You are under no obligation to "embrace struggle" w/ "gratitude."
If simplistic bootstrappy bullsh*t worked for trauma recovery, I'd be the first to embrace it. But in most survivors it does nothing but scrape up shame & cringe.
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You are under no obligation to "embrace struggle" w/ "gratitude."
If simplistic bootstrappy bullsh*t worked for trauma recovery, I'd be the first to embrace it. But in most survivors it does nothing but scrape up shame & cringe.
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09.03.2026 00:06 β π 2891 π 818 π¬ 6 π 1
Copper alloy Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a seated greyhound.
1st/2nd century AD, found in Lincolnshire.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ro...
thank u true friend, we dust off and try again
03.03.2026 01:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs in the interests of almost everyone in the world that the US empire not be permitted to redraw the map of the Middle East precisely as it wishes. Imperial victory today will mean decades of darkness for humanity at least, even for most of those cheering it on.
02.03.2026 18:25 β π 48 π 12 π¬ 2 π 0i am sad to say that Little Dee was confirmed to not have a heartbeat today, i am officially miscarrying. not the update i was hoping to share. thanks for keeping them and us in your thoughts. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
02.03.2026 23:55 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I LOVE YOU DOG
27.02.2026 20:30 β π 2394 π 874 π¬ 9 π 0I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, itβs not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it
01.03.2026 17:14 β π 1068 π 191 π¬ 3 π 0You know who will always make you get up... dogs
01.03.2026 11:51 β π 705 π 30 π¬ 55 π 8tfw when you know a song without ever hearing it is such a brain tickle
27.02.2026 14:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i stopped at my fave fave coffee shop in this direly stressful week while we wait for monday's appointment and got the treat of hearing the original version of "Another Girl Another Planet," i knew the Blink 182 version was not the original but i had never sought it out bc i like Blink's so much
27.02.2026 14:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0wait is this a fucking Tung Tung Tung Sahur plushie giveaway
20.02.2026 14:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0thank you! this has been in the works financially and medically for years but now we are finally trying, i was so nervous for the ultrasound and i hate that the baby has anything potentially problematic going on...
20.02.2026 00:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0thanks Paul, i appreciate it π
20.02.2026 00:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if you're a praying type, please keep me and my wife and Baby Dee in your thoughts, they didn't get a great score on their ultrasound πβ¨οΈ
19.02.2026 22:59 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0holy hell the cover of Going Away To College got me even more in the feels than the original always does! love this project
10.02.2026 14:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0looking respectfully π€€
06.02.2026 22:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
06.02.2026 19:46 β π 10756 π 2687 π¬ 9 π 152thanks β¨οΈ
03.02.2026 16:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0friend please tell me you have a free link to share π
03.02.2026 16:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0happy Imbolc! we made pancakes too
01.02.2026 21:05 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0i just got to briefly go on about my blorbo (the Soviet Union) at work (it was relevant to a new book we purchased), such a gift!
29.01.2026 18:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How the fuck is anyone looking at sports right now. What the fuck is wrong with this country?
24.01.2026 18:03 β π 1627 π 181 π¬ 2 π 48St Joseph the Worker, stylized to match Ouir Lady of Guadalupe
St Frances Xavier Cabrini
St Toribio Romo Gonzales
St. Maximillian Kolbe
The prayer warriors for our times: Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, migrants, and refugees. St. Joseph, patron of workers and immigrants. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, patroness of immigrants. St. Toribio Romo Gonzales, martyr of migrants, and St. Maximillian Kolbe, Nazi resistor.
12.01.2026 04:08 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Radical Optimism is not "hope", it is knowing that every action towards a better world will eventually see it come to fruition. If not for me, then for those that come after me.
24.01.2026 22:23 β π 293 π 83 π¬ 1 π 3It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesnβt stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
24.01.2026 19:05 β π 2189 π 553 π¬ 1 π 9he's such a fucking schande
24.01.2026 22:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Alex Pretti was a nurse who tried to help a woman attacked by a federal officer. They killed him for it.
24.01.2026 20:23 β π 101 π 42 π¬ 4 π 2