For anyone who is ever short on cash and needs a free hot meal, you can use this website to locate your nearest Gurdwara (Sikh Temple) and find out when they serve langar, which is a free kitchen open to anyone from any religion, race, orientation, gender, etc. All meals are vegetarian Indian food, all you need to do is show up and cover your head.
I’m a wreck on a daily basis. I am always tired, exhausted, no energy. I fall asleep at my desk at work. It’s the worst. The cause? Sleep apnea. My wife constantly notices me not breathing, gasping for breath and snoring. Classic, right?
So I go see my doctor, I even get a reference for a sleep study.
The result, though? Yeah, you stopped a couple times but you just need to lose weight (180cm, 130kg) say the sleep people. Repeats my own doctor.
Okay, so what? I just need to lose weight and then I’ll be fine? Even if I wanted to lose weight (and that’s a whole body image struggle on its own), until I do I just have to live with exhaustion? Because no other solutions are up for discussion. It’s lose weight, the end. Be exhausted until we deem you thin enough to consider other options.
Sleeping well is for thin people.
Sleep apnea and other sleep disturbances actually cause weight gain, btw.
A research tip from a friendly neighborhood librarian!
I want to introduce you to the wonderful world of subject librarians and Libguides.
I’m sure it’s common knowledge that scholars and writers have academic specialties. The same is true for subject librarians! Most libraries use a tool called Libguides to amass and describe resources on a given topic, course, work, person, etc. (I use them for everything. All hail Libguides.) These resources can include: print and ebooks, databases, journals, full-text collections, films/video, leading scholars, data visualizations, recommended search terms, archival collections, digital collections, reliable web resources, oral histories, and professional organizations.
So, consider that somewhere out there in the world, there may be a librarian with a subject specialty on the topic you’re writing on, and this librarian may have made a libguide for it.
Because you’re searching library collections, you won’t have access to all the content in the guides, and there will probably be some link rot (dead links), but you can still request resources through your own library with interlibrary loan, or even request that your library purchase the resources! Even without the possibility of full-text access, libguides can give you the words, works, people, sites, and collections to improve your research.
Search [your topic] + libguide and see what you get!
Not the best serving or photography job, but the lasagna turned out not bad at all.
It’s in the Super Dictionary, a flawless piece of literature that has such other wonderful situations such as cake theft…
shoe-stealing whales…
Green Lantern and Green Arrow fleeing an angry mob (also a duck is involved)…
and “please help me.”
One of my greatest regrets is not owning this book.
Some more highlights from the Super Dictionary:
Superman is friends with a giant who has no teaspoons.
Green Lantern looks at animals.
Joker and Batman are dating.
Robin gets tied up a lot.
Robin in general has a very bad time.
Supergirl’s text says “afraid” but her eyes say something else entirely.
Superman invites literally everybody he knows to come and watch Lois Lane sleeping.
Lesbians.
Superman gets trapped in a bubble. Not a kryptonite bubble, just a regular soap bubble.
And Green Arrow plans to murder a child.
I could post dozens more of the strange situations (like Atom going on a date with a bee, Green Lantern LOSING HIS SHIT over a child trying to pick his flowers, some strange fetishy stuff with giants, Batman refusing to get down off the table, Wonder Woman’s continuous battles against pterodactyls, and Supergirl’s forays into paleontology), but that’d take forever and this post is already pretty long. The Super Dictionary is a wonderful acid trip of a book and I have never regretted purchasing my copy. If you’d like to see some scans, there’s more of them here!
Batman being a dick while Robin goes “please help me” cracks me up more than the 40 cakes bit ever did.
On Facebook I recently claimed that it is commonly said: “We should treat addiction the way we treat other mental disorders.” I strongly suspect this is a prevalent claim among liberals who casually support drug policy reform but who know very little about mental health or societal ableism.
And I have responded: “We should not treat addiction the way we treat other mental disorders– because we already treat other mental disorders very badly. Rather, we should treat addiction, and all other mental disorders, much better than we currently do.”
However, in reply, one of my friends has suggested that maybe very few people actually believe that “We should treat addiction the way we currently treat other mental disorders,” and that nearly everyone who supports drug policy reform also thinks we need to treat all mental disorders much better. She thinks I might be attacking a strawman.
So, who is right? Is “We should treat addiction the way we treat other mental disorders” not a common claim? Are there notlots of liberals who are ignorant of the fact that our society treats all mental disorders horribly?
Speaking as a liberal here: I think a lot of liberals are ignorant of the fact that our society treats mental disorders horribly, but it’s not in a “the way things are is okay” way, it’s in a “I don’t know how things are and I think that things are much better than they currently are.”
Most NT people don’t have experience with the psych system beyond maybe “I have a friend who has depression, she’s on meds and doing a lot better”. They think that IRL psych care is … well, like any other kind of doctor-ing, in an idealised TV kind of way. You go in, people who care about you and want to help talk to you about your mother or the way you feel sad all the time, you cry a lot, they give you meds and everything turns around in a montage of coffee cups and jogging into the sunset. They think abusive psychiatrists are overwrought caricatures made up for ghost stories and that widespread institutional psych abuse hasn’t happened since the ‘50s.
Concrete example: I watch a youtuber who reviews old video games. He recently reviewed a very bad, corny, and ableist game about a psychiatrist gaslighting her patients. One of the main plot points of the game is that the protagonist cannot get rid of this psychiatrist- every time he goes to the agency she works for, they tell him “oh, she can’t be doing this, she’s very experienced, I’m sure she knows what she’s doing”.The youtuber in question laughed this off as being unrealistic. And I kind of cringed, because that is the defining experience of dealing with long-term mental health care.
The liberals you’re talking about are falling into a failure mode, yeah, but it isn’t because they think the current mental health system is adequate; it’s that they think that we have a better system in place than the one that actually exists. They are trying to say “treat addicts like people, with respect and compassion; don’t treat them like criminals”. And they think that mental patients are treated with respect and compassion, because they haven’t seen evidence to the contrary. I think that if they did know, they would not be saying “treat addiction like any other mental illness”.
“According to the criminal complaint they confronted pastor Frank Pomeroy and accused him of perpetuating the shooting “hoax.” They also told Pomeroy that he was lying about his 14-year-old daughter Annabelle — who died in the shooting — saying the girl never existed.” – wow, what pieces of shit.
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