32, cisman, Shi'i Muslim revert, white-passing mestizo born, raised, and based in 🇨🇴; aloofly-off-the-map History major, anarchy-adjacent post-leftist, INFP-T, occasional guitarist. Just some guy really, alcornoque of sorts. Still learning.
Conophytum Wittebergense is an uncommon succulent belonging to South Africa. It belongs to the Mesembryanthemum family and is known for its small, globular shape and unique, pebble-like look. The plant has little white or pink flowers that flower in the summer.
me looking at the image: that’s a creepy thing to paint on a bunch of rocks but you do you me reading the caption: what the fuck holy shit what the fuck
hi hello I’m sorry to do this again but my next credit card payment is due before my next paycheck so I’m in need of help
I’m trying to raise 450 CAD, which I’ll keep track of below
thank you to anyone who can help me out, either by donating or sharing!
6/450 CAD
150/450 CAD
it’s fucked but aid posts tend to do better when I mention why my situation is hard-
I’m a brown lesbian recovering from a recent sexual assault by someone I trusted, and due to my disabilities I’m only able to work part time which is why my financial situation is strained at best
The jabiru is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. The adult jabiru is 120–140 cm long, 2.3–2.8 m across the wings. The jabiru lives in large groups near rivers and ponds, and eats prodigious quantities of fish, molluscs, and amphibians. It will occasionally eat reptiles, bird eggs and small mammals. It will even eat fresh carrion and dead fish, such as those that die during dry spells, and thus help maintain the quality of isolated bodies of water.
Just kindly reminding people that Caucasian doesn’t mean white, it should stop being used in that context since it reinforces scientific racism, and the term belongs to people from the Caucasus region in Western Asia. Just say white people.
Anyways please look at all these beautiful (actual) Caucasian cultures and people!
(left to right: An armenian woman, Nogai girls, a Dagestani woman, Nogai men and women, an Avar woman, a Azerbajani woman, an Armenian woman, a Lak girl, Ingush women)
Inscription: ‘Harvest is come all / busy now in making / of the Barley mow if / you the Barley mow / neglect Good ale you / can not then expect / August 1838 / John Prouse // Hartland.’
‘Barnstaple Ware with typical colouring and sgraffiato decoration. A ‘Harvest Jug’ Red earthenware.
Alright, I really hate to do this because I was convinced I was gonna be financially stable by this point, but something really bad just came out of left field, so.. here’s the situation:
My husband moved from Mexico to live with me here in Colombia back in January
We got married in February, with the intention for him to apply for a migrant Visa
We were unable to apply for the Visa right away because we were saving up for the procedure. We ended up applying for it back at the start of June
His Visa application just got rejected, citing two reasons: we were supposed to provide photographic evidence that we’re living together and sharing domestic responsibilities (which we weren’t aware of), and by the time we applied he had already overstayed a bit over the time he could legally stay as a tourist
We can request an extension on his stay and apply for a Visa again, however, before we can do that we NEED to pay a fine for the time he overstayed. Otherwise the only option we have is to let him get deported back to Mexico, which would make him unable to enter the country for the next three years.
We have 60 days to pay for the fine, which is 2 million Colombian pesos. As of today’s (June 29th 2023) exchange rate, that equals a little over 479 USD.
I know I’ve been kinda slow with music commissions due to being busy with my day job, but the situation being what it is, I’m gonna have to pick up the pace and also very politely ask for donations if you’re able to.
Losing sleep over losing sleep: How watching the clock impacts insomnia, use of sleep aids
Watching the clock while trying to fall asleep exacerbates insomnia and the use of sleep aids, according to research from an Indiana University professor — and a small change could help people sleep better.
The research — led by Spencer Dawson, clinical assistant professor and associate director of clinical training in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences — focuses on a sample of nearly 5,000 patients presenting for care at a sleep clinic.
Insomnia affects between 4 and 22% of adults and is associated with long-term health problems including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and depression.
Participants completed questionnaires about the severity of their insomnia, their use of sleep medication and the time they spent monitoring their own behavior while trying to fall asleep. They were also asked to report any psychiatric diagnoses. Researchers conducted mediation analyses to determine how the factors influenced each other.
“We found time-monitoring behavior mainly has an effect on sleep medication use because it exacerbates insomnia symptoms,” Dawson said. “People are concerned that they’re not getting enough sleep, then they start estimating how long it will take them to fall back asleep and when they have to be up. That is not the sort of activity that’s helpful in facilitating the ability to fall asleep; the more stressed out you are, the harder time you’re going to have falling asleep.”
As the frustration over sleeplessness grows, people are more likely to use sleep aids in an attempt to gain control over their sleep.
The results are published in The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders. Additional co-authors are Dr. Barry Krakow, professor of psychiatry and behavioral health in the Mercer University School of Medicine; Patricia Haynes, associate professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health at the University of Arizona; and Darlynn Rojo-Wissar, a postdoctoral fellow at Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Dawson said the research indicates that a simple behavioral intervention could help those struggling with insomnia. He gives the same advice to every new patient the first time they meet.
“One thing that people could do would be to turn around or cover up their clock, ditch the smart watch, get the phone away so they’re simply not checking the time,” Dawson said. “There’s not any place where watching the clock is particularly helpful.”
With 15 years of research and clinical experience in the sleep field, Dawson is interested in comparing individuals’ sleeping experiences with what is concurrently happening in their brains. He trains and supervises doctoral students in the Department of Psychological and Brain Science’s Clinical Science Program.
