Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]
traaaaaaannnnnnnnnnsGreen Lake and its sister Round Lake, are a pair of unique bodies of water located in the aboriginal territory of the Onandoga nation. This writeup will concern itself with Green Lake, but much of this information carries over to its sister.
The final remnants of a plunge pool formed during the last ice age by a glacial waterfall at least twice the size of Niagara Falls; Green Lake is situated in a gorge and fed entirely by rain and groundwater. As a result, it is one of the few meromictic lakes on earth.
So, okay, in general terms, lakes do this:
For the warmer months water organizes into distinct layers, each circulating in their own way. The warmest water, being the least dense, sits at the top. This is where the phytoplankton hang out, producing oxygen and consuming nutrients. The coldest water, being the most dense, sits at the bottom. This is where nutrients tend to accumulate and oxygen gets depleted by animal life. As summer turns to winter the top layers get colder and the water mixes as stratification breaks down, the same happens as winter turns back to summer. This process helps more evenly distribute oxygen and nutrients.
Ok so Green Lake doesn't do this.
The bottom of the lake is totally devoid of oxygen, so no decomposition; whatever falls down there, stays down there. The water is also very high in mineral content, which leaves layers of calcite deposits on anything that isn't moving. Moreover there is a layer of bacterially active water around 18-20 meters down that makes the water purple at that specific depth. Thanks to photosynthetic bacteria that deposit some of the minerals in the water, Green Lake is home to one of the few existing freshwater reefs.
I just think its neat.
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damnit we drove right past that park last fall. it was really a road trip going to random places in upstate NY and vermont though we want to go back
stumbled upon John Brown's gravesite which was cool though but his hometown is pretty shitty these days
::: spoiler self-image and hair loss stuff, but slightly positive I have been completely unable to look in the mirror properly for around 4 years, this is mostly about hair loss. Today after my injection, I wanted to take some pictures, and I felt pretty hot and feminine and then I caught a glance of my hairline in the mirror, that gave me the confidence to properly look at myself and wow. It felt good. Like, it's not completely perfect, but I thought I had the world's worst receding hairline, but it looked fine. And now I really want to get a haircut, because that can make it look pretty nice.
I feel great about being able to look at myself. But wtf, I had some REALLY BAD body dysmorphia about this, like I thought it was bad enough that the only way would be shaving it all. I completely avoided mirrors for YEARS, and this probably blew everything out of proportion. And while writing this I realized I had a very severe case of body dysmorphic disorder plus dysphoria. I am so happy. :::
Anyway, does anyone have any cool hairstyle suggestions for curly (3A, to be specific) hair?
I had a zoom meeting where there was also a woman with my name participating, and before it started I mentioned to a coworker that I wasn't looking forward to the confusion. The coworker said "They're a woman!" or something like that and busted out laughing, the only reasonable justification being that me being mistaken for a woman is funny...
Ironic, as I'd been on a webinar with the name sharing lady presenting yesterday and thought to myself "I think I look more feminine than her". Guess not!
transitioning is a type of looksmaxxing
::: spoiler not sure how to cw this so anxiety + si joke So as everyone knows I'm super burnt out and hopeless and wanting to kms recently and I made a joke about needing a gun (which happened this weekend). Joke was supposed to be that I need to kms. haha very funny good joke you fuckin idiot. Anyway then this fuckhead I work with made a joke about me committing a shooting and I don't really remember what happened after that. Now I'm soo anxious I'm getting fired. Mostly because I want this place as a reference. Only place I've worked. Fuck me and fuck that guy. :::
Ruining my only day off btw
Reading a new book that involves the criminal underworld, gonna call up RGG I got a new plot for the next yakuza game. Roll kiryu out in a wheelchair we got some work to do
NVM this is just IW plot, I do have another plot though with mind blowing conclusion
::: spoiler IW and yakuza 6 spoilers I know these games are Japanese and with war criming them with nukes is something that's gonna linger so for it to effect the plot of 6 and IW it's very understandable. 6 takes place in Hiroshima with one of the antagonist living in the ruins of the bombing so I can understand the anti nuclear themes this series has. IW dealing with countries wanting to start up nuclear energy and the consequences of what do do with the nuclear waste is sort of the driving point to the schemes. I know nuclear waste would be scary in this narrative but with the alternatives never really being presented leave a weird taste in my mouth.
Current book I'm reading deals with what exactly happens to waste from the first world and while it does mirror a lot of the plot it's more expensive in some manners. There is a side story of doko Island that I feel matches what the story might have been about that of trash being dumped. :::
Overall I feel maybe IW was going somewhere different but it's hard to say with 6's story. Long story short read books they make your favorite media more interesting
Overall conclusion we need to liberate the yakuza series if we wanna make it anticapitalist and antimperialist, 3's story was so close to this being but it avoided it (no one @ me on kiwami 3 I don't know what they did there nor care) and 6 was everything 3 was trying to be but falls just short
Whatever happened to that DIY electrolysis thing that was getting posted about on here a while ago?
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Waow I had no idea it was still being worked on!!! Serves me for not spending any time in c/diy
::: spoiler trauma? homophobia, self-harm One thing I absolutely was not prepared for with starting to come out is the level of internalized homophobia. I have this absolutely bloodthirsty, malicious voice in me that wants to harm any part of me that steps out of line. I've been writing about it to try and vomit it all out. It keeps coming.
::: spoiler ideation Wrote a poem about drowning myself in a local pond I like to visit. It was more about the before and after. The walk into the woods, the weather that day, whether I would leave my keys in the car. Then how I would be found, by whom, how hurtful it would be. That the resting expression on my face doesn't show me at peace peace, it shows there's nothing there at all. :::
I want true peace and joy so badly. I can almost envision it, but it feels forever just out of reach. The struggle continues even though I am too tired to face it. I can't give up again either. :::
Thanks for all of your support. I hope we can all get through this.
So apparently liquid leaking from an injection site is probably interstitial fluid. There's always a little drop of blood leaking too. I didn't know interstitial fluid was a thing and you can actually leak a clear body fluid and it probably is fine.
Yes and a tiny dob if blood isnt a problem either, you got little tiny capillaries all over and a little nick might leak blood but thats about it.
Yeah, i thought blood was the only thing that could leak out. If a lot came out I'd be worried, but this much seems normal if not less than I expected
::: spoiler weight + eating, working around a disability, adhd going to mirror the other comment and ask if anyone has advice for gaining weight. While its clear that I'd be able to eat more frequently in a better situation, still wanted to ask just in case. I have to avoid exerting myself so im mostly sedentary, and it feels like I'm already maximizing the space in my digestive system (I look a bit bloated just from the food volume), and focusing on healthy fats and anything calorie dense, but still are underweight. I think addressing my chronically understimulated brain might help? Its always running exhausingly fast and I'm sure thats burning energy, and even though im underweight im quite tall so theres quite a bit to fuel even mostly sedentary. Haven't been able to find any medication so far that's slowed my brain down without awful side effects unfortunately.
Maybe I need to get in contact with a nutritionist, see if theres any other changes to what I eat that'd help (I'm not a picky eater other than being vegan). :::
Any weight loss advice? I've been unsuccessful at losing weight over the past year. I was very depressed over college and put on about ten kilos in my final year, and I can't keep living like this. I enjoy going to the gym, but I'm also awful at regulating myself. I snack too much and make meals that are way too big. I feel really guilty when I don't finish a meal, so I end up eating too much
Honestly the only thing that worked for me was GLP-1s
I lost 50 lbs by calorie counting in 2019, it was not easy. It took a little under a year. Marathon, not a sprint, etc. Theres calculators online that can help you figure out a daily calorie goal to lose 1 to 2 lbs a week (they will also be in metric too lol), which is about as fast as you wanna go for the sake of your skin and muscle.
I also did some therapy about why I had been emotionally eating and stress eating as well, which helped. Sounds like you have some stuff to work out over guilt around food. Exercise helps with losing weight a bit but the main thing is cutting intake. If you live alone, just dont buy the food/snacks and only make what you eat and store leftovers quickly - "just" does a lot of work there but its true! Oh, also a kitchen scale was useful!
I have arguably anorexic tendencies so I am not sure how relevant and healthy my advice is. But as calorie counting and kitchen scale are mentioned by someone else I can add few things that works for me psychologically.
First thing that helped me was going back to intermittent fasting, I don't eat until 7pm and just go with coffee/smoking(they are very useful for keeping hunger in check but not obviously not worth starting if you aren't a user).
Eating high fiber foods, brown rice, greens, oatmeal, vegetables keeps you full way longer and allows smaller portions. I also eat same things most days since i find that repetition helps and I keep one 250-300 calorie processed snack space in my 1200 calorie limit as it helps with motivation and my sweet tooth is insatiable.
Mentally, I am against checking the scale way too often. Losing weight is a long and gradual process that doesn't show results very quickly even if everything is going well. I just tell myself to keep going, it has to work mathmetically instead of going to scale every day. Also calculate how much your body burns without working out and plan your daily caloric intake accordingly. Count and weight EVERYTHING you eat. Besides that dysphoria is a good motivator as well for me personally. Allowing yourself cheat days once a month or 2-3 weeks is also important. Keeping motivation pretty much carries the whole process.
I've been able to lose 10 kgs between august and december last year by following these.
1200 kcal is quite dangerously low, Im saying this because it can hurt you. I work in Trauma and we have people in comas, even then they get at an absolute minimum 1500 kcal - and theyre not doing much of anything. They try to aim for around 2000 kcal.
Everything else if it works for you (maybe dont smoke too lol), go for it but consider increasing your limit because you could be missing critical macros, vitamins, and other nutrients. Cheat days, IF, whatever is working for you.
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Oh I am aware and I am not at that level anymore, but It's hard to convince me of the fact once I am obsessed with losing weight sadly.
1200 kcal is quite dangerously low
Oh hey that's how much I get... Wait that's bad
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