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[my-gender-is]

My gender is here somewhere i swear. I definitely have a gender I promise. I just don’t know where it is. It’s here somewhere just give me a few seconds. I swear I had one at one point. No I don’t know where I had it last. What does it look like? Idk, like a gender i guess very gendery and stuff. No I don’t need help just give me a second it’s here somewhere I sWEAR

[wheelspiration]

[brainless-moe-white-lotus]

An activate charcoal AND grapefruit smoothie called "what will your meds do ;)"

[the-killswitch-deactivated20200]

Actually its a juice

[queerforscience]

Wait no this was a joke

[kaijuno]

you're on antidepressants and you drink this you meet the devil

[goldenjedi]

Ok I just want to say activated charcoal is really good for you. Especially if you have an upset stomach. Take it, and it'll absorb all the toxins in your stomach and make you feel better.

Natural remedies are good. They do work. And we shouldn't make fun of them.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

You know how they give activated charcoal to dogs and cats if they get into your meds or drink coolant or anything else toxic? That’s because it binds with meds and carries them out of your system without them interacting with your body.

If you’re on meds and drink this bullshit you’re not on your meds today, champ. You may as well have flushed them down the toilet. So kiss goodbye to your blood pressure meds/antidepressants/anything else you’re on and if you’re on the pill I hope you’re ready to be a mom.

Among its other charming traits, activated charcoal can prevent your body from digesting food and absorbing nutrients and oh yeah side effects can include “diarrhea, constipation, vomiting, and blockage of the digestive tract.” (Source)

But ya know, “really good for you.” 🙄

[temporaryspoilers]

10 years ago the only accepted use of activated charcoal I knew of was for emergency treatment of poisoning, for example an overdose or accidental ingestion or something like that.

An emergency medicine. To be given by a professional to a patient in a dire situation.

Do these activated charcoal fuckers think epinephrine is just a fun way to kick start their morning or?

[thebibliosphere]

Legitimately I know the sound I just heard at 5am is the sound of the house cooling because it’s fricken freezing outside and the heating hasn’t kicked on yet, but boy that sure does sound like footsteps in the basement...

[thebibliosphere]

I take it back, this is legitimately more terrifying. What do you mean my smart thermostat isn’t online?! Ugh, I’m going to have to get out of bed aren’t I.

This is how the monster on the basement finally gets me.

[thebibliosphere]

YEP, THAT SURE WAS THE WIND THAT JUST BLEW THE INTERIOR ENTRANCE DOOR OPEN RIGHT AS I WALKED BY. YEP. THE WIND AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE.

[thebibliosphere]

Christ I nearly peed myself.

Okay, good news thermostat is working, it’s just the wi-fi that’s out. So now my house can warm up and stop acting like a haunted lil bitch and I can get some SLEEP.

Ironically ETD slept through all these loud ass creaking blustery wind noises, but it’s me quietly crawling back into bed and sighing that wakes him. Man has slept through tornado sirens but his wife sighing? Unacceptable.

[temporaryspoilers]

My man is the same. Knocking at the door? Conversation in another room? Me having a private dance party downstairs? Easily slept through. Me making one (1) pain sound? Never sleeping again.

[kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd]

it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.

[baconis42]

oh what a life

[dee-the-red-witch]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[prokopetz]

If I was going to put the Horrible Goose in a D&D game, I wouldn’t make it some big high-CR threat – it’d just be a regular goose that’s capable of regular goose stuff, with three significant exceptions:

1. It can show up anywhere, even if there’s no reasonable way for it to have gotten there.

2. It seems to have limited ontological intertia. If the players imprison it, it vanishes from its prison when they’re not looking. If they kill it, another goose shows up eventually. It’d be impossible to prove that it’s always the same goose, save for the third notable trait…

3. …namely, that it doesn’t show up in divinations. Like, at all. Predictions don’t take it into account. Scrying on its location reveals an empty room. Spells that would detect it or read its mind act like there’s no valid target present. If the cleric communes with their god and asks about it, their god has no idea what the cleric is talking about. It might take some doing to arrange for the players to become aware of this property, so don’t force it – the opportunity will arise!

There we go. No goofy boss monster tricks, yet it’s guaranteed to drive your players nuts – not even by harassing them, necessarily, but just by existing as they try to figure out what it means, particularly once they learn of the third trait discussed above.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

I hate it. It’s going in every game I run forever

[awed-frog]

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

[youngnoblewoman]

This is fascinating if you’re into math or sociology or computer programming or all of the above.

[skeptictankj]

Everyone, everywhere, without exception, should play this thing through.

[anathaeum]

Don’t check just this - check out all of Nicky Case’s work. They’re a brilliant creator and I heavily recommend checking out at least one of their projects.  Their website can be found here.

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

We Become What We Behold - “ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“ A short five-minute game about news and media. Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

[imtoobiforyou]

OH MY GOD THIS IS FRICKING AMAIZNG WOW WOW WOW WOW YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YES INTELLECT 

[thebibliosphere]

Call out post for @mremaknu for showing me this and getting the song “Mary had a little lamb” sung to the tune of In The Hall of the Mountain King stuck in my head.

Goddammit, it scans so well.

[ladyshinga]

“Yeah but am I hurting enough to take a painkiller?”

- everyone with chronic pain ever

[chronicmigraines]

can you pin a post to the top of your blog??

[youngchronicpain]

am I okay? probably not

am I alive? ye

am I trying my best to get through my days? heck yeah!!!! just trying to survive the suffering my dudes

[australiansanta]

There are 2 genders in Australia: roxy & quicksilver

so true and can’t fault this but just like are u forgetting mambo or piping hot...........

[temporaryspoilers]

Ugg?

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

From the latest issue of the 92-page e-newsletter, “The ME Global Chronicle”, which can be downloaded for free from here: https://let-me.be/download/53/the-me-global-chronicle-20190922

[mentalisttraceur]

So today I learned that it is technically possible for a person in the US to order insulin online from Canada without a prescription.

And that it costs less than the copays/deductibles that many US insurance policies will charge along the way to getting insulin here in the US. And I realized this requires a PSA.

Because this is technically illegal to do. You might be easily misled into thinking that it is legal because:

US customs only rarely rejects such shipments,

as far as I know the US has never prosecuted a person for ordering quantities that are reasonable for a couple months of personal use,

Canada does not have any laws making it illegal for their pharmacies to ship insulin to US patients,

Canada does not require a prescription at all for insulin,

Canada often gets their insulin from the same factories that the US does, literally often the same exact drugs, and with comparable standards of quality and safeguards and regulations,

Canadian pharmacies consider shipping to US customers a significant part of their business model, so much so that they have payed for quite a lot of advertising to US customers through Google, and

some US citizens and residents already choose to get their insulin from Canada that way.

Wow, just look at all those reasons why you might mistakenly think it is legal - it is affordable, legal and widely accepted on Canada's side, and the insulin comes from legit sources. But to reiterate it is definitely illegal.

So you should absolutely never do it, no matter how much you might need insulin to not die.

No obligation, but if you could help spread the word of how this seemingly innocent method of getting insulin is actually illegal, you'd be doing a great service to the people who medically need insulin.

Otherwise, in a moment of desperation when they cannot afford it or their prescription for it cannot be renewed in time, they might make the wrong decision and buy insulin this illegal way, and that would be bad.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[autspoon]

freelystupendouslight replied to your post “… found out coffee cheese is a thing. i’m going to provide no…”

I hope you tried it that sounds fun and weird if you didn’t that is also incredible and you do you fam

I didn’t try it, yet. Ok so I did a bit further research and I found out it’s its own thing, it’s a special kind of cheese that has a taste that matches it and also has a whole other consistency. (Like brie, I think from the images?) And apparently it’s a thing produced in Norway too, even if it’s primarily consumed in Northern Sweden, Finnmark and in Finland. I’m going cheese hunting, I guess.

[temporaryspoilers]

Made from coffee? I've had Norwegian brown cheese (that's the only name I know for it) which is a LOT tastier than it sounds

[chronic-confessions]

for those with chronic pain, anything to say about lyrica if you've taken it? i just got prescribed it and it was because i called my doctors office in tears , so i havent been able to ask questions and :/

We’re not as aware about this medication. I know I was looking at taking it at one point, but my insurance refused to cover it so we had to find something else (since it’s a super expensive drug in the US). Any followers have anything helpful?

-Admin Bri

[temporaryspoilers]

It's the only pharmaceutical that's done much of anything for my fibromyalgia. It did make me sleepy to begin with but I've tweaked the dose (under medical guidance) to balance that against the benefits. It doesn't make me pain free but it freed me from my bed so yeah

[quasi-normalcy]

‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Gothic

You’ve been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don’t recognise. Everyone tells you that they’ve always been here

You go down to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. B'elanna tells you that he’s just stepped out. He’s been ‘just stepped out’ for days.

A shuttle crashes on a desert planet. You speak with Chakotay about the possibility of trading for some new shuttles, but he looks at you funny and says “but we already have a full compliment of shuttles”

You run to the shuttlebay and inspect them personally. There is a full compliment of shuttles. And none of them even have a scratch.

The next week, a shuttle is torn to pieces in a plasma storm. You’re not even surprised when you find intact it in the shuttlebay an hour later.

You stop mentioning shuttles.

The ship has an encounter with some Kazon, but manages to get away. Their ships are primitive and slow and you shouldn’t run into them again.

Two weeks later, you meet the same Kazon, now somehow in front of you. You begin to suspect that you’re driving in circles

You go to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. You haven’t seen him in two years. He’s ‘not there right now, but should be back in a minute’.

Janeway and Paris travel at warp 10 and turn into salamanders. You’re *sure* that it happened. You *remember* it happening! But no one brings it up. When you ask Tom about it, he doesn’t even register the question.

You scream “BUT YOU WERE A SALAMANDER!” into his ear. He doesn’t even hear you.

You see another Ensign you don’t recognise. You finslly just ask the computer for the crew compliment of Voyager. You are told that the answer is: 121.

A month later, the Hirogen conquer the ship, spend weeks brainwashing and surgically altering the crew into believing that they are actually characters in holographic simulations, and then hunt them for sport. This culminates in a pitched battle between the crew and the Hirogen in which the ship is utterly wrecked and dozens of people are killed.

Afterwards, you ask the computer for the ship’s crew compliment. You are told that the answer is: 147

The next day, you wake up and find Voyager restored to its original state.

You make a discreet inquiry about Lt. Carey. Now everyone acts like he’s dead but can’t tell you precisely when or how.

The Captain takes you aside one day and specifically instructs you not to mention Ensign Jetal to the Doctor. She says that she knows that this will be difficult, given how close we all were to her (and you in particular), but that for the greater good of the crew, you need to act like Ensign Jetal never existed. You solemnly nod your head and consent, and she gives you a comradely pat on the shoulder and leaves the room.

You have absolutely no idea who Ensign Jetal is.

Voyager absorbs the remaining crew of the USS Equinox. Well at least you’ll finally have an explanation for the new crew you see around the ship! You never see any of them ever again.

You’ve now travelled almost 40,000 light years towards home. You check the star charts; somehow, you’re still in the Delta Quadrant. You begin to wonder if the Beta Quadrant even exists.

The Delta Flyer is destroyed by Borg torpedos. You don’t even bother to check the shuttlebay for it, you just instinctively know that it will be back

A few months later, the Captain gives you the sad news: Lt. Carey is dead.

You finally make it back to the Alpha Quadrant, say your tearful farewells, and receive a handshake and a promotion from Admiral Paris. As one last thought before leaving Voyager forever, you pay a visit to the shuttlebay. You find it utterly empty, except for one lowly crewman with a mop and pail, swabbing the deck. “I…guess that Starfleet must have already cleared out the remaining shuttles?” You say uncertainly, your voice echoing in the cavernous, empty room. The crewman breaks off his mopping and looks at you like you’ve lost your mind and says: “Voyager never had any shuttles.”

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

VOYAGER IS JUST ONE LONG CREEPYPASTA

[should-be-sleeping]

Lt. Carey. 😂🤣

[should-be-sleeping]

Cursed image.