I hate chronic pain. I'm tired of hyperfocusing on researching potential diagnoses and treatments. Feels like a desperate grasp at agency as I ride out a new med's early side effects and wait for more doctor's appointments.

Whatever is going on with my body--functional dyspepsia, MCAS, histamine intolerance, or hell, as most doctors see it, "hyterical femme"--I am glad to have identified another trigger. Fucking walnuts! Just 5 halves giving me horrific cramps and bloating 😩

Why is an acquaintence reaching out to me out of the blue to tell me I shouldn't rely on medication? Our last convo was about her bipolar diagnosis and how she didn't want to take meds. I just shared my experience with finding the right ones for myself and how they help me survive.

샤이니가 19년차에 역대급 앨범을 들고 나왔는데 음방을 딱 한 번 나온다고...

🚨 가자지구 상시 모금함 아디 X 팔레스타인과 연대하는 한국 시민사회 긴급행동 누구도 굶주림으로 존엄을 잃어서는 안 됩니다. 재난 속에서 삶을 지켜내고 있는 이들의 의지를 지지해 주세요. 📍즉시납입 가능한 후원계좌: 우리은행 1005-403-790790 📍기부금영수증 발급이 필요한 후원 ➡️ 아디 인스타그램 프로필 하단 링크/포스터 QR 접속 게시글 원문보기 : (인스타그램) www.instagram.com/p/DWyatidDQt... (페이스북) www.facebook.com/share/p/1FgQ...

And the Nebula Award for Novel goes to... 👀 THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) Congratulations to Stephen, and ALL the finalists on this brilliantly wide-ranging list. You are remaking worlds, and reminding us we all can. #61stNebulas #SFWA

I wish I could tell Martin Heidegger about this

I've been collecting aro/ace stories recently and was happy to find this anthology series!

Not my employer leaving a free copy of an AI propaganda book on employee desks... the blurb reads "What if intelligence was just a resource?" How brazen are they to tell us they want us to be powerless meat sacks who now have to buy "intelligence" from Big Tech. Fuck all the way off.

are you just going to do this for every generation

Asexual Portals and Dank Feelings: Ela Przybyło reviews Debbie Urbanski's PORTALMANIA (Simon & Schuster)

하 진짜 십알

I'm sorry but the writing in The Raven Scholar is atrocious. It might be worse than Kristin Hannah. I am reading this for the Hugos, but may need to DNF after 20% because the prose is so awful. I could use entire chapters of this as an example of poor syntax. How was this book so popular?

The Spear Cuts Through Water is so freaking good but my god is the violence brutal. Just had a dream about it after finishing Day Three last night. 😖

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

동의하며: '아기를 낳고 싶다'와 '아기를 갖고 싶다'를 구별해서 통계를 내야한다고 봄

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

Air pollution is linked to 7 million deaths annually according to the World Health Organization.

AuDHD 인데 다 해당 되네. 그렇다고 이게 진단을 대체할만한 리스트라는 건 아니고. 게다가 몇가지는 ADHD 보단 자폐쪽에 가까움 (당사자성 발언). 과자극이러든지 눈맞춤 분석이라든지. ADHD는 집중력 이슈로만 보면 안되고 전두엽의 실행기능이 얼마나 결여되어있는지 보는게 중요한데 사람들이 그냥 산만한 걸로만 아는데 답답하다.

Yeah, I'm real tired of this narrative that disabled people "enjoyed" lockdown. Lockdown sucked. It just sucked less than dying of COVID, a thing the abled world doesn't care about anymore. I'm also tired of abled people mourning their time in lockdown more than they mourn the 1.2 million dead.

Never thought a social media app would improve my mental health and facilitate fun, intellectual, and (gasp) respectful conversations. But ✨️Pagebound✨️ is amazing. Choosing whom to follow based on reading taste and book reviews creates a community so much better than what any algorithm can provide.

So that's why the worst people I know have been chatting me up about kdramas? I'm sorry to say but my recs are like Stranger (scathing criticism of corruption in legal system) and Dear My Friends (centered on women in their 70s, disability rep).

아니 학내에서 고작 '유인물 배포'로 어떻게 경찰까지 출동한 건가 했더니 연세대 측에서 신고했미친

Watch me subscribe to like 50 SFF and literary magazines at the most expensive membership level. It would be dope if I were also rich enough to spend half of my working hours reading and the other half frolicking/organizing/researching.

🎙️NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS JUST DROPPED🎙️ I sit down with the @anushreenande.bsky.social and @readingtheend.bsky.social to think critically about romantasy, in my case from outside looking in - and also to consider with scepticism the critical response to it. Lots to dig into that isn’t dug enough atm.

확실히 뭔가 흐름이 바뀐 것 같은데 이게 가자에서 수만명이 학살당하는 동안엔 꿈쩍도 않다가 호르무즈가 닫히고 전쟁의 여파를 1세계의 시민들이 생활의 불편으로 느끼는 지경이 되어서야 변했다는 사실이 씁쓸할 뿐이다. 아마 이란에 호르무즈가 없었으면 가자에 이어 이란과 레바논에서 얼마나 많은 사람이 살해당했든 전쟁은 끝나지 않았을 것임.

biblically accurate Taemin #taemchella

#TAEMCHELLA is keeping me up. I've been a fan for nearly 20 years and Taemin just keeps on giving. Thank you, queer kpop jesus, my lord and savior.

The Korean president keeping me tuned in on the bird app was unexpected but I'm here for it. He is very late to it, but hell yeah let's drag Israel for its evil, disgusting crimes against humanity.

“보편적 인권과 대한민국의 국익을 위해 할 수 있는 일을 더 열심히 찾아”보겠다는 이재명 대통령의 발언을 환영한다. 이는 한국 정부가 국제사회의 책임 있는 일원이자 제국주의, 식민지배로 인한 피해의 역사를 공유하는 나라로서 책임 방기를 멈추겠다는 선언과 같다. 이제 이재명 대통령과 한국 정부는 이에 걸맞는 적극적인 행동으로 그 의지를 증명해야 한다." wp.me/p54reV-16u

We’re almost a week into the kickstarter. Sitting at 58% funded now. #projectwelove www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Signal already has a setting that blocks message content from displaying in push notifications; the case highlights why such a feature might be important for some users to turn on. www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Hey leftists, it’s ok to discuss disagreements about strategy, but if you say people who take COVID precautions: - are too scared to leave the house - demand that everyone wear a mask 24/7 - are terrified of a just a "cold" You are using far right anti-science talking points.

Sudden onset of allergies reminding me just how disabling nonstop runny nose, sinus pressure, itchy eyes, and itchy skin is... talk about an overreaction! I cannot think straight.

Israeli forces carry out daily attacks on besieged Gaza, as humanitarian conditions amid Iran war worsen.

Finished the Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. I hope this seed takes root in my mind and soul over a long time. The critique Samatar presents is not new. It's the language and the characters and the new way of being-in-the-world (the Practice?!) that I'm mulling over.

Elon Musk is now 3x richer than the second richest person on the planet. He's *this close* to becoming a trillionaire. Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes last year. And he himself got a massive tax break from Trump last summer. This is out of control. Tax the rich.

분명히 수저계급론이 처음 등장했을 땐 계급주의와 자본주의에 대한 비판 담론이었는데. 그냥 급 나누기 용어가 되어버린 것 같다.

I feel this strongly: I don't care. I am DISGUSTED that 175 little girls are dead and that thousands are dead across the region and that 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon alone. THIS IS EVIL.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin — Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security — profited from stocks in oil and security companies that he invested in just days before U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and Iran.

김보영 작가님을 <얼마나 닮았는가>로 처음 접하고 있는데 오랜만에 잘 맞는 한국 작가님을 찾은 것 같음. 설렌다. 이런식으로 입덕해놓고 또 다른 작가님들 책만 주구장창 읽다가 1년후에 <종의 기원담> 개 쩐다 이런 거 올리겠지. But like Toni Morrison and Ursula Le Guin and 박완서 선생님 and Robin Hobb and Nghi Vo and Fonda Lee and Sofia Samatar are all waiting for me. Often from my shelves.

AI 좀 무지성으로 안 썼으면 좋겠다. 심지어 독서 커뮤니티에서도 문장이 잘 이해가 안 가서 AI 랑 같이 읽었다, 해외문학은 이름이 어려워서 AI 한테 인물표랑 줄거리 요약 먼저 물어보고 읽는다 < 이런 글이 하루에 몇 개씩 올라옴. 제발... 본인 뇌를 써... 그냥 검색과 메모를 해... 환경 망치고 전쟁 무기 개발하는 회사한테 돈과 데이터를 줘가면서 꼭 써야하는 툴이야 이게? 문제 의식이 이렇게 없다는게 슬프다.

In just two days, U.S. and Israeli attacks have killed over 500 people across Iran, with American and Israeli forces bombing numerous civilian sites, including medical centers and hospitals, human rights advocates have warned.

What an excellent Substack bringing together lots information to show how Covid is being erased when talking about children‘s problems in the media, lending weight to the ,narrative compression‘ and ‚narratives of closure‘ re Covid argued here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #LongCovid

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A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett really let me down. Why is the author laying out all that if his political conclusion is law-and-order liberalism?! Wild to finally read a well-realized fantasy empire and not get any real criticism of said empire. Especially since I'm reading

1. Comparative Perspectives on the Body 2. Anthropology of Capitalism 3. What is Cultural Studies? 4. Race, Nation, Empire & Education 5. Postmodern Religious Thought So I somehow pieced together a postcolonial studies major before I knew what that meant.