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Well see, that's where your taxpayer dollars go! To feed the gaping maw beneath the pentagon that spares us to live another day

Source

An unfathomable amount of money

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People really do keep saying Kamala and democrats don't have a platform. It takes a 5 second search to find it. Like. What. What are you talking about?

You yell that people should pay attention and then you...don't. Not even a little. What.

"She didn't give us anything to vote for" what are you talking about. Her entire thing was giving people something to vote for. Yall did not listen. Take your own advice and pay attention

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I love talking about the physical aspects of the brain and it's connection to the body.

There is so much of it that is really fascinating and I think grounding mental health in some kind of physicality makes things more real and actionable. Like if you don't know how let's say...being in Survival Mode diverts resources to the limbic system and physically alters the size of brain sections, then it's easy to feel fundamentally broken.

You're not fundamentally broken and the plasticity of the human brain means that you can fix a good bit of the damage. It makes the kind of fluffy woowoo sounding mental health skills sound more grounded. Like thinking about things differently, building different experiences, working on cognition, processing emotions...those will all actually change how your physical brain grows and works and looks! For real! Like you're healing physical damage with this shit!

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oh my god do it do it RELEASE THE TAPES

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My partner is not on Tumblr and as an outsider he says "Tumblr memes are confusing" and he's right but I love them

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Biden is leaving office and trying to take the whole world with him.

I guess nuclear war with Russia is one way to stop a trump presidency?

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PTSD is your brain going back to the acute stress response trying to keep you alive. When out of dangerous situations, this becomes maladaptive. Your brain struggles with what to do when there isn't danger, it's kind of stuck in survival.

PTSD literally changes the structure of your brain and healing from trauma is about fixing that physical damage. Fixing that physical damage is in part cultivating those warm and colorful experiences, learning how to focus on different things, learning reality checks, coping skills, and triggers.

Maybe it's helpful to think about it also as this: PTSD means your brain did a great job keeping you alive, and now it's time to learn how to live.

idk man. ptsd really has a way of convincing you over and over again that you’re unsafe and that everything will be unsafe forever. it’s a series of cracks in your foundations of what safety even feels like. I don’t know if those cracks ever go away. but I am slowly trying to fill them in with warm + colourful experiences until I can almost feel stable again. and maybe that’s what this — recovering life — is all about

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Ive been saying this for ages! Trauma is a specific thing and it is actively harmful to use "traumatic" to refer to things that are not trauma.

PTSD and CPTSD are difficult to treat and widely misunderstood. Using "trauma" to describe an UPSETTING experience is completely fucking the mental health world.

You read/saw/experienced something that upset you or made you uncomfortable? Not trauma.

"Trauma results from an event or series of events experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening that has lasting adverse effects on an individual's functioning and well-being"

Trauma is also defined as exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.

For an experience to be encoded as trauma, the survival circuit has to be involved. Reading a sad story does not make you go into survival Mode unless a preexisting trauma disorder is triggered by the content.

Words mean something. You can just be upset about shit. You can find experiences upsetting. Literally everyone has upsetting experiences that is part of life. Being unwilling to deal with your emotions does not mean you have trauma.

trauma disorders have the highest suicide rates of any disorders and are some of the most difficult to treat.

Do Not call shit trauma if it is not trauma.

I will eat you.

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

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"The left keeps moving right"

I present: gay marriage, eco projects, the ACA, student loan forgiveness, transparency in medicine. Putting forth state legislation legalizing substances, protecting minorities, legalizing abortions, reforming voting to ranked choice (which would allow 3rd party candidates to have a chance, read about preferential voting). Even though some of these don't pass, the matter that they see the light of day is huge.

Unthinkable platforms 20 years ago. Slow. Yes. But right? Not really. Thanks to people like AOC or bernie or the further left politicians we are putting in office.

When kamala spoke to centrists she spoke about how leftist policies would improve their lives and the lives of their families. So idk about right wing.

Yeah, she and the left support wars. They refuse to condemn Isreal, which is abhorrent. And there's clearly bullshittery there. But domestically? A lot of the left has moved left over the years.

These candidates we want in office will likely start small. Positions in cities and counties. Vote local, pay attention to your governor.

People dont pay attention.

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huge carrot recall affecting canada and the united states, including puerto rico, due to shiga toxin-producing e. coli

november 16, 2024

this recall may expand. see below for details.

Grimmway Farms has issued a recall of select organic whole carrots and organic baby carrots that should no longer be in grocery stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers. These products may have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) O121:H19. E. coli O121:H19 is a bacterium that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people, and those with a weakened immune system. Some infections can cause severe bloody diarrhea conditions, such as a hemolytic uremic syndrome, or the development of high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, and neurologic problems. Symptoms include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever, nausea, and/or vomiting. The incubation period for E. coli O121:H19 in humans can range from 24 hours to as much as ten days. The average incubation period is 3 to 4 days.

The following recalled products were shipped directly to retail distribution centers nationwide in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada: - Organic whole carrots, which do not have a best-if-used-by date printed on the bag, but were available for purchase at retail stores from August 14 through October 23, 2024, - Organic baby carrots with best-if-used-by-dates ranging from September 11 through November 12, 2024. The recalled carrots should not be available for purchase in stores but may be in consumers' refrigerators or freezers.

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affected whole carrot brands and their bag sizes:

365 1Ib, 2lb, 5lb

Bunny Luv 1lb, 2lb, 5lb, 10lb, 25lb

Cal-Organic 1Ib, 2lb, 51b, 6lb, 10lb, 25lb

Compliments 2lb

Full Circle 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Good & Gather 2lb

GreenWise 1Ib, 25lbs

Marketside 2lb

Nature's Promise 1Ib, 5lb

O-Organics 1lb, 2Ib, 5lb, 10lb

President's Choice 2lb

Simple Truth 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Trader Joe's 1lb

Wegmans 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

Wholesome Pantry 1lb, 2lb, 5lb

affected baby (cut and peeled) carrot brands and their bag sizes:

365 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Bunny Luv 1lb, 2lb, 3lb, 5lb

Cal-Organic 12oz, 1lb, 2lb, 2pk/2lbs

Compliments 1lb

Full Circle 1 lb

Good & Gather 12oz, 1lb

GreenWise 1lb

Grimmway Farms 25 lb bag

Kroger 2lb

LIDL 1lb

Marketside 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Nature's Promise 1lb

O-Organics 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

President's Choice 1Ib, 2lb

Raley's 1lb

Simple Truth 1 Ib, 2lb

Sprouts 1 Ib, 2lb

Trader Joe's 1lb

Wegmans 12oz, 1lb, 2lb

Wholesome Pantry 1lb, 2lb

formatting on tumblr is difficult, please see the FDA outbreak investigation page for the affected ranges of best-by dates for baby carrots, and pictures of the affected carrots.

as of time of posting, the main FDA recall page and the CDC investigation page have an error and do not list Kroger or LIDL baby carrots, while the FDA outbreak investigation page does. I am assuming that this means they are part of the recall and that this error will probably be fixed soon.

the recalled carrots are thought to be associated with an E. coli O121:H19 outbreak. 39 illnesses, 15 hospitalizations, and one death have been linked to this outbreak so far.

as always, these numbers are expected to be lower than the true number of illnesses and deaths, and will likely rise. not everyone seeks medical attention, and even when all testing and reporting procedures go as smoothly as possible, it can take weeks to officially link an illness to an outbreak.

noteworthy from the FDA investigation page:

FDA is working with the firm to determine the source of contamination and whether additional products are affected. This advisory will be updated as information becomes available.

in short, there is a possibility this contamination may affect more than just the recalled carrots. keep up to date with these pages to stay on top of this outbreak.

the recalled carrots are no longer on shelves. but if they are in your fridge or freezer, destroy or discard them and clean anything they may have touched.

do NOT eat these carrots! this strain of e. coli is dangerous and at least one person has died.

if you think you got sick in relation to this outbreak, please seek medical attention, even if just to get your illness officially associated with this outbreak.

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Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:

1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.

2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!

3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!

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"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978

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In an alarming number of states you can be involuntarily committed by a court of law for having a mental illness or being suspected of having a mental illness. Friends, family, bosses, and coworkers can request the courts to order treatment for you if they suspect you have a mental illness.

In several states, you can be arrested on suspicion of having a psychotic disorder.

There are states building essentially camps for homeless people

This is only going to get worse. And a lot of people won't see it happening. Disabled people, mentally ill people, queer people, immigrants, POC, and religious minorities are frequently "invisible " populations.

People say "calm down it's not like it's the holocaust"

The thing about the holocaust is that a lot of people didn't know how bad it was or that it was even happening until it was over

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People say "calm down it's not like it's the holocaust"

The thing about the holocaust is that a lot of people didn't know how bad it was or that it was even happening until it was over

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Hey, yeah, hi! Pissed off local queer here.

If you didn't vote this election, you are complicit in what comes next.

You made the choice--not the DNC, not kamala, not biden. You had the choice to help people, and you chose not to. You had the opportunity to help minorities in your country and you chose not to. You had the choice to begin dismantling corporations and you chose not to.

Do not speak about civil rights again. You had the choice to protect them and you chose not to.

Do not speak about standing up for minorities again. You had the opportunity to stand up for them and you chose not to.

Do not speak about the climate crisis. You had the opportunity to improve environmental policies and you chose not to.

If you did not vote You are a poser. You are not an ally. You are not an advocate. You have proven you do not stand for anything. You are a poser.

You are complicit in what comes next.

You are complicit in what comes next.