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Found this little dude at the shop, vet had to take his front leg due to infection.
He doesn’t care tho, he’s a cat!
He has a new home now!
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Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed.
You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation.
If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life. It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself.
Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.
Depression is not a synonym for being sad or having a bad day/bad week. (via visualcomplex)(via tammalee)
Posted on April 20, 2013 via with 167,360 notes
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To celebrate the Adventure Time comic I write being up for three Eisner awards (!) Boom and Wired have put issue #1 online for free!
Epic.
(via merlin)
Posted on April 19, 2013 via what are the haps with 324 notes
Source: ryannorth
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As the French press laughs (x).
They don’t teach French in jail
El hombre que se folla a tu novia y luego sientes envidia de ella.
(via grempz)
Posted on April 15, 2013 via Comme d'habitude with 94,060 notes
Source: iwantcupcakes
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Such a great logo.
Oh, and a good post by Anthony Crupi for AdWeek: Legacy Cable Operators in Austin Are Terrified of Google Fiber.
Crupi:
On paper, literally everything about Google Fiber makes standard digital-cable service look like something that was cobbled together by members of a lesser phylum. Boasting gigabit download/upload speeds (up to 1,000 Megabits per second), Google’s connectivity is roughly 70 times faster than Time Warner Cable’s standard 15 Mbps plan.
The incumbents are scared shitless. And rightfully so. For far too long they’ve coasted on their over-priced crap services.
Posted on April 15, 2013 via ParisLemon with 61 notes
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So why is one considered ‘inappropriate’ and the other accepted? Stop sexualising my body.
I wonder this too. Why is it a man’s breast and nipple are okay to show but a woman’s breast and nipple isn’t.
fave wow
best thing to reblog yet
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Sweet.
I just created my family arms for HBO’s Game of Thrones. Join the Realm and create yours now: www.jointherealm.com
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Priceonomics Blog: Diamonds Are Bullshit
“Americans exchange diamond rings as part of the engagement process, because in 1938 De Beers decided that they would like us to. Prior to a stunningly successful marketing campaign 1938, Americans occasionally exchanged engagement rings, but wasn’t a pervasive occurrence. Not only is the demand for diamonds a marketing invention, but diamonds aren’t actually that rare. Only by carefully restricting the supply has De Beers kept the price of a diamond high.”
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I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”
Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.
I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.(via kajivar)
Posted on February 25, 2013 via Humans of New York with 42,849 notes
Source: humansofnewyork
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Jennifer Lawrence giving zero fucks during her post-Oscar win press interview.
I know nothing about Jennifer Lawrence other than she was in Gladiator Junior and this video clip.
And all I really need to know is in this clip.
I hope she wins everything ever for the rest of her life. Up top for being a human, J-Law.
What a perfectly delightful human being. I wish I’d been wired even half so right when I was 22. She’s just terrific.
She is so genuine, hah.
Posted on February 25, 2013 via annie werner with 3,304 notes
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