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sin with your mind, and you sin as a man
sin with your soul, and you sin as the angels
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Horses exist in zoos, you’re pretty sure. That’s where they, more or less, belong. It’s not like there’s a stable next to the auto shop or something. Are there… wild horses? In…. nature? Presumably, at some point, there must have been. Probably not, anymore.
Oh, the race tracks, though. Duh. They probably have stables. Couldn’t lose twenty thousand wen a day if there weren’t losing horses to bet on.
Horses don’t belong at the gas station, but there’s one here anyways. Its rider is wearing a leather jacket studded with old military medals; what looks like a torso-sized cogwheel, slung over her back like a shield; a broadsword, underneath the cog-shield; and a pair of holo-screen shades.
She dismounts. She slides her card through the machine. The pumps start pumping. The horse sticks out its neck, dips its snout, and begins drinking gasoline directly from the nozzle. The rider holds the spout up to the horse’s mouth, at a bit of an awkward angle.
She meets your eyes, and shrugs. You know how it is.
You don’t know how it is. Later, you will see her on the news, clotheslining a police officer on horseback at seventy miles per hour. You will understand even less, and also, so much more.
i know i should block her but she’s just going through so much, taking on that new job at that grim estate, caring for the eerie and taciturn scion of such an infamous and secretive family (not to mention the strange sounds out on the grounds at midnight…)
Barely any loot, too many skeletons, final boss way too easy
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Many dark place to sleep… Many bug to eat.. Very good very good.. Wish bone people were more quiet.. 4 Star.
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Master Grimbender doesn’t pay us and our provided weapons are insufficient. Cobwebs in my ribs all the time. Don’t work here, serve a witch instead
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Rusty swords are the standard weapon for skeletons across all dungeons. If you had such an issue with your provided weapons you should have taken it up with the Necromancers Council
When I was about 23, I finally had someone teach me a trick that worked. Put the pill in your mouth, take a sip of liquid to hold in your mouth. Toss your head back dramatically so the pill and liquid roll to the back of your tongue. While your head is still back like you’re doing a Pepsi commercial, take another drink and swallow.
You’re welcome.
Unless it didn’t work for you in which case, back to crushing them up with two spoons. Sorry about that.
I don’t mean to derail this post, but I always get wary about wholesale recommendations to crush what you can’t swallow because there are some medications that cannot under any circumstance be crushed. I’ve seen the fallout from pills that got crushed that should never be crushed, and in some of those cases it was life-threatening.
Luckily, when I went to pharmacy school we had a whole class on the topic of swallowing pills! Pharmacists see patients of all ages and abilities, and throughout life a person’s ability to swallow can change drastically, so we discussed the various means of addressing this need in our patients.
The above advice to fling your pills back with a mouthful of water is legit advice. Just don’t choke! Maybe not the best option for kids or accident-prone adults.
For young patients who are just learning the trick of swallowing pills, or adults who never caught on to the knack, there’s a method of starting out small because there can be a lot of anxiety around the activity that can make the experience even worse. Think super low stakes, no pressure. Go to the baking aisle and get the smallest sprinkle you can find, so tiny it will dissolve on the tongue as soon as it’s in your mouth. If you have to break a sprinkle in half or into quarters, so be it. Let the candy sprinkle be as small as you need it to be so that it isn’t scary. Even if the sprinkle dissolves, swallow anyways to get used to the sensation of swallowing on command for this purpose. Then find a bigger kind of sprinkle and repeat process. Find a slightly bigger sprinkle again, repeat process. Do this over a period of days to weeks to simply get used to the sensation to swallowing on command in a situation with absolutely nothing at stake except sprinkles. You can work your way up to those decorative sprinkle balls for cakes - I’ve seen some that are straight up pill-sized. I’ve worked with kids who are just learning the process and adults who have anxiety around the issue of pill swallowing, and using the sprinkle method has had decent success, though it’s not perfect, not everyone builds their way up, and it does take days to weeks to build the confidence/swallowing-on-command reflex.
If the sprinkle method is not for you, alternative formulations could be your thing. There are many medications that have alternative formulations to pills, such as liquid suspensions, chewables, orally dissolving tablets, sublingual/buccal tablets or films, capsules that can be opened (caution here, since not all capsules can be opened), nasal sprays, suppositories, patches, creams/ointments, injectables, etc… I’ve worked with compounding pharmacies that specialize in creating alternative formulations like lozenges and lollipops for kids who were in no way capable of pill-swallowing. It may be worth it to ask if there is an alternative formulation to the medication you are taking if swallowing is an absolute no-go for you.
When I work with certain geriatric populations who can still swallow food but may have lost the coordination to swallow pills, putting the pill in a soft, easily-swallowable food can help them immensely with coordinating the swallowing reflex. Same thing can apply to anyone else whose issue is just trying to coordinate the swallowing reflex around something as small as a pill. Various examples of food that I see used in hospital are puddings, jams, and apple sauce. Other soft foods like mashed potato or spray cheese in a can also work, if savoury options are needed. Just be sure to ask your pharmacist if the medication you are dealing with needs to be taken on an empty stomach or not, because if the medication requires an empty stomach, then this is not the method for you. Luckily, there are more medications in the world that can be taken with food than are are without food, so your chances are good that this method will work.
That all being said, I’ve dealt with hundreds of different kinds of medications, and a lot of them can be crushed if you absolutely need to do so. For everyone’s safety, I would recommend asking a pharmacist if it is safe to crush your medication before doing so.
Some reasons why a pill can’t be crushed can include: coated for time-release reasons or so the pill dissolves in specific segments of your digestive tract. Other pills need to be swallowed whole because the medication itself is super irritating and can burn your throat or you could accidentally aspirate into your lungs. Most pills are the most vile-tasting shit you’ll ever encounter in your life and some are so disgusting that they’re film-coated literally so you don’t throw up from the taste.
With that all in mind, I dearly apologize to OP for the pill-swallowing ramble. This is probably not what you imagined when you shared your post. I am proud of you for finding the right trick that addresses your pill swallowing need; I hope that perhaps someone else might find your trick helpful, or may find something helpful in my advice.
Serious explanation here: she’s teaching them the instinct of being alert around enclosure openings! For example, if these were wild cats living in a bush, they’d run the risk of a larger predator running up to the opening and grabbing one of them. The mother cat is also only bapping them lightly without claws, so those slaps are more of an annoyance meant to get the kittens’ attention, and to teach them to keep their eyes out for potential threats.
One
criticism often levelled at republican movements, particularly here in the UK, is that getting rid of
the monarchy and all its associated pomp, pageantry and ritual would be
a terrible loss to our national character.
This is a simple failure of
imagination: we already *have* significant ritual-of-rule based around
symbols of royal authority that have and need no direct interaction with
the monarch.
Mace Republicanism answers that criticism by committing to the monarchy as a self-referencing symbol, by calling for hereditary monarchy to be abolished
and the monarchy to pass to the Mace itself - a sovereign in shining
steel and burnished brass, immortal and unbiased.
We
can keep as much ritual as we want, and in fact it would allow us to
establish new ceremonies. Consider an MP found to have acted against the public interested, sentenced to a Smiting with the Mace. A poker-faced Maxifer in an outfit that somehow manages to be uncomfortably severe and needlessly embellished marches up with much swinging of legs, extends both arms, and takes up the Person of the Sovereign; with a flourish they turn to the knave to be smitten, present the Mace, and lightly tap the subject on the shoulder. This is widely understood to be a powerful symbol of disgrace.
not in any way that will be more convincing than asking you to think about this post the next time you find yourself attributing different vibes and expectations to different days of the week, or the start of a new month
In those days, unmarked women were considered imperfect, undesirable. One of the most enduring ullalim, a form of epic poetry that is chanted by the village bard, is the story of the warrior hero Banna who falls in love with the beautiful Lagunnawa. In the pre-colonial tale, their tattooed bodies are celebrated as badges of honor, wealth, beauty, and bravery.
When the American Catholic missionaries came and built schools in Kalinga, village girls were made to cover their arms with long sleeves. Being tattooed became a point of shame when women ventured to the city, and eventually fewer girls from the succeeding generation continued the tradition as Western concepts of beauty and respectability began to permeate the culture.
GUYS. GUYYYYYYYS. I don’t know how many of you will be interested in this, but please allow me to share the latest Vogue PH issue. Because I am floored.
The woman on the cover is Apo Whang-Od, the oldest and, until just recently, the only remaining mambabatok (traditional Kalinga tattooist) in history. And now, at 106 years old, might also be the oldest person to be on the cover of Vogue.
Apo Whang-Od has, in the last decade, been heralded to national treasure status in the Philippines for keeping a significant part of her people’s culture (the Butbut tribe of Buscalan, Kalinga) alive, even through years of Western colonization and modernization. Through her, an art form and custom that was on the verge of being lost to history has had a reemergence, and allowed a lot of Filipinos to rediscover and reconnect with our roots.
I am just so pleasantly surprised and impressed that a thousand-year local tradition was perfectly captured in the cover of a fashion magazine. The portrait itself (photographed by Artu Nepomoceno) is such a good one, too. Allowing Apo Whang-Od to be the symbol of strength and beauty—in ageing, in culture and in being Filipino. Three cheers for this profound moment in representation, Vogue PH! THISIS HOW YOU SEEEEERVE!
