Y’know, when I signed up for this back in June I had grand plans for some grand writeup on the domestically produced unmagnified gunsights of Cuba. I had collected images and info and sources but I lost sight of it as life stuff happened and my time for the trans mega snuck up on me.

Que sera sera.

Anyways, today felt like the first whisper (you have no idea how hard I just thought about the ideal word for this metaphor) of autumn and that put me in the mood for one of my favorite autumnal albums. More Constant Than the Gods by SubRosa is a really lovely doom? sludge? metal album. I like how big it sounds. The lead vocalist is a really talented lady, and its got violins, also the lyrics talk about dying and stuff and I’m into that. Its very fall-y to me, as is Standard Time Volume 1 by Wynton Marsalis, but for extremely different reasons.

The funny thing is that, like the poster of the previous mega it is also my 5th transiversary, I started HRT half a decade ago today (ok technically it was the 17th but I’m gonna count it since thats when I started writing this). Now, I don’t think that taking HRT was what made me “officially trans”, rather it was the degree of self acceptance required to get to that point. It’s a long story, and one I prefer to share privately, but it took a very, very long time before my fear and desperation gave me the strength to allow myself to have this. I think it all turned out pretty well, I experience existence in much higher fidelity, I’m this whole person, along with everything that entails.

I feel very blessed to be transgender.

I hope you all stay safe and have a good, or atleast tolerable week.

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  • sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    it’s just that in trying to keep a large pressure difference along the needle, the air from the syringe dead space will expand 10x or more.

    The air bubble I’m referring to is precisely that. Get rid of it and your draw time will speed up. The draw time is also inversely proportional to the pressure difference between the vial liquid and that air.

    That air isn’t as low pressure as you might think, and so it does significantly slow down your draw. Atmospheric pressure is intense, it can crumple steel.

    You would have no draw time issues if the dead space in your syringe was expanding by 10 times (1 atmosphere in your vial vs 0.1 in your syringe. That’s 0.9 atmospheres of difference. ).

    Most likely when you draw, air from the outside leaks into your syringe. If you want to check, an easy way is to hold the plunger in place while the vial and syringe are the right side up. If the liquid is defying gravity, then you have a good seal. If the liquid is not defying gravity you need a better seal.