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Chloë Lum

@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social

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Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. https://linktr.ee/ChloeLum

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · Nov 14

New folks following me from starter packs, hi! Unfollow if you find me boring. I’m a chronically ill middled-aged grad student & artist in Edmonton. I’m not famous & I’m not especially funny. I don’t have a newsletter but I might post about sickness, vegan snacks, prog rock, or performance art.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 3h

Afterwards, I felt like a total fool for having given away my time, energy, and expertise and for thinking this curator got in touch because they were interested in my art. I was so dismayed.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 3h

Wincing reading that. One need a proper shoe to city walk, but especially in a place like Paris!

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 3h

It’s especially awkward when the people asking for consults have institutional power and you don’t! I did a consult that I didn’t even know was going to be one, I thought the curator in question wanted to present my work.

ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · 4h

I say this with peace and love, but if you are contacting disabled people to do sensitivity readings and disability culture consults WITHOUT PAY, please rethink making that request.

I always try to be as helpful as I can be, but I need to eat! 🫣
We deserve to be paid for our labour 💖

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Annabel @annabelt.bsky.social · 4h

As someone recently 'doored' and concussed after cycling in sharrows,
I'll spell it out again...

Paint.
Isn't.
Infrastructure.

#PaintIsntInfrastructure
#sharrows=ShittyArrows

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7h

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 4h

When I go see performance work and the performer is barefoot, I get sympathetic back and leg pain.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not perfect but it makes biking much more safe and accessible.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 5h

I’d love to bike in Edmonton but the fact that most lanes seem to be unprotected and many high streets dont have lanes does not make it inviting. I biked a *lot* before moving here, now I’m nervous.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16h

Follow this account 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Sparrows for Palestine @sparrows4palestine.bsky.social · 21h

🐦🎓🫶🏻🇵🇸Welcome to Sparrows for Palestine! Our collective gathers university members who care about our institutions ending their complicity in the apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian People by disclosing, divesting from and cutting institutional ties with complicit Israeli institutions.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve been on the same dosage of gabapentin with zero issues for 6 years, I really don’t need to tell him it’s still working and I have no side effects every 3 months.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15h

I’m going to bring it up next time I go in. I think it might be that he’s young and really wants to do everything ultra by the book. He’s been great for ordering tests and actually trying to find out what is wrong so I like that part.
I could understand if I were on opioids or bezos but I’m not.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15h

My Montreal doctor was harder to see but had no issues with year-long refills and renewing online.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15h

He seems weirdly over cautious about done very run-of-the-mill meds. As someone who suffers from severe PEM and whose prescriptions all end at different times, it’s not exactly accessible to have to go in person all the time.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15h

A very annoying thing about my new doctor is that he doesn’t want to do prescription renewals by phone and only renews for three months at at time. I’m not on any controlled medications and apart from my thyroid meds, everything I take, I’ve taken for 5years+ with no issues.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 16h

Squirrel is stockpiling that vitamin C!

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t fathom why so many people are champing at the bit to outsource their thinking and power to tech companies.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 1d

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 1d

Something very important and subtle happens when you take in a piece of art over time.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

it’s good when novels are huge and long and even occasionally boring, it’s fundamentally a durational form

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread full of receipts on Carney’s standing up to Trump
is anything but.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2d

To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity.

This is what you voted for, is it?

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 2d

I love it!

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 2d

I once got to barge in on Deerhoof practicing and caught a half song, that was pretty awesome.

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good strategy.

Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 2d

Fun fact, you can answer all of these questions by talking about how much you want the government to protect you *FROM* "AI" rather than how much you want them to fund it. Give it a try!

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

We need to stop using Scholar yesterday.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d

I weep.

Google Scholar Homepage with an AI assistant

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 2d

Cute!!

Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure how much of a privilege it when you have an untreatable condition.