I ate poop! With the help of @sentientist I ate 23 pills of poo from a donor with a "stomach of steel" (who was also kind enough to poop into a blender). I had no negative effects or nausea. This was a DIY fecal transplant to hopefully help my really persistent stomach issues. 1/
I'm not sure how long it'll take to see if it works, I'm guessing anywhere from 48 hours to 3 months.
I'm curious to see if it'll have any impact on a few other things which I suspect might be tied to microbiome. In addition to really bad IBS, 2/
I'm curious to see if it helps with anxiety. I get occasional "physical" anxiety - random anxiety feelings with no cause that I suspect is tied to the gut (e.g., drinking kombucha makes me feel panicky). 3/
I'm also curious about acne - for my entire adult life I've struggled with persistent hormonal acne, and I've tried a lot of different things *really hard*, with only middling success. I've suspected for a while this might also be tied to gut issues!
And lastly, and most loosely, I'm wondering about brain fog and energy. I tend to be really low energy and often feel like I'm thinking through a cloud. My donor, on the other hand, is super clear and really high energy (as well as no-acne and no-anxiety). Maybe it's a gut thing?
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First up: Toilets
i've heard ppl who lost a lot of weight talk about some angry cynicism when people start treating them better, even ppl they've known for a long time.
I'm having a bit of that now that twitter seems to like me. i've been consistently myself this entire time, what's happening.
literally last weekend i had multiple ppl come up to me at a party and go 'oh are you aella? i see you on twitter cause everyone hates you'.
if the thing that causes ppl to like me is that i just publicly was patient and knowledgeable with a doofus then this feels kind of shallow and fickle and bad incentives for me. Like what, i win the tribal allegiance game by doing very easy, low-brow things? oh no
i feel like i got friendly with the anti-woke coalition over the past few years, but now it feels like they're walking off a plank into extremism and i feel frustrated about it. Being anti a bad thing doesn't make you right by default; righteous revenge is not compassion
i cant believe i went through years of being super trans-cancelled, shinigami eyes labeled a transphobe due to my sin of being nuanced, and now im feeling like im about to become an insane woke trans defender in the eyes of those who moved further right than me
maybe this is cliche af but my calibration method is something like "Imagine you were really, deeply in love with someone, but also had good boundaries around not overexerting yourself, betraying yourself, or lying. From love, what would you say, how would you act?"
as someone who's eaten a buttload of lsd, tripsat another buttload of people on lsd, and seen plenty of examples of ppl kinda losing it after lsd, here's my advice to not go insane: 1. LSD can be lifechangingly good. You shouldn't make the decision to avoid it lightly/
2. I would be hyper careful if you have bipolar, schizophrenia, any psychosis in your family. I'd be careful if you're trans, have anxiety, are switching any meds, or if you've exhibited unusually high amounts of altered beliefs on other drugs.
3. I would START WITH SMALL DOSES. Seriously. Start tiny. Slowly work your way up. This can give you the opportunity to notice at very low levels any symptoms that are a clue you should not continue.
Those symptoms are:
The more I've learned about kinks, the more I realize I have no idea what's going on, and neither does anyone else. If someone makes a bold, blanket claim about kinks, they don't know what's going on.
Probably some kinks are the result of trauma, sometimes. But it depends! 1/
Certain fetishes seem correlated with childhood abuse more than others, and in certain demographics more than others. And even among the fetishes that are correlated more, there's still a substantial fraction of people who are into weird stuff and report zero childhood abuse.
Not all kinks are created equal - there's different categories of fetishes, and my theory (looking at all the data i have) is that they likely have different types of causes, and use different types of the brain than others, and play vastly different functions
I've been tracking my mood, habits, and biometrics (oura ring) for years. I fed all 2k+ days of data into claude and asked it for a report on what to do to improve my mood
it was like "based on the relationship of your mood to all your other data, i recommend you go outside more, hang out with friends, and dance. you should avoid spending a long time indoors isolated and gaming"
i asked it 'how do i improve my sleep' and it was like 'go to sleep at 1am, get ~7 hours of sleep, and for the love of god keep a consistent sleep schedule'