me before increasing cryptolepis dose: this is going so well! I already feel ready for a dose increase! heck yeah! me after cryptolepis dose increase: where is will to live, what even is world

how is this orange slice even holding on to the rim???

oh yeah this is happening

Apologizes for the screenshot that will look terrible on mobile, but here is an excerpt from the Bateman Horne ME/CFS Crash Survival Guide that explains the level of energy expenditure people with ME/CFS may need to pay attention to budgeting depending on their level of illness.

A collection of photos of my neighbor's cat being very interested in my tiny home and me (Sorry no alt text but I am 1. low energy and 2. mostly posting these for Thomas's benefit!) Last one is the cat peering through my kitchen window watching me do dishes lol

I read a really great essay on this in The Atlantic (remember when they used to be good?) some years ago, but I can't find it now, because a web search for "the atlantic elder care crisis" turns up a plethora of more recent writings, one as recently as six days ago evidently.

Comme d'hab, les gens avec des maladies chroniques peuvent se foutre ok C'est honteux

C'est complètement impensable! Qu'est-ce que c'est l'objectif d'un hôpital à part de sauver les vies?! Assister les gens à réguler leur température corporelle c'est une partie de sauver les vies, merde!!

I don't know who else needs to know this but the Multnomah Co library is doing an adorable thing where if you read for 30 days between June 15 - Aug 15, you can return your filled in card for a tote bag I'm gettin that tote bag 🤓

(sarcasm) Good news, the city seems to be really united on this topic so far 🙄 (At the end of the survey it asks if you want to see the results so far)

I filled this out and definitely took advantage of the free form boxes to speak my mind (I filled the free form question before this out four times 🫡)

Somehow I'd never seen this sign in the window of that lumber shop right on Powell before lol

I'm not sure if you're asking me if there's more info I have beyond what's in the article, but what's in the article is:

Could you possibly design a more misleading poll -- why were respondents asked about (per the article), "police, fire, parks, homelessness services"? It's like asking "would you support raiding the clean energy fund for both police and anti-police?"--what kind of data is that!

An excellent write-up, it boggles the mind that more people--especially people paid to know this stuff--don't get it.

I am a very serious gamer

I just wanted to relax and go vroom-vroom why are you making me create a fucking account elsewhere first I miss the days of video game cartridges jfc

My first ever #TenMinuteMerlin 🥹 Some good lil chirpy guys Thanks for the inspiration @skwinnicki.bsky.social !

Ok well, first of all, don't knowingly give your labs & meds data to Google 🤦 But also please realize some people use fitness trackers for serious illness mgmt reasons, and they aren't chumps, and they don't deserve this There should be private + protected ways for people to track their own data

Who's ready to partayyy* * By partay I mean "make plant medicines at home for about 20% the cost of buying them elsewhere and continue to recover from Lyme disease more affordably"

this needle did not perish in vain! 😤 I just finished a cool hat! it is Very Warm and will be a winter hat for sure. I'm trying to get several winter projects all off my needles so I can transition to summer knitting I can wear now

kinda surprised it took six years of knitting for this to happen (it's a size 4; I've even knit with size 1s in wood before--much to the chagrin of the shopkeeper that sold them to me--and haven't broken those!)

So early childhood education is such a drain on taxpayers it's going to supposedly make everyone move away but *this* is a good use of metro tax dollars? Also what the actual fuck?! The clean energy fund?!

I just want a good translation app! It *used to be* a good translation app! Instead of telling me a giant ax wrapped up lots of wood (or a regular size ax wrapped up with tiny wood) is a totally normal "bundle", as just one annoying example

the thing that gets me isn't just the violence--though it is also extremely that, it's the cartoon villain way they speak about the violence they're doing

Hey folks! I'm selling my tiny house, it's all prepped and ready for someone new to love it as much as I did. If you're interested, please reach out, I'll leave DMs open for a while! Happy to answer any questions, and I've got a more detailed sales flyer I can share upon request.

c'est une jolie illustration sur ce numèro de l'éléphant!

Lastly, fuck the CDC. This isn't all the absolute worst advice, but the "shower within 2 hours" thing is...there's nothing special about 2 hrs. Just examine your body without clothes as soon as you reasonably can. And examine your body with clothes on as soon as you leave the forest or brushy area.

(sorry for the abrupt pause, IRL things called!) Unfortunately we know come to one of the most disinfo-ridden parts of the article. The old "it can take hours or even a day to contract Lyme or other pathogens from a tick bite" is false. Again, please avail thee of a Buhner book or the literature--

A bold undersell. 1. There are so many worse things that ticks can do to you other than "aw shucks can't eat red meat anymore" 2. Calling alpha-gal a "red meat allergy" undersells it -- it's any mammalian meat product, and people usually only find out they have it by almost (or actually) dying