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[thebiscuiteternal]

It'd the 3rd. I went to the ER on the 3rd of June, so one full month.

This month has been an exercise (hah) in "losing weight is not always healthier." I've dropped 15 lbs in the time I've been sick. At the same time, I am constantly exhausted and my knees feel like jelly every time I stand up. My unmedicated heart rate is high enough to frequently make me dizzy. My nutrition is in the shitter (hah). My unmedicated emotional state is worse than the above.

One of the most frustrating parts is that even though my body is trying to fall apart, I'm still visibly heavy enough that people would say I'm not "trying" hard enough and should lose more faster.

On the other hand, Mama's been pretty sympathetic. Which comes as a surprise because she's been a huge concern troll about my weight for the vast majority of my adult life. I guess the fact that my sickness has been so similar to the problems she's also been suffering with food and medication has spun the solidarity dial hard enough to override her usual mindset. She even told Dad to ease off hassling me about medication this morning.

Okay. Daily Whine out of the way. Idk what I'm gonna do today, it's so hard to focus on anything. Maybe I'll load the queue?

[onthegreatsea]

the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games

but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price. they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.

[thebiscuiteternal]

when the yuribait is lethal but the art like that (and in a seinen publication, no less), so you're just bracing for the inevitable disappointment.

it's a novel adaptation, so maybe i should go check spoilers.

[thebiscuiteternal]

I am trying really really hard to keep from ending up on the news. Dad has nagged me all fucking day about when I'm gonna try the pill crushing method, and then when I finally did it (and threw up as a result after only managing to even swallow half the mix), he wasn't paying attention and nagged me about getting around to it again *as I was coming out of the bathroom.*

[thebiscuiteternal]

Did anybody else get their asskissing propaganda letter from social security today?

[electriccelery93]

Champagne Supernova [Anime mix AMV] edited by: Synæsthesia Productions

YouTube link

anime used: Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, The Wind Rises, The Boy and the Heron, Rainbow Fireflies, Junkers Come Here, The Night is Young Walk on Girl, Lu Over the Wall, Space Dandy, Star Wars Visions: BLACK Asura Wrath, Naruto Shippuden Movie

[thebiscuiteternal]

Not even the worst part of the day yet.

[thebiscuiteternal]

man I'd kill to be able to eat a cheeseburger right now.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Schism? Schism today?

[langernameohnebedeutung]

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[turuin]

Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card

[mygogglesdosomething]

Schism today

[westiec]

for the record: these are not some cool 'fuck the man' rebels with a funky throwback preference for Latin

this is a bunch of antisemitic fascists (literally) who think the catholic church got too woke and needs to RETVRN to acting as a state religion with an official policy of violent suppression of every non-catholic person, who they consider subhuman

From their Profession of Faith:

This is why I profess that those who govern society must submit to the salutary influence of the Church, which enlightens minds through her Magisterium, heals and strengthens wills through the grace of the sacraments, and directs man towards his true supernatural destiny, of which she is the guardian. The good of society consequently demands that heads of state recognize their right and duty to favour and protect the holy Church, and likewise to oppose by the laws of their government whatever would obstruct her necessary influence, which is that of the one true religion.

and

I likewise hold that, although man possesses an ontological dignity which raises him above material beings, the human dignity to be respected is not indifferent to the truth and error professed by persons, nor to the good and evil they accomplish: he who professes error or does evil forfeits his moral dignity. This is why legitimate authority in no way attacks human dignity when it punishes crimes according to the demands of justice, by proportionate penalties, in order to defend the common good against grave disorders.

(emphasis mine; "professes error" here = "is not catholic")

That it took this long for the catholic church to cut them off is embarrassing.

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Visit Original Link

Do you recognize this TV theme song? #674

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

Remaining time: 6 days 41 minutes

[thebiscuiteternal]

Man, the turnaround "God Warrior" Marguerite from Trading Spouses has made over the years is incredible.

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[thebiscuiteternal]

Didn't manage to fall asleep until almost 4. Woken up by gut pain at 4:45, start dozing at 5:20something, and woken up again by pain at 6:07. Finally manage to fall back asleep fully around 6:40.

*Woken up by 3 landscaping mowers at 7fuckingAM.*

[vibrantstarfire]

more women whump. more women pushing themselves and passing out from sleep deprivation and exhaustion. more women training until their knuckles bleed and their legs give out from under them. more women being held prisoner and remaining stoic until the very end or perhaps when they’re rescued. more women under truth serum and terrifying hallucinogens. more women waking up in a pool of blood, their own and others’ and not knowing what happened but that something is terribly wrong with them. more women falling apart o ly when rescued. more women pushed to their breaking point. more women whump.

[thebiscuiteternal]

I know he's projecting because he's in panic mode about his own rising a1c levels, but the fact that Dad only cares that I can't keep those two specific medications down and never thinks about the ones that, you know, try to keep me from being a persistently sobbing death-seeker, is making me feel a sort of way.

I saw my psych today, and except for one specific medication that absolutely can't be taken that way, she suggested grinding them all up and taking them in small pinches over the course of the day to see if the issue is that my stomach is just getting overwhelmed having to process pills. Not looking forward to it, since most of them are *disgusting* even with juice or something to try and mitigate the taste, but I agreed to try it tomorrow.

I probably mentioned this before, but I have a consultation with a gastro on the 14th to see if we can find out what the fuck the problem still is and how to fix it.

And on that subject, Mama's testing is gonna have to be reworked. Vanderbilt won't take her insurance, so her doctors are sending referrals to Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic to see if either of them will.

Fun times.

[bunjywunjy]

Is it true that kangaroo can only move their legs at the same time, like they can’t move them independently leg humans or dogs do?

yes with an exception: when kangaroos are on land, they use their legs together for hopping, but when they swim, they alternate which leg is kicking just like humans and dogs do!

so they CAN, they just don't unless they think they need to.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

This has not always been the case however! Australia used to have another group of kangaroos called the sthenurines, also known as "short-faced kangaroos" (skeleton A below). They were proportioned quite differently, with larger bodies and shorter legs, feet and tails:

They were so differently proportioned, and some species grew so large, than hopping like a modern kangaroo was probably physically impossible for them, so researchers have proposed that they walked bipedally instead!

Extinct Giant Kangaroos Walked Instead of Hopped | Sci.News

Members of Sthenurinae – an ancient family of kangaroos that lived until 30,000 years ago - likely preferred walking to hopping.

There are multiple delightfully cursed reconstructions of this behaviour which makes them look more like a person running around pretending to be a dinosaur than anything else

[cellulosaurus]

Interestingly, there was a very recent study on these same giant sthenurines (as well as a bunch of other gigantic kangaroos like Protemnodon and Macropus titan) looking at various indicators of jumping abilities that found that they were in fact capable of hopping, even if they'd likely prefer to walk on two legs Jones, M.E., Jones, K. & Nudds, R.L. Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos. Sci Rep 16, 1309 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-29939-7 (paper is open access!)

So they'd have been the opposite of modern kangaroos, prefering to walk by moving their legs independently but bounding with their legs synchronized if necessary like when a predator attacked.

Also Sthenurines kangaroos likely employed an almost human like walk with an upright trunk, using their long clawed forelimbs for grabbing at branches to feed on. They actually have a number of convergent traits with humans like a broad sacrum to support their vertical trunk, an enlarged femoral head for the same purpose, as well as enlarged muscles for balancing the body when supporting their weight on one leg at a time. Janis CM, Buttrill K, Figueirido B. Locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos: were sthenurines hop-less monsters? PLoS One. 2014 Oct 15;9(10):e109888. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109888. PMID: 25333823; PMCID: PMC4198187. (also open access!)

[cellulosaurus]

Oh and I should also add that modern tree kangaroos can actually walk on two legs, which looks very silly

[thebiscuiteternal]

wait, the tree kangaroo walk is the same as the pangolin walk.

[thebiscuiteternal]

The food was a pain in the ass to get and I'm still coming down off the stress and even though I tried really hard not to let myself indulge too much, my stomach haaaates me and I'm afraid if I try to lie down, I'll throw up.

But visiting with the fam went better than I expected it to, and my aunt and uncle got me a couple of neat shirts from Creature Feature at Wakulla Springs to go with the gift cards. A 4/10 birthday.