Superskybella - Primadonnagirl

Reflection of heart cave.

Chiba, Japan.

Headache Treatments in 1890s Known as Vibration Therapy

Tips for Reading with ADHD

(or without ADHD, if they help regardless)

Physical print:

cover the page with a piece of paper and reveal lines/paragraphs as you read them

use a highlighter to emphasize important/interesting parts

take notes as you go to be physically engaged with the material

Digital media:

copy and paste the text into a doc/word processor

change the font size/style/colour to something more legible

make your own paragraphs and spacing

copy and paste one paragraph at a time to isolate them from the distraction of the rest of the text

install a browser extension like BeeLine Reader or Mercury Reader

zoom in on the page and scroll slowly so you’re revealing lines as you read them

physically cover the screen and reveal lines as you read them

if you do better with physical media, print it out or find a physical copy

Both:

read out loud

pace, move around, or use a fidget while reading

set a timer for 5 minutes and read in small chunks with breaks in between

divide the material into sections and read one section at a time with breaks in between

have another person, audio book, or text-to-speech program read it aloud as you follow along

"this filter will show you if your teeth are yellow" "this filter will show you if your nose is perfect" "this filter will show you if your face is symmetrical" "this filter will show you if your lips are big" how about if we all blew up our phones forever

The two friends...

so many westerners giving heartless, uninformed, and unsolicited opinions on afghanistan while ignoring the following:

the US government covertly provided schoolbooks for children that promoted militant and incorrect Islamic teachings and included images of weapons and soldiers in an effort to encourage a hatred of foreign invaders (i.e. the Soviets and evil communism) in children

“The school books, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books.”

excerpt from the book, titled “the alphabet of jihad” -> “All the Russians and infidels are our enemy. No one can invade our country. Only Muslim Afghans can rule over this country.”

the US financially supported the Taliban between 1994-1996 because Washington viewed the Taliban as anti-Iranian, anti-Shia and potentially pro-Western

Washington wanted Taliban support for the development of a US-based oil company Unocal - and so they stayed silent when the Taliban captured Herat in 1995, and expelled thousands of girls from schools (Rashid, 2000)

killed over 47,000 civilians

US forces massacred civilians deliberately on multiple occasions, such as the Kandahar massacre, where most of the victims were women and children civilians

routinely executed unarmed civilians by UK forces

targeting of hospitals in air strikes and bomb raids, such as this hospital in Kunduz

heavy usage of white phosphorus in civilian areas

killed afghan civilians ‘for sport’, multilated the bodies, posed with the bodies for pictures, and collected pieces for trophies

think before you speak.

i think i've been tagged in the "nine books you want to read in 2023" thing a few times but i lost track of who tagged me...im sowwy. anyway here are my picks

these are just the first that come to mind, either because i've already downloaded them or because i've been particularly curious about the subject matter: the membranes by chi ta-wei; last words from montmartre by qiu miaojin; psychopolitics by byung chul han; abolish the family: a manifesto for care and liberation by sophie lewis; the body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world by elaine scarry; labyrinths: selected stories and other writings by jorge luis borges; kalpa imperial by algelica gorodischer; if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino; how europe underdeveloped africa by walter rodney

i'm not gonna tag anyone because im shy </3

stop hatewatching bad shows stop hatewatching bad shows stop hatewatching bad shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don’t have to tell Batman to keep distant from his kids, he does that already.