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  • I took him in as a stray foster dog who had been found on the street. I've spent thousands on his care. I don't claim they're healthy at all, but he's a delightful pet and I'm nursing him through his very geriatric years. I absolutely love him and he was a hilarious monkey back in his younger years. I'm just reminiscing on his funny days because he's having bad days lately.

  • I worked there back in the early aughts. It actually was a cool retail job that paid reasonably well, a few dollars above minimum, and you got company stock, benefits, a free pound of coffee a week or box of tea, you were invited to company meetings, free drinks on shift, and we did all sorts of cool volunteer stuff, like with the food bank and habitat for humanity, and we would do coffee tastings at events, all sorts of things. It honestly was a fun job lots of the time. It's so sad it's turned into trash.

  • There was this mommy blogger in the early aughts who decided to have an "unassisted birth", which is a thing where you just don't have any medical care at all. She pontificated often about Big Obstetrics and how they always pushed you for C section because they got paid more, she called midwives "medwives", and all sorts of other crunchy shit like that. She clearly was not terribly confident but was terribly obnoxious and holier than thou. Fine. I think she had NPD or BPD because of her behaviour personally. Just the nastiest person. She did all her own pregnancy care, which apparently was just writing weight down and taking vitamins and that's about it.

    Well at 33 weeks she went ripping into early labour, phoned her old midwife and while telling her quite rudely that she wanted an unassisted birth also asked her what to do. The midwife told her to go to ER and that she couldn't help her because it was out of her scope. So she went screaming to ER, could feel baby sitting right at the perineum. The OB takes a look and tells her they have to do a section because baby is breech and obstructed. She began screeching at him that she only wanted to have a vaginal birth and told him he was "birth raping" her, and acted like a hysterical hyena. He managed to convince her how bad things were and that she needed to be delivered RIGHT NOW, and she finally consented and they took her up, and put her under general anesthesia.

    She later wrote this vague blog birth story, baby had died because of congenital defects before she woke up, and she wrote a very long set of blog posts about All The Ways The Hospital Was Wrong without really going into why her baby died, and everyone fell all over themselves pitying her and telling her that she was so right about everything. She blogged about how the nurses were so terrible for trying to connect her with social work or grief groups, and when they offered her medication to dry up her breast milk she screeched that they were not supportive of her breastfeeding her 3 year old.

    But later on the story came out that baby had a rare condition called sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome it's sometimes called. It's a birth defect where the legs are fused together into the appearance of a mermaid tail. They have a lot of other defects, including no kidneys, no genitals, heart defects, etc. Sirenomelia is caused by untreated gestational diabetes. So not having prenatal care probably killed her child. That was damn deceptive, making everyone pity her when it was just her own obnoxious ignorance.

  • Nobody should feel bad for using Reddit to deshittify Google searches. That's just what has happened.

    I do look at r/opera sometimes because there's no community here, but only once in a great while, and I do look at the monthly list that the ban pit bulls subreddit keeps of pitbull attacks/deaths, because it's absolutely frightening every month how long if is.

  • Also get the interceptor cups for the legs of your bed and couch. They cannot travel into the furniture when they're in place.

    And run everything clothing and bedding wise you own through the dryer over and over. Before you leave for work or anything, run your clothes through the dryer so you don't have any on you.

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    Eloise Klein Healy, "The Beach At Sunset".

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Good morning I choose not violent just hungry.

    Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community @lemmy.world

    Peaches, "Fuck The Pain Away".

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    Padraig O Tuama, "The One Thing".

    Antiwork @lemmy.world

    This is some Los Angeles Trump supporter LMAO.

    Poetry @lemmy.world

    Ruth Stone, "Progression II".

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    Miroslav Holub, "Ode To Joy".

    Microblog Memes @lemmy.world

    He's putting some blue light laser on it or something instead of washing it though.

    Political Memes @lemmy.world

    The intellectual dark web people are all lead babies.

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    In fact he is still the president.

    COVID-19 Pandemic @lemmy.ml

    5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID.

    Poetry @lemmy.world

    P. Scott Cunningham, "The Daughters Album".

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    P. Scott Cunningham, "Florida Snow".

    InsanePeopleFacebook @lemmy.world

    A newly minted sovcit tries out his new passport.

    News @lemmy.world

    Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered.

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Good afternoon I choose keeping it all together.

    InsanePeopleFacebook @lemmy.world

    Sovcit was just travelling in his vessel to get butter for his mom.

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

    It's all it's fit for.

    Poetry @lemmy.world

    Weldon Kees, "Crime Club".

    Poetry @lemmy.world

    Ko Un, "Your Pilgrimage".