josie

my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them

happy birthday! welcome to the best decade

I will die on the hill that Mystery Men was not bad like everyone said, and had some very funny moments

hmm in the separation sense or… the hypnosis sense?

huh. I did not know about his kid. I figured Jerry would be the one to come out as trans, with all his writing in the day of feeling detached from his body, a shambling meat mech, calling himself an ugly goblin etc. but I stopped visiting PA a very long time ago

YouTube video by dastan89 Analrapist Tobias Fünke - Arrested Development

remembering the old Arrested Development joke

are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over? an analyst and a therapist. the world’s first analrapist.

Stimulation of breast growth by hypnosis A frequent compaint among women is the failure of the breasts to develop to a fashionably desirable size. An experiment was designed to determine whether hypnotic suggestion could influence the phy...

I mean, there are real publications on this topic, in real journals. (whether the results can be reproduced is another matter)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

my facial hair is the biggest source of dysphoria for me, i shave every day (often painfully) bc if i can see or feel any stubble i start spiraling ;ω;

if you want to support a trans woman on this tdor, it would mean the world to me to be closer to getting laser hair removal <3
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Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

I'm giving XMAG a substantial shot which is basically "the S&P 500 minus the Magnificent 7" in the hopes of avoiding the worst of Nvidia (and Tesla?) implosion... but I worry a panic will do splash damage across everything

i hope i never stop searching for knowledge and compassion, i hope i never age into illiteracy and indifference, i hope the years never wear down my spirit, i hope my life burns bright and vibrant as long as i have breath, meeting clouds with downpours of love and kindness, tears smiling in rain

aww I was replying to your post about the manyvids ceo going full tescreal when you deleted it, but maybe it's for the best, I should go play games or some better use of my time

I was so confused until I remembered Skillet was a band. and yes.

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter

you are! ❤️

isn’t this the equivalent of wishing for more wishes (not complaining)

moist

and in November, no less!

aaaand just got laid off. i am very fortunate to have some savings, at least, plus friends and family, but oh the timing

they’re all so bad! maybe if there was one that was genuinely a pleasure instead of an inconvenience that breaks the flow of the game

the consequences of the WHI and its conclusions continue to repeatedly do harm. generalizing the side effects of nasty conjugated estrogens to "never give estrogen else blood clots" is bad science. if it's really that bad surely they would put cis women on estrogen blockers before surgery? but no

after some further review I was totally wrong... bipolar sufferers are apparently explicitly disallowed by law? there is a lot of argument on pilot forums over this though, as other “adequately controlled” conditions can get waivers. I didn’t mean to give false hope, I’m sorry.

FAA medical certification seizures - Pathways to Special Issuance Learn about FAA medical certification for pilots with seizures, including requirements, evaluations, and pathways to Special Issuance

if it’s taken for bipolar I don’t think it matters; unfortunately if it’s for epilepsy I think you’re out of luck: all special exemptions require being seizure-free without medication for several years

I remember an infographic from when I was a kid that claimed the cross-section of a tree at any level, from the roots to the trunk to the branches above, was roughly the same (for water pressure reasons?) - the mass of the bottom isn't necessarily the same as the top, just cross-sectional area

me moving to Washington and saying “everything closes early but at least Safeway is open until midnight” feels bad like buying the JojaMart membership

*we* did it, I should say, my girlfriend and my friends and everyone who helped along the way. it would have been impossible otherwise. I’m not cut out for making it all on my own, but that’s okay

so I’m here, in Seattle, finally. drove the moving truck in two days ago, and finished unloading the truck yesterday. bone tired and emotionally numb… but I did it

I can't believe I met you. I can't believe the happiness I feel with you. You have a vast, vast soul and I will always, always, always come back to it. Kisses, kisses, kisses.