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lmao

serving suggestion: read this aloud in your smarmiest lib voice to a comrade or pet, see if you can get through the whole thing without them shouting indignant interruptions or you breaking up into giggles

covid brain fog plus cold medicine has me feeling like my head is made of jello and my eyes are saucers

I can barely read and I think I just bumped some old posts in /c/mutual_aid 🤦 what am I doing here

how're you all doing today?

It’s 2-for-1! Ticks AND Lyme: together in one helpful, disgusting, gossipy, empowerful episode. This pair of episodes is about tiny, thirsty ticks and the diseases they spit into you is wall to wall wisdom from Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally of the Western Connecticut State University Tick Lab and Dr. Andrea Swei of SFSU’s Swei Lab cover how to remove a tick, if you should spray your yard and with what, how landscaping affects tick exposure, why Lyme Disease is spreading, the Lone Star Tick rolling into town, how to protect your pets and why the CDC ruined poppyseed muffins. Also: Powassan virus, paralysis ticks, and twin princesses, Borrelia and Babesia.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally and Dr. Andrea Swei will charm their way into your heart like a hypostome under your skin.

They really are charming – Dr Neeta's story of rolling around in the underbrush to collect specimens should be horrifying, but her enthusiasm for the activity is so cute 🥰

what're you choking down when you have to eat something to keep the pills down, and you have to take the pills

I tried taking doxycycline on an empty stomach yesterday and boy howdy, was that a bad decision – great ab workout though 😂🤢

last night, my new morning plan had been to have my Adderall when I wake up, some yogurt 2 hours later, then 2 hours later have toast and hummus or something with the doxycycline

great plan, except I don't usually eat this early, and I couldn't even get through half a cup of yogurt, which has been a lifelong safe food that I really really reeeeeally don't want to be put off

maybe skip the yogurt step and just shove a piece of bread down my throat? I already have a weird relationship with bread, I'm fine with being put off it for a while after this

on a totally unrelated note, you should definitely always wear bug repellent and check yourself for ticks when you come inside for the day

exactly what it says on the tin

I have been quoting Mr Horse for so long that I had forgotten the origin of the quote. Realizing this past weekend that my husband had no recollection of it made me start wondering where it was from, and this morning I suddenly had a mental image of a silly, kinda gross horse when I thought of it, and searched "Ren Stimpy no s-" and it autocompleted 🥰 feels so good when that happens.

Anyway, perhaps you also really loved Mr Horse as a weird kid watching Ren & Stimpy, you eeeeeeeeeedeeut

what mask are you wearing all day?

bonus points if you'd like to disclose who you are underneath it, so we can admire and adore the real you ❤️

and if you don't know who you are under your mask, we will support and encourage your discovery process, should you choose to undertake it ❤️

cw: self-harm

just feeling so utterly hollowed out and trying to type instead of plot

if I can make it a month and come up with $200 3x over that month, I might come away with an autism assessment and specific recommendations for local-ish therapists and local-ish resources that could help

hopefully maybe – I live in a rural area where resources are thin

regardless, that's not going to fix the 5 terrible days, and I would need more money for a therapist on top of the $50/mo I'm barely doing now, or the $600 between me and getting the therapist recommendations

how do I fix the 5 terrible days? if it even possible? I've tried to accept that maybe they won't ever go away, but it is a bit of a hard row to hoe

and then how does one accumulate more income to afford extra shit while in this kinda state? 😂😭 we don't, do we

never getting a pap or mammogram

just circling the drain

found this while I was looking for something else and thought some of you might like it

iirc, this was going to be the start of a series of weirdly-shaped paintings depicting landscapes with transition and fantasy elements, but then I got pregnant and my advisor made me switch to ceramics because their studio was less fumey and toxic

wtf

I couldn't click the link because it refreshed the page after I took the screenshot

now what

relatively privileged sadposting, hidden for easier skipping and prevention of nonconsensual dumping

Edit: is was simultaneously less and more unhinged than I expected

I will be back to discuss tomorrow, I'm still desperately trying to ignore my feelings for the rest of this evening

Edit again 4 days later: idk when I'm gonna be able to come back to this.

I understand "red fascist political movement" as standard .world idiocy, but everything after "ran" is a mystery

what the actual fuck was this person saying?

we've all got them, right? this isn't just a me thing, right???

you meet nice people, you get to know them, and you realize that they really like you but actually you don't like them

what's it like for you? how do you deal?

my strategy is to just be kind and supportive but largely unavailable, but as a late-diagnosed autistic person, idk if I'm doing it right

do I need to formally break up with these people as friends or is distance enough?

maybe this belongs in /c/neurodivergent or /c/askchapo 🤔