Ex-Evangelical Janeway🖖🥂🔍🏴‍☠️

If you would like to support the work I do here, there are a few tangible, cost-free ways to do that. <3 Here's my Amazon affilliate links for the books I recommend most: Is it You, me, or Adult ADD? (The Book That Saved My Marriage/Life) by @GinaPera amzn.to/37VjSMg

Imagine if TNG was cancelled after S1 because it "sucked"? I feel like the issue is they don't allow shows time to grow anymore, they have to be a viral hit the minute they come out or it's over. I haven't watched it so I can't say if it's good or not, but it feels like a waste

@notaproviderMD @GrantSlatton I genuinely can't believe you're asking that. What kind of choices do you think we have, when it comes to insurance, debt, etc?

@GrantSlatton You live in a place where there are choices on where to spend your dollar for dental work. What's insane about that?

insane that we tolerate living in a society where you can go see one dentist and he's like "ya u have 13 cavities, will be $4000 to fix them all" then see another and he's like "that guy was full of shit and trying to scam you, you're fine" ???

@CadetMisty I'm thinking of that fic where Spock kept dressing provocatively, but Kirk thinks it's just Spock exploring his creative side. 😆

I haven't seen anyone say Spock which is so crazy to me actually

my dental assistant asked if i was on any new drugs. “yeah i’m taking this new cancer drug.” “oh i’ve had cancer twice in the past few years. happens to us all.” “WHAT? what kind?” “colon cancer. stage 2, then stage 4.” she’s in her 30’s, shrugging like everyone gets cancer

@notinterextinq Who the hell spends THAT much time on a fic they DON'T LIKE? What an asshole?

On another note I think I hate everyone

Got this patient info sheet from the after hours clinic where my son went for an ear issue (not Covid, thankfully) Apparently they are calling Covid a "common cold" now & normalizing kids being sick like 16 weeks of the year "without cause for concern" 😳

Nightclub owner at centre of meningitis outbreak says “something isn’t making sense” - as TWO staff in hospital. “There's been a lot of talk about how hard it is to transmit… …but actually, it was transmitted a LOT more easily, by the looks of it, than they're suggesting” 🧵

That's a Ron Weasley lookalike. 📹lewis_ron_lookalike 7

Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy 🤣

Patient (crying): I can’t afford the antioxidant tea. Me, a cancer surgeon: What? Patient: Three people sent it to me and said it would help treat my cancer but it is so expensive. Me: You don’t need that. You need surgery and hormone blocking pills. Patient (immediately relieved): Thank you! Please y’all, RESIST the urge to send links to buy tea, supplements, “natural cures” you *think* are helpful to someone just diagnosed with breast cancer.

Game designers figured this out decades ago and it cost millions in failed launches. Will Wright built SimCity with a fully accurate traffic simulation. Testers hated it. The cars behaved realistically, which meant nobody could build a functioning city because real traffic is an unsolvable nightmare. He had to make the simulation dumber before the game became fun. The tension is permanent: the more accurately you model a system, the more it punishes the participant. Real medieval economies kept 90% of the population in subsistence farming. A historically accurate fantasy world doesn't produce heroes. It produces serfs. Tolkien solved this by making his economy deliberately vague. No one knows what a gold coin buys in Gondor. That ambiguity is a design choice, not a shortcut. The Reddit post is funny. The lesson underneath it is one of the hardest problems in simulation design: fidelity and fun are opposing forces, and you have to pick which one wins.

@profesterman @CoronaHeadsUp Meanwhile, my B-cells are in the low 500s. 🙄 No Epstein-Barr virus here.

@CoronaHeadsUp Large Swedish cohort study shows increased hospitalised EBV after COVID. That’s an epidemiological association. It is not direct evidence of a “weakened immune system.” Mechanism remains to be established.

Sweden: Coronavirus might have had more far-reaching effects than previously believed "We were surprised that even people who did not have severe symptoms but tested positive for COVID-19 appear to develop a weakened immune system and a higher risk of, for example, glandular fever. It may also be that the coronavirus further increases the risk of chronic fatigue." "A large proportion of those we studied were relatively young. This may suggest that the coronavirus had a stronger impact on younger people, particularly concerning the immune system and the risk of glandular fever. It also implies that more effects of the virus might become evident later, mainly through an increase in cases of glandular fever," News Medical news-medical.net/news/20260317/…

HAHAHHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHA

@froglet80 I went to YouTube to find older videos of meteor strikes. While watching, one cited a NASA statistic that ~1 meteor *per year* hits the US. One.

wait what? this just happened in ohio also. and i find it all odd timing. ps i am in houston and did t see or hear anything, literally live outdoors

The American mind can’t comprehend this. Who remembers when pandemic aid *accidentally* pulled a record number of Americans out of poverty, & then the Biden administration RACED to end it, leading to record increases in poverty & child poverty?

...I got rid of the, uh, solid material, #TheVulcan volunteered to scrub the basement floor w/ bleach water. Now, it just smells clean. #CatTwitter #CatTax #MamaCat

...bc I'm more focused on eBay selling. So my table saw has been more of a staging area before today. But when I was putting away some wood stacks, I uncovered a smell that nearly knocked me over. 🤮 The cats are no longer allowed downstairs, for any reason. And, after...

I just found out my cat has been using a small sawdust pile in my wood shop as an alternative litter box. See, when I travel, my cat gets upset, & is CONVINCED I'm in the woodshop. My family graciously allows her to go check. However, I don't do much woodworking in winter...

No one: Us: LOOK AT OUR NEW CHERRY BLOSSOM LETTERS!!!