I’ve very rarely gotten physical in the last decade and a half, but the dojo training has mattered so much because when people (often implicitly!) threaten to get physical in interpersonal conflicts I proceed on the understanding that if they do that would actually make my position stronger
Like friendly reminder that even after I somehow turned the 1st, brain, case of “long covid” in my favor because I coincidentally grew up seizing on “autopsychotherapy under conditions of depersonalized unreality” as a hobby, I still now have to twice a day take two different supplements I was lucky enough to have easy access to, in order to compensate for two effects I was apparently clever enough to figure out immediately without (or even in spite of) medical advice, without which I would be borderline-comatose perhaps to the point of not breathing
Like, my zero-anxiety ass has been treating this casually, but it’s actually serious shit!
When you said legally trapped, do you mean you like... caught him and then trained him to catch stuff? Do you just repeat with a new bird every hunting season? This whole premise is incredibly funny
Yeah LMAO basically! In the USA, falconers are legally allowed to trap a juvenile, aka “passage” bird to use for falconry. Actually for a long time, the law REQUIRED apprentices to trap their first bird from the wild (as opposed to purchasing one from a captive breeding program). The government really said “you WILL get a fucking bird from the side of the road”.
Most falconers will keep a passage hawk for a season or two before releasing it back into the wild and starting the process over again with a new bird. For me personally, that’s a big part of the appeal! You get to develop a relationship with a new bird and get to know their personality and quirks etc, and also the more birds you train, the better you get at training.
It really is a pretty fucking hilarious premise, but it’s also really faithful to the way falconry was originally practiced in the middle east/central asia for centuries, where people would trap a migrating juvenile bird to help feed themselves during the lean months, then release it when food was plentiful again.
Falconry in the USA is incredibly tightly regulated which is why wild trapping is allowed - it’s also allowed because the vast majority of juvenile raptors (75-80%) die before they reach breeding age, usually during their first winter, so taking them doesn’t impact the breeding population whatsoever. In fact, it can actually BENEFIT the raptor population, because taking one from the wild and giving it food and medical care and a safe place to live gives it a much higher chance of surviving to breeding age.
imagine if you were like thinking about going to college and then some genius alien just abducted you and gave you the most confusing but luxurious lifestyle your little brain could imagine and then you weren’t released until you were a brilliant killing machine
It actually took me a bit to get that “work to rule” meant like “in accordance with officially documented procedure as contracted” and not “for the purpose of ruling”
computer science research is so overwhelming i just sit there in astonishment while my six monitors try to beam into me information about DNA, the human body, geography of the world, and heartbeat monitors with graphics only
regret to inform you all that this is actually completely accurate. there’s a pipe, you weld the pipe, in the background hangs the weirdest collection of tubes and dials you’ve ever seen, you work there five years and never find out what lovecraft’s bidet actually does.
this one’s actually implausible because both welders in the picture are welding at once. in real life they would be standing around and talking about cars.
In the tow truck taking Darwin to the shop to be resurrected. Bluechecks might be scoffing at the Matt Taibbi “Twitter files” stuff about the old staff suppressing stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but it’s on news radio at least.
They’re repeatedly wedging it into other things, even.
It is apparently the rightist news station though, it has promos for Lars Larson, the local post-Limbaugh bozo (I mean that literally, in the sense that the Bozo the Clown character was portrayed by various hosts as a local show in each market. This is what Krusty the Clown was riffing off.)
The ads include lawyers “that care as much about your gun rights as you do” or who do DUI defense
Gerard Way witnesses 9/11 and as a consequence, starts My Chemical Romance
Stephanie Meyer sees My Chemical Romance and becomes inspired to write Twilight
Somewhere in Rio de Janeiro, a man by the name of Felipe Neto is so outraged by the Twilight movies that he makes a hate video about them that goes so viral he becomes one of Brazil’s biggest YouTubers
His brother Luccas Neto rides off his fame and becomes a children’s YouTuber
Across the Atlantic, Portuguese children become obsessed with his videos. Like the lusophone Jake Paul
Portuguese children watch his videos so fucking much that they begin talking like they’re from Rio
Portuguese parents are horrified by the Brazilian Portuguese but can’t make it stop
Brazilian Portuguese slowly eats alive the European Portuguese dialect
In the tow truck taking Darwin to the shop to be resurrected. Bluechecks might be scoffing at the Matt Taibbi “Twitter files” stuff about the old staff suppressing stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but it’s on news radio at least.
They’re repeatedly wedging it into other things, even.
In the tow truck taking Darwin to the shop to be resurrected. Bluechecks might be scoffing at the Matt Taibbi “Twitter files” stuff about the old staff suppressing stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but it’s on news radio at least.
any parasocial relationship you have with a vtuber is thousands time more real that any relationship you might have with God. For one, if you pay her a hundred dollars she will likely read your name on stream, maybe even reply. God won’t do that.
I’ve become so much more confident. I work a room like wham. I flirt like Captain Kirk. I talk dirty like holy shit, like R. Lee Ermey’s audition tape, minutes solid without repeating myself. Which is great, because that’s practically the only way I can orgasm anymore. Even my reliable fetishes (girls wetting themselves or pissing outside, I think it’s the old flesh/spirit thing) don’t work anymore.
I drink straight liquor, which I never did before, like a lot of it, but I carry it well.
I black out sometimes or grey out and run on pure id and I’m quite charming to myself and others.
I fall asleep easily, have pettily realistic shallow dreams. Worthless sub sub sub us stuff and then I wake up and between the drunk and that it’s not clear what really went down.
My farts smell like pure evil, oh god.
I don’t have a cutoff level for sleep anymore. I’ll sleep 5 hours and pee, 8 hours and get a drink and slump back down, 10 hours and it’s a comfy bed, 12 hours and pee and holy shit I just slept 14 hours. I got into this for a long insomnia thing so maybe it’s just a large but finite deficit but let’s see.
so because it’s comeup a few times lately, this was my at-the-time assessment of that month I was put on Lexapro
(and leading with the omorashi stuff up there signals disinhibition – you know, I had been talking about how many kinks were just eroticizations of your issues but it’s only from the new personality I realize that was an eroticization of anxiety)
As I continue to lose fat, parts of my body that’ve felt more or less the same to the touch since puberty just… no longer feel like that anymore, my body’s alien to me as a toucher yet I still feel and confirm its authenticity as the touched, it’s weird
