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i think having a hole drilled in my skull would feel real good for at least 10 seconds

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we as a society do not explore proxy sex enough………….

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It’s definitely not “do whatever you want bc nobody cares” it’s somewhere between “people don’t care as much as you think they do” and “if you want to truly do what you want you have to not care about how much other people care”

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There’s something seriously wrong with every single human being in the entire world. Me too but I’m a liiiitle better so I get to judge

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just saw a furry go "ugh pup masks are the worst thing to happen to the furry community" and it's like what are you talking about those are your cousins, at the end of the day you're both pretending to be gay dog men, i think it's just an aesthetic choice at that point

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ditto facts

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have you ever seen someone do a cover of one of these second beat songs? id love to hear someone singing some these as if theyre sensical lol

I haven't, but I did seriously consider doing one myself back when I went to online filk circles more regularly! like, I thought about raising my hand in a zoom meeting, trying to explain the concept, and then singing one of these songs...but I never ended up doing it. some of them are definitely singable tho!

like the actual secret here is that I make these songs for myself because I think it's fun, and when "Me Home, Tree Road" comes up on shuffle on my phone or ipod, you'd better believe that I'm singing along to it

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The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

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A copper retriever with her unoxidised puppies

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Conversational skill check: Work acquaintance mentions in an offhand tone with no discernible expression that they have recently lost over 20 pounds. They fail to elaborate. A response is expected.

Me, rolling a 6: …On purpose?

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Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

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I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

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the family did share a video of him at her bedside, likely saying goodbyes before she was taken off life support, where he started sobbing. So at some point they must have explained to him what happened.

while normally I discourage things like "mommy is sleeping" in this specific case because she was going to be kept on life support for so long, it would be almost tortuous to keep having to visit so I understand why they may have told him that. They also may not have and that's how he interpreted it.

it's just a shame all around

emory hospital performed an emergency c-section on adriana smith's corpse last Friday.

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"I had just gotten out of a code and was exhausted. Patient next door was furious and yelling. He hit his call light and had been waiting. He didn't know where I was, just that I hadn't answered. The whole thing was so unfair for both of us. Happy nurse's week, everyone."

I gave a shot to revising. Healthcare peeps are allowed to have feelings and talk, but empathy for the patient here (y'know, the whole point of it all) is a must. Also blame staffing girl, why wasn't anyone able to answer lights while you were busy with a code?

idk girl I think I’d be a little crabby if I was in that state too. also I think nurses forget patients have no idea what the codes mean or who is expected to respond to them