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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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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 13h

i love this for you, sincerely

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 13h

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

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 14h

it's only a secret third thing because i don't know a good word for it

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 14h

relationships that are somewhere between the boundary of "platonic" and "romantic" -> not a bug, it's a feature

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 15h

sorry the metaphors are getting really thin it's dire need for GF times

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 15h

so the problem with this is that if you want to meet other potted plants you need to already live in a greenhouse, or live in a place with functional inter-city transit. because plants can't drive on the highway

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 13d

potted plant seeking other potted plant to share the soil with.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

absolutely exhausted from a day that consisted of making a single phonecall from my bedroom

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

these guidelines are still dangerous. you can't give informed consent about taking a CPET if your provider has fundamentally mischaracterized the potential risks. temporary damage vs. permanent damage is a big distinction!

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 16h

a 2-day Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test (CPET) is the only biological way to confirm ME/CFS, but this says it leads to "a loss of function and reduced work capacity in the days or weeks that follow". this is an understatement. in ME/CFS, a CPET can easily cause damage that is months-long or permanent

Bateman Horne Center @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social · 19h

Milestone moment for ME/CFS awareness!
The American College of Sports Medicine has added a section on ME/CFS to its Exercise Guidelines for the first time ever, thanks to @workwellfoundation.bsky.social and collaborators.

Read more: https://bit.ly/46P31vP
#MECFS #ACSM @acsm1954.bsky.social

"History Made! The American College of Sports Medicine includes ME/CFS in global exercise guidelines for the first time."

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 20h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 18h

i was 1/3 through playing pentiment then the person i was playing it with suddenly exited my life so i need to start a new save file lol

pentiment is absolutely 100% up this alley, i agree

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Game Boy Camera @gameboycamera.com · 20h

Thomas (via techhub.social/@toemat) was super generous and sent me some of my favorite photos 3D printed with their converter tool! Not only that, they installed a really cool inner light to illuminate the pic.
toemat.com/posts/game-b...

A photo of four different Game Boy Camera photos 3D printed using the converter tool.

A close-up photo of the Game Boy Camera print depicting a forest walkway among some trees. You can easily see the layer lines of the 3D print of 4 separate colors.

A close-up photo of the Game Boy Camera print depicting a dog running in the distance. You can easily see the layer lines of the 3D print of 4 separate colors.

A 3D printed Game Boy Camera photo in a dark room with the photo illuminated. In the background is a piano keyboard.

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 18h

imagine living in a world where historical immersion games from academic teams like Sailing With The Gods got serious funding.

Sailing with the Gods: the Game | Samothracian Networks

scholarblogs.emory.edu

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 18h

the feasibility of big-budget historically-plausible interactive art pieces isn't a technical limitation, and it's not an artistic limitation. it's because we live in a world broadly without arts funding

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 18h

find almost any random PC historical RPG from the 1990s and it'll have more credibility (artistically and historically) than assassins' creed. we could be living in a world where interactive "museums" give plausible insight into day-to-day aspects of the past that passive media simply can't convey

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 19h

imagine if we lived in a world where people were able to make big-budget historical games other than assassins' creed

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 19h

got 5 seconds of Flo Rida's "Low" for hold music while trying to get ahold of the surgeon's office

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 22h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 22h

Good to know.

However, I do wish the article acknowledged that there ARE people who do actually need supplements and DO actually struggle with meeting protein needs, thus why we need a stronger FDA rather than the weakened FDA we've had even before the current admin.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 21h

delicious!! let's go

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 22h

ex. when someone has a broken leg, we don't treat them as "lazy" for not running. bone fracture isn't terminal, but it does have

1. clear diagnosis
2. clear expectations: specific physical limitation
3. visual sign of illness (cast)
4. clear treatment plan
5. cultural empathy for "breaking a bone"

heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 22h

terminal illnesses are culturally well-understood because they have a very straightforward trajectory, and doctors are very clear about communicating the reality of them to patients & families

coworkers, friends, acquaintances, they will all immediately understand because of cultural shorthand

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 22h

i've had this thought before and the conclusion it eventually led me to is that i don't want a terminal illness -- i want an illness that is culturally understood

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 1d

fucked up!!