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Tag: Monjauro

  • Wednesday, Sept 10th, 2025

    • Last week I may have mentioned that my endo put me on Monjauro. Apparently when it is combined with Jardience, I have not had to take insulin for a week. That’s outstanding. I have not yet broken into dance, I’ll keep you informed. #
    • I’m not a geezer by any stretch, but I have lived long enough to see walled gardens like CompuServe give way to the open web, only to see us head backwards towards something like Meta, or other social media. It’s not the same kind of walled off product like CS, but I know too many older folks that call Facebook ‘The Internet’. If it had just stayed there, it might have been fine, but the collecting of our information, and the creation and weaponization of the algorithm is malevolent.

      I’m at a stage where I really believe staying on social media makes us (me) complicit in something I think is partly responsible for, well, all this fuckery. With social media, I no longer have a lot of control over what is shown to me. I can choose what I consume with an RSS feed reader. I can subscribe to a blogger, or a news site, and I get what I asked for. Will I see ads? Sure. But the RSS doesn’t extrapolate based on my viewing habits and decide I’m not seeing enough right-wing reactionary bullshit. If I do, I can unsubscribe and move on. No big whoop, as Linda Richman would say.

      The prevailing wisdom is to share your content on social media, but I won’t actively do that. I’m not creating content to ‘be’ anything anymore, I just want to have fun at this point, and share what I know, and what I learn on the way. I’ll just do it here on my corner of the world. I have an RSS Feed here, find yourself a feed reader and subscribe. #

  • Friday, September 5th, 2025

    At the end of July, my endocrinologist (apparently, I need one of these now) put me on Monjauro. This is one of these fancy GLP-1 drugs that are all the rage now. Basically, this is a harpoon that I need to shoot into me once a week, and while there are weight loss benefits, the thing it’s supposed to do for me is elbow my pancreas into making insulin again. It seems to be doing its job, but I’d like to focus on that weight loss thing. I understand why it works so well; the last thing you want to even think about when you start taking this is food. Get a good set of kneepads, you’re going to be spending a lot of time in that position for the first few days. #

    From The Tedious Politics Dept: “…numbers always tend to benefit the left.” Dude. You’re so close.

    If you’re not following Aaron Rupar, fix that. #

    It occurs to me that we’re now on a track where school shootings will be the number two source of child mortality. The hot new trend for 2026: Suburban Tradwives with headstones in the yard! #

    A story that came out Thursday afternoon had me going down a rabbit hole. Someone reported that the DOJ was considering banning guns from people with gender dysphoria. CNN and the NYPost had stories on this, several local station sites, and something called The National News Desk. I might be cynical at this point, but I think someone on the Right sent this as a troll. I think the Dems should call their bluff and see if they fold right there. If not, bring a bill. Tell everyone that while this is maybe a million people at most, this starts a conversation we’ve been wanting to have for years, and you’re happy the GOP recognizes that the 2nd Amendment isn’t absolute anymore. Have amendments ready for DV, SA, Stalking, Violent Crime, and Mental Health Crisis. Have them in your back pocket, ready to go. Make them tap out, and then message that shit all day long until the Midterms. #

    If you’ve followed this site for any length of time, then you’ll know that I’ve been trying to figure out how to do one thing: How to make one post a day with all the stuff I want to talk about, but be able to share a unique link for a new entry in that day when I update it. Or, if I take these posts and make them my podcast, then I can send the main link for that and/or send the individual links at various points of the day.

    This is basically how a couple of my favorite sites update their content, but both of those sites are on very different platforms. One of those platforms is very DIY. How DIY? It’s the guy who invented blogging and podcasting. So the bar I seem to be trying to jump over appears very high.

    Today, I figured it out. You’ll see somf thingamajig at the end of this train of thought, and that will have an anchor link on it. That link will be unique this tinsection. The next section will have one of its own, and so on. That link is the one you and I can use elsewhere.

    Yes, I had heard of anchor links before, but not what they were. It’s bloody amazing to me that the answer has been there the whole time, sitting in HTML, which I have Macromedia Dreamweaver age knowledge in (Note: that means old).

    We shall never speak of this again. #