Rhube

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

Just heard a supposedly British man on a US TV show mispronounce Worcestershire Sauce and...

I cannot.

How can there still be people in the world - people studying an accent! - who don't know that we don't pronounce all the letters in our place names, and SPECIFICALLY that it's WOOSTER sauce when said in a British mouth??

Hearing 'Worcestershire Sauce' in a British accent, with 4 syllables for the first word, sounds RIDICULOUS.

Rhube, 8 months ago to random

Cannot stress this enough: if you think you have Long COVID: DO NOT EXERCISE.

I know it feels like you can, but post-exertional malaise means that the damage you do when you exercise you may not feel for a day or two. Exercising makes you WORSE. It causes damaging chemical reactions. And the first six months (when you probably haven't got a diagnosis) are your best shot at recovery, but only if you REST. Completely.

I despair when I see people say they think they have LC and then go jogging.

Rhube, 3 days ago to random

Does anyone remember rents ever coming down? I don't, but I've only been renting for about 20 years, and I know other countries have things like rent control.

Rhube, 4 months ago to random

I feel weak like a kitten, but I should do some washing up. Ugh.

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

OK, I am fucking angry about this.

Talked for the first time on a Zoom call to a doctor today about IBS and the first Facebook Ad I see?? Begins with a man saying 'DIARRHOEA!'

I scrolled away as fast as I could, but not before I saw the text underneath confirm it was about IBS.

This is the EXACT REASON Zoom should be sued into oblivion and fined vast quantities of cash for their data harvesting policies. #ActionForME need to GET OFF ZOOM. Your clients' personal info is being stolen.

Rhube, 2 months ago to tumblr

If you're on Tumblr, the AI scraping is being rolled out NOW NOW NOW.

You can turn on 'Prevent third-party sharing for [blog name]' to opt out.

You have to do this for each blog individually. It wasn't there for me at first, but when I navigated to my blog settings via View blog it updated - don't know if that was coincidence. Anyway:

On web: select Account > Your blog > View blog > Blog Settings

I'm off to see if there's anything I can do on WP. #tumblr

Rhube, 28 days ago to random

I had nightmares about failing to do this active standing test correctly, so here I am, first thing after waking, with this th8ng wrapped round my arm, patiently waiting 10mims after scrabbling around to find the stuff before i start.

Rhube, 29 days ago to random

So, the admin people at my doctors are high on power and utterly clueless.

In response to my email asking them to provide a medical certificate for my ESA application they pissed about for a few days and then sent an email that just says: 'Usually for this sort of thing, we get sent a form for completion by the patient. What sort of certificate have you had in the past?' instead of forwarding it to my doctor.

I know this is COMPLETE BOLLOCKS. I know because the job centre told me>

Rhube, 4 months ago to random

Google just got worse, but they're presenting it as getting rid of cookies.

What it means is that THEY control all your data, and they're doing it by taking up space on your system: https://gizmodo.com/google-just-disabled-cookies-for-30-million-chrome-user-1851137998

Ditch Chrome for Firefox!

Rhube, 6 months ago to random

Well, it might not have impressed many of you guys, but now I have to wash my Astarion cosplay OFF before bed ;-p so it made a physical impression.

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

Watching Rollerball, as it's on Amazon Prime and people have been saying I should watch it for years.

It's curious. The acting it terrible. Even the good actors in it are doing a terrible job. The script is awkward as fuck. For a 'far future' film, everyone is dressed and styled very early 90s.

And yet the plot has good bones and the pacing is better than most modern films. At times, it's very stylish. Mostly, Aurora is very stylish.

The sexism is very annoying.

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

OK, Wikipedia, thanks for that.

Rhube, 5 months ago to random

The year is 2023 and a small part of me is still annoyed Obama stole 'Yes, we can' from Bob the Builder.

This is the important stuff my brain spends neurons on.

Rhube, 9 months ago to SF

Tell me an #SF or #fantasy book that was easy to get into and absorbed your brain completely before you spat it out.

I'm struggling to get into any books at the moment, even ones I eagerly anticipated, but even if I don't real your fave, I love to see people's passion for stories. #bookstores #books #ScienceFiction

Rhube, 6 months ago to Halloween

Full #Astarion Halloween cosplay!

(Eye contact) #Halloween #BadlursGate3 #BG3

An AFAB person in a floofy white shirt and black waistcoat and brown leggings, smirking into the camera. Hair is white and curly, vaguely in the same manner as Astarion from BG3, and she is wearing white facepaint.
Close up of face with white make up and hair white and curly, the tip of a fang is visible.
Close up of face with white make up and hair white and curly, the tip of a fang is visible. (Similar to other photo, but different angle.)

Rhube, 6 months ago to random

I've kept it up for 95 days, but I am proper bored of meditating.

Rhube, 6 months ago to random

I did buy sweets for in case trick or treaters came, but I really don't have the energy to talk to strangers tonight. Might just put them outside with my ceramic pumpkin, idk.

Rhube, 3 months ago to random

I really don't want to get up and walk to the pharmacist, but what was the point in getting dressed if I don't?

Bed is so fucking comfy. I have zero energy to move.

Rhube, 3 months ago to random

LRT: thinking of the aestheticians I've known who were staunch formalised and thought it was somehow dirtying art to consider its social implications as relevant to whether the art was good. Some of them very senior and world-renouned philosophers.

It always struck me as a very privileged, middle-class, white man position. Easy to say messages don't matter when the absence of them supports the status quo.

I wonder if 'AI' 'art' has shaken them - woken them up - at all.

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

I have nothing intelligent to say about what's going on Gaza. Just horror at the civilian casualties.

I don't want it to go unremarked, but I have nothing useful to say ☹️

Rhube, 2 months ago to longcovid

I just completed the Patient-Led Research COVID-19 Patient Experience Survey https://patientresearchcovid19.com/

Be warned, it took a lot longer for me to complete than they advised, I guess because I had a lot to say in the free-text fields, but I imagine we all would. You can stop and start at any time as long as you finish in 2 weeks, though.

Towards the end I found some of the questions enraging, but that's the norm when they talk about mental health.

#COVID #LongCovid @longcovid

Rhube, 8 months ago to random

'According to the filing, it accused OpenAI of engaging in "systematic theft on a mass scale".'

George R R Martin and other authors with actual money and clout are suing OpenAI.

YES. FINALLY.

I'm so ANGRY about OpenAI. The fact that a friend tried to defend it to my face makes me furious.

Someone like me could never fight this, but GRRM can make them hurt.

Rhube, 8 months ago to random

OK, too much cortisol in system to either concentrate in the guided meditation or really let go, but I did find myself dozing and it did lower my heart rate a bit anyway.

I don't know how one is supposed to rest when there is so much unrwsolved to be stressed about.

Rhube, 9 months ago to mecfs

I don't care what doctors say, I am NOT giving up on there being a cure - and treatments that are more than just activity diaries, which stress me out!

But I hate that this leaves me vulnerable to quackery. I know the supplement industry must do GREAT business out of #MECFS patients. Because our guts actually do work wrong. Argh. #NEISvoid

(People who believe I'd be happier if I just accepted my condition DNI.)

Rhube, 28 days ago to random

Can anyone recommend a good #EMDR therapist for online treatment? I'm trying to research it on my own and it's exhausting. A testimonial from someone saying 'this one knows their stuff and isn't a dick/is easy to talk to' would really help. The ones I've found don't seem to offer sample sessions like other therapists. The last therapist i approached did have a sample session and was awful, so I'm wary.

Woman or non-binary person preferred. Experience with #CPTSD preferred if you know. #therapy