Rhube

mekkaokereke, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Something you can't unsee once you see it:

The Harvard alumns making the loudest noise about "Fair admissions" and not "lowering the standards..." are legacy admission babies. 🙂🙃

Wake me up when they start campaigning against legacy admissions.

For people outside the US: legacy admissions is where Harvard says "You might not meet our academic standards, but your parent or ancestor did, and that's good enough for us! Welcome to Harvard! Continue your legacy!" 🤡

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, 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.

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

Honest question for white people that don't consider themselves racist:

White nationalists have been vocal about their attacks on DEI. These are literally the same people that talk about Charlottesville, Jan 6th, and ethnic cleansing.

They've laid out exactly how they plan to destroy DEI.

1. Make false claims that DEI is about giving unqualified Black people an unfair advantage

2. Work with racist politicians to use this as a pretext to make all DEI programs illegal.

1/n

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, 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, 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, 7 months ago to random

OK, Wikipedia, thanks for that.

Rhube, 3 months ago to random

#Copilot arrived on my system today: Ew! Ew! Ew!

Found instructions on how to disable it in the registry here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-uninstall-copilot-i-dont-want-to-disable-it/b301b77d-b879-4433-9979-f8795805e9f1

Right click the start button and select Terminal.

Copy and paste in the command below and press enter:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v TurnOffWindowsCopilot /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

If it is successful, sign out of your account then back in for the change to take effect.

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

Just heard that the Health Secretary is using the 'issue' of permitting transgender people to be treated on wards with other people of the same gender as a distraction from the NHS strikes.

Let me repeat: rather that talk about the NHS strikes and NHS underfunding, the Health Secretary is pursuing a crusade against sick trans people.

I am SO furious. SO disgusted.

This. On top of everything else.

My rage has robbed me of words.

Rhube, 10 months ago to random

Misread the 'Yellow warning: Rain' banner on the met office website as a 'Warning: Yellow rain' banner.

Which would be a WHOLE OTHER problem.

Rhube, 4 months ago to random

The reason we don't have UBI is not because it doesn't work, but because they do not want to close the gap between the rich and the poor.

They know if we had more free time and money we would rebel. The goal is to keep us exhausted and work us into the grave. That's literally the plan.

Rhube, 1 year ago to art

#Introduction: I write science fiction and fantasy, and angry poems.

I'm especially proud of 'Homely Magic', published by Distant Shore Publishing https://distantshorepublishing.com/2021/06/18/homely-magic/ and 'Just Me', in Underland Arcana, Issue 4, https://www.underlandarcana.com/ro-smith-just-me/ both of which explore magic and family from a queer perspective, and feature non-binary characters.

I'm agender, and use she/her/hers pronouns.

I also draw, garden, craft, & am chronically ill.

Bunch o'tags: #SFF #art #fandom #fanfic #DBH #robots #dragons

Rhube, 7 months ago to random

Just give people benefits without assessment. For real.

Universal basic income.

You're asking the least capable people to do something that if they need the money they are not equipped to do well and then usually refusing the money for spurious reasons.

Just give people money.

Able people, please: Write to your representatives and say you want universal basic income. Don't just say it on social media.

Can't believe I went through all this for £24 a week.

Rhube, 6 months ago to random

I just really liked when we all made a bunch of little scrappy websites by ourselves that made people go: 'Oh! Neat!'

Rhube, 8 months ago to mecfs

#POTS #MECFS people: I've been told of a service near me that will give you IV fluids (with electrolytes if needed) for £100. I think this could help me, but what I'm looking for is first person accounts of the effectiveness of this.

If you had it, did it help? If it helped, how long did it help for?

I can afford a one off payment for something like that, but if it doesn't last very long, I'm not sure it's worth it.

People with experience only please, not speculation.

Rhube, 10 days ago to disabled

Throwing this out into the ether on the off-chance:

I have a Green Power Electric Boot Scooter BH220. I need to remove the battery. Green Power won't tell me how as they want to charge for an engineer to come out.

It has a handle and I'm meant to be able to take it inside to charge it. I was shown how to remove it when I first got it, but I can't remember. I can lift w/handle, but it feels stuck at the front end. How do I release it? #Mobility #disabled #MobilityScooter #Repair

Full image of a Green Power Electric Boot Scooter against a white background.

Rhube, 4 months ago to random

Today I am bummed by the skills and knowledge that as a society wendon't think are worth paying for.

The art we won't buy. The books we won't pay for. But also the teaching and curation and public dissemination of knowledge.

The careers we massively undervalue that as so much more important than our ability to automate things that become LESS valuable and LESS interesting when they're not made by humans.

What a horrible world, with so many people who could make it better if we PAID them.

Rhube, 1 month 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

Rhube, 4 months ago to random

'2023 was a pretty good year' said absolutely no one I know.

No one.

This is not a sentiment I am witnessing.

Rhube, 2 months ago to random

Here we go, I knew this would be there when eBay said they were updating their Privacy policy:

"Use of artificial intelligence or AI-powered tools

We may use artificial intelligence or AI-powered tools and products to improve our Services, to offer you new or enhanced features, a customised and personalised experience, to provide you with enhanced customer service and to support fraud detection."

This is SUPER VAGUE, but it's in the section on how they use your personal data.

Rhube, 1 month ago to random

Trans people are great, actually. Shout out to everybody who has found the courage to be themselves.

And also to those who want to but it wouldn't be safe, or they're just not ready yet. It's OK to not want to be visible too. #TransDayOfVisiblity

Rhube, 1 month ago to random

I'm glad that that Guardian article ppl are passing around today encourages vaccination, but it unfortunately contains misinformation that states prior infections and previous vaccinations (more than 6 months ago) already provide good protection. They just don't! Not if it was over 6 months ago, and not against Long COVID, which is a risk that goes up with each infection.

I cannot, therefore, in good conscience, boost it.

Which pisses me off because we NEED more national coverage of this!

Rhube, 4 months ago to random

Anti-maskers, gtfo.

And yes, if you're going out to indoor places or crowds and not wearing a mask, you are an anti-masker.

I've noticed that, inexplicably, people don't seem to get this: not wearing a mask in places where you can spread infection means you are an anti-masker.

And I'm done with you.