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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:31:11 -0400

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system
Oh and of course us
Honourable mention

Happy Friday! Here’s Bridget chasing rainbows. 🌈

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:01:26 -0400

geopsych:
Happy Friday! Here’s Bridget chasing rainbows. 🌈
black classic tortoiseshell tabby (torbie) with low white spotting

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:30:45 -0400

whatcoloristhatcat:

catasters:
black broken mackerel tabby with moderate white spotting

My very first stained glass project is complete, and I’m so happy with how it turned out! It’s not…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:01:23 -0400

broken-shards-studio:

My very first stained glass project is complete, and I’m so happy with how it turned out! It’s not perfect but it’s damn cute

for the record as someone who has a pretty poor track record with day to day hygiene stuff like…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:31:14 -0400

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:
ms-demeanor:
for the record as someone who has a pretty poor track record with day to day hygiene stuff like skincare and flossing, stacking those two things has really helped.
I’ve got a 3-step (four steps if you count washing face with cold water first) skincare routine (it is probably in a bad order but i don’t care sorry baby steps) that I intersperse with tooth care. So moisturizer one, then floss while that’s drying down, then moisturizer two, then brush my teeth while that’s drying down, then sunblock and that’s it i’m done i’m off to do whatever.
If i can’t do it first thing in the morning i can do it after lunch or before bed (though i skip the sunblock if it’s before bed) because perfect (rigid schedules) is the enemy of good (flossing at least once a day and trying to keep my skin from cracking open).
Sometimes people say things to you and it’s exceptionally clear that they don’t live someplace that has been hammering people on showering for five minutes or fewer each day. Makes me feel like an Atredies soldier on Arrakis. “No showers here, you scrub your ass with sand!”
But also *laughs in curly hair*
Anyway. Yes, it would be ideal to bathe daily, probably, and to wash my face daily, and to brush my teeth twice a day. However, this is a post explicitly about me attempting to successfully get to moisturizing my face once a day and flossing my teeth once a day. Saying “well actually it would be better to do all of that a lot more” doesn’t help. I wasn’t able to even brush my teeth once a day until my mid twenties. I still have trouble taking daily medication and miss doses at least two to four times a month.
There are lots of adults who struggle with hygiene and body care for a large number of reasons. Mine are a combination of ADHD and sensory issues (cannot fucking stand being wet; bathing twice daily sounds like torture, and this is also why I have trouble washing and using products on my face).
So I’ll say it again: “Perfect (rigid schedules and attempting to hit the ideal goals when you’re struggling with the bare minimum) is the enemy of good (flossing at least once a day and trying to keep my skin from cracking open).”
Obligatory reminder that it’s a lot easier to recover from neglecting your hair than neglecting your teeth, and that your teeth should be the priority if you can’t manage much body maintenance in a day. It’s a lot easier to cut knots out of your hair than it is to have a root canal, and cheaper to boot, so try to brush as often as possible with fluoride toothpaste and try to floss as much as you can.
*sigh* because the notes are becoming a mess:
How frequently you shower is largely based on cultural tolerances for body odor and cultural notions of “cleanliness.” Dermatologists generally recommend that people shower once daily to a few times a week, and they recommend only soaping your groin, armpits, and feet and avoiding exfoliants.
Replacing moisture in your skin or hair is not the same as natural moisture in your skin or hair. Shampooing too frequently can dry out both your hair and scalp, and if you strip moisture out of your hair with frequent shampooing, simple conditioning will not re-moisturize it and you will need to do more intensive (and expensive) treatments. If you put lotion on after every shower, that doesn’t do anything to replace the beneficial natural bacteria on your skin, which leaves you more vulnerable to skin infections and skin damage.
You should bathe as often is as comfortable for you and as often as is necessary for you to avoid infection. If you’re doing intense workouts in the morning and then going to your job as a UPS driver, it may be reasonable for you to shower twice a day. If you live somewhere that is extremely hot and humid, it may be reasonable for you to shower twice a day. If you’re in a moderate climate working indoors and you don’t frequently get sweaty, you don’t need to shower every day.
If you have difficulty bathing because of mobility issues, sensory issues, motivation issues, or memory issues, change your undergarments daily and attempt to wash your body as often is as possible; if you aren’t able to bathe as much as you would prefer to, using cleansing wipes on your groin and armpits can help you between baths and showers. ProCare wipes are one option, but there are a lot on the market (though even if these say “flushable” please dispose of them in a trash can).
There are a great many people in the world with a wide variety of experiences and personal physical differences. Some people find it relaxing to put on a moisturizing mask or sit in a hot bath for an hour, some people find that extremely unpleasant. Some people are very uncomfortable if they don’t floss their teeth twice a day, some people have jaws that dislocate when they floss or find it difficult to stand over a sink for as long as it takes to floss.
Dentists DO recommend brushing your teeth twice a day and flossing your teeth once a day, but doing literally anything is better than not flossing or brushing at all. Here are some tips for improving dental hygiene if you aren’t able to brush or floss as much as is recommended:
The purpose of brushing is to disrupt bacterial growth on the surface of your teeth. If you can’t stand the feeling of the bristles, consider something like a baby toothbrush, which will have softer, more rubbery bristles. You can also use a cloth, or even just a finger with toothpaste on it if that’s all that’s available to you. Move your cleaning implement over your teeth in gentle, small circular motions.
Use fluoride toothpaste. If you hate the taste of mint, look for other flavors - there are a lot of different flavors for both adults and children these days, and it’s quite likely that you’ll find an option that tastes better to you than mint if you look online. But it does have to be fluoride toothpaste, and if you’re an adult using children’s toothpaste you may want to use a little more because that’s not formulated for adults.
You’re not actually supposed to rinse your mouth after brushing. You are supposed to spit it out if you’ve got a lot of foam, then let the toothpaste sit on your teeth. If you *have* to rinse after brushing (a lot of people can’t stand the texture) try to wait a couple of minutes to let the fluoride work.
If you can’t stand any kind of toothpaste for some reason, brush your teeth with a wet toothbrush. The mechanical action of the brush (or the baby toothbrush, or a soft cloth) alone DOES help to prevent damage to your teeth from bacteria.
Brush your tongue - this also disrupts bacterial buildup. If you can’t brush the back of your tongue without gagging, brush as far back as you can and try to build up to brushing the back slowly.
If you can’t use a roll of floss because you can’t get your fingers in your mouth without pain, use floss picks or a water flosser.
If you can’t use floss for any reason, actually, use a water flosser. A water flosser is going to do a good job of getting between your teeth and your gums to prevent plaque buildup.
Use your water flosser on the lowest power setting and use it with warm water - especially if you have teeth that are temperature sensitive!
It is better to floss occasionally than not at all, and if you can’t floss at all it is in your best interest to try to brush your teeth as often as possible. I really cannot overstate enough that if you can do nothing else, your teeth should be your priority. If you can’t shower, that’s fine, it’ll keep. If you can’t floss, that’s something to aim for, and something that can possibly be replaced with a water flosser. But you should at the very least try to brush your teeth once a day.
Seriously. Once a day, once every twenty four hours, can disrupt the bacteria that causes plaque. If you can brush your teeth once a day, you’re doing a good job. And if you’re building up to once a day, you’re doing a good job.
If you’re trying to get up to once a day for tooth brushing, keep toothbrushes around your home; keep one by your bed, keep one in your bathroom, keep one in your kitchen. You don’t have to brush your teeth standing at your bathroom sink with a thick stripe of mint toothpaste and lots of water to rinse, you can brush your teeth sitting on your couch and watching cartoons on your phone with a sip of water and a dot of toothpaste on the brush. You can brush your teeth with a baby toothbrush and no toothpaste while lying in bed.
Good luck, and don’t be assholes in the notes of my posts.

Lavender sleeps with his eyes open because he’s got no manners

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:01:49 -0400

vacuously-true:

Lavender sleeps with his eyes open because he’s got no manners
Freak

found out last night about the cricket player Don Bradman, whose name is very funny, but also whose…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:31:27 -0400

napoleonchingon:

memecucker:

laurbyboom:

found out last night about the cricket player Don Bradman, whose batting average of 99.94% is “the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport”, nearly a full 40 points above the second best player. Apparently they had to invent a whole new type of defense to try and deal with this dude.

I have no idea how cricket works but it’s hilarious that the best sportsman who ever lived chose to play British baseball of all things.

I tried understanding the rules for cricket purely to better comprehend how someone could be so almost supernaturally dominant like

“average person is decent at cricket” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is terrible at cricket. Bradman Don, who lives in Australia & bats over 99 each test day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

“it’s all in your head” correct! unfortunately I am also in there

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:02:20 -0400

noodles-07:

“it’s all in your head” correct! unfortunately I am also in there

Okay THANK YOU for saying “your body craves what it needs” is bs because that felt like bs this whole time. Like you don’t need more sugar if you crave sweets that is NOT what that means. Sugar is a food that people crave because it tastes good/sugar I think is an addictive food?? Idk it just felt like people making excuses when they’re supposed to be trying to eat a little healthier (healthier, not low cal, not low fat or keto or whatever. Diets are bs but craving sweets does not mean sugar is healthy thing for your body rn)

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:31:09 -0400

People crave sugar because it tastes good, which is not a bad thing, and there is an evolutionary reason that sugar and fat taste good to us. Carbs are your body's favorite thing because it is SUPER easy for your body to break them down into useful molecules.

I'm not a fan of the idea that any foods are addictive and I'm skeptical of models that suggest "refined food addiction" is a thing with a measurable, real-world impact; there's a lot of debate in that area of nutrition science and to me it kind of seems like the tools people use to track food addiction aren't really examining the addictiveness of specific foods, but are decent screening tools for people who have compulsive behaviors around food (for instance, one group of people who the Yale Food Addiction Scale has repeatedly been demonstrated to be REALLY good at identifying is people with anorexia).

But your body needs sugar all the time, whether that's in the form of complex carbohydrates that get broken down into simple sugars by your body, or simple sugars that you stir into your tea that then gets sent to your cells as energy. If your diet doesn't have enough sugar in it, your body has a processes to turn non-sugars into sugar so that it can use the sugar (gluconeogenesis!). Sugar is unambiguously good for you in the way that fat is unambiguously good for you. You need sugar to survive and it's not a bad thing if you want to have a cookie or a soda or some candy, and again - your craving probably isn't telling you that you're deficient in a specific micro or macronutrient, but I still think that you should listen to your craving.

Like, I don't know how much you know about psychotherapy but the attitude that a lot of diet-focused discussion takes toward cravings reminds me of cognitive behavioral therapy. "When you crave chocolate, no you don't! Don't think about the chocolate, you actually probably need starch or sugar or something, let's redirect that into having a banana, or some frozen berries, or some spinach. Point away from the unhealthy craving and into the healthy replacement, or, better yet, ignore the craving. Mind over matter. You choose how you act."

(I actually think "X craving means that I want Y food so I shall replace it with Z, which is similar" "craving salt means that I am dehydrated and need electrolytes so instead of potato chips I'll have some soup" is how this goes most of the time. I think this is a diet culture thing, not a food positivity thing.)

And you know what I think that's a garbage way to look at both food and emotions.

When I'm craving ice cream it's not because I've been mostly vegetarian for a week and am low on dietary cholesterol (AN IMPORTANT NUTRIENT. Don't be scared of consuming some cholesterol), I'm craving ice cream because sugar and fat taste good. So instead of trying to pretend that I'm getting "what I need" from a piece of salmon the size of a deck of cards with no salt and some lemon squeezed on top, I'm going to scoop out a moderate portion of ice cream and eat it while focusing on how much I enjoy it. And I'm going to do that instead of sitting down with a pint and a spoon while I'm stressed at work and eating something that tastes good to distract from the fact that work is stressful. (And sometimes it's fine to sit down with a pint and a spoon but I will say that's generally best not to do while you're in the middle of something stressful)

And if you want to relate that back to therapy I see this as more of the DBT approach. I've accepted that I want ice cream so I'm going to eat it in an intentional way and enjoy it instead of eating so much that I don't want dinner, or that it makes me feel sick, or that I eat it without noticing it because I'm using it as a distraction instead of a snack.

I'm not trying to shut down the negative emotion or shun the "bad" food, I'm accepting that I have that emotion and I'm working this neutral food into my day so that I'll feel good tomorrow and won't get heartburn overnight.

So I see that you're trying to be kind of anti diet culture here, but I don't think people need excuses to eat sugar, and I actually think that making excuses to eat it is significantly less healthy than just eating the sugar (which, again, is unambiguously healthy to eat as part of a varied, filling, nutritious diet). It seems like you may have internalized some ideas about sugar that are not great even if you are trying to separate from diet culture.

Nobody is ever going to eat a diet so healthy and nutritionally complete that they don't want candy or cake or cookies sometimes. Food is not only fuel, it is entertainment and culture and comfort and distraction and celebration and a million other things, but it is not bad. I don't think there's a single universally bad food out there, or any food that never belongs as part of someone's diet (unless it's something you're allergic to - I don't care if you're craving peanuts, do not eat peanuts if you have a peanut allergy).

So it's okay to make sugar, you don't need to make excuses. It's okay to eat sugar if you're craving sugar, even if that's not what your body "needs". But also sometimes a craving is your body saying "I'm hungry and this sounds good, please feed me" even if you're not a finely-tuned spectrometer that's craving blueberries pie because you actually need antioxidants from the blueberries (you're not a finely tuned spectrometer, you don't need the antioxidants from the blueberries, it's perfectly fine to just eat a slice of pie).

I really hate how criticisms of religion by ex-members are dismissed as, oh, you had a bad…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:01:27 -0400

winged-thinged:

I really hate how criticisms of religion by ex-members are dismissed as, oh, you had a bad experience with religion. Therefore you’re traumatized/embittered to it, so your criticisms don’t “count.” But criticism from outside the religion doesn’t “count,” either, because oh, you just don’t understand, you haven’t lived it, you don’t have the right perspective. But criticism from active members doesn’t “count” either, because they’re just heretics who aren’t believing or practicing it right.
It’s just a way to avoid taking accountability for the harm they’re causing. But it bothers me, especially, ESPECIALLY when the concerns of ex-members are dismissed. Because these are the people you failed! These are the people who fell through the cracks! These are the people who wanted to belong, who know the community inside and out, who encountered the abuse or hypocrisy or whatever flaws there are in your community first hand. If you really cared about accountability and making your community safe for everyone, they should be the first people you’d be lining up to talk to!

so sad when you get in an argument with a mousegirl and end up not on squeaking terms anymore :(

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:30:49 -0400

blairelythere:

so sad when you get in an argument with a mousegirl and end up not on squeaking terms anymore :(

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:02:26 -0400

girlnephew:

Since there’s been another “Tumblr is gonna die!” scare, let’s do a poll…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:04:28 -0400

ofishal-fish-posts:

If Tumblr dies, where will you go?
Waffle House
Dark alley
Swamp
Probably haunted house
Dashcon ballpit
Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience
McDonald’s PlayPlace
launched into orbit
under the sea (with the fish)
Cardboard box
shouting my shitposts at random people
Living in the walls at Tumblr HQ
Rb for larger sample size appreciated :)

thistoowillpasss: thistoowillpasss:thistoowillpasss:

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:31:39 -0400

thistoowillpasss:

thistoowillpasss:
thistoowillpasss:

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:01:50 -0400

dickheaddutch:

oak23:

anxietyproblem:

We forgot about it

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:30:48 -0400

whatcoloristhatcat:

blignick:
black with moderate white spotting, black with high white spotting

I think the funniest aspect of American car culture is that they are not all Like That, so if you’re…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:04:08 -0400

argumate:

I think the funniest aspect of American car culture is that they are not all Like That, so if you’re walking through a car park (or “parking lot” as they say) it will be a bizarre mix of vehicles for normal people like Toyotas Corolla and Hondas Civic cowering in the shadows cast by the Chevrolet Death Star and the Tsar Buick

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about piracy lately and in light of this i do need to say something…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:31:34 -0400

thatimageoftomscott:

ratstranaut:
I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about piracy lately and in light of this i do need to say something because I’ve been seeing a lot of misinformation.
anti-viruses, vpns, ad-blockers- none of these are going to help you here.
the first thing you’re going to need is a good solid boat (preferably oak wood). you will also want some cannons and a plank depending on the sort of shenanigans you plan on getting into.
Also! Not once have i seen any of you talking about the importance of citrus fruits and vitamin C. antivirus doesn’t prevent scurvy. come on you should know this by now.
this sort of misinformation is wildly dangerous and irresponsible.

oh ok

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:02:12 -0400

exeuntstormtroopers:

gorps:
apocryphics:
oh ok
“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:31:01 -0400

guerrillatech: