Stavner

u can have a quickie

Energy Claaaawwwws!!

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Post reads: People with ADHD have what’s called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD). It’s an extreme emotional response to perceived criticism or rejection. Your brain can’t regulate the emotional pain, so a small comment feels like a devastating attack. A minor correction feels like total failure. Someone’s tone feels like hatred. It’s not oversensitivity. It’s not being dramatic. Your brain literally can’t modulate the intensity of that emotional response. It’s neurological, not a character flaw.

Post reads: If you love someone with ADHD, understand that tone is a weapon you didn't know you were carrying. A short text or a sigh of frustration isn't just a moment of stress to them, it's a signal of impending exile. Your consistency and reassurance aren't coddling; they are the bridge that helps them cross the gap of their own neurological insecurity.

These were really good posts explaining Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria I had to pull over

On a personal level, this is one of my hardest things to deal with. Thankfully its not constant, and I've learned outward reactive regulation, but inside its still this, and sometimes the sad slips out >> 1/2

Art of a young East asian girl wearing a yellow outfit and holding a red ribbon. She rides a red horse with flames for its mane and tail. A similar looking foal runs in the foreground. 5 other horses run in the background. The fire horses symbolize the year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese astrological calendar.

Happy Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐎!

#kidlitart #lny #LunarNewYear #cny #YearOfTheHorse

Hoss 🦄✨

trans people are humans and should be treated with that in mind ignore the religious and political noise about them

Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic 2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.

"In short, if asked, many Americans have a view on trans people. But most of them just don’t care enough about us to use their one precious vote to express that view." - @quinnae.com in December www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...

Gallop into the new year. #lunarnewyear

A drawing of the pokemon Rapidash, a white unicorn with a mane of fire, standing protectively in front of its white flame-maned foal, the pokemon Ponyta.

Illustration of Rapidash and Ponyta crossbred with Zebstrika, an electric zebra pokemon. Their manes are electric blue, and their bodies are dark with white marks resembling a horse-zebra crossbreed.

An illustration of a Rapidash and Ponyta crossbred with Mudsdale, an earth-themed horse pokemon. They're brown and white like donkeys or mules, and their manes are dripping lava.

An illustration of Rapidash and Ponyta crossbred with Sawsbuck, a plant deer pokemon. They're fawn and spotted like deer, their manes are flaming flowers, and their hooves and Rapidash's horn are cloven and split like branches.

Well, look at that! Fire horses. Happy Lunar New Year, all who celebrate!

Extremely true.

The connection being “movies that feature complicated female love interests with color-changing hair, who Dana looks at and thinks ‘oh hey, I’ll steal that look’”

I always list, among my favorites, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and Bill and Ted. I think I like funny movies where weird people have adventures in cartoonish realities.

I first saw Scott Pilgrim at the New Beverly in LA., double bill with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, my actual favorite movie.

This is the third or fourth time I’ve watched “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and I…think it’s one of my favorite movies?

Happy Horse Year 2026!

kaze

make patent medicine great again

MAHA is a recipe for short brutal lives spent paying off snake oil salesman who sold you a quack cure you bought in a desperate attempt to save your loved ones.

Until the 1800s, cities were death traps. The concentration of bodies fed ecosystems of disease that ravaged bodies, killing many, especially the young. Humans do not make it to 5 easily without modern medicine.

Yes. Our current form of living, highly concentrated urban with constant global mobility, only can happen because of vaccines, antibiotics, running water, and public health efforts like meat inspection. Without all of these, we die and it ends.

Vox Populi est Vox Dei. Eques Apocalypsis est Eques Populi.

its why im thoroughly convinced the american bourgeoisie (and fascism) is a death cult. theres no way they dont understand that they can be touched by covid and other diseases... yet they continue with the antivax bs

I need to schedule a physical anyway. I should do that just in case.

When I had my physical last fall, I had them tested my blood for measles antibodies. I don’t have any. I got my MMR update just a week ago.

The only reason I did it is because nobody else is getting it anymore so I wanted to protect myself.

When I was a kid parents *demanded* we get vaccinated at school because they lived through polio, measles, etc years before and did not want their children to go through it.

I’m still so fucking mad that measles was for all intents and purposes eliminated when I was a toddler and here we are.

A major cause of death in pretty much every pre-20th century war (especially siege based ones) was highly curable bacterial diseases ripping through people in close proximity to each other, as opposed to actual violence.

Also Wired's editors said the only cover story they ever did that attracted more death threats than that one was the one about historical Muslim contributions to science & medicine

Many years ago Wired magazine had a cover story about vaccines & the anti-vax movement, quoting a doctor who said he no longer wondered if the specter of dead children would start reversing anti-vax sentiment but just how many dead children it'd take. I think tens of thousands frankly, minimum

So many of our current problems can chalked up by complacency fostered by poor education about how bad shit used to be and why things got better.

But TBH it’s a bad human trait to dupe oneself into discounting threats as time passes further from their last immediate incarnations.