Well. The irritability was making my job difficult so I guess I have to deal with feeling even less like a person. There's only so many mood stabilizers out there and this is the only one that doesn't do actually terrible things to me. Sigh.

New (old) med I'm back on and it really takes care of my irritability and weirdo stress, but wow do I not give a shit about anything social. Or really anything. I'm keeping my place cleaner but I'm enjoying NOTHING.

Close up of Gus’s face as human hugs him (Gus is on human’s desk)

Mandatory mid afternoon Gus break!!

It's ridiculous. Say a $50k ortho surgery is like what, $10k? Who has that kind of money?

For the record, I was not the GM in this scenario. I am merely a Phil, not the Phil in question.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

An icon of a cake with a x2 after it, referencing the comic that makes the joke oh no TWO cakes.

In the author's note in one of the fics I'm reading "I'm sorry I'm not done with this fic but I have like 40k more words here..."

Oh no @tinyrat-thief.atiny.social, more content. How awful. We'll have to keep reading about the characters we love so much. It would be terrible if you WROTE MORE.

Another big one is that Canada doesn't have a racism problem and I'm just really over any of it.

There's Canadian rhetoric going around right now about how none of us Americans understand sarcasm, irony, etc as humor or bantering. For like, the millionth time — America isn't legion. Please try this line of bullshit on any Italian American, NY/NJ, or anyone from New England.

Gadget the void, peeking out for a bookshelf, next to binders.

Gadget is helping me organize gaming shelves, by which I mean he is very much in the way.

Echo is laying on her side on the sunroom table. She is blissfully asleep with her back legs stretched out and her front legs in a pile

I aspire to this level of comfiness (but I’ll never achieve it)

I've been very good in keeping up the progress that @myrrlyn.net and I made on my apartment. Still have a ways to go but I'm not full of dispair when I get home from work. Unfortunately my ribs are killing me still so I can't do much more yet. But I will!

This is the most yes thing ever.

[sighs at science slop on the timeline]

That works for me

I can't tell if I'm nauseated or have random severe anxiety.

Wait wasn't it a foreign body?

Oh my God, Zoe you dipshit. But YAY for pet insurance. I wish I could get some for Carl but he's old enough now that it's as expensive as putting him on my health insurance at work.

Let them dogpile me. It's bullshit and edges right up to transphobia.

The US is 50 different countries in a trench coat, each with many different laws. Especially with this government, local laws have to be strong against environmental bullshit because it was pulled at a federal level.

I adore your stuff.

But uh... Here's the thing. That's excessively realistic. Which is what they're going for. Ask around to nurses, guaranteed every single one has a story. Luckily, in the lab, we're pretty safe from that shit because we make them look smart. Misogynist ER doc is right on the money for realsies.

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My apologies to any fan fiction authors who follow me but good CHRIST I am so tired of "man has a vag" for no reason. Just write self insert for shit's sake. These aren't written as trans men, which would be great. It seriously seems like they're being written so gay sex is less "icky".

This is not a dig against my IT / tech friends. I love them all. No one should make LESS. It is just a mix of burning my cheese and making me sick at how disparate our salaries are. I keep people alive and make doctors function yet get paid half as much as someone writing base code for whatever.

It's even better in real life!

Damn shame all this effort into thinking about giving the viewer as close to a real experience as possible but critical infrastructure / staff is left out like they don't exist. I'm so tired of medical shows focusing on doctors & nurses. There's more to it than them. — an allied HCW

Dying to see the new costs after the first month and how many people drop them.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

Not for my friends and me but we're also old.