☔️ Stoof! ☔️ @stoof@octodon.social

I work for a small org. with medical professionals who consider themselves scientists. So it makes me RAGE when I hear the following, like I did today:

Coworker: "These antibiotics aren't helping my cold get better at all."

ARHHHARHHHAHHH

Annnnd the tech world continues its march toward snake oil, mysticism, and fostering more skepticism of medical science and testing.

https://gizmodo.com/a-guy-just-injected-himself-with-a-diy-herpes-treatment-1822705966

Did you know that salt lamps leak salt? I just noticed that mine has a dried pool of salt around its base, and the paper I had next to it is all crinkly and dotted with salt. Interesting!

I'm extremely anxious today and I don't know why. Probably just overload of small things.

I left my ice cream on top of the fridge last night and am unreasonably sad about it.

I need this in my living room https://octodon.social/media/dThmX9AV93ZSFdR8O10

I just ate crazy, triple chocolate ice cream and now my brain is tingly.

My friend Sophie is trying to raise money to get gender confirming surgeries as the NHS won't cover them. She was recently featured in the Daily Mail, so now (of course) trolls have descended on her social media accounts and she's had to lock them down. She's asked her friends to post her donation site link for her in the meantime. She's a lovely, funny person and I hate that she's going through all of this.

https://www.youcaring.com/sophiecollings-1077798

Fortnite looks fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGB1aLDR2Es

I can't choose! I love all owls. All of them.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/superb-owls-ranked-spd/

Ughhh

https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/2/16963988/rotten-tomatoes-black-panther-review-bombing-alt-right

Has anyone else noticed a surge in fake-POC twitter accounts tweeting inflammatory things about the Black Panther movie? Which alt-right white boys then use to pretend they're being discriminated against?

Yesterday I tried A New Beginning and Primordia.

ANB has a clunky UI, terrible (TERRIBLE) voice acting and a dorky script. The primary female character is drawn with her chest stuck out in a way that looks uncomfortable and ridiculous.

Primordia is much better. I can't stand Crispin's voice but that's a personal pet peeve and not a bad game decision.

*will be. Gotta watch my tenses.

So I did start playing Gigantic and it was very fun with a nice community. Unfortunately the day after I installed the game, the studio announced it was shutting it down in July.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/31/16956254/gigantic-shutting-down-january-update-motiga

I love Marketplace so much. It's a nice outlet for my powerless rage against capitalism

I want a pink velvet sofa. And a cat that doesn't scratch things, shed, or barf.

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE MASSAGES FOR FUN?

Ow ow ow ow ow.
Ow.

I wish I was a sewing machine repair lady with a back room of 1000 vintage machines and random parts. (There actually is a place like this in Sudbury. The proprietor has everything from Elna Grasshoppers to Singer Featherweight 221s and he's all blase about it. Good thing I'm always broke or I'd have 15 sewing machines instead of 3.)

It pisses me off that there's a dolphin called Nicholas.