#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #fun with loopholes #Dinosaur Comics #comics #(3.141592653589793238) #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
So, this week I ordered a new couch pillow because I had a husband pillow full of shredded memory foam, and the thing needs to be opened and shifted around about once a week with the way I use it so it doesn’t shape up weird and actually fuck up my back when I bought it to NOT fuck up my back.
I now have a wedge pillow, made of one piece of foam. And I ordered a book cushion from etsy, and I just wanna say to anyone who has thought “that adaptive thing seems like it would be useful, but I’m not disabled, so maybe it’s not for me?”
It’s for you. Trust me. My back hurt because I was slouching weird on the couch. I got a husband pillow. It helped a lot. But, it turns out, what I need is one giant piece of memory foam, not a bunch of tiny bits.
And the book cushion? Books are heavy sometimes. Being able to rest it higher in my lap so it’s easier to read and hold? Better for my body.
Also, do you wake up with pain in the mornings? Try a contour pillow and a knee pillow.
Get those extra-strong treaded soles to wear with your heels because you wobble otherwise.
Wear compression gloves when you type. Get those orthopedic shoes because you can walk longer distances in more comfort. Buy the bra that actually supports the weight of your boobs. Get a lapdesk for your computer. Use a neck pillow even at home to keep your neck straight. Wear socks to bed. Listen to audiobooks. Read large print books.
You see something that you think will work for you and improve how you feel? Use it! Let’s fucking normalize adaptative shit for everyone!
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#yes this #transhumanism #computer lapdesks are so good #I want a wedge pillow but they cost like 10 regular pillows :( #so I have been approximating one by piling multiple regular pillows on an angle #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
fall faster ([conjuration (force)] wizard 1, druid 1, bird 0)
watch feature-length film ([divination (evil)] cleric 5, wizard 9)
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”watch feature-length film” being a 9th-level spell) #((I don’t know its level but Lend Executive Function comes to mind as one of my strongest spells)) #this post was queued to ensure proper timing
@another-normal-anomaly, are you still taking reports of violations of the food/pretty-rock binary?
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#rocks #not to be confused with #food #it looks like that last picture has already been filed with Anomaly‚ but this is a more detailed report #pretty things #reply via reblog
What is it about fics then, where characters always, ALWAYS, have a spare toothbrush conveniently just hanging about in bathroom cupboards for that time someone is, usually unexpectedly, staying the night?
I have lived a few decades now, and I have never known anyone who keeps spare toothbrushes. Is it really common??
if you are the kind of just-in-case clutter goblin who does not throw things away, and you live in a country where it is standard practice for the dentist to give you a free toothbrush every time you go, then it is extremely possibly to have several years-old unused “spare” toothbrushes of extremely cheap but basically functional quality stashed away in your bathroom whether or not you visit the dentist at the recommended frequency
Don’t people buy multipacks of toothbrushes? I use an electric now, but back in the day I got the ones from my dentist and also bought the 8 pack of toothbrushes then I’d forget about my spare 5 toothbrushes in my cupboard when I see the multipack on sale again and then – you get the idea.
There are people who don’t keep spare toothbrushes??
What if you fumble your toothbrush and it falls onto the toilet plunger, do you then just *not have* a toothbrush?
What if you go to the store–for any toothbrush-replacement reason, fumbling or otherwise–and they’re out of toothbrushes because it’s the 2020s and a store is always out of an absolute minimum of three things on your shopping list at any given time?
*please* let me give you a toothbrush from out of my gallon bag of spare toothbrushes, I am *begging* you, you do not have to live on a knife’s edge
i don’t think i’ve ever unexpectedly lost a toothbrush
but also i think you seem to consider ‘you don’t have a toothbrush’ as… more of an emergency than I do?
if i lose my toothbrush and don’t happen to have spares and it’s too late to go buy a new one what would happen is i would not brush my teeth that night or the following morning, and i’d buy one the next day. and this seems basically fine to me. obviously an inferior outcome to the one where i do brush my teeth, but not a serious problem.
Maybe it seems like more of a hassle if one normally goes shopping fortnightly. Almost any loss of sole toothbrush would require making some sort of special arrangement, going out of my way to do something or convince someone else to do it.
And even if it’s not a *serious* problem, it’s satisfying to be able to simply make a problem Not.
Relatedly, I consider household-inventory buffers to be a good idea by default: with how cheap and small and indefinitely-shelf-stable and inevitably-useful-sooner-or-later toothbrushes are, I would basically need a good reason to *not* have some spare toothbrushes. It’s all just part of keeping a household running smoothly, from my perspective. I store them next to the 20-pack of bar soap I bought at Costco.
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#reply via reblog #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #domesticity #medical cw? #unsanitary cw?
suppose your body has magically decoupled its functioning from your food intake. you no longer experience hunger or fullness, digestive problems, allergies, tooth decay, etc no matter what (or whether) you eat. food still tastes the way it did before, and any psychoactive properties (from caffeine or alcohol or whatever) are still there.
would you:
a) eat much less than you did before, since you don’t have to?
b) eat much more than you did before, since you can’t get full or experience any other negative side-effect from it and food is pleasant?
c) eat about the same but with much less care taken to avoiding ‘unhealthy’ foods, or foods you in particular couldn’t tolerate well?
d) avoid foods that might have ethical issues that you weren’t avoiding before?
e) leave your eating habits basically unchanged?
f) some combination of the above?
g) some change in an entirely orthogonal direction to the ones i’ve listed here?
in the hypothetical, which is distinct from the post about the hypothetical, am i informed directly of the rules of the change or just left to intuit that it isn’t just another inscrutable biological shift?
is the thrust of the hypothetical “only you experience this” or “everyone experiences this”?
you are directly informed of the rules of the change. this happens to a small number of people yourself among them and it’s a recognised phenomenon, but not to everyone.
Sorry can’t hear anyone over me bankrupting Old Town Country Buffet.
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#food #disordered eating #surveys #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(a and c) #(I normally eat food-chosen-primarily-for-pleasure-with-loosened-regard-for-cost-effectiveness a few times a year) #(if *all* food is cost-ineffective I am not sure if this frequency would go up at all) #(it definitely wouldn’t go up to several times a day) #(however often it happens‚ it *would* be nice to eat potato chips again without regretting it #and macaroni and cheese without it being a careful balancing act)
What is it about fics then, where characters always, ALWAYS, have a spare toothbrush conveniently just hanging about in bathroom cupboards for that time someone is, usually unexpectedly, staying the night?
I have lived a few decades now, and I have never known anyone who keeps spare toothbrushes. Is it really common??
if you are the kind of just-in-case clutter goblin who does not throw things away, and you live in a country where it is standard practice for the dentist to give you a free toothbrush every time you go, then it is extremely possibly to have several years-old unused “spare” toothbrushes of extremely cheap but basically functional quality stashed away in your bathroom whether or not you visit the dentist at the recommended frequency
Don’t people buy multipacks of toothbrushes? I use an electric now, but back in the day I got the ones from my dentist and also bought the 8 pack of toothbrushes then I’d forget about my spare 5 toothbrushes in my cupboard when I see the multipack on sale again and then – you get the idea.
There are people who don’t keep spare toothbrushes??
What if you fumble your toothbrush and it falls onto the toilet plunger, do you then just *not have* a toothbrush?
What if you go to the store–for any toothbrush-replacement reason, fumbling or otherwise–and they’re out of toothbrushes because it’s the 2020s and a store is always out of an absolute minimum of three things on your shopping list at any given time?
*please* let me give you a toothbrush from out of my gallon bag of spare toothbrushes, I am *begging* you, you do not have to live on a knife’s edge
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#reply via reblog #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #domesticity #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #medical cw? #unsanitary cw?
I am curious what normal people with hyphenated names do when they have kids. double hyphenate? remove the hyphen? pick one parental surname? hyphenate half of the hyphenated surname with the other?
I vaguely get the impression that the most common thing to do is “children inherit the non-hyphenated parent’s surname”, and have never in practice heard of two hyphenated people marrying each other.
My vote is for “maternal halves should be matrilineal and paternal halves should be patrilineal”.
Mom didn’t plan this, but my sister went to Cedar Point September 15, 2001.
Because the hotel was non refundable.
The lines for everything were so short my mother eventually started letting a 7-year-old ride alone because she couldn’t handle 6 rides an hour on Millenium Force.
but really, not going to cedar point would have been letting the terrorists win. riding millenium force twenty times in a row as an expression of the indomitable american spirit, etc
God, being at Disney World on 9/11 was such a pain.
They closed the parks. September 11th was supposed to be the monthly open-late night, and they didn’t hold a replacement open-late night (I think they did refund the tickets, but the late hours worked better with our sleep schedule and I was looking forward to that). We were on hold so long trying to find out if our plane back had been cancelled that I took a shift of keeping an ear on the phone because Dad was getting tired, and eventually we learned that it had been. All of the adults were very sad all the time and spent an entire day watching the same two clips over and over, as if it would help anything. My parents wouldn’t come out of their room that night: I had to make myself microwave popcorn for dinner.
(It wasn’t *as* much of a pain as it could have been. The hotel let us stay for free for a couple of extra days until we could make alternate travel arrangements. The rental-car company let us take their car and drop it off at their Philadelphia branch.)
The length of the lines was not what stuck out to me.
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#posts from seven-year-old me #9/11 #Disney #home of the brave #my childhood #reply via reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
Brinens and Things 