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*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

this has been a psa

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There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.

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Children please stop calling the slightest hint of sexual desire “gooning” I’m going to strangle all of you

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I’ve seen pictures of trans men wearing medical pump things/suctioning machines on their chests after surgery but I never see them mentioned in videos about recovering from top surgery. Are those machines for select cases where there were complications during surgery or are they a normal part of it?

A few things. First of all, these are not machines. These are surgical drains. If you click on that link, you can see more information about it, but I will also say it here - those are just tubes with bulbs on the ends for collecting excess blood and bodily fluids after surgery.

Drains are fairly standard for top surgery, though some surgeons don't use them. I had them in for about a week, and then went back for my post-op appointment to have them removed. Some people will have them in for longer. It depends on the healing process of every individual person. You can have them removed once they stop filling up at a certain rate (which indicates that you've healed)

After you have surgery, sometimes there is some fluids floating around that need a place to escape. There are other surgical procedures that use them, but they are common with top surgery.

As far as I am aware, the usage of drains is not heavily associated with any sort of complications.

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I understand more and more things about cisgender men the longer I’m on testosterone. I know why teenage boys use so much axe now. I understand the crying thing. I know why they accidentally break things. I know why they wear shorts in the snow. I know why so many of them don’t use washcloths. I see everything.

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Things I’ve seen and done working in a library as part of my internship that was slightly weird and make me admire everyone working in a public library:

- a guy bringing in a jug of milk, which while not too weird did have all of us going ?????

- the Fake Service Dog Incident

- threats to the library because of the Fake Service Dog Incident

- children bringing in bikes and being told to put them on the bike rack outside

- parents refusing to listen or parent their children until one of us comes over and asks them not to hit each other with the foam blocks

- I did three programs in a day once (toddler and baby based) and now I thoroughly admire teachers, youth librarians, and the lady that goes around just doing the baby and toddler classes all day

- people wanting me to log into their email

- people wanting me to do applications for them

- people not knowing how to log off a computer

- the printer works fine, but even then I wound up in there for an hour and a half helping people print

- having a guy try to grab his video game holds from my hands before I had a chance to scan them out for him

- made a child cry while just looking at them. Had to bring out the puppets to make her happy.

- pretty sure I was a few babies first introduction to People of Color given the area I was in was very white and the babies and parents did not stop staring at me

- worked on a project that was run by a very obviously queer historian and got to see old WWII ammo shells that were made into vases

Anyway support your public libraries and go to them because sometimes fun shit happens at them

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maybe this is just me idk

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been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and

1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks

2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this

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yeah sorry they gave me an open wound instead of a heart that's why im like this

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those moments in au fics when you finally figure out how the author is reinterpreting a specific canon event and you basically go ‘oh snap that’s brilliant’ for five minutes straight

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colors

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got stuck on the toilet earlier and my inner monologue started coming in cookie monster's voice for some reason

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sorry i havent been on tumblr every time i open it i get sad

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it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT