Where they snaked a wire up through an artery in my leg and into the ol' thumper to cauterize a portion of it that was acting up. It's humbling to know that if I was born in any other century, I'd probably have a lower life expectancy. To modern medicine!
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girl i legit thought i was having a stroke because my left arm was pins and needles tingling so bad i could barely sleep
but when we got there, we just sat there in the parking lot and i pictured leaving the hospital 7 hours from now with no answers and a $1000 bill and decided i would bite the gun instead and see what happens
anyways yay i survived and i have decided i probably pinched a nerve
Jun 9, 2024
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mom was using a machete to clear the tall weeds in our yard at our new house in Thailand. i walked up behind her to ask a question and got caught in her backswing. i clutched my elbow and saw a dark red streak go down my arm. it was so deep you could see ligaments and fat tissue. we had to drive 45 mins into town to get stitches and tetanus shot but at least i got out of yard work for the day. lucius is so jealous of this scar lmao
i also have a scar on my leg from a lipoma (benign fat tumor) that needed removal in high school. and a huge scar from surgery to repair my broken collarbone from the seatbelt that saved me from dying in a horrible accident in college. i have metal plates and screws holding me together. and a few scars on my hands and wrists from the broken windshield glass.
Feb 24, 2025
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Working on a farm at maybe 16? Don’t think I was even driving yet. It was Christmas season so that meant a lot of carrying trees around and sawing off the ends of stumps so that the trees would start absorbing water again. This stupid lady and her granddaughter were being kinda picky about their tree and wanted some of the knots cut off so I was doing so. Did I mention that it was raining? Because it was also raining that day. Being someone at least as stupid as the lady, I decided to cut *towards* my hand. The saw which could barely handle the tree had no problem skipping off the trunk right into my knuckle. So clutching the now sliced open knuckle with the now shredded rubber glove hanging off of it, I walked back to the break room, never talking to that lady again.
At the ER they tried shooting some novocaine in with a syringe. I will never forget the visual of it going in one side of the cut and shooting out the other side. I got a couple stitches and now have permanent reminder of which direction to hold my cutting instruments.
Feb 24, 2025
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Apr 3, 2024
Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones ☺️
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner.
Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives.
The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
Mar 29, 2025
