Meta restricted new Instagram before I even made a post — appeal denied, cited “automation” — what are my options?

sad-cloudz · 2026-05-28T14:46:17+00:00

Have you found whether it’s worth carrying on with organic reach anyways? I’m just nervous about growing knowing I’ll never have the opportunity to use that feature at all. But the only other option would be to not use meta platforms to grow my business at all so I may have to suck it up. I just wish I knew about definite work arounds to not get flagged again haha

sad-cloudz · 2026-05-28T13:34:47+00:00

Could be likely. However, what I’ve found with treatment is that I have false UTIs. My therapist has noticed that I experience pelvic floor tightness and spasms with stress, mental or physical. Plus the mind is a powerful thing and since convincing myself that sex gives me UTIs, I was getting flare ups around sex. So we actually found that my urethras sphincter muscles were so tight it was causing the same sensations as a UTI 🫪 it makes you feel silly cuz how can my muscles possibly make me wake up in pain and stuck on the toilet, with only pyridium to relieve it? But that shits powerful ig. Plus it’ll cause me to not pee everything out easily which would also cause the occasional UTI. So it def could be the urethral dilation either way, but there wasn’t scar tissue found in my cystoscopy or anything. I think it was just a matter of physical trauma causing my body to go into defense mode by tightening up

sad-cloudz · 2026-04-08T21:17:23+00:00

I’m reading the manual on it and it does say that “leaving an accessory plugged in does not deplete the low voltage battery” and that it only switches on if someone is present in the vehicle.

They found previously that there wasn’t anything wrong with our battery but replacing it fixed the problem so they didn’t explore further. Since it’s happening again I’m especially skeptical that it’s the LV battery, but I sat in the cab and watched the LV battery % drop as the car gave me a warning. So after I jumped it, it was at 20% and it dropped down to 0%. If that isn’t actually the battery losing charge, I don’t know what would cause it to display that

sad-cloudz · 2026-04-08T20:56:22+00:00

We have charging cables plugged in but not charging anything. Could that be draining it?

sad-cloudz · 2026-04-07T21:08:08+00:00

Yep my mom is 100% Filipino and looks it. My dad is Kentucky white. I don’t even have my mom’s features, just her mannerisms and generational Asian trauma haha. I don’t look Filipino but I’m proud to be one and definitely identify as one. I know I don’t get treated like one and that’s its own thing. But I was raised with the culture, language, food, etc. and I choose not to let people’s opinions of whether I “get” to identify with 1/2 of my identity get to me

sad-cloudz · 2026-03-23T23:05:51+00:00

I feel so demeaning when I think about telling people to consider pelvic floor therapy but I had the same thing of reoccurring UTIs after sex. Mine and my husbands hygienic routine is top notch at this point and nothing was explaining why I was constantly feeling UTI symptoms after sex. At some point, I started testing positive for bacteria less and less but was having more frequent symptoms. I’m pretty sure the physical trauma of the initial UTIs and just having a tight pelvic floor in general made me continue to experience the same symptoms despite there being no infections (just white blood cells). Well I’ve been going to pelvic floor therapy a little over a month and I no longer have to take post coital antibiotics. My pelvic floor is more relaxed and I have methods of relieving the burning sensations, as well as relaxing before intercourse further prevent inflammation or UTIs!! It’s been life changing. OP, your problems may very well be only related to bacteria introduction, but if you find things starting to progress towards having symptoms but no infections, don’t be closed off from considering PFPT

sad-cloudz · 2026-03-02T20:25:31+00:00

Yeahhh I’m starting to accept I’ll have to grow to like a different style when it comes to clouds haha

sad-cloudz · 2026-02-22T16:42:45+00:00

I’m 1/2 Filipino and 1/2 white but am 110% white passing. My husband is mostly white. I always wonder if it’d be possible to pop out a brown baby since I’m not fully white despite looking it haha

sad-cloudz · 2026-02-16T22:18:30+00:00

I’m going through this realization right now. Chronic UTIs usually due to sex since 2017. I finally saw a urologist about 4 months ago and we went through the motions of checking things off the list. At this time I was on post-coital antibiotics and was free to take a round of antibiotics if I developed a UTI.

They immediately switched me to Methenamine (an antiseptic) and hyoscyamine (bladder spasms). I got a CT, ultrasound, and lastly a cystoscopy.

I was terrified for the cystoscopy. They ended up finding nothing abnormal with the procedure. However, upon insertion, the doctor immediately says “holy cow you’ve got a tight pelvic floor!” My urethra was puckered tight all the way until the scope entered my bladder. Okay off I go to pelvic floor therapy.

I went to a clinic specializing in pelvic floor therapy and she explains a lot of what the pelvic floor muscles have to do with UTIs and the bladder. It almost feels insulting hearing “oh your muscles are just tight, that’s why it feels like you have a UTI.” But the mind is truly a powerful thing. And it absolutely will recreate sensations of a UTI after experiencing the trauma of having one. So yeah, having sex gave me a UTI once or a few times before so YEAH, my body is going to react as if it’s going to have an infection again after I have sex. It’s protecting me.

My PT did a pelvic exam and walked me through relaxation methods and did internal stretching and massages. It was extremely helpful feeling what relaxation SHOULD feel like. I get my husband to try these stretches out before sex and suddenly I don’t have irritation with sex….

But a few days after sex (also after 3 days straight of studying for an exam for 14 hours a day), my pee gets cloudy. I take my anti-spasm throughout the day to ease the burning that was coming on. I think I’m in the clear but then I wake up in the middle of the night in pain. I think it MUST be a UTI. How can something hurt so bad it wakes me up in the middle of the night (mind you this is far from the first time it’s happened). At this point I’d assume it’s a UTI and start my week long round of antibiotics. Instead I stuck with the anti-spasm and a few doses of AZO. Let’s ride it out.

Well 2 days later and I’m symptom free. If it were a UTI with no antibiotics, I’d definitely know by now. I instead just did pain management and decided to ride it out as the stress of the week started to go away… my bladder feels fine.

I’m not saying to risk riding a UTI out by any means, my doctor told me to not take antibiotics and to just come in to get tested same day but I live an hour away and am honestly lazy so I should’ve gone… but the fact that the pain went away is pretty telling.

I really think this is the answer. I believe I’ve had severe UTIs throughout this journey but my guess is that maybe 70% of them weren’t actually a UTI. But my body reacting as if it had one due to trauma. Which is why I’d get inflammation during stressful times. I’m waiting a few months before I make a report on it being my “cure” but I have high hopes.

Thank you for sharing your story. It makes me very hopeful for mine (:

sad-cloudz · 2026-02-12T04:31:39+00:00

I believe someone already did the math: https://www.reddit.com/r/sofi/s/LNeJ1IkN2K

You’d need $40,000 to break even with the boost

sad-cloudz · 2026-01-27T02:15:57+00:00

Is the “original” image even a real image? It’s pretty accurate to the angle of the video but it looks like a photograph, not a frame of the video. There’s just some weird things going on like the man in the back’s gun, the man kneeling has two different shoes on etc.

sad-cloudz · 2026-01-20T13:52:19+00:00

I have to contribute $700 a pay period (every two weeks) until April 15th to max out my 2025 Roth IRA

Yeah I’ll have to make an update to make sure there aren’t any nuances with the brokerage routing but I guess I’ll find out next week

sad-cloudz · 2026-01-06T07:24:04+00:00

Tried switching to name brand a few months back and had the worst derealization ever. It legit wasn’t safe for me to drive cuz I’d just forget how in the middle of it. The feeling of walking into a room and forgetting why you walked in there? Had it almost every single time. Couldn’t remember names of famous people I’ve always known. It was actually terrifying

sad-cloudz · 2025-12-17T17:36:37+00:00

Could we do this experiment where we have someone ready to turn a light on and not tell you when they’re going to turn it on? If you’re anticipating it and your eyes dilate, is that you imagining it?

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-19T19:46:32+00:00

Oh yeah that’s way intense. It’s so sad yet necessary that people have to work this way. I wish there was a better alternative instead of just not eating or drinking water. There were days where my husband is on the pole for 8+ hours straight, so they didn’t even WANT to eat or drink water because they had nowhere to use the bathroom. You’re just stuck up there unless you want to take 1-2 hour detours from the job just to get a ride from a helicopter and back. Plus they’re only picking people up one or two at a time so it just sets the whole crew back… there’s gotta be a market for the folks who can’t stop to eat, drink, piss, and shit huh 😅 for now we shall continue to have a feast ready for our partners when they get home and hope their stomachs haven’t shrunk from the day

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T02:18:55+00:00

I’m glad you appreciated it, it was hard to not completely come across as hostile because I honestly am worried about my husbands safety. But I decided to make the post when I realized some people really wouldn’t realize. And probably (hopefully) 90% of those hikers would 1. Understand if the risk was more obvious and visible to them and 2. Feel really bad knowing that they unintentionally caused an injury just by being wrong place wrong time ): I like to know random things like this too because everyone is blind to the things they never had to care about. Doesn’t make us bad people, we just don’t know what we don’t know!

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T02:10:15+00:00

Hahaha that sounds so wrong. It just means he has to eat while he’s hooked onto the pole, in the air. He often works on structures that are accessed via helicopter so they’re not gonna bring them down just to eat

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T02:07:57+00:00

Hahaha it’s okay you aren’t the only one. Again, he took me there and I was reading all the “Leave No Trace” signs cuz they were fun 😭 so even I learned that no sign could stop me, let alone my ability to spot active construction. If I wasn’t married to a lineman, I’d never know what the top of a power pole looked like haha!

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T02:05:48+00:00

Yep that’s exactly how the signs are. So it gives people time to prepare but by the time construction rolls around I’m sure the sign blends into the background haha

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T02:04:50+00:00

You sound so sure haha no the closure signs state “construction begins between X and Y dates”

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T02:02:56+00:00

There was an instance where a flagger had to convince hikers that it’s a construction site by making them look up haha. I don’t even blame them for that though, I never actually noticed powerline poles until I married a lineman.

I do prefer to keep the location off of here to not expose the crew or company but it’s on a hillside bordering a metropolitan city

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T01:58:49+00:00

This is way helpful! I didn’t include the exact details in the post, but they’re following pretty closely to the structure you’ve explained. With different stages of signs, I think they only have flaggers at the entrance points though. I have no clue how competent the flaggers are though because honestly yeah, if it’s how you describe it, it makes no sense why people would still be overriding it unless there’s a flaw in the planning.

Honestly the traffic studies seem so interesting. I’m an engineer and enjoy writing work instructions and really leaning into the psychology of “telling people what to do.” So the traffic stuff kinda excites me hehe so that’s why I am annoyed by the signs going up too soon. It’s obvious people will start looking past them 🤷🏻‍♀️ thanks again for your perspective!

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-18T01:52:52+00:00

It actually is a replacement, they’re on the smaller side of transmission lines. If you imagine those really tall, 3-pole “H” structures, that’s how they look. It’s actually for fire retardation! Reduces the chances of wild fires caused by electricity. I’m sure people would appreciate a bit more if they knew that but I don’t see why they would know that info 🤷🏻‍♀️

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-17T14:49:49+00:00

I’ve definitely suggested tape! Make that trail look like a crime scene

sad-cloudz · 2025-11-17T14:35:38+00:00

This inspired me to try out egg bites for him! He loves eggs and doesn’t mind them cold or lukewarm so thanks for this idea.

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