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The core postructuralist idea that meaning is constructed and negotiated rather than being inherent *is not* the same as saying that nothing actually means anything. What it's saying is that meaning isn't a property *of* objects or ideas.

Psychiatric pharmaceuticals I have known and... known. 

The TMS is meant to sort out the area of the brain that's full of depression juice. My best guess, therefore, is that it's working "too well", meaning my current duloxetine regimen is now more than I actually need.

So it's good news, if annoying.

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Psychiatric pharmaceuticals I have known and... known. 

When I started on duloxetine, the first few days saw me getting ultra-strong urges to nap through midday, even while on dextroamphetamine. (Cymbalta overpowered Adderall. Sounds like a Pokémon fight, yeah?) This faded to merely occasionally feeling like I wanted to nap the day away.

Now that I'm well into TMS, that side effect is coming back with a vengeance. Today, I'm trying to fight it off long enough to make some business-hours calls.

PSA about prescription drug manufacturers 

If a drug you're prescribed changes in appearance, it's usually because the pharmacy switched to a different manufacturer.

If you're feeling off and your meds changed appearance, it could be the meds! Check online reviews of that manufacturer and drug to see if anyone else is reporting similar symptoms. Arm yourself with knowledge!

You can look up the pill by shape, appearance & markings at this website to find the manufacturer.
drugs.com/imprints.php

Dumb Persona Joke 

Thinking of the short story-snippet I wrote recently, where Lai builds himself a new body and tests it out.

The body is a cyborg: a lot of internal machinery but with flesh and fur on top, with a bit of gene-splicing to have better conductivity. Ultimately, Lai went with organic outerware because he wanted to enhance the skin sensitivity, and organic nerves are still more efficient at that than synthetic.

Besides, he didn't have any need to reinvent the feel.

sex and drugs and beton brut 

last boost: dope, i'm now a trans antifascist brutalist apartment block. may all who dwell within me be gay and left as fuck, may laughter and pot smoke drift from my balconies, may my roof be a garden, may orgies and plans for insurrection and simple moments of quiet joy unfold within my walls. may i be not a JG Ballard novel but an optimistic queer punk zine.

Deity, grant me the focus
to complete the tasks I digress from;
the ability to remember the...uh...hrm...the..._shit_

[a few minutes of failed remembering later]

...screw it, let's just do something else.

Shit what Electric Keet says. (Uncensored!) 

"Your mouth is your brain's asshole."

Why do we always come here,
I guess we'll never know,
It's like some kinda torture
to have to watch this show.

zinktypografie.nl/comparison.p also jesus christ this comparison. lest we forget that TeX is like, very good.

The moon is hollow. (Okay, it has a HUGE cavern.)

Time to go there to wipe out the moon nazis who have set up a base there. (I can't actually confirm that there are moon nazis, but if the conspiracy theorists were right about the moon being hollow, who's to say they're not also right about the secret nazi base?)

nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/firs (Link is to a not-paradoy announcement of the moon cavern.)

@kelseyhusky @Kyna They call it Vitamin DD on the street. Bunch of bros got dosed at a kegger, woke up the next day part of a witchy communal-living polycule making cute tights for catgrrls.

Hey folks, in case you didn't know -- I have a blog! Where I talk about writing and stories and what they mean to me personally! Here's my latest, "A Future With Me In It".

jakebe.com/2017/10/16/writing-

furry fandom stuff 

At this point saying you're a furry is about as specific as saying you like movies or video games.

And I think the big takeaway from a fandom with a huge range of incomes, professions, subinterests, kinks that make mine look ridiculously boring, intelligence which makes me look real conventional, and spiritualities which make me look like the most hidebound atheist, is that really, kindness is the part that counts most.

Augmented Reality app that just gives everyone you look at some companion animal.

"Oh, you've got a great blue husky there!" "Thanks, I love your shoulder kangaroo!" "Love the tiny horses running around your shoes."

This would also make it like 500 times more likely I'd remember people's names.

`It's not like I'm tooting,' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. `It's like my body's developed this massive meme deficiency.' It was a Fediverse voice and a Fediverse joke. The Catsubo was an instance for professional shitposters; you could lurk there for a week and never see two words of Discourse.

Depression. 

Sometimes, I sit for hours at my laptop in my room in complete silence. It's not that I don't have music playing; it's that there's musical rambling going on inside my head. I have spontaneous music in my "mind's ear" near-constantly, and this has been the case as far back as I can remember.

I never stopped making music. I just stopped being able to share it with others like I once could. Each change of treatment is a fresh attempt to reclaim that ability.

Maybe this one?

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