#the power within

[nobeerreviews]

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

-- Epictetus

(Frankfurt, Germany)

[icy-watch]

Honey, I am so proud of you

[soulinkpoetry]

We have all the power to overcome whatever challenges us, we just need to dig a little deeper.

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[puppy-fae]

My partner and I were both struggling to open a jar. So then we teamed up, she twists while I held the jar and IT WORKED.

If that’s not the power of love, I don’t know what is!

[zappedbyzabka]

Creepy crawly crazy villain femme fatale with bad hair vibes

[gallade-x-treme]

"TRANSFORM & ROLL OUT"

"dear god....."

"god that never gets old 💖"

[slade-tha-great]

[dichenlachmandaily]

Dichen Lachman will star in sci fi short film The Power Within, written by Kelsie McDonald and directed by Bo Youngblood, which is currently in post-production (via imdb)

[chimerareflex]

Willpower... how tough it is to build when you've been so successful at creatively getting around the hard work.

And yet, it is absolutely worth it.

[meteorsage]

I'm making cottage pie & mashed potatoes + shredded cheese from HEB makes the perfect glutinous crust for the delicious lamb curry within

🧘The Curry Within👄✨

[mitleiden]

If there are doubts yet.

[bloo-mickey]

finished my lab report 23 minutes early instead of 2 minutes.

[icy-watch]

...where's the nearest portal I can shove them in to?

[randgugotur-6]

This Day in Metal 🤘

𝐀𝐩𝐫 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧” #𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 #𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 #𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 #𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐎𝐧 #𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰...

𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐇𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧.

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).

it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!

here are my policy focuses:

upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.

enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.

enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.

accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.

[zappedbyzabka]

#that haircut is awful but he still looks pretty#looks like he’d ride someone’s dick until it’s chafed while holding a knife to their throat#he looks ​like he’s definitely been able to fit a fist and two fingers inside him with minimal wincing#looks like he’d capture the hero and make them addicted to his hole#He for sure pushes his cleavage together and flutters his lashes to get what he wants#and if that doesn’t work he uses violence (which he has no qualms doing.)#Anywho😇

your tags are absolutely correct

🥰anon my love

I mean...look at the way he acts lol