good morning to the beaten and the damned only

ALT

My grandmother just had incision-less brain surgery (using an MRI to guide ultrasound rays), and in 90 minutes they mostly cured the tremor that's been stopping her from writing, playing music, or doing any of her other hobbies for the past 20 years (and has often made eating and drinking a royal pain).

I know so much is hard and scary right now. But we also live in a time of some astonishing, miraculous things.

I do think the Hank Green AI thing makes it abundantly clear that if you have ADHD or any other mental illness and/or you are prone to addiction you need to avoid AI at all costs. This shit will rope you in, and if you have a mental illness that say, starves your brain of dopamine, you're gonna be extra susceptible to that. I won't use AI for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is knowing how it would fuck with my ADHD and bipolar. Like yes, it's bad for the environment and giving money to rich scumbags and runs on plagarism, but even more than all that, it's straight up not safe at all and you really shouldn't use it if for no other reason than to protect yourself from whatever the fuck it might do to you.

There was a poll going around lately about opinions on Blazed posts, and it reminded me that I have the power to make random strangers perceive very important cats. As such, please enjoy this cat. Thank u

I have a big folder on my desktop of inspirational pictures/memes/etc to keep me going so I shall share them with you here.

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ALT

Broke in my new tablet with some Cetitan and Cetoddle - I love a good pokemon that gives me early whale vibes (also love their shiny versions so had to include that)

zoss watching from the sidelines like “ZAID never had a yuri harem”

Me: Wow! You really used to write fan fiction, Grandma? What did you write about?

Grandma: Oh, it was for Star Trek. Just little stories about Kirk and Spock, you know?

Me:

Originally posted by ki-flor

it is a parents responsibility to play good music during their child’s formative years. make sure the nostalgia playlist is a banger

you are not a "femcel" you are not a "foid" you are not a "hon" you are a woman worthy of respect and taking up space and being happy and the world is yours for the taking you're ALIVE!!!!!!!!! you're a HUMAN!!!!!!! FUCK what they told you!!!!!!

Masoud El Amaratly (deceased)

• Gender: Transgender man (Mustarjil)
• Sexuality: N/A
• DOB: Born 1897
• RIP: 9 October 1944
• Ethnicity: Iraqi (Ahwari)
• Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician, poet
• Note 1: The word "mustarjila" (مُستَرجِلة) is derived from the root R-J-L (ر-جُ-ل) in the Arabic language, which means man. The active participle from the verb istarjala is mustarjil (مُستَرجِل) for masculine, and mustarjila (مُستَرجِلة) for feminine. The term equates with 'becoming a man'.
• Note 2: El Amaratly's first record was recorded in 1925 and his recordings became extremely popular across the Levant. He specialised in abuḏiya (ar), a form of Ahwari poetry, and rifi, rural folk music. El Amaratly's life as a mustarjil is cited as an example of past acceptance of LGBT people in Iraq.
• Note 3: In 1936 he performed live on Radio Baghdad, reaching new audiences, and subsequently travelling and performing in Syria and Lebanon.