A few weeks ago, I saw online discourse of women voicing irritation at how other women talk about their cycle. They said it was so obviously exaggerated because they never felt any difference during…

There is nothing more dangerous than unrecognized mental overload, and here is why. It’s 10 p.m., and your brain feels like a browser with 47 tabs open — deadlines, emails, that awkward conversation…

I have been using macOS voice control for about three years. First it was a way to reduce pain from excessive computer use. It has been a real struggle. Decades of computer use habits with typing and…

Recent studies show that the practice of martial arts among children and young people is associated with a reduction in the incidence of school bullying. But, how is it possible that the teaching of…

My experience with Queering the Map, and how it made me confront queer grief, lost time, family pressure, and missed chances.

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a bitch. A dozen or so people are stuck in a single body, fighting for control over it without being able to reach out and restrain one another physically. It's not…

From May 30 to June 3, we will ride from Paderborn in Germany to Aarhus in Denmark in four days. The route covers 618 kilometers of road cycling with 2,775 meters of elevation gain. Get the track on…

I spent my whole weekend at the hospital and running errands. On Saturday, my best friend who is like a sister to me had a seizure for the first time. It is currently attributed to an acute ischemic…

Aging is like being enrolled in a subscription service you never signed up for and every month they remove a feature, add a new bug, and raise the price. It begins with Spontaneous Joint…

The affair at the edge of the lake

"I'm Still Here" ( Video link here , if it doesn't load) The fun never stops, but I have no reason to complain. Parkinson's, so far, is just annoying. I noticed it early on when my gait changed -…

I SLEPT THROUGH THE WHOLE NIGHT LAST NIGHT. From 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM. Briefly woke up a time or two, but went right back to sleep. I feel so much better.

Boho Beautiful Yoga is one of YouTube’s most beloved yoga channels, and for good reason. With millions of subscribers and thousands of free videos, this channel has become a go-to resource for…

Subjective cues are NOT reliable. What you think is true doesn't matter. If you haven't trained how to relate subjective cues to real world outcomes, then anything you think or feel is not reliable…

But I dont have money for therapy currently. Ill make some. Anyways heres a dumb drawing I finished. Its called cocoon. It’s uh, a mummy in a sarcophagi, but the head area is all foggy. As much as I…

A chronology of my self harm with insights on how it escalated and my reasoning behind it

If you want to understand training for middle-distance running events—800m, 1500m, 1600m, mile—you need to understand Peter and Sebastian Coe’s approach. In the English-speaking world, Coe-style…

You've tried it. Maybe more than once. You sat down, closed your eyes, and immediately started thinking about the email you forgot to send, the meeting you're dreading, whether you left the stove on,…

When you're sick, all your effort resets to zero. But Epictetus said: be a person who is sick well.

Personal blog of Timur Brachkow

When you ask two doctors to grade the same AI response they disagree almost a quarter of the time. We wanted to know why.

This is not a technical post. If you came here looking for databases or systems internals, feel free to skip this one. I’ll be back with those soon. This is a personal piece about running and some…

i used to love the changing of the seasons. the gradual warmth of spring overtaking the violent chill of winter. rain, flowers, even bugs, i loved all of it, because it meant i would no longer be…

being autistic has always been strange to live with, everything that comes with it. the constant feeling of not quite understanding the rules everyone else seems to follow automatically, knowing…