Same, had one inserted over a decade ago. No one said anything about pain medication. Drove myself home and felt every imperfection in the road. About a week of severe cramping.

Went for the follow up and the gyno adjusted its position without warning. When I cried out, she told me the pain would subside in a few days. It didn’t, so I got it removed a month later.

Glad to see the tides are changing 🙌

These, or their cousin “we could lose a few billion people,” pop up on my instance from time to time. I’m not amenable to either, but I do understand the feelings of grief behind them. Myself, I adopted a secular practice in order to stay grounded, because it’s easy to fall into the pit… comment sections with debate lords proclaiming why whatever is futile, people raging and posturing or possessed by long dead philosophers, all while the machine gobbles up the world. Soul crushing.

Grief and its companions fear, anger, despair, are blinding and consume the larger liberatory project. The sense of powerlessness these states foster breeds the need to control, and it’s easier than people want to admit to slip. I feel similarly about the tendency to dehumanize. I always try to be empathetic, reminding myself that those thoughts once crossed my mind, the visceral frustration I once felt, but it’s disheartening.

Especially us over at !nolawns@slrpnk.net 🌻

These communities may be helpful:

!balconygardening@slrpnk.net

!nativeplantgardening@mander.xyz

Look out for seed or plant swaps in your area. Gardeners are usually very willing to share lol. As for specifics, it would depend where you are in the world.

It started bouncing between 60F and 20F here, weather whiplash! But some shrubs are starting to bud which is such a mood booster. I’m hoping to get brambles or hopniss plants this spring.

Thanks 🤗 And that is awesome! I rarely see mantises where I am, but it’s such a treat. I love the way they eye people up lol.

I just finished making some! About to share in !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org

Been using banana peels as a vegetable, shredding them into strips with a fork then simmering in broth. Kinda like a crunchy string bean texture after 20 minutes of cooking, no detectable banana flavor (for me at least). I’m on the lookout for more recipes if anyone else uses them.

As for hobbies, desperately waiting for spring to start gardening again. I miss all the cool bugs and being chased inside by carpenter bees 🐝 lol!

Wow, same here! I hadn’t watched the show either and that clip had me blubbering.

Vincent van Gogh since seeing his Sunflowers 🌻 series in 3rd grade art class, especially after learning in my 20s that we share migraine disease. Louis Wain is a close second with “Cat’s Nightmare” (my profile picture) being one of my faves.

Also, I went down a 90s kid nostalgia trip recently and watched some FernGully clips. Anyone remember that movie, specifically Batty’s rap? It was about vivisection 🤯 I was tempted to post it in the music community lol.

On the post image, Knowing Animals Podcast: Episode 58: Animal Rights in Palestine and Israel with Esther Alloun

This episode of Knowing Animals features Esther Alloun from the University of Wollongong. We discuss her article ‘’That’s the beauty of it, it’s very simple!’ Animal rights and settler colonialism in Palestine–Israel’ which appeared in the journal Settler Colonial Studies in December 2017.

Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:

https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/technology

🥳

Do y’all have a community for socialism on this instance? I miss the veganarchism subreddit so much :(

Closing a herbarium during the sixth mass extinction 🤡

The above map doesn’t include fishing, it’s showing land use. This shows fishing:

Here is another one about land animals:

Interactive map