I’m seeing my grandma and some extended family on Xmas eve. I got my grandma a framed pic of me and my horse. My grandma is super invested in me and my horse so I figured she’d like the pic.

Xmas day, I’m going to my parents house then I will give my dogs their presents (stuffed bones) once I get back. Then in the evening, I’ll be giving my horse her gift (a big ol apple.)

On the 27th,I’ll be going to a Friendsmas gathering. I’ll be making my great grandma’s corn casserole to take with me.

Then in early January I’ll be doing my DND group secret Santa exchange.

I’ll fire up the grill

They got rid of gold?? When?? I left reddot and came to Lemmy in the third-party apps exodus and haven’t even looked back

I spent 20 years trying to find a rheumatologist who would take my positive lupus test results, symptoms, extensive family history, and potential comorbidities seriously and give me a diagnosis and treatment. Nobody would listen until I was 23 because I was “too young.” After 23, they started accusing me of just wanting medical marijuana.

At 27 I finally found a doctor that would take me seriously. We spent 2 hours going over the 15 years of medical records of mine that are accessible digitally, as well as some physical records from before that that my mother kept in a safe. The doctor ordered an absurd amount of tests and gave me a diagnosis when they all came back indicating that I, indeed, have lupus. She saw the same results in all of my records, too. I’ve tested positive and have had all of the other indicators my entire life. Like I am a textbook case of Systemic Lupus Erythematous that attacks the joints and connective tissue.

She started me on treatment and for the first time in my life, I’m not ruled by my pain and fatigue. I actually have a life now. I have started doing things that I’ve always dreamed of doing because now I can. I’m not chained to my bed anymore.

All of the doctors that refused to treat me despite positive test results and symptoms because I was “too young” or “just wanting marijuana” can rot in Hell. “Do not harm” my ass. I spent twenty years suffering, with multiple pediatricians and general practitioners sending me to every rheumatologist they knew of to try to get treatment for what they, non-specialists, believe I suffer from.

I drive two and a half hours one way every 6 months to see my rheumatologist and it’s worth it because she gave me my life. I’d say she gave my life back to me, but I never had one to begin with. I’m actually living now. 20 years too late if you ask me, but better late than never.

I disable that shit the next time I’m in the computer. We also manage the updates so users can’t run them on their own.

What a fuckin power move. Way to go, my guy!

Thank you!

I wfh full time so I don’t get sick from my coworkers coming in ill. I’m immunocompromised, so if I get sick enough, I could just die. The whole company, except me, has been dealing with covid for the past two weeks. Last time I had covid, I was almost hospitalized, and that was before I was put on immunosuppressants. I could very well die from covid now

I am immunocompromised and started wfh full time because everyone was coming in sick. I sacrificed advancing my career here so I wouldn’t get sick all the time. Full time wfh folks don’t get to advance and get demoted to the lowest position in the company. I was already at the lowest position so I had nothing to lose.

Yes, I’m looking for a new job already. The market is abysmal right now, so I don’t see me getting out of this job any time soon.

My boss give us shit if we call off for being sick. It’s such a toxic environment and I hate it

I work in IT and I try to remove all clues that copilot exists when I set up new computers because I don’t trust users to not fuck up their devices.

I don’t even try to argue with these people. Thankfully, I have all the important people in my life trained up on proper cybersecurity practices and how to be good end users. It makes dealing with any tech issues for them so much easier lol. I only got yelled at once by a relative and I told him he needed to fix his tone before I’d fix his computer. He hasn’t given me any issues since lol

A trailer in the trailer park across the street from my house got struck by lightning and burned down a while back.

Lmao nah. Feds are in on it

Oh nice. Can you still install banking/credit card apps with Graphene? I’ve heard it can be a pain in the ass to get around

Right? I hate how there’s like no options for phone OS

Does anyone have a good in depth guide on how to de-google? My ultimate goal is to not use Google at all and use Graphene OS on my Pixel

I know a dude who went riding while drunk and almost died. He was being a dumbass and spooked his own horse and it threw him.

Okay, so we just make him use his money for good all the time under threat of throwing him into a skillet.