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Content warning:cancer, medical stuffUgh. Had my second shot of testosterone suppressing stuff today.I am SO HOT. And I do not mean that...

Content warning:cancer, medical stuff

Ugh. Had my second shot of testosterone suppressing stuff today.

I am SO HOT. And I do not mean that figuratively, like SO HOT BABY, I mean I feel like I'm going to set things alight just by touching them.

I'm beginning to have a much better understanding of what 50% of the population goes through at some point in their lives, naturally, without any intervention. At least mine has a cause I can point at.

Related: still not feeling actually ill, though, despite being ill.

I have an oncology appointment next week. With one...Dr Faust.I'm not kidding. And I'm entering into no pacts, either!#cancer

I have an oncology appointment next week. With one...

Dr Faust.

I'm not kidding. And I'm entering into no pacts, either!

#cancer

How to start the day catastrophically:The milk went off. No tea. #disaster #catastrophe #tea

How to start the day catastrophically:

The milk went off. No tea.

#disaster #catastrophe #tea

Content warning:CW: #cancer diagnosisLeaving my dignity at home, I've been poked and prodded and examined and had the Fibre Optic of...

Content warning:CW: #cancer diagnosis

Leaving my dignity at home, I've been poked and prodded and examined and had the Fibre Optic of Doom up the old chap, happily showing a clear bladder.

I've got a few days until I get the results of the bone scan. And until tomorrow, I'll be fizzing gently as the 99m-Technetium in me decays to a far more stable isotope.

#fingerscrossed #nuclearmedicine

Content warning:CW: #cancer diagnosisA few weeks ago I peed blood. Long story short - it wasn't a UTI, so I got examined (ouch). In...

Content warning:CW: #cancer diagnosis

A few weeks ago I peed blood. Long story short - it wasn't a UTI, so I got examined (ouch). In Imperial measures, my prostate was no longer a walnut, more like an orange. In metric I believe this is like a ping pong ball compared to a tennis ball.

Bloods followed. The dreaded PSA level was astronomical, over 1200. Oh.

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Content warning:CW: #cancer diagnosisSo! Here we are. August 2024.I'm sitting down the garden, a meter or so from a Tasmota-powered...

Content warning:CW: #cancer diagnosis

So! Here we are. August 2024.

I'm sitting down the garden, a meter or so from a Tasmota-powered background radiation monitor, that I've had for a few months.

What do you mean, that's nerdy? Of course it is! But why is that significant? Because today I've been for a bone scan. And why? Because I've got #prostate #cancer.

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Quick q for @revk and @bloor - do you know if CityFibre have exclusivity deals with TT in some areas?CF rollout in Loughborough only has TT...

Quick q for @revk and @bloor - do you know if CityFibre have exclusivity deals with TT in some areas?

CF rollout in Loughborough only has TT as an available provider, which seems a bit odd. I want to get off of VM and over to you folks but it's proving impossible so far.

Content warning:CW: medical, plus English is a dumb languageTwo rather anodyne words...Meta: abstract, often self referential. Static: not...

Content warning:CW: medical, plus English is a dumb language

Two rather anodyne words...

Meta: abstract, often self referential.
Static: not moving or changing.

Put them together...

Metastatic: HOLY SHIT this is the (partial) antithesis of both component words. Fast moving, very tangible and terrifying if used to describe something inside you.

Like I heard yesterday.

#dammit #cancer

A fabulous, brightly coloured, hungry Six-Spot Burnet moth spotted on the cliffs above West Bay, Dorset.#moths #nature #dorset

A fabulous, brightly coloured, hungry Six-Spot Burnet moth spotted on the cliffs above West Bay, Dorset.

#moths #nature #dorset

DO NOT LIKE https://mastodon.scot/@FaithfullJohn/112802125346650092

DO NOT LIKE

https://mastodon.scot/@FaithfullJohn/112802125346650092

Went for a bit of a hoon in the mid-life crisis car on Monday. Was struck by the counterpoint of the lovely green landscape being peeked...

Went for a bit of a hoon in the mid-life crisis car on Monday. Was struck by the counterpoint of the lovely green landscape being peeked over by Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, which is due to stop generating electricity from coal in September 2024.

It's been a landmark in this region for over 50 years, and soon it might not be there at all.

(Related: I think a pair of cooling towers should be retained as they're amazing bits of architecture).

#nature #power #coal #architecture

Silly but amusing nonetheless:Walk a mile in someone else's shoes.When they realise you have, you'll be a mile away and you'll...

Silly but amusing nonetheless:

Walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
When they realise you have, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.

#joke #inspirationalquote #daft #silly

Content warning:UK politics, mental healthA funny thing keeps happening since the general election. I wake up in the morning and I don't...

Content warning:UK politics, mental health

A funny thing keeps happening since the general election.

I wake up in the morning and I don't immediately think "what the hell have they done overnight?" or "what the hell will they do today?" or "bloody hell, she said WHAT?!"

Government shouldn't be so reactive. scattershot and exciting. It should be slow, measured, boring even.

Sleep has not felt this good in a long time.

Nuclear fusion as a source of power: always at least 10 years away, and any time it seems we might get inside that 10 year barrier, it moves...

Nuclear fusion as a source of power: always at least 10 years away, and any time it seems we might get inside that 10 year barrier, it moves away again.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/04/iter_new_baseline_project_delays/

#fusion #power #tenyearsman

Well this is getting mighty tedious now.Virgin Media strikes again. Spotty connectivity, packet loss, long RTT. Looks like they tried a fix...

Well this is getting mighty tedious now.

Virgin Media strikes again. Spotty connectivity, packet loss, long RTT. Looks like they tried a fix at 6am but the issue remains.

#virginmedia #docsis3 #notDNSthistime

My son pointed me at this. Rather profane, so if you're bothered by that maybe don't read it.#LLM #AI...

My son pointed me at this. Rather profane, so if you're bothered by that maybe don't read it.

#LLM #AI

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

Content warning:ukpolTruss down. I repeat; Truss down. Levels of Truss in South Norfolk have hit a new low.#GeneralElection

Content warning:ukpol

Truss down.
I repeat; Truss down.

Levels of Truss in South Norfolk have hit a new low.

#GeneralElection

Today I learned that there are applications that read /etc/resolv.conf on startup and then use their own internal stub resolver based on...

Today I learned that there are applications that read /etc/resolv.conf on startup and then use their own internal stub resolver based on that reading.

So when you edit /etc/resolv.conf to remove a resolver that will be down... They need to be restarted. And if they're not then "It's always DNS".

Balls.

#itsAlwaysDNS

Voted. Voted by proxy for the Mrs.Watched a man only slightly older than me get politely turned away for not having, or indeed *owning*, any...

Voted. Voted by proxy for the Mrs.

Watched a man only slightly older than me get politely turned away for not having, or indeed *owning*, any photo ID. It was the first time he'd ever tried to vote.

Spoke to a 30 something bloke who was also voting for the first time and had no idea what to do.

There were 3 #dogsatpollingstations

Office for the weekend. Event Steward for #MSVR #MSVRacing at #DoningtonPark

Office for the weekend. Event Steward for #MSVR #MSVRacing at #DoningtonPark