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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • It was almost the entirety of AM radio for the past 40 years. Sports and this right-wing trash. On in the background at every work place, hardware store, and cafe until Muzac took over. Had that ranting asshole and his friends pumping into our ears wanting it or not. Many areas of the country had only that and Country Music for hours in any direction.

    When I said “if you knew what you were doing” I meant you can build an AM receiver out of literal trash with a middle school understanding of electrics but no one bothered because you had one built in to every car, every tape player, boom box, alarm clock, and anything else with a speaker. You had a radio in every room of the house and 2 in the garage even if you never turned it on. There’s no way to believe that phones have less cultural push than AM radio had pre-1990.





  • This is called the tensor timpani and I just learned from my hypermobilty support group that it’s super common in people with hypermobilty disorders generally to be able to move them. Look up Beighton scale and give yourself a quick check.

    Finding out I was hypermobile lead to me discovering my ADHD wasn’t inattention, but highly variable blood pressure and a wonky vagal nerve condition. Changed my meds, changed my life.





  • In the late 80 and 90s my mom bitched me and my friends out for “hopping from fake monogamy over and over again” because we didn’t date around. We tried to explain that STDs meant that “going steady” was the only dating status available at the time.

    Honestly, with the current economy, 3+ adults to a household just makes sense. Isn’t that sad? As long as everyone is informed, your daughter is still finding out what she wants from life don’t make it more complicated by forcing your views on her too.