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the circus was in town that day 🤡

happy lesbian visibility week to them

hey you, learn about the phases of a migraine attack!

migraine is a neurological disorder that involves a shit ton of different symptoms that might not seem related, but are often debilitating and can disrupt someone's life for days at a time.

not every person will experience every phase of this timeline with every migraine attack, not every possible symptom that can be associated with a migraine attack is listed, and many will experience phases lasting longer than what is listed here. this is just a helpful graphic to get an idea of what the timeline of a migraine attack can look like.

a single migraine attack can last a week or more!

PRODROME: this phase lasts a few hours to days. there are a ton of seemingly unrelated symptoms that can actually signal the start of a migraine attack. being able to identify prodrome symptoms is essential to navigating migraine attacks, as they can vary from person to person, and most patients have no idea that there can be warning signs like these up to days ahead of the severest part of the pain.

prodrome phase symptoms can include:

AURA: 5-60 minutes. more migraine patients seem to be conscious about the aura phase than the prodrome phase, because these symptoms might only show up in a specific person right before the headache phase of a migraine attack. some people get blurry vision, blind spots, or temporarily stop being able to see altogether. others might see lights, flashing, or geometric shapes that are not there.

aura phase symptoms can include:

HEADACHE: the ouch part. this is where the pain climaxes, and it can last 4-72 hours. for some the pain is mild, and for others the pain is really really really really bad. the apparent site of the pain often moves throughout the headache phase of a migraine attack. despite being called the headache phase, not all symptoms are actually related to having pain in the head. this is just the phase where the worst part of the headache happens.

headache phase symptoms can include:

POSTDROME: also called a "migraine hangover". after the main head pain is over, and the pain should typically drop in severity pretty fast around now, the migraine attack is still not fully over. the postdrome phase can last 24-48 hours.

postdrome phase symptoms can include:

being able to identify patterns and symptoms associated with migraine attacks at all phases can be critical to understanding when something is a medical emergency, a different medical condition, or part of migraine. the symptoms associated with a migraine attack can easily be mistaken for something more life-threatening like a stroke, but migraine attacks often have patterns, timelines, and buildup.

migraine patients can wind up getting unnecessary and unsuccessful surgeries (such as in the mouth, sinuses, or shoulders), or getting misdiagnosed with one thing or another because they might not be able to recognize their own migraine symptoms, or might not recognize that they can have so many seemingly unrelated symptoms from a migraine attack across such a long period of time.

when it comes to migraine attacks, the severity of pain ≠ the severity of the pathology, at least in terms of things that might endanger someone's life. it can hurt like hell, it can really really really fucking hurt like hell, it might feel like death, and it can still be a migraine attack.

which is important to understand, because migraine can be more painful and debilitating than many immediately life-threatening conditions, and is among the most debilitating neurological conditions in the world.

btw it wont be the first or last time i say it but sheezy.art is cool.

if youre an artist and youve been looking for somewhere to actually make friends/form an art community rather than just sadly refreshing your feed for likes/rbs i would recommend sheezy.art!

it's in beta rn and theres a timer that lets 10 people register every few hours, but theres also a kofi you can support thatll just let you register right away

the website's staff and multiple friends were the ones who brought the site to my attention (thank you lemmy), and every who ive met/talked to there has been super active and sweet ^_^ ik social media can be kind of daunting if you do art for fun so now its my turn to push you guys towards the site

also - i am fourleaf on there! i know my page is pretty simple, but the user profiles are extremely customizable... AND if you need to turn them off for readability/flashing, you can disable themes on any persons page!

i know a lot of people online like to use sort of like... eye-strainy colors or gifs, and while the site absolutely allows you to do that, it also gives the option to disable those things to people who may be sensitive to that

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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

This 420 is a palindrome!!!! 4/20/2024

It is!

hey good news

there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"

Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.

They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.

Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.

I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference

and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”

miku expo 2024 is the dashcon of vocaloid concerts. the projectors were replaced with LEDs and organizers told no one, still charged ppl for the projectors. someone stole the Miku canada cut out. vocaloid producers are really mad that attendees are mad that they got scammed because nothing comes before Product. the event banned glowsticks and upcharged the sale of their own, under the excuse that average glowsticks would interfere with the projectors, that the organizers knew they did not have. someone pissed on the floor. car crash outside the venue in san jose

containment breach

Some further points I'd like to add on, as a Vocaloid fan myself:

Updates and add ons:

> Coachella got the TV screens. It looks like dog shit. ((Pic from the offical insta below))

> They changed how they do the live band that plays with Miku (usually it's one band that plays with miku the whole expo and travels with the crew, now it's a different one for each show

> the Instagram is also generic posting despite all the outrage

>some fans are claiming people shouldn't complain. Friendly reminder those people are wrong. Public outrage is one of the only ways left to get companies to knock the fucking shit.

>this year's miku expo is sponsored by crunchyroll. They made it a dog shit shit show of a scalper's paradise

>Miku expo tickets used to be $80-160. This year the CHEAPEST tickets were $300

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genuinely mystified by the kind of person that would produce this image and not realize "oh, I'm being fucking ridiculous"

personally, when I see someone press a heart-shaped button to denote that They Like My Work, the conclusion I draw is that They Like My Work. but perhaps I'm the crazy one, and I should instead be taking it as one step above "shooting me three times in the head."

#liking it is a bookmark for them. no one else sees it. it's a nod and acknowledgement my work was seen. clearly not good enough for#them to share. not good enough to bring me more business more clients more customers. how does that like button help the artist#or help the writer? it doesn't. call me cynical if you want but i've been here long enough to know the like button is only a bookmark.

listen. I get it. I am also Out Here, chronically unemployed and trying to make ends meet by monetizing my music. I also get frustrated and demoralized when something I worked hard on fails to gain traction.

that being said:

this attitude can only ever corrode your connection to your own work. "not good enough to bring me more business" - I'm sorry, but strangers on social media do not owe you free marketing. meanwhile, what you call "only a bookmark" signifies that your work appealed to them, even if they didn't reblog it. isn't that the fucking point of doing any of this? to make someone else's day a little richer, or to make them feel seen?

to put it in simpler terms:

if you consider someone liking your work "meaningless," why are you making art in the first place?

I just....I just learned that there's a word in the English language...for when you run into someone to hug them with all the enthusiasm and strength you have....I learned that it's called glomp.

My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

employees should be allowed to steal, actually

idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate in my head how many hours of work equal one pair of pants, let alone how many hours of work equals the fun thing I want to do next month.

I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can't afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we're selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn't give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don't buy any.

A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children's medicine down, says they're both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she's burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she's so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total.

I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she's not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the "mistake" she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child's health. I don't bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I'm presented with the same situation tonight, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn't two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It's not equal.

Employees should be able to steal, actually.

Bro I teared up oh my god bro

Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

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