doctors who take your pain seriously and are able to really help you, give thanks.
Sorry for rambling - life with chronic pain can be complicated. I’m sorry too for your chronic pain and hope you find relief! You are not alone!!
much pain I’m starting the day in to determine if I need meds. Sometimes I can work through the pain, and sometimes not taking meds ahead of time - like when it first sets in - means it gets much worse. A lot of it is listening to your own body and learning by trial and error. And if you have
For me, it has been a day by day process, and not usually predictable. I rest as often as I can. I know some movement is absolutely essential or my pain worsens. On good days I risk overdoing it, and then need time to recover. I have to gauge how much energy I will need to spend for this day, how
Gray furry cat sleeping on his Bach
Loki, chillin’ on a hot day
This is no time to bury your head.
Yes, take time for self care, but stay in the fight.
Four pictures of a very good boy named Murphy, an English Springer Spaniel who is looking into the camera being cute
Beloved Murphy crossed the rainbow bridge. He was 14-1/2 years old - a good life for a Springer, but I sure will miss that old boy.
14!
"America is a place of immeasurable wealth. It is quite literally the richest and most fortunate country that has ever existed. And yet its leader acts like such a pitiful cry-baby on the world stage, constantly talking about how mean everyone is and how horrible everyone has been to it"
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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Meme of a medieval warrior holding a sword and looking ready for battle. The text reads, "A day may come when I get enough sleep and don't need coffee. BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY."
Why am I up. Good morning! 😵💫
#Knitsky, got a ball of scrap yarn and wondering if it’s enough for your next project?
Here’s my go-to method for calculating how many metres/yards you have left!
Orange tabby with paw over face, looking cute
Goose sleeping hard
Gray furry cat peeping out of box
And then Loki!
Tabby cat peeking out of a box
George
“…we must remember that we are of value even when we’re not ‘doing.’
That even when the world is awful, we’re allowed to have joy. Perhaps especially when the world is awful.
That joy will help fuel and animate us, restore us when we’re feeling overwhelmed and depleted.” - @theradr.bsky.social
My church, my bishop
These stupid mother fuckers are going to close hundreds of nursing homes, homeless shelters, abuse shelters, and transitional housing for hundreds of thousands of Americans including veterans, seniors, women, and children. These fucking monsters. Flynn is such a piece of shit.
One of all time favorite heroes. She was an amazing, brave woman.
Elon Musk and Bill Ackman agree that the us govt can use tax money to ffund NGOs that the government is not permitted to do itself.
I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are.
The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever!
Lutheran Family Services and Global Refuge (Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Services) does amazing work, changes lives, and provides hope and opportunity for people in desperate situations. These attacks and threats will hurt so many people.
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Class warfare is when there’s a limit to what poor & disabled people can earn before losing their benefits, but no limit to what billionaires can hoard while avoiding taxes.
We must reject the twisted idea that money incentivizes the rich but poverty incentivizes the poor.
The Oval Office is back on the market…
A group of billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, are kneeling and offering money to a huge statue of Donald Trump.
At a time when so many powerful people are bending the knee to Donald Trump, it’s incredibly important that we lift up acts of resistance.
Yesterday, the celebrated editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post when they killed the cartoon below. This is what courage looks like.
US Senate just passed NDAA 85-14 to allocate $895B for war. Reminder:
•End homelessness: $30B
•Insulin for diabetics: $40B
•Universal Pre-K: $60B
•Universal 4-yr-college: $70B
•SNAP for 40M Americans: $80B
•Cancel all medical debt: $140B
And we'd still have $475B left over
Got money for war but...
George and Loki are waiting for the recent college graduate to come home! 10 hours and counting!!
This cut off the first few seconds of the video which gives some context to what they're saying:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
Brown and white cat loafing in a blanket-tent of his own making
