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Dianora, 8 days ago to Ottawa

Looks like my playdoh baked up.The bread buns are great in the morning for breakfast with some butter and jam.

#Ottawa #Bread

evan, 10 days ago to random

It's perfectly OK for Palestinian Americans and other Arab Americans to organize and lead protests in the US.

purplepadma, 11 days ago to random

Morning. I slept badly and I’m tired and confused. We’re scheduled to go on a day trip to see the dams in the Elan valley, with lunch at an award-winning pub. Predictably I don’t want to go and feel about as enthusiastic as if I was scheduled for toenail surgery. How are you?

purplepadma, 12 days ago to random

I didn’t garden. I went back to bed where I felt much safer. I dozed fitfully, depressed dreams. Missed lunch, missed the best of the weather. Came outside to find Tom and Miss Cinnamon pottering about sorting things on the patio. I just feel useless, an onlooker

ottaross, 14 days ago to random

Filled a little bottle with maple syrup and headed out for a greasy-spoon breakfast.

#mapleSyrup #CanadianThings

RickiTarr, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

Teri_Kanefield, 21 days ago to random

I am almost finished with this week's blog post.

Meanwhile, my 3-year old neice (grand niece? what do I call my niece's daughter?) taught me to play hide and seek.

Here's how:

💠 I tell her where I'll hide.
💠She closes her eyes and counts to 10.
💠When she reaches 10, she opens her eyes and looks for me.
💠It does't take long to find me.
💠Then we laugh.

I suspect I am supposed to tell her where I will hide so she doesn't feel scared when she opens her eyes and doesn't see me.

seachanger, 21 days ago to random

thinking about rebuilding our public squares in a hybrid digital age

1. encourage public entities to share public info on public channels, not private platforms

2. embrace sharing in real life, use email, snail mail, private messenger, radio, newspaper, public forum, neighborhood scale gathering

3. create and use nonprofit and publicly owned social sharing platforms, but prioritize real life sharing when possible

vsp, 24 days ago to random

Alright.

I had two cigarettes tonight.

#vspQuits 🚭

Key question: do I... reset the counter (771 hours ↘️ 0 hours)?

bjb, 28 days ago to random

What happens when you push the envelope?

Nothing, it's stationary.

#DadJoke

mikemathia, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

#Pencil

fraying, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

Today I got my first community violation on TikTok. It was a video about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing that went on for minutes but failed to mention that McVeigh was a far right Republican white supremacist. That seemed like a pretty stark omission to me, so I left the fact as a comment. First, I was flooded by hateful responses. Then TikTok deleted the comment and issued me a “strike.” I appealed and was denied. I doubt a human ever reviewed it.

ross, 1 month ago to random

The Verge article on the best printer in 2024 is just completely brilliant in so many ways.

And also kinda sad.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

bjb, 1 month ago to random

The swordfish has no natural enemies to fear...

...Except the penfish which is even mightier.

#DadJoke

vsp, 1 month ago to random

Hour three.

#VSPQuits 🚭

bjb, 2 months ago to random

I went to the dentist for a filling, got home just now. Normally I don't eat anything after dentist visits, but wondered if sense of taste was affected by the anesthetic.
So I ate a little chocolate (you know, for science) to test. I can report that the sense of taste on anesthetized side of mouth is gone, and taste on other side works.
At least this isn't a complete waste of chocolate.

msquebanh, 2 months ago to random

I am going to attempt to eat wonton soup soon - first solid food in days. If it creates tooth/mouth pain - will have congee & preserved bean curd instead. I should be able to talk again, at regular volume, without mouth pain, by Friday👍

ottaross, 2 months ago to random

Just having a meal with @skatem in the spot we had our first meal together 33 years ago today.
Still in operation, yay.

ottaross, 2 months ago to Ottawa

About to go out for a walk. Seeing passers-by, they are really bundled up. I guess they've adjusted to the warm temps already? It's about 3°C now.

Gotta beat that pending snow, though the weather radar doesn't look very threatening yet. Change of wind direction expected?

#ottawa #ottWeather

adamsdesk, 2 months ago to til

Today I learned that the majority of road signs use either Highway Gothic or Clearview sans serif font.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Gothic
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)

#TIL #TodayILearned

petergleick, 3 months ago to TeslaMotors

Makes sense that #Musk, with 11 known children by three known mothers, none of whom he gives a s### about, would want to take away women's contraceptives/birth control.