big day for substances like easily one of the top days for substance use

Alan Cumming, photographed by Amy Arbus. From the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, New York City. 

Like we literally have a sliver of a chance at getting Blue Georgia and Blue North Carolina in this years election and genuinely it feels like people are just willing to throw that out. Hell, even Texas over the past 20 years has had a BIG shift in voting habits.

The last 20 years in Texas ^^^

Georgia ^^^

And fucking NORTH CAROLINA. Look at how close this margin is. This is absolutely batshit insane to me. They are now basically swing states.

Please

Register to Vote

I really didn't expect this to get as much attention as it did but hey, here's some more I was looking at.

Arizona is basically a toss up. ^^^

Thought Florida was a super deep red state with like 70% Republican votes in 2020?? Nope! Biden got 47.9% of the vote! DeSantis has fucked that state severely but it's not a complete lost cause!

In 2022, the state had a flood of republicans taking office, and the voter turnout was 53% TOTAL. 23% of 18-24 year olds, 25% of 25-34, 42% of 35-44, and 54% of 45-64, and 63% of 65+.

Idk!!! That's insane to me!!

Look at Navada go!!! Imagine if more people signed up to vote instead of just "Yeah we're guaranteed to win it's fine"

Idk dude. There's hope, but that's only because it's placed in front of us. We have to actually reach out and grab it.

Activists in Texas have been working tirelessly for decades to get us that blue wave. There is nothing like the work I got to be a part of in 2016 and 2020. And in 2020 we saw districts go SO MUCH BLUER than they ever had historically. I genuinely cannot wait to see where 2024 takes Texas.

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

I’ve totally said before that I think the “mental health crisis from the pandemic” was inflated because it didn’t necessarily cause more mental health issues or exacerbate them even (plenty of people benefited mentally from the pandemic actually, there was a mass exodus from cults, especially religious ones). HOWEVER what it did was take everyone’s mental issues and have them expressing them or showing symptoms online because that was our social interaction for months and so as a society we were witnessing mental illness more frequently since your mental health issues would have a bigger audience online.

i don’t mean to be political, but what if everyone had basic human rights

Even people who’s vibes are off

even people who’s vibes are off

Errmmmmm aksually 🤓☝️ its whose but otherwise yes

even this asshole

Will be listening to the song on repeat forever until I die. Clare Siobhan’s music is now occupying every facet of my personality.

"Do these symptoms interfere with your daily activities?"

Bitch these symptoms ARE my daily activities wym

Stop doing things for your pain that don’t really help.

This was so hard for me to grasp but if that Tylenol, that heating pad, ice pack, numbing cream, etc doesn’t work stop using it.

Every time you do something in response to pain you are telling your brain to reinforce the pain (i.e make it worse). So if what you are doing isn’t helping anyway, you’re making the pain stronger and last longer every time you do one of those things. If it helps, then that’s a payoff you have to decide the worth of, but if it isn’t helping there’s no reason to continue just because you feel like you should do *something*

I’ve been amazed at how much my pain has decreased long-term by avoiding “pain behaviors” that do nothing for me.

It’s been nearly 5 years since I made this post and I went from being bed bound in a wheelchair with no life to a college degree, a full career, long term relationship etc. and now can go most days with zero pain-related care or medication.

My god is it hard, and by no means should you EVER push this expectation onto another person for “their benefit,” but the payoff is astounding.

dude the way isaac was treated in heartstopper by everyone was so bad

like they all went “you just haven’t found the right person yet” or “oh they’re gonna kiss! woohoo!” and “you have to have a crush on someone”

nobody told him it was okay to not feel any of those things. that there’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t. like shit

It felt very fitting as an asexual person that we don’t get the cute sweet rose colored glasses version of things everyone else is getting. I literally have to skip his scenes on rewatch ✌🏼