River Styx

She/her, retired priestess of the great computers in the hallowed halls. Red state Dem. Long-winded. Speaks Southern for emphasis/flair, not from ignorance.

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For people who don't get my bio, here's the song.

https://t.co/zz0yjeAOnp

I spent my career supporting technical operations for ISPs or major retailers, and spent much time in data centers fixing computers. Data centers and warehouses DO hold most of the "gifts of life" now.

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@astr1d2006 @HannahStrege (I experienced a complete molar pregnancy. The pathology report came back that not only was my egg empty of nuclear DNA, but that egg was fertilized by two different sperm. It isn't required, as just one sperm's genetic information can duplicate inside the egg cell.)

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@astr1d2006 @HannahStrege All people began at the joining of sperm and egg, but not every conceptus has the potential to become a person. Some can only become cancer.

If we give personhood to all fertilized eggs, it would mean the mass of abnormal placenta-like tissue in me was a person w/ rights.

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@Gooseberry_Stew @mushycrouton I read this as "Reeferphobia".

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@PhilMccoxwell @4thOfJuly365 So you're saying Tim Curry is a pedophile?

(That was a re-enactment of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a movie often shown in theatres even now at midnight on Halloween, where people throw toast at the screen and the poor movie theater workers have to clean the place up after.)

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@DonnaStanley789 @BarbellFi And the de-stigmatizing of miscarriage is an overall societal good, even if it may seem like suddenly all these people are now experiencing it. I posit the rates haven't changed, but people are more willing to talk about "rainbow babies", and so also the previous miscarriage.

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@DonnaStanley789 @BarbellFi Not at all the experience in my circle -- some a few weeks premature, some getting dxed with level 1 ASD (my brother is at least level 2 and dxed in the 80s, these kids would not have been dxed then).

I will say that more people are willing to talk about miscarriages now.

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@nervemed It was a lot of radiation and an unnecessary surgery (since in the scans they didn't see it as that enlarged either), but the fact I had the insurance to investigate was still better than ignoring the appearance of a very enlarged node and having me possibly drop dead in my 20s.

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@nervemed They found that the lymph node was maybe double its usual size, but not large enough to explain the appearance of a large knot. They'd already done CTs from neck to pelvis to visualize other nodes and saw nothing.

It seems new neck muscles were pushing the node forward.

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@ColoradoOhio @IsabellaEm1 @Lady_Misift Celia has one, but it malfunctioned (endometriosis) so they removed her uterus.

Her brain still sends signals to her ovaries to mature a follicle/thicken leftover endometrium, the ovulation site still becomes a corpus luteum that dies 2 weeks later causing it to shed inside her.

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@mattsobalvarro @OnlyYolie @ma1ybe I don't pay so can't write long messages. I would have added "including rape, even if it means only the rapists stupid enough to confess go to jail" for clarity if I could have.

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@mattsobalvarro @OnlyYolie @ma1ybe IDC what *you* believe. I filed a police report, a damn fool thing to do if I were lying.

I wasn't beaten and he didn't confess on the controlled call (controlled calls should be allowed in all states, not just mine).

But "beyond a reasonable doubt" should apply to ALL crimes.

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@mattsobalvarro @OnlyYolie @ma1ybe While not all perps will be smart enough to realize they are being recorded, the dumber/less wary ones would be weeded out that way.

Don't fear justice wasn't served in my case, tho -- my rapist got esophageal cancer. It's more justice than a court would give. God does work.

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@mattsobalvarro @OnlyYolie @ma1ybe I do think any phone call or conversation should be able to be audio-recorded if the intent in that recording is to produce evidence of sexual assault.

Some states demand all parties consent to recording a telephone call, and more privacy is given to in-person audio recording.

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@themostazezo @_celia_bedelia_ Then the brain and ovaries try to start the process to mature a follicle until one is ready to be released again, while also causing that endometrial tissue still leftover after the hysterectomy to grow more.

So Celia experiences a menstrual cycle.

Her menses is simply hidden.

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@themostazezo @_celia_bedelia_ That body produces progesterone, which stabilizes any endometrial tissue.

When that egg goes unfertilized the corpus luteum dies, and endometrial tissues shed. For people w/ a uterus, this is menses.

Since Celia still has endometrial tissue inside her, that tissue also sheds./3