fossilesque

Hope it helps! This is also why I start my day with a shower. Super hot or slightly cold when I am especially struggling.

You can't kill an idea. They will, even if indirectly.

I need to do little warmups to get started on things, little distractions. A little puzzle, a walk. If you need to do something NOW, go hold some ice for 30 seconds then start immediately. You need to distract your central nervous system to get it out of the loop. Physical sensations or activity works best.

Same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

I too, die a little every time I see him.

Sometimes old people who are declining, die.

Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli hospital on Feb. 14, 2025, for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia. He spent 38 days there, the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.

He was 88.

SETTLER COLONIALISM

Call it what it is: Settler Colonialism

nervous laughter

The difference is, this one has never been told "no."