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more of life lately!
i’m still in my dedicated study period for my board exams. i think as the exam gets nearer, my IBS gets worse but that’s life i suppose. i’m still spending my mornings working and sneaking some fun in by doing coffee study dates with friends at a favorite local spot of mine (i’m very nearly a regular!) and relaxing with some crafting, baking, and exercising in the evening! personally, i think going to the gym is very fun but maybe it’s bc i think of all the machines as a sort of playground. whatever works i guess! in terms of reading, im reading the white album by joan didion on my own and the man who died twice (sequel to the thursday murder club) by richard osman with my boyfriend and enjoying both of them so far. if anyone has any books they’d like to recommend, please let me know! my fave genres are lighthearted classics, gothic literature, and whatever genre my year of rest and relaxation is (if you enjoyed rest and relaxation, then i’d highly recommend berlin by bea setton - i was previously recommended bunny by mona awad in the same vein and it did not impress me)
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20240325. 【🚞】
Easter, prelude: A sunny day out in County Durham.
I took a weekend off for a bit of much-needed leisure before launching into work again. The sun has at last graced England with its presence and I had to make the most of it.
Auckland Castle was beautiful, and wonderfully restored. Greatly interesting to learn about its history as well as that of its many bishops.
☞ studygram
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You can donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund for as little as $1.00.
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There is a fee you can choose to apply to cover processing.
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Which if you choose to do leaves you with a total of ~$1.35 (USD) depending on the type of card you have.
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PCRF has a score of 97% on Charity Navigator.
Adults and children alike are currently dying in Palestine due to starvation. (World Health Organization Link)
The Gaza Strip is one of two places in the entire world that is categorized as Phase 5 (the highest phase) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale.
So even if you think it isn't enough, remember that donating even as little as $1.35 helps! It's $1.35 they wouldn't have had otherwise. So donate if you can. 🇵🇸
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2.2.24 | February started with a rain shower; there is now a small pond at the base of our outdoor steps. Lately, I haven't been motivated to do my language studies at all, but I've been consistent in my early morning readings of War and Peace & I've been progressing steadily through a collection of Pushkin's lyric poems & сказки. Today, I managed to finish my review of Mrs Dalloway & my thoughts are still stuck on that book. ♡ 𝑁𝑜𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑖
𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠
▪︎ Bake chestnut pound cake; heat last of the glüwein; "Winter Evening" by Pushkin ▪︎ War & Peace annotations key; discussion chat check-in ▪︎ Used book haul: gothic lit list; inc. Udolpho & Minstrel of the North by Stagg ▪︎ Declutter desk & tidy library ▪︎ Draft pen pal replies to Grethe & Rebecca
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Hilda by Duane Bryers
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i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing
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Cannot stop thinking about Anne magill paintings. Maybe my new favorite painter. She just captures this ..,,,,,, dreamy feeling...,,, a certain tenderness..... a fleeting moment of contentedness..... like nothing else I’ve seen
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If you're interested in this, Aubrey Gordon (aka yrfatfriend) is a fat activist who has done a tonne of research and communication about this stuff. She has a podcast called "Maintenance Phase" (which is excellent) and has written two books. I've read the first one, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat and it is so good. She not only explores the issue clearly and thoroughly, but she writes so well! Go check her out
"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.
encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.
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HR Cypress
The Green Staircase
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Not gonna specifically tag anyone…but reblog if you feel like it and put yours in the tags.
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Artist Spotlight: MontroseBiology
Based on Oregon, MontroseBiology crafts ecology-themed table top games that blend education, art and entertainment. A delight for ecology and game enthusiasts alike, the games also serve as valuable tools for understanding awareness about appreciating and protecting our natural world.
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forever in awe of people who pay attention. people who wait for you while you tie your shoes while the others have walked away. when they continue listening intently while the rest of the group stopped listening. noticing your moments of silence when everyone else hasn’t. “this made me think of you” noticing things you never even noticed about yourself. people who say “text me when you get home safe.” people who make you laugh until you cry. childhood friends who keep in touch. people with genuine intentions. people who are soft when the world has given them every opportunity to turn hard. the “let’s get ice cream” at 3am friend. the turn up the music in the car and sing friend. people whose actions match their words. people who make the world feel less chaotic. kindred spirits. the trustworthy and honest. hard workers. good listeners. clear communicators. people who love you for who you are. people who don’t ask you to be anything other than yourself. people who choose you. people who stay.
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Claudia Keep (American, b. 1993, Low Moor, VA, USA, based Burlington, VT, USA) - Striped Sheets, 2022, Paintings: Oil on Masonite Panel
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life lately is filled with lots of studying via practice questions and breaks filled with books and crafts and baking! i currently have a pleasant board exam study schedule that consists of a nice slow morning with a matcha latte and some reading, completing 160 practice questions, then relaxing the rest of the evening with the usual hobbies like reading, crocheting and knitting, cross-stitching, etc. recently i’ve read the idiot by elif batuman, berlin by bea setton, and now i’m reading either/or (sequel to the idiot) by myself and the thursday murder club by richard osman with my boyfriend. overall having a much better time studying for step 2 than for step 1!
i’m baking nonstop but the cake pictured is a vegan cardamom cocoa with star design inspired by earlygirl__ on twitter
my etsy
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A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.
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Elephant tusks being burnt in Kenya
For centuries, the demand for ivory has caused great suffering to innumerable elephants. On April 30, 2016, 105
tons of seized poached tusks from approximately 10,000 elephants were destroyed in Nairobi national park during a public ceremony. The tusks, methodically arranged on metallic pyramids, were burned as if on funeral pyres. The event, widely covered by the media, was intended to make the general public more aware of the struggle to eliminate elephant poaching. With this symbolic gesture, the presidents of kenya and gabon wished to alert the whole world to the gravity of the traffic in ivory. The survival of about 500,000 african elephants is at stake.
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