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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

GOD I have so much time for crafts and exercising when I'm off work, truly a bummer that I am not financially prepared to retire at 35

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I gotta say the Sunday scaries are less bad now that I've got two weeks of PTO coming up at the end of the month

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I discovered halfway into making this recipe that hello fresh had neglected to include the tempura mix, so I am substituting...waffle mix. This may end in disaster

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Me, literally yesterday: wow, I think my health is as good as it's been in several years! My body, about to wreck my weekend with persistent vertigo for no reason: lol. lmao

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Rude of the weather to be briefly nice enough to tempt me to get back into jogging and then almost immediately get hot

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's only been 8 hours since my COVID booster and I feel REAL WEIRD, this does not bode well.

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oof the migraine Botox shots have angered some of my tiny face muscles more that usual 😖

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Well, I made it almost 3 months between "learn to use makerspace knitting machine" and "buy my own knitting machine"

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Noooooooooo I have to itemize my taxes, what a disaster

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I've started a beta blocker (finally got to see a cardiologist about POTS) and my insurance actually approved dupixent the third go around for the hives!!!

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

It's a good thing that I understand that pharmacy benefits and medical benefits are often separate and the medical benefits provider will deny pharmaceutical requests because the benefits coordinator at my doctor's office benefits coordinator sure didn't seem to know this!!!

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

WOW uhc processed my appeal for my September OON claim which means...I am finally all caught up? Once the direct deposit goes through it will be the first time in 18 months that my insurance company has not owed me THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS???

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Coordinating someone else's long distance travel to/from new haven is a logistical nightmare, there are many options of plane + train(s) and they are all kinda terrible

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My new apartment has a beautiful gas stove with like an enamel interior and I HATE it because the heat goes everywhere and I get hives and it exacerbates the POTS and cooking is already hard enough

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

To the surprise of no one I have become OBSESSED with knitting machine

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Alas, an almost great breakfast sandwich, foiled by the unfortunate texture of American cheese

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Sometimes your (my) body just needs to sleep for 20 hours straight for no apparent reason, normal part of having a body

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Learning to use a knitting machine so I can feel incompetent at knitting again

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

How does the NYT "year in games" LEAVE OUT THE CROSSWORD that is the entire reason??? I have an nyt games subscription? The other games are like a cute sideshow

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Best thing about working with people from SF, Europe, Argentina, and India from the east coast is that I am the least likely to be asked to join a meeting at either my 7 am or my 8 pm. Worst thing: I very frequently have a giant block of meeting from like 11-2 so I have no time to eat lunch

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I have called my old Walgreens several times and notified multiple people that I have moved and do no want my prescriptions refilled anymore and they have all assured me nothing is on auto refill and yet for the third! time! they have magically decided to fill a prescription where I no longer live

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I moved and I have to transfer my prescriptions (no controlled substances!) to a different pharmacy because I live too far from a Walgreens now and it is a full nightmare

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I am finally being forced to upgrade my 6 year old corporate iPhone because it is "EOL" and "no longer receiving iOS updates"

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Piglet is deeply traumatized by us moving stuff out of the apartment and the movers don't even come until tomorrow 😬

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Six months late but I have finally ordered my birthday present (coverstitch machine) AND it was an open box so on sale AND it is getting shipped to my new apartment so I don't have to move it!

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The 3.5 years I lived in this apartment I am currently moving out of is the longest I have lived anywhere since I moved out of my parents house when I was 17.

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I have a new apartment!!! I wanna go move some stuff in tomorrow and also just see it generally but I got my covid booster this morning so it is possible I will spend the weekend with the migraine from hell

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

United Healthcare just sent me a letter saying they can't process my claim until they receive information they requested from "United Health Care" 🙄🙄🙄

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Nothing like a deadline (they're showing my apartment tomorrow) to get me to clean

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I decided the best way to donate a bookshelf in very good shape which will not fit in my car and last generation computer desktop parts which are not a working computer was by listing them for free on Facebook marketplace and it seems to be working but my GOD is it annoying

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I got a new organizational system for my knitting accessories and so I decided to actually catalog what needles I own and I have discovered that I somehow own 3 copies of both size 3 40" circulars and, more bizarrely, size 0 hiya hiya sharps 9" sock circulars

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I love the drape of freshly blocked knits!! (I did the fun part of this sweater first, I still have to knit all the plain parts, which will inevitably go much more slowly because my brain doesn't find it interesting)

The front panel of a cream knit sweater with a black and cream lightning bolt optical illusion design in the center, pinned out on a blocking mat. The pattern is "The Bolt Sweater" by MaxTheKnitter.

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I spent an hour looking up used recumbent bikes because it is BEAUTIFUL outside and I am on vacation but I cannot go for a walk because standing is BAD 😭 😭 😭 (It is a bad idea for me to buy a bike rn, I am moving in less than a month)

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

ADHD (high activation energy to begin a task) + POTS (have to take breaks to sit with my feet up every 10 minutes) are truly not a great combination for me to successfully clean out this closet in any reasonable time frame

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm on vacationnnnn* *A week of PTO in which I am not going anywhere but I do need to start preparing to move in just under a month

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I'm at the stage of planning a move where I don't have to do a ton of work yet but I do have a very fun constant distraction on my phone of constantly checking for rental listings, I'm sure I will despise moving soon but currently I'm having fun

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Cholinergic urticaria sucks big time, two thumbs down. Extremely hard to motivate myself to exercise when I know it will feel like I am being stabbed by needles the entire time.

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It has been zero days since I have been told I need to "be less helpful" in a professional context (this is actually a very valid criticism that I have received from multiple bosses at multiple jobs but also it is kinda funny and also hard surprisingly hard to do)

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I can tell I need to take PTO because my immediate feeling when I get a slack notification is "please stop asking me for things I am just a husk of a person"

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I saw this flyer when I was traveling for a doctor's appointment earlier this week and it brought me great joy

A flyer for the Philadelphia Special Interest Exchange. It has a bunch of shapes in various colors with text on them, including: Are you autistic or something of the sort / Do you want to meet other people of said persuasion / Share the many great facts you know / Make a friend or seven / RHOMBUS (this is in a pink rhombus) / 2 pm 8/17 Rittenhouse. There is also a QR code for the associated Instagram.

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I have a secondary neurologist I only see once a year (basically to stay on the books in case I need to be hospitalized for migraines) because he is a four hour train ride away but MY GOD he is amazing, he actually prescribed me something for POTS

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

My Argentinan coworker brought me a little tub of dulce de leche which means for the next month or so all of my morning lattes will now be dulce de leche lattes

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

While trying to explain why my ADHD means I have I a hard time writing things to a coworker I stumbled upon an "ADHD and Graduate Writing" page by a university and finally was able to feel compassion for my undiagnosed 24 year old grad student self, so there's that!

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

When I said "I miss Colorado" I did not mean "I wish to be stranded in DIA for 6.5 hours"

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A thing they do not tell you about "no longer have to take your shoes off at the airport" is if you set off the body alarm (as you regularly do for...whatever reason) they then make you take off your shoes and send them back down an arbitrary scanner and you have to go find them 🙃

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Harrison Briner @harrisonb.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Buying a seat cushion for my rowing machine was a great investment, now while I am exercising to remind my cardiovascular system how to pump blood my legs do not go numb (though I am still covered in hives)

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