ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

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No one ever teaches us what to say to someone who is dying or has chosen to die. Just speak from your heart, write a eulogy and read it, sit in quiet contemplation, whatever seems best, but just showing up is half the battle.

You may be emotional, afraid of crying, lost for words - just do it. I've lost three relatives when I didn't, I was too afraid or just assumed they knew how I felt. I regret it to this day.

RIP second mum 😢

@ryanhoulihan @ScottSoCal

call him sucker-borg

This will be a major storyline of the next year: how #Ukraine fatigue, or outright opposition to Ukrainian victory, will play a role in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Fighting this ‘Ukraine fatigue’ is one of the reasons The Counteroffensive exists in the first place.

We believe that by writing compelling, human-first stories about people going through the news, we can keep interest and public attention on this terrible conflict.

We hope you’ll keep supporting and reading us as the war continues on.

Today’s Dog of War are these pups that congregated along the highway gas station as we found our way back to Kyiv from abroad.

Stay safe out there.

Best,
Tim

Finally, the only restaurant that Bourdain visited that is still open is a staple street food in #Kyiv.

One of the few to be "overwhelmingly Kyivian," says Druziuk, who met up with Will to share the hot dog-esque guilty pleasure.

‘Kyivska Perepichka’ is a small window on a busy street near #Maidan #Nezalezhnosti, the central square in Kyiv, that serves a #Ukrainian delicacy known as Perepichka, which is a hot dog wrapped in dough and then fried.

A 4th century CE Roman parade helmet made of iron, silver and gold, and decorated with glass gems. Found in Berkasovo, Serbia, in 1955. Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia. (AA 153) 📷 ©akg-images / The Image Works

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Please, sir, threaten to hang me again! I just can’t get enough of it!

Former VP Pious McKissAss, ladies and gents:

Via @atrupar:

CHUCK TODD: Do you consider yourself a MAGA Republican?

MIKE #PENCE: You better believe it.

My poll ended. It seems Mastodonians — or at least those who follow me — are not particularly religious:

@StillIRise1963 I try hard not to be racist. I don’t think I am but I’m a 65 year old white man raised in Oregon. There were only three or four black people IN Oregon back then! I exagerate (not much). I wonder why :|

I had a lot to learn. I try to be a vocal advocate and not put up with overt racism I witness. I vote blue, every single time, every single election. I donate blue money to progressives.
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Interesting stat from this poll is that the Rejoin/Stay Out preference across the UK now exactly matches the Scottish Remain/Leave vote *on the day of the actual #Brexit referendum* - 23 June 2016.

Took you a while, but you got there.

Joint effort on banana bread. 🍌🍞😋

@talia_christine

Transporter malfunction (thank you, https://cursedtrekedits.tumblr.com)

omg... there are babies onhere that have never seen AIRPLANE!

how can their mammas raise them so wrong

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy
I have definitely been conditioned to think I am to blame for everything that goes wrong

One of the things that has really helped my mental health was recognizing the difference between fact statements and choice statements. For instance:

Fact Statement: I feel lonely.
Choice Statement: I will always be lonely.

Fact Statement: I don't have a lot of social skills.
Choice Statement: It's impossible for me to learn social skills.

That being said, if you feel depressed and anxious no matter what you do, then you need medical help. For some reason in our culture, we treat the brain like it's not a part of our body. I have a hormone imbalance and need a low dose of hormones to keep my endometriosis from getting worse. If you have a chemical imbalance in your brain, then you might need help balancing that too, and there's absolutely no shame in something you cannot help. And please don't feel scared if the first thing you try doesn't work, this is true for many meds, most people try several meds and doses before it works right, be honest and keep trying.

Oh, go ahead, NYT, write the headline, "Why Trump's indictments are bad for Joe Biden." You know you want to.