad. (Nietzsche's philosophy is a lot and his prose delicious so I might drop something about it when I finally make time to read The Gay Science or his other publications.)

I don't know what exactly I'll be posting about, but there will definitely be a lot of photos, daily updates, various categories of life hacks, quotes I like and some mini-essays on various topics. Hope you'll enjoy :)

(not a native english speaker so please tell me in the comments when you find a mistake, I'd love to get better!)