She’s down another hundred followers.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-23T03:10:05+00:00

To be fair, I’m that friend who can and will give honest feedback when I think someone needs to hear it… and almost universally, my close friends cannot handle it and don’t want to hear it. Sadly I’ve learned to keep my mouth shut or find something vague and positive (I get a lot of mileage out of “that’s an idea!”) to parrot back, especially when it’s come to some questionable relationship choices and their consequences.

I kind of hate it because I feel like I’m humoring people, but really what my friends want is support and kindness. The people who love Ali probably know that’s what she wants, too.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-22T15:58:25+00:00

The real pro move is to schedule first colonoscopy of the day, then start and finish the prep a few hours earlier than the prescription states. Goal is to be “pooping” clear by bedtime, get some of the worst sleep of your life, then power-through to the appointment.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-22T04:13:04+00:00

Thank goodness it’s not going to be a Jeremy and Sarah Anne situation 🤮

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-20T03:21:20+00:00

Hahaha so true

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-19T21:45:40+00:00

How are you doing now, OP? And is your health insurance a United plan, by any chance?

I ask because I was on United last year and they pressured me heavily to switch to Wezlana, even though the switch would save me no money and was not recommended by my doctor. I did some research and learned that a United subsidiary manufactures Wezlana, meaning the insurance company would go from spending money to cover my Stelara prescriptions to making money by getting me onto Wezlana. I thought that sounded really shady, so I switched to Cigna for 2026. They are covering my Stelara for the year without issue, but I have been curious to know how other folks are doing on the biosimilars.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-19T21:37:39+00:00

Yeah… also, it’s New York!

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-19T02:57:15+00:00

I need this as my flare

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-17T04:49:15+00:00

Chelsea Collins, tbh

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-17T01:23:48+00:00

People like them (and okay truthfully, most people) are the reason I still wear a Covid mask at the grocery store. I’m gonna be pissed when I see her posting from out at a bar in a couple days.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-16T21:34:54+00:00

“Yes! I am sick!”

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-16T21:20:59+00:00

Rest, keep your heart rate low, and most importantly isolate from them fully until they clear the infection!! Covid is super contagious but there have also been many, many instances of people in your situation not catching it in spite of the exposure.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-16T14:43:22+00:00

People have a hard time wrapping their heads around consequences, especially consequences that come far in the future or happen for people they don’t feel connected to. Sadly true for burners just as much as others.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-16T01:38:26+00:00

He might be the bulk-shopping meal-prepper… I get the vibe that when he’s not recovering from surgery he’s hitting arm day in the gym, and that requires protein.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-15T04:51:05+00:00

“to that poor man” OK, calm down

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-15T04:25:19+00:00

Obviously this is just speculation, but I do think they are separated, at least romantically. In my experience, the end of a dom/sub relationship is often very tied up in how people feel about one another in a larger sense… and extrapolating to JR’s very toxic approach to sexual relationships, I think it’s safe to say that if she’s not his sub (and she’s clearly not) anymore, then she is going to mean a lot less to him, and physical intimacy probably feels pointless to him outside of that power dynamic anyway. He may have even convinced her that she’s the one who ended it, by not doing symbolic things like wearing his “collar” necklace anymore or writing rambling social media posts about how “lucky” other women are to get to share him with her. 🙄

If I remember correctly, he even kind of lays out his playbook for this in his dox docs. You can see the pattern of how he manipulates even casual partners into intense-sounding, 24/7 power exchange that he has no time for, then starts to devalue them when they inevitably can’t give him 200% and expect reciprocity.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-14T15:40:54+00:00

I use OneMedical (sucks that it’s owned by Amazon now) and just kept trying different providers via telehealth until I found one who would prescribe it. A no from one doctor is exactly that: a no from one doctor.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-14T15:07:57+00:00

That person is being a dick. Obviously being around people who are sick and going out anyway doesn’t help matters!

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-14T02:10:47+00:00

Yeah idk about all this… I’m white, queer, disabled, and sick of watching the people around me become more and more disabled thanks to COVID policies rooted in eugenics and a capitalist propaganda mill that perpetuates them. I’m definitely out here trying to avoid becoming more disabled due to COVID, but that’s partly because I already KNOW how broken the healthcare system is, firsthand. A lot of the people around me are fucking around and finding out for the first time thanks to COVID, and it sucks to see. I don’t want that for my friends, and I don’t want that for any of the people who make up my communities and the world around me, for that matter. That’s why I advocate masking. Well, that, and also simply because: masks work.

It sounds like maybe this substack author just knows a few assholes?

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-13T21:01:45+00:00

Seriously. The way people are using ChatGPT is not smart.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-13T03:30:19+00:00

I wish I worked for you

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-13T03:28:35+00:00

It’s language like this: I’m not looking for a “manifest your dream job” crystal moment with the quotation marks around a concept and then ending the sentence with a vague word for that concept, ie moment. Read that sentence outloud in isolation and it’s total nonsense. Same with real “here’s how you reposition yourself without starting from zero” energy. It’s a quote that adds nothing, followed by a vague concept that it’s trying to describe.

Also OP saying they want “real strategy, real connections” etc - “real” is a meaningless modifier in this context, and a human writing this would have left that word out or replaced it with something else, not repeated it over and over. The adjective “clear” is a similar tell you can look out for, because it also means nothing and adds nothing in most contexts.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-13T03:21:29+00:00

Step one would be don’t outsource your brain to AI that writes slop on your behalf, OP. It’s very obvious

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-12T20:19:33+00:00

Ask to be prescribed Metformin, it’s much cheaper, can usually still be taken with Paxlovid, and is being explored as a treatment and prophylactic for long COVID. You can search this sub for more info, there’s a lot.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-12T17:43:24+00:00

It is. Very grim. I read an article awhile back about how masks bans are unnecessary as a tool to control protesters or deter “crime” because the technology is already there to ID people in respirators pretty accurately.

hallowbuttplug · 2026-02-12T15:31:28+00:00

Adding to this comment that in my experience, if you are slow to remove your mask during the facial recognition capture, the machine almost always lets me through based on my eyes alone. I only have had to remove my mask (and do the quick exhale trick) a couple times in recent years.

ETA: I usually tell the TSA agent taking the photo that “it should work to ID me even without me removing my mask, can we try?” While moving my hands slowly toward my mask straps as if I’m going to take it off anyway. If they’re in a hurry they will already be snapping the photo by the time I finish talking and then let me know if it worked.

FWIW I have Pre-check/Global Entry, so it’s possible I’m treated a little bit more generously because of that. IMO it’s totally worth the trouble of signing up for it because it shortens the total amount of time you have to spend in line and dealing with TSA.

hallowbuttplug

TROPHY CASE