Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.
That limit is 4g (8 âextra strengthâ (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).
A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.
Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).
Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.
The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.
After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.
You might think âwhy would I ever accidentally take so much?â
Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says ânon-aspirin pain reliefâ, and anything thatâs branded as a fever reducer. Itâs all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.
So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.
Please don't forget this shit, after it happened to a family member, he died 8 years later because of the continuing health complications even though he survived the initial overdose
I didn't know this for years, and I took so many pills, sometimes 4 at one go, every four hours, like 16 a day, because of endometriosis and migraines. It took a migraine specialist to explain rebound headaches and overdoses when I was in my 40s. Then I went cold turkey on all OTC drugs to get off the cycle. Please, please, if a couple tylenol aren't working for you, talk to your doctor or find one who will listen to you if you can.
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The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.
The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.
Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.
After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.
But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.
He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.
It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.
I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.
And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.
One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.
As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore
Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that donât use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%â in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people
Iâm literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history
You might say âoh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we donât need those things in our food suppliesâ and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But hereâs the thing: no, people donât all have easy access to those things. Thatâs privilege talking yet again
Okay, I need to add some clarification and correction to this.
This photo is known as The Pale Blue Dot. It was taken by Voyager 1, a space probe meant to explore the outer reaches of the solar system. Far from dying, she's still out there doing her job and is the furthest human made object from Earth.
In the mid 80's, they knew Voyager 1 would soon pass beyond where her cameras would matter and she needed to save power, so the question became: what's the last thing she should take a picture of?
Carl Sagan and Carolyn Porco both independently had the same thought: take a picture of Earth. Us. Yes, it would be essentially just one pixel. It wouldn't be scientifically useful. It might even damage the camera because of how intense the sun is, even forty times as far from Earth as Earth is from the Sun. But they got it sorted because it's NASA.
3.7 million (not billion) miles away, that's Earth. Caught in bands of light, artifacts of the Sun's incredible power even 4 million miles away. We are an island in a sea of radiation and vacuum and it's all we have.
I can't say it better than Sagan did, so I'll let you alone with his words:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there â on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
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its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.
The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
"Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone â not just kids â accesses the internet.
At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity.Â
Thatâs because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes â and, for some services, outright requires â age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of usersâ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify usersâ ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed âsexual material harmful to minors,â a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly.Â
Thatâs a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, âthereâs no way to reliably verify someoneâs age without verifying who they are.âÂ
Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalistsâ confidential sources. [...]
Mandating age verification effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms, not to mention everyone else, including children. This kind of surveillance on steroids that surrenders our right to speak, report, and read the news anonymously wonât make anyone safer."
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new fanfic writer who has marked their work completed ao3 only to leave a note at the end saying: thanks for all the support guys if you want to read the rest of the fic subscribe to my patreon :)
me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:
no.
NO.
starting to rock back and fourth.
you do not understand.
you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.
we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.
Remember people, this is against AO3s terms of service. If you see a fic that does this REPORT THAT THING!!! These people may not know better or they might, but them doing this has the potential to ruin things for everyone.
OKAY, SO, bad news on the privacy front, these two dipshit senators are trying to advance the Stop CSAM Act in the must-pass NDAA bill, and they're seemingly doing it right under our noses.
Which, stopping pedos sounds good, but this bill will not do that.
The EFF has more on it, but the long and short is what it will do is basically outlaw encryption as inherently suspect by way of people being potentially liable if anyone could do anything with it, and it carves out Section 230 to do so.
Which, if you don't know, means that websites are gonna massively overcorrect and ban basically anything that could set it off, and if you don't think that's a big deal, remember that the last time that happened was FOSTA-SESTA, which kicked off the censorship wave that fucked over a lot of sites including Tumblr, and also didn't do dick for its stated purpose of stopping sex trafficking.
It's currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, so if you see any of your state's Senators in the list of members, CALL THEM ASAP, and even if they aren't, call your senators and especially your House reps and tell them you do not want this censorship law rammed into a must-pass bill without public debate.
If you don't know who they are, you can find your senators and house reps here, and CALL THEM ASAP, they snuck this in quickly and under the radar and we don't have a lot of time, and even if you're not in the US please boost this message, not just to Tumblr but to other platforms, a lot of sites you use every day are based in the US so this will affect you too!
The Paywall Is the Point: Fanfiction, Patreon, and the Quiet Commercialization of Fandom
I want to start by saying this is not a callout post.
I am not interested in naming individual writers, posting screenshots, or turning anyoneâs Patreon page into a public exhibit. That is not the point, and honestly, it would distract from the larger issue.
This is not about one person, one blog, one fic, or one fandom corner being uniquely terrible. It is about a practice that has become visible enough to talk about:
fanfiction being locked behind paywalls.
I am using Jujutsu Kaisen as the main example because that is the fandom space where I have personally noticed it, especially with character x Reader writing. But I doubt this is limited to JJK. Any large fandom with a hungry audience, popular character archetypes, and a strong reader-insert culture is likely to attract this kind of monetization sooner or later.
And I understand the temptation.
Writing takes time. Writing well takes even more time. Fanwriters are not content machines, even when fandom treats them like bottomless vending machines for yearning. Readers can be demanding, entitled, impatient, and sometimes downright weird about access to free work.
It makes sense that writers want support. It makes sense that people want to be compensated for labor that is often emotionally intensive, technically difficult, and publicly consumed.
But there is a difference between supporting a writer and buying access to fanfiction.
That difference matters.
A donation link, in the broadest ethical sense, is usually framed as support for the creator. Someone reads your work for free, enjoys what you do, and chooses to toss a few dollars into the metaphorical hat.
It is not payment for a specific fic.
It is not a condition of access.
It does not turn the fic itself into the product.
I understand why people are more comfortable with that, even though individual platforms may still have rules against promoting those links in certain fandom spaces.
A paywall is different.
When a writer locks exclusive fanfiction behind Patreon tiers, Ko-fi memberships, or paid posts, the transaction changes. It is no longer âsupport me if you like what I do.â It becomes âpay me to read this.â
The fanwork itself becomes the thing being sold.
That is where the ground starts to give way.
Fanfiction has always lived in a complicated space. It is creative, transformative, communal, and deeply personal. It can be literary. It can be unserious. It can be healing. It can be horny. It can be all of that before breakfast.
But it also usually relies on characters, settings, names, relationships, and narrative frameworks that belong to someone else.
In Jujutsu Kaisen fandom, a Sukuna x Reader fic is not valuable to its audience only because of the writerâs prose. It is valuable because it invokes Sukuna. The character recognition is part of the appeal. The fandom context is part of the market.
That does not mean fanfiction has no original labor in it. It absolutely does.
Fanwriters build tone, plot, pacing, characterization, emotional stakes, erotic tension, atmosphere, and entire interpretive frameworks out of their own skill. Some fanfiction is more thoughtful about character than official supplemental material. Some fic writers understand emotional continuity with frightening precision.
The labor is real.
But real labor does not automatically settle what the labor produces.
That is the uncomfortable part, and I want to sit in it rather than rush past it. Skill and effort are real. They are just not the same thing as ownership, and they do not by themselves answer whether the finished work is yours to sell.
A fic can be the best writing in the tag and still be built, at its foundation, around a character that is not yours.
This is why âbut writers deserve to be paidâ is not a complete argument.
Yes, writers deserve support.
Yes, creative labor is labor.
Yes, fandom often survives on unpaid work from people who are overextended, underappreciated, and expected to produce indefinitely.
But the question is not whether writing has value.
The question is whether monetizing access to fanfiction built on someone elseâs characters is the same thing as monetizing original work.
I do not think it is.
There is also a difference between original commissions and fanfic commissions.
If someone offers paid custom writing using original characters, original worlds, or broad trope prompts, that is one thing. âWrite me a dark romance scene with a possessive immortal kingâ is not the same as âwrite me Sukuna x Reader.â
The first may be trope-based original writing.
The second is a paid custom fanwork using a recognizable copyrighted character as the selling point.
That distinction holds even if the paid post itself is labeled vaguely.
One pattern that is worth talking about, without naming anyone, is the way explicit fandom language can disappear once a work is monetized. A fic may be promoted elsewhere as a specific character x Reader piece, while the paid post uses a vague title, a generic description, or no clear IP markers at all.
That does not automatically prove bad intent, and I am not interested in pretending I can read anyoneâs mind. But structurally, it creates a strange kind of plausible deniability.
The work needs to be recognizable enough for the fandom audience to want it, but vague enough on the payment platform to look less directly tied to the source material.
That vagueness does not make the issue vanish.
If the audience understands what they are paying for because of off-platform promotion, fandom context, tags, previews, Discord posts, Tumblr posts, or prior branding, then the character name disappearing from the Patreon title is not a moral cleansing ritual.
It is just a curtain.
Maybe a very pretty curtain.
But still a curtain.
The paywall is the point.
Some people will say this is no different from fanartists taking commissions. The comparison comes up constantly, and I understand why.
Artist alleys exist. People sell prints, charms, stickers, zines, commissions. Some rights holders tolerate it, some do not, and enforcement is inconsistent either way.
So let me be honest about something, because pretending otherwise would weaken everything I have already said:
I cannot draw a perfectly clean copyright-based line between a paid Sukuna fic and a paid Sukuna drawing.
The character is the selling point in both.
The skill is real in both.
But that is exactly why I do not think copyright alone is the whole argument.
The real line is older and stranger than copyright, and it lives in culture, not abstraction.
Fanfiction grew up especially attached to noncommercial gift culture. Not because fic writers deserve support less than artists do, but because fic communities have survived for decades by insisting the work is transformative, unofficial, and not sold as a substitute for the original.
That posture is not decoration.
It is part of what has kept fic legally breathable.
âTransformative and noncommercialâ has been one of the major pillars of the fair-use posture fandom has long relied on.
Which is why this is not only about one writerâs vibe.
When a fic gets locked behind a paywall, the writer is not just changing their own relationship to their work. They are wearing down one of the cultural shields that has helped protect everybody â including every free fic in the same tag, written by people who never charged a cent.
The noncommercial part of that posture gets harder to point to when fanwork about copyrighted characters starts moving as gated content.
The person paywalling their Toji fic is, in a small and probably unintended way, making the rest of us more visible to precisely the kind of attention fandom has spent years trying not to attract.
That is my real answer to âwho is it hurting.â
Not a corporationâs feelings.
Us.
The whole weird campfire.
This is the deeper cost.
The fic becomes gated content.
The reader becomes a customer.
The character becomes part of the sales pitch.
The fandom becomes a market.
And once fandom becomes a market, the norms shift.
That is already visible in the language around paid fanfiction. People talk about tiers, exclusives, previews, early access, monthly drops, locked posts, custom requests, and premium content.
Those are not gift-culture terms.
Those are subscription economy terms.
That does not make everyone using them evil, but it does mean we should be honest about what is happening.
This is commercialization.
Not in the abstract sense.
Not in the âeverything online is capitalism, so nothing mattersâ sense.
In the plain sense:
access to fanwork is being exchanged for money.
That is where I think the line should be drawn.
A general tip jar is one thing. A reader saying âI like your writing and want to support youâ is one thing. A writer offering original commissions is one thing.
But locking Jujutsu Kaisen fanfiction behind Patreon or Ko-fi memberships is another thing entirely.
Charging for custom Sukuna x Reader, Gojo x Reader, Toji x Reader, Nanami x Reader, or any other recognizable character fic is not just âsupporting a creator.â
It is selling a fanwork.
I already said the harm is diffuse, and I want to be fair about how diffuse.
Maybe no rights holder ever notices. Maybe no account ever gets taken down. Maybe the shield never actually gets tested. Maybe readers are happy to pay. Maybe the writer needs the income. Maybe everyone involved feels fine about it.
But fandom ethics are not only about whether a corporation notices.
They are also about what kind of culture we are building.
Are we building a culture where fanfiction circulates as shared creative play, or one where the best work disappears into subscription silos?
Are we building a space where readers support writers voluntarily, or one where fandom desire is treated as a revenue stream?
Are we comfortable with turning access to fan-created stories about copyrighted characters into paid content while still benefiting from the protective language of âitâs just fanworkâ?
I am not saying every fanwriter with a Ko-fi link is a villain.
I am not saying people who accept donations are destroying fandom.
I am not saying writers should be shamed for wanting support.
I am definitely not saying readers are entitled to unlimited free labor from strangers.
What I am saying is that there is a meaningful difference between appreciation and transaction.
There is a meaningful difference between âsupport me if you wantâ and âpay to unlock this fic.â
There is a meaningful difference between original writing commissions and paid custom fanfiction using someone elseâs characters.
And there is a meaningful difference between a fandom gift economy that allows voluntary support around the edges and a subscription model that turns fanfiction itself into gated merchandise.
That difference is worth defending.
Because once the line disappears, it does not disappear neutrally.
It disappears in favor of the marketplace.
It disappears in favor of tiers, exclusives, locked posts, and customer access.
It disappears in favor of the people most willing or able to monetize communal desire.
It disappears in a way that makes fandom feel less like an archive, less like a conversation, less like a campfire of shared obsession, and more like another storefront.
I do not want fanfiction to become another storefront.
I want writers to be supported.
I want readers to be generous.
I want fandom to value creative labor without pretending copyright does not exist.
I want people to understand that âI worked hard on thisâ and âI have the right to sell thisâ are not the same sentence.
Fanfiction can be valuable without being a product.
Maybe that is the heart of it.
The work matters. The labor matters. The writers matter.
But the moment access to fic about someone elseâs characters is locked behind payment, the ethical equation changes.
Pretending otherwise does not protect fanwriters.
It just makes the conversation harder to have honestly.
Support writers.
Tip writers, where appropriate.
Commission original work.
Respect the labor.
But paywalled fanfiction is not just fandom with a donation button attached.
It is monetized access to a derivative fanwork, and we should be willing to say that without needing to turn it into a witch hunt.
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Further reading / context
These are not here as a magic âI winâ button, but they are useful context for why fandom has historically been careful about commercial promotion and monetized access.
Archive of Our Own, Terms of Service FAQ
AO3âs own explanation of its Terms of Service, including rules around commercial activity.
https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq
Organization for Transformative Works, âTOS Spotlight: Commercial Promotionâ
OTWâs explanation of why commercial promotion is restricted on AO3.
https://www.transformativeworks.org/tos-spotlight-commercial-promotion/
U.S. Copyright Office, âFair Useâ
A general overview of fair use and its factors under U.S. copyright law.
https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/
I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!
I'll share some of the info below:
Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.
What to do?
-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides
- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!
To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!
Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
Those men woukd not be billionaires (much less one trillionaie) if we'd simply continued taxing the uber rich how we USED TO. 90% over 2 million a year. (Up that to 5 million now)
Wealth just snowballs without high taxes. Wealth = political power especially in the USA.
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Any advice on when to leave a toxic work environment? (Especially if you've only been there a few months)
And if you're job hunting, how long should you have a job to put it on your resume?
Thanks!
I think people worry more about how job tenure looks on their resume than it deserves. The truth is that if you find a better opportunity, you should take it, no matter how long you've been at your current job. I'll link to our job-hopping explainer below.
You should always leave a toxic work environment at the first opportunity. Chances are it ain't going to get better and your mental health is more valuable than that shitty workplace.
Job Hopping vs. Career Loyalty by the NumbersÂ
The Fascinating Results of Our Job Hopping vs. Career Loyalty Poll
Season 3, Episode 12: "Iâm Done With Evil Bosses and Toxic Workplaces. Can I Stand Up Without Being Hammered Down?"Â
Bonus Episode: âI Canât Stand Another Day at My Toxic Workplace! Can I Walk Away Without a New Job Lined Up?âÂ
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Iâm having a crisis about whether my career is right for me and Iâm considering making a big change, do you have anything on big life pivots or starting over?
Iâve invested so much time and money into my current career but itâs kind of just making me want to die at this point, I donât have anyone depending on me for finances so I luckily feel able to make a change if I need to
Oh hey, you sound like me circa 6 years ago! I wrote all about my career transition and the steps I took here:
My Career Transition Succeeded When I Gave Fewer Fucks, Made More Friends, and Had More FunÂ
In addition, we've written a few things on making career path decisions here:
The Actually Helpful, Nuanced, Non-Bullshit Way to Choose a Future CareerÂ
Season 2, Episode 4: âDoes My Career Have to Define Me? Or Can I Just Clock Out?â
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