Dr. Diabeetus

Just a gal with a blog, and of course, type one diabetes. PFP by @nightlightheart

[dr-beetus]

A beautiful piece of art by @nightlightheart featuring my updated sona with lyrics to one of my favorite songs. This was from several years ago, and apparently never posted.

[yorgen-sh]

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[greycatbird]

Common Loon, Franklin County NY, June 2026

[isthereaduck]

There are no ducks in this post.

[a-typewritten-blog]

Sears 'Correct-o-Sphere' typewriter, which was a rebranded Brother 'Correct-o-Ball' (LOL).

[natalieironside]

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

[snkrfnd]

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

[natalieironside]

Thank u for sharing this with us

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[apolladay]

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

Voting ended onJun 2

[bbboar]

Anon you fucked up so bad

[sophiemars]

From the notes

[preserving-tiktok]

[dogpuppy]

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[partimeloverfulltimefiend]

some people rlly can’t wrap their heads around the concept of chronic illness like. “you’re sick? but weren’t you just sick a few days ago?” yeah that’s the whole point. ITS CHRONIC

[starrynet]

that’s his little guy!!

[littleguysdaily]

I wish I had what they have...

[nonetoon]

I need to get back to drawing freaky little cryptid guys I think

[nonetoon]

His name is Possum please be nice 2 him

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

settlers are always so enthusiastic about ''foraging'' and then you'll start talking to them about indigenous horticulture & sustainable harvesting practices and they quickly reveal that they're more interested in the aesthetic of being a Crunchy Woodland Creature than like reducing their reliance on exploitative industrial agriculture or rebuilding their local foodshed

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

This is not true and it is in fact neither very simple nor very plain to forage sustainably. This kind of flippant "it's such an easy hobby" attitude when it comes to harvesting is exactly *why* there are so many problems with once-abundant traditional foods being depleted. Every plant is different, has different needs, and can support a different intensity of gathering. Foraging isn't just some fun hobby, and shouldn't be treated like one. It is a method of intentionally working land to gather resources meant to sustain oneself, whether those resources be food, medicine, or something else. It requires conscious maintenance of the land you are working, and active monitoring of not just your own gathering, but the gathering of your entire community. It requires experiential, often generational knowledge. You cannot boil a resource-gathering operation down to a simple truism and expect others to be able to do it respectfully and sustainably.

[doomhands-jr]

This seems like a take from someone who is looking for fault within people. It’s very likely that they were on step one of a foraging journey and you, in your eagerness to connect, gave them pressure and information overload from someone on step nine or ten of their foraging journey. Let people be new at things and don’t pressure them to go all in too quickly. Sometimes people start with the crunchy woodland creature aesthetic and develops into an indigenous horticulture hyperfixation. But it’s never gonna get there if you try to force it or shame people for being new and inexperienced.

[monkey-mulch]

they were on step one of colonizing our fucking land yet again and leaving us with absolutely goddamn nothing.