First part - intubation really irritated my throat, which meant lots of dry coughing and extra air flying around my lungs, which eventually meant more phlegm. That, and I have asthma, so breathing was harder for a while, even with my preventative medicine!
Hope the recovery goes well! I've been in about your place with FFS, though I was lucky that there wasn't too much pain. (My lungs, on the other hand, freaked out for weeks!)
It was probably like that scene early in "Year of Hell" in Voyager where Janeway said, "This is fast becoming the month of hell!" ...except China didn't have the luxury of an in-universe recon. 😅
surprised pikachu face drawn on a Shock mtg card
:3
Unfortunately, no. 😞 The restaurant my in-laws liked for Chinese-American food apparently went super downhill in the last few years. I also haven't had much opportunity to explore further, on the account of my wife having celiac disease!
The Raging Demon Dutch Oven
Southern Massachusetts (Fall River in particular) has a much better option in the genre - the chow mein sandwich! It shouldn't work, but the textural contrast between crispy and soft ingredients goes a long way.
We really do live in a trans media climate where I’ll meet random trannys and hear telephone echoes of the latest fear mongering trends but routinely learn that most of us don’t engage with each others music, books or know anything about the positives of our advancements as a community.
the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout
Wasn't this a King of the Hill episode many years ago? 🙃
Some of the suspiciously familiar-looking games built into this thing look pretty cool: there's Pac-Man but you're a bug laying pellets (eggs) instead of eating them, Popeye but you're a bear romancing a penguin, Excitebike but it's cars, and Mario Bros. but you're... is that Gazoo? (All undumped.)
it is legitimately unfathomable how the US squandered its significant EV early lead primarily through entirely backwards short-sighted policy decisions in support of the oil industry which likely has already set the stages of the US auto industry's demise. a death in slow motion.
unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can
Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".
Hi this joke is for me
album artwork for the New Angel / greyfleshtethered split, featuring a bleak foggy landscape + our respective logos formatted for a tape layout
a picture of the NA / GFT split cassette tape against a background of concrete and bright green plants around the edges
a picture of a ragdoll cat curled up next to a copy of the NA / GFT split cassette tape
The New Angel / GFT Split is officially live across various platforms! Thank you all so much for the incredible support already, I'll post relevant links below and with any luck Linktree will get their shit together soon so they can all be in one cohesive place eventually.
Personally, I think it's that I drink too much coffee. That, and my stress is through the roof! ...but cutting down on caffeine would help a little with both. 😅
Headline: Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce? Sub-headline: The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.
Babe, what's wrong, you've been so quiet at dinner since I bought the pasta sauce branded big brother surveillance device
in a just world intellectual property would be released to the public as soon as the owners obviously stop giving a shit (hasbro)
Support your local grocer and buy some bananas! That'll make sure they ARE involved. 🍌
oh, like you're gonna see the black starlight shimmering on the surface of lake hali & *not* be fundamentally changed by it? be serious
Is anyone playing the INBRED WITH REDNEX combination EP/multimedia point and click adventure CD-ROM or is this another website for false gamers and liars?
On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk.
If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"
I'm like Memnarch, at least in the narrow sense that his struggle to overcome the mycosynth in Mirrodin's core matches my own struggle to overcome the hair on my legs. 🪒
This reminds me of all the time I spent on the Free Internet Chess Server as a kid. I'm pretty sure that did the telnet + optional GUI sitch too!
Also, I was 8, acted the part, wasn't particularly good at bughouse, and in retrospect, I'm lucky something horrible didn't happen. 😅
I think this stuff messes with a lot of people and most cis people don't really do any introspection into their gender or their expression of it, instead look for outside influences to tell them how to "man" or "woman" properly.
Every trans person I know has done the internal work to know.
for the east coast crowd: I went Charts Mode last night to tackle the cost of living crisis on turf I’m familiar with, and I proved what we all knew: cars are less affordable to purchase and own than essentially ever before in US history www.patreon.com/posts/155893...
Some people have misunderstood this.
We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible.
This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.
This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!
And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.
unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?