Can’t miss Raccoon Appreciation Day! After all Toronto is their city, we just live here.
#linocut #printmaking #raccoons #toronto #highFive #typography #RaccoonAppreciationDay #MastoArt
Mullenweg is posting through it as the first salvos of the WPEngine lawsuit fly, and...uh. 🫣
unrelated: did you know that Shut The Fuck Up Friday can be observed any day of the week?
during a civil suit, criminal suit, doesn't matter
any day can be Shut The Fuck Up Friday if you want it to be
dedicated to the brave reverse engineers
bdsm shitposting
bdsm shitposting
It used to be the recommended practice to change your safeword every 90 days or so, but this is no longer the standard. It doesn't help much with safety and it just encourages users to pick bad safewords.
i need developers to understand that a static site generator that requires you to *type something into a terminal to create a new site* is a nonstarter for normal fucking people
I appreciate that a good chunk of the TGCF fandom looked at Hua Cheng and was like 'yeah no that boy is at best a service top'
Difficulties accessing medical care, nutrition struggles, asking for advice, long
Difficulties accessing medical care, nutrition struggles, asking for advice, long
I have a friend who’s probably dealing with moderate malnutrition. They’ve been trying to get help for it, but there are several limiting factors:
1. Their regular doctor is busy for two more weeks
2. They have severe anxiety that stops them from doing phone calls (so they can’t call their insurance’s nurse hotline or use TTY) (and the last time they tried to get a friend to call for them, the hotline operator refused to speak to the friend)
3. When they tried to set up an urgent care telehealth/video call appointment, they were turned away
4. A hospital would be very dangerous for them (they have severe ME/CFS and cannot tolerate strangers in their environment for more than a handful of minutes, to say nothing of the COVID/Long COVID risk and their severe medical trauma)
5. They considered trying to see if the non-emergency fire department line would send people for a home visit to give a professional assessment, but that would also be very difficult for them and would definitely cause a crash
So they asked me to make a post for them, asking for advice on whether they should wait for that appointment in two weeks, or risk permanent decline for more immediate help. Here is some information on their situation:
Length of time with not enough food: off and on for about 2 years. Most recently, a year of not enough protein. Then starting in mid-August, they dropped to about 80% of their natural calorie intake - but they were also reduced to stuff that someone with severe ME/CFS can buy with food stamps and eat without help, like Doritos and cookies.
Symptoms that are maybe from malnutrition:
- Started a little under a year ago: wounds healing ridiculously slowly, becoming physically larger (especially the stomach) despite eating less, moderate loss of appetite
- Started a few months ago: muscle weakness
- Started after mid-August: significantly increased brain fog and fatigue
They figured out that the situation was serious a couple weeks ago and managed to get help buying takeout. So they’ve been eating somewhat MORE than their natural calorie intake for about nine days now, in stuff that actually has protein and stuff (like spaghetti in meat sauce). But… apparently “refeeding syndrome” is a thing? So that could be dangerous, actually…?
Our friend group doesn’t have anyone who knows what to do here. And, well, the US medical system is a dumpster fire. So we’re hoping we can crowdsource some advice from 1. medical professionals or 2. other disabled people who know what they’re talking about.
I guess the big questions are:
1. What are the risk factors for refeeding syndrome (and do they apply here)?
2. What should my friend do/be aware of?
If you’d be willing to boost, it would be appreciated! I’d like to try to get this post to escape containment out of this little corner of Fedi. Thank you.
It's that day again. Come join us. The next meeting is tomorrow night.
Them: What gender are you?
Me: Engineer
Them: But what's in your pants?
Me: Gerber multi-tool
Them: But what's it say on your driver's license?
Me: Organ donor, corrective lenses required
If anyone wants two tickets to the #TheMountainGoats show in #AlbanyNY next month, please let me know, because I'm an idiot who can't read a calendar. Boosts OK
boss: it's come to my attention that your performance has been degrading the last couple of months. what's going on?
me: i'm just trying to fit in
Yeah It’s not truly Mastodon if you make a joke about software and no one tries to explain software to you.
Is everyone else looking at this fanbinding that was in this week's Rec Center? I need everyone to look at this so I'm not experiencing whatever emotion this is alone.
https://www.tumblr.com/starblightbindery/758310468989386752/gritty-kills-tony-stark-by-copulation
when you can't decide if you want flowers or muppets in your garden, plant this dahlia
I was wondering if there's a comprehensive how-to-Dreamwidth for Tumblr users and hey, there is!
https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/5059.html
(i found scattered posts here and there but this uses Tumblr lingo translated to DW functions. If you are a Tumblr user who wants to check out DW or a cohost user looking for a place to put long texts, please check it out!)
#cohost #dreamwidth #tumblr
My reaction when someone asks about JJBA: “but do you know about the eggbaby?”
the nonbinary variant of godfather/godmother is godzilla
folks who think that AI is going to generate the most amazing code in the world, I have bad news for you about the quality of code the AIs are being trained on
In SVSSS the System was described as speaking in a google-translate-esque voice and while that is a perfectly functional description, I felt a much more visceral sense of annoyance once I prompted myself to imagine the System telling SQQ that he had an unexpected item in the bagging area.