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Do you recognize this TV theme song? #691
I know this and can name the series
I know this but can't name the series
I might know this
I've never heard this
Series: Mindhunter (2017-2019)
Composer: Jason Hill
I watched this show but didn't recognise the theme b/c I never listened to it. It was on netflix and I always skip the intro. I figured this would happen eventually.
Hell, I drove them
I'm old enough to remember when they smoked on soap operas!
When I was a kid my doctor smoked in between seeing patients!
Yep and I (and my cousins) rode in the bed of my step-grandfather's half ton truck (also, iirc, a few times in my step dad's).
I remember having to go get a teacher from the staff room in HS and them smoking in there. And, well, we teens had our own smoking area on HS grounds....
Although I DID start wearing seat belts on the regular before it was mandatory--one of my HS best friend's parents used seat belts and if you travelled in their car, you used them.
Sam Neill, the versatile actor whose was highlighted by appearances in the blockbuster 'Jurassic Park' franchises, has died. He was 78.
Dammit.
Another good one gone. I so enjoyed watching him...this is a hard one. :(
is menopause as awful as everyone says it is? At the moment from stories i hear from others i feel like i'd be better off just killing myself than losing my sense of self, mental health, mental capabilities (my entire life and career basically revolves around be being intellectually capable), physical health and sense of home in my own body. Up until recently i always thought of it as not a huge deal, just the older equivalent of puberty. But now as more awareness seems to be raised and people are talking about it more (which is great, awareness is important), i just feel like there's no way i'll cope if it's as awful as people say. My mental health is already not the greatest. I can't imagine trying to function with it worse, plus everything else.
Not sure what to tell you anon (and b/c you're anon, this is a post, sorry). Maybe you'll have all the horrible symptoms....or maybe you won't. The thing is, they can treat most symptoms (obviously, your personal heath history/family history may impact this). I was lucky, I didn't have hot flashes. Honestly, I've been post menopausal (ie period stopped) for 6 or 7 years--and it's taken that long for the brain fog/emotional imbalance to catch me--now, I've always had a crap memory--unless it's useless trivia--but yeah, the brain fog is unsettling especially b/c language and knowledge are important to me.
Which is why I went to my PHP. Now, here (NS/Can), they don't apparently worry about/measure hormone levels but it's based on how you're feeling. I'm starting the patch/progesterone today, so it may be some time before I see any affect/help. I don't know.
And neither will you, so I'd say killing yourself would be pre-emptive and not a course of action to take.
WRT your mental health, if you're not seeing someone you should? But I don't know your situation, etc. At least talk to your PHP (primary health provider) if you have one. Or if your employer has an EAP (employee Assistance program, which, if it's a good one, will not divulge what you've spoken to them about--if you don't know if you have one, check with your HR), contact them, they may be able to give you some help/point you in the right direction.
Honestly, even with the brain fog and thinning hair? I absolutely LOVE not having a period--yanno why? B/c I had periods so bad/painful that if I didn't take painkillers to get rid of the cramps, I'd puke my guts out on a monthly basis. As much as I hate the brain fog/thinning hair, I'll take THAT over puking/pain on a monthly basis. But then every person deals with things differently.
If you truly are intent on self-harm, please reach out to suicide helplines/assistance. In the US or Canada, you can call or text 988, they also have websites: US: https://988lifeline.org/ ; Can: 988.ca. Pretty sure they can help with mental health issues as well. Please, check them out. (Lots of info here, but hey, professional hazard, I'm a Library Tech....)
Please, take care, anon.
Interesting, just rewatching the very first episode NCIS--and Fornell is already on the plane when Gibbs, DiNozzo and Ducky show up AND HE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE ANY OF THEM.
kinda funny since he and Gibbs share an ex wife....ah, the early hours of a show.
me after I eliminated 21,042 people
This is about the sexiness of The Golden Girls but I really feel the need to remind the world of how fucking progressive this show was.
In the episode 72 hours, we find out Rose may have contracted AIDs during an emergency gallbladder surgery.
Rose: Why me, Blanche? I'm tired of pretending I feel okay so you won't say, 'Take it easy', and I'm tired of you saying 'Take it easy' because you're afraid I'm going to fall apart. Dammit, why is this happening to me? I mean, this isn't supposed to happen to people like me. You must've gone to bed with hundreds of men. All I had was one innocent operation. Blanche: Hey, wait a minute! Are you saying this should be me and not you? Rose: No! No, I'm just saying that I am a good person. Hell, I'm a goody-two-shoes! Blanche: AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose, it is not God punishin' people for their sins!
In Isn't it romantic? we find out Dorothy's childhood best friend is a lesbian who recently lost her partner. She confesses she has feelings for Rose. Rose turns her down but makes it clear that she still wants to be friends even though she doesn't return those feelings.
Sophia: Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs.
Jean: Rose, about last night. I should never have said anything. Rose: You only said what you were feeling. Jean: It's just that this last year has been so difficult for me. Pat was the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with. And when she died, I just felt so terribly alone. Empty. I thought I could never care for anyone again. Until I met you. I just got very confused. I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable. Rose: Well, I have to admit that I don't understand these kinds of feelings. But if I did understand, if I were, you know, like you, I'd be very flattered and proud that you thought of me that way.
Ebbtide's Revenge gives us Phil's funeral, and Sophia addressing him wearing women's clothes.
Rose: So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him. Sophia: I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him I wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day I did whatever I did to make him the way he was. Angela Petrillo: What he was Sophia, was a good man.
Sister of the Bride, where Blanche's brother Clayton brings his boyfriend to town, because they're planning on getting married.
Blanche: Oh, look, I can accept the fact that he's gay, but why does he have to slip a ring on this guy's finger so the whole world will know? Sophia: Why did you marry George? Blanche: We loved each other. We wanted to make a lifetime commitment. Wanted everybody to know. Sophia: That's what Doug and Clayton want, too. Everyone wants someone to grow old with. And shouldn't everyone have that chance?
There are so many episodes I could sit here and quote but this show is still so important. It isn't perfect, there are jokes that definitely don't land that I will not sit here and defend, but in the context of when it was created? This show is a fucking masterpiece and deserves respect for that.
And this was during the Reagan/Bush years.
I think that this show hit as hard as it did because it was during Reagan/Bush
Went to the NP (nurse practitioner) today--my regular NP is on mat leave (please let it be 18 months), so I met the substitute (?) one today, pretty sure he's trans male. Not sure why I'm thinking that, but maybe my trans dar is as good as my gaydar for men? (Forget lesbians, I usually can't tell, unless I trip over them AND they tell me.) He's tiny, but I've met short/small men before....there's something there. Pretty sure he's also gay. So, some flavour of queer. And that's cool with me.
I'm looking at getting on hormones for menopause--so he put me on a low dose (to start) estrogen patch and progesterone pill. I do have some concerns about the progesterone as when I had to go on it for three months (vaginal bleeding after menopause) it made me pukey sick months 1 & 3. Hopefully this won't do the same; it may be a lower dose.
For me the biggest issue is the memory fog over the past year, it's been getting worse--I forget words and can't even describe the word/thing I"m trying to use. Plus lack of sleep and thinning hair.
Hopefully this will do something.
Oh and I do like the new NP, seems really good.
Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌
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1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago
2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.
If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.
Tommy Hunter, the celebrated Canadian country musician, has died. He was 89.
His music wasn't my thing, but every body sure knew who he was. Although, tbf, I thought he'd already passed....maybe I switched timelines, who knows?
Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat
do NOT google "omega heat"
prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time
I'm sorry but horrible, unnecessary punctuation makes that read that UK is getting -40C temps....
Remember when a cute bunny would tell you to fuck yourself and die in a fire
The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.
As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:
WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!
Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.
In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.
Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.
Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.
Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.
Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.
If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.
Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.
Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.
Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.
Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.
If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.
Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.
Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.
Bringing this back for my dying mutuals
Cosign.
holy shit okay may have found a game-changer for web searches...with duckduckgo it's easy to turn off the ai features permanently, but regardless of engine there's the increasing problem of the search results themselves leading mostly to ai-generated articles on random ghost websites that say a lot without any information, and then the information they do give is contradictory or otherwise just wrong. this is especially a problem for me when trying to search for, e.g., a current list of the best products in a certain category.
finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.
i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???
please do not start talking about The Definition Of Art on this post, or Whether Human Creations Have Souls. i am very tired.
once I added this it took me 15 minutes to find a backpack that met my needs and order it with free shipping. I feel reborn
1976 The Best of the Band advertisement From the August 28th, 1976 issue of Cashbox Magazine (via: eBay)
love their music, thanks mum, also ccr,
