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hospital, positive, neurospicy 

Just chatted to a nurse for a while, they apparently are also neurospicy, and I guess we kind of did some ad-hoc consensus-building on ways to improve medical interactions and reduce the chances of conflict? With plenty of informative tangents on hospital policies and org charts and even IT.

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medical, pain, IV 

(I knew it wasn't supposed to be so painful because of the IV that I got in the ICU 1.5 years ago, which was also perfect)

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medical, pain, IV 

The first attempt to get me on an IV (using an echo) was a disaster. Minutes of intense pain, they couldn't get it in, the anesthetic (applied by another nurse) was not applied correctly or sufficiently. Everyone was rushed and I told them to try again later after I did the anesthetic myself.

Second attempt was perfect. 30 seconds and it was in, I literally felt nothing. No stress, no drama, no echo, just eyeballing, done. Nurse slightly confused that I felt *literally nothing whatsoever*.

And what have we learned today: medical staff continues to be super unfamiliar with this anesthetic and how it works and I need to be more stubborn in applying and preparing it myself.

the idea of a video game (like an RPG or something) where it tells you "press this button combination to do this thing" but every single thing has a unique button combination and that button combination remains possible to press perpetually after the moment you learn about it

so in the tutorial it says "press X to hug your wife" and that's not teaching you the interact button that's teaching you the hug your wife button and at any point if you press that button your character will uninterruptably go to their wife and hug her

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video game where if you get 100 points you go up a level and by up a level I mean you teleport up one floor in the building you are currently in

So far today, Google has taken me to a bus stop that doesn't exist, and asked me how crowded i5 is, on a bus that also doesn't exist.

usually when companies are bought/merged I'm somewhere between "oh no" and "meh", but The Onion buying InfoWars' assets is really hilarious

Sometimes I feel like therapy needs to be longer. I don't know if I can untangle everything in the span of an episode of House, I need Avengers level of therapy

uspol, muskrat and Cheeto mention 

Yeah DOGE is a sad and absurd name for anything that's connected to a government of any kind, but. Trump using a nongovernmental advisory board to slash the federal government is an important departure from business as usual.

I am anticipating that as he gets more and more frustrated with the checks and balances built into federal office confirmations (having to deal with the Senate, etc) he's going to rely more and more heavily on informal "advisory boards" like the so-called department of governmental efficiency. This is going to be one of the fastest and easiest ways for him to move fast and break things as much as possible.

I'm imagining the entire federal government being run with the same attention to detail as, say, Tesla. All federal regulatory agencies being expected to operate like the company that sells cars that explode and trap people inside is... not encouraging.

And I'm sure that's just the beginning. We are starting to see the actual design of the fascist takeover that's going to happen. Fear is going to be unavoidable, but it's important to anticipate what's coming. And to respond by preparing, organizing, and getting connected to comrades instead of succumbing to despair.

Relatedly, I need to go read project 2025...

kidney transplantation, update 

Unfortunately my transplantation will be delayed; they are seeing inexplicable blood values and have no idea what my body is doing (which I suppose is in keeping with the theme) and want to make sure they identify the cause first

death of an abusive asshole 

So I just learned that Zimbardo died recently, the "prison experiment" guy.

@Peetz0r Okay so the bread is excellent actually, and I want to know where they are getting this stuff

Eine autistische Person toleriert ständig Dinge, die sie stören.
Hin und wieder, ist das Maß voll und es kommt zum Nervenzusammenbruch (manchmal inkl Wutausbruch).
Ironischerweise werden wir dann deshalb als "schwierig" eingestuft.
Es ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Wahnsinn, was Autistinnen leisten. Trotzdem gelten wir als unwillig, Kompromisse einzugehen oder uns anzupassen.
Obwohl wir die meiste Zeit unseres Lebens genau das tun .. #AuDHS #autismus #neurodivergenz

reference to abusers in the abstract 

@fortyseven IMO the more telling part is how they say they've "apologized" but still don't actually take responsibility; trying to claim that actually the responsible party is the one who reported them, and clearly not looking to repair harm but just to make the problems go away.

This is such a common pattern in abusers, trying to turn the blame on the person holding them to account through a non-apology ("I did everything and you're still complaining, you're the unreasonable one!"), and I wish it was more widely recognized.

Looking at a neat job listing and AGAIN I am caught off guard by the unparalleled chrome extension: Cloud-to-Butt Plus.

I have had this extension for, I believe, over a decade, from before I ever considered being in tech. It CONSTANTLY gets me.

It used to do one thing: change the word "cloud" to the word "butt". These days it does two things: also the words "the cloud" to the words "my butt".

Unparalleled usefulness and excellence.

To people who feel like there aren't many people on mastodon/fediverse, please actually try to be social. So often I see "there's nobody here, i'm going to bsky/threads/whatever" and then when I look at the account's profile on the home server (to make sure I can see all posts and replies), I almost always see very few posts in recent past and even fewer replies. The Fediverse's culture (and mastodon's software) is built around more traditional social networking, like we used to do before algos.

The bug is that they handle state incorrectly by the way, and one control system has a toggle whether the other has an explicit open/close, and it does not have a transition state, according to the system it is always either open or closed, and anyone who has ever fixed someone else's bad state management probably knows *exactly* where this is going

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You really should not let me near tech that you would like to keep working

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Got the automatic curtain control system in the hospital in an invalid state within 2 minutes of touching it, because of course I did

re: health, kidney disease, funny 

@bananas Oh I miss it a lot, they just told me to reduce my salt and there was a good reason for it and therefore I did. I'm not sure they expected me to follow the advice that rigorously, to the point of inventing a salt-less bread recipe

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