this one time my little brother and I were doing a lemonade stand, like little kids do, and one of our customers jogged across a parking lot to get to us, gave us $5 for 25c lemonade, and told us to keep the change. Kudos to random jogger guy who made our entire day. If you get lemonade from little kids, let them keep the change, or tip them. It’s a really cheap way to make someone’s day. 10 cents is awesome when you’re a little kid and anything up from there is more awesome.
These are two of my Okefenokee pygmy sunfish. The left is a male, the right is a female. They are two of the ten that I have, and I very much hope that they breed soon.
Pygmy sunfish really go all-out on the whole sexual dimorphism thing. It’s even more incredible considering they pack all that color into an inch of length.
hey so fun facts! this thing apparently cost upwards of 20,000£ to fly for something like two hours. imagine the things actual activists could do with 20,000£.
imagine, for example, the immigrant families we could reunite with 20k. imagine the disabled people we could support through the financial hardships forced on them by the uk government. imagine the thousands of productive things we could achieve with 20,000£, rather than spending it on meaningless boondoggles that do nothing except make liberals laugh and signal your uselessness to everyone with half a brain
I was talking to my mom the other day, and she said she was going to start going to the gym, because its important care for your body. I’m disabled w/ multiple chronic illnesses, so going to the gym is impossible for me. She seemed to realize this, and started to backtrack, saying like – its part of taking care of herself, and I interrupted and said, “Its okay mom. You and I taking care of ourselves look very different”. And thats what I would like you to know.
Taking care of yourself looks different.
For some people, taking care of themselves looks like fruit smoothies and gym visits, cutting out sugar and weight training.
For some people, taking care of themselves looks like hospital visits, feeding tubes and ports. Needles and tests.
For some people, taking care of themselves looks like taking medication and lying down in a cool dark room.
For some people, taking care of themselves looks like getting any calories in their body that they can.
For some people, taking care of themselves looks like adding in more vegetables and trying to go outside to get sun more often.
For some people, taking care of themselves looks like seeing a therapist, keeping symptom journals, and practicing mindfulness, meds, or grounding techniques.
We all have different needs. Please don’t feel bad about how you care for yourself just because someone else is able to do “more”, or their care is more performative or obvious. Please don’t look down on someone for caring for themselves in a way that you do not. Medication and rest are just as important as exercise and vegetables.
Keep doing your best to care for yourself, the best way you know how. Your self care and health is important, no matter what it looks like.
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