Yeah….really trying to avoid the self-pity right now but fuck this is going to be hard

My breast cancer was super estrogen and progesterone positive so taking it increases the likelihood of recurrence 😞

How has it taken me three plus years to process that breast cancer was more than a speed bump

Also so angry that I’m relieved that major surgery gets me out of an all-day work “retreat,” insert fuck capitalism commentary here

Well my “spay surgery” as my wife has cheekily dubbed it is official for June. Terrified to white knuckle insta-menopause without the option of HRT so feeling all the feels tonight. Remembering when I joined Twitter at 28 and life felt hard but not like this.

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

I will never in my life forget watching this live on tv and laughing until I cried, and now I sometimes watch this clip when I feel sad. Enjoy.

I was just saying to my wife, in all seriousness, that it’s shocking we’re not all having psychotic breaks because living in this reality that feels so unreal and unbelievable is just so disorienting, and that word doesn’t really do it justice. Like…THIS IS NOT NORMAL but now it’s just a Wednesday?!

I’m sorry

For what conceivable reason would you, a vacationer, need to STOP AND CUT OFF “to study” a dead raccoon’s penis?!

Also I really need to read about something else before I fall asleep

It just shouldn’t be this hard or expensive!

My ob/gyn is trying to get me on a new non-hormonal drug for night sweats and hot flashes (since they’re already awful thanks to the tamoxifen); I’m holding out hope that I’ll get approved and it will cushion the blow a little! Maybe? Lol

OOPS now we're doing a couple of nights at the Polynesian for our anniversary so we don't waste our DVC points because I haven't had a chance to go anywhere while I sit in spreadsheets every day, I forgot how exhilarating it is to have something to look forward to

I am destroying myself for a job that I love but isn't loving me back, watching overpaid leaders take more vacation in one year than I've taken in four, and I'm drawing a line. Last year I used four weeks of vacation time I was going to lose to pay for BRAIN TUMOR SURGERY PTO.

Enough is enough.

I just booked a November trip to Disneyland because my body is so stressed out it's literally falling apart (go team thyroid crisis and TMJ surgery!) and we haven't gone anywhere for 1+ night since 2023. The wife has never been to Disneyland. I'm so excited I literally just cried and clapped.

you just being here and being so supportive helps me 🧡🧡🧡

what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Also, we put off doing our taxes until today because good DAMN we did not want to face even the remote possibility of giving this government a cent of our money, and that left us having to use TurboTax and it cost us THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO USE IT.

Fuck everything. At least we got a refund.

Has anyone gone through surgical menopause who could share pros/cons with me? Bonus points if you couldn't do HRT afterward.

(Related: turns out breast cancer surgery and radiation were the easy parts, perspective is a bitch sometimes.)

I had no idea about that one!

The US government has an oopsie and turns a controlled burn of brush into a billowing fire of dark gray smoke, seen in the distance miles away in a photo taken from a car at a traffic intersection

“Controlled burn”

Our local air reserve base did a “controlled burn to prevent wildfires” on a high wildfire risk day and caused a 4-alarm fire at the next-door industrial park. But no base planes or buildings were damaged! (Source: cheerful government press release.)

Somehow this feels very on-brand for 2026.

a man with a beard is holding his head because he has a headache ALT: a man with a beard is holding his head because he has a headache

If we know anything about popes it’s that they famously do and should care what the US president does with the stock market, that is in their spare time when they’re not donning capes and out fighting crime

I hope they have some Zofran on board

All good, but yeah I don’t have the constitution for space travel

lol YUP

!!!

I would be pooping myself right now