Notices by Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok: (aphrodite@chaos.social)

I started on a GLP1 two weeks ago.

Weight is the main reason why, though the evening research showing some protection from certain cancers, reversal of nonalcoholic fatty liver, and even neuroprotective effects was highly tempting.

And the appetite suppression, which is welcome when you otherwise don’t know satiety.

…and preventing the prediabetes from getting worse.

Anyways, I’m down 6kg so far, from 130 to 124. Still have 44 to go to get to where I want to be.

@FlashMobOfOne

A helpful insight after having debilitating deprexiety for basically the first four decades of my life is that it will never go fully away, only enter remission.

The downside is that it will come back; the upside is that, at least intellectually, I know it will go away.

Cold comfort when it’s bloody 0300 and I can’t sleep, though.

(Yes, four decades. I literally have no memories I can recall from before age 42 not tainted by trauma.)

It’s easy to miss signs of depression sneaking up on you, especially if you lack good registration of your body’s signals.

I completely missed the increased cravings, especially for carbs; the lethargy; the decreased emotional affect; the need to hide; my bed becoming uncomfortable.

I know the cause of this episode. I know it will pass. It just sucks to have to deal with, especially since I can’t use my preferred, ahem, herbal acute antidepressant.

so apparently on reddit right wing nut jobs and fascist supporters are a protected class while their targets are not.

intriguing that even suggesting causing the mask of sociality to slide off these people is considered threatening violence.

@bananarama @neurovagrant @hacks4pancakes

not to be disrespectful but like americans raiding canadian pharmacies hurts canadians.

there was a shortage of ozempic for diabetics because it was being scooped up by people that wanted to lose weight.

we had a baby formula shortage because americans raided our stores for it.

prices went up and a lot of poorer canadians were hurt in both cases.

i’m not unsympathetic. but this can’t be the solution.

#FollowFriday

@transworldexpress

Their goal is to help trans people in the US get out. If you know a USian trans person or if you can help them with a way out, please follow and support this account.

@hannu_ikonen

I started up #LibraryRedAlert for this exact reason, and I’m not getting anywhere near the traction we need to say least preserve the works if not preserve the institutions.

We’re seeing the table get set to criminalize transness.

Criminalizing trans related books and lit will soon follow.

Please help with #LibraryRedAlert so we can prevent these monsters from burning down a century of research, of publication, of literature in an effort to deny our existence legitimacy.

Librarians, archivists, we need to work together to preserve what we can outside the reach of that monster in DC.

@cwebber

As a child, I had an IQ in the 300 range.

As an adult, I’m easily in the 140 range, but I’m also a bloody idiot.

Knowing that ol’ boy Socrates knew more than me because at least he could hold an audience and a job is humbling and grounding if I ever start to get too big for my britches.

:)

Me, three days ago, as my spouse was setting up #HamRadio gear: “$spouse, don’t worry about lightning. Thunderstorms are rare in the #UndisclosedLocation.”

Spouse, tonight, after the fifth lightning bolt flashes across the night sky: “Aphrodite, why did you taunt Zeus like that?”

@dx @pikhq

There also is DAFT as an option for the Netherlands.

For what it’s worth, Dutch isn’t that challenging a to learn as an English speaker.

To my #infosec and #hacker friends, happy 55th birthday.

@quinn

The best insurance I had stateside was garbage compared to the coverage I had in Canada, especially when I add on my extended benefits from work.

Not exactly looking forward to learning a new medical system in the Undisclosed Location, but c’est la vie.

@pluralistic

It’s fascinating to observe these folks.

I admit to a little of a “prepper” mindset but I focus on building community since every disaster makes us naturally go to our true nature as prosocial communitarian beings.

And baking bread.

Nothing like fresh bread to start to feel human after a disaster. (Assuming no gluten issues of course.)

My stress is moderated by a story from a few years ago.

A Jewish man originally from Vienna died at the age of 105 or so.

He left Austria in the early 1930s.

He said, “I’m a simple person. When people tell me they don’t like me, I believe them,” when he started to hear people loudly disparage folks like him.

He was the only survivor of his family.

Doc Bronner had a similar story.

It sucks seeing what’s ahead and knowing I can’t help more people.

@quinn

if it isn’t just algorithmic amplification of content detected to be controversial and rage baity i would be shocked*

*no i wouldn’t

@drwho @quinn

Law and Justice Party (PiS, fashy) lost in the elections in 2023 and a lot of the villainy they implemented is being unwound.

The opposition resisted, came together, and won after a decade in the wilderness.

@baconandcoconut @stevenrosenthal @spaf

EC reform wouldn’t have changed things this go round.

The avalanche has started. It’s too late for the pebbles to vote.

@stevenrosenthal @spaf

That’s all the more damning since they couldn’t be assed.

Example: Oregon has vote by mail. Only 67% of voters returned a ballot in contrast to 78% that voted in 2020.

They literally only had to fill it out and stick it in a mailbox. They didn’t.

Utah, also VBM. Similar story.

@pluralistic

“Easy mode” cancer is still cancer.

My cancer 12y ago could’ve been called an “easy mode” cancer, but it still cost me a third of my kidney and required a 12h surgery.