After one week my entire baseline has recalibrated, so things which I once experienced regularly are now quick to nudge me toward shutdown.

But if the tradeoff involves having more energy for more things and not collapsing the instant I get home? Worth it. Damn, autism is a disability. 😅

that Swami Paramananda's translation of the Upanishads reads like a battered woman talking in code over the phone while her drunk husband lurks in the background. Like you can physically see the shadow of colonialism on the page. Whenever you think you've escaped it for a bit, it pops back up. +

Friends of Pando has a lot of cool videos and material on their website related to education and conservation. Big fan of this.

youtu.be/XJpPIoeYBcE?...

indicates that it has survived devastating fires which leveled it in the past, after which it regenerated from the root system. The entire colony is male, and likely has genetically related children trees nearby. It can also spread out and move as stems die and are regenerated. +

I wish we could extend a fraction of the empathy which is heaped upon the dead to the living, who are both in need of it and can make use of it. Kirk is dead. His family is alive. His fans are alive. The people he attacked are alive. The aggregate of us are hurting—and yet, I can't help but +

There is, of course, the self-hatred: a tragedy has occurred with which I am not involved, and I feel awful for turning any attention away from it. And yet, my lack of involvement does not concern lawmakers and talking heads, who nonetheless insist on making it about me. +

injected with THC, and then made to face your fears. 💀

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

being included in the study, though nothing has been confirmed yet if I'm reading it right, and these are mice). But I sincerely hope that this is the case.

But also, some of these studies are amusing from a more empathetic standpoint; oh to be a lab rat, have PTSD-like symptoms induced, get

At any rate, we are rapidly approaching two weeks sober; withdrawals have mostly subsided and the brain fog is beginning to lift.

This technique also may* have some applicability to eating disorders (judging by sucrose

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

*take with grain of salt (badum tss)

thanks. that means a lot, actually. 🥹