Link Dump.

 As recently mentioned, I was without a laptop for a number of years, so here is a massive link dump. 

This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us

The Occupation of a Woman Writer

Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.

This Is The Scientific Reason Depression Can Cause You Physical Pain

I’m Living With Depression, Not Fighting It
My depression has evolved as I've gotten older, and I've realized that the way I live with it needs to evolve too.

My Depression Is Like Having A Bad Dog - this is illustrated!

Nineteen Metaphors for Your Depression

I mean, it's not news now, but Pete Davidson discussed being Borderline.

The Original Natural Remedy for Burnout: Nature

On Being Fat

Why Am I So Fat?

In defense of fat sadness.

Turns out a bunch of the stuff I was going to share are now dead links . . .

That's it for now!

How Do I Make Up For My Lost Years?

How Do I Make Up For My Lost Years? by Ayesha A. Siddiqi

A 30-year-old feels like they started their life ten years too late. But their grief is the natural byproduct of growth.

Read on Substack

The new-new.

Hi there, I have a new laptop. 

My PowerBook died 2 years ago, I'd had it since 2008 I think. . . .

I got a decent tax return this year, and bit the bullet and got a new laptop, it cost more than I would have liked, and it's fancy as hell. My PowerBook lasted so long. Solid little brick. 

I can now start working on computer projects, design work, and some writing. It'll be much easier. Over the last few years, I worked on my "office job" computer on breaks and after hours, meaning I was using free web-based design apps and I used some DIY hodge-podge methods.

It sucked!

So you might see a barrage of posts over the next few weeks as I work through old links.

If you're still around - I'm not dead! I was just broke and without a laptop! 

I'm trying to get back into creative methods and practice. 

We'll see how it goes!

With chronic illness, you normalise so many things most people won't ever feel.

With chronic illness, you normalise so many things most people won't ever feel. You normalise high levels of pain, being exhausted, medical procedures and trauma, needing to rest after a shower. People see you surviving with an illness, but not all you had to normalise to do so.

— Nia | The Chronic Notebook (@chronicnotebook) January 21, 2023

On Talking to Chronically Ill Friends by Sophie Strand

Things to Say Instead of “I Hope You’re Feeling Better” or “But You Look so Good!” by Sophie Strand

On Talking to Chronically Ill Friends

Read on Substack

David Lynch on Depression and Art.

Making Kin with Disability by Sophie Strand

...most ecosystems these days share more kinship with disabled bodies given that they have been changed and interrupted by pollution and anthropogenic development. I have been offering more and more as someone with incurable genetic illness and PTSD, that it is to the neurodivergent, the chronically ill, the disabled, the terminally ill, the survivors who we must turn for information on how to come into relationship with beings and landscapes that are intimate with harm and impairment. 

Check out Making Kin with Disability by Sophie Strand.