@growing_daniel This is an elite practice. I often run my space heater while the AC is on. I need the air to be cool and my skin to be warm.
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Recovering Napkin Hoarder
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@barristerlawusa I don't mind the orange brick. What I hate is that ugly beige brick that I see in a lot of 60s-70s vintage homes. Hard to do that well.
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OK had to take a break from the SCOTUS Cert Petition. So here is another. $215,000, 3 bd, 1 bath, 1,456 sqft, 204 S Darlington Ave, Tulsa, OK 74112
I can't deal with orange brick. This is masonry stain. Why, the inside is stunning and updated. Actually a lovely home for someone. This is an easy fix, take the cedar out, stain the brick and re-landscape.
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@TheWinkingMinx @barristerlawusa When my husband was courting me, he cleaned his car out one day and threw out my carefully curated napkin collection and I will never forget how empty and adrift I felt. The napkin stash is safety, warmth, security, abundance, not something to be casually tossed aside! 😱
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@blankjen @barristerlawusa Jen - from one fellow napkin hoarder to another, I must ask - what pushed you into recovery?
What was your “rock bottom”? Was it opening the glove compartment of your car, and having 263 napkins tumble out?
Thank you for this; I don’t feel quite so alone anymore 😂
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This is a CRIME AGAINST ARCHITECTURE. People with white paint should be sentenced to terminal paint stripping & a slow death.
Stay away from historic craftsman homes. 🤬😱😭
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@TheWinkingMinx @barristerlawusa Omg, I'm not alone! I'm still in recovery lol, one day at a time! Still have piles of napkins in the car but I'm getting a lot better at rotating them out, at least. Very hard to throw away old napkins that haven't been used! And don't get me started on seasonal/party napkins! 😭
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@TheProjectUnity Congratulations! I've been following you since you interviewed Richard Dolan many years ago. Did you have any idea where your career would take you back then? This is so well-deserved and I wish you all the best!
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Just signed a deal for my Ancient Technologies episodes.
Pretty proud of myself honestly, because I did literally everything myself to make these documentaries happen.
Filming, travelling, researching, editing, narrating… all of it.
The deal is non-exclusive, so nothing disappears behind a paywall and the episodes will remain public on my platforms.
But still… I made something myself, and a company wanted what I created.
I think that’s pretty awesome.
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🚨 do you understand what happened to Kate Tolo..
3 weeks ago Bryan Johnson tweeted "just gave Kate oral sex, goodnight" and 2 minutes later posted her vaginal microbiome report calling it "top 1% of all vaginas." 21 million views and a wave of mockery.
Now he posted a photo of her getting a transvaginal ultrasound for suspected endometriosis. The same internet that called him unhinged went quiet.
- 98.7% Lactobacillus crispatus, when only 25-30% of women are dominant in that bacteria
- $2 million per year to make her "the most measured female in history"
- 3 months to map her baseline because women need 4 measurement points per cycle (men do it in 1-2 weeks)
- The same biohacker who injected his teenage son's blood is now trying to crack a disease 190 million women have
If he actually solves endometriosis nobody is allowed to make fun of him ever again.
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
Examining Kate’s 1% She has suspected endometriosis. This affects at least 1 in 10 women, likely more. Here she’s getting an ultrasound. Historically you needed surgery just to diagnose it (incisions are made in the abdomen). We're doing a non-invasive route. Typically women live with endometriosis for 7-10 years before being diagnosed. It’s the leading reason women aged 30 to 34 get hysterectomies (permanent surgery to entirely remove the uterus). This condition is where endometrial-like tissue starts growing outside the uterus, in ovaries, bowel, bladder, even the diaphragm. This tissue inflames, scars, and glues organs together. Our first step is to find out if @_katetolo has it. Initial measurements we’re doing: + trans vaginal ultrasound + pelvic MRI w and w/o contrast + hormonal labs All during the early part of her cycle to get the clearest picture. During her ultrasound, a slim probe, about the width of two fingers, 10-12 inches long (although only a small portion is inserted) is covered with a protective sheath and lubricant and gently inserted into the vagina (patient has to empty their bladder first). This creates real-time images of the uterus, ovaries, and surrounding pelvic structures. While inserted, the probe is turned 90 degrees to evaluate all the various structures, angles and views. There is no radiation exposure. The technician is looking for scarring, ovarian cysts, adhesions, and for organs that are fused together with tissue. This ultrasound can confirm endometriosis but it cannot rule it out. What endo does to the body: + 90% report pelvic pain + 50% report severe fatigue + 26% report infertility. However many sources cite 30 to 50 percent. + 50% experience pain during sex. + Many have pain with ovulation, bowel movements, and urination + Severe bloating called “endo belly” where the abdomen visibly distends There are a handful of theories about why endometriosis develops but the honest answer is no one is quite sure. We’ll keep you posted on her results.
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@texasrunnerDFW @GayBearRes Yes, and they will resist hired help until the situation is dire--usually when one of them becomes terminally ill, or has frequent falls and ends up in the hospital -> skilled nursing facility -> nursing home pipeline.
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@GayBearRes This is tough and not uncommon, but they need to hire help
From my experience growing up with retired grandparents in FL, things don’t shift until one dies (usually motivating the other to move to assisted living up north near their kids). It’s sad, but often how it goes
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If you're stunningly beautiful and you're not hatmaxxing, what are you even doing with your life?
Elle Lookbook@EvaLovesDesign
There is one royal who could teach a masterclass in hat wearing. It is Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi. The Italian-born aristocrat has built one of the most studied millinery records in royal life. You notice her first. Then the hat. The daughter of an Italian Count and a descendant of one of Italy's oldest noble dynasties, for Beatrice, the hat is never a costume. It is an expression. - royal style watch
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@Alt_Azn The H1B subreddit is full of people trying (and increasingly, failing) to figure out ways to game the system so they never have to go back home, or trying to figure out which country to go to next. It's awful, and I'm so glad that the govt is finally taking steps to stop it.
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@Alt_Azn They come in on an H1B. When that's about to expire with no renewal in sight, they apply & are approved for a tourist visa and keep job hunting. When that's about to expire, if they haven't gotten a job offer, they apply for a student visa. After graduating, they get an OPT...
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CATO posts stuff that they believe supports their argument but winds up being incredibly red pilling.
I had no idea the vast majority of “legal immigration” came from adjusting status. So basically fake asylum claims, tourist overstays, H1Bs, etc….
I, like most people, assumed most legal immigrants came the old fashioned way represented by the purple line.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
Here is legal immigration. DHS is saying that it was an abuse of a "loophole" in the law that allowed all the people in the orange to receive permanent residence. It's most legal immigrants since 1980.
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@iohndee I love old cemeteries and have always wanted to visit the ones in New England
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My own photographs, somewhere in New England, long ago.
C. Sandbatch (Best Selling Poet)@CSandbatch
I always love that Anglo funerary inscriptions and Grateful Dead tattoos are like an exact 1/1 correspondence.
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@washghost1 It does make a difference though. In Austin before the bag ban, I'd see plastic bags tangled in trees and vegetation along Walnut Creek every time it flooded after a storm. Couple years after the ban and all that trash was gone, rotted away, and the creek was so much cleaner.
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You’ll never convince me that this isn’t just as wasteful as plastic bags
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@visualbasic97 That's so hard, and I'm so sorry for your loss. It must have been the hardest thing in the world to push through to graduation after that. You should be so proud of yourself, as I know your mom would have been.
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i graduated last week but i don’t really care and didn’t even go to my ceremony. i only got my degree to make my mom happy but she died 2 months before i graduated
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@barristerlawusa The fact that this house costs $242/sq ft is outrageous though!
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Here is a small house for sale in Tulsa for someone at $200,000 at 1414 S Yale Ave, Tulsa, OK 74112, 2beds, 1baths, 825 sq ft. Very easy flip for a small law office.
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@London_W4 I just read about your ordeal yesterday and all I can say is what a literal nightmare, and I am so sorry all that happened to you but thank God you're alive and well! I would happily donate to help you recoup your losses, but I understand you don't want that.
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Today has been a much better day! Cruised (under motor only) for an hour in the gorgeous sunshine and have moored outside a beautiful pub. I’ve rowed ashore in my brand new dinghy that didn’t sink and I’m now sitting outside the pub with a large glass of wine looking at my boat. I haven’t had chance to check all of your messages today, but I shall. All I can say is that you are an incredible bunch of people. Thank you so much for everyone who has supported me by buying my books. You’re amazing. And thank you to everyone for the amazing messages of support. You’re all beautiful. Cheers 🥂
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Radio Shack was my dad's favorite store. He made multiple trips to Radio Shack every month, always asked for Radio Shack gift cards for birthday and Christmas, and he mourned when they closed. He was a genius with electronics and was always building or fixing ham radios.
MoundLore@MoundLore
RadioShack was the last store where being confused felt useful. You’d walk in for batteries and end up standing in front of tiny drawers full of parts you didn’t understand yet. Resistors. Switches. Speaker wire. Fuses. Project kits. Adapters for problems so specific they sounded made up until somebody behind the counter nodded immediately and disappeared into aisle six. People remember the batteries. They forget the feeling. RadioShack made technology feel close enough to touch. You could buy a soldering iron, a police scanner, a bag of LEDs, a replacement remote part, a weird cable, a battery club card, or one tiny component that somehow brought the whole thing back to life. Kids built crystal radios. People repaired RC cars. Teens stripped speaker wire in garages. Some employee who looked like he had worked there since 1987 could translate your terrible explanation into exactly the part you needed. That kind of place teaches a different relationship with the world. Machines had backs and screws and wires. Things failed for reasons. You could open them. You could make mistakes. You could learn enough to stop being intimidated. Then the world changed. Screens replaced screws. Batteries got glued in. Devices got sealed. Parts disappeared. Stores stopped assuming people wanted to understand anything below the surface. People call that convenience. But there’s a reason people remember RadioShack harder than they should. It was one of the last places that made technology feel unfinished. Like normal people still had permission to participate. Now most of us carry objects more powerful than anything in that store ever sold and most of us would not even know where to begin if one stopped working.
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