What a week...Give me a break already...this month is ass fucking hard... We have such s hardcore lack of personnel even when nobody is sick and now even one sickness is detrimental...How come that I am the only one in our team who is not calling in sick every other week while I've been struggling with long term health issues for almost the entire year...
If I can make it to work while my body is lacking essential metabolic substances AND with an ongoing infection in my tooth with puss coming out (yes I got it checked out yes it's supposed to do that during healing.) ...why is a cold keeping others home?
I'm too underpaid for this shit...

Lately, When I express my genuine thoughts and concerns, it feels like a form of punishment.

This happens both at work, in meetings where input is supposedly valued, and in my personal life. My attempts to voice a concern or a different perspective are often dismissed as pessimism, exaggeration, or even egomania. It seems I am being penalized simply for having an opinion and for caring enough to be concerned.

Increasingly, I feel that I am being passively silenced—not with a direct command, but with subtle cues and reactions that make thinking feel like a forbidden act. I am being reduced to a sounding board, a wall for others to shout at, with no expectation of a reciprocal conversation. My role is not to contribute, but to absorb.

And then, people wonder. They wonder why I am burning out, why my energy and creativity have evaporated, why my motivation has dwindled to nothing. They don't see the cumulative weight of being silenced.
I notice that the situation is gradually affecting my body. I currently only sleep with a tight chest and painful breathing, and I wake up in the middle of the night with my heart racing.

The shutdown continues and the truth comes out.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-dems-unveil-alternative-shutdown-plan-ask-1-year-extension-obamacare-subsidies

Hippies are often anti-war and anti-consumerism. Punks are often anarchist/anti-capitalist (but the Punk subculture varies far more as some are on the Left and some are on the Right). How would you define the Goth subculture nowadays?

Wanna know something wild?... My inner monologue has subtitles!

I live in a fairly suburban bordering on an urbanized area of town. Saw another coyote, that's 2 in the past 6 months, running down the street. Can't blame them, their habitat is shrinking but if one of these vermin comes up in my yard...I'm using my pull to have Acme drop them as preferred customer!

That feeling when Finally having time to sit down and actually rest with nothing to prepare or plan feels like submerging your ears in the water at a loud swimming pool...

I have really reached my limit this week mentally and physically. I often struggle with post summer burnout in September/October but this week I had to function perfectly during work and so many social obligations whereas I had things to prepare for or join in. I didn't get any real me time to unwind because I had to run errands and prepare things til late in the night. Never getting to bed before 3 or 4 am... I ran on sleep deprivation an burnout. Yesterday I was close to the point of breaking down exhaustion. I felt my knees almost give out in the store... Now it's finally over I have finally time for me with nothing to prepare for others. I will probably have a hardcore social shutdown but thb I need it

I see Tamagotchi is back. How are things, and don't worry about the selfies. You looking good and the only people posting more selfies than substance are the ones with no self esteem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNZnhxWLHo