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you know, the times everyone comes together to support or celebrate

that post yesterday about TC69 & BrookeBaybee was pretty great 🥰 I wasn't here back in the day to interact with them, but they're legendary, and seeing everyone's delight about their romance was heartwarming

tell me about the ones you hold dear

PS: you're the best and I love you ❤️

edit: title edited per correction from @context@hexbear.net 💕

generic Adderall is back in stock at my pharmacy 🎉 was really starting to worry they weren't going to get more until next calendar year or whenever the annual quotas reset or whatever, but I got both 30 mg xr for me and 20 mg xr for my son

so, check yours, it might be back for you, too

also, the one tech at my pharmacy that has never once been anything but barely civil with me was finally nice to me this week, which has given me another little data point that affirms my impression that pharmacy staff treats me better after having bought the name brand.

have you had that experience?

the same thing happened at two other chains: there would always be a couple people on staff who were a little gruff with me in a way they weren't with other people in line ahead of me, until the day I bought name brand from them.

(a third place treated me so poorly after they pulled my info up in the computer the very first time I went that I cried on the way home and never went back. )

my suspicion is that they're generally skeptical of anyone getting stimulants, but if I'm "willing" to pay a couple hundred per prescription per month for it, then I become less sketchy because obviously I and my kid "really need it."

it's possible that they just suddenly see me as pitiable; I'm sure my voice and face change drastically in the seconds after they tell me the generic isn't available.

or maybe I seem less likely to sell it if I can "afford" hundreds of dollars for the name brand.

nevermind the actual situation, which is that I'm only able to "afford" it or "willing" to pay that because I can beg my family for help, and there are plenty of people (who need it to have any executive function just as much as my kid and I do!) who just Do Not Have That Option.

when this happens to me, it makes me wonder how they treated everyone who couldn't afford the name brand. are they even more suspicious of them now?

I don't have a better theory for their line of thinking, and surprise surprise, the logic doesn't even hold up, imo. I could even see someone being more tempted to sell a couple day-off doses to recoup some of those hundreds they spent on the name brand – you do occasionally need to eat, after all.

thank you, Puritanical Culture and War on Drugs

kept wondering why the Star Spangled Banner was popping into my head while working on it, then I remembered @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net's "...showed that Iranians care" post from earlier and it suddenly made sense

Testimony from someone who worked first shift the day it happened and was almost swept away by flood waters when he tried to evacuate too late.

He correctly identifies that the greed of management is what killed his coworkers.

another Onion Lad cartoon, this time debunking capybara misinformation

a charming 4:50 cartoon about the brutality of insect warfare

lmao

serving suggestion: read this aloud in your smarmiest lib voice to a comrade or pet, see if you can get through the whole thing without them shouting indignant interruptions or you breaking up into giggles

what're you choking down when you have to eat something to keep the pills down, and you have to take the pills

I tried taking doxycycline on an empty stomach yesterday and boy howdy, was that a bad decision – great ab workout though 😂🤢

last night, my new morning plan had been to have my Adderall when I wake up, some yogurt 2 hours later, then 2 hours later have toast and hummus or something with the doxycycline

great plan, except I don't usually eat this early, and I couldn't even get through half a cup of yogurt, which has been a lifelong safe food that I really really reeeeeally don't want to be put off

maybe skip the yogurt step and just shove a piece of bread down my throat? I already have a weird relationship with bread, I'm fine with being put off it for a while after this

on a totally unrelated note, you should definitely always wear bug repellent and check yourself for ticks when you come inside for the day

exactly what it says on the tin

I have been quoting Mr Horse for so long that I had forgotten the origin of the quote. Realizing this past weekend that my husband had no recollection of it made me start wondering where it was from, and this morning I suddenly had a mental image of a silly, kinda gross horse when I thought of it, and searched "Ren Stimpy no s-" and it autocompleted 🥰 feels so good when that happens.

Anyway, perhaps you also really loved Mr Horse as a weird kid watching Ren & Stimpy, you eeeeeeeeeedeeut

what mask are you wearing all day?

bonus points if you'd like to disclose who you are underneath it, so we can admire and adore the real you ❤️

and if you don't know who you are under your mask, we will support and encourage your discovery process, should you choose to undertake it ❤️

wtf

I couldn't click the link because it refreshed the page after I took the screenshot

now what

I understand "red fascist political movement" as standard .world idiocy, but everything after "ran" is a mystery

what the actual fuck was this person saying?