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do not discuss your disability or medical conditions or pregnancy with the police. do not tell them your diagnosis. do not let them in your hospital room without a warrant. never talk to the cops. I don’t care if you’re white or cis or middle class or think you have nothing to hide. never ever ever talk to the cops without a lawyer. they will use every detail about your conditions against you and worse

#SO IMPORTANT #DO NOT TELL THE COPS SHIT

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2024 lucky birthday ranking is out:

https://micane.jp/fortune-birthday-2024ranking

#325….. #is that. bad #my partners is 94

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how does one stop having nightmares about the people you love dying

#i need it to stop

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In light of the Panera lemonade thing, I feel like now is a good time to remind people that caffeine has an effective dose that is much closer to overdose amounts than most other drugs (including illegal and heavily stigmatized drugs), that caffeine overdoses are both common and under-reported, that not being able to get through a single day without a drug that was not prescribed to treat a medical condition is not normal, and that the sort of capitalist grind culture that normalizes all of this is bad, actually.

Caffeine headaches are a withdrawal symptom. If you get caffeine headaches when you don't get your coffee fix, you are addicted to caffeine.

Heart palpitations and feelings of impending doom are overdose symptoms, and tolerance can vary enough due to external factors that a high level of caffeine that's fine for you one day could be dangerous for you on another. If you get "panic attacks" and if you regularly drink more than one cup of coffee per day, tell your doctor about your caffeine habits, because those panic attacks may be misdiagnosed caffeine overdoses.

I'm not anti-caffeine – in fact, I'm not anti- any drug. I think adults can make informed choices about their own health, and I think that they should be allowed to do so. But the key to that is the informed part, and an awful lot of people consume genuinely risky amounts of caffeine without knowing any of the risks. In law school, I polled my friends, and discovered that a shockingly high percentage of them had had what were likely caffeine overdoses without realizing that that was what they were, or that they were dangerous. Having a little bit too much coffee and then spending all afternoon feeling like you're close to having a heart attack isn't an everyday occurrence, and it shouldn't be treated like one! Some of these same friends had abused stimulant medications like adderall and ritalin as productivity aids, and I absolutely guarantee that if they'd had the same level of symptoms from an accidental extra dosing of those drugs, rather than of caffeine, they'd have gone to the hospital. But Starbucks and Panera don't hand out adderall and ritalin, and people don't think that merch about adderall and ritalin dependency is cute or quirky, or that an adderall or ritalin habit is indicative of being a hard worker.

I love a cup o' joe in the morning too, but caffeine is a drug, y'all. Stop treating it like it's not.

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this stupidass swipe/gesture based design that every app and mobile website has nowadays needs to die yesterday. im not kidding it's maybe the worst thing to happen in the UX space in the last decade aside from general mobile first design issues

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god gives his most specific, hard to explain genders to his strongest dykes

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You can start wearing your mask again at any time BTW. You don't have to be high risk to wear one and those who are high risk in your life thank you.

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I see jokes about the Panera lemonade but no guys.. it actually killed someone.

The guy NEVER had caffeine due to health issues. He loved going to that Panera and they did not warn him. He had no way to know where was like a level of 380mg of caffeine in his drink. The equivalent of drinking like 4 redbulls if I remember correctly. The FDA recommends 400mg as the level max per day. (A shot of expresso is 65mg for context)

Panera KILLED this man with what he thought was a simple regular lemonade.

Apparently it ALSO killed a young girl with a heart condition

STOP BUYING THIS DRINK FOR A MEME

#two fucking people. #they apparently have this drink behind the counter now #but they should just NOT FUCKING SELL IT

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so i had a horrible reaction to reglan, i dont want to take it again.

im really hoping that insurance will cover motegrity or motilium now :/

not sure what comes next from here

#gastroparesis #reglan

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my favorite episode of jojos is the one where they eat spaghetti that's so good they think it has to be evil but it's just really good pasta

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reblog this with what you’re proud of accomplishing this year in the tags! (this does NOT mean work-related!!! this can be personal growth!! relationship growth!!! a hobby you started!!! mental health challenges you faced and are working on!!)

#met the love of my life #finally got over art school burn ou #out* #and got into my top choice grad school!!

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An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.

Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)

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spinal stenosis sounds like a wizard spell

#it IS hard to pee

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Ah to be chronically ill and work twice as hard to maintain a level of health that is half that of my peers.

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Just because I’m curious now:

#multiple of these #gaara’s manic growling has become one of them since i realized i can do it pretty accurately lmao

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it seriously seriously sucks that you can do something you think is fun or cool or even do something accidentally embarrassing and there is always a chance that a video or picture of you will be posted online and you’ll have thousands of people making fun of you. and there’s nothing you can do about it. like i don’t think we talk about it enough how much it absolutely SUCKS that we don’t even have the privacy to be people anymore without the chance of being mocked incessantly online pretty much forever

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new discord update will send images to recent dms instead of servers sometimes when you send them from the + in the message bar jsyk. replicable glitch and idk what all it affects but uh. Feels important to mention to as many people as possible