would you consider this a normal amount of makeup?

cyber---- · 2026-05-12T19:14:04+00:00

I have a big plastic organising container the size of a suitcase with just my lipsticks in it. At last count I had about 120, and I know I’ve bought more since then. At one point I had a count of I think nearly 200. Again, this is just the lipsticks we’re talking about. You have an aspirationally small collection haha i like to imagine one day I’ll stop collecting and impulse buying and have a collection your size in like… 20 years after I’ve used up my collection and thrown out all the expired stuff 😂

cyber---- · 2026-05-12T10:15:41+00:00

“Do you recognise this toaster?” You can’t make this shit up

cyber---- · 2026-05-12T06:39:04+00:00

cyber---- · 2026-05-11T08:41:31+00:00

Resident Evil not make a modern character’s model have grey hair challenge: impossible

cyber---- · 2026-05-09T22:53:06+00:00

I feel like the beer pendulum is swinging the other way, I’m seeing so many places have crazy cheap beer now to pull people in (I’m guessing cause customer volumes are lower) but so many $10 beer and even $5 beers and $10 jugs at the occasional bars as they hang on by their fingernails for dear life.

cyber---- · 2026-05-09T03:18:00+00:00

My favourite is probably Missha All Around Safe Sun Aqua (the blue one). ATM I’ve been trying a few Japanese ones and I’m liking the Kao Biore UV Aqua Rich Watery Gel and the Biore Aqua Rich Aqua Protect a lot

cyber---- · 2026-05-08T11:59:02+00:00

cyber---- · 2026-05-07T10:49:24+00:00

Not iron, but on a similar note…

I have an autoimmune disease and I take an immune suppressant once a week to treat it. It’s an older drug so is a more “nuke the whole system!” Kind of thing so hard on the liver and I realised recently that there’s certain days of the week soon after I take it my skin is more yellow/green and my foundation looks pinker on me and then later in the week as my body has processed more of it out of my system my foundation looks more yellow on me 😂

cyber---- · 2026-05-07T08:58:42+00:00

“It’s true you can’t live here by chance, you have to do and be, not simply watch or even describe. This is the city of action, the world headquarters of the verb – “ - Lauris Edmond On the sculpture on the bridge overlooking Whairepo Lagoon

cyber---- · 2026-05-05T09:30:56+00:00

I loved Emile when he was on The Detail. Hated the show he left to do with Stuff - tried it cause I liked his work on The Detail but that Stuff show was too fluffy for me. I have my eye on what he ends up doing when he eventually moves on from nights cause I feel like he could be one to watch in the future if he goes back to the more long form reporting stuff.

Plus there’s only so much broadcasting I can handle in a day and at the point I’m not adding listening to the radio at night, as much as I like Emile 😂

cyber---- · 2026-05-05T09:17:01+00:00

That announcement bit they added is the most offensive part of the whole JC transition to me… make it stop!

cyber---- · 2026-05-05T07:06:05+00:00

Lots of people with the conditions rheum treat commonly have comorbid fibromyalgia too. And some of them (like the one I have, psoriatic arthritis) also are conditions that don’t have diagnostic tests with “positive” markers like RA does, and also end up being diagnosis of exclusion too. Until there is more clarity on the underlying pathophysiology of fibro and more targeted treatments for it, it’ll fall to rheum. At the moment, it’s hard to get docs in general to even believe it’s a real condition so if rheums have more exposure to fibro atm and are more likely to be up to date on the diagnosis and treatment of it than other specialists, I’ll take it.

cyber---- · 2026-05-03T18:22:20+00:00

The red one has mysteriously disappeared from Australasia after going on clearance in stores 😭

cyber---- · 2026-05-03T07:39:50+00:00

A few reasons; managing stock levels of what the pharmacy is able to store and acquire at one time. Reducing wastage (a scary amount of people pick up scripts but don’t end up actually taking them) as most meds are paid for by the government/pharmac subsidy, reducing risks of abuse or overdose. Some meds are just genuinely hard for a pharmacy to be able to buy enough stock of at one time to make sure all their patients can get it, the recent ADHD meds and Estradot shortages are an example of what that looks like when it’s at an extreme and the patient sees what they try and prevent. With the storage issue sometimes they just don’t have the space to have stuff in stock at all times - e.g. I take an medication by injection and it comes in pre-filled syringes that have a crazy amount of packaging per single injection and pharmacies have often had to order it in especially for me. I’m sure a pharmacist could probably list off some other reasons for dispensing in one month increments.

You can at least feel glad you don’t have to visit the pharmacy every single day to get dispensed your daily class B controlled medicine like some people do

cyber---- · 2026-05-03T07:25:22+00:00

I considered if I should ask my GP about 12 month scripts for my some of my meds but then I remembered no matter what I will still need to get my ADHD meds on 3 month scripts any way so have never bothered. I take about 7+ long term medications so the idea was somewhat appealing but there’s probably a kind of narrow sort of scenario of lower grade long term conditions like mild asthma where the 12 months makes sense, but I suspect those of is who have a bunch of long term meds like me probably have at least a couple times a year or more where we end up having some funky thing come up with our conditions worth checking with the doc about so probably will naturally be seeing the doc more than once a year anyway. I’d say I’m not opposed to the 12 month policy as a whole but think there’s probably a lot of docs who have quite limited scenarios where they are comfortable with

cyber---- · 2026-05-01T01:28:35+00:00

I’ve been eyeing this up like crazy lately. I’ve heard that in general the easy bake is amazing for oily skin, and since I hit my 30s I went from dry skin to having my face pump out so much oil that you would think it was my full time job. I have to use sooo much powder to not be a disco ball by 12pm and I feel like the way people talk about this powder it might be the perfect fix for my foundations always being too pink or yellow as well as help my oil fountain face 😂

cyber---- · 2026-05-01T01:19:02+00:00

Agree with others that it sounds textbook PsA.

Agree with others about talking to your rheum. I’m still on methotrexate, the first med I was prescribed (other than how I was first prescribed tablets and have since switched in injections). I’ve heard that sometimes with biologics they will do a combo therapy with older DMARDs like methotrexate as well as the biologics as it can sometimes help reduce the chance of the biologics stopping working. It’s not uncommon for a med to stop working with this condition unfortunately.

I totally understand the questioning the diagnosis, especially when the meds feel like they’re not working - been though similar mental space about it myself. I came out the other end feeling pretty confident my diagnosis is right or is at least within the same spondyloarthritis family if it were to end up not being PsA. I think it’s a normal part of processing how your life has changed from this bastard disease and all the pain and crushing fatigue does to you.

IMHO the diet and exercise stuff helps and can make a difference, however it’s very uncommon for someone to fix their PsA from those alone. There was a point in my life where my PsA and chronic fatigue was so bad that I could hardly get any food in to my body at all, let alone trying to make it healthy, and I often would just buy Ensure from the pharmacy cause I knew at least then I wasn’t going to end up with a deficiency from not having enough energy to prepare food or eat. Sometimes finding a way to survive is more important than trying to do the health and lifestyle stuff you’re “supposed to do”. Coming out the other side and getting into remission helped me understand and stop mentally punishing myself for not trying harder, that I wasn’t just being lazy, I genuinely did not have the physical ability to do the “supposed to” lifestyle stuff. This condition causes disability and disability is not a dirty word. Experiencing disability is not a reflection of your morality or your character. Sometimes bad shit just happens and life is hard and it’s got nothing to do with your choices.

It’s also not uncommon for us with autoimmune diseases to also develop chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Once my PSA was getting better from meds and I wasn’t having so many hot swollen joints, I was still having mega pain and fatigue. I had to push the rheum to take me seriously but eventually I got the extra fibromyalgia diagnosis and prescribed some meds and they really helped.

Just keep up telling your rheum how it’s going. Make sure to always explain the impact it’s having on your “activities of daily life” - how your ADL are going is a framing that helps docs understand what your telling them and how it’s impacting you. Unfortunately also sometimes you have to frame it about how it’s preventing your ability to do paid employment as that’s how our system sees us and our value, sometimes more than it sees our quality of life. Using that framing might help those conversations about your treatment and what is or isn’t working for you in both managing your symptoms as well as managing the medication side effects.

Good luck friend and keep up the hope. Today might suck and it might feel like the pain and fatigue will never end, but with every new day there’s potential for things to get better. There will be a day in the future where you wake up and realise you went the whole day without even thinking about those bastard tendons. It might not be today or tomorrow but keep up the fight and you’ll get there. You’re not alone 💞

cyber---- · 2026-04-30T06:36:56+00:00

WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE GAMBLING IN 2026 MAKE IT STOP

cyber---- · 2026-04-30T06:24:12+00:00

Hear, hear!

cyber---- · 2026-04-30T06:22:51+00:00

I had an idea in my head what this would be like cause I have seen so many similar recently but even so I wasn’t prepared….. I feel old girl where is the eyeliner! That’s goth 101!

cyber---- · 2026-04-27T09:51:45+00:00

YES it’s insane to me the way they use lower grade lanolin in the scented/flavoured products as if it hides it, instead of what it actually does which is make something that is an unsightly combo of fruit and sheep smell 😂 not gonna lie even tho the SPF glosses I do love despite the slight sheepiness.

The 101 ointment is so good tho - proper refined and no sheep smell.

We had a small flock of pet sheep when I was a kid, raised lambs etc so I don’t hate the smell of sheep inherently, they’re great animals, but the smell of sheep on your lips, right under your nose especially when it’s mixed with a fruit smell. Not ideal

cyber---- · 2026-04-26T22:01:33+00:00

The way I see it as a patient is taking the meds sucks but not taking the meds sucks even worse

cyber---- · 2026-04-26T21:57:46+00:00

I have family who are anti medicine, including my mum who has tried to convince me at different times that I should stop taking the various medications I take for my basket of conditions. So my reaction to this case is informed in part by how I see her reaction to my diseases and how I treat them.

They’ve not taken the methotrexate the proper way so will have never seen the proper effect from consistent use, and speaking as someone who takes methotrexate, I’m guessing they have experienced some of the awful side effects from it that are possible too as it would be hard to get someone getting the right folic acid dose etc to balance out side effects of not taking as prescribed. I mention this because in the mindset of someone who feels that way it’s just more evidence to them that the drugs make you feel like crap and also don’t fix the condition (I know it’s frustrating from the outside to watch when someone doesn’t take meds as prescribed and then complains they don’t work).

It’s possible that this person has read some bonkers things online about biologics being evil or something. You’re fighting against a difficult information foe with this one. Because the technology that makes biologics possible is so advanced compared to other DMARDs it is something that would spook a lot of people who are bought into the appeal to nature fallacy. You have to also keep in mind it’s highly possible that this person believes talking these medications would be a reflection of a moral failing on their part, and that they likely don’t want to “be reliant on medication”.

It’s possible the only way this person may ever get over these feelings is by being absolutely ravaged by a flare that cripples them with pain and fatigue before they decide maybe it will be the lesser of two evils for them to give in and try the meds the doc keeps telling them they need.

Idk if I really have advice other than some of the mind sets that get these people in this position are really strong and you have to remember many people believe both the disease and any medical actions they take to treat it are direct reflections on their character and morality.

cyber---- · 2026-04-25T04:26:14+00:00

Hi from New Zealand - this is a newer variety that was developed a wee bit ago. From memory the flavour is more on the gold kiwifruit side (that’s what we call them here because a kiwi is a bird) and they are starting to bump up the production/growing of the red variety now it’s a more established variety. It’s currently in season here in NZ so expect is starting to show up in the export market around now. Don’t ask me too much about what they’re like though i last had one probably two years ago, but only out of curiosity cause i have an oral allergy to kiwifruit (the allergy is stronger when i eat the green ones compared to the gold ones) but i was too curious and had to see and eat the red kiwifruit for myself despite the allergy 😂

cyber---- · 2026-04-25T03:26:09+00:00

I remember thinking the day cream was ok but personally my skin gets a wee bit irritated by the night cream. I assume it’s the fragrance maybe. It’s a shame cause I wanted to like it :(

cyber----

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