Warhammer Weekly Tom

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Local terrorist raker bombed our vintage win-a-dual.

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Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

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Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy 🤣

[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

First promo for the animated 'Firefly' series just dropped

They need fans to like their post on IG "to convince folks that this is something people want."

(via IG | https://t.co/6A8rICEQhF)

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@Pjschard Manstomper Gargant?

[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

Nathan Fillion says the 'Firefly' announcement on March 15 won't be for a podcast amid reboot speculation 👀

"Some of you have guessed convention, podcast, or cross-over. You are wrong."

(via IG | https://t.co/Syv9UhYclJ)

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Firefly may be back!

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@ReidDuke @UltimateGuard Wish they had a binder.

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@evynfong Needs to be a playmat.

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@honeymoon250 Bedtime.

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@RolandMTG Yep. No hesitation.

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@CHAOS_dad20 @bennyjohnson By the same logic, business owners or folks who have tax writes offs because of self-employment shouldn’t be allowed to vote since their vote is also paid for by the government.

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@WallStreetMav The real answer is swing by the theatre for a Pack A Pop (bag equivalent to 4+ large popcorns still hot from theatre but only available “to go” for $15) and have real theatre popcorn at home. We do this literally for every family movie night.

https://t.co/NOIlDgbH3v

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@TexgalRN @therightswrong @atrupar Yep. And Trump has show them exactly how to do it.

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@elvenmaidinn Check out Eberron’s presentation of faith/faiths in the original 3.0 book and in Faiths of Eberron. It is a compelling picture of faith a DND context that is relatable and nuanced. Gods aren’t proven and there are even different understandings of the afterlife.

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@DevoidEDH @MTGGoldfish @RobinOlausson @Dork4Short

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@ConceptualJames I’m 43 years old. Both develop and play games. I’m a decorated competitive AOS player and I cohost the largest AOS livestream in the world. And I have a PhD in the Bible that you are quoting.

It sounds like you just need to learn time management.

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@nuhre_ I’m 43 years old. Both develop and play games. I’m a decorated competitive AOS player and I cohost the largest AOS livestream in the world. And I have a PhD in the Bible that he is quoting.

It sounds like he just needs to learn time management.

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@GenerousGendalf @wizards_magic I've been playing since 4th edition and didn't get locked out.

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@ZBexx White and black.