May I Suggest… More Of The Three Idiots (go Fuckin Wild Give Me Angst If You So Please But Also Ow…

should i do the commitment achievement. i would need to change my work schedule but anything for the tsp grind

The urge to connect this account with my not-so-anon cc account is strong but the question is do I want people knowing how weird I am on here vs my other one where I have to make myself be normal ish

What is in whoppers chocolate that makes me insta-sick

i feel so stuck man. my brain says go go go but the world says nuh uh

Learning your limits with chronic pain is such a pain in the ass. Especially if you were very active before being blessed with your new condition.

So I have fibromyalgia and arthritis, and even though it's been well over a year since this initial flare took me down, I haven't quite gotten the hang of stopping before I make it worse. I am finally able to work/be active a few hours a day provided that there is sufficient time to lie down and rest between those hours. Even sitting upright counts as part of the "active hours".

Anyway, yesterday I worked, did my grocery shopping, put some of the groceries away, and organized some yarn. At some point, I was like oh I should make some calls today but I couldn't. I literally had no energy left. And I kept beating myself up over it. Like they're just phone calls, it's not hard, I can surely make a few phone calls and get them off my list. That was the loop on repeat in my head.

But then I was like wait, how do I feel in my body? What's happening in my body right now? When I checked in with my body, I realized that I was in more pain than I was aware of and had already gone slightly overboard on activity. That's when the loop in my head finally stopped and I laid down without any guilt.

I say all this because it's not fucking intuitive at all. Learning to adjust to your condition and energy level is a bitch and nobody really tells you how to do that. And most people will fight against it until they absolutely can't anymore, making their symptoms much worse than they would be on their own. Basically this is a learn from my mistakes post. I hope it helps someone out. ✌️

I got kids toothpaste and now brushing my teeth isn't fucking painful

I'm slapping the next person I see share that Bugs Bunny "cutting Florida off the country" gif.

There are significant numbers of marginalized people who live here, my family included. Do you genuinely think we deserve to be cast off into the sea just because we're being held hostage by an increasingly fascist state government?

Florida is a beautiful place with so many amazing people and cultures. Fuck you if you think we don't mean anything or should "just leave."

I'm getting pretty fucking tired of "Florida is a gross cesspit full of crackheads and republicans" jokes. Because at the end of the day, it's just bigotry dressed up in shitty low-effort humor. "Crackhead" shouldn't be a punchline in the first fucking place.

Florida isn't your cheap punchline and Floridians are real fucking people. These swamps and prairies are my fucking HOME.

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of free resources for different sign languages:

American Sign Language (ASL)

Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

Australian Indigenous Sign Languages

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Brazilian Sign Language (LSB)

British Sign Language (BSL)

Chinese Sign Language (CSL)

Emirati Sign Language (ESL)

French Sign Language (LSF)

Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Indian Sign Language (ISL)

International Sign Language (IS)

Irish Sign Language (ISL)

Japanese Sign Language (JSL)

New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)

Mexican Sign Language (LSM)

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL)

Polish Sign Language (PJM)

Ukrainian Sign Language (USL)

Yolŋu Sign Language (YSL)

Please feel free to add on if you know of others, be it more resource for one of the sign languages above, or resources for learning any of the other 300 plus sign languages.

Edit: I updated the ASL reference to Bill Vicars, but reminder that these are just things I found around, please find Deaf teachers wherever possible! And for ASL, lifeprint.com is another wonderful resource.

Ayyy let's go