A place for optimism, relentless positivity, anti-doomerism, and snuggle sessions.
We're all in this together, and a better world is possible!
This is now also a space for organizing tips for our collective survival as we confront climate change and everything else. Still no doom-posting. We're here to work together, support each other, and boldly face the future.
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No doom, no gloom, only bloom. There's plenty of room for doomerism elsewhere. This community is solely for having a positive outlook on the future and spreading good vibes.
Be kind to your fellow users. This also means no arguing in the comm. Arguments and negativity are not conducive to blooming. Constructive discussion is good. No interest-policing. Support your comrades in their joy!
Always share good news. We can't exactly enforce this one, but if you have good news, please share it with us! Keeping happiness and positivity to yourself is the twelfth type of liberalism.
Check out this cool bee!
It's time for you to go to the bloomer mimes again!Something good happen this week? Made some progress in your org? Hear some uplifting news? See a cool bug? Share it here!
My contribution: White Rhino breeding program shows success, with the White Rhino now moving to Not Threatened list
This bee is extremely cute and I love it.
As of about a month ago my life has unexpectedly impeoved. I suddenly don't actively want to die all the time anymore. Now that is not written upon my face that my heart has been tortured into a pit of darkness where hope goes to die, I now have hot people throwing themselves at me and I'm handling the attention with caution, discipline, patience, emotional maturity, resilience, and self awareness but not fear. My friends are beginning to get to stand down and stop worrying about me. My therapist is happy and relieved, dumbfounded, at how different and not bleak I suddenly am. I started HRT last week. I reconnected with an estranged sibling and it went great. I'm being so much more social.
I'm working out again without flashbacks. I'm eating healthier automatically without any effort or resistance. I've lost some weight and I'm also getting stronger. I'm not spreading despondency so much. I am curious about what lies ahead in life instead of despondent and convinces there's nothing but suffering. I'm still upset about being emotionally abused and scapegoated by my ex / former best friend because it turns out abusing me is easier than them going to therapy for real, and that is still something that will have to be dealt with at some point, but for now I get a break from suffering and can maybe enjoy life a bit.
glad for you.
:heart-sickle: thank you
A bit silly but I laughed
Today I either realised or re-realised that Mareep is an anagram of Ampere. Some Pokemon names just are so creative and on-point that you know who ever came up with it is just like 
WHAT
I had no idea.
I like the puns from the japanese version of bulbasaur/ivysaur/venasaur and how it was used in the anime but it was kind of obvious.
I only know fushigidane, I have to look up the other two!
不思議草/fushigisou (ivysaur had leaves on the back) and the call was そうそうsimilar to how bulbasaur said da ne? and (不思議花/fushigibana/venasaur flowers on the back) which I assume also went for 不思議話/不思議バナ becauae uhh.erm.. 
because... you can't understand what's being said.. by the pokemon or because the first appearance of venasaur in the anime was erm.. in the bulbasaur evolution festival where nature builds a wall for them to sing and evolve soo...uhh... they called it a mystical tale and the call バナバ (Lagerstroemia speciosa) was uttered and the tree bloomed with flowers 
不思議話
Venusaur listening to bulba and ivy yapping and being just like 'crazy story bro'
(I'm on call over the Christmas weekend but then on leave for a week from next Monday
Took my coworkers out for walkies today and we had a really nice time. This was on employer time too which I was able to pitch to our manager as team building and getting to know the neighbourhood-time, we went and got glögi at the end. Also it finally started snowing today.
Our move is almost done, as in all our stuff is finding their places. My partner made us a new baking table for our kitchen (that we hauled up the stairs of this glorious Soviet block building yesterday) and it's amazing. All diy so didn't cost much at all.
Doing my Christmas cooking and enjoying this very silent apartment. No traffic noise at all as this is a building inside an older zone of these Soviet style buildings. No car lanes nearby, lots of trees and the only things you hear are neigbours kids playing. Everything is within walking distance from here and there are gorgeous tall pine trees behind our windows. I love it.
Had a fun hackathon at work, got to buy a Christmas gift for the girl I’ve been seeing, and we had two meteor showers this month (Geminid earlier and Ursid last night)!
Someone finally punched Jack Paul's smug punchable face.
Avatar 3 was unbelievably fucking good, literally zero weak points, an absolute masterpiece top to bottom