i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn’t find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.
Hi there gamers! Let’s play a quirky little exercise called “spot the differences”! Trick question, because there are none!
If you want a call to action besides the obvious political ones, here would be my advice: start stockpiling now. Know how to use sterile techniques for your vials for 1-2 punctures extra, and then keep picking up your other prescriptions. If you’re on DiY, make sure you have extra on hand. If you have a provider, see if they’ll support prescribing you a bit extra now.
Stay safe, please. This extends well beyond the UK. The world is watching.
some aseptic tips:
Wash your hands with soap and water or use hand sanitizer before each injection and wear gloves. Clean the top of your vials with an alcohol pad by swabbing in a circular fashion, then let it dry for about 30 seconds.
Prep the injection site by using an alcohol pad or chlorhexidine and, again, cleaning in a circular fashion. Go from small circles to big circles, moving out from the injection site and let it dry for 30 seconds. Once clean, do not touch your injection site
For intramuscular injection, Use a 21-23 gauge hypodermic needle, pull the skin tight, and you want to insert the needle at a 90 degree angle to the injection site (like when you get a shot at the doctor’s office). Your injection sites for intramuscular are the sides of your shoulders and your thigh.
For Subcutaneous injection, use a 24-26 gauge hypodermic needle and pinch the skin about an inch (pinch an inch!). You’re not aiming to go into the muscle, so you’ll insert the needle at a 45 degree angle to the injection site. Your injection sites are your belly around the belly button region, and tops of your thighs. Those will probably be the easiest regions for you to self-administer.
Feel free to add more advice
Better written than any advice I could have given. Thank you so much. Also, this should all happen for any injection, just make damn sure its also happening if you’re using extra punctures.
A small bit of advice I can give (although tbf, this is mostly from animal work) is to ensure that the seal on the vial is intact, and stays intact. The ways I use to help keep the seal in better condition are 1, use a slightly smaller draw needle than needed (I use a 22g for draw, 26g for injection), and also take care not to overpuncture from a single spot on the vial.
Keep good track of how many punctures a single vial has been used for, and make sure to note the date of the first puncture.
Immediately switch to a different vial if you notice anything wrong with the vial or the seal. This can include contaminants or abnormal particles in the medication (including pieces of the seal), leakage of the seal, or holes.
This equally applies to prescribed medication, as well as DiY medication.
I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, however. I am a transfemme that has an extremely limited orthogonal amount of experience from doing animal research in the past. Fair warning that I do tend to push some limits, and this is no exception. If you have the option of consulting with a medical professional, use that option, but do not hesitate to DiY when you need to.
if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.
but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren’t raised rich. you don’t get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don’t spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn’t that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?
what’s wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you’d fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it’s for you, so you need to justify it.
and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don’t finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn’t, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there’s other stuff going on.
you do self-care, of course. but you don’t do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can’t live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.
so you don’t buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you’re not spoiled.
it’s just - it’s not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can’t even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.
sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn’t get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you’re so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.
oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you’d make a cake.
‘Deserve’ is a moral judgement more often used to punish than enrich.
'Deserve’ is a moral judgement more often used to punish than enrich.
'Deserve’ is a moral judgement more often used to punish than enrich.
The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper
I want to stuff a pumpkin full of raw meat and roll it around my enclosure, but I also know that I’ll have to be the one to clean up afterwards :-(
Take steps to minimize the mess! Put a cheap, disposable plastic tarp down in the area you’ll be rolling it around. And.. Maybe recognize your species-specific needs and cook the meat first
Actually, if we’re going for species-specific enrichment, a pumpkin may not be the best solution. We’re not built for pouncing on prey or batting it around. We’re distinguished by our persistence hunting and tool use
What you should do is put a pack of jerky on top of a roomba, go in another room and count to ten like you’re playing hide and seek - or use this time to find a tool to use - and when you come back, try to catch it by setting a trap or by pinning it down with a stick
When you want a greater challenge, have a friend drive an RC car full of jerky around the park, and chase it until it runs out of battery
Aliens trying to cure the Clinical Depression of Humans aboard their ships by theorising Earth-Specific enrichment activites…
The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper
I want to stuff a pumpkin full of raw meat and roll it around my enclosure, but I also know that I’ll have to be the one to clean up afterwards :-(
Take steps to minimize the mess! Put a cheap, disposable plastic tarp down in the area you’ll be rolling it around. And.. Maybe recognize your species-specific needs and cook the meat first
Actually, if we’re going for species-specific enrichment, a pumpkin may not be the best solution. We’re not built for pouncing on prey or batting it around. We’re distinguished by our persistence hunting and tool use
What you should do is put a pack of jerky on top of a roomba, go in another room and count to ten like you’re playing hide and seek - or use this time to find a tool to use - and when you come back, try to catch it by setting a trap or by pinning it down with a stick
When you want a greater challenge, have a friend drive an RC car full of jerky around the park, and chase it until it runs out of battery
Aliens trying to cure the Clinical Depression of Humans aboard their ships by theorising Earth-Specific enrichment activites…
hey folks i’ve been meaning to boost Ross Scott’s Stop Killing Games initiative but i don’t trust myself to write something exhaustively informed about it, has someone already made a good post on the subject that i could reblog?
this is a consumer rights movement looking to establish legislation regarding companies shutting down paid video games. the general idea is that a game you purchased should have an end-of-life plan to keep it playable in some form after its servers shut down (such as by making server software publicly available).
(there’s an FAQ addressing edge cases you might think of!) depending on your location there’s a variety of ways you can contribute, such as by signing a petition or contacting a representative. you can also spread awareness by sharing Ross’s videos or posts like this one. please consider helping! this is important both for your rights as a consumer and for video game preservation!
coworkers under 35 love me for my cowboy bebop jacket, coworkers over 35 love me for my cd player, management loves me for my mental illness-fueled punctuality. everyone feels vaguely wary of me for my overall poor impression of acting like a human
I dont know what trans guy needs to hear this. But please cut off that cis girl ‘friend’ who gets weirdly uncomfortable when you start transitioning and being masculine. She is not your friend.
You being masculine isn’t bad. Being a trans man isn’t evil. You aren’t betraying anyone. You aren’t a monster. You aren’t a threat.
Do I have anyone who works at walmart or Sam’s club following me
Anyway PSA for Walmart employees
so basically, there’s a resource for people who work at Walmart and Sam’s Club that can allow you a one-time payment of up to $1500, with no need to pay it back or whatever, it’s just a free 0 - 1500 if and only if you are currently struggling financially and have proof of bills and under certain circumstances.
So if you were like on LOA, are taking care of someone other than yourself, someone died or recently lost their job, etc. you might be eligible for it.
If that doesn’t work, look up Walmart ACTN on one Walmart
I’ve worked here for almost 7 years and was never told about this, probably intentionally. That being said I tried it myself and it went through so its legit but you have to have documentation of the bills or the situation you’re going through in question, though, food does not need documentation under $200.
I believe it’s full time only unfortunately but I could be wrong. Also it does not notify management or supervisors in case you’re afraid of retaliation.
in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years
the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves
i regret to inform both you beautiful people that this isn’t going to go how you think it will
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spiff fans (also known as “spiffies”) insist that the two decommissioned venator-class destroyers spiff purchased, the bad blood and the reputation, are for diplomatic purposes that benefit the rebellion. jedi’lors have concocted theories that she served on both ships during the clone wars and was respectful of every clone that served there, despite her courtship of a gravball player that thrice advocated against the clone veterans being granted natural citizenship
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all goofing aside I don’t understand the urge to reimagine Tay'lor Allisoarn Spiff as a secret Jedi fighting for the rebellion when the rebel alliance is literally like overflowing with women fighting the empire. Gara and Ke'Cha and Mileu and Halcey are right there. like what are we doing here. like I’m not even saying you can’t like Taylor but why would you hang all your hopes of taking down the empire on her
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Isn’t Lady Gara a force sensitive?
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Hence why I put her in the list of famous force using women who are in the rebel alliance?
(okay ignore the fact I’ve put an image in here but this is ops icon)
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#im sure op has this post muted by now but Ur icon is so real op
The icon is because of this post
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btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of “yea ik tay'lor spiff is a jedi but like. why is she y'all’s only force using rebel icon when there are all these other force users in the rebellion???”
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
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Hi OP here I most CERTAINLY DID NOT SAY TAY'LOR SPIFF IS A JEDI???
in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years
the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves
i regret to inform both you beautiful people that this isn’t going to go how you think it will
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spiff fans (also known as “spiffies”) insist that the two decommissioned venator-class destroyers spiff purchased, the bad blood and the reputation, are for diplomatic purposes that benefit the rebellion. jedi’lors have concocted theories that she served on both ships during the clone wars and was respectful of every clone that served there, despite her courtship of a gravball player that thrice advocated against the clone veterans being granted natural citizenship
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all goofing aside I don’t understand the urge to reimagine Tay'lor Allisoarn Spiff as a secret Jedi fighting for the rebellion when the rebel alliance is literally like overflowing with women fighting the empire. Gara and Ke'Cha and Mileu and Halcey are right there. like what are we doing here. like I’m not even saying you can’t like Taylor but why would you hang all your hopes of taking down the empire on her
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Isn’t Lady Gara a force sensitive?
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Hence why I put her in the list of famous force using women who are in the rebel alliance?
(okay ignore the fact I’ve put an image in here but this is ops icon)
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#im sure op has this post muted by now but Ur icon is so real op
The icon is because of this post
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btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of “yea ik tay'lor spiff is a jedi but like. why is she y'all’s only force using rebel icon when there are all these other force users in the rebellion???”
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
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Hi OP here I most CERTAINLY DID NOT SAY TAY'LOR SPIFF IS A JEDI???
Dire Wolves were a real actual animal that lived in North America until right about 10,000 years ago, but they really weren’t much bigger than modern grey wolves! they were slightly more heavyset, but that’s about it.
however, their packs were much much larger than modern wolf packs, sometimes containing as many as 50 individuals.
however, if you really have your heart set on gigantic extinct canids and nothing else will do, don’t fret! look to the even more ancient canine family Borophaginae, the Bone-Crushing Dogs! they are here for YOU when you need them :)
Does anyone have the fucking tiktok video of the overly enthusiastic rich bearded guy showing off his new hiking shoes in his Mansion and the Woods, but then another dude duets with it to make it look like he’s escaping from being held prisoner please please
Does anyone have the fucking tiktok video of the overly enthusiastic rich bearded guy showing off his new hiking shoes in his Mansion and the Woods, but then another dude duets with it to make it look like he’s escaping from being held prisoner please please
Can you guys stop calling grown ass adult trans men ‘boys’ it’s getting weird. I just saw someone call a 40 year old a boy and I think I’m going to go insane.
That isn’t a soft little uwu boy that is a grown ass man.
This also goes for reverse for trans girls. The amount of times I’ve seen a 13 year old be called a trans women instead of a trans girl in the news is kind of crazy. That’s not an adult women - That’s a child. That’s a girl.
You guys realize this is about how trans people are referred to in media/news right or how people talk about trans people without knowing what terms they prefer right.
I’m not saying you can’t call yourself a boy as an adult.
I’m saying there is a very noticeable pattern where when cis people infantilize adult trans men they use the term ‘boy’ and when they adultify/demonize young trans girls they use the term ‘women’
“LNK Infotree”, art installation by Lithuanian artist Gintaras Karosas.
Kalli, ist das - **der Fernsehgarten**? 😂😂😂
Und das auch noch mit den guten alten Röhrenmonitoren… 😎 Ne Mikrowelle war ein scheiß dagegen und ich hab nur meine Nase daran plattgedrückt und mich als Kind gefreut, dass es kribbelt an der Nase dabei 😂. Die von meinen Eltern sind wohl 2x abgebrannt.
I understand why you don’t want to vote for Biden, but the people at the precipice of getting a bunch of their civil rights taken away if trump wins do have a point.
sorry i covered your neck in dark hickeys and clamped down hard on your throat like limp prey while i was giving you a handjob. you whimpered a little too soft and i blacked out and believed myself to be a feral dog in possession of an entire rotisserie chicken
you all know there’s other posts on here to reblog right
everybody else deactivate your account these two need the room for a second
y'all are tagging posts like recipe website commenters
The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can’t post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren’t getting laid enough. I feel like I’m losing my mind.
The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can’t post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren’t getting laid enough. I feel like I’m losing my mind.
just said the Worlds Faggiest “Thank Youuuuu” to the cute subway guy making my sandwich
also after realising how GAY my “thank youuuu~~ ^_^” and the little curtsy i did was, i grabbed my sandwich off him, my smile faded from embarrassment and i turned around and marched out the door without saying anything else
he saw me go in real time from faggot to emotionless robot
why would you queue this post. it is may and you set this up to remind me specifically of my romantic failures from november last year
Israel has destroyed every university in Gaza but despite that, many students have continued their education thanks to Palestinian universities in the West Bank
Hi I KNOW you're amtrak official and so it's okay if yoj delete these but I really want to genuinely start fighting for my town to get their buses back after they were taken in the 2010s. I'm 17 and I've never been outgoing like this but I WANT TO FIGHT I want to fight for my town snd for public transit so fucking bad!! Oakh bye!!!
First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe’s causal geometry prevents this
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