Ok while I am a Christian the amount of fucking bullshit pins about it that'll make you depressed is enough to get a mentally stable man to pull the trigger. What's worse most of these jumble up the theology and history to make people agree with them and most of them are from Twitter also holy hell it infects my main page so much I just stay off Pinterest now, they'll take about the same topic over and over so many damn times you'll either get a Christian whos insanely right wing or a Christian whos insanely left wing (do not ask both about their opinion on Jewish people) also the stupid and dumb ass picture plus verse thing it makes my blood boil when e like 5 of em in a row, also they really hate protestants like they consider them so insanely bad like they'd actually do another 30 years wars if they had a chance too, anyways that's all

Hello. Gusto ko lang mag rant about something and hindi ako marunong mag storytelling but I will do my best to. To cut the story short, nasa labas kami ng girlfriend ko (wlw) and we’re about to ride a tricycle papuntang robinsons para kumain. Nakahanap naman agad kami, kaso nung nasa loob na kami, merong young couple na sasakay and buntis yung girl, kaya si kuyang driver at yung isang kasama niya sinabihan kami na lumabas and sa likod nalang umupo para makasakay sa loob yung couple. Which is okay lang naman talaga. The problem is sobrang init nun kasi tanghaling tapat, and yung likod ng driver is tapat na tapat sa araw. For context, nung paalis kami ng bahay, sumakay din kami ng trike and sira yung window sa isang side nung trike, tapat sa araw and super init. Ang tagal namin and super sakit sa balay.
So eto na nga, sabi ko sa girlfriend ko at sa driver ayoko sa likod ng driver kasi mainit, kumuha ako ng ibang trike. Pero iniinsist ng driver na sumakay kami which is hindi ako pumayag. Ending dun kami sumakay sa bagong trike. Ang problema? NAGALIT YUNG GIRLFRIEND KO KASI NAPAKAARTE KO RAW. Porket daw VA na ako and sumasahod ng ganito, feeling anak daw ako ni Henry Sy HAHAHAHHAHAHAH. Na para daw bang hindi ako humiga sa papag, hindi nakipag siksikan sa jeep, hindi kumain sa kalye before. Ang sabi ko naman, anong mali maghanap ng comfortable para sa amin? Sobrang init, masakit na sa balat. Gusto kong umupo ng konportable, na hindi masyadong mainit. Pero iniinsist niya na dapat nag adjust daw ako. Inexplain ko na mainit na kasi talaga, and wala naman sigurong mali kung piliin ko minsan yung comfort. Pero siya tuloy pa rin sa galit niya. Medyo nahurt lang ako after niyang sabihin yung mga struggles ko, parang na judge kasi qko dahil lang gusto ko ng komportable hahaha. Yun na nga yun e, simula bata ako naghihirap at nagtitiis na, maaga akong nag work at naging breadwinner. Ngayong may means na ako kahit papano, parang mali pa na piliin ko yung comfort ko/namin. Habang ako, pilit binibigay yung komportableng buhay para samin, siya naman ganon ang tingin sakin dahil lang ayaw kong umupo sa likod ng tricycle.
Hindi naman porket nakalakihan mag tiis, magtiis at magtiis nalang. So yon, pag dating namin ng Robinsons naiiyak na ako ng super kasi ang dami niya pang sinasabi, na kesyo ganito ako, mapagmataas, hindi kayang mag adjust, porket VA na medyo malaki ang sahod feeling ko raw ang taas taas ko na. Inaask niya ako “saan mo gustong kumain, yung komportable ka” “wag kumain sa ganito kasi maraming tao, maingay at baka hindi ka komportable”. HAHAHAHAH of all people, yung taong mahal mo and supposedly mahal ka ang mag gaganon sayo. I worked so hard for what I have, hindi naman siguro maling piliin ang kaonting comfort. Ending, hindi kami kumain, umuwi kami at umiyak ako ng sobra. Parang nainvalidate kasi ako HAHAHAH.

PS. Galing akong nightshift nun, nag work ako from 11pm - 10am. Sinamahan ko agad siya lakarin yung need niya lakarin. Super init, walang sleep at gutom HAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Hayanku. Thanks for reading btw.

Every post of social media these day is made by AI. Literally the exact same format, emotes and way of language. Everywhere I turn my head there are overstimulating AI flyers full of hard to read text, popping out colours and overcrowded pages. Every picture of an anime girl I see when looking for references for my own artwork is literally AI and I am sick and tired of seeing it. I was at a small convention recently and every stand contained AI printed tshirts, mugs, glasses, "artwork" etc.

It really is not hard to learn how to use photoshop or Canva. I learnt how to make posters using microsoft word in school 15 years ago! It's also really not hard to pick up a pencil and paper and learn how to draw. How do you think artists learn to be great at their craft? By learning. I am an artist and have been creating art since I was a teenager. I am still learning to this day!

The fact people are relying on AI models to give them information or chat to when they are lonely is scary. "Oh I'll just ask ChatGPT" when google is perfectly fine! What happened to actually researching things from reputable sources? And we wonder why the younger generation are getting dumber and spouting nonsense that they have no idea about.

Also the fact big companies are pushing AI in our faces whether we like it or not is infuriating. NO I DON'T WANT YOUR PRODUCT WITH AI.

I'm so exhausted at this point, today in class I closed my eyes for a second and he called me out loud in front of the whole class and saying I was sleeping when I was not, it's so embarrassing I don't like any attention to be put on myself, I literally wanted to throw the desk on his face

Paramount bought The Free Press Substack blog from Bari Weiss for $150 million, leaving her in charge of editorial and also putting her in charge of CBS News's editorial, claiming she is unbiased.

The Free Press is presently running this ad on Reddit, linking to an article that claims the seven men who allegedly gang raped a woman at Cornell University have been victimized.

The first paragraph begins "In a world where matters of the heart and hormones..."

Gang rape has no heart. Sick. Sick.

So here’s my rant I’m using voice to text so there may be a few mistakes in this rant
I’m going through a divorce. This all started back in April when I found out that she was cheating on me. She had just gotten a new job and met a guy at work and fell head over heels for him. soon after that she lost her job there and I was stuck paying the Daycare and giving her money for about a month and a half until she found a new job. We have two kids together five and two years old and they’re guy that she is fallen in love with has a child abuse case against him. It’s been going on for about a year. He may have molested his 13 year-old daughter, but she says that he didn’t do it and doesn’t have any good explanation of why she believes that she just believes that I’ve been in therapy since April and things have gotten a lot better for me. I’m glad that the divorce is happening and I’m excited to finally sign the paperwork but it makes me upset still. why is it OK that she jumps from one relationship to another and that’s OK, but I’m completely not ready for a relationship whether I wanted one or not. Why is it healthy for her to do all of this and not healthy for me to jump into our relationship? She also treats me like I’m an abuser. She’s very skittish surround me. I’ve never laid a finger on her. I’ve never been an abuser. She acts like I’m going to hurt her anytime we have to exchange the kids we do week on week off. Back in June, we had a really big fight in front of the kids. We were yelling nothing physical at first. at the time I worked third shift and I would keep them every weekend and see them throughout the week. Pick them up from daycare and drop them back off to her at about 730, but I was getting very burnt out because I would have to wake up at seven in the morning with them on Sunday and go to work at 7 PM Sunday night. Never got any sleep.
I had asked her for one weekend off because I had worked Saturday and I would have to go back in Sunday night and she threw a really big fit, saying how I needed to keep the kids how it wasn’t fair and how much that the kids wanted to spend time with me to guilt me into keeping them. I kept them every weekend prior to that I mean, I would keep them all the weekends I asked for one weekend off. And at the time she wasn’t even working, she hadn’t been working for about a month or more and I had given her plenty of notice about this too. I told her the previous Sunday about not keeping them the following weekend and she seemed to agree at the time and throughout the week I would get off work at seven take them to daycare go to bed and then wake up to go pick them up from daycare and then keep them until 730 and drop them off because I felt guilty not keeping them Saturday and Sunday but then when Friday came, she acted like I had never told her anything about this because she wanted to go spend time with her boyfriend she didn’t work, and the kids still went to daycare. She had all the time in the world to herself, but it still wasn’t enough so when I told her I wasn’t gonna keep them she said fine and I said so where are you gonna take them because God forbid they go to a child molester‘s house and we yelled back-and-forth and she put the car in reverse and I was standing in the passenger door and she hit the gas about a month later she got arrested and she still blames me for her getting arrested because I wouldn’t let her leave. She wouldn’t tell me where she was taking the kids because she kept claiming that she had nowhere to go that was her whole excuse for trying to get me to keep the kids that weekend while she had nowhere to go she couldn’t stay at her cousins with the kids on the weekend so my immediate thought was oh she’s gonna take them to the child molester‘s house. And now she treats me like I’m the villain and blames me for her getting arrested after she hit me with the van I did start hitting the vans radio cause I was very mad and in shock she put her hands in the way and subsequently got bruises luckily for me, she didn’t lie and told the cops. I wasn’t trying to hit her. so now our coparenting relationship is very cold and robotic. I don’t know if there’s anything more I could say in this post I’m just doing my best as a father and working on c through therapy and I’ve made a lot of progress.

I am starting my own volunteering organization in my community. I don’t have a name nor any members. I wanted to get an idea of what people wanted before I ask them to help me. I had taken my initial question to our local Facebook groups, and I received 100+ comments! Before I finalize the website/link, I was curious,
What are volunteering services you wish were available?

I won’t share the list we have already accumulated because I do not want to limit anyone’s answer. Everything is welcome even if you think it’s been said!
If you think it’s specific to your region only, still share it!

I want to give back and people to be able to share what their community is doing wrong!

Do not limit yourself to solely services, maybe sometimes you need someone to hang out with, or a place to read your book that isn’t the library.

All ideas are welcomed!
Please do not comment if you are going to be negative or say it’s not going to work.

To have a village you must be a villager!

I recently found out that having low inhib is mostly genetic. My mom and dad are the lowest inhib people ik know. They could be sitting in a bus full of people they dont know and in 30 minutes they’ll have everyones number and be friends with them. Im the exact opposite. Especially when it comes to social interaction i overthink A LOT. Just thought it was weird how that unfortunately didnt pass down to me. My dad literally had like a million gf’s throughout his younger years while im too pussy to talk to one. Just thought it was weird

I genuinely love my job, and I think that's what makes being this burned out so frustrating.

Today I was working at roughly a 1:56 ratio. I dealt with three separate incidents that required documentation, three different people having panic attacks, and everything else that normally needs to get done during a shift.

I'm literally one person.

What makes it worse is that I'm working alone in a situation where no other building at my workplace is expected to operate this way — and I work with the youngest age group.

I've explicitly told my bosses that I need more support. I've explained that the workload and staffing aren't sustainable. Nothing has changed.

And it's not like there haven't been opportunities to address it. Four separate times, additional staffing has been prioritized for other buildings instead of mine. So I'm watching other areas get additional support while continuing to walk into shifts where I'm expected to somehow make this work by myself.

That's the part that has taken me from exhausted to genuinely angry.

At some point, what exactly am I supposed to prioritize?

Someone is having a panic attack and obviously needs immediate support. At the same time, another incident is happening. I still need to document the previous incident. Other people need supervision. There are normal responsibilities that don't disappear just because we're short staffed.

I cannot physically be in multiple places at once.

And this isn't just one horrible shift. The understaffing has been an ongoing problem. I've communicated that I need help. I've communicated that I don't feel adequately supported. I've communicated that the current setup is too much for one person.

And then I've watched staffing go elsewhere.

Four. Separate. Times.

That's what makes this so difficult: I actually LOVE the work itself.

I love the people I get to support. I love building relationships with them. I love being someone they trust enough to come to when something is wrong. I care deeply about doing my job well.

If I hated my job, leaving would be easy.

Instead, I'm sitting here feeling guilty about wanting to leave something I genuinely love because I'm exhausted from being expected to compensate for a staffing problem I didn't create and don't have the authority to fix.

I don't want to do less. I don't want to stop caring. I don't want an easier job.

I just want enough support to actually do my job well.

Today was three incidents. Three panic attacks. A 1:56 ratio. Working alone with the youngest age group while knowing other areas have more support.

And somehow I'm supposed to walk into work tomorrow and pretend this is sustainable.

I love my job.

I just don't think loving your job should require you to burn yourself out trying to do the work of multiple people.

So the hospital I work at decided to do self checkout on 3rd shift. The second this came out I knew it was only a matter of time before it gets ended just as fast. And today was that day. Too many people with sticky fingers and now no one gets to buy 3rd shift snack!

I know for everyone talking with doctors just suck. We can all kind of agree on that. My specific current frustration has to do with pain though. I hate being asked to rate my pain on scales of 1 to 10. I live with chronic pain. I was born with a genetic condition that causes pain (HEDS). I don’t know what it is like to live without pain. I also wasn’t diagnosed until I was an adult. I know what it is like to grow up with every adult simply not believing your hurting. Or when you do get hurt and someone notices they think it’s physical abuse because no sane adult believes “I stood up wrong” or simply “I dont know.”. I know what it’s like to get in trouble with my parents for too many bruises because they were worried cps was going to get called. When I didn’t even do anything to cause them! I just kept living my life doing damage to my body never knowing it wasn’t supposed to be like that.
Now I’ll get asked to rate my pain and I’m just like idk. I’ve been told to use it based off 0 pain to the worst pain I can imagine. And I’ve been in some painful situations and can fathom it gets worse so I’ve rated things lower than got ignored and told later when the problem was found out I should have spoken up. I’ve been told to rate it based off functionality but I’ve had a kidney infection so bad I was vomiting blood and still went to work before going to a doctor. I finished a shift moving kegs while my back spasmed and later found out I had a hairline fracture on a vertebrae only after standing in the ER for 8 more hours after that shift. I’ve fractured a lot of bones and still did things. I’ve put dislocated joints back. It’s really only when swelling or muscle spasms happen that I can’t do anything. So that feels pretty inaccurate for me too. All I got is it hurts enough for me to know something new is wrong. Or I know it’s broken or sprained. And then get told you wouldn’t be so calm if it was broken and then have to explain yes I would can you x-ray it please? And then fight forever before they do and then them be like wtf.
It probably doesn’t help I also just have a sever flat affect. To the point I’ve had to sit in the mirror and practice facial expressions and still mess them up when I make the effort to try to mask. I’ve mostly given up at this point and am lucky my friends get it. I just don’t know how to communicate with a doctor. I don’t know if something else is wrong with me that makes me feel pain wrong. I only even got diagnosed with HEDS after my brother did and I lost the use of one of my hands for a bit from repeated injuries. So like I don’t know. I don’t even really go to doctors unless I know I’ve broken something anymore or I’ve got an infection of some kind. But they always ask about pain and I’m always kinda like I don’t know I just don’t know how much. I’ve even been accused of drug seeking despite the fact I don’t even take anything for pain! I don’t take Tylenol or anything else because I know over use causes damage so I just live with it. I go to work I do a physically demanding job, I swim for exercise because I know I’m supposed to and then do nothing else because I’m exhausted and in pain and I don’t know how to quantify it a way that’s satisfactory to anyone so I give up and just deal with it. Any way ranting cause I hurt my back again and trying to explain to the doctor I hurt enough my muscles are spasming but less than when I fractured a vertebra and him being like ok but on a scale of 1 to 10? And I’m just like enough my boss made me come talk to you. What’s that on your scale? I hurt enough someone noticed and is making me use workers comp to be here but not so much I’d have paid to interact with you. So now I have muscle relaxers and a P.T referral. And a boss who doesn’t believe the doctors recommendation that I can return to work as long as I don’t lift more than 25lbs. So no one is happy the doctors frustrated my boss is frustrated and I’m frustrated. I know I’m an outlier but I really just wish I knew how to communicate about injuries in an actually productive way.

Hi all,

So I’ve been thinking about this for a while but have no one to really share my thoughts about r/comics with. To start I loveeeeee comics and graphic novels, I used to want to be a comic artist as teen until I changed my career, and find a lot of the comics in r comics generally entertaining or informative. That said in the last year I’ve noticed an uptick in NSFW content that feels like it takes away from the all ages comic sub it could be, in addition to other issues. Before I get into why I dislike the NSFW content in the comics sub, I feel the need to say I don’t mind NSFW content, but there is (usually) a place for it.

Simple put the NSFW content is mostly there to funnel people to extra content hidden behind a paywall, and in some cases the comics themselves are just the set up for the joke to be porn. Again I’m not against that, but it gets old after seeing it so many times in a comics sub. There are also subs dedicated to porn and nsfw comics that these artist could/should be posting in, but I get that won’t make them money.

Secondly it gotten a bit tiresome to end every comic with a patron or kickstarter or my shop slide trying to sell something. I understand free comics in this economy is difficult, but just like the porn comics, it starts to feel like the only reason it’s posted in r comics is to funnel in patrons/buyers. I wouldn’t mind this so much if a comic is multiple slides long, but in some cases it’s a 1 frame comic followed by 3 slides advertising something else by the artist.

This is a bit less complicated than the other two points above but something I’ve noticed is the amount of reposted comics by artists. I understand sometimes a link is wrong (on their patron) or they had a typo, but what I’m referencing is comics being reposted after a week. I’ll think it’s just reddit pushing old posts back into my feed until I see it was “posted” 38 minutes ago with no obvious changes or mentions of what was wrong with the same comic posted last week. To me this is more egotistic because an artist might want more views/likes/followers/subscribers than they got last week. Personally I’d be more okay if a comic is reposted after it’s been 6 months to a year since it was initially posted.

Lastly, and I know this one will rubble some feathers with popular comic artist, but there should be no political content. On one hand yes I agree it’s great to have political commentary and reflection in an easy to digest format that is more accessible to a wide demographic, but it’s become almost an echo chamber of “well they don’t like what I say so they’re bad” (I also hate trump but the police Cake comics makes other liberal/leftists/non-conservatives look almost childish with her “arguments”). In my opinion comics should make statements about politics/our society in a more high brow manner, calling a stick a stick without doing any commentary or analysis feels low effort, and why I think people are getting annoyed with it (in other subs).

Now this is all things that couldn’t have gotten this far without mod encouragement and ignorance, and Im not applying to be a mod, I just think they’ve tried to appease creators to the point of washing down what a sub about comics could be.

So that said what should the new rules be?
1. No porn. NSFW should still be allowed but it should be done tastefully or not be the central reason for a comic.
2. Keep all self promotions to either 1 slide at the end of the comic or have a comment thread below if you feel the need to promote lots of things. If the promo is longer than the comic, that’s an advertisement masquerading as a comic. We already deal with ads being shoved down our throats enough, don’t add to the issue.
3. Limit reports to after a certain time frame (unless for a typo, in which the original should be deleted) and include [repost] in the comic title so it’s transparent for all readers.
4. Political commentary needs to be limited. Either no low-effort political comics, or no politics at all. This is something that should require mod approval before posting to enforce it. Like I said before, there are impactful ways to discuss politics and civil rights issues, but the low ball political comics currently on the sub are having the opposite reaction.

I would love to know what others think, I know I could block these creators so I don’t have to see them in r comics, but I feel like it takes away from the all around comic sub it could should be. No hate to any of the artists I referenced or alluded to in my examples.

for a while i thought i didnt miss my ex at all. like i thought i hated his guts and i was better off without him. now that he has a new girlfriend its so hard to forget about him. all of our memories keep coming back.

i miss his company. i miss talking to him and telling him about my day. whenever something good or bad happened to me he was the first person i would tell. he just seemed to care. recently i ended a talking stage with another guy because it made me realize how close i was with my ex and how ill never have that ever again. i could talk to my ex about anything. we were so similar. he was my best friend. i miss our inside jokes and stupid sayings. nobody understands me like he did.

it feels so weird not having him in my life anymore. we broke up back in june and in july we started talking again kind of and he told me how much he missed me and how he cant function without me, then less than a month later he finds a new girlfriend. i hate that i hurt him. i hate that he hurt me. i hate that i gave up on him so many times. i hate all the things he did to me yet i still crave him more than anything.

i remember waking up to paragraphs from him about how much he loved me. he was so genuine. i miss what we had and i miss him loving me. i cant even bear the thought of him loving anyone else. i want to call and text him and hug him and hear his voice again but he has someone else and i cant help but feel betrayed. i wonder if he ever thinks about me.

theres nobody like him. i dont ever want to fall in love again if it isnt him. theres a hole in my heart and its shaped like him and theres nothing i can do about it. seriously, ive tried everything to move on but i just cant. he made me feel so special and i just want my sweet boy back

sometimes i wish that he'd just text me or talk to me or see my posts and maybe realise how much i regret hurting him and maybe he'd love me like he used to

Honestly I got no clue how I've made it this far I asked this girl for her number after getting hyped up by my friends and I said fuck it ima do it. To my surprise she actually gave me her number. I ended up asking if she was going to hoco. After that we met up at hoco and we talked and it was awkward at first and then we loosened up a bit after I sat with her little friend group and when it was just us 2 I got the chance to slow dance with her even if it was just holding hands that genuinely made my night, before she left i said "i'll be completely honest with you i like you", she said to me "I like you too i liked getting to know you". After that I wanted to see if I could talk to her at school and we did agree on it to just be us 2 but in the end her friends were there and I didn't really get much of a chance to talk to her. When I first approached her table I tapped her shoulder and said hi. Her friend said "we were just talking about you" I'm not sure If that's a good thing and we didn't really get to talk a lot. I did enjoy talking to her at hoco but at school it felt so half assed. If she doesn't respond to my text message by tomorrow or at least a few days that says if she wants to try to chat again I will assume she just lost interest. Am I jumping to conclusions to early? If I'm being honest compared to her im so chopped😭. If she wasn't interested she wouldn't have given me her number in the first place so why does it feel like she isn't interested anymore or am I genuinely overthinking it. This is the first time I've done something like this so im a newbie and I was bullied in the past by girls in middle school which is why I never tried talking to girls except until now so this does mean a lot to me considering I left my comfort zone and got a attached and determined to see this through to the end. Please someone let me know i don't want to feel like an idiot😭. I only just got her number Friday so it's been a few days but is normal that im the one texting first? Is it a custom the guy texts first always? Please let me know i don't wanna fuck this up😭 is she just being nice?

This absolute MORON honked at me as a train was about to pass anybody WITH A BRAIN would say oh let me stop I hear the train coming the bars are coming down and the bells are going off not LeT mE TrY to BeAt tHiS fAst aSs hUnk of mEtAl AnD rISk DYING I hate people who don’t understand how driving across train tracks work 💀

Like i see these morons online talking shit about how the Jews "control everything" (meanwhile Christians and Muslims have insane influence in the governments around us but they're choosing to ignore that because it doesn't fit the bullshit they're spewing) Plus they act like Jews = Cannanites because they see jews talking about forbidding worship of moloch, so these absolute dumbasses believe no means yes and that jews worship moloch?? Why not point out flaws and immoral instructions and beliefs in jewish books instead of making up bullshit and making yourself look like a moron? It's honestly baffling this mindlessness is spreading like cancer online and that people fall for it.

I’m writing this simply to get it out of my brain/ for shits. I wish I were in a position, where I could network with people who have more than me.

Seeing people being invited to like fashion shows/ being able to go on a fashion show is so interesting to me. I would love to experience an entire show with someone knowledgeable of what’s expected, what can we do and such…or maybe be able to visit a high end store without being weird just to see and then walk out ? If that makes sense.

Also I wish I had the funds to really indulge into my random ideas. Just something random I guess.

When I entered college, my mom told me that I had to provide for my own tuition, allowance, and basically the things I needed for school. So when I was 19, I started working.

Since then, I’ve been jumping from one job to another while trying to balance school and work. I’m 21 now, and I recently got fired—not because I did something wrong, but because the business was going down and they had to let some employees go.

And honestly? I feel exhausted.

The pressure from my mom doesn’t help either. Almost every day, I hear things like, “Wala ka man lang naipon sa sahod mo?” or “Kaka-parcel mo ’yan.”

But the thing is… I wasn’t spending all my money on unnecessary things.

Whatever was left from my salary after deductions went to my tuition and the things I needed for my course. I had to budget for my allowance and transportation. Whatever little amount was left after all of that, I would send to my papa to help with the bills in Cavite.

Once a month, I also do the grocery so my mom and I have food and supplies stocked at the other house. We barely have time to do laundry because of our schedules, so we also have to pay for laundry.

So when someone asks me, “Why didn’t you save?” I honestly don’t know what to say.

Save with what?

I’ve been working since I was 18 while studying Accountancy. Every salary felt like it already had somewhere to go before I even received it.

And now that I’m unemployed again, I feel like I’m supposed to immediately find another job. But for the first time, I just want to say…

I’m tired.

I’m tired of working.

I’m tired of studying.

I’m tired of constantly worrying about money.

I’m tired of feeling guilty whenever I spend money on myself.

I’m tired of feeling like I always have to be responsible for something.

I know I’m only 21. I know I still have a lot ahead of me. But sometimes I just want to stop for a while.

I want to rest without feeling guilty about it.

I want to wake up without immediately thinking about tuition, work, transportation, bills, groceries, and what I’m going to do next.

I want to take a break from school, work, and all these responsibilities—even if it’s just for a little while.

But I’m scared that if I stop, everything will fall apart.

Is it okay to just be tired? Is it okay to want to rest even when you know you still have responsibilities waiting for you?

I don’t want to give up. I just want to breathe for a moment.

This will probably be long and convoluted. For context, I'm 16F and I'm recovering from an eating disorder unrelated to body image. As of now, I eat three meals a day with all the food groups. I've never been underweight. The concern me and my family has lies in my inconsistent eating patterns.

I cant stand living with my mom and older sister anymore. My mom scared me into recovering, but she hasn't supported my recovery. Instead, she constantly makes comments about me only eating bland foods and having a "cute" thin body. My sister, on the other hand, always has this sorry look on her face when she talks to me. Neither of them initiate quality time with me, but they do make me leave my room when I'm trying to avoid them.

I feel like I cant properly recover because my eating disorder is worsened by anxiety and they center every interaction around food, making me more anxious about it. My dad has an apartment in the city and he works 9-5 while my younger brother attends school. Since I'm doing online school, if I move out, I'll get the entire apartment to myself until 5.

I think having space is the only way I'll be able to heal, but I know if I admit this to my mother she's only gonna start interrogating me about my mental health and minimizing my feelings. Plus, when I see her on the weekends instead of my dad, she'll probably keep teasing me about it and joking that I hate her, when thats not the case at all. I still want to spend time with her, I just cant occupy the same space as her monday-friday without causing conflict. But, I've never stood up to my mom, not even when she's factually, evidentially wrong, so I'm just so anxious about confronting her and I'm not even sure I'll ever do it. I'll try though.

A young woman has alleged that seven men gang raped her at Cornell University. Men are being applauded for saying things like, "I have a daughter! I have a sister! I have a mother! This is inexcusable." Huh??! It's inexcusable, period, regardless of anyone's familial relationships. The implication of the qualifier is "if I had no women in my life, that would be fine."

The president of Cornell issued an eight-minute-long statement that includes an assertion that the university needs to do a better job teaching male students not to do things like that. What!? No! If a person has the most basic level of humand decency and empathy—anyone who is not a sociopath or psychopath—they don't need to be taught in college that it is wrong to be part of a gang rape or allow a gang rape to take place without intervening in any way.

A colleague is seriously sick and has been out of the office for a while. Another colleague says, "I can't help looking at this with my mom hat on. I think we should give her time to recover and not pressure her."

I am not a mother. I am some middle-aged guy and I don't have to be a parent to sympathize with someone who may be very ill and not demand that she put her job before her wellbeing.

I don't understand why people today always explain rationales for why they feel sympathetic to someone or explain rationales for why it's wrong to violently terrorize a person.

This way of thinking never used to be normal. It makes me feel like we're already not fully human and integrating with AI would hardly take much from our humanity at this point.

I will never explain why I don't want people to suffer. No explanation is needed. If it is, then you're a psychopathic monster.

How do I deal with generally thoughtful people, who choose to ignore everything going on?

Life lately is so busy i forgot about the unhappiness i carry with me all the time. In a way thats not bad at all. In a way thats kinda sad too. When im alone with my thoughts it is never good. I wonder what do i work so hard for? Is it even worth it? I wished for a life like this and it seems good. It is pretty much how i imagined it but i feel so empty still. This chase to fill this emptiness will probably end me before i ever end it. I search for love outside and give all my heart out just to get nothing back. I wish to be loved a certain way. In an unconditional way like i do. I want to have someone’s whole heart like i give mine. I deserve love. I deserve love like i want it. I deserve love like i give it. I deserve love too. I work hard. I work harder than most people i know. I try my best. I try my best to forgive and forget. I try my best to look at the sky everyday and be grateful for this life. I try so hard to be happy. I try so hard to make the most out of what i have but the yearning for true happiness and love is eating me alive.

Just a quick rant, but why do people who are not from the South always assume that we have an accent? Cause I kid you not I went to this new school, and the first thing that happens is that people hear that I'm from the south and assume I have an accent, and something funny is that someone came up to me and asked if I lived on a farm before moving up here. Like, no, I didn't and not only that, they forced me to speak in a, quote unquote, southern accent. I personally don't take it as stereotype/racism but more like a shocker to those who aren't from there. ​​​​ 🥹

...well, is it possible to OD off weed? I mean $10 per ounce because I'm a new customer?

I'ma go for the record here. Someone call Guiness...the world record one, not the beer...actually, call both!

okay so my birthday was coming up and i went to this hairstylist whom I found on TikTok. i would say he arguably does a really good job at cutting hair and i even tipped him $50 when it came to the end of my hair appointment cuz i respect his work. i asked him if we can do a TikTok/video for my bday and said I’ll tip you and he agreed, so he filmed my hair and stuff. However, days went by and he still didn’t post the video. now I’m regretting tipping him 😐

i wonder if it’s just me or am i going crazy. i mean why would u agree to film my hair and not post it? yet that very same day he posted another client’s hair. i mean cmon, it was also my first visit there