When I got my annual mammogram a few weeks ago here in New Jersey, there was an option for AI analysis, so it’s available in the US already. I declined. I don’t trust AI. And the humans saw something so now I have to have a biopsy. Yay.
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The doctor is 99% sure it’s nothing. Probably a fat nodule or something. It’s not showing up on an ultrasound, just the mammogram. She said I could wait 6 months and then do another mammogram, but I didn’t feel like spending the next 6 months having this conversation with myself every day:
Me: It’s probably nothing
Also me: Yeah, it’s fine. Probably fat.
Me. Yep. We’re good. It’s probably nothing.
Also me: Yeah, it’s nothing.
Because I’ve had this conversation with myself every day for the past 3 weeks, and I’m getting pretty tired of it.
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DM me if you want to talk. It’s the club you don’t want to join, but there are so many of us.
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A bit of an aside:
I will always be grateful to the courageous breast cancer survivors for pushing and pushing until lymphedema was properly identified and then pushing more until it entered everyday medical professionals consciousness. Mine is congenital. But I hardly ever have to explain it to a nurse, doctor, or tech anymore.
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This is not directly related to that, but the story reminded me of a “funny” story. I used to be an engineer for a manufacturer of commercial HVAC equipment and most of our equipment went into the guest rooms of high rise hotels. Occasionally, I got sent to job sites of hotels still under construction (but almost finished so I rarely had to wear a hard hat) to troubleshoot problems with our equipment. The last job I got sent on before I quit that job and transitioned was the Trump Tower in Chicago. Now, I had been on HRT for a year or so, and I had grown my hair out and gotten my ears pierced, but I was still presenting as male at work. But I’m also really short (4’11"). But I butched it up as much as I could for this job because it’s an active construction site. I’m dressed in stereotypical engineer clothes: plaid flannel shirt, jeans, steel-toed Doc Martens, and I have my hair pulled back into a pony tail. I got ma’amed twice my first day on that jobsite, and both times the sales rep who was showing me around ever so helpfully “corrected” the people who called me ma’am. But I got some funny looks. Then, on my way back home a couple of days later, I’m at O’Hare to catch my flight home, and I have to go to the bathroom before I go to the gate. I of course go into the men’s room because, again, I’m still presenting male. On my way into the bathroom, I hear behind me a man say to another man, “Did you see that? That woman just went in the men’s room!” And that trip is when I knew it was time to fully transition, which I did a couple of months later.
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Rubiales apologised for the kiss on Monday before Fifa, world football’s governing body, opened disciplinary proceedings against him on Thursday.
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On Friday he apologised for grabbing his crotch while celebrating in the VIP area in Stadium Australia, with Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter standing nearby.
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At age nine, this was a big deal to me at the time.
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He’s now been suspended by FIFA pending their investigation.
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This should be a gift link, courtesy of Wonkette. I admire these women and feel for their pain and fright.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/26/revenge-porn-leaked-nudes-police/
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Can’t read it. 
Here ya go…
If you go to:
You can put in most urls and come up with a static, archived version that gets around the paywall.
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Thank’ee, kind lady!
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She started her channel after moving from her native Iraq to Turkey at the age of 17 in 2017, talking about her independence, her fiancé, make-up and other things. Tiba appeared happy and attracted tens of thousands of subscribers.
This January she went back to Iraq to visit her family - and was murdered by her father. However, the killing was not considered to have been “pre-meditated” and her father was sentenced to only six months in prison.
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About time!!!
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They don’t mention the most basic reason in the States: racism. No amount of medical knowledge can change that. But I was intrigued at ideas such as an iron infusion during a prenatal visit results in a lower likelihood of bleeding out during delivery.
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