I keep thinking about a roofer I used to know who accidentally shot a nail into his hand when he “wondered if the nail gun was on.” He went to the ER and the doctor who took the nail out said: “I gotta ask. When it started to hurt, why didn’t you stop hammering?”

But this place and others like it have become a way to self-injure mentally for so many people and every time I come here, I slip into doing it too. I can’t change anything that’s happening but I can choose not to hurt myself over and over.

I realize that removing myself as a source of little jokes and pretty pictures means that the internet gets a little bit bleaker and blander in a tiny increment and that as more people like me make the same decisions, little points of light go out all over.

I quit Facebook years ago, I don’t post to Instagram since my work will just train AI, and I am using any form of social media less and less. I am gradually disappearing from online spaces. It’s lonely but it feels better than pouring despair straight into my veins constantly.

Yeah you HAVE to, now that you know your OC was playing last season.

We can’t get a copy of the original long-form birth certificate unless we petition the Superior Court and show a reason why it is imperative for it to be unsealed in the state that I was adopted in. You can get a certified copy of the amended second birth certificate though.

I can foresee that adoptees who have weird-looking amended birth certificates, like I do, are going to have problems with authorities not accepting them as legal documents. #adoptees

He’s built like Phil Ellis. I have been watching Taskmaster too much but seriously, look at Phil Ellis. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I’m very reassured that my lab tech apparently enjoys dmt

It’s the way we farm. It’s chicken, yes, but the water for irrigation is often polluted with livestock runoff. You can’t wash the E. Coli INSIDE a lettuce leaf away, no matter how much you wash the outside of it. Processed foods are also risky- my husband almost died of Listeria in liverwurst.

You can also use the map in the story to look up vaccination rates in your local schools! This was a HUGE data lift: we reviewed and mapped tens of thousands of individual schools’ data, assembling the most comprehensive public database. And we published this data here: github.com/washingtonpo...

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I still need to make this my ringtone

It’s a cry for help is what it is

Oh my god. Please make him a clown.