How many people actually know their cat’s birthday? I wrote mines down on the vet paperwork as Valentine’s because it was September and they said she was probably about 8 months old.

I’ve had a couple of people ask how I stomach what I do for a living (acute inpatient psychiatry) and one of my answers to one of the aspects is that a lot of this was going to happen to them anyway and they may as well have at least one person there who’s been there and won’t be a asshole about it (or any more than I have to be anyway). Also everybody’s a mental health advocate who wants the poor sweet depressed babies to be loved more until they’re at a stoplight and a homeless schizophrenic on PCP starts wiping period blood on their car while yelling about how Obama filled their vagina with spiders. Some of us didn’t get the cute mental illnesses OK.

I have a folder of shitpost diagrams that is way too small and I appreciate you helping me add to it.

thicc as buttercream but sure

Tbh the hose / sprayer kind is actually super handy for spraying out the bedside puke bucket. You can also use it for removing the large solids from reusable pads or incontinence garments or pet waste on a reusable or very rudely diy’ed puppy pad. I’ve spent so much time working with toilets that have a pull down nozzle for cleaning equipment that it’s just plain handy to have one at home for when the cat pukes on my favorite robe. You can also use it for a lot of types of food waste if you don’t have a garbage disposal.

I read it as a reflexive response to behavioral cues, meaning the body is responding automatically to context rather than conscious intent.

There’s the “yeah I made it here” in the driveway, which is basically a cognitive checkpoint where the brain relaxes its inhibitory grip. But as he approaches the bathroom, his reflexes to defecate and micturate reengage more fully, because environmental cues lower cortical suppression and let autonomic programs run.

If you take some time to focus on your bodily sensations more mindfully in these situations, you’ll also notice the sensation comes in waves. What you’re feeling there is not random discomfort but rhythmic signaling. That’s the conscious input of your visceral afferent nervous system reporting back on the peristaltic waves of your intestinal smooth muscle, which contract in cycles to move contents forward.

As a matter of mind body somatic reintegration, you’ll probably find that using your conscious mind to thank the nerves for keeping you in the loop will likely make the sensation less distressing. This works because acknowledgment engages higher cortical regulation rather than threat processing, which reduces amplification of the signal.

Most bodies get more upset when they feel like the rest of their complaints are going unheard by the cerebrum, because ignored signals tend to escalate in intensity to force attention. Even when there’s not a way for you to address the problem immediately, you gotta let them know they’re heard, or the nervous system keeps turning up the volume.

I tell people good evening while getting off shift at 7a and good morning while coming on shift at 7p and honestly I just roll with it because then nobody gets on me for not remembering their names.

Yeah I’m US and my parents were always at least annoyed if we wore our shoes further into the house than right by the door.

My parents unironically told me they know he’s untrustworthy and hope his election and subsequent mismanagement results in dissolution of the government, general anarchy, and eventually the second coming of Christ. We no longer talk.

Yeah when I said ‘explicit interracial gangbang with facials’ I was not in any way exaggerating. It’s just sitting there in every Gideon’s in every hotel bedside table.

Especially when they have the softcore in song of Solomon and the interracial gangbang in Ezekiel 23 (like it goes into detail about how much they ejaculate all over the women). And they’re not 100% explicit but Abraham tries to get Sarah (who is both his wife and half-sister) to cuck him several times in Genesis (god keeps cockblocking it by alerting the other party, who is always like dude, ew!), and there’s more than a couple incest scenes in Genesis as well.

Honestly most of the positive aspect I’ve gotten out of the Bible is actually a fair amount of comfort in knowing that humans really have not changed. One of the oldest and most widely distributed set of texts humanity has ever written has way more depraved shit in it than HBO. The puritans in particular really did the religion a disservice by trying to make these people sound virtuous because half the time the only thing that keeps the “good guys” from doing absolutely heinous shit is literal divine intervention.

I told hubs to just come hug me in bed for five minutes the other day (I’ve been working his glutes a bit too hard lately). 10/10 will request hugging in bed again.

That level of conviction that you’re right about something can be pretty destructive regardless of specific belief system. Theory of evolution was a great step forward but also somehow resulted in phrenology and branches of capitalism that liken it to “survival of the fittest” so. People like to concentrate power amongst themselves and people like them then justify it as them being smarter and more right about some kind of fundamental truth about the universe. Assholes gonna asshole regardless.

As a psych nurse my rules for a gunfight are that the ER security checkpoint with the metal detector and x-ray bag scanner better have found and removed the gun by the time the patient arrives on my unit. One day they didn’t and I was VERY put out. Absolutely miffed. I wrote a very stern email in the morning.

Yeah it’s one of those "things that separate us from (most) animals. We can ask “what if” and simulate the probable result with a decent amount of accuracy completely internally. It’s a really cool feature if you know what to do with it, it’s just sometimes it runs some really weird simulations “just in case.”

Better example is parrotfish clownfish.

I’ve said before that (practically speaking) you want to go at least 2/3 on nice, pretty, or intelligent, but at the very least you absolutely NEED at least one of them, and yet–! (And they’re all somewhat modifiable to a degree, but out of all of them niceness is the easiest)

And while they’re there they let the adrenaline surge of the realization they just got fed feet first into the meat grinder of American healthcare by using the ER as primary care make them punch a nurse in the face. I say this as someone who’s made a career out of talking them out of that.

My dream is a matrix plugin where I can sort memes into boxes for each loved one and it will send them on a set interval (every other day, weekly, etc). I use beeper which is matrix based and has bridges for most major communication apps so just having that one extra plugin I could really keep up a solid “thinking of you” vibe without inundating people with an overwhelming quantity.

I read “premium premium” which is both spiritually similar and also just fucking hilarious.