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my spouse submitted his Hexbear app

get ready for Machine Whisperer posting

you know, the times everyone comes together to support or celebrate

that post yesterday about TC69 & BrookeBaybee was pretty great 🥰 I wasn't here back in the day to interact with them, but they're legendary, and seeing everyone's delight about their romance was heartwarming

tell me about the ones you hold dear

PS: you're the best and I love you ❤️

edit: title edited per correction from @[email protected] 💕

spent more time than I want to admit this weekend working on a shape cutout thing for the illustrations and fucking hated the results, so I ended up just searching up images and then combining and editing things that I liked

here's the final product. I've included the PNGs I printed from in case you liked the blessing and you're the kind of person who would give a homemade card, too. mine is printed on toned cardstock; trimmed card dimensions are 4.5x12" printed, 4.5"x6" folded.

generic Adderall is back in stock at my pharmacy 🎉 was really starting to worry they weren't going to get more until next calendar year or whenever the annual quotas reset or whatever, but I got both 30 mg xr for me and 20 mg xr for my son

so, check yours, it might be back for you, too

also, the one tech at my pharmacy that has never once been anything but barely civil with me was finally nice to me this week, which has given me another little data point that affirms my impression that pharmacy staff treats me better after having bought the name brand.

have you had that experience?

the same thing happened at two other chains: there would always be a couple people on staff who were a little gruff with me in a way they weren't with other people in line ahead of me, until the day I bought name brand from them.

(a third place treated me so poorly after they pulled my info up in the computer the very first time I went that I cried on the way home and never went back. )

my suspicion is that they're generally skeptical of anyone getting stimulants, but if I'm "willing" to pay a couple hundred per prescription per month for it, then I become less sketchy because obviously I and my kid "really need it."

it's possible that they just suddenly see me as pitiable; I'm sure my voice and face change drastically in the seconds after they tell me the generic isn't available.

or maybe I seem less likely to sell it if I can "afford" hundreds of dollars for the name brand.

nevermind the actual situation, which is that I'm only able to "afford" it or "willing" to pay that because I can beg my family for help, and there are plenty of people (who need it to have any executive function just as much as my kid and I do!) who just Do Not Have That Option.

when this happens to me, it makes me wonder how they treated everyone who couldn't afford the name brand. are they even more suspicious of them now?

I don't have a better theory for their line of thinking, and surprise surprise, the logic doesn't even hold up, imo. I could even see someone being more tempted to sell a couple day-off doses to recoup some of those hundreds they spent on the name brand – you do occasionally need to eat, after all.

thank you, Puritanical Culture and War on Drugs

I'm making a card to go along with our gift, but deciding what to write inside is hard! I did some searching and compiling of bits and pieces that I liked, and here's what I've got so far, please give your edits/suggestions/etc

May the Sun bring you new energy by day,
And may the Moon bring you peace every night.

May your wisdom and courage never fail,
May your kindness be returned multiplied,
And may beauty forever grace your heart and gaze.

May you always have a warm home to return to,
A gentle word offered to you, and a safe haven to rest your head.

May the rains softly wash away your cares and refresh you.
May the storms pass you by, the fires only warm you,
The tides bear you up, and the earth be a friend beneath your feet.

May you forever walk in harmony,
May you always know your blessings,
And may you never want for more.

she's tiny but she's almost 2.5 years old, just a very very petite kitty

she's named Ruby because she was born in July, we got her from the farm we were doing CSA with that year

she's very snuggly and curious, she loves to climb inappropriate things like curtains and screen doors and take long naps with my son, curled up on his back ❤️

right now she's pestering me while I try to clean in the basement, lmk if you have anything you'd like to say to her and I'll pass it along

anybody else engaging in this bizarre behavior I can't let go of?

it takes me a month to go through a pack these days, even giving them away, because I'm one of those lucky freaks who can just smoke one here and there and not be interested in one day to day

but I'm still flipping the front middle one over every time I open a new pack

maybe (probably!) you don't do lucky cigs – what're you doing that's a ridiculous holdover from forever ago?

kept wondering why the Star Spangled Banner was popping into my head while working on it, then I remembered @[email protected]'s "...showed that Iranians care" post from earlier and it suddenly made sense

Testimony from someone who worked first shift the day it happened and was almost swept away by flood waters when he tried to evacuate too late.

He correctly identifies that the greed of management is what killed his coworkers.

if you didn't have one, please feel free to invent what you think would have happened/what you would like to have happened

another Onion Lad cartoon, this time debunking capybara misinformation

a charming 4:50 cartoon about the brutality of insect warfare