Jess (Moth)

I will not water myself down for you. You can choke. Dad to Bellatrix and Buck “look good, feel good, then be as bad as you can without going to jail or Hell”🔞

[Jess (Moth) @L1ttle_behemoth]

Oh so…I should probably tell yall I wrote a book once.

https://t.co/tdIynrJTwH

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Freddy and Ozzy. They are transferring data. Please do not disrupt them until the process is complete. 13/10 for both

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾

[Sir Garnet @Sir_Garnet13]

Most submissives think competence is just obeying.
Wrong.

The real power move? Mastering these 4 internal skills that keep you safe, sharp, and deeply magnetic in any dynamic.

1. Radical Self-Awareness & Interoception:
Can you tell the difference between exciting edge-play stress and actual panic/trauma response in your body? A competent submissive reads their own dashboard like an instrument panel, because your Dominant can only lead if you accurately signal.

[Sir Garnet @Sir_Garnet13]

3. Clear Boundary Articulation (zero guilt):
No more people-pleasing “yes” that should’ve been “red.” True competence is stating hard limits cleanly, neutrally, and unapologetically. Your “no” protects the dynamic.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Eddie. He has been waving for over a decade and has gotten pretty good. Can even do it with both paws. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Frank. He was getting checked out at the vet when he decided the appointment was over. Has things to do and places to be, but doesn't mind if you come along. 13/10

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.

The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.

ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.

Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.

Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.

Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.

Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

[Jess (Moth) @L1ttle_behemoth]

@dog_rates You would love @Rattrixs and the work they do with their babies!

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Tank. His parents said he could have a little bit of cake. They never said it would be easy, but fortunately he's up for the challenge. 13/10

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Astro. He doesn’t have an underbite or anything. Has just been really good about flossing lately and wants someone to notice. 13/10

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Following months of activism, 1,500 beagles are being released from the Ridglan Farms testing facility to animal rescue groups: the Beagle Freedom Project and Big Dog Ranch Rescue. To all the dogs being released, we wish you many years in loving homes. 14/10 for all

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Bungalo. She uses that face to get what she wants. It works unbelievably well. 12/10 would never say no to

[Wildlife Wonders @life_wild21208]

Gecko tripped the sensor 🥹

[DJ burger 🔜 NYC 🎶🗽 @bigcatburger]

Unhand me you brute

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Cooper. He tried to politely decline the blowout, but apparently it's a nonnegotiable part of his spa package. 13/10

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Aquarium visitors were startled to see a leopard shark trying to bite off another shark’s fin

Staff explained it wasn’t aggression but normal… flirting — this is how sharks show interest in each other.

[I Only Follow Bottoms (Original) 💖🔥 @Ravenger___]

Ah so biting your crush is a multispecies trait not just a human one

[Jess (Moth) @L1ttle_behemoth]

@MerriamWebster Gorgeous