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sparkles

@ sparkles @piefed.zip

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Hey!I’m new to piefed. I was a part of the Reddit migration originally. Since then, I really enjoyed the conversations.

I’m a behavior therapist by day. Otherwise a bit of an introvert/gamer. I’m always up for a conversation. Unless I’m asleep, which is earlier and earlier these days.

  • Those of you cut off all comms with your parents, what would it take to mend things and reestablish contact?

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  • Nothing, absolutely never going to happen. It has been many, many years and they moved on more easily than me…almost like my going NC did them a favor. My dad passed before Covid, and he was the only one I had a relationship with in adulthood, and I miss him. I have no idea what has become of the rest of my family over the years. I am mostly fine. There’s no use mourning awful people for decades. I do it once or twice a year and that’s more of the mourning an idea of what having a family would be.

  • Oh nooooooo

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  • Poor male spiders in the web with big mama 😢

  • What was your favorite part of today ?

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  • Eating some bread and drinking a ramune.So right now. :)

  • Oh nooooooo

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  • Those are beautiful. Not native where I am. It reminds me of the “banana spiders” where I grew up. There used to be these big, majestic nests of them. I ran face first through one as a kid. Definitely a core memory.

  • Oh nooooooo

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  • I’ve gotten brave in my old age. I only relocate them if they become extremely inconvenient …like my doorway spider (sorry frank). I ignore house spiders entirely as they transit my house. Good luck, leggy friend.

    I have a pretty orb weaver on the porch (or I did last summer). Hope I get another.

  • “My body, my choice” should apply to drug use, too.

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  • When you deny someone an abortion, you’re denying them healthcare.

    When a parent denies their underage child, with a brain that is still developing, hard drugs I think that is appropriate parenting. Taking hard drugs probably has limited social or medical benefit, if any.

    So when a parent denies their underage child drugs they are essentially protecting them (from themselves) whereas if they deny an abortion they are taking away a future, if you consider the fully formed person autonomous.

    Not really comparable if you scratch beyond the surface.

  • My max is 3 and only for an excellent job

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  • Mine have all been 3. Phone screen, phone interview, and in-person.

  • You always have to analyse a person's internet post about themselves or their life the same way you read a book written with an unreliable narrator

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  • I think there are layers to this. Even irl people will say one thing and end up doing something else. Often with good intentions or at least not nefarious ones. I think people online sometimes take a creative license, which is fine.

    Fediverse being small, I’ve started to recognize some posters by their background stories. If those are online characters or not, I’ll never know. I wonder if it matters? Now, as it pertains to bots passing as people or gofundme scams I get a little annoyed. I haven’t seen too much of that here, but it was disgusting on Reddit/imgur, and getting worse.

    I tend to take online interactions with a grain of salt. I trust my wow guild a bit, but like…I know their dog’s names and stuff.

  • We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

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  • I retained enough to provide basic information to my ESL kiddos/parents, at least in Spanish. Use it or lose it, I really think.

  • Workplace gossip

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  • This is a really good point. Avoiding being a target is hard for some people. Masking can be exhausting for them and it’s unfair. I want their environment to be more hospitable somehow.

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  • Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?

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  • Well. When do I get to become a reptile? Soon?

  • conditional soap

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  • I have a ton of hair so I’ve tried a ton of different products and types. I found the $10 highly moisturizing stuff to be the most effective. It also lasts a while because it’s not super watery. The dish detergent quality stuff makes my hair brittle and fall out. Which is pretty inconvenient since it’s about 2ft long at this point.

  • My friends found out I have schizophrenia and now want nothing to do with me

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  • It’s a very misunderstood diagnosis. I have found the same with BPD. People have this Hollywood idea of it, and become fearful, irrational, and avoidant. I even noticed this to be true among the medical and human services community. Some dialog may help…if you think these people are worth it. Just know this. You haven’t done anything wrong. At all. Big hugs.

  • My dear old friend!!

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  • I really did like Valium for bad days. Daily stabilizers make me feel like sand.

  • What cheap-ish bulk items would you buy for yourself and your home before an economic depression?

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  • Yeah I imagine they’re crunchy as well from all the ones I popped when cleaning out my pantry. 💀

  • What cheap-ish bulk items would you buy for yourself and your home before an economic depression?

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  • Thought it was going to be beans and rice but it turned into a bag full of weevils and regret.

  • The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle

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  • Gotta be a lot like dating a Disney obsessed person.

  • What's your work week look like?

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  • 8:30-4:30 4 days a week, 9:30-5:30 once in a while. My “home” day varies.

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  • Is this like one of those recession indicators?