What Goes Around is All Around

Alex..31, Gatineau..she/her or they/them pronouns. Number One Panicland Fan. Seabird researcher?

[torturequeen]

pre nut insanity

[kibumkim]

[audiojunkyard]

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

So I had 15 tb of audio data backed up to headline storage and they decommissioned the server it was all in and I never got a fucking email. That was literal months of work and I had no chance to save my data/move it to a new server

[dogpuppy]

Fat spectre..

[dogpuppy]

Everyone is lusting over the Fat spectre..

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

My labmate just pointed at me and said “you dont like bananas right?” And pointed one at me and I said no and he went and ate it out in the hall instead of our office lol

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

My cousin is a healthcare professional (OT) and a smart and competent homeowner and generally knows her shit but sometimes she does say something she has trouble living down and just now in the group chat when I mentioned my dad’s bat bite and that he was getting his shots she was like “I didn’t know there was a bat bite shot… what do bats carry” and I was just like girl rabies lmao

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

I made this ridiculously good soup the other day to the point that my last bowl of leftovers is saved for lunch tomorrow and I’m already sad it’s the last one

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

So today my worst nightmare happened to my dad: he got bit by a bat at the farm and the earliest possible he can start post-exposure prophylaxis is tomorrow morning because we’re very rural and the hospital doesn’t have any and he’s chill but I’m like. I think you need to drive the hour and a half or four hours to whatever hospital can give you a rabies shot immediately bc you don’t fucking PLAY WITH RABIES. He just casually sent me this pic and I screamed out loud

[1five1two]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

christopher nolan great gatsby where jay sits down by the pool before he’s shot and says “our roaring twenties are collapsing”

[dogpuppy]

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

I have my presentation slot for Australia. I was really worried I’d done the wrong form and bought tickets without being in the schedule

[theweirdwideweb]

[astronicht]

Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

oh my god it’s real and it was LITERALLY called “the broom method” holy shit

[thbstvrdthmtlbndndntn]

My bf finally got his allergy testing done (long story but basically he’s said he’s had a shellfish allergy for years because one time he got chest pains after eating a piece of shrimp as a young child but the doctor said it was bc he’d stretched his esophagus on a piece of steak — but since we’ve been together he’s eaten oyster sauce, Thai curry paste containing shrimp, and multiple things at dim sum containing shrimp with no reaction, he never informs restaurants and always has wonton soup without checking the ingredients, he’s eaten perogies that had shrimp cooking on top of them/eaten oysters/had fries that had shrimp on top of them and just picked around the shrimp) and the skin prick test showed high reactivity to dust mites and grass and mild/moderate reactivity to a bunch of different shellfish but he doesn’t know what proteins they were specifically testing… so now he at least has an epi pen and is gonna take it more seriously but at the same time the multiple ingestions with no reaction and the high false positive rate of skin prick tests are concerning to me especially because the allergist didn’t even bring up the possibility of an oral challenge (he’s also getting a blood test done) but I think he should call back and try to schedule an oral challenge depending on the blood test results because it just seems surprising to me…

I 100% accidentally fed him shrimp in may (at dim sum ordered tofu and pork rolls, asked if he wanted to inform the kitchen if his allergy and he said no and that if he accidentally ate it he didn’t want to know because it would just cause anxiety this was a previous discussion) then after he ate one I ate one and they were stuffed with shrimp so I just remained quiet and watched him carefully for symptoms for the rest of the day and kept him up really late with my feminine wiles in case of a delayed reaction and then didn’t sleep and he was fine no itching no nausea or anything so like idk what to think even if he is allergic I’d have a lot more peace of mind having him do an oral challenge so he can feel his reaction in a safe setting but at the same time I really think the skin prick test could be a false positive and his doctor is not communicating with him well. Like she told him to avoid oyster sauce despite him eating it probably once a week with no issues but then also said people can be allergic to sesame oil and not sesame because of how refined it is so that’s maybe why he hasn’t had a reaction but that’s not the same at all… because oyster sauce isn’t refined like sesame oil!! And it would be one thing if he was having unexplained digestive reactions but he’s got one of the healthiest constitutions of any thirty year old man I know and he’s not typically itchy or hivey or anything compared to his friends except for when mowing the grass or if he doesn’t dust…. Like I really don’t know what to think I’m shocked his allergist told him he’s definitely allergic and to avoid it without further testing or a follow up now

[susandsnell]

feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is “weird girl literature” and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns

[susandsnell]

Women did not fucking pioneer horror, thriller, and science fiction as we know it for publishing to infantilize it into a high school phase

[susandsnell]

is Stephen king “weird boy literature”? Or does he get to be an adult horror novelist?

[durnesque-esque]

A reminder to my self and all of you: you can, and should make customer complaints on behalf of staff.

Like last week, I had to mail a package and my local USPS was absolutely SWEALTERING. And the staff only had a few fans, some of which they were using faced towards customers, to try and keep us cool.

While doing my transaction, I was chatting with the worker about how crazy this was and how I hoped she had her own fan too, because I could only see the customer-benefit ones. She said yes, but I also asked if there was anyone I could complain to on her behalf and she immediately said yes again and to please do it! She wrote a more direct customer service number on my receipt which I was able to call Friday.

To be clear, I was kind and polite; I stressed how good the workers at this office were and how efficient always: "It's my local post office," but also how unbearable the heat was and how I couldn't imagine MY poor local staff having to suffer in that heat all day. I don't know yet if it will have an immediate effect for the workers, I hope it will though.

It's a move I haven't pulled much recently, but it was a good reminder for me that I can. I can put on my best assertive-Karen-for-good voice and bitch at companies and corporations to take care of their staff because why would I keep going to them if they don't? I know Post office is a little different, but all the more reason for me to take a vested interest as I pay for them with my taxes! Use my money to get those hard-working folks some goddamn aircon!