indomara @ indomara @lemmy.world

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This was in the side bar of that article.

What the fuck is this timeline?

^ This!

I learned the retinol lesson the hard way. I used to use retin-a daily, and wasn't careful about getting it near my eyes because I wasn't sensitive to it.

I now have chronic dry eye, this eventually got so bad I couldn't see, and had to go get ipl treatments once a month, have the meibomian glands expressed, and have punctal plugs placed every month, then every few months. (don't google any of that)

After it got "better" I only have to do this stuff every 6 months...

It's expensive.

Stay safe kids, never put a retinol near your eyes.

It's common in kink circles, but so is proper cleaning. It is common to use Madacide or similar hospital grade cleaners with toys that will be shared. At home we use a chlorhexidine surgical wash on all our toys.

I wouldn't trust a random guy during a vanilla encounter to have proper cleaning and storage techniques, but would be fine if he showed me that he did.

I was a stay at home mom/wife at various times in my 10 year marriage. I hate the term tradwife, but I guess I fit the picture.

If I wasn't working, the house was my job. I did all the shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry. I made an effort to freshen up before he got home from work.

We found that when I was a housewife we actually had more time together, instead of trying to smash out laundry and un-fuck the house on weekends, it was all done, meaning we could just hang out when he was off work.

I do enjoy my work so for now I keep doing it part time, but I don't think being in a marriage that has traditional roles is all that polarising.

I filled it out as well, I hope to hear about the results!

She's beautiful!

I am the wife of a mechanical engineer, who's brothers are mechanical and electrical engineers, who's parents are electrical engineers, who's best friends are aerospace engineers.

Basically I married into a family of robots, and I agree with this commenter here.

This is the crux of why senior engineers struggle to talk about work I think, and I find the best way for me to get them talking, is to try to learn something small about their work, enough that I can ask intelligent questions, and then listen carefully to the replies.

After a while they open up and I get to listen to the best rants about "special metals" or "systems architecture" or "braking systems in the railway". It's awesome.

It's how I connect with my husband.

The other wives stand in a circle and roll their eyes about them talking about work because they don't understand anything. "Oh there they go, talking about work again."

I decided I didn't want that to be me, and told myself I would listen when they were talking, listen when my husband was working from home. Learn to ask intelligent questions about his work, and eventually, I knew what he was talking about.

Enough that I now freelance in condition monitoring, giving me yet another way to connect with him.

Ask intelligent questions, get excited about the replies, encourage them so they know you won't be insulted when they assume you don't know about

<speciality subject>

Yup. My husband and I were in the Novavax trial here in Australia, and the doctor at the trial said she was surprised more people weren't interested, since its not an mRNA vaccine...

This is correct, I use this method a lot in my work with the disabled. Often with clients that struggle with mental health, it's important to redirect negative thoughts and feelings, but you have to do this without jumping to condescending or infantilising language.

The easiest way is to empathize with

<negative thought or feeling>

<related thing>

If you can laugh at something for being ridiculous it has less power.

You don't need to change their belief in

<negative thought or feeling>

That is messed up as heck.

WTF puberty blockers aren't used for only trans kids. They are also used to treat precocious puberty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocious_puberty

The usual platforms have been racing to remove any crowdfunding pages for him.

Yeah thats a bit odd. This is the supposed picture of him in the taxi:

and this is the picture of him above, with a unibrow:

It's weird. How did he grow a unibrow in like 3 days?

Interesting, I didn't know we were having those kinds of problems!

I am a disability support worker in Australia, and this decision is abhorrent for many reasons.

The NDIS is meant to fund participants so they can do the things anyone without a disability can do that are reasonable and necessary.

Sex work is legal in Australia and sexual gratification is a normal human need for most.

Most people without a disability are able to masturbate or have sex, yet many of those with a disability cannot without assistance.

Bear in mind also that sex work in this context does not just mean hiring prostitutes, but also those who help disabled couples have sex. Those people might be considered sex therapists, but more commonly they are a subset of sex worker.

Many of the people I have worked with are unable to move much by their mid 20's. These are smart people, like getting their PhD smart. They can move their hands to drive their chair, but that's about it.

Can you imagine being in your sexual prime and being denied any sort of sexual gratification?

I have another vote for loops, I now have the loop switch which I really like.

We switched to Beyond Bank and love it. App works great, they have no issues with opening multiple transaction or savings accounts on one account so I can have a spare debit card for the kids and two savings accounts.

I have yet to see a fee, though I imagine there are some in certain cases.

Here is what mine gave.

This is the image. (I use imagus or hover zoom which enlarges images all over the web upon hover)

There do appear to be civilian buildings with lights on in the image.

This is one of my all time favourite books, but I didn't "get it" until I re-read it the first time. Thankfully it's a short book. :)