🏳️‍🌈the flightless bird who loves you🏳️‍🌈

Ofc feel free to disregard any of the things if they aren't helpful, accessible, or relevant for you! Hope it wasn't bothersome to share here (please lmk if you'd rather i delete any of this) but just thought I'd share things i found useful that other ppl taught me in past heatwaves jic. Good luck!

If you have a fan, i find having a bit of cool water on a cloth on my body and then blasting the fan at the damp skin (and reapplying some water every so often as it dries) can help too. Also can be helpful to add a tiny bit of electrolytes (salt, sugar etc) when drinking lots of water if possible.

I'm so sry 😢 I hope you can be safe through the heat! Some things I find that help me cool down quickly in a pinch: (idk if they'd work for you, ymmv) I keep an empty cup in my bathroom, fill it with cold water, pour it over my head/back of neck over the sink/bowl + down my belly while sat on toilet

Thank you for the kindness 💝 It mostly sucks bc I get daily burning headaches, so I usually sleep/rest with ice packs on my head 😭 Using chilled packs from the fridge for now, but can't walk to replace them once they warm up. Just hope my fridge keeps working in meantime! Glad your's didn't break! 💜

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Thank you for this 💜💜💜

Just to add, people with anti-social personality disorder also deserve love and support and also aren't doomed to be immoral fascists. People keep wanting a diagnosis or scientific validation for condemning bad behavior - maybe because we've been taught to distrust our own observations.

Transit security with SUV parked in street.

While we're subjected to lousy, inaccessible transit services with increasing fares, these clown get their own vehicles to make drink runs at Tim Hortons.

#ACAB #FreeTransit

Our freezer broke at the start of the weekend, just in time for the heatwave now. 😭 I'm incredibly prone to overheating & sensitive to heat, so I normally use ice packs to cope, relieve pain, & sleep. The landlord rarely gets repairs done quickly, but i hope it can be fixed soon. Terrible timing. 💔

Is frustrating when people use being initially bad at writing or drawing as a reason to use AI. This ignores two things:

(1) a core aspect of getting good at a skill is doing it badly over and over again.

(2) often the joy of creation is its own reward (irrespective of whether it's good or not).

oh that sweet face! 🥺💖

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This is a gorgeous photo by the way! 💚

Absolutely! It seems really clear that they experience love. 💖

I've been watching a livestream of a couple doves raising chicks, and lately when they briefly reunite to switch who sits on the nest, they seem to stall a bit, as if to savour the moment together as they gently burble with affection 🥺💝

Also my fave, but I frame it in terms of spending, i.e., if you had $1 billion in 1 AD and spent $1,000 per day without ever earning $1 more, you'd still have more than $150m today. People can imagine spending $1,000 per day every day as extravagantly absurd.

people like to point out that 1 million seconds ago was 11 days ago, 1 billion seconds ago was 31 years ago (1993).

what people really can't grasp is that jeff bezos seconds ago (est. current net worth 203.4B) was 4426 BC.

Jeff Bezos is worth about $203.4B. If he spent $100,000 every single day, it would take him 5,572 years to spend all of his money.

my fave continues to be -- if you were handed $1000 every single day, every single year since AD 1 and saved every single penny of it, you still wouldn't be a billionaire.

I hate everything about this. Paying 6 figures for an "AI model"? If you want fake people, pay a human to draw them! "Diverse models don't get engagement, so we don't do them." "The technology *isn't advanced enough* for plus-size models."

Left: Denise Richards
Right: Kate Upton
They paid a "prompt engineer" several thousand dollar and gave a kid in Iowa asthma to create weirdly lit women who already exist and have been photographed many times

Wishing you good luck! No matter how much time you may need to create, your art is appreciated, it matters, and it makes me feel things. 💗

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