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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Hand crank radio, candles, canned goods, a water catch/storage system for rainwater, camp stove + propane. If you’re growing your own stuff, learn to can and preserve food, so jars, lids, and supplies for that. SEEDS. If the world goes to shit, having a seed library will be important. Stock up on first aid, medical supplies, and antibiotics. That shit will be worth its weight in gold in a world/society ending scenario. Consider getting chickens and a coop, now you have fresh eggs, creatures that can eat most table scraps, and fertilizer production. Solar panels and batteries might be better in an extended blackout period if diesel and other fuel becomes hard to find in an a world ending scenario. Guns, to protect all your shit from desperate looters, and to hunt. Camp toilets, or maybe build a privy; during a world ending scenario there will be no running water. Stock up on firewood too. Reference books; in the end times there will be no internet or how to guides. So you want reference books for edible plants in your area, using traps/snares, maps/atlases, medicinal plants, ect.















  • To provide a little bit of context here; rats are pretty big, and can be difficult to handle when you are doing approved in-vivo studies. When entering a tunnel like structure, the plastic cone, their instinct is to scoot forward. So once they scoot, you close the plastic cone behind them. Now you can easily flip them on their back and administer a sub cutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of what ever medication you are doing in-vivo studies on through the plastic. Doing your injection cleanly and quickly minimizes the stress on the animal. For someone like me, who wasn’t comfortable handling them, it made it easier for me to do the work as quick as possible, less stress for everyone involved.



  • I went through some super traumatic stuff, that ended with my mother almost murdering me, being resuscitated, and a long medial recovery. I was potentially going to be placed in a situation where my mother would still have control over me, because I was terrified of talking with my court appointed lawyer, or any adult about what happened. I became psychotically depressed and attempted suicide. (My first suicide attempt was as a 5 year old.) I spent 10 months in a mental hospital that had a unit for adolescents. The food was ok. 2 people to a hospital room. Pay phones were available, and you had to sign up for blocks of time to use the phone so everyone that wanted a chance to use them could. No computers, internet, or electronics. 1 TV for the whole ward. We had tutors so we could keep up with schoolwork. We had art therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and individual therapy. They kept us active and busy. Overall it was beneficial for my mental health, but I was misdiagnosed due to not knowing that bipolar ran in my family and my parent not being forthcoming with medical history. I struggled with mental health my whole life. It wasn’t until 3 years ago I was able to get stable insurance and find a psychiatrist with an opening for treatment.

    Mental health is underfunded and understaffed. Unless you do shit that is criminal due to mental illness, or make an attempt at your life, many will find it very hard to get help.