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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Yeah a lot of those were communities that just appeared out of nowhere and spammed my All suddenly - which was likely just one person trying to get the ball rolling with a topic I’m not interested in. Whether that initial wave of content ended up attracting an active community vs just fizzling out, idk, but a good chunk of them are probably ghost communities now.

    Another good chunk are redundant communities - like 5 or 6 if those blocks are some variant of “To my badass hero” which is the same poster that keeps making new communities for softcore black and white porn… I can only assume in effort to circumvent blocks like mine.

    The number of real/active communities on my blocklist is probably closer to a couple hundred - the rest of just the result of content whack-a-mole to clean up short term messes.




  • My guess is they chose the foot because the vasculature is very superficial over a relatively flat area with lots of decent sized vascular branches. So, they can tap into the blood supply relatively easily. Also the patient would probably be less inclined (or fully incapable) of fucking with it - you’d be amazed how many patients turn a nearly invisible incision line into a jagged, infected mess, cuz they just can’t resist picking at it. And I get it - I’ll pick myself bloody if I notice so much as a bump starting to grow on my hand… a full blown ear would demand way more attention, so keeping it out of sight / out of mind was likely a strategic move.







  • Coffee. I really wanted to be able to enjoy black coffee, cuz it smells so deceptively good, is cheap as fuck, and basically zero calorie. Except it tastes like concentrated dirt. Bitter. Acrid. None of the appeal promised by the smell makes its way to the taste.

    Unless I acquire the taste!

    Typically my coffee has a similar cream and sugar content to a milkshake, so I actually measured it out to get a baseline, then over the course of about two months phased down to just black coffee. …and over the course of two months, my coffee phased more and more into tasting like shit. But I tolerated it - eyes on the prize. After that, I spent another month drinking it black. At the end of that month, I finally accepted that black coffee tasted just as much like shit as it did on day one.

    My coffee is back to resembling a milkshake… fuck.

    I tried.

    New hypothesis: there’s some kind of generic factor at play like there is with cilantro. That shit is delicious to some and absolutely vile to others, and no amount of trying to acquire it will flip that switch. I drew the short straw on that horrid plant, too.


  • Heart warming story of a royal toddler who noped the fuck out after being caught up in a political murder scheme, met two stoners, became a stoner himself, and kinda just did nothing but be a stoner until his ~20s when he was finally swayed to put the blunt down after his toddler-crush just randomly shows up one day and fucks him. He then proceeds to overthrow the government.

    They just don’t make wholesome movies like that anymore. <3




  • The VA canceled my surgery

    Report to the ER and complain of 10/10 pain coming from your uterus the next time you menstruate. Then next month do it again. After about 6 months, talk to your OB and explain how it’s getting worse, completely stops you from normal daily activities at its peak, and is causing you to become depressed and anxious.

    Also bitch about it in other unrelated appointments. Seeing ortho about your back? “My pain today is 10/10, but only in my uterus. My back is the usual 4.”

    Throughout, there will be assessments where they’ll inevitably find nothing - keep complaining. Pain can be paradoxical - eventually they’ll decide it needs to come out.

    It’s stupid and tedious, but if you need to lie to get health care, then lie.





  • Over the course of the year-long experiment, the most significant changes were seen in how the brain processed energy. Using FDG-PET imaging, the researchers tracked glucose uptake across the whole brain as well as specific regions, and found that after only two months of intermittent aspartame intake, the mice had sharp rises here – roughly double that seen in the control group. And this effect was across the entire brain, suggesting it was burning more fuel in the early stages of the experiment. However, at around six months, this spike actually reversed, and at the 10-month mark, the brains of the aspartame-dosed mice were burning around 50% less glucose than the control group. Because the brain runs almost entirely on glucose – to fuel processes like the firing of neurons and maintaining circuits linked to memory and learning – aspartame appeared to be robbing the organ of what it needs to function smoothly.

    Were they getting enough glucose in addition to the aspartame? The article didn’t make it clear whether we’re seeing the effects of aspartame or just hypoglycemia.