No I’m 50 and I’ve seen them, definitely wasn’t alive in the 60s.

Neko Case, who is also a member of the New Pornographers. I have seen both her solo act and TNP probably about 10-15 times.

I don’t play a dedicated video game setup, but I do play a merge game on my phone that’s endless that I can whip out and do anywhere.

Have you been x-rayed? You could have a disc problem or something. My father had diskectomy at a young age.

The community center pool. It’s nice to just float around for an hour in warm water.

I remember a girl with a giant Mohawk I went to school with telling me she just used a lot of gel, and sucked it upwards with a vacuum cleaner.

Well yes. It was just an amazing thing to see though.

I did as well. I did love everything glam metal. The smoking and child neglect I could live without.

Saying this with the caveat that many people don’t love religion and I get that, but please hear me out. I am Christian (the kind that loves queer people and supports women’s freedom to choose and whatall), and a couple of years ago my ex was in hospital which was a big shock. I did not have the supports and friends I do now, and it was lonely and scary and stressful. A very nice man on the street stopped me and asked if I would like a Virgin Mary medal to bless me, and that just made me feel so loved and cared for in that moment.

Yes indeed. Not to be braggy but I’m super friendly and fun and loving.

Worth 50 bucks to me, it’s so cute.

A hangnail is more useful than AI.

It did, it just only got noticed in people who are intellectually disabled. That’s the only kid I knew with autism growing up in the 80s who got diagnosed.

The son of a family friend obviously has Asperger’s, he’s a few years older than me, and his parents did have him tested back then and were told nothing was wrong, but I don’t think they had that knowledge back then. He will ask me for a Coke Zero every ten minutes like clockwork when he comes over, polish it off and ask for another.

Cool, how do I disable this shit feature?

This is a really good podcast by an actual psychiatrist about it. Don’t listen to Andrew Huberman and his garbage science.

The important thing is getting the meds right, and taking them faithfully. They really do work remarkably well but figuring out what to take is hard. But plenty of people do really well on them, I have type 2 myself, and I work normally and have lots of friends, and you’d really never know because I’ve been on them for years and am really even Steven and responsible and calm and managing fine.

I think type 1 is harder in many ways because the manic episodes are so disabling, but type 2 is really hard to diagnose and makes you WILDLY irritable. A work friend recently got diagnosed, she’s a very educated physician, and yet she ended up manic, and I do believe she maxed out her credit cards, and was driving recklessly and wrecked her tire, and she ended up hospitalized after telling ALL of her friends and colleagues on WhatsApp, which she has no memory of, as well as being really out of it trying to do clinics. It has devastated her and I’m honestly not sure she’ll ever be able to work again.

https://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-podcast/dealing-with-bipolar-illness

That image leaves me helpless with mirth.

No, because the Internet has gotten so raggedy and corporate and enshittified and that’s where everything takes place.

An important question; type 1 or 2? They’re both difficult but type 1 tends to really wreck lives in a dramatic way.

East Coast music in general is awesome; have you heard of Cassie and Maggie? My favourite Christmas music ever. I will watch the play for sure!

My coworker pal is from there and she says if random local people invite you for dinner or tea, you should just go, because they’re that hospitable. I think that’s amazing. I will visit someday!