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I'm a retired nurse. I love books, cats, birds, feminism, and politics.
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Venus & Serena Williams for Harper Bazaar’s “Legacy Issue” by Renell Medrando {2022}
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Nope, Nope, Nope, try another one, Nope ,Nope...
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Self-care Sunday: Does anyone else feel like they need more concrete instructions than "just let go" of intrusive thoughts?
Hunter Clark-Fields (author of Raising Good Humans) explains that the reason labeling thoughts works to help let them go is because the process activates the prefrontal cortex---the part of the brain responsible for logic, reason, and decision-making, i.e. the part of the brain that's good at focusing and setting emotions aside. It's been really helpful in my meditation practice to notice where my thoughts go, give them a label, and find it easier to refocus on the present.
Labeling thoughts isn't just helpful during meditation! It's a useful practice at any time of day when you notice unwanted thoughts cropping up. The key is in the noticing.
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Yes hooman this is the wrong side of the door, must I explain it EVERY time?
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Happy Caturday! Danica and Ozzie enjoying early summer.
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There is nothing better than cats, yarn and books together.
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Crow having fun by himself at a children’s playground
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Can anyone ID this insect? My best guess was male red velvet wasp but nope. Flower is a marigold (about 1.5" dia)
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the grey trembler is a member of the mimidae family (mockingbirds & thrashers) found only on the islands of martinique & saint lucia. this unique bird sports a distinct overly long beak. sexes have no distinction between plumages but females have a slightly longer beak. the species is named for the unusual trembling motion frequently made with their wings. they feed primarily on insects and fruits, using their large beak to tear open brush in a violent manner to find food.
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These chocolate asks have me wondering if you can share some facts about the cacao tree. Or is plant biology not your thing?
sure thing!
the cacao tree SEEDS might be poisonous as fuck to most animals, but the cacao tree FRUIT is perfectly fine!
(surprise! gaze upon the Chocolate Fruit)
the cacao tree pods are full of nutritious pulp and are eaten by a HUGE variety of animals, who generally carry the pod off somewhere quiet where they can nibble out the fleshy pulp...
...and spit the bitter and extremely poisonous seeds out onto the forest floor. the seeds sprout wherever they land, growing a new cacao tree!
it's a pretty effective dispersal strategy, though humans did take it off the rails a bit with the whole "let's cultivate the hell out of this plant and only eat the poisonous bits" thing. why are we like this.
(ps! try to buy the expensive fair trade chocolate when you can to make sure that the people scooping the cacao goop are actually paid a fair wage and not, you know, enslaved. this has been a psa!)
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Is it possible the box jellyfish is so lethal because humans are allergic to its sting like, as a species? Like how dogs can't have chocolate
sorry, but "dying of an allergic reaction" and "dying of a potent venom that you've just been injected with by a total asshole of an invertebrate" look VERY different on the molecular scale, and are also very easy to medically tell apart!
also, an epipen will only (temporarily) fix ONE of these situations, and it's not the jellyfish.
for instance, if you were allergic to jellyfish venom you could expect to experience a rapid drop in blood pressure and difficulty breathing, versus what ACTUALLY happens, which is that your cell walls experience structural failure and leak huge amounts of potassium directly into your bloodstream, which completely fucks up your muscle control system and stops your heart within a few minutes.
yay!
also, dogs aren't allergic to chocolate! they can't have it because it's literally poisonous to them.
chocolate contains high amounts of the toxic compound theobromine, which is completely fine if you happen to have a human liver on hand that's capable of breaking it down!
that's right, this stuff is toxic to almost every animal on the planet except you! congrats!!
if you DON'T have a human liver handy though, by reasons of being a non-hominid mammal like a cat or dog, well! you're fucked.
I'd advise you to just go ahead and call poison control right now, if you had thumbs.
in absence of that, get your human to take you to the vet ASAP and tell them to start storing the candy in a locked cabinet where you can't reach it.
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Why you wrapping presents when the bestest present is me-ow?!?
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