I miss the days when you could get chicken egg size ones 4 for $1.

Don’t think that size even exists anymore… haven’t seen them in a long time.

2 is Jasmin from Aladdin when Jafar is the sultan and she’s a slave but idk the other one.

I’d use people-finding platforms (not for dating; I don’t do that anymore) if this dude was the typical type of result.

But I’d end up with matches that can’t handle the fem version of this… I infodump ending with hypotheticals all the time. It’s compulsive, because I have no personality. I’d absolutely love to share that energy with someone who has the same.

I’ve learned to just shut the fuck up and mull it over on my own; NT folks typically don’t like autdhd obsessions, and that’s what I’m made of.

So you want to make caramelized onions?

🤭

Worst I’ve gotten was grapes in the foil for mini Cadbury eggs. It was quite evil. (Cuz those are my fave)

I’d watch it.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It’s a tool.

I’m sorry you experienced that, you shouldn’t have, but it’s not the fault of the tool, it’s the fault of those who used information improperly and abusively.

Do you think they would have come to a different conclusion with a different toolbox? Because I mean… you have to want to be a raging pile of shit to use tools in such a way as to make you more of a raging pile of shit…

It’s the same way most of the actual helpful clinical therapy language has been co-opted by abusers. It’s not the tools, it’s the abusers that are the problem.

It does help people identify where they have strengths and weaknesses, and has led to a larger conversation around how to communicate relative importance, even if it is a shoddy tool in and of itself.

For example, I am a touch-averse person due to a childhood full of neglect (I am avoidant attachment myself), and that means that when I do show what passes as affection, it tends to be verbal affirmations, acts of service, or gift-giving. Because that’s what I can relate to.

In a vacuum, love languages are meaningless. Sure. But as part of a whole range of self-identification strategies to learn about yourself and those you care about, it can be a valuable tool.

It doesn’t really matter who made it. You’d be appalled to discover the roots of the more formalized systems we take for granted. That’s why we never hear about those things. But they are equally shaky-grounded.

Supposedly this is actually not bad, but also… just no.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAlSWnrmtoo

Start at 10:40 or so for the hot pepper……

actually just watch the whole thing… it’s fucking funny.

Yeah, with this I’m rethinking launching an educational video channel, and will probably end up just sharing my info via blog (are blogs even still a thing?)

Which is disappointing, honestly, because the info lends itself to a video medium, but… meh. My safety is a lot more important than sharing info.

I feel for anyone out there who already has easy-to-locate pics out there… and I hope the people in their lives tell them about this so they can do what makes them comfortable.

My anthropology class had us buy four textbooks all written by the professor.

None of them was used at all during class.

I didn’t buy them, or rent them, or spend any money on them. And then I learned to look at the book author while signing up for classes, since the book(s) is/are usually listed.

I have been using it for over 10 years for headache/migraine, so I get a way way higher dose than cosmetic, much more frequently, over far more injection sites (60-80 depending how my neurologist is feeling and what shifted complaints I have). So like take that for what it’s worth. The actual effect of it is pretty much the same, just paralyzed muscles in more places, and dosed more frequently.

It turns out after a long enough time (which, fun fact, super long-term use hasn’t really been well studied! Yay!), you actually do get some facial expressions back, but they are super muted. Mostly your face starts to employ other muscles that aren’t paralyzed. If you also get injections elsewhere for many years, like I do (neck and shoulders), the recruitment of other muscles can lead to some nasty rebound pain as the unparalyzed muscles desperately try, and fail, to make up for the loss, and knot the fuck out of themselves in the process. I’m dealing with this one now, going on 6 mths.

But for the most part, yes, you do lose a solid range of emotional expression, depending where you get the injections. Say goodbye to anger, surprise, confusion, and unfortunately compassion, among many other brow-heavy expressions (I decline injections in the constricting muscle between my eyebrows so I retain passable expressions of compassion confusion and anger, but surprise is gone entirely). For the first few weeks after getting it done, starting at about day 3 post-injection (every single time for at least a decade, I promise), you’ll feel how paralyzed your muscles are. It’s a weird feeling. You try to make a face and can’t, but you can feel the struggle. If you ever adjust to it, you still feel the first week or so, but significantly less.

I’ve declined to have any purely cosmetic injections, despite my neurologist making regular comments over the years about my lop-sided smile lines and crows feet (I use my face in asymmetrical ways; I like the wrinkles. It’s character.), so I don’t have the smile problem, tho I do get TMJ injections which make chewing tough stuff really difficult. I get enough of the shit injected already that I don’t really want more just to be “pretty”, but even with the current regimen, I get to look eternally youthful as I fall apart from the inside. Yay…

I went with immortal, shape shift, and teleport.

There’s no range to the teleport listed, and I’m just going to assume that shape shift can alter biological function and not just the meaty outer covering… but ultimately it doesn’t really matter that much because immortal.

This would be a great way to explore the universe and a search for life. Maybe settle down somewhere if you find an advanced society that sucks less than humans.

If it’s something I want to remember (to do, to look into, etc.) and probably won’t, I text myself, and leave the notification unread.

It works as a nice backup too, won’t lose them in email or deleting a note app or something.