•she/her • Mama Bear to 3 • Ally (always learning) • Floundering Artist • Bread Baker • Depression & Anxiety with some self-dx ADHD thrown in

North Carolina, USA
Joined January 2009
For Americans who are new to trying to understand #Ukraine, I want to explain something, judgement-free. We all didn’t know things at one point in time, it’s fine. Still, a 🧵 (All numbers refer to the core urban area & population, not including greater metro numbers)
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Oh, methylphenidate, how I have *missed* you and members of your chemical families. Concentration, focus, executive function, I’ve missed you, too. Complaint: ADHD should NOT be in the psych world. It’s genetic, it’s biological; it’s not behavioral. It’s a physical condition.
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Word of the day is ‘spuddle’ (17th century): to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
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I would actually be terrified to give past me any advice because I love the life she wound up with on her own and what if I change the timeline and I come back and discover that now birds are extinct or something?
You're granted the ability to provide one piece of advice to 16 year-old you. What do you say?
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it often seems. like the human is jealous of me. because of how happy i get. about the simplest things. i don’t know how to tell them. they can do that too
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A good way to tell elder millennials from younger ones is to shriek-sing “PEACHES COME FROM A CAN” at them and see what happens
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Hmm, you know, it occurs to me—for all you new gardeners out there, you know not to trust the plant tags, right? ...maybe we should talk about that.
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Children love books about boarding schools because they love the idea of living with their friends in a single building where magical things happen. A school is just a plot device to create what many humans (young and old) crave: a walkable, close-knit community.
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Tired of doomscrolling? Binged every series worth streaming? A video game, which is currently being developed, will let you skirt provincial stay-at-home orders while wandering the streets as a raccoon. toronto.ctvnews.ca/i-want-it…
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This is Fritz. Respectfully, no you may not have his ball. The last time you took it, you threw it very far. He doesn’t have time for that. 14/10
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I don’t care what anyone tells you, you’re allowed to love children’s books and fairy-tales and dinosaurs and theme parks, you're an adult.
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A great book. Review | Raised in a cult, Lauren Hough’s salvation was the discovery of her own inimitable voice washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Blanket I made for my dad loosely based on this Rothko :)
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Consider this your semi-regular reminder to read: Past the headline ✔️ Past the tweet ✔️ Past the meme (which is NOT news) ✔️ The full article (& then search for more information if you're not sure of its credibility) ✔️ #NewsLiteracy
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garlic is to cooking as vanilla extract is to baking in that the amount i add to my food is guided by reckless extravagance and utter disregard, verging on mild contempt, for the recipe as written
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"I mistook my taser for my gun" is really a striking endorsement of not giving patrol officers guns in the first place. I mean, if your pharmacist couldn't tell an aspirin from fentanyl, it's not just something you accept as a occupational hazard.
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THIS IS AMAZING.
This was not the twist I expected
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ghana, gambia, cameroon, nigeria, jamaica, kenya, malawi, malaysia, uganda, tanzania, yemen, zambia, bahrain, qatar, belize, half the caribbean.... all were under british rule at the start of elizabeth’s reign. and that’s not even all.
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Even if you’re fully vaccinated the CDC recommends finishing some of the books on your shelf before buying new ones
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