FyrDrakken
I'm into knitting, cats, reading, sci-fi/fantasy, history, archaeology, healthcare, politics, tea, gardening. Deleted my Twitter a few weeks after the Muskrat bought it and went cold turkey on social media for a year or two. She/her.
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- We had one of these cases in Ft Worth some years ago where the husband and the woman's parents wanted the plug pulled and the state of Texas insisted she must remain on life support as an incubator. But eventually she reached the stage of pregnancy where ultrasound could examine the fetus carefully
- and it was concluded that the fetus had been deprived of oxygen at the same time the mother was and there was no hope of a healthy infant being delivered. So finally the state agreed to pull the plug. This time around it seems Georgia is trying to make a point.
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- Passaic
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- Hah, hadn't bought any in a while, just got started on Rosuvastatin a few weeks ago. And I had actually heard the thing about not mixing grapefruit with statins before, but I had forgotten and my doctor never mentioned it.
- Someone used to give Dad a box of fruit at Xmas including grapefruit and I happily ate those, halved and sugared. Then I went to college and in the dining hall discovered grapefruit juice was a thing you could get. Stopped messing about with the whole fruit. Ruby red needs no sugar.
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- North Texas isn't the panhandle, it's further east, around DFW. (Yeah, I know. It makes no geographical sense, but we live here and that's how we divide the state up.)
- I got Mom a Kindle Paperwhite for Mother's Day (she's been having issues reading paper books because of the text size) and then after she set it up I took my downloaded library of 4k Kindle books and copied a selection to her computer so she can load them to her Kindle as she sees fit.
- Books I felt Mom would like included Discworld, ASoIaF (she read the 4 I had in paperback but I got ADwD in Kindle), Laundry Files, The Expanse, Murderbot, Rivers of London, Temeraire, Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie. Also all the Vorkosigan books but they were bought from Baen and in a folder I forgot.
- This is a really interesting piece, and these points are ones I notice a lot in the discourse around GLP-1 drugs: much of the antipathy to them is in & of itself fatphobia, anger or anxiety that takers are “cheating” their way out of the fat = lazy, slim = hard work paradigm.
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- For Americans, 1 stone = 14 pounds.
- I’m fascinated by scientific breakthroughs that were universally hailed in the moment, like pasteurization, that are now vilified by some people. Is this a uniquely American thing? Anybody written a book about why/how this happens? Like the psychology behind it. I’d love to learn more.
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View full threadfatality rate instead of the usual 30% but also B) vaccinations back then *really sucked* because any scammer with a few sickly heifers in a shed could be making and selling vaccines or just selling tap water in vials and claiming it was a vaccine. Kids died of tetanus from a bad batch of vaccines.
- The antivax movement back then had some really good points and the government response was to step in and regulate vaccine suppliers to make sure they were actually safe and effective if they were going to be mandating schoolkids and whoever had to get them.
- Another book rec: Pox an American History by Michael Willrich, being the story of a smallpox epidemic that ran uncontrolled through the whole country for a number of years around the turn of the 20th century. People fought hard against quarantining and vaccine mandates A) because it had only a 1%
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- The last few years gave me the experience not to bother trying to grow berries again - just a couple of cherry tomato plants, plus a tray of sweet potato starts as an experiment. Oh, and the pair of rosemary plants I stuck in the front flowerbed two years ago are kneehigh.
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View full threadYeah, I've noticed in recent year's women's shirts are tissue thin, and a few years ago I switched to men's cargo pants that actually had a decent weight to the fabric. Have bought very few clothes since I started working from home and I expect to stretch my wardrobe for a good long while.
- In October I discovered one of my Halloween shirts had been damaged hanging in the storage closet (I'm thinking rat) and to fix it I got a patch of near-matching orange fabric to apply to the underside and got to try out this nifty Japanese "sesame seed" mending technique. A real learning experience
- By sheer coincidence, I'm wearing a T-shirt labelled with the year I bought it (the tour was summer 2000) which how I know I'm wearing a vintage tee in great condition. (Quality materials, or me washing my tees in cold water and never running them through a dryer?)
- Because now we get chronic conditions instead of DYING OUTRIGHT. This is actually fantastic! It means we get eczema and arthritis at 65 because we didn’t die in childbirth at 25!
- I'm guessing the plan is to A) keep people working into their 60s and 70s, and B) refuse to pay to treat chronic conditions (saving money *and* encouraging the working classes to die faster). Saving money on SS and Medicare, by cutting retirement years short for everyone but the wealthy.
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- Are those maggots on the second finger?
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- Hah, the hardest part isn't reading it, it was trying to open a notes doc in split screen with Bluesky without the keyboard shoving the recipe offscreen. I've been beaten to it.
- Opening with a firsthand account from a mom who gave raw milk to her kids - they wound up in the hospital with E coli. Also drills down into the wildly exaggerated health claims.
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- Yeah, most places are, "If they're your own animals, you can drink the milk." It just the mass sale of unpasteurized milk that the US has gone into amd we are way off both the state of scientific knowledge and the common practice of the rest of the developed world.
- This Podcast Will Kill You just did a two-parter on raw milk and I listened to the second half yesterday. One part was just discussing how many countries have made it *illegal* to sell raw milk, or only allow it in really small-scale "personally buying it from the farmer who has the cow" situations.
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- That's assuming we'd still have a functioning CDC to detect the outbreak of a disease dating back to the ice ages and track it to its source, as opposed to losing the signal in the noise of all the foodborne illnesses we'll also be enjoying.
- I'm 47.5% good, 30.8% lawful, making me neutral good. Bah.
- I'm a little more lawful than I thought I'd be but I suspect that's mostly a result of the questions concerning guilt. I feel guilty about things that haven't happened yet... @msagara.bsky.social always said @cemurphy.bsky.social and I would get along. www.idrlabs.com/moral-alignm...
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- I have seen the suggestion made that these geriatric millionaires are clinging to their Congressional seats because money literally cannot buy healthcare to the level they're receiving through that job.
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- That's the year I graduated high school and started college, so my answer depends on what part of the year I'm returned to. Am I still dealing with high school and being designated chaffeur for my little sister? Am I getting on AOL for the first time that summer? Am I in a college dorm?
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- You know, that might have been a good way to let apprentices practice their patterns, with surfaces destined to be plastered over?
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- Bought my tomato plants a few weeks ago. One is leaping up, covered with new leaves and yellow flowers. The other was rabbit-nibbled down to a near-stub. (My own damn fault for letting Ingrid out to play in the yard while I cleaning her cage and not having placed both tomato pots up out of reach.)
- Most of Texas is fully warm enough for these guys to overwinter and establish themselves, so I'm really not loving this news.
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- Shit, there I am just inside the overwintering area. Good thing the cats and rabbit are indoor pets, and the dog is kept clipped short.
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- I've been congratulating myself on having enough yarn stash to keep myself in handknit socks for years to come. If I have to learn to knit drawstring underdrawers, so be it.
- It's half an hour till breakfast time, but Loki and Miss Kitty will not risk missing it. #Caturday #ProofOfCat
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- We have a male Siamese who also gets like this, but it's either with a catnip mousie or the actual fresh carcass of a small animal. He has a particular cry he only gives when he has "prey" in his mouth and is wandering around looking for a good spot to play with it.
- Note that he used to be indoor/outdoor (we went indoor-only in January due to bird flu) and he would do this especially when he'd caught something and wanted to be let in to play with it in the house. (Note that Loki had earned his name *before* the time he walked in the door with a live snake.)
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- It is difficult to gauge the right level of upset to convince someone to stop bringing up an unwelcome topic with you without convincing them you personally are an unreasonable person they should stop dealing with altogether.
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- I've run into that with my mother, who would periodically complain that she "couldn't understand" why I dislike her shady contractor friend and then when I started providing a list she would run over the top of me and change the subject.
- That congressional Dems are so wildly unpopular should be a wake-up call for them, but running the comparison to Harris is ridiculous. She's been out of the public eye and hasn't had the party rallying to promote and defend her, plus some Dems inevitably sour on her for losing. It's not comparable.
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- They're listening to paid consultants, who pay a lot more attention to the desires of the donor class than the actual voting public. At some point they got it into their heads that donations pay for ad coverage that wins elections and completely forgot about doing stuff in office that voters want.
- Conservatives seem to want more teen moms. In the ongoing lawsuit over the abortion drug mifepristone, three Republican AGs wrote that abortion pills “depress[ed] expected birthrates for teenaged mothers in Plaintiff States” www.jezebel.com/notorious-te...
- Today, President Trump proposed eliminating the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program entirely. Medical experts in and out of government have credited the program for contributing to a 78 percent drop in teen births over the past few decades. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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- This, so much this, but young women being forced to marry young, drop out of school, and give up all hope of college is also an outcome they encourage.
- This is actually a magnificent property, with just one or two rooms that make you wonder what they were thinking with THAT decor. Lovely place. Greenhouse. Indoor pool.
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- That's an excellent dress. My mother still fondly remembers when her school declared girls could wear pantsuits instead of skirts so she made her own pantsuit and wore it to school.
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- Jody Lynn Nye's Taylor's Ark series. Not the first one, but I think the main character had adopted an orphan in the second and had a baby herself by the third? And going to different planets with her entire household to solve medical mysteries.
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- Luckily I just got my braces off a few months ago and I'm still in the retainers-fulltime-except-while-eating phase. So there's a bit of cracking at the edges of my retainers but my teeth remain shielded.
- THIS is the correct color for my hair to be. I may have last touched up the dye before Xmas, but I think I hadn't bleached my roots since October. So that's one thing I got done this week.
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- My mother was just wondering if Xmas gifts for my nephews are things she should be stocking up on now. I reminded her that the two younger ones have June birthdays and advised her to worry about that first.
- There are regularly occurring viral hate campaigns against women for the crime of having bad vibes but god forbid you try and identify a red flag in a man’s public behavior. May god have mercy on your soul if you try it
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- Kevin
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- They're truly trying to trap as many women as possible in the house being stay-at-home mothers.
- What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
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- The variant I've been known to use is, "I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire."
- “Couldn’t get a root in a brothel" sotto voce "with a fistful of fifties"…..
- I've heard that one as, "Couldn't get laid in a Tijuana brothel with a $100 bill hanging out of his fly."
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- I was thinking just yesterday about the webcomic that likened allergy season to tree bukkake with the allergy sufferer being the person tied to a chair being hosed down with pollen. (I had this thought probably while sneezing.)
