Got a few posts for you today. Trigger warnings, when noted, are for depressive thoughts, discussion of suicide, and discussion of self-injury.

Whatever you call it, my mental health sucked. About the onset of my illness and my diagnosis. (trigger warning)

The when, why, and how of my self-injuries. Exactly what it says on the tin. (trigger ( Read more... )

Thanks muchly to everyone who commented re: the new blog. The suggestions and support is much appreciated.

I've done a few tweaks since the last post (some based on feedback) so here's the latest list of links:

Why the new blog - for those who missed it earliser
Something I won't be talking about - new post on one thing I will not mention on the ( Read more... )

I've started a new blog. You can read all about why over at the link, but the short version is I had stuff I wanted to talk about regarding me and my health and what have you and I wanted a specific place to do it in ( Read more... )

I'm not a huge fan of the TSA nakedscanners. I haven't been since I first heard about them months ago. Anything that amounts to "This could really suck for you... but we've totally turned the sucky settings off, honest!" immediately has me going oh hell no. You can imagine my shocked face when it was revealed that "We totally don't save the ( Read more... )

You know, one of the things fandom does well - in addition to porn - is organizing whip-rounds when they're needed. help_haiti has started up to provide a way for folks to donate time/talent/items for auction, proceeds to go to various charities that are helping Haiti out ( Read more... )

It has been a loooooooooooooooooong week involving such things as no LJ/Twitter access (now fixed), no hot water (also now fixed), repair people, and work crazyness. So I sit here on a Sunday afternoon trying to catch up on all that needs doing.

Such as passing along this story, (h/t to
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As I catch up with my flist I find:

1) Amazon is possibly marking any LBGT book as 'adult' and therefore stripping it of its rankings. I say "possibly" only because I haven't researched this beyond the linked post. But if true that's surprisingly stupid of them. [ETA: more info here]

2) OW MY OVARIES3) Approximately five billion posts that say " ( Read more... )

Possibly the greatest HuffPo post of all time.

Granted the one about child swinging is trauma-inducing so you may want to skip that one. But if you're not bopping along to the condom song I do not know what's wrong with you.

Another day, another RadioTBQ.

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This looks like it could be interesting, especially since I've been trying to take a more proactive role in setting and reaching my goals.

Anyone interested in trying it out with me? :D