Reynir is still the cutest.

It truly sucks that a bad diet and bad sleep schedule makes you feel like shit. What if I want to be nocturnal and subsist on potato chips and coffee. I should be allowed to do that without my body throwing a hissy fit.

I wonder if you slowly shift your sleep schedule over to being nocturnal and add enough nutrition to the bad diet will it be possible to go nocturnal?

The nocturnal is more that my natural schedule slips forward a couple of hours each night, but it turns out that a few days with no sunlight and little exercise (can't go outside and it's cold as fuck) and eating garbage make you feel like shit. My favourite time is when I wake up a few hours before the sun (giving me time to fuck around on the internet and wake up a bit with a natural stopping point of Sun Is Up Now Go Do Chores) and go to bed mid-afternoon but that's really hard to maintain except for the few days that my natural cycle slips into it.

WAIT YOUR SLEEP DOES THAT TOO??

Is this a common or known thing?? I thought it was just my body being strange??

It's very common for a natural circadian rhythm to be longer than 24 hours in a modern environment. Our bodies evolved to get more physical exercise than most of us get, exposed mostly to natural lighting. These things regulate a natural rhythm and (for most people, there's always variation) drag it in line with the day. If, like me, you don't spend most of your day walking around outside and you use a lot of electrical lighting after sundown, it's pretty normal for your natural rhythm to be a few hours longer than 24 (the number of hours varies). This makes perfect sense because there are all sorts of things that can affect the length of a workable day (weather, time of year, sudden crisis that means someone needs to keep watch through the night or that the tribe has to work a few hours past sundown) so if the body naturally wanted to shut down on a perfect 24-hour rhythm then this would cause problems. It uses the sun and the tiredness of muscles and the availability of food to regulate appropriately timed rest.

As somebody with plenty of food, not as much exercise as a hunter-gatherer, and electric lighting and computer games that work well after sundown, I for one do not tend to use these things to drag my schedule back to the length of a day. And trying to just go to bed at the same hour leaves me staring at the ceiling half the night and accomplishes nothing.

It's in the name: circadian, circa-dian, about one day.

Today's Seals Are: Um...Do You Mind

I was so excited to finally run out of the face wash that smells like ketchup so I could buy a new one. Opened up the new one today and it smells like menthol cigarettes.

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

tags via @ratbastarddotfuck

𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦.

𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 "𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘪𝘥?", 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 "𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦" 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵: 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺.

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 🖤

Great news! The Treaty Principles Bill was voted down, 112 votes to 11.

The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi - ngā mātāpono o te Tiriti o Waitangi - and its "promise of two peoples to take the best possible care of each other" (as beautifully described by Bishop Manuhuia Bennett) have withstood this attempt to gut them of their original meaning.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day... 💔 

Ready to break up with Google?

So are we!

We’ve rounded up a bunch of privacy-centric alternatives for everything Google.

Check out the full list over on the blog!

- The Ellipsus Team xo

Fun fact, on top of being staunchly against genAI, ellipsus literally has an Export To AO3 button. I do the majority of my writing in LibreOffice, but I've been moving all my GDocs over to ellipsus for a bit and I really love the interface. If you're looking for an alternative to GDocs, this is The One.

TELL IT HOW IT IS GIRL 👏

tech people are always talking about this as the "bus factor": ie, how many people need to get hit by a bus to totally fuck your organization.

A bus factor of 1 is very, very bad. you are one sick person or a sudden retirement/firing away from not functioning.

A bus factor of 2 is clearly an improvement, but what if those two people go on a business trip and the car/plane/whatever crashes?

but yeah, the idea is that you should try to structure your organizations so this doesn't happen: you've got multiple people with overlapping expertise so that even if a very determined bus is taking down your employees in an orgy of violence, you'll have enough time to hire & re-train people to fill their now-absent positions.

Today's Seal Is: Some Kind Of Wuppy

Y’all ever steam block a project and it helps so much that it completely restores your faith in your abilities as a knitter and in blocking as a crucial step of project finishing

(Pattern is Diamond Gansey Socks by Wendy Johnson, yarn is Malabrigo Ultimate Sock in Rosalinda)

Some of my favorite posts on r/BenignExperience from the past week (PART THREE!!!)

Part one, part two, part four

planning a trip to europe from a city with practically no transport is crazy. i open up a map of the munich metro system and staring back at me is a biblically accurate angel if it were a map of a metro system

BE NOT AFRAID looking ass

haha yeah su-

i've seen paris in the notes already but if you want more ideas for places to go to that Have ÖV Maps may i make some suggestions

what isn't going on in switzerland what the hell. thats so beautiful. lets get married so i can get a visa and move there to live in the subways until one day i get lost like a big labyrinth and turn up dead in some maintenance shaft