brooke @brooke@awoo.space

@Angle@witches.town When researching stress, I read about how our bodies' stress responses are well designed to cope with sudden, short-term alarms (a panther, a fall): flush the body with epinephrines, which then stop quickly. When we suffer creeping, long-term stresses (checking email, social anxieties), our bodies do what they know how to do, except we're producing the response chemicals all the time, which is hard on us physically.

@Sparrow That's so great! Congratulations! What a relief, I imagine, after all the work of searching. Enjoy being in a position to decide, you've earned it.

@cnc@cybre.space My German teacher used to call those kinds of things "the short-and-shitties," and encouraged us to keep a little list of our personal s&s 's.

@Angle@witches.town @hirojin My local library has a copy and I'll check it out! It's a humanist bible, drawing on classics and intentionally arranged much like the 'real' bible.

@plsburydoughboy After I was diagnosed with a slipped disk resulting from years of doing too many flexion stretches with no extension to balance it, I was prescribed exactly these two exercises: the first to introduce extension, the second to loosen hamstrings allowing me to bend at hips instead of bending in lumbar spine. Combined with foam-roller daily, it's been working for years to keep me physically active & pain-free.

@Dhveszak@witches.town NEVER THE DOGGOES! But apparently cowboys feel that dogies have it coming, I never learned why.

@Angle@witches.town I love it. The first big idea when I teach academic biblical studies is that the Bible isn't "a bible"; like, it's not a unified, internally consistent guidebook, but rather a mishmash of genres and artifacts making competing claims. I think it'd be great to see an Atheist Bible that's comfortable with that kind of diversity & inconsistency (in a way that, let's face it, most Christian communities are not concerning the actual Bible!).

@brennen @AdmiralBell@witches.town @aprrrl@witches.town I've read it recently. All comments in thread spot on, but yes, it fits OP's description and is (imho) solid & entertaining enough as story that it doesn't feel (to me) like clumsy propaganda. (Heinlein's _For Us the Living_ by contrast was horrible in this regard.)

@TrollDecker@social.diskseven.com So there was a recent Skype update (looks like July 28), and the interface has completely changed. I can longer find easy/any way to add someone to a call in progress. I also no longer see a way to filter contacts by who's online. And, there's a heart icon in my face all the time, I guess to "like" the call or callers (?). Swipe-left opens camera, Snapchat-style. It's all pretty bad.

@Fuego Isn't it the truth? I feel a Sylvia-Plath dive coming on just talking about it.