ephant.bsky.social
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#ActuallyAutistic writer of neurodivergent & queer romance & family drama.
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Like people say "Disney won't save you, make your own queer art!" and then when we do suddenly its "woah man that's kinda problematic also here's some screenshots and youtube videos about decades old rumors"
Am I insane to think this connected? The fascists barely have to do anything at this point.
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Pizza update: my pizza arrived hot and was extra delicious knowing that my money went straight to the restaurant rather than having menulog take a huge cut and the guy who showed up thanked me again for ordering directly and was very happy when I stated my intention to order every week!
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I STILL HAVE DELIVERY RELATED TRAUMA, DOC!!
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I'm just saying that it's not just... some drivers suck and don't read the delivery instructions. It's the driving instructions on uber eats are SO BAD that even my very clear delivery instructions don't help them. Anyone who ONLY has my delivery instructions has no problems!! it's so frustrating.
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I have free delivery with WW so it costs me $0 for same day 1hr window, or $0 for next day 3-hour or 5-hour window and wherever possible I try and get the next day with a larger window because that's always the truck... and they never have issues with my address.
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and I can't tell which one it will be. The DD drivers seem to have a higher hit rate for "knocking on the actual door", but it's still not guaranteed.
If I order the day before and get the actual woollies truck they never have problems. it's only the partner drivers!!
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I don't use uber eats on purpose (because they reliably cannot find my house. it is not the drivers fault. their app just... sends them to the opposite side of the block and then they call me all confused about it) but same-day delivery from woollies gets outsourced to Uber Eats or Door Dash
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so the fact that when I order from this place they read my delivery instructions and knock on my actual door and hand me my pizza without a 10 minute phone call (and then cold pizza) is a really REALLY big plus!!
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"actually shows up at my front door" is a bar that many delivery drivers cannot reach, and yesterday I spent like 15 minutes on the phone to an uber-eats driver trying to get him to find my house. My husband had to walk to the other side of the block to get the groceries.
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this one time A WHILE AGO a pizza place left my pizza in a puddle (A PUDDLE) on the opposite side of my building complex and since then I have really just wanted a pizza place that will deliver to my actual front door that isn't stupidly expensive or difficult to order from
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but if I have to call them every week and be like "yo it's me, I want my regular order" and they'll be like "ok see you in 20" then that's actually fine
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anyway I really don't like making phone calls but this place knows where I live and they seem to want my business so hopefully they'll fix the website and put my address in
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and apparently these days when they deliver pizza they bring a card machine, which is good because I haven't had cash in my wallet since 2019.
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and he's like "that's so good! menulog costs us heaps of money!" and I'm like "I know!! that's why I wanted to order from you but your website says it's out of area" and he said he'll get that fixed and in the meantime he took my order
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anyway so I call them and I'm like "do you deliver to mystreet, suburb?" and he's like "mistrit? how do you spell that?" and I'm like "no, mystreet" and he goes "wait are you number, mystreet? You normally order through menulog" and I'm like "yes! that's me! I thought I'd order directly this time!"
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But I like this pizza restaurant so much and I really want their pizza. But now that I have seen that they have $15.50 pizzas on their website I don't really want to pay $18.50 for it on menulog... so I made a PHONE CALL. that's how much I like this pizza!!
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anyway I found they charge quite a lot less if you order directly (which is good and makes sense!) BUT on the restaurants website it claims I am outside of their delivery area (but inside the delivery area according to menulog)
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âBluesky, give me more engagement!â
::monkeyâs paw curls::
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there's a cafe in my building and it would be extremely convenient if I could make that into A Place I Go To Buy Food but basically everything they sell is too spicy for me to eat and it's all very meat-heavy which isn't what I feel like I want to eat during the day
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I mean the worst thing that could happen is that I don't particularly like the food, but that's a non-problem. I wouldn't buy something I'm likely to hate. It's just the decision making process makes me feel SO STRESSED OUT and basically every time I think "it'll be fine" and then it's not
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And it's silly because I feel like people are going to jump in and give me tips for getting over anxiety and tell me that nothing bad will happen if I go to a different place or eat a different thing and like... yeah? I know? that's not the problem.
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And there's a bĂĄnh mĂŹ place just up the road from my house that I have been to lots of places and is A Place I Go To Eat... but pretty consistently after eating the pork bĂĄnh mĂŹ I get all dizzy/brain-fog the next day so if I go back I would need to try a different thing which is also hard
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Then I thought "I'll try again when I get off the train on the way home" but again... NOPE
Walked past dozens of food places (to be fair, some were closed at 11am) in tears because Too Hard
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Sleepily read this as âmade out withâ and the call for selfies woke me up
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in a world currently filled with vice signaling I think performatively doing good shit in public is good, actually
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And even if they are changed⊠they can go be redeemed elsewhere with other people who donât have any bad memories of them!
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I always think⊠itâs good if someone becomes a better person⊠and they can go and be that person somewhere that Iâm not. Itâs a big world!
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Nick Frostâs role in Harry Potter helps fuel the empire J.K. Rowling uses to fund anti-trans harm. By lending his credibility, he obscures that harmâputting a pro-trans face on her work that reassures liberals into feeling okay supporting work that funds her and keeps her culturally relevant.
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One time my son cried because I wouldnât take his head off and swap it with a dolls head
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How I suspect theyâll respond: âso youâre saying that transphobia works? Weâll do more of that!â
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yeah the plan is "take less for a while and then less than that until you reach zero" but nobody knows how much "less" is or how long "a while" is!
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and whenever people have this discussion online a bunch of people love to wag their fingers and say "don't just stop taking it!! You should speak to your psychiatrist and they will make a plan to get off your medication safely!!"
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I was dealing with the side-effects of a medication I didn't need, because stopping taking it was too disruptive to my life!
And eventually I did get off it but it took months and I was just... DIYing my own tapering because doctors are like đ€·
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I stayed on escitalopram for like an extra year even though I was pretty positive I didn't actually need it any more just because life-wise I could manage the side effects better than the discontinuation symptoms.
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Yeah itâs weird. The summary on the ABC news app has one headline, but the full article has another
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Itâs a total game changer!!
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Thereâs also a button that detects text in a screenshot when you go into the alt-text area so if itâs a text-only screenshot you donât even need to copy and paste!