Minestrone Monster

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Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· 3d

A two picture series. A close up of little boy lies in the dirt with a boot stepping on his head. The next picture is slightly zoomed out and we see he is holding the boot to his head.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· 10d

A still from the Ghibli film, Spirited Away. No Face — in it's final, terrifying form — is upending a plate of food in a dining area while it gobbles everything in sight. Patrons are screaming in the background

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· 25d

it b 2 dumbass girls telling each other 'exactlyyyy.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· 27d

He Should produce a TV adaptation of The Secret History directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and starring Hunter Schafer, Owen Campbell, George Mackay, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlie Tahan, Freddie Fox and Gillian Anderson (as Julian)

A wish cast mood board of The Secret History, with Hunter Schafer as Camilla, Owen Campbell as Richard, George Mackay as Henry, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Francis, Charlie Tahan as Bunny and Freddie Fox as Charles

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jul 2

Charlie from It's Always Sunny gesticulating wildly in front of a wall of documents and red string

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jul 1

Regina George from Mean Girls is leaning in and saying, "So you agree that religion should not be state mandated"

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jun 3

Hmmmmm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tho...

From Wikipedia: John Bovee Dods (1795–1862), an early practitioner of New Thought, wrote several books on the idea that disease originates in the electrical impulses of the nervous system and is therefore curable by a change of belief

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jun 2

From the BBC article: In secret recordings by the BBC, coaches can be heard telling patients that almost anyone can recover from long Covid by changing their thoughts, language and actions.

Over three days on Zoom, the course taught the ritual that forms the basis of the programme. Every time you experience a symptom or negative thought, you say the word "stop", make a choice to avoid these symptoms and then do a positive visualisation of a time you felt well.

You do this while walking around a piece of paper printed with symbols - a ritual the BBC was told to do as many as 50 times a day.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jun 2

From Wikipedia: In a 2024 BBC File on Four episode, reporter Rachel Schraer commented on a Lightning Process course she attended: "Not only did my coach say my thoughts were maintaining my symptoms, she also told me quite explicitly that there was nothing physical wrong with my body, that's despite having no apparent medical qualification or requesting access to any test results."[20][21] Neuroscientist Camilla Nord, a specialist in neuroscience and mental health, commented on the instructions given to participants to use positive reinforcing language, saying, "I'm afraid now we've strayed very, very far from neuroscience. What I would call neuro-bollocks. It's a kind of abusive of neuro-scientific terms in order to give quite simple psychological techniques a kind of sheen of science about them."[20]

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Apr 6

Oscar Isaac sits on a sofa, holding a takeout cup in both hands folded across his stomach. He is unkempt, with a huge bushy beard and rumpled clothes. He is staring at nothing with a look of exhaustion on his face.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Feb 14

This is astonishingly bad my god

One such holistic story the book offers centers on a nurse who “felt her health slipping away” after five SARS-CoV-2 infections but managed to restore it with “radical rest,” which entailed flying to a resort in Mexico for two weeks. “While planning this trip brought her spirits up, she realized that positive thinking and meditation were making her feel stronger.” She changed her diet to “close-to-the-ground type of eating,” did liver cleanses, went on some walks, and thus escaped Long COVID — a neat recovery narrative that avoids pinpointing infections as a rectifiable driver of ill health.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jan 26

Screenshot of an article from HuffPost: "'I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People';
Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society."

By Kayla Chadwick

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jan 21

'In Detention', a poem by Chris Van Wyk. The poem reads:
He fell from the ninth floor
He hanged himself
He slipped on a piece of soap while washing
He hanged himself
He slipped on a piece of soap while washing
He fell from the ninth floor
He hanged himself while washing
He slipped from the ninth floor
He hung from the ninth floor
He slipped on the ninth floor while washing
He fell from a piece of soap while slipping
He hung from the ninth floor
He washed from the ninth floor while slipping
He hung from a piece of soap while washing.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Dec 20

Like Tim Heidecker's evil doppelganger in Us

A still from Jordan Peele's Us, showing Tim Heidecker as his evil doppelganger, Tex. He looks creepy with greasy, slicked back hair

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Oct 29

Only ticked two 🤔

Checkbox options that read:
- Debilitating fatigue that is worsened by activity, is not caused by excessive cognitive, physical, emotional or social exertion, and is not significantly relieved by rest.
- Post-exertional malaise after activity in which the worsening of symptoms: is often delayed in onset by hours or days, is disproportionate to the activity, and has a prolonged recovery time that may last hours, day or weeks.
- Unrefreshing sleep and sleep disturbance (or both), which may include: feeling exhausted, feeling flu-like and stiff on waking, broken or shallow sleep, altered sleep pattern or hypersomnia (increased sleepiness affecting performance and function)
- Cognitive difficulties (sometimes described as 'brain fog'), which may include: problems finding words or numbers, difficulty in speaking, slowed responsiveness, short-term memory problems, and difficulty concentrating or multitasking.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Aug 4

I'm something of a jerk myself

Willem Dafoe in Spiderman from the "I'm something of a scientist myself" meme

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Mar 18

Sincerely who cares

Screenshot of an email subject line that reads, "You have earned a new badge in the the Dropbox community"

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jan 4

seriously

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Sep 28

Another chart showing multiple waves of covid throughout the year. Nothing about this is seasonal unless you think that breaking up the year into "spring wave", "summer wave", "autumn wave" and "winter wave" is in any way useful

2024 year chart plotting covid surges, with peaks in Autumn, Winter, May (spring) and Summer

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Sep 28

Covid is NOT seasonal: chart showing that flu (in blue) is seasononal, with peaks in winter. The red line is covid, showing multiple peaks throughout the year.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Sep 28

A MERS cluster of about 80 people in South Korea was caused by a single patient spending 36hrs in a hospital.

MERS outbreak cluster graph showing how a single person infected 80 people in a single event

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Sep 4

quote post the fictional character you are in your head

A black and white still from the original 1922 film, Nosferatu. The still captures the vampires shadow as he creeps up the stairs. You can see his long, sharp fingernails.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Aug 30

Its a bit like this (lol jk it's EXACTLY like this) www.instagram.com/p/CtuHTf2LA4q/ [Image credit Anna Haifisch]

An illustration of 3 delighted whippets running in a circle, chasing each other while a fourth whippet stares sadly from behind a broken fence. It looks very lonely.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Aug 10

This always makes me cackle [Credit: Cécile Gariepy]

A goofy rendering of Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Cécile Gariepy. Her eyes kind of look in different directions and she has tiny teeth. I'm fairly sure her nose is upside down.

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jul 15

Pingu the plasticine penguin is sitting on a chair with his arms crossed, a frown on his face and his feet kicking back and forth in anger

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jun 18

A screaming skeleton is being blown into dust by engulfing flames as it hangs onto a chain link fence

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Jan 24

Case in point from DuckDuckGo, which is meant to be "better"

A screenshot of a search result with the title "The latest information on Covid-19". Under the title the links shown are all different categories of wine from the website 'greatwines.co.uk'

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Dec 24

And finally, we have Henry. Henry is a shy, genius oddball. Intensely private, it's difficult to know whether he is a good guy or a bad guy. Excessively wealthy, educated and deeply alone, with a strange face. Barry Keoghan was wasted in Saltburn (lol), I think he would make a much better Henry

Barry Keoghna, staring directly into the camera, wearing a white t-shirt

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Dec 24

Julian has such a small role but such an outsize influence on the plot and other characters that I think he needs to be played by someone with massive amounts of charisma. I would cast either Gillian Anderson, Tom Hiddleston or Andrea Riseborough. They are all cool, calm, aloof and powerful

Gillian Anderson wears a white shirt and stares at her cuff

Tom Hiddleston looking moody and beautiful in a navy jumper

Andrea Riseborough looks at the camera in a white top

Minestrone Monster@minstronemonster· Dec 24

Bunny Corcoran is our unlikable victim/ villain. Charlie Tahan was terrifying in Super Dark Times (next to Owen Campbell) for his unstable and simmering performance. He also has a kind of false bravado fitting of the character.