Electric Frog

She/her, 32, Lesbian and into comics

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[redstonedust]

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

[johannestevans]

It's really funny when doctors and medical professionals don't like, meaningfully understand how comorbidity works. "oh, it's very unlikely someone would have all these rare conditions at once"

yeah. maybe that would be fair to say about say, discrete viruses. but about syndromes?

like. the conditions of the human body don't know that they're taxonomically discrete. they don't know that they have different names or lists of symptoms. if a human body has a consistent issue with say, its heart rhythm, or its inflammatory response, or its glandular response, or immune system

the reason that ehlers-danlos syndrome (EDS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS), IBS (irritable bowel), autism, and even shit like coeliac and PMDD or endometriosis overlap is bc like. these are largely inflammatory issues or issues with the fascia

It's not "what the fuck, how can this person have all these different things wrong with them", bc these are largely like. syndromic definitions of how x bodily issue manifests in different systems, structures, or organs of the body

many of these conditions change in definition over time

and that's bc they're studied and understood more over time where people more meaningfully understand underlying causes and issues, such as through hormone or genetic profiles, or largely like. immune response

it's also how "rare" conditions become understood as more common over time

idk like. not to be on my soap box on this specific issue but this is what happens when you don't teach medical professionals philosophy beyond the basic ethical shit. the reason philosophy is important to medical study is so you don't mistake etymological or philological issues for scientific ones

[madanimalscientist]

I got told by a -medical geneticist- that it was extremely unlikely for someone to have both celiac and EDS because both were so uncommon so therefore I probably didn't have both, despite clear physical evidence to the contrary. I pointed out that there's enough people out there that even with low incidence of both, even assuming there was no link, statistically there were going to be people with both just by basic probability and that 'rare' didn't mean 'doesn't happen. I also pointed out I had 2 younger half-sibs with celiac and a cousin with celiac, T1D, and EDS-h, so odds are that no it wasn't as unlikely as she thought especially given that kind of family history.....She did not in fact care for my attitude. I didn't care for her lack of understanding of her own job, so the feeling was mutual.

[vaspider]

Lol I definitely have both.

[hasufin]

I think many medical professionals are very narrow-focused on their specialty, forget the rest of the body exists, and don't think of it all as an entire system.

I recall reading the book A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness. It's about a nuclear worker who received a lethal dose of radiation due to a prompt-critical accident while making nuclear fuel. As the title implies, he died over the course of 83 days.

What struck me about the book was, it's pretty clear his DNA was just shredded and nothing was really replacing itself effectively. His organs and systems failed at a rate consistent with their typical cellular lives. At each step of this, they brought in specialists to manage the problem: he wasn't producing erethrocytes, they brought in hematologists. His stomach lining was breaking down, they brought in gastroenterologists, &c. Each one had this faith that if they kept him going past this crisis, his body's natural healing would take over and he would get better. But looking at his body as a whole, it was obvious from very early that was Just Not Happening. Each specialist was looking at it as "Oh no, my one part is failing, I need to get him through this and the rest of his otherwise healthy body can pull him along!" except the whole damned body was going because that's what a lethal neutron flux does. And somewhere around day 30 or so they should have said "I'm sorry, this is not going to work, we are switching to palliative care" and he could have died a week or two later, but that's not how specialists think.

The body doesn't know we've divided it up into organs and systems and specific types of cells. It's just a body and each part affects everything else.

[whetstonefires]

the number of doctors and other medical professionals, including knee specialists and physical therapists, who were completely unable over the course of several years to give me any advice about a problem with one of my knees once it was determined that 'tingling and numbness' meant it was 'something with a nerve, probably getting pinched or something' was staggering.

finally i asked my neurologist, whom i had because i'd eventually gotten some weird symptoms in my neck identified as part of a pattern of chronic migraines.

she agreed it was a compressed nerve, possibly not in the knee itself but in the hip or where it runs parallel to the iliotibial band down the outside of the thigh.

regardless her recommendation was. a specific stretching exercise.

which didn't 100% erase the problem, but ameliorated it enough that it's no longer one of my major mobility concerns or sources of pain.

absolutely insane this was not on the radar for anyone who was supposed to be an expert in knees or stretching, simply because it involved Something To Do With Nerves.

[kiragecko]

Eczema, allergies, and asthma are all likely to overlap, because they're all different ways of the body overreacting to harmless substances.

Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and Tourette's are all neurodevelopmental conditions, and guess what? When the brain decides to develop abnormally, it doesn't look at a checklist for a specific condition and then follow the list! It just develops weird, and people label the results. Sometimes with a LOT of labels.

Generic names that cover all the possible manifestations of an issue often aren't very helpful. Because not everyone whose skin keeps trying to self-destruct ALSO stops breathing if they try to jog. Even if the "manufacturing error: air causes breathing shutdown" and the "manufacturing error: skin breaks down when in contact with necessary skin yeasts" are coming from the same source, the solutions may vary.

So breaking things up into discrete labels is helpful. But it sure would be nice if medical practitioners were TAUGHT that this was what's going on!

[remiliaworld]

Never forget what Matthew Mullenweg did to Predstrogen. Never forget our sisters vanishing faster and faster, while staff jumps between denying and admitting it was them.

[emotionalabuseawareness]

Leaving an abusive home

This is mainly for teens and young adults escaping their abusive parents although it can also be useful for adults escaping their abusive partners. I just wrote everything down that came to my mind. If you have any additions, please reblog and share them. I’ll then edit this post and add them here.

I talk about: - Where to go - Steps to take: before leaving - Financial issues - Steps to take: during/after moving out - …and then?

(*keep reading* inserted so I can edit the post and add more info if more things come to my mind)

Keep reading

[risingphoenix87]

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but I wanna add it again, with tags.

[supreme-machine]

Hoping this finds someone before they chuck out a nice model kit box

If you want to keep the box art on gunpla, but have a bunch of boxes taking up space, make them into cards.

I personally prefer this to turning them into wall art, and it's super compact. This idea is not new of course, it's very much stolen from other internet users, but I figure the more people stumbling across it the better. If you aren't already doing this, I highly recommend it. It's a lot of fun.

And it's not just gunpla either. 30 minutes missions look very nice and organized together, despite their less interesting renders. Other lines and brands are also often ready to be turned into good looking cards.

I've included a written guide here. It's pretty easy to pick up though, and you can search up videos that cover it instead, which may be easier than following what I say. Just maybe don't throw out your boxes quite yet!

Long, in-depth guide under cut

This is a breakdown of my process, which I think is simple (if overexplained) and produces clean results. I recommend it, but the tools and methods may vary. I also encourage creativity when making cards. Even following my steps to the letter, you may find unique methods and strange compromises across boxes.

So first off, I use a disc cutter where I can because I don't trust myself to cut straight lines. This is not necessary, but it's good if you have one. Just be wary that the thickness of the box can cause the blade to shift the cardboard a little, so hold it tight and be careful with any small elements being cut out (sometimes it's worth switching to scissors or knife).

What most people probably should be doing, if they don't have something like that, is using a metal ruler to glide your knife across (metal is important. Your knife can cut into plastics and probably wood). I've also seen a physical outline guide used to make cards the right size, which might work as long as it isn't going to be damaged by the knife. Scissors often make jagged edges on the cardboard, but they can technically be used.

First thing I do is cut all the sides off the box. Cut cleanly, you might end up using something that touches an edge. You can also use the inside box as a scraps bin while you work.

But don't cut bits out just yet. Make sure you have a bit of a plan for what you want on the card first.

Obviously the front box art is usually the main attraction , so don't cut through that (although for bigger boxes, sometimes the side box art is the only thing that will fit).

Then keep an eye out for elements you want to include on the card - I try to never cut through gunpla grade logos, Bandai logos or names, since those are the 3 elements I use on mine. Look around your box to decide what you want on your card (and if you're like me and want consistency, make sure that all boxes will have them).

I also like to cut out spares, in case a box in the future doesn't have any good sized bits.

(Another good, but not necessary, idea is to have a good black marker on hand. Colouring across the sides of an element can make it look way cleaner on dark backgrounds. Some elements look kind of bad when there's white under them, so this can be very useful. It can even fix imperfections on the front face, like if a knife has scratched the front, or any edges that look ragged.

I probably wouldn't use it on lighter colours. It's also able to draw over some unwanted graphics that you can't crop out of the card, which I avoid as much as possible. Compromises.)

After I've cut out the elements, I move onto the main art for the card. I trace around the sides of a Pokémon card, using an erasable pen (Pokémon cards are a pretty standard size as far as I know). This is so I can move the card away to check if the border is where I want it in regards to the box art, and to let me erase the lines and try again if I'm not happy. Be careful with the pen, as even a moderate pressure with this type can dent the box and leave trenches, even when the ink is erased. You can alternatively use something else erasable like a pencil, (which may have a greater risk of leaving trenches when erased), or something that can be removed easily from the box (even some tape might work, just dont strip the art off). I highly recommend this step to reduce the likelihood of both misplacing your cut and misjudging the positioning of the art and elements.

Make sure you can fit your elements within the border without obstructing the art. Plan ahead, so that you don't accidentally cover up something important like the head with a name. No regrets that way. This is especially vital if you use a consistent layout across your cards. It's not always easy, sometimes you can be forced into an edge, or have some other limitation, so try to think carefully and creatively.

Then you cut out the border. Very simple.

I also happen to have this corner punch. You could just cut corners out manually, or you could leave it with a sharp corner, but the punch is easy. Note that you can't place elements flush with corners if you round them, but you can offset them (unless you super carefully cut the elements in the same way as the corner, which I wouldn't risk). Both sharp and rounded look good, it's just a matter of preference.

The final step is just sticking your elements on the card. I'm a sicko because I use blutack, since it let me adjust where I want things later down the road. I just haven't bothered to glue them yet.

If you're happy, just glue them. Probably something from a bottle, not a glue stick.

Once complete (and dried, if glued), you can protect your work a bit better with some card sleeves. I bought a big pack of penny sleeves for a dollar or two locally, so look around. You can also store and display your work with a card binder. Check the sleeve sizes for both, but it should be pretty standard.

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Also bonus fact, gqux boxes usually have a free extra card almost fully made on the sides of the boxes, they only need a Bandai logo. I actually usually cut out 2-3 cards from most boxes and put them at the back of my binder, just for fun. I cut a whole 5 out of the HG Messer box. You can also get a surprising amount of card art from the backgrounds of gunpla and 30mm.

Here's a video I stumbled into that shows the basics visually if you prefer

and this cool one with magnets

Long post but I hope it helps someone with a box problem :)

[acerby]

Handler and hound dynamic on a budget: Just push your girl around in a shopping cart while she is high.

Maybe give her a paintball gun

[puppygirl-sage]

I have a wheelchair and NERF blasters 🥺🐕

[crabussy]

I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS

[athenagray]

“So... 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.

Please feel free to share this.

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.”

[questionable-method]

no but im so tired of how self-deprecation is always more accepted than self-advocacy. if i say i can't drive because im autistic i get questioned on how exactly that works and given a million suggestions on how to do it anyway and i look like im trying to be special so it's easier to just say im a loser. yeah i don't drive because im kind of a loser lmao. oh well. and people say lmao back and we move on. at worst they say "oh im sure you'll figure it out haha." but no interrogation!! being a loser is more respectable than being disabled. being a loser is something that doesn't make other people feel uncomfortable about their own biases. so no, no im not disabled. i don't struggle to keep friends and do the laundry and make quick trivial decisions and clean my room and brush my teeth because im autistic. it's because im a loser. it's my fault. it is what it is. at least im funny now. do you think im funny? please think im funny

[blacktabbygames]

go tarheels

[blumineck]

This tickled me!

More of my content

[prokopetz]

Tabletop RPG where taking damage in combat is represented by physically setting the target's character sheet on fire. Different damage types specify different parts of the sheet where the fire must be set (e.g., top-right corner, etc.), and the amount of damage is the number of seconds the player has to wait before stamping it out. Any physically destroyed traits are disabled until they fill out a new sheet.

[prokopetz]

@scatteredstoryteller replied:

Are there any rpgs that play with destroying parts of your character sheet permanently other than Ten Candles that you know of? Ones that are designed to actually be played, that is

Sure, lots of them. One of my personal favourites is Annie Rush's The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men, a 1:1 scale miniatures game that uses an actual gingerbread man as your minifig, and the living space in which the game is played as the terrain. Character creation consists of baking and decorating your gingerbread man, with what resources and abilities are available to you determined by your choice of decorations; damage and resource expenditure are then modelled by breaking off parts of your gingerbread man.

[tankie-transfeminist]

If you hate narcissistic people you need to unfollow me. Only people who love and support narcissists are allowed on this blog.

For anyone who's still around and wants to be educated, "narcissism" is a personality disorder, which is a fancy way of saying that it's a way of existing, which has real disadvantages, but which has also been effectively criminalized by the medicarceral system. If you hate narcissists, you are complicit in the ongoing social processes which deny them bodily autonomy, human connection, and basic dignity.

Narcissism/being narcissistic/having NPD is not a moral failing. Treating narcissistic people like shit is.

[tankie-transfeminist]

If you don't have NPD it's actually more important you reblog this. It's been really great seeing a lot of people with NPD react to this really positively, but I need everyone who does not have NPD to enforce this for their own blogs too.

[voredere]

friendly reminder to ppl who don't have NPD

-NPD has one of the highest suicide rates of any mood related disorder; slightly less impulsivity based attempts than BPD, but NPD sufferers are more likely to succeed in their attempts.

-NPD, like most cluster B disorders, is generally traumagenic, meaning it usually develops as a means of coping with childhood trauma, abuse, or neglect.

-"Narc abuse" is pop psychology with no real basis in reality. NPD sufferers are infinitely more likely to be abused than become abusers, and are typically more prone to self destructive than anything.

-If your parents sucked shit, it's because they *chose* to treat you like shit, not because they had a magic version of NPD that makes them a Bad Person. sorry you had to find out this way.

-Random people online with NPD aren't your parents and it's really creepy to project your trauma onto them.

treat the NPD sufferers in your life like people or die trying.

[anxiousmimicrpgs]

A Most Bloody Devotion by anxiousmimicrpgs

A cannibalistic and romantic OSR game

From the creator of Girl Frame, A Most Bloody Devotion is a romantic horror dark fantasy game about devotion, cannibalism, and gender.

If you want a game where gender matters, beauty (or fear) is as powerful as a sword, and you can eat someone to steal their strength, this is for you!

A short list of things it includes:

A core mechanic involving your Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn responses

20 classes, such as the Treasured Daughter, Blessed Corpse, Saint-Stricken Nun, Maidservant, and Black Dog

Claim, a social system for taking Debts, Devotion, and Stewardship over others

Cannibalism-as-advancement

A procedural campaign setting generator, along with several other GM tools

[sprintingowl]

So, an interesting thing Devotion does is that it defines each gender.

Not in terms of who gets to belong to the gender, but in terms of once you belong to this gender what rules are you bound by. How does society position this gender. What is considered good performance of the gender and what is considered traitorous.

This is already rad as hell, but it kicks the doors off a more world-buildy fantasy design space as well, because if you use these same design principles but you create new genders...

Well, you can build your world on a very bone-deep level by figuring out the ways in which it categorizes people.

Look. Let's say you define "charcoal burner" as a new gender. It is assigned to those who are born in or that have associated with charcoal burner communities. Charcoal burners are rugged, unrefined, not to be permitted in polite areas. They are allowed to do drudgerous work and wear thick clothing and considered traitorous if they try to rise in station and---

---hey is gender a caste system?

[anxiousmimicrpgs]

One of the classes in my upcoming OSR game A Most Bloody Devotion. She's a literal corpse. Not undead. Just an actual dead body that people get obsessed with when they touch it.

[prokopetz]

Bisexual impostor may sound like a meme (or possibly a band name), but I swear some days I really do catch myself thinking "what if I'm straight and don't know it and I really did just suck all that cock for clout?"

[prokopetz]

@tambuli replied:

Clout with whom????????? 😭😭😂😂

You need to understand that when I was a kid, "bisexual men are really just straight dudes pretending to be queer for clout" was genuinely a mainstream opinion in gay and lesbian spaces. A formative experience doesn't need to make any damn sense to leave a mark!

[theelectricfrog]

"Bisexual girls are just straight and pretending to like other girls to turn men on" was an incredibly prevalent idea when I was a teen, and I still hear people try to say it now sometimes.

And to be clear, the usage of "girls" and "men" here is very much intentional.