Upeka

Here for the dogs

[Upeka @upeka_x]

I hope something unexpectedly good happens to you today :)

[Upeka @upeka_x]

@RealEmirHan M

[Upeka @upeka_x]

@duvindi Ugh this thread sounds delicious

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

what addiction may feel like

📹 Nuggets by Film Bilder Studio

[Upeka @upeka_x]

Is there a bank worse than Bank of Ceylon? So inefficient with terrible customer service, long queues and outdated systems. They never answer their phone lines, and you have to go to the branch for the simplest task. Seriously need to change my bank to one from this century #lka

[Upeka @upeka_x]

@Irreverent_86 Yeah exactly!

[Upeka @upeka_x]

Is it weird that I don’t mind when a random guy calls me “අක්කේ”, but the second a rando calls me “නංගි”, I immediately get on the defensive 🥷

[Upeka @upeka_x]

I’m not crying, you are

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[Upeka @upeka_x]

@GanguleeW Whereas when you walk into certain swanky saree boutiques in Colombo, you feel as if you crashed a super exclusive party by mistake. And when you dare to ask about seeing a saree, their faces scream “major inconvenience.” 🥲

[Upeka @upeka_x]

Greatly enjoyed this interview on Sri Lanka’s labour market

[Advocata Institute @advocatalk]

"Why is it important for women to participate in the labour force?"

Catch the fourteenth episode of the ResetNow podcast with Dr Ramani Gunathilaka & @Thathsarani98 on YouTube!
📎 https://t.co/NjYocgWH4s

#women #Empowerment #labourforce #employment #FreeEducation

[Upeka @upeka_x]

So turns out if you attempt to bleach a white shirt that has sunscreen stains on it (e.g near the collar), it can turn bright pink 🫠 #science

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Hi, ER Doc here.

If your nose is bleeding, DO NOT TILT YOUR HEAD BACK. This just makes the blood drip down the back of your throat and you will then swallow and/or choke on it. Pinch the soft part of your nose and TILT YOUR HEAD FORWARD. Please tell your friends about this.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD

In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in
@Variety

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[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Tuna. You have once again taken him to the vet instead of the park. Fool him once, shame on you. Fool him twice, even more shame on you. 12/10

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Soup. And this is the energy Soup is bringing to the workplace in 2023. 13/10 we respect it

[Upeka @upeka_x]

2 days until my last 20-something birthday, and here I am, frantically googling how to make a vision board.

[Upeka @upeka_x]

Does anyone else love watching dog grooming videos?

[Upeka @upeka_x]

Why are there ants EVERYWHERE?!

[Upeka @upeka_x]

You either look cool af in a bucket hat, or like an overgrown toddler. There’s no in between 🤷🏿‍♀️

[Upeka @upeka_x]

@pluraltermite I hate u and also… wtf? 🤣

[Upeka @upeka_x]

To all the book collectors. Please share your best tips on how to take care of your books. I just had to throw out one giant garbage bag full of my books because of a massive termite infestation. I’m heart broken 😞 #lka #booklovers #fucktermites