On one hand, I’m morally opposed to accumulation of obscene wealth. On the other hand, though, it’s fun to fantasize about throwing money around to people who need it and becoming an eccentric patron of the arts who could sponsor this book.

The sweaty thing is so weird because it’s an all or nothing side effect. Either I’m fine, or I need a change of clothes and a shower.

Now I’m really curious. I have a pilocarpine script that I rarely use. It works great for oral dryness but leaves me drenched in sweat about 15% of the time. Next time things get bad enough to outweigh the risk I’ll have to pay attention to any affect on my autonomic wonkyness

I’m intrigued…are the meds prescribed for sjögren’s dryness peripheral cholinergic agonists?

Until we got a cat I always used a small plate. Now, we have a ceramic butter dish with a cover.

I’ve primarily lived along the west coast(US), not too humid, but occasionally hot enough to require the butter be temporarily moved to the fridge in the summer to prevent it from liquifying.

That looks really cool, but how easily does butter go rancid?

I’ve been a countertop butter person my entire life and never once had it go rancid, so now I’m wondering if I just eat butter too quickly for it to ever become an issue.

Wait, do you have an author newsletter? I’m trying to be less reliant on social media for following authors, but I didn’t see a signup link on your website.

I go with “the past exonerative tense” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

It’s the past exonerative tense

I really appreciate the way this Current Affairs essay begins to think through what a solution might look like. The title “The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free” also encapsulates the problem perfectly www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/08...

It looks like Powell’s has a copy for $40, if this is the right edition www.powells.com/book/aleph-o...

Sorry for the very long tangent. I’d completely forgotten about the whole experience.

It was the most bizarre liminal space. The research clinic was in this large anonymous office building. People were coming in and out of the clinic all day, popping into “my room” for supplies. Then at night just one or two other patients, a single nurse, and building security.

It was a randomized withdrawal study so there were two separate 3 day inpatient stays, one of which they switched you to a placebo.

When I think of “inpatient” I think of a hospital. But instead I got a windowless exam room with a TV somewhere in North Hollywood.

A number of them told me their primary income came from participating in research

And to be clear, I’m not talking about the criteria for being a “healthy subject” I’m talking about extensively misrepresenting their entire medical and medication histories

My perception of pharmacology research being any better was shattered by talking other subjects in an aftermarket medication study I was part of and realizing at least a third were basically professional test subjects who manipulated their answers, or plain lied, to meet the participation criteria

I’m pretty sure decades of sociology research, especially psych, have been compromised by narrow subject pools of students participating for some form of class credit

I feel half of the reason Chotiner is so good at this is because the follow up question is apparently a lost art, tbh

I think this is the thing lots of people miss. He does plenty of interesting interviews with non-evil subjects. They just don’t go viral.

Woke me and Mr. Skippy up with a start—yet somehow the cat(who was on top of him) managed to sleep through it.

I still have my childhood best friend’s number memorized too. I haven’t seen her in 20+ years, but her parents have kept the same number, so they’re third in line to bail me out of trouble if I can’t reach Mr Skippy or my parents(the only other numbers I have memorized)

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

"Birthing Person" has been used in 9 official e-newsletters. 8 are Republicans making fun of the term and saying Democrats say that and 1 is from Bernie Sanders when his staff was interviewing a midwife.