I'm feeling a lot better for partly fucked up reasons. because I lost a friendship I can finally stop grieving it being a source of stress and heartbreak for the last two years, and can also (with proper cognitive dissonance) more easily imagine it will be better again than I could when all I had to go by was its own languishing existence.

POTATO DINNER

the khazar myth is edgy but if you want to insult ashkenazi jews by saying were not "tru israelites" while remaining accurate, dont call us slavs or turks, call us romans. its much more accurate, were like half descended from southern italian converts, also it names us after our enemies.

so disappointed by fucking activia

@AngelCelt this is why existence precedes essence

@AngelCelt muh true jews

kinda neat how arabians originally probably came in large part from natufians. so the palestinians and hashemite jordanians can say that even if (at least some of) their ancestors were in arabia for thousands of years, they began in the Levant (after Africa obvi). however this was practically prehistoric. honestly if you go far back enough pretty much every claim to roots in a place winds up leading to some other place. this is especially true for the near east, fertile crescent, and mediterrainian. I think what matters more than anything is whether your culture is indigenous and unique to a place and not found other places, whether you first became the group you consider yourself to be there, and whether you regard the land as very important to your being. while it could be said that indigenous Hawaiians were somewhat recently Polynesians, they have a unique culture to Hawaii, became Hawaiians in Hawaii, and revere their land, so it doesnt matter. existence precedes essence here and everywhere, a group can use genetic studies all they want but if they dont have a significant common experience of standing out at least somewhat from other groups due to their particularities and also of remembering shared treasured stories of their people and land, what's the point?

incredibly vivid dream with sound and touch of my dead cat where my room was almost identical but I saw no mess and light streamed through the window I saw sammy in after he left instead of me having a blackout curtain thats been there since my last hospitalization. seems like a very good omen

@batsbatsbats speccie!

Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)

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@lain wow I hate this one, looks AI too

@winter @dangerdyke @gelatin what squicks me out is that you have to stick the probe all the way down at the base of the follicular shaft hole. that must feel very weird

@tk I think its because I'm eating prosciutto it gives me heartburn

your oomph keeps getting tummy aches

acid rain. base rain. cringe rain.

sue me for expecting my favorite yoghurts formula to be consistent.

desisting is different from detransitioning though, kids who do go on blockers and transition rarely desist

this is important but i want to note it applies to legally adult transitioners, not kids. kids often do desist naturally with puberty and thats okay.

they changed the activia formula in the last 18 years. what the fuck smh

@fiore @maxine @shroomie