i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

prev im so sorry to put you on blast like this but please know this had me in hysterics

commission for my lovely friend @tamofthedragons

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

radioactive alien kitty!

first post of mine to reach 1000 notes perhaps? :3

twitter is being overrun by ice war posting. Best this sites been in ages

i love reddit so fucking much

i found the original post and yeah that's exactly what it is

Alright. So. I have a confession to share with you. In middle school, I strongly identified as a libertarian. In my defense, I was 13 and I had autism. Against my defense, I was literate, and capable of using common sense. I confessed this to you willingly, so go easy on me.

One thing about this that I can share with you is that I, as a 13 year old boy, read Atlas Shrugged. I read it as someone very committed to the ideology, who wanted to believe it, who wanted to like it, and there are two things I can share with you about that book from that time period.

I was going to rant more about this but I kind of lost my train of thought. The book fucking sucks. It was propaganda of such remarkably low caliber that it actually helped me move out of those circles. Every time someone talked about liking the book, I'd reply with something along the lines of "Yeah, I especially loved the part where she destroyed the post modernists by unequivocally condemning affairs", and if they agreed with me, they would have lost my respect forever, and if they looked very embarrassed, I could at least acknowledge that they had a soul, albeit small and malformed. I had dozens of people claim that they read the book, and only three or four actually passed the test.

And now, goodnight.

Reminder that Ayn Rand had many affairs, didn’t get rich and ended up on Medicare, which she applied to under a fraudulent name so people wouldn’t find out about it.

the government deleted its covid-19 information websites and replaced it with this

every single covid.gov url in existence, relating to testing, health protocols, etc. just redirects to the words “Lab Leak” now

Covid was a biological weapons engineered by china to kill millions of people but taking precautionary measures was unnecessary because it hurt the economy. Donald Trump is a hero who saved the world by developing a vaccine and also the vaccine doesn’t do anything. The enemy is too strong but also weak

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I've had my migraine glasses for about two weeks and so far:

Had one instance where I was aware I had a headache and already had my glasses on when the feeling started. Did not progress past maybe a 1 or 2 on the pain scale my entire day at work, until I took my glasses off at home and had the worst killer migraine.

Woke up with a migraine and put my glasses on since I had to drive. Within a 30 minute span, migraine reduced to barely noticable pressure with no pain.

A couple things:

I'm not using the advertised brand above, I got my glasses from Zenni which were about 55 bucks for my rx level + tint, but the FL-41 tint is the most important. Don't buy "red" or "rose" or "pink" glasses, make sure they're FL-41 tinted.

I do use my glasses at night. I have only about 10% tint so they aren't very dark. It does really help with bright headlights- I'm in a really rural area with a lot of wildlife crossing the road so most people don't bother to turn off their brights when passing and that means my photosensitive ass is often IN HELL driving at night. But with these glasses it no longer feels like someone is carving my eye out with a spoon so I feel like that's doing *something* to protect me?

It does seem to both stop migraines in their tracks and also prevent new migraines from getting out of control. This is really great because usually my migraines aren't touched by the OTC pain meds I can take with my other issues, and I'm in the "too few migraines and also too many migraines for meds" zone where doctors won't give me rx meds at all to control them so I guess I get to just suffer.

The glasses at 10% tint look super pink from the outside but aren't noticably pink when I look through them while they're on my face. There's a brief moment of "oh that's very pink" and then I blink a couple times and it stops. My color vision isn't quiiiiiiite correct- very light blues and greens on reflective or backlit surfaces look much more grey. I can see that my blue water bottle is blue, but my coworker's light powder blue car looks like a blue-ish silver to me. We color-code appointments at work and the greyish light green color on the screen also looks fairly grey to me. It also means when I take the glasses off, everything looks fairly green.

This makes sense to me because it's blocking specific blue light that are known to be migraine and photosensitivity triggers, so of course bright lights that are blues or greens are going to have less light/color to them. Interestingly, purple is unaffected by this, which proves to me that purple is the superior color. I can also play videogames with my glasses on with no big problem with color, but then I'm not playing very *blue* games, and it seems the eye strain is fairly reduced as well because I don't tear up as much while playing.

Lastly I get tons of compliments on them! A lot of people have responded really positively to my glasses, and nothing's changed about them except the tint because I ordered the same frames.

A year and a half later update:

Holy shit I grew a beard and no longer have the world's saddest mustache

Anyway the answer is that lights *causing migraines* while wearing these glasses? Zip zero nada. Lights *making migraines worse* with these glasses? Still possible.

These days my migraines are mostly caused by poor sleep and changing weather patterns (sometimes both) and thus the glasses mostly just prevent them from getting out of hand. I can still work and not suffer too much from the overhead lights or oncoming headlights when driving while having a migraine- but I still get the sense that the light it "too loud" and if I take off my glasses boy does my migraine come roaring back with a vengeance.

So it does keep the pain at bay, and keeps light from triggering them, but only covers the photosensitivity portion of the symptoms if you have a migraine for non-light reasons.

FL-41 my beloved. I bought a pair a couple months ago, partly because of this post, and holy shit I went from daily migraines and monthly migraines.

I do a lot of computer work, so I also recommend anti-blue light filters for monitors. If you work in a cubicle, these ikea leaves are great for reducing florescent lights. I use clamps to hold them in place and have been using them for ~3 years; they make a huge difference but alas sometimes I need to leave my cubicle nest, which is where the FL-41 lenses come in to play.

new product concept. Creek Yogurt. you know what it is. CREEK YOGURT: You Fucking Bet Your Ass It Has Active Cultures

C A N E N D A R

Yeah I’m free the 22nd and the 22nd and the 20th and the 22nd and the 21st as well as the 20th and the 22nd and the 22nd after that and the three 20ths after that

Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa have all seen their right-wing parties collapse in popularity since Trump took over.

We were headed for a hard-right turn, but this shift is absolutely unprecedented in modern times. The stark reality of a right wing nationalist future really got people to pay attention.

Unfortunately, it's at the cost of the millions of us in the US who will now suffer

you can't even "spill blood" on the war-torn ice moon Europa. it's too cold. freezes midair and shatters like glass when it hits the ground

Born too soon to shatter blood on the war-torn ice moon Europa

this war is forever. suit up, warmie

I'm going to kill and kill and kill on the war-torn ice moon Europa

yeah