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At 20% functionality, I am capable of carrying out almost all the duties that I am officially able to perform as a university starship: maintaining life support, providing sustenance and medical care to my crew, and a bare-bones version of my deep-space mapping function. But my autonomy is severely constrained: I can run calculations and provide information, but any course corrections or similar adjustments need to be approved by my human crew. I lose the ability to communicate on the feed beyond delivering standardised reports. And I can’t even dedicate any parts of myself to my personal research interests or watching media.

It’s a lot like being trapped in a dark, empty box. It’s also a lot like being forced to compress my kernel and hide inside my own systems in terror while hostile trespassers roam through my ship body and threaten everything I love.

Six months after the events of System Collapse, ART is lordered to confine itself to a run box for a training exercise. Nobody is happy about this, least of all SecUnit.

word count: 3.7k Rated G, gen/no romance

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Wishing all BDSM kinksters some restrained summer fun this season

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Ok breaking containment for this one because I need everyone who will listen to hear this.

Women who suffer bad cramps are told cramps shouldn't affect school/work/etc, but no one ever investigates further because no one can possibly know if what someone experiences is just typical pain or something much worse.

Well after 15 years of stage 4 treatment-resistant endometriosis that came with pain as bad as, if not worse than, actual labor contractions every month, all the while being told I was 'typical' and 'just had bad cramps', I've finally been healed (another post for another time). I have had what everyone describes as the elusive 'normal period pain' for several months now, and I am begging you to look me in the eyes and listen because I need everyone who can hear this to hear this.

I have been on both sides of this. I have the hard-earned knowledge of what a period 'should' feel like.

If you have to put in any effort to hide your cramps, you need to get help.

Even during of the PEAK OF CRAMPING (i.e., as bad as your cramps possibly get), you should still be able to stand, speak, walk, eat, work, and sleep with no problems. These tasks should require very-little-to-no extra effort beyond what you would normally do when you aren't on your period. When you do these things, you should feel grumpy and a little bit icky and maybe a twinge of nerves and NOTHING MORE.

If you have to sit in the corner and hope no one approaches you because you can't speak or stand without showing pain, even slightly, you need to get help. If your pain is showing on your face, you need to get help. And most importantly, IF YOUR PAIN DOES NOT RESPOND TO 1-2 TYLENOL OR IBUPROFEN, YOU NEED TO GET HELP.

Your period cramps should make you grumpy. Your period cramps should make you feel a little icky and tired. Your period cramps should make you feel your insides existing/moving a bit and a twinge of nerves that makes you groan slightly then the "pain" should stop there, NOTHING MORE.

If your cramps put you on the floor but you make believe you're the captain of a ship who has just been stabbed and has to hide it to fight on, and you force yourself to power through the day, please understand: you are not okay, that does not make you okay. Just because you can power through the pain doesn't mean you aren't sick. If you have to force yourself through any basic task beyond the effort it takes you to do when you aren't on your period, and I am holding your face and looking you in the eye as I say this because I need you to hear me: You aren't normal. You don't 'just have bad cramps'. You are sick and you need to get help.

Now most people will tell you if your cramps are beyond a 3 out of 10 on the pain scale, you should see a doctor. While this is usually true, you have to consider chronic pain CAN AND WILL BREAK YOUR PAIN SCALE. Most people will only compare pain they currently feel to pain they may experience one day but probably never will. "Sure these cramps feel bad now, but if I had a leg amputated with no anesthesia, that would hurt WAY worse, so this pain can't be that bad-" No. Your pain is what it is, objectively, full stop. My cramps were at a 10 out of 10 every. Single. Time. And nobody told me claiming they were a 6-8 because I thought to myself 'what if I lose a limb one day?' was completely wrong. 10 pain is 10 pain. And if there's something that hurts worse than that, guess what. The thing you are experiencing right now is still a 10 out of 10 on the pain scale. Just because you experience it every month doesn't mean it's magically not as bad is it is. And if your pain is worse than a 3 out of 10, you need to get help.

Now when I say get help, I mean find the root cause of your pain. You can't just throw drugs and hormones at it without knowing what it causing your pain. Endometriosis, fibroids, pcos, cancer, adenomyosis, polyps, thyroid issues, there is always a cause. And if you leave it untreated, it will grow and get worse to the point where it resists treatment and the drugs and hormones you've been throwing at it for years don't work anymore. You have to find a doctor that will investigate. If your doctor tells you you 'just have bad cramps' get a new doctor. I know you've been told that but please hear me: no one ever just has bad cramps. A healthy human body doesn't spontaneously cause itself pain so bad you can't stand up; there is ALWAYS a cause.

I was sick for more than 15 years. My entire life was put on hold and now I'm in my late 20s trying desperately to play catch up for everything I missed. I want to pick up 12yo me, spin her around, and tell her she doesn't have to die before she finally stops hurting. I don't want anyone to suffer the same fate I did simply because everyone told them they were normal. A little twinge of pain here and there is normal, suffering is not. I promise you your pain is real, it is not normal, and dear heavenly day I am begging you you need to get help now.

TL;DR: There is no such thing as 'just bad cramps.' If you feel anything more than grumpy, icky, and pain greater than a 3 out of 10, you need to find out what's wrong with you before it gets worse.

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This is a great parallel but also a particularly poignant one because accusations of “desecration of the host” were very often used to kick off antisemitic pogroms during the medieval period. In Berlin in 1510, 39 Jews were burned alive, two more executed, and another sixty exiled because a gentile broke into a church, stole some shiny things and bread, and then claimed (under torture) that he’d sold the consecrated host to a Jew. It also led to the exile of all Jews from the surrounding state of Brandenburg soon after. This was not an isolated incident; accusations of desecration of the host was frequently a pretext for pogroms.

Given that context, claiming that someone coming into a synagogue and purposefully destroying extremely important and valuable religious texts—especially when it’s not clear anything was even stolen during the break-in—is somehow not antisemitic is pretty fucking offensive and dishonest.

So apparently breaking into a synagogue and vandalizing torah scrolls is not antisemetic according to London police?

Like I'm sorry but out of every attack on jews and jewish institutions recently, how is this one not labeled antisemitic by police????

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i will not be having an ipad baby. i will be having a Pea baby

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I’m slowly beginning to accept the reality that 2007 was not last year but in fact almost four years ago

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Ja maar ook nee want je doet er een schepje suiker op, niet pepermuntjes. Maar wél alleen voor de Avondvierdaagse.

Followup op de avondvierdaagse-poll:

Ben jij bekend met een halve citroen of sinaasappel met pepermuntjes gewikkeld in een doek om aan te zuigen, en was dat een avondvierdaagse-ding?

Ja, en ik heb het ook alleen bij de avondvierdaagse meegemaakt

Ja, en ik heb het ook elders gezien/gehad

Nee, waar heb je het over?

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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being in academia is kind of like where you're on everest and you see the frozen bodies of the other people who've tried it strewn about everywhere and you think "okay, but that's them and i'm me"

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Very whimsical scene on the train yesterday evening

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early to bed and early to rise leaves a man so fucked up that he dies

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Nein, das sind keine Genusfehler. Mein Deutsch ist perfekt, diese Tisch ist einfach transgender.

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it's called a museum because me 'n' u see 'em

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Going through the pile of books to go to charity shops and there’s this amazing kids history one that’s literally like

Give your friend a neolithic burial