Jillian

also no one believes that this happens & especially not vapers, so everyone assumes I’m like Trying to Make a Point and glares but I just can’t stop coughing! it can’t be psychological bc the coughing usually starts and *then* I’m like, what is happening, wait is there a smell? & concerts are deadly

anything being smoked also sets the cough off but not nearly as bad as vape. I do not understand it at all. like yes the vaporized heavy metal contamination is sketchy for users but it should be significantly less of a problem secondhand than smoke AND YET

ever since my last really bad round of bronchitis a year or two ago I have become like a vape detector bc as soon as it is exhaled near me (before I even consciously notice it) I have a convulsive coughing fit until I can escape and even then still have a residual cough for the next 20-30 minutes

I think it’s probably 30% that and 70% that my friends enjoy harassing me too much

Feeling grateful today that we don’t get carried off by giant birds anymore

it also feels like you maybe have a responsibility to at least google how the house of representatives works

A branch heavy with enormous plum-pink and white magnolia blossoms, splayed open under hazy late afternoon sunlight

A full view of the magnolia tree, so overloaded with open flowers its branches are being pulled downward in heavy arcs

SPRING STARTED HAPPENING OUTSIDE WHILE I WASN’T PAYING ATTENTION

why is this the opposite of my experience??? I can’t so much as say something about clotted cream without everyone being like Okaaaay Jillian we knoooooow you went to a fancy university, you’re very fancy, shut up

oh noooo

Patterson, a retired teacher with experience in human resources, has not launched a significant campaign, receiving no endorsements and reporting $o raised or spent on advertising to the Federal Election Commission as of early February. Foushee and Allam, who have raised more than $1 million combined, reported campaign expenditures of $546,252 and $583,151, respectively. "When I came in, they said they had 14 open positions for U.S. House of Representatives," Patterson said. "I did not know that I was running against other people for the same position, same district."

I was curious who the third person was in the Foushee-Allam race because she appears to be the spoiler and… oh dear.

this is like, a person with a briefcase and a salary who is wearing slacks lol. I am 5 feet away. they were not lit up by their glowing computer screen during the dark period. I’m trying so hard not to stare in

jumpscare story: I’m sitting working in an study lab directly next to an enclosed glass-wall office where a staff member was working when I came in. the motion sensor light in there has been off for 20 minutes, so I thought they left. no!! it just suddenly flickered on again as they began typing!

no

So as I sit here badly transcribing a piece of 'materia medica' that appears to be about a women's salon where everyone's putting on makeup, I've gotta wonder how many mistaken bits of medieval medical text there are out there that are really just narrative sources about... girlies being girlies?

it’s so annoying when the big impediment becomes hand/wrist pain bc that is like. the ONE thing I need functioning comfortably to catch up on all the things. sympathies

does anyone else remember sometime between like 2008-12 everyone was planning to have a single day boycott on filling up their tanks to teach gas station owners a lesson about pricing or something. and the only lesson everyone involved learned was apparently to keep buying bigger cars w/ worse mpg

I never know what gas prices are bc I go fill up every other month

yeah I was so smug about my car-shopping choice last year bc I insisted on finding something that got at least 30mpg city 40 highway but I just… don’t drive anywhere except the ~2 miles to the university

can’t believe yanking my torso into torsion repeatedly for 2-3 hours every afternoon 5 days a week for 7 years of my life may have had lasting impacts on my body geometry

if I learned nothing else from the early aughts it’s that mildly conservative politically apathetic suburbanites & rural USians care about nothing in this world more than the price of a gallon of gas so this should be interesting to watch

The biggest obstacle to this website's growth is that almost all of its user base goes to bed at 8 pm

Reuters In Khamenei's absence, pragmatist Larijani emerges as power broker in Iran March 1, 2026 … Born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1958 to a leading ranian clerical family, Larijani moved to Iran as a child *and went on to earn a philosophy PhD.* Several of his brothers have also held senior establisnment jobs including in the judiciary and foreign ministry.

Yikes

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

this, but i am at least an expert on how not to make money (it’s grad school)

idiopathic scoliosis is way more prevalent in girls but apparently it’s correlated with a bunch of sports that are predominantly offered to girls only, at least in the US??? volleyball, ballet, gymnastics??

Conclusions There is a five-fold increase in the incidence of mild scoliosis in volleyball players.

oh my god

(Modi et al 2008 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)

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oh my god just walked past an undergrad explaining their relationship woes to their friend and heard “and when I asked Chat, it asked how he reacted afterward, and…” and I made the most bugged out face. could not control my look of abject goggle-eyed horror at all.

This is half the problem with the United States waging unnecessary wars in other places. Americans themselves have no idea how horrible and disruptive this violence is to other people, but instead only feel inconvenienced by how much it will cost to fuel their fucking SUV.