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Oh also Cael turned 3!

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Vet texted that Oz's levels are fine and to continue with the current dose. Of course this worries me that her levels would be too high if tested at a different time, but I'll just keep an eye on her for Symptoms & Side Effects. Check her again in ~six months

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Sudden influx of creators talking about youtube randomly demonetizing older videos for bullshit reasons and getting their appeals rejected by a ""human"" too fast for a human to have actually reviewed the flagged content,

Google must be rolling out a new AI moderation system

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It's been two weeks since I started sleeping on the futon! Overall it has been a positive experience -- with the bed, I found it very difficult to not just get back into bed after I got up, and then I was prone to just stay in it all day, largely because it was the only thing to sit on in my room. This was very bad for my joints, and I ended up spiralling into being less active -> losing stamina -> having less energy -> being less active. Putting the futon away (almost) every morning means that I do not have a bed to lay back down in, so I'm staying up and getting stuff done. I can put the futon into an arrangement that gives me space to sit down, and it's mostly comfortable but also a little uncomfortable, which prevents me from wanting to stay sitting all day. Additionally, the futon being so low to the ground (as in,,,, directly on it,,,,,) means that just standing up from it works out muscles that are helping to stabilize my joints, and additionally to that the reclaimed space means I'm able to get my PT exercises done more often.

As for actually sleeping on it, it is also a little uncomfortable there but I have not had as many problems with my joints as I had with the regular mattress, and I'm sleeping deeper and more consistently. The joints thing was a thing I was especially interested in, softer mattresses don't give enough support to one's joints and I was curious about a harder surface, if that would be better or worse. So far seems better? I am in less pain day-to-day

Have not had any temperature woes with it yet; one night it got cold enough that I needed a second blanket and since then when it seems like it'll get cold enough I put that on when I'm making the bed. I have not had a night too hot for the kakefuton yet (this is the comforter that came with the futon; it is mulberry silk with a cotton cover and it is so squishy, I love it) but I'm sure that'll happen in summer. I am not noticing any particular difference in temperatures between sleeping on the floor and sleeping on the bed.

So the plan is to keep doing it! We will need to work out the ultimate fate of the calking so it can stop living in my room, and I do still have some cleaning I need to be doing in there. Eventually I would like a sitting surface that is not the futon and I would like it to double as a storage container for the futon when it's not in use, but that is going to need to wait until I have paid off some of my current debt. But yeah, happy with the results of trying it

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Proposing a theory that people just assume any phoneme they don't immediately recognise is some kind of 'r'

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I think there's an 'r' in every place of articulation in some language or another

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That took so much longer than I thought it would, but for the past couple days I have been making an anki deck (digital flashcards) for Teket Lau vocabulary and verb conjugations. I actually planned on taking a nap today, but by the time I finished making the deck it was like six o'clock. May still nap anyway but my sleep schedule is going to get super weird if I do

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Finally finished Into the Drowning Deep

It was alright. I found the ending kind of lackluster

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Oo lackluster must be one of those words coined during the period when it was in fashion to make compounds backwards