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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 10h

An important read, if you want to be in community and/or personal relationship with people with ME/CFS:

Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 10h

Brutal truth: having a relationship with a person with ME requires a paradigm shift.

- we will not meet you halfway, bc we can’t. I give what I can, when I can, and the other party must close the gap. It’s unfair and obnoxious.

- we will often not back up our words with actions. Ex: I care

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out all my allegiance to the monarchy was actually just to Queen Elizabeth.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 6h

Look I come from two countries with the same king and I didn't watch the coronation.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 7h

Gotta reprogram one of those Staples easy buttons to say "I don't know" and then just have it on your desk and whack it.

www.staples.ca/products/606...

Staples Easy Button

Let your entire office know just how easy it is to find solutions to problems with this Staples Easy Button. The iconic design adds a fun look to your desk, and the "that was easy" message serves as a...

www.staples.ca

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 7h

Are there people out there who DON'T know their clothes are plastic? Are there still people who don't know that polyester, nylon and acrylic are derived from petrochemicals??

Or am I just way too in the sustainable fashion world?

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 21h

Like switching from being mad at myself for not doing what I wanted to do that day, to realising that hey, thinking and planning that project in the shower before I go to bed IS PART OF THE WORK. It counts, it counts, it counts.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 21h

Overall I find mantras annoying but that's probably more because of what they actually say than the concept of a mantra.

The main one that's worked for me is from Tina Ethridge of comfortandkindness on Instagram: "It counts, it counts, it counts."

Every tiny microstep counts.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I get like 25% of the grumbling, masks can be annoying or uncomfortable*, but the UTILITY. The way they keep me from breathing in dust or sawdust or paint fumes at art class. The way I don't have smile when I don't feel like it.

*if they are get a different type, they're like shoes

Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 1d

I mask because it's damn useful.

- filters out stuff that I react to like dust, smoke, and even cuts down on fragrance
- keeps me from getting covid, but also regular annoying colds
- adds some humidity to super dry air in the fall, making my sinuses much happier
- keeps face warmer in -30C winter

Frank Elavsky ⌁ @frank.computer · 2d

Masking also isn't a categorical kind of rationality either. People have different reasons.

I mask because, as someone immuno-compromised, the risks are significantly higher. There is no simple way to handwave masking as irrational and fear-based unless you unpack how each person makes decisions.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 1d

Like Intercon still has a covid policy. Which shouldn't be rare for conventions, but alas. x.interconlarp.org/pages/covid

COVID FAQ!

COVID FAQ COVID FAQ Overview Current Policies & Logistics Vaccination Proof Alternative Options Testing Screening Masking Day-of Registration Submit Vacc...

x.interconlarp.org

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 1d

(A lot of larp people on the east coast are still very covid conscious.)

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 1d

If you're considering Boston let me know I have connections.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 1d

The not-fun answer: AI stocks. (Yes I am fully intending to lose all that money when the bubble pops.)

The fun answer: Spider silk robe a la francaise.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

A thing that I don't think the AI bros have considered:

Even if folks don't care about the artistry of Game of Thrones, for instance - even if they were just watching 'the cool show with the dragons everyone's watching?'

The important part of that is "everyone's watching." It was *social*. Shared.

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

Fair! But then then I guess the question is (just from a capitalistic perspective) are those people paying for tv, or are they just putting youtube clips on. Are they spending 25 dollars to go to the movies? Will they spend ten dollars a month on Sora to regurgitate whatever just to have it on?

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh these are some excellent questions to ask about Christian parenting resources.

Marissa Franks Burt @mburtwrites.bsky.social · 2d

It is book release day!🎉📚

One of the FAQs we get is, understandably, what resources do you recommend?

One of our goals in writing this book was to empower people to embrace the tremendous freedom they have, and so we created a metric for evaluating resources.
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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

One time we were moving our tent trailer and some birds had built a nest in the area where it hooks up to the van pulling it, and Dad tried to move the nest but dropped it and the eggs broke—and Dad cried about it.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 4d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

I would wait too long, but my advice is to go see a doctor ASAP, especially since part of your livelihood is connected to violin playing.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

I got to be in The Magic Flute when I was around 9! (A panda in the scene where the flute enchants all the animals.) It was so fun, and definitely a treasured memory!

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

If you are masking to protect yourself and others from covid, you are on the BLEEDING EDGE of public health science.

"COVID is airborne" marks a significant shift in science, and it's not the covid bit that's the revelation, it's the fact that DISEASE is airborne that's a revelation.

Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

All of this is NEW to us! I know it doesn't seem that new to covid-aware people who have been masking for 5+ years, but the general public DOESN'T KNOW what airborne transmission means, or they just tune out because they don't know how to deal with it.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

I have purchased certain books from our library book sale like Created to Be His Helpmeet, specifically to tear up and yeet into the garbage. (Yeah I was mad enough to not even recycle it.)

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

Like there was a period from about the 1910s (iirc) to the 1960s where scientific consensus was "disease doesn't spread through the air, period". Until some guy infected guinea pigs with tuberculosis via just air in 1962.

Anyways you can read more here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID‐19 pandemic?

The question of whether SARS‐CoV‐2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission rese...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

The tl;dr is that there was massive pushback against miasma theory once they discovered microbes and stuff in the late 19th century, and science swung so hard away from "air causes disease" that it had to be dragged back to "covid is airborne" kicking and screaming.

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Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

If you are masking to protect yourself and others from covid, you are on the BLEEDING EDGE of public health science.

"COVID is airborne" marks a significant shift in science, and it's not the covid bit that's the revelation, it's the fact that DISEASE is airborne that's a revelation.

Lyndall @lyndallc.bsky.social · 2d

All of this is NEW to us! I know it doesn't seem that new to covid-aware people who have been masking for 5+ years, but the general public DOESN'T KNOW what airborne transmission means, or they just tune out because they don't know how to deal with it.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2d

I don’t know what was in Pandora’s box but I bet it was stored in one of these and she just bumped ONE corner.

A picture of a clear/white electronic component parts box of the kind that opens up and looks terrifically tidy but the moment you accidentally hit it suddenly your desk looks like SMT fairy bread.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3d

Fish at a fancy garden? I like that. Surprise fish down a little alley? I love that.

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