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tomorrow im really gonna give it my nothing

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One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

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there are many unexpected hierarchies to being a marine biologist

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LA Cares AIDS campaign (c.1984) starring Zelda Rubinstein Zelda Rubinstein was a little person (the term she preferred) who began acting in her 40's. Her big break came in 1982 with her role as Tangina Barrons in the film Poltergeist.

In 1984, she was the the central figure in a series of advertisements, directed towards gay men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness. Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did "pay a price, career-wise." "I lost a friend to AIDS, one of the first public figures that died of AIDS," the actress said in an interview with The Advocate. "I knew it was not the kind of disease that would stay in anybody's backyard. It would climb the fences, get over the fences into all of our homes. It was not limited to one group of people." She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk. (Source:Wikipedia)

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happy valentines day

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Happy valentines day!! Here are (some) of the most romantic lines from NBC Hannibal.

“I don’t find you that interesting.” / “You will.”

"I see his madness, and I want to contain it, like an oil spill."

"I let you know me. See me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it." / "Didn't I?"

"You cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love."

"I would have liked to have shown you Florence, Will."

“I don't know if I can save myself. Maybe that's just fine.”

“No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them.”

"You were supposed to leave." / "We couldn’t leave without you."

"I wasn't decided when I called him. I just called him. I deliberated while the phone rang. I decided when I heard his voice." / "I wanted to run away with him."

“Hannibal… I forgive you.” / “You dropped your forgiveness, Will. You forgive how God forgives.”

"Do you fantasize about killing me?" / "Yes." / "Tell me, how would you do it?" / "With my hands."

"I have never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him."

"Is Hannibal in love with me?' / "Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes. But do you... ache for him?'

“I need you, Hannibal.”

“If I saw you every day, forever, Will, I would remember this time.”

“And the bluff is still eroding. You and I are suspended over the roiling Atlantic. Soon all of this will be lost to the sea.”

“This is all I ever wanted for you, Will. For both of us.” / "It’s beautiful."

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found a twitter tweet that was like "oh yeah content warning hatoful boyfriend has a lot of gore and violence" and every single person in the notes/retweets/qrts/whatever the fuck terms twitter has was going "WHAT THE FUCK IT HAS WHAT" and i find that hilarious because. large amounts of gore and violence is a tremendous understatement about the amount of stuff that goes down in hatoful boyfriend

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'Transfem DIY HRT' and 'Transmasc DIY HRT' are a pair of zines aimed at teaching transgender people how to safely self-administer DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Both zines are 100% free to download here from Little Mouse (who also made the zine). Print, share and distribute to those who need it!

The information contained in this zine is collated from, and openly available from, DIYHRT.info.

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Kenny Omega at the Australia Zoo AEW stars in Brisbane • Feb. 14, 2026

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my last post has lost traction so I'm making a new one. but hi for those of you that don't know I'm xandra. last august I had to go to court and I was almost given a legal eviction on my record which would have made finding housing difficult. I've been staying with a dear friend but we both agreed I would I would leave by April. I found an apartment that's affordable and in a nice area but it's hard to come up with the security deposit. I recently got my child development certificate and recieved a small raise but I do have to replace things like pots, broom, bath mat, etc. I have raised $290 in january and my goal $950 please reblog if you'd like to help. no ill will if you don't through

cashapp: $jocedun94

venmo: xandrachantal

paypal: xandra.l.duncan@gmail.com

290/950

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Sections of the Alphabet, a guide:

ABCDEF - The Grade Quarter. For obvious reasons these letters are associated with rank and quality. Though E is not a common grade it nevertheless is part of the territory.

GHIJK - The Working Class Neighborhood. In English these letters do a lot of grunt work. Their proximity to the grades make them overlooked but what would we do without them?

LMNOP - Midtown. When learning the alphabet this section gets a lot of attention due to its distinctive landcape and how it rolls off the tongue. Its vista of peaks and hills make it stand out as well.

QRSTUV - The Support Town. A land of contrasts. The heavy lifters in this area draw a sharp disparity with Q, which is unique for its specialist role.

WXYZ - The Outlands. A stretch of unusual landscape that is distinct for its cuisine. Everyone knows what kind of dish you're eating when it's got some of these letters in it.

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so last year during a period of intense suicidal depression i made this necklace that i always wear, right, and the thing is it's genuinely brought me a lot of comfort and relief and i've developed a strong sentimental attachment to it, to the point that i can inarguably state that it's had a net positive effect on my mental wellbeing. however i did now just have to stop to almost throw up laughing because i realised that i've succumbed to the amulet.

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