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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • If you ever feel so inclined, and want to try again, try blending your weed with hemp (cbd-only).

    The strains they have out there these days are designed to maximize thc, but it’s at the cost of balance. Thc and cbd sort of limit each other in a nice way, but modern weed is low on cbd so all you get is the harsh high and none of the calm or relaxation. Lots of people get anxiety from smoking modern weed that never did with classic mods or ditch weed.

    If you use just a bit of weed with a bunch of hemp (like 10% weed tops) it’s a lot more like the old-school experience. Very mild and pleasant.

    It may not be enough to prevent the panic attacks, idk :( it helped with the smoking anxiety for me, though.



  • No, not for many years now. This all happened 2008-10. I threatened a restraining order, and claimed I was sending everything to my attorney, including over a year worth of unanswered monthly “still made at me?” type of messages, and never heard from them again.

    Several years later I learned they became a felon for sexual assault of another person (idk the person, but it does make keeping tabs on the stalker very easy as they are on the offender registry).

    Soon I’ll be moving away from the area entirely and I’ll feel a lot better.





  • You made me curious so I looked it up. Apparently there’s several things classified as “pope’s hat”.

    So the specific one you are asking about is called a mitre, and not just the pope wears them I guess? Abbots, cardinals, bishops, and whomever else do as well, and there are lots of different styles for different groups/sects/whatever. It is thus very difficult to sort out what this article is talking about as someone with zero religious upbringing or education.

    Apparently prior to 1927 they weren’t using the mitre at all, and were using a papal tiara, which is frankly quite ugly, so it’s just as well pope Benedict XVI broke tradition and went with the mitre.

    In 1963 pope Paul VI was coronated with the tiara, and was the last to be so far.

    Also gold and silver count as “white” because the mitre has to be white. So that’s weird af.

    There are several styles of papal regalia, so I think it’s, like, a choice? It really doesn’t give a lot of detail on the wiki page about that sort of thing but just based on the number of historical options, popes switching things up, etc. That’s about as much energy as I have to read and report back, so that’s as far as I go.

    I’d bet they just tailor a stock one or something for the day 1 thing and then do proper after.




  • Meh, I use the same super-weak password for tons of sites I don’t give a flying fuck about.

    I took all the military opsec and infosec courses, because I was in intel, and my partner is currently an IT security professional, but some accounts just don’t warrant giving a damn.

    I don’t use it for anything important, I let my password manager handle those, but bullshit “create an account to checkout” stuff that I use another payment system for? Meh.

    This doesn’t seem like news, beyond looking for something to report on.


  • I’ve been doing these for years… they don’t work as intended for more than a year or two, and then become pretty unstable. Even the lady who created it went back to low-maintenance (as opposed to zero input) systems after a few years. Still with the dirt and all but not without water movement and stuff.


  • I’ll just die, it’s fine.

    I can’t pay for insurance, but I need expensive treatments every 11-13 weeks to function as a member of society. This has been the case for some 15 years now.

    If I don’t have the exceptional care I get through the Va, I can’t -afford- to hold a job, because even with this great care, the most I can do realistically is part time which doesn’t include insurance.

    I’ve been sort of planning, best one can, for the Va to crumble… I rely on my disability payments to cover my housing… if I lose those and my insurance, which is likely, I’m super fucked.





  • I made some video game themed Xmas ornaments out of air dry clay as a gift… they turned out fine, but I didn’t realize the paint I used on them didn’t do a good enough job sealing them up. They should have been resin-dipped. In places the paint cracked, moisture got in, and over a couple years expanded the paper-based clay through the cracks so they look super creepy now. Very disappointing.

    Mistakes are a great way to learn, though.