Nick (derogatory) ✨

TRIGEMINAL NERVE INSTRUCTIONS General Instructions: • You may continue activity and diet as tolerated, unless otherwise noted • Antioxidant supplements may be resumed 2 weeks after you complete your radiation •You may shower, but do not scrub the treated area, as your skin is healing. • Avoid sun exposure to the treated area. Use sunscreen. Wear a hat. Your skin in the treatment area will be more sensitive to the sun, up to a year after treatment is completed. • Use mild soaps and shampoos until skin is completely healed • Speak to your doctor about the appropriate skin care regimen to be provided by the clinical team. • If you experience new or worsening nausea/ vomiting, please contact your doctor immediately. These side effects are usually temporary and begin to resolve a few weeks after treatment ends. • Fatigue • Increased facial pain, due to temporary inflammation and/or the mask during treatment Fighting tiredness: • Try light exercise each day. Take short walks. • Relax before you go to bed to sleep better. Remember the symptoms or side effects mentioned above are usually temporary and begin to resolve a few weeks after treatment ends. It is advisable to continue skin care regimen as directed by your Radiation Oncologist and Radiation Oncology Nurses. If needed, there are medications that can be prescribed to make you more comfortable, so please do not hesitate to reach out to your Radiation Oncology team if you start to experience any of these symptoms.

This is very funny to me. I suppose my face really is getting shot through with radiation.

The top of that pyramid makes me unbearably anxious.

No good can come from another round of “these nerds think AI is alive” discourse. Don’t engage. Save yourself. Eat some chocolate, watch your favorite movie. Do you realize how much more fun that is than yelling at strangers about a topic no one in the world understands?

This made me laugh.

Hm... I haven’t had a headache in 2.5 days, which makes me wonder if the first surgery worked and the recovery window was delayed (which happens!).

Whatever! A famous doctor told me: “What the fuck does it matter which surgery worked? Get the second.” So we’re driving across LA to get lasers baby!

Broke: A scanner darkly.

Woke: A golf cart fatly.

a plate of short wide tube pasta in a brick orange creamy sauce with crisped sausage, sun-dried tomatoes, wilted spinach, and herbs

outstanding. i have invented my second perfect pantry pasta

Broke: A scanner darkly.

Woke: A golf cart fatly.

One of the most captivating little turns of phrase in Gravity's Rainbow goes "barrage balloons to populate fat and friendly the daybreak." I think about its construction all the time, whenever I want to write a better sentence.

I fear "riding in a golf cart fatly" is now forever its twin.

What has always bothered me about the name James is that it is neither one or two syllables long but a secret, possibly gnostic, third thing.

This legit made me laugh out loud

There’s a local company in Pittsburgh called RickJohn Roofing, and every time we’d drive past one of their signs my ex would shout “RickJohn! RICKJOHN!” in this bizarre affectation not unlike Chappelle’s RICK JAMES!

So it is impossible for me to read Markwayne in any other voice. MARKWAYNE!

🫡 thank you

Thanks Ryan. Appreciate you.

That means a lot. Thank you.

Oh I intend to get a significantly more permanent signal than a t shirt.

I worry people aren’t going to play this with the volume on. You should.

The procedure is at 8:15am tomorrow. I’ll probably get out 10am, maybe 11am. I plan to drive directly to the gym.

Can’t wait to recreate this IRL

Oh yeah I clocked that he was probably on a GLP-1 as far back as two or three months ago. He should be fairly svelte in about a year if he keeps going.

Ah. I’m sorry. That is complicated.

I have driven an EV so long now that I have absolutely no sense of what these prices mean.

Oh Christ. This is horrible. I hope your partner has recovered from that. I don’t know how easily I would.

I am not kidding when I say that the community of people here I’ve gotten to know over the last year+ has been one of the greatest pillars of support in my life.

It’s really not easy to get out of the house like this, but I’ve got a few thousand of you keeping hope alive right from home.

Sure do. Land of the free baby.

My medical expenses are so high that my insurance provider has started calling every few days to introduce me to a team of “experts in medical decision making.”

I tell them that I love a good joke as much as the next guy, but please do not to call again. Nevertheless they persist.

The Infinite Scroll by Kate Glenn on Apple Music Playlist · 46 Songs

I put the original Adele version in this playlist which honestly has several good candidates for songs we can cry to. I also just added one that @slothropsmap.bsky.social noted in that thread, TV by Billie Eilish.

Yes

Yes.