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Rhube

@Rhube@wandering.shop

She's just this guy, you know?

I'm a science fiction and fantasy writer. I like robots and dragons, silliness and literature.

Used to be an academic; may get too deep into analytic philosophy unexpectedly.

I'm agender and disabled #MECFS

Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/drrhube
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/rhube

No unsolicited advice.

Not keen on DMs.

Note: CFS drastically reduces my spoons. If I miss an alt description please don't chastise or quiz me about it.

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tomkindlon, to mecfs
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Compelled loneliness and necessitated social isolation: “It’s like being on the other side of a mirror, just looking in”

From the American ME and CFS Society March e-newsletter
https://mailchi.mp/e2de4299b989/ammes-oct-newsletter-get-your-medical-needs-met-13966981

Link in image:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.13732

@mecfs

Rhube,
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@tomkindlon @mecfs Oof, yeah, that hits home.

Rhube, to bookstodon
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This is a shot in the dark, but I'm looking for an audiobook on the history and archaeology of Troy/Hisarlik, preferably reflecting more recent academic work than 2011 (the date of the work I've just been listening to). I'm interested in a work by an academic who really knows what they're talking about, not popular history with unexamined bias.

It's OK if it's situated within a broader history of Ancient Anatolia or similar, as long as it covers Troy in detail. Any recs? @bookstodon

Rhube, to random
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This is the length of stick the magpies are trying to build their nest out of.

I did a search on eurasian magpie nests and they do tend to be... spiky, let us say. But I do think these guys are making an unusual hash of it. It's also more of a chaotic mess than the one they made last year.

A large and very messy nest near the top of a tall tree. There's a shadow that might be a magpie in it, but on closer inspection I think it's just a shadow.

Rhube, to random
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Bahahaha, it's the episode of TNG where Crusher and Troi do space yoga in sexy leotards. So subtle...

Rhube, to tumblr
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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.

Rhube,
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ON WORDPRESS:

Log in. Go to Settings. Scroll down to Prevent third-party sharing for [blog name].wordpress.com and select the checkbox. Save Settings.

Rhube,
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@kristinHenry You shouldn't need to delete, just opt out. But whatever suits your comfort zone.

tomkindlon, to mecfs
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Another sympathetic, Walitt-free article on the $8M NIH study

Features 2 participants, Jennifer Caldwell & Brian Vastag @brianvastag , plus numerous comments by senior study author Dr. Avindra Nath

https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/it-took-the-rug-right-out-from-under-my-life-milestone-mecfs-study-begins-to-explain-disease-but-will-it-lead-to-treatments

@mecfs

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Rhube,
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@tomkindlon @brianvastag @mecfs and unusually good article.

Very interested in the proposed treatment track. The theory of remnants of infection never properly cleared out tracks with Prussy's work. Although I still can't identify a clear infection that caused mine.

Rhube, to random
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Sharing your ableist alt-text takes that discriminate against people who can't always write alt-text is not the pro-accessibility act a lot of y'all think it is.

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Do you own any autographed books? If so, did you personally meet the author at a signing?

Rhube,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Yes, several, and in most cases I was there at the signing. But when I got Robin Hobb to sign my book I was gushing too much about Alien Earth (a different book she wrote under Megan Lindholm) and she was distracted and wrote 'Wishes best' instead of 'Best wishes' and this is why I can never meet my heroes I am SO EMBARRASSING.

Rhube, to random
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I've got to the episode where Data gets put on trial for his life. So far, it's not bad, philosophically.

Data appears to take the epiphenomenalist position, which I'm not sure I agree with, but it is a genuine philosophical position at least, and absolutely an understandable one for an android who can't know for sure if the procedure would destroy him.

Obvs this ep had a huge impact on me as a teenager.

kenthompson, to books
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, anyone? Perfect example from publishing. A publisher is using AI to write crappy nonfiction, then assigning author names that almost match leading experts in that field (to trick search engines). No doubt other AIs will now search those texts as authoritative. This is done solely to make money and only makes the world a worse place.
@bookstodon @pluralistic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/book-club/

Rhube,
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@peachfront @hexbatch @diazona @OhOkKay @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic this - like everything else, they will ban your book and not accept any argument to the contrary.

Like, I approve of the stance against AI, but this is absolutely not going to be applied fairly or in a way you can rebut.

Learning how to use git to make all your changes is utterly pointless. They will not care.

Rhube,
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@peachfront @OhOkKay @hexbatch @diazona @kenthompson @bookstodon @pluralistic it is extremely rare for it to be that easy.

dbsalk, to books
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At the end of Song of Susannah (Dark Tower VI), Stephen King includes a series of diary entries, purportedly his own but there's discussion among fans if they're real or fictionalized. In one, he writes "Meanwhile, I have an idea for a novel about a lady who buys a picture in a pawnshop and then kind of falls into it."

Help me, fellow Constant Readers: was that story ever written? The plot is not familiar, but sounds like one I'd enjoy. @bookstodon

Rhube,
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@dbsalk @bookstodon It's Rosemadder - not one of his best,but worth a look! Content Warning: very much about domestic violence and trying to escape it.

Rhube, to random
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I'm just So Angry that someone would be so selfish and pig-headed that if their job involves going into someone's home, and that person is medically vulnerable, and they asked you to wear a mask, because it's very dangerous for them to get sick, you would refuse to do it, because you're making some point about 'we don't have to anymore'.

Rhube, to random
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Few things are funnier to me than 'Now is the winter of our discount tents.'

Fucking glorious. What language was made for.

Rhube, to gardening
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We shall have spring again...
@gardening

The tip of an elephant garlic poking its nose above the ground.
The tip of garlic garlic leaves poking up through dead wisteria leaves.

adriano, to bookstodon
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I think it’s finally time to read Pride and Prejudice @bookstodon

Rhube,
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@adriano @bookstodon it is a good'un.

Rhube,
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@adriano @bookstodon lol 😂 I've seen the film of that - fun, but a little different in places.

Rhube,
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@adriano @bookstodon Like, not in as many scenes, for sure.

purplepadma, to random
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Just unfollowed someone for boosting a post that called Trump insane and psychotic. As a certified madwoman who is sometimes psychotic, I find it tedious and insulting when plain old fascism is attributed to mental illness. Just don’t

Rhube,
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@seanpatrickphd @purplepadma nods It's using words for actual diagnoses, like 'psychotic' that really bother me.

I reclaimed 'crazy' and 'insane' for many years and have complex feelings about not using the words that gave me, as a mentally ill person, power and security. But when people use words for diagnoses to stigmatise and especially attribute violence and harm to others, that fucking sucks.

chelming, to bookstodon
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I have a goal of turning every book I read this year into an earring. I got started a little late in Jan so I missed about 5 of them and have ~5 made so far. I'm not sure that I'll go back and do the ones that I missed.

@bookstodon

Rhube,
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@Jennifer @BZBrainz @chelming @bookstodon Murderbot ftw!

ahimsa_pdx, to disability
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I'm not calling out anyone specifically, and I know this usage is very common … but can we stop disparaging crutches as bad things?

Why is "it's just a crutch!" a valid criticism?

Crutches are helpful!

Mobility aids are good, actually!

(Bracing for the inevitable ableist responses to this comment in 3 2 1 … )

Rhube,
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@ahimsa_pdx what makes this extra annoying is often the things the crutch is a metaphor for are necessary too! Things that support people to go on living their lives are good, actually.

inquiline, to random
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This isn't a subtoot of anyone on here but do people in positions of workplace or other authority realize how profoundly our relationships with them have changed when we see them gaslighting us about pandemic safety?

Even if there were a miracle "cure" or way to halt transmission tomorrow, the moral injury perpetrated by peers and bosses is never going away

Rhube,
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@inquiline Word, having coworkers comfortably spout eugenics and look at you like you're the weirdo when you push back in even the mildest way... I don't think I can ever forgive it. And everyone who tried to force the return to work and pretend 'hybrid' is fine... no. It will never be the same.

Rhube,
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@_L1vY_ @inquiline One of the main reasons I have hesitated about getting a therapist (when I clearly need one) is that almost all of them offer in-person sessions. How can I possibly unburden myself about how stressful all of this is when they'll clearly insist it's safe to meet lots of people from different households, unmasked, daily? There's no way I could trust them.

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