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Been like this for 5mins now, biting diwn on the new crown.
Meanwhile, my dentist us in the next room with another patient.
Slut.
Honestly, when I first read it, I thought that word was shit, too.
It's past midnight and I can't sleep. I already haven't slept last night. So that's more than 36 hours.
This won't do. I can't show up at the dentist office as a sleepy, apathetic mess who just wants to get her dental crown to pretty pleeeease be reattached so she can go to bed. I need a rested brain and spine so I don't fall into the freeze response (again), as the dentist's tends to do to me.
I need to get my bitchy sleep. Night night.
... and then I didn't.
It's 4:45am-ish and my appointment is at 7:45. I've given up sleep for the night. I'm drinking a whey caffeine shake (full fat milk cause it's yummier) with two scoops of extra creatine cause I've found it does actually help my frequent sleep deprivation symptoms a measurable amount. Or at least the caffeine should perk me up.
Or I'll just get a really rumbly tummy and make the dentist team worry I'll pull a Hector Salamanca in their chair. But that wouldn't be useful, just amusing to me personally
It's past midnight and I can't sleep. I already haven't slept last night. So that's more than 36 hours.
This won't do. I can't show up at the dentist office as a sleepy, apathetic mess who just wants to get her dental crown to pretty pleeeease be reattached so she can go to bed. I need a rested brain and spine so I don't fall into the freeze response (again), as the dentist's tends to do to me.
I need to get my bitchy sleep. Night night.
There's a laundromat going to open shop right across the street from me.
Which will be great for people who don't have space for a washing machine, or can't afford one, or whose washing machine is broken rn, or might stay broken for years cause the owner has something wrong with their brain that makes them postpone getting a new machine until one day they get meds for that brain disorder and finally find the energy to organise their life a bit better and get a new machine cause they are so tired of washing bedclothes by hands and have given up hope to find a laundromat in their city.
So, like, I'm very happy for my neighborhood.
And as a conclusion to a wonderful day, my Mom just called me for tech support cause she couldn't figure out how to mark and open several music files at once on her PC so she could listen to them as a playlist on her bluetooth speaker on the balcony, in the sun. Joy.
Btw, I interrupted her, saying that I'm really not in a patient mood rn cause of my damn tooth issue and impending dentist visit which I'd tried calling earlier to tell her about, but she just went "well, I can't do anything about that, can I?"
Which, yeah, but some emotional support would have been nice.
So I walked her through her thing. Not for the first time (this exact thing)(same songs even) btw.
Me: Just hold SHIFT* and...
Her: Which one's SHIFT?
Me: The one on the left of the keyboard, got an upwards arrow. Right above Control.
Her: Control?
Me: *sigh* C-T-R-L
Her: Oh, Crittle!
Me: ...and click... LEFT-click on... SINGLE LEFT-click on... the last file in the folder to mark all the songs at once
Her: Nope, doesn't work. Nothing's blue.
*Ten minutes later*
Her: Ok, they are all blue [aka marked], now what?
Me: Now you RIGHT-click on ANY of those files and there should be a menu-
Her: Wait wait wait! Awww they aren't blue anymore...
*some more minutes later*
Me: You worked in an office... in admin for 20 years... and were later head of HR.... for 15 more years.... HOW in the Fuck did you stay employed?!**
*I translated the German keys for my mostly English-speaking followers; these keys would originally be "Umschalt", and "Steuerung/Strg" (commonly mispronounced as "String", but Mom pronounced it more like "Struigge"), respectively
**she's always been very good and absolutely shameless wrt asking for help or just delegating stuff, that's how, plus her eyesight was better so she used to be at least theoretically able to look shit up herself or click through a bit (but usually didn't). So no, this is not just due to her age, though her brain sure is not getting any better, sorry to say.
There's a laundromat going to open shop right across the street from me.
Which will be great for people who don't have space for a washing machine, or can't afford one, or whose washing machine is broken rn, or might stay broken for years cause the owner has something wrong with their brain that makes them postpone getting a new machine until one day they get meds for that brain disorder and finally find the energy to organise their life a bit better and get a new machine cause they are so tired of washing bedclothes by hands and have given up hope to find a laundromat in their city.
So, like, I'm very happy for my neighborhood.
Fucking shit I'm scared of teeth falling out that don't even have crowns now.
Dentist update:
This morning, at 9:45, I had an appointment scheduled to 1) (according to my dentist, this was the priority) control the fit of my nightguard and 2) (mentioned secondly cause apparently it wasn't a big concern to my dentist, cause I had to her remind of it) to fix the way one of my crowns collided with it's opposing molar when I closed my jaws to, y'know, chew. So I had to talk the dentist team into looking at the crown first, and then they checked it with that paper thing and whittled away at the filling of the opposite molar (again without telling me in advance where they would be working at, cause this is the THIRD FUCKING APPOINTMENT they did that). Granted, the bite seemed better afterwards, though that shit's been improving throughout the day these past six days and then returned to being a nuisance in the morning right after I'd taken the guard out, or ate anything chewy, so I wasn't sure if it was really fixed.
So I decided to eat a little snack for lunch to test it, salami sticks, nothing fancy but it's something to chew. And I get meat stuck at that tooth and try to suck it out...
Guess what just happened to that upper molar that had already lost 3 temporary partial crowns (within THREE days) and recently (SIX days ago) got a "permanent" partial crown which I said at that appointment (six days ago) didn't seem to fit well cause it kept unpleasantly colliding against a lower molar?
Did you guess that it fell out? Cause it did! It fell out! AGAIN!
Not even from knocking against anything hard, just from my togue probing it.
And now I gotta go to this **** of a dentist again to get it fixed in the early morning - first the receptionist told me to be there at 8am (usual start of office hours) and prepare for a wait, then I heard her talking to someone in the background and she changed it to 7:45 (which I figure means they'll try to do me in 15 minutes while no other patients are around to hear me bitch them out).
And like, I would love to bitch them out. But then they could end our treatment contract on the basis of me becoming nasty, and I'd rather end our contract on account of them being proveably (I got timestamped pics of the lost crown this time, and the dentists in Mom's city have a record of fixing the latest temporary crown failure, also my file must show the big hole in my tooth that they kept ignoring for months + some other things) bad at their jobs. Cause then they'll have to pay my next dentist to fix whatever goes wrong with my crowns in the next two years.
I can't prove that they communicated less with me during appointments than my vet does with my cat, I can't prove that they once drilled and filled 3 cavities that were never mentioned to me, when I came in for two completely different teeth (and told the assistant beforehand which ones). But I have some things, both on file and on my phone which I can take to the next dentist for a second opinion, as well as to the ZahnƤrztekammer (I think the term is Dental Association?) cause this shit can't be fucking normal.
I love the "What this country really needs, right now, is a doctor" line in the sound of drums because the Master couldn't have possibly known when the doctor would show up again so he must have been making weird remarks about doctors and medicine on live television for an entire year
The Doctor: I am a man of science. What you call magic is merely that which science has yet to explain.
The Master: (summoning a demon in a nearby church basement)
unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.
Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.
Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.
By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.
There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.
That's queerbaiting.
Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.
The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.
Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.
Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world
Darcyās introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really āwhat if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dadās life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where heād just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl heād just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger sheād clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out sheās really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.ā
Hey. Why isnāt the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isnāt that fucked up? Does anyone else think thatās absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! Thatās a big deal! Iāve never thought about it before but now that I have, itās ridiculous to me that thatās not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why donāt we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
Itās July 20th. Thatās the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. Iām ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and Iām going to have a goddamn potluck. Youāre all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!
Happy moon day to all who celebrate
This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.
MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!
Happy Moon Daaaaay 2026!
HAPPY MOON DAY!!!
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āSo... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:
It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.
You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.
Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.
Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%
During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.
When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.
You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.
You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.
If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Brought to you by America's 250 birthday celebrations, workforce reduction in the FDA and CDC, and viewers like you.
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And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.
And no, ivermectin will not help this at all.ā
As an update, the OP of this post did eventually clarify that they did not have inside knowledge that it was Taylor Farms; that was a conclusion they reached from publicly-available information & history.
However, per CNN and numerous other news outlets, as of Thursday afternoon, the outbreak has been at least partially traced to lettuce supplied to Taco Bell from Taylor Farms, in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Other states and/or businesses could have received the same contaminated lettuce, or there could be multiple simultaneous outbreaks with different sources: currently, it's not clear.
But anyway, the random guy was right.
So...how much of the bad discourse surrounding Steven Universe is just because people were really hoping that the Gems would beat up Andy DeMayo in "Gem Harvest"?
I was astonished to learn that there was controversy around this episode, because I felt like it was just kind of a normal children's cartoon about getting along with difficult relatives; and then I looked it up and learned that it had the extremely inauspicious timing of airing right after Trump's 2016 victory, and, yeah, okay, I can understand why a children's fantasy about reconciling with your obnoxious conservative relatives and getting them to accept your alternate family structure would play rather poorly at the time.
I think that Rebecca Sugar probably assumed, like most of the world that wasn't my specific flavour of extremely online in 2016, that Clinton would crush Trump and that this episode would maybe help to smooth over divisions; but of course what ended up happening is that an episode about how you should be empathetic towards your bigoted relatives ended up airing just as your bigoted relatives were going around victoriously hate-criming people in the street.
Watching it now, though, it ends up feeling wistful more than anything. Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did? It feels like a pleasant dream.
Steven Universe is fundamentally a power fantasyābut the fantasy is being able to get through to people and heal things. The power is love instead of strength.
"Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did?" Yeah....
We need weight loss ads now more than ever. Trump has reinvigorated the Fat Liberation group. The obesity epidemic is at its highest point ever. We need weight loss ads now more than ever.
Lol was this you
Seriously bruh, if you wanna make a case about nutritional defecits and the declining vitamin and mineral content in agricultural produce, the overall failure of public school physical education to provide any productive and meaningful instruction on personal health and correct methods of exercise, the ever-increasing cost of healthy foods, and the frankly shameful rate of child hunger and food waste all collectively contributing to poorer health in persons of ALL body types, I'm happy to play ball, but if the beginning and end of your platform is "there are more fat people than there used to be and being fat is bad so promoting eating disorders and drug abuse is good actually" then you are straight up wasting everyone's time
"Uhhh but everyone was skinny in 1920 look at this "fat lady" who was in a freak show at the circus lol and look how average she would be now" do you have any idea how many vitamins and other supplements we have had to insert into the food and water supply to combat widespread malnutrition in the last several decades
You realize how many people had teeth rotting out of their heads before we put fluoride in drinking water
Jesus fucking christ, google "B12 defecit"
The population was skinnier because we were constantly on the precipice of dying from shit like low zinc, you absolute dingbat
People being 'fatter' than we used to be is a GOOD thing, combating genuine weight-related health issues with a constant barrage of image-critical ads and the promotion of eating disorders in scientifically proven to be harmful and ineffective bullshit, and the fact that thinness as a beauty standard has been pushed to such extremes as intentionally infecting oneself with viruses and parasites amd chemically and surgically-enforced starvation over the past several hundred years only proves that this is not a natural default but a heavily-reinforced and artificial standard
Hey also just from a biologic perspective āhumans are naturally skinnyā is incorrect. āThere werenāt fat people in the pastā is an absurd idea cultivated by modern beauty standards that focus on returning us to a ānaturalā but completely false ideal. If you want proof, there are groups of people alive right now who live the same way that our ancestors did. There are hunter-gather tribes in the Amazon, Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and probably lots of other places around the world, and if you look up pictures of them, they are not skinny toned supermodels. They look like regular people and encompass the same array of body types youād see at a local supermarket.
Humans having variable metabolisms within the same population is not just normal, itās fucking awesome. Itās one of the things that made us so adaptable and able to spread across the world. It is quite literally integral to our success as a species. If a drought hits in your small hunter-gatherer community and kills off all your prey, you know whoās going to survive? The people who metabolize fat slower and thus can survive longer without food. Thatās why humans are fat sometimes. Itās insurance against uncertain futures.
(And, in fact, people who have immediate ancestors who went through periods of starvation are more like to hold onto fat. If you starve yourself to be skinny, your grandchildren are more likely to be overweight. Diet culture is directly linked to more people being fat. So. There. Source:)
Evidence from human famines and animal studies suggests that starvation can affect the health of descendants of famished individuals.