Rebecca Firth
@rafirth73.bsky.social
she/her/hers | 3rd Year PhD Candidate at Ole Miss | Computational Astrochemistry
Reposted by Rebecca Firth
the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.
![. [from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: “a state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world, trying to prop yourself up like an old scarecrow, who’s bursting at the seams yet powerless to do anything but stand there and watch”].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidlc525vonddk6zx3zghhvlamidzwalrw6adcq6u7jpvoxgtxql6u@jpeg)
January 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.