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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · Apr 4

statstically speaking if you get me/cfs from long covid your doctor is not going to help, and yr actual medical advice will come from ppl like me who've spent the last 5 years reading medical papers.

you do not want someone who can no longer type the word "statidtically" to be your replacement doc.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16m

Took me awhile to read this excellent, deeply researched and reported piece. So grateful to @emcahan.bsky.social and @rollingstone.com giving Long Covid in kids the attention it deserves and for highlighting the difficulties of getting a diagnosis and support.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

www.rollingstone.com

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 2h

Reposting my hooded crow from this time last year because I love his little fall vibes.

(Ref photo by Akbar Nemati)
🦢🐡 #art #birds

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2h

“Millions of Americans are impacted by long Covid, and they deserve a federal government that will have their back,” Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine told Rolling Stone.

“The Trump administration is not only failing to achieve those goals, but actively taking us in the wrong direction.”

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 1h

it is absolutely ok to do that! if you don't have all your memory needs met by internal memory it is 100% acceptable to use external memory to help

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Jenn Allen @jenn-allen.bsky.social · 3h

A music magazine doing better reporting on this dire issue than any legacy mainstream media.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Ghost @carverredacted.bsky.social · 7h

This is just my reminder that I need help. Right now my PayPal has about $10 in it since I bought some more bandaging for my wounds but other than that I don't have many funds. No set goal today but I do have to go to the doctor tomorrow.

cash.app/$CAugustMcMu...

PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 4h

someone with very limited physical ability can still have a very high degree of autonomy if their actual material needs are being met externally. there is nothing stopping this from happening except government cruelty and the extreme individualist isolation of our society.

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 4h

in our current society, if you run out of both physical and financial runway, you no longer get to be a person on your own terms. you either live by someone else's or you die

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 4h

generally speaking we have decided that autonomy is only for the physically able or the financially able

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

“A number of easy to access websites use facial recognition to let partners, stalkers, or anyone else uncover specific peoples’ Tinder profiles, reveal their approximate physical location at points in time, and track changes to their profile including their photos, according to 404 Media’s tests.”

Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles

Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found tha...

www.404media.co

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ivy 🥚 sly @ivysly.com · 1d

I'm still pissed about the payment processor thing can we stay on that for a bit longer

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h

Important thread

Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 20h

In 1980, President Carter signed The Mental Health Systems Act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_... in an effort to streamline community mental health care and to destigmatize mental illness. The idea was to move people into their neighborhoods or keep them at home while providing therapies and meds.

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Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 15h

the place i buy toothpaste from is sending me emails trying to sell me chocolate

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 15h

i love blue agumon

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

i'm really enamoured with the idea of a "fantasy console" that has both a standalone emulator & also the possibility to run that emulator on some kind of custom-built hardware

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

i had not heard of UXN prior to this! that's really interesting...

i was thinking of this topic mostly in terms of what future developers of fantasy consoles might do differently in order to facilitate emulation.

but i'm also interested what else has/hasn't been attempted re: fantasy -> FPGA

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

definitely. thinking about the feasibility of fantasy consoles on FPGA is what led me to this thought

mcc @dryad.technology · 16h

An interesting thing to compare is FPGA implementations… UXN was very hard to implement in gateware and no one has managed pico 8, since these things were designed for software VMs.

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

- ex. game boy is so easily emulated it's become this fixed platform almost unmoored from hardware, but it's difficult to develop for

- ex. pico-8 prioritizes ease of use, but doesn't have a clear fixed spec

- what i'm wishing for: the fantasy console ethos applied to a true fixed platform

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 17h

... there does appear to be at least one effort to emulate pico-8. it has an incomplete instruction set (?), and doesn't match all of the features of the original spec. but it does work. i'd like to see more like this

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 17h

something i think should exist is a fantasy console with a rigid-enough technical spec such that you could design an emulator for it

pico-8 and other currently existing fantasy consoles function more like virtual machines without reference hardware, so they are stuck existing as "applications"

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 20h

i actually do want to talk with you on the phone. i'm not kidding. i'm better at talking over voice than i am at texting. let's chat sometime

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 20h

i actually couldn't relate less to the zillennial "don't perceive me, don't take me out in public, don't come to my house, don't call me" thing.

i love living around lots of other people, i love being in crowds, i love being around people.

that's why being chronically ill is so devastating to me

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 21h

it's almost daily you see a moderately known person with a large following authoritatively say that covid isn't a big deal anymore and you go okay so what studies have you been reading because hundreds of thousands papers disprove that and they're just like well because I think so. vibes alone.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 1d

i love this for you, sincerely

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes it's a fluid thing, but i've also had multiple relationships where the agreed-upon thing decided on by both people involved is [nontraditional in-between thing]. every one of these is different, but like, so is every relationship in general