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I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”
- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
Combine this with a culture that increasingly glorifies overworking as a form of social currency, and you’ve got yourself a chronically ill population.
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What does my cat think when I kiss his little head? Does he know it’s affection or does he think I’m trying to eat him
valkurion-transverse
These questions are totes why I follow you, top quality content right here
It’s important!
spideryspiderygoodness
Well it depends. Do you try to put ketchup on him before kissing his head, that would change things :P
Yes. I put ketchup on my cat before I kiss his head.
Fun bit of info!
Kitties rub their heads against their chosen people as a method of scent marking, but not of ownership. Instead, they’re getting their scent on you because they know that you’re a family, but you smell “Funny” compared to them. They’re trying to make you smell like their family.
If your cat allows you to kiss their little head, it’s because they’re accepting -your- scent, and being part of your family.
Ketchup included.
This is a good note, thank you
rutabegaville
This why they boop you. :)
mouseymoon
Fact:
In animals that have communal grooming as part of their behavior, sticking your face in their face for kisses/boops doesn’t bother them at all because they know you’re not going to eat them.
But, with frogs (and other animals you shouldn’t be putting your mouth on) that do not have communal grooming there’s a high chance their first reaction will be “plz don’t eat me” before realizing you do not mean them any harm.
Also; if you accidentally step on a cat or a dog, or accidentally pinch/hurt a smaller pet and after they squeak or yelp you start petting them and trying to reassure the animal that you weren’t trying to hurt them they’ll understand that. Puppies and kittens get a little too rough with their play, but when a litter-mate ends up squeaking because they got hurt the puppy or kitten will stop playing so roughly and switch to kisses/licks as a way to apologize before they go back to playing.
When humans act the same way, and do not hurt them again it registers as “oh that wasn’t on purpose” and the animal quickly forgives you.
It’s the animal equivalent of “Don’t tell Mom!”
This is also good to know, thank you!
laurlaurrdraws
Thank fucking god
THANK FUCKING GOD.
m-l-rio
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Anonymous asked:
*curtsies* So, I really, REALLY don't want to offend anyone, Duke, but a question has been bothering me for a really long time and I was afraid to ask it because I didn't want to piss off anyone and since you're really eloquent and knowledgeable, I thought I'd ask you. So here it goes: you always say that arts and sciences are equally important, but how can analysing Chaucer or ecopoetics or anything similar compare to biomedicine or engineering in improving human lives? I'm genuinely curious!
*Curtsies* All right. Let me tell you a story:
When I lived in London, I shared a flat with a guy who was 26 years old, getting his PhD in theoretical physics. Let’s call him Ron. Ron could not for the life of him figure out why I was wasting my time with an MA in Shakespeare studies or why my chosen method of providing for myself was writing fiction. Furthermore, it was utterly beyond him why I should take offense to someone whose field literally has the word “theoretical” in the title ridiculing the practical inefficacy of art. My pointing out that he spent his free time listening to music, watching television, and sketching famous sculptures in his notebook somehow didn’t convince him that art is a necessary part of a healthy human existence.
Three other things that happened with Ron:
- I came home late one night and he asked where I’d been. When I told him I’d been at a friend’s flat for a Hanukkah celebration, he said, “What’s Hanukkah?” I thought he was joking. He was not.
- A few weeks later, I came downstairs holding a book. He asked what I was reading and when I said, “John Keats,” he (and the three other science grad students in the room) did not know who that was. This would be like me not knowing who Thomas Edison is.
- One night we got into an argument about the issue of gay marriage, and at one point he actually said, “It doesn’t affect me so I don’t see why I should care about it.”
Now: If Ron had ever read Number the Stars, or heard Ode to a Nightingale, or been to a performance of The Laramie Project, do you think he ever would have asked any of these questions?
Obviously this is an extreme example. This guy was amazingly ignorant, but he was also the walking embodiment of the questions you’re asking. What does art matter compared with something like science, that saves people’s lives? Here’s the thing: There’s a flaw in the question, because art saves lives, too. Maybe not in the same “Eureka, we’ve cured cancer!” kind of way, but that doesn’t make it any less important. Sometimes the impact of art is relatively small, even invisible to the naked eye. For example: as a young teenager I was (no exaggeration) suicidally unhappy. Learning to write is what kept me (literally and figuratively) off the ledge. But I was one nameless teenager; in the greater scheme of things, who cares? Fair enough. Let’s talk big picture. Let’s talk about George Orwell. George Orwell wrote books, the two most famous of which are Animal Farm and 1984. You probably read at least one of those in high school. Why do these books matter? Because they’re cautionary tales about limiting the power of oppressive governments, and their influence is so pervasive that the term “Big Brother,” which refers to the omniscient government agency which watches its citizens’ every move in 1984, has become common parlance to refer to any abuse of power and invasion of privacy by a governmental body. Another interesting fact, and the reason I chose this example: sales of 1984 fucking skyrocketed in 2017, Donald Trump’s first year in office. Why? Well, people are terrified. People are re-reading that cautionary tale, looking for the warning signs.
Art, as Shakespeare taught us, “holds a mirror up to nature.” Art is a form of self-examination. Art forces us to confront our own mortality. (Consider Hamlet. Consider Dylan Thomas.) Art forces us to confront inequality. (Consider Oliver Twist. Consider Audre Lorde. Consider A Raisin in the Sun. Consider Greta Gerwig getting snubbed at the Golden Globes.) Art forces us to confront our own power structures. (Consider Fahrenheit 451. Consider “We Shall Overcome.” Consider All the President’s Men. Consider “Cat Person.”) Art reminds us of our own history, and keeps us from repeating the same tragic mistakes. (Consider The Things They Carried. Consider Schindler’s List. Consider Hamilton.) Art forces us to make sense of ourselves. (Consider Fun House. Consider Growing Up Absurd.) Art forces us to stop and ask not just whether we can do something but whether we should. (Consider Brave New World. Consider Cat’s Cradle.) You’re curious about ecopoetics? The whole point is to call attention to human impact on the environment. Some of our scientific advances are poisoning our planet, and the ecopoetics of people like the Beats and the popular musicians of the 20th century led to greater environmental awareness and the first Earth Day in 1970 . Art inspires change–political, social, environmental, you name it. Moreover, art encourages empathy. Without books and movies and music, we would all be stumbling around like Ron, completely ignorant of every other culture, every social, political, or historical experience except our own. Since we have such faith in science: science has proved that art makes us better people. Science has proved that people who read fiction not only improve their own mental health but become proportionally more empathetic. (Really. I wrote an article about this when I was working for a health and wellness magazine in 2012.) If you want a more specific example: science has proved that kids who read Harry Potter growing up are less bigoted. (Here’s an article from Scientific American, so you don’t have to take my word for it.) That is a big fucking deal. Increased empathy can make a life-or-death difference for marginalized people.
But the Defense of Arts and Humanities is about more than empirical data, precisely because you can’t quantify it, unlike a scientific experiment. Art is–in my opinion–literally what makes life worth living. What the fuck is the point of being healthier and living longer and doing all those wonderful things science enables us to do if we don’t have Michelangelo’s David or Rimbaud’s poetry or the Taj Mahal or Cirque de Soleil or fucking Jimi Hendrix playing “All Along the Watchtower” to remind us how fucking amazing it is to be alive and to be human despite all the terrible shit in this world? Art doesn’t just “improve human lives.” Art makes human life bearable.
I hope this answers your question.
To it I would like to add: Please remember that just because you don’t see the value in something doesn’t mean it is not valuable. Please remember that the importance of science does not negate or diminish the importance of the arts, despite what every Republican politician would like you to believe. And above all, please remember that artists are every bit as serious about what they do as astronomers and mathematicians and doctors, and what they do is every bit as vital to humanity, if in a different way. Belittling their work by questioning its importance, or relegating it to a category of lesser endeavors because it isn’t going to cure a disease, or even just making jokes about how poor they’re going to be when they graduate is insensitive, ignorant, humiliating, and, yes, offensive. And believe me: they’ve heard it before. They don’t need to hear it again. We know exactly how frivolous and childish and idealistic and unimportant everyone thinks we are. Working in the arts is a constant battle against the prevailing idea that what you do is useless. But it’s bad enough that the government is doing its best to sacrifice all arts and humanities on the altar of STEM–we don’t need to be reminded on a regular basis that ordinary people think our work is a waste of time and money, too.
Artists are exhausted. They’re sick and tired of being made to justify their work and prove the validity of what they do. Nobody else in the world is made to do that the way artists are. That’s why these questions upset them. That’s why it exasperates me. I have to answer some version of this question every goddamn day, and I am so, so tired. But I’ve taken the effort to answer it here, again, in the hopes that maybe a couple fewer people will ask it in the future. But even if you’re not convinced by everything I’ve just said, please try to find some of that empathy, and just keep it to yourself.
This moved me to tears. You should not have to keep shouting it, but this is my first time seeing it, and I feel blessed that I did. Fucking thank you @dukeofbookingham
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Anonymous asked:
hey are you actually lgbtq @ all or just out here
I’m Bi/Pan, in a committed relationship, and proud as hell!
Why do I say Bi/Pan instead of one of those? More info in my response to an earlier reader question.
Why do I bring up my relationship status? Because people are confused about bi/pan folks and relationships!
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Anyway if you’re gonna make fun of fat men for wearing speedoes/swim suits/ect but defend fat women who are being made fun of for wearing swim suits/bikinis you don’t actually care about fat people lmao.
You either make fun of all of it or defend all of it. You can’t pick and choose.
Fat boys/men deserve the same fucking respect as fat girls/women.
anyway this barely got any notes so im reblogging it again bc its important to me
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mypsychology
For more posts like these, go to @mypsychology
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About a week ago I posted this.
I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:
and my personal favorite
After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.
About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like
I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like
This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”
But I guess the lesson goes like this:
DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN
DON’T TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES EVER.
pasta-corps
THIS POST IS SO IMPORTANT I WANT EVERYONE ON TUMBLR IN THE WORLD TO SEE IT
serenitymayu
This needs to be reblogged. I couldn’t scroll past this if I tried, I got a message like that but not for me, it told me to my friend to kill them self, I was livid! I didn’t answer it because a message like that doesn’t deserve an answer but I don’t see what is so funny about telling someone to kill them selves! I really don’t! It’s sick and it’s wrong. This person though, I take my hat off to you. You taught that bully a lesson.
lovetaylorsince1989
this.
ishipallofthethings
This will always be number one on the list of things that aren’t okay
jacksepticeye-imagines
Ho-ly shit.
nightmare-vincent-cosplay
I’ll never not reblog this
tolazytomakeagoodname
If you dare scroll without reblogging this you have no soul…….. i mean you do but reblogging this wont ruin your blog……. please just spread the word.
the-evil-anon1
Please people don’t send anon hate your just hurting yourselves…
One of My online best friends was send anon hate like this. She was a sweetheart, talented, funny. And she was just a middle schooler. Not only was she being cyber bullied, she was being bullied at school and trapped with parents who didn’t support her and didn’t care.
That anon. Pushed. My best friend. Over the edge. She took her own life around November 14th, 2013. I never sobbed so hard in my life because no matter the effort we put in to try and save her from the brink it was no use. I felt guilty for years because I couldn’t do anything more. I don’t even have closure, even after these years.
Bottom line: Do. Not. Send. Anon. Hate.
Not as a joke. Not if you are being serious. Never. There’s no reason. I don’t care.
Do not do it. It’s not funny. Suicide and self harm is not funny, it’s not cute.
There is already so much cruelty and hatred and misery in the world. We all suffer. Please don’t add to it, please don’t be the reason someone else is hurting. If they’re already hurting, don’t be the reason they take that step they can’t come back from. Don’t be the person you hope no one will ever be to you.
kylerinvention
Don’t. Ever. FUCKING. DO. THIS. A close friend of mine almost killed himself because he was being bombarded with anonymous (and anonymous) hate. It makes me fucking sick.
big-bara-brothers
Spread this EVERYWHERE! Reblog repeatedly and just get it everywhere. If I find out that any of my followers or someone else is sending messages like this, I’m coming after you.
Please don’t send anon hate to anyone. you have no idea what could happen!!!!
joestars-against-ddlg
Boost
khraddict
If I ever get this, just prepare for me to blow up at you. I had a guy joke about this to me once. Seriously DO NOT go there with me or anyone else I know. I’ve been in that dark place - I still end up there someplace. My mom has been in that dark place, and you know what?
She didn’t come back.
I lost her when I was four. It is never ok to joke about that.
This posti s back and I have some new thoughts on the subject.
Angry thoughts. But hey, I’ve been angry for a good week now, since the 8th of November, 2016.
What pisses me off the most about the anon’s messages is “I can’t be responsible for someone’s suicide, now stop, come back”. Because that gives me the impression that the person would be fine with someone killing themselves, as long as he’s got no guilt in it, as long as he’s got no repecussions to look forward to from the person’s family and the authorities.
theflufwiththefandoms
@ that anon and anyone who has done this: FUCK. YOU. ASSHAT.
timidusagi
Words hurts people. Be cautious about what you say, okay.
theclouds27
I hate people who can’t just stop sending so much negativity in this world. There is already enough of it in the world, with all of the recent events such as terrorist attacks. Why add to it and ruin someone’s day, if you aren’t even prepared to face consequences? People like this piss me off, and I hope that one day they will grow up and stop acting so negative towards others, just because of their ‘reasons’ to do so. No, nothing is a good enough reason to send messages such as these.
NO. NO. NO. I REALLY DON’T GET HOW YOU COULD TELL SOMEONE. YOU. DON’T. EVEN. KNOW. TO TAKE THEIR OWN LIFE. ALL LIFE IS PRECIOUS. DON’T THINK SO? GET OFF MY PAGE AND GO RETHINK YOUR MORALS
1p-2p-hetalia-imaginings
When got all that anon hate when I first came out on this blog as bisexual, I… I ended up in a dark place. I didn’t do too much, but I did self harm a little. The point is, don’t do it. Please.
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Please make this go viral.
It is so important I don’t even care if you delete what I write here, just help it be seen.
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Yo I set up an [Associates] page for other writer peeps. If you want to be on it and you’re not, send me a message with your preferred name and your writeblr url and I’ll add you!
Also this is a good time to remind people that I’ve made a [Facebook Page] for all my author-ly stuff so it’d be cool if you would check it out!
it’s been like six months but this is still a thing that exists.
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As one of the people who have been tagged from them in multiple posts I HIGHLY encourage you block and report them!
ocdevelopmentstuff
!!!
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If Harry had gotten a less conventional, but more loving adoptive family...
Dear Minerva,
Thank you so much for your kind letter of the 17th. It is always a pleasure to hear from you. I do appreciate your waiving the rules about familiars to allow Wednesday to bring little Homer - she dotes on that spider, and I don’t think she could consider Hogwarts home without his company.
We were delighted but completely unsurprised by the children’s Sorting. Of course Wednesday is a Ravenclaw - she has always had a brilliant mind, and it is rather traditional for the women in our family. Slytherin might have been a possibility, with her cleverness and ambition, but sadly (and quietly, between friends) I must admit the wrong sort have rather taken over that House at the moment. Death Eaters are so vulgar. Gomez, naturally, is over the moon about our little Harry being a fellow Gryffindor - the world does need more dashing, brave, and reckless men. They make life so interesting for the rest of us, don’t you agree? And I am certain he will be safe under your care, after his rather difficult start in life, poor child. That aunt and uncle of his are just too terribly common to protect him adequately - I am grateful Albus saw sense and left him with us rather than her.
I appreciate your bringing to my attention the small difficulty between Harry and Draco - I shall have a word with Narcissa. (Lucius is still being terribly silly about that little peacock incident, and refuses to speak to Gomez at all. Men can be so ridiculously proud. And they really did look so much better in black.) Really, though, Harry was only defending his friend. I probably should warn you that Wednesday writes that she is teaching young Longbottom a few of her more subtle defenses - I sincerely doubt Draco will trouble him in future if he uses those. I assure you, none of them cause permanent damage, only temporary discomfort, and she is well aware that they are only for self-defense, not mere childish aggression. Addamses do not start fights, but we do finish them, and Wednesday has always looked out for her brothers.
At least that little incident allowed you to see Harry’s flying skills in time to recruit him for the Quidditch team. I think he shall be an excellent Seeker - he was always the best at bat-spotting on summer evenings, and then there was the time he “borrowed” Gomez’s broom to rescue Pugsley’s pet octopus Aristotle, who had developed an unaccountable taste for tree-climbing, but had neglected to learn how to climb down. It was a successful rescue, even though he was mildly hampered on his descent by Aristotle clinging to his face in terror.
Please send my apologies to Severus for that unfortunate incident in Potions class. I should have warned him that Wednesday was experimenting with, shall we say, some variant recipes. I am quite certain, however, that Miss Parkinson’s hair will grow back normally, and that the snakes are only a temporary embellishment.
My best regards, and do drop by for tea if you ever happen to be in the neighborhood. Thing has perfected your favorite shortbread recipe - I do believe he has a little crush on you. Or perhaps it is merely that you are the only visitor we have had, outside of family, who is sensible enough to shake hands with him without flinching.
Yours truly,
Morticia Addams
Sheer, beautiful brilliance OP. You deserve an award for this.
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quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.
I’m just gonna put it out there that if someone’s freaking about something small, they’re really freaking out about something big that they’re trying to deal with, or something long term that’s been building up, and that little thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.
jdkaplonski
Needed this today.
People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.
REBLOG if you have amazing, talented WRITER friends.
Because I certainly do, and I love every single one of them and their work.
silly-aesthetic-me
*SLAMS REBLOG*
thelogicalloganipus
*reblogs so hard that I fall into the void of time and space*
Im looking at you @nyxwordsmith
Awwwww!!! Thank you!! You are literally too pure 🖤🖤🖤
You are amazing @prplzorua! Obviously I need to tag @cefmua56 @pirate-patton @a-valorous-choice @leesacrakon @sanders-trash-4ever @treblesanders @storytellerofuntoldlegends @analogicalisreal @justanotherpurplebutterfly and I know that @random-snippets @writing-thuri were already tagged but I’m tagging again because they’re amazing.
Also @pretty-mr-sanders @trashsinsunrelenting y’all are damn good writers. I know because you’re both NSFW blogs you don’t get the props you deserve, but writing is writing and you’re both talented af.
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de-is-me
wait what I was tagged? Thank you!
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Hello Writeblr!!
Hey everybody. I’ll be honest, I’ve followed a few of you for a while now and the community has always seemed so supportive so I decided to join myself! I’ll probably be reblogging a bunch of reference materials that I can look at later, as well as updates on my current WIP!
Feel free to follow me if you want to see a bunch of random, rambling, writing related things.
My current WIP is a YA High Fantasy novel, which is a split perspective between the protagonist and the antagonist. Our antagonist is a common girl, with an illegal ability to communicate with dragons, who receives the ability to attend her kingdoms military academy, typically reserved for only nobles. Our antagonist is a low ranking noble boy, taught that someone’s status is all that matters. He has been engaged to a girl that he hates since he was three years old, and when a commoner attends his academy for the first time in over 20 years he is determined to fix that. Does that sound interesting to anybody??