The Reason I Have 12 Birthdays

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or, how to fuck your shit up by ignoring obvious birthday inflammation symptoms. don’t be like me. seek help.

sorry for this barely scripted and low quality video, the next one will be worse.

special thanks to doctor jacobi for the excellent care, and to the manna charitable foundation for the flight logistics.

The ever-excellent Blackle Mori1 posted this about 18 months ago but I don’t think it got the level of attention it deserves. If if you’ve never experienced birthday inflammation or known anybody who has, it’s an eye-opening experience to hear a first-hand account of this unusual and definitely-real condition.

 

Footnotes

1 If the name’s familiar but you can’t quite place it, here’s the previous two times I’ve talked about Blackle’s work: my analysis of the construction of the Basilisk Collection, and the (now-famous) Cursed Computer Iceberg.

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