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Icytrees

@ Icytrees @sh.itjust.works

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Clinically depressed, chronically online,Socialist discordian statist for open science,Independent journalism and gay crime.

My Communities:

!Independent_Media@lemmy.today — Independent world journalism news feed.

!indy_news_canada@sh.itjust.works — Independent news from Canada.

!wildfeed@sh.itjust.works — Trash. Global, diverse news, reports, blogs and listicles.

!art_alchemist_guild@lemmy.today — Ask, share, learn and show off with the most DIY of artists.

!cool_rocks@lemmy.today — For cool rocks.

!everyday_socialism@lemmy.ml — For everyday socialism.

I keep making communities. Please help.

Other versions of me:

wren@lemmy.todaywoad@lemmy.ml

Former versions of me: (I don't check these accounts)

ceedoestrees@lemmy.worldicytrees@lemmy.todaytrash_goblin@piefed.zip

  • Dinner Date

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  • The extreme negative reaction is part of it. Art plays all emotions, including inciting an audience against you. Sometimes artists don't do it for us, they do it to see what happens.

  • Dinner Date

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  • Reminds me of Pig by Roald Dahl.

    People expect some funny, maybe payback, at least for someone to do something. Nope. Just weird and sad.

  • Science Rule

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  • What happens if you accidentally mix the juice from mealy rosette lichen fermented in 10% ammonia with small amounts of boric acid, aluminum sulphate, aluminum phosphate, 99% ethanol, sodium carbonate, 10% acedic acid, calcium carbonate, sulphur, gum agaric, glycerine, honey, and 3% hydrogen peroxide? Hypothetically?

  • Boycott Loblaws & Empire!

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  • Valid concerns. I won't ignore the orphan crushing machine and every situation is different, but a lot of food can be grown in an apartment.

    I had a 300sqft bachelor pad in Vancouver where I managed to grow tomatoes, goji berries, greens and ALL the herbs. I kept my herbs in pots under a full spectrum light indoors, clipping and drying as they grew out. After set-up I only had to water, fertilize sometimes, and prune as needed. Greens, I kept harvesting young and re-seeding. Aside from watering, it took almost no effort to put a significant dent in my grocery bill.

    Now, I have a 4x8ft fenced garden in a shared yard where I grow so much I barely buy produce in the summer. Aside from weeding, sprouting and transplanting in the spring, the main labour is watering, which only takes like five minutes. I get my seeds from things I eat or the public library seed share, so those are free, too.

    I legit grew three pumpkins, four ziplock bags of sunflower seeds, beets, snap peas, opium poppies, carrots, tomatoes, gooseberries, strawberries and still have a herb shelf inside.

    I get that's still not a year's worth a food, but it's a lot for tiny bit of dirt, considering I knew nothing about gardening before.

    Oh but get GMO pumpkin seeds. White mildew rot is a pain in the ass and everywhere. And a dehydrator if you don't know how to deal with lots of food at once, you can make chips and crackers out of anything.

    I'm pretty lucky in that my friends hunt, too, so I get a butt load of deer meat every fall.

  • Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

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  • Yes, I know. I post most of these articles. The issue was with generalizing Christians as child molesters.

    Edit: I'm Canadian. Technically, the first amendment to our constitution was forcing the Hudson's Bay Company to give us Rupert's Land.

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  • Nœ ᚳiddᛝ, þæts ᚻow I feᛚt.

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    Verdigris

  • Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

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  • I'm not going go remove this (and no one's reported it) because religious trauma is real and many religious institutions haven't done themselves any favors in tackling this problem. However, please avoid generalizing any religious group of people here, especially with such a severe accusation.

    Edit: If you have thoughts on this, let me know. I aim to allow for the maximum gamut of viewpoints while still fostering a community where opposing ideas can meet, even clash as long as there isn't collateral damage. I'm open to input on how to best do this. The downvotes don't tell me if I said too much or didn't do enough.

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    The Leaked Report Pushing Mark Carney Toward the F-35 Fighter Jet

    thewalrus.ca /the-leaked-report-pushing-mark-carney-toward-the-f-35-fighter-jet/
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    Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back

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  • My friend thought the Simpsons was satanic. The same person believed the movie "The Fugitive" was good Christian fun.

  • Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds

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  • I was too tired when I wrote that. Vortiexone is my nothing burger. Wellbutrin has no noticable effect for me on it's own and ramps up my anxiety if I'm on other stimulants.

    I haven't looked at the clinical depression treatment doses of the cold meds turned brain meds yet, but maybe? It's already a psych drug anyway that targets that reflex.

    I make a point of not looking up drugs I'm trying, I take notes instead and compare later with my psyche. Right now it's a mix of Adderall, duloxetine and abilify, which work pretty well for me as a triad but none of them do much for me individually, even 20mg of adderall is like a couple coffees.

    Brains are fucking weird.

    You know those hipster Speakeasy's with some prodigal bartender who mixes your favorite drink? I imagine there's one of those somewhere with a mustachio'd psychopharmacologist in a rustic leather apron, who takes one look at you before he starts tossing ingredients into a mortar, with flourishes and puns. He's got a vintage copper pill press that spins on a motor, flinging tablets he catches in a green glass bottle, pops the cork stopper and hands you your perfect drug

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    Denialism close-up: APTN Investigates captures Frances Widdowson’s surge

    www.aptnnews.ca /investigates/denialism-close-up-aptn-investigates-captures-frances-widdowsons-surge/

  • Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds

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  • I just tried buproprion. It was an expensive sugar pill for me, or might as well have been.

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    Governments are hiding data, threatening democracy. Here’s how it affects you.

    theklaxon.com.au /governments-are-hiding-data-threatening-democracy-heres-how-it-affects-you/
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    Amateur geology

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amateur_geology
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    EU ‘veggie burger’ ban stalls after talks collapse

    www.politico.eu /article/eu-veggie-burger-ban-food-groceries-meat-industry-plant-based/

  • Monster Wolf robot grabs spotlight as tool to scare off bears

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  • What.

    WHAT.

  • Cannabis Users Are Scromiting Uncontrollably, and It's as Gross as It Sounds

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  • These reports are based on patients presenting to the ER with cyclical vomiting. After charts are taken and tox reports are done, they've found all of them are habitual to chronic cannabinoid users. It usually happens in the morning and it's unrelated to other factors.

    When presenting to the emergency room with possible signs of intoxication, poisoning, or overdose (the scromiting,) it's standard to do a toxicology report, which is how they can rule out alcohol.

    Vice has a vibe, it's informal, the tone isn't meant to be taken seriously, but I like it because it's different, and their health and science reporting is always well sourced. If you check out the source in the article it links to a paper.

    Just because there's been so much bullshit around weed doesn't mean it's perfect. I did a bit of dealing back in the day, tried different weed every which way, and it's a net negative for me.

    But all we know is that it's somehow linked to this persistent vomiting syndrome, it could be certain strains, genetic, or some entirely different reason. It's as important to question the reports as it is to use them to figure out what's going on.

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  • The published reports say it mostly happens to chronic users. Admittedly studies are difficult because of mixed policies about cannabis, but it's been reported from ER departments in multiple countries, some where cannabis is legal/descriminalized. If someone shows up to an ER (at least in Canada) with overdose symptoms, they would have a blood test for alcohol poisoning, ruling it out. Given that, and the volume of papers on it, it warrants more research.

    I believe it because pot and ketamine are the two drugs that make me nauseous at minimum. I've smoked more than my fair share because I thought the pain was what made it cool, but it either had no effect or made me ill. After one terrible, sickly day, I quit. CBD is the same for me.

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  • Wait, so you can't follow a story past four panels? What is "four panel logic?" I think you made that up.

    I was quoting someone else.

    My information is from reputable sources in healthcare, journalism and medicine. Do we not recognize Ph D's here, now?

    In every one of my comments I try to bring the discussion back to the narrative of the comic, you brought up pregnancy, which I addressed.

    I don see this conversation being productive, so you can have the last word and I won't respond. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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  • Did you... did you read them? Or did you lose the plot after four statements?

    I won't respond, you have the last word if you like.

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    Monster Wolf robot grabs spotlight as tool to scare off bears

    japantoday.com /category/national/monster-wolf-robot-grabs-spotlight-as-tool-to-scare-off-bears

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  • Thank you. So much.

    There's at least one of these every day.

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  • "I didn't get it so the comic is wrong."

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  • I am a woman who has been to the doctor. I get asked "Are you pregnant or breastfeeding," all the goddamn time.

    Weird you think disagreement is an insult.

    Countless men who have never been a woman in a doctor's office don't get it. Lemmy is about 73% men. They're missing the point for the same reason this comic exists, because women's experiences are minimalized in healthcare.

    All the panels are related, that's how a narrative works. A lack of media literacy doesn't make it wrong, because women get it without needing an explanation. Unless the guys in the comments are actual doctors, they're just a large volume of unsupported opinions. It is not routine to ask about a period in an emergency, the medical emergency is the context.

    Again, the comic isn't about pregnancy, it's about dismissing women's pain and blaming problems on hormones.

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    ...women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives, rather than pain medication, for their ailments. One study even showed women who received coronary bypass surgery were only half as likely to be prescribed painkillers, as compared to men who had undergone the same procedure.

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    Women are more likely to encounter scepticism regarding the severity or legitimacy of their symptoms as a result of gender biases and cultural norms ingrained in the medical discourse about women’s bodies and diseases over centuries.

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    Despite medical advancements, women frequently face underdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of pain (Pieretti et al., 2016). Healthcare providers often dismiss or minimize women’s pain, labeling it as “emotional” or “psychosomatic” rather than physical (Samulowitz et al., 2017).

    edit: You know, as a mod of a community, I can see all the votes there, right? I'm just glad you found a healthy outlet.

  • Archaeologists Found a Cube-Shaped Human Skull in Mexico

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  • Phallic. If someone says "dick head" in my vicinity all my friends will look at them until they're shamed into a quiet "sorry" and walk away. My two-spirited BFF will put their hand on my shoulder, saying "No, they were the real dickhead," and point to their chest, "In here."

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    'Difficult reading': depth of women's pain laid bare

    www.canberratimes.com.au /story/9107682/difficult-reading-depth-of-womens-pain-laid-bare/
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    Advice from a second-wave revolutionary

    naomidarom.substack.com /p/advice-from-a-second-wave-revolutionary
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    Archaeologists Found a Cube-Shaped Human Skull in Mexico

    www.vice.com /en/article/archaeologists-found-a-cube-shaped-human-skull-in-mexico/
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    Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds

    www.sciencealert.com /laughing-gas-can-offer-immediate-relief-from-depression-study-finds
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    Art exhibition explores the human costs of the 49th parallel

    indiginews.com /arts/parallax-e-the-reach-border-exhibition/
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    A neuroscientist explains how to break free from romantic infatuation

    www.npr.org /2025/09/20/nx-s1-5534087/the-science-of-limerence-romantic-obsession
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    Article

    Brain fart science! Rotten egg gas could guard against Alzheimers

    www.hopkinsmedicine.org /news/newsroom/news-releases/2021/01/rotten-egg-gas-could-guard-against-alzheimers-disease