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“Did you think I wouldn’t know you through a mask? I’ve seen through every one.”
#bar

The man bun is gone!!!! Praise be!!! Now I can lust in peace

“”You’re looking at me like I’m a stranger.”…
“In many ways, you are.”…
“And in many ways, I’m not.””

“Sleeping pills do not provide natural sleep, can damage health, and increase the risk of life-threatening diseases.”
🧍🏻‍♀️imma ignore the entire year I was addicted to NyQuil

“Race and ethnicity also make a significant difference, with African Americans and Hispanic Americans suffering higher rates of insomnia than Caucasian Americans…”
🤨

“Deprive an individual of their REM-sleep dreaming state, and the emotional tuning curve of the brain loses its razor-sharp precision. Like viewing an imagine through frosted glass…a dream starved brain cannot accurately decode facial expressions, which become distorted. You begin to mistake friends for foes.”

”…men who report sleeping too little or having poor quality sleep—have a 29% lower sperm count the those obtaining a full and restful night of sleep, and the sperm themselves have deformities…noting that these under-slept men also have significantly smaller testicles than well-rested counterparts.”
This is gonna be my new way to make a boy mad

“When your sleep becomes short, you will gain weight.”
Fighting words

“Every major system, tissue, and organ of your body suggests when sleep becomes becomes short. No aspect of your health can retreat at the sign of sleep loss and escape unharmed…the effects of sleep deprivation will seep into every nook and cranny of biology, down into your cells, even altering your most fundamental self—your DNA.”

“Ten days of six hours of sleep a night was all it took to become as impaired in performance as going without sleep for twenty-four hours straight….All signs suggested that if the experiment had continued, the performance deterioration would continue to build up over weeks and months.”
The sigh I just let out bc I know everyone here doesn’t sleep 🚬🫩

“No facet of the human body is spared the crippling, noxious harm of sleep loss. We are, as you will see, socially, organizationally, economically, physically, behaviorally, nutritionally, linguistically, cognitively, and emotionally dependent upon sleep.”

“For fact-based, textbook-like memory, the results were clear. It was early-night sleep, rich in deep NREM, that won out in terms of providing superior memory retention savings relative to late-night, REM-rich sleep.”

“Individuals who are deliberately fasting will sleep less as the brain is tricked into thinking that food has suddenly become scarce.”

“…That humans (and all other species) can never “sleep back” that which we have previously lost is one of the most important take-homes of this book.”
🚬🫩

“The brain paralyzes the body so the mind can dream safely.”
Wot. That’s so insane to think about

“Place your finger between your eyes, just above the bridge of your nose. Now slide it up your forehead about two inches. When you go to bed tonight, this is where most of your deep sleep brainwaves will be generated: right in the middle of your frontal lobes.”
This is gonna be my new party trick

“An adult’s owlness or larkness, also know as their chronotype, is strongly determined by genetics. If you are a night owl, it’s likely that one (or both) of your parents is a night owl.”
Sick

“I envy you, you know. Your capacity to do that. To trust like that.”

“”Nervousness means there’s a fear to be faced ahead, Diago. The man who is never nervous, never does anything hard. The man who is never nervous, never grows.””
What if you have anxiety, then what

“There can be no love without honesty.”

“The power to protect is the highest of responsibilities, Diago. When a man is given it, his duty is not only to the people he thinks are worthy.”

“STRONGER TOGETHER.
It’s the great lie of the Hierarchy, proclaimed generation after generation by an ever-growing mob in thrall to the concept. Part of me understands why. There’s a power to the phrase, an allure. It promises inclusion. Protection. Comradely. Common purpose. Belonging.
But you never have to look far to see its hypocrisy laid bare.”

Im already hooked + acotar 6 this year + new spacey song on my bday tomorrow?!?! + predicted Ferrari win in China + kiss all the time, disco occasionally + best bridgerton season yet + atx this weekend + the bangs are behaving
im UUUUPPPPPPPPPPP *insert bibble meme*

“Limiting what students learn and denying parts of our history are not the answer if we want to progress as a society for all people. Christian Nationalists believe controlling education will give them the upper hand and keep them in power. But it’s often ineffective…I don’t think it works because stunting our learning goes against our instincts. Questions are a part of life.”

“•A D&C (dilation and curettage) is the same procedure whether it’s assisting a woman having a miscarriage or performing an abortion. Banning abortion puts women who miscarry at risk of being denied a D&C or in legal trouble if they cannot prove the miscarriage was accidental.”

“When you look people in the eyes, know their names, learn about their lives, and find common ground, it’s a lot harder to hate them.”

“…But I also want to be clear that the movement uses end times eschatology to manipulate its base into cheering on harmful foreign policy in the hopes of fulfilling Biblical prophecy, fighting against world peace in favor of America independence, and remaining fearful of whatever villain then can compare to Revelation bad guys.”

“In Christian Nationalist dogma these days, there is a vocal support to get culture back to the “good ole days.””
*🧍‍♀️this is because they are utilizing fascist tactics*
Shoutout to How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley

“Just like we can’t truthfully separate America from her racist past, it’s impossible to separate Christian Nationalism from its White supremacist roots.”

“Jesus never made belief a main focus of his ministry. There was no creed he dictated informing everyone on what to think in order to get to heaven. Instead, he focused far more on action, behavior, and how to treat our fellow humans.”