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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024
  • Nougat@fedia.iotoLinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•Therapy
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    5 days ago

    Routine can be grounding. Especially in the wake of tragedy, where you’re still going to need to go on, it’s important to go on, even through the despair.

    But it’s not “one or the other.” You need to maintain your routine, whatever that is, and do the work of therapy as necessary. Continuing your routines and avoiding therapy can be repression.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotoScience Memes@mander.xyz•wolf spiders
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    6 days ago

    So I’m like 13 years old, climbing a tree at a friend’s house. It’s a bit of a shimmy up the trunk, I’m well in the air, hugging the tree. I look down at my feet to make sure I have footing before lifting a hand above my head to reach for a branch.

    As my head is going from looking down to looking up, just as I am grabbing the branch and hanging from it, I realize that my nose is almost touching a big old wolf spider mama, fully laden with all her children.

    DROP

    I never climbed that tree again.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotopics@lemmy.world•Questionable wares
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    14 days ago

    Fascinated, sure. There’s a lot of history to be fascinated by, doesn’t mean you have to think it was good.

    The pirate story is a great one. Probably exaggerated at best, if not almost entirely made up, because Dignity and Glory (I have capitalized those because they were concrete concepts) were huge things in Rome in those times, and those were earned through war. Having such a tale ascribed to you was a way to earn Dignity and Glory if you had political aspirations and were not (yet) able to actually go to war.

  • Nougat@fedia.iotopics@lemmy.world•Questionable wares
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    14 days ago

    Caesar

    Which one?

    Regardless, I don’t think anyone is in the dark about the brutality of Roman leaders, even if the “Gaius Julius got kidnapped by pirates and was an absolute legend in that situation” is widely appreciated. That doesn’t mean we want to model our own time on their examples, or revere them.