🎶 🧠 Samwise 🧠 🎶

It’s hard to be in autistic burnout and barely able to leave my house or talk to people I already know and love, and also to see the state of things in the U.S. clearly. I want to fight. I want to protest. But I can barely shower.

Not only do I feel exhausted, I feel guilty for having no stamina.

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Gov. JB Pritzker

Gov. Tim Walz

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

You are indeed one of us. And I am glad you’re here.

Thank you. I’m glad you’re here too.

I tried seven times before I was diagnosed. When the report finally came back, I felt like I could breathe for the first time in my life.

And now…

*also gestures outwardly, with great fatigue*

All this is happening.

I’m tired.

This is absolutely exquisite. I was just telling my therapist last week about how much I treasure the ability to grieve the many things and people and experiences I have lost throughout my life.

Thank you. I sent this to her.

March is already a month of grieving for me. This was timely.

There’s a place, too, for those of us who have spent decades healing from our trauma in therapy, and who now find ourselves right back in the acute sense of danger we told ourselves we were safe from, during treatment.

My belief that Now Time is safe was really keeping me afloat. I feel grief.

Everyone’s story of their own experience makes sense to them.

This is how we hold contradictions in superposition without forcing collapse.

And this is how we love others in all conditions, how we allow ourselves to see them fully so we can help them.

Prazosin is one of the reasons I can now sleep at night. It has completely changed my life - went from four to six hours a night with nightmares several times a week to seven hours a night with nightmares a few times a month.

Game changer.

There is no justification for this, morally.

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As musicians, we often hold the hearts of others in music while everything else crumbles.

Musicians go down with the ship because we know that the only thing that can survive the inevitable sinking is love.

And being in music with someone is loving them, and being loved.

It is unbearably sacred.

This is called stagger breathing in the music world.

In some ensembles, we give visual cues when we breathe so that the others around us will know that they can breathe right after, and we've got them.

Stagger breathing is how we make it to the end of the piece together when the notes are long.

Tombstone courage.

You: They did the math.

Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ

You: What was that?

Me: Nothing.

Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

If doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, then I feel comforted knowing that madness comes with so much hope.

Over and over again, I love others radically. It will not be enough to save me.

I will always choose to love anyway.

Some boundaries are negotiable, bendable, flexible.

The ones that are strict and immovable do not require the other person’s consent.

It’s good to be firm when it protects us.

I’m glad you’re here, too.

Boggle saved my life many years ago. Please live. We need you.

Someone close to me works at a local university, and they have been saying that many of the websites that included health disparity information re: marginalized groups are no longer accessible. The websites are gone.

For those of us whose role is to document, this is the best way to do it.

We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

Therapist colleagues, please take a break from it all. You are all absorbing the worries of the whole world right now and you won't be able to sustain yourself if you don't take a break. You MUST rest. You MUST take care of yourself to take care of your clients. There is no other way.

& thank you.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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