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NilaJones

@NilaJones@zeroes.ca

Gardening, housing, long covid

According to autocorrect, I have pest viral illness and brain of hog

Sounds about right

When I'm not here pestering people about viral illness, I am generally rolling in the mud, eating, or asking a friendly farmer to scratch my back with a stick

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jonny, to random
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where are the egg tooth experts when you need them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Egg_tooth

NilaJones,
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@jonny

Sounds like a reasonable gold panning method, tbh

The pitch out of water sounds like tar

skinnylatte, to ai
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One of the things I’m hoping to bring to my publicsectorai.tech work is to also include perspectives outside N America and Europe. With my immigrant background and knowledge of other languages, I think that will be useful.

This is more a ‘fun’ thing: in Malaysia, an ad for Eid that is pretty meta. They made an ‘A.I. dilfitri’ ad (aidilfitri = Eid) and actually examines some interesting questions on bias in genAI

https://youtu.be/jFyPHIV7GnA

Also, Julie’s Biscuits?!?

NilaJones,
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@skinnylatte

This is awesome! Thank you!

moira, to cycling
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holy shit my chain was so dirty and i have no idea why

still measures okay but yeah that was a lot of grime

maybe not enough lubrication last time? idk but the front gear I can't really get to (due to lack of proper tools) was nasty again

however! i have data on my handmade tool nonsense for you, enjoy:

NilaJones,
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@moira

Interesting! I just wrap my hand in a rag that I want to throw away, or failing that, paper towels, and run the chain through my hand

Yeah they get pretty dirty

NilaJones,
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@moira

Oh!! Apologies! I did trawl thru your posts before replying, looking for the first part of the story, but did not find

golgaloth, to books
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Tech bros should not be in charge of anything.

NilaJones,
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@golgaloth

Ahahahaha! My local library didn't have a book that I wanted, but they had an abridged edition, so I checked it out. It was obvious AI. Complete gibberish. Sentences that would start out clearly talking about one character and devolve into being about one of the other characters, but you couldn't tell which one

It was seriously like you had chopped to the book into confetti, selected 5% of the pieces at random, and glued them together

Which is probably about what happened

18+ VeeRat, to novid
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The interest in calling Covid “endemic” is a need to say “the pandemic is over”.

Saying “the pandemic is over” implies that no one needs to take precautions anymore. It implies we don’t need to mask, we don’t need to isolate, we don’t need to test… basically that we can go “back to normal”.

Calling Covid “endemic” is not just a pedantic need to redefine the stage we’re in with the virus. It’s an excuse to remove precautions and feel good about it. It’s an open invitation to “other” the people still trying to protect themselves and everyone else. It’s a method of moving the argument from the practical “should we continue taking precautions” to nothing more than ivory tower semantics.

Covid is still dangerous, no matter what we call it. Implying it’s not is a dangerous practice.

@novid

NilaJones,
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@VeeRat @novid

I think the attitude would be different if people understood that endemic means a permanent pandemic

skinnylatte, to random
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Some days I think about how circumstances and geography, usually things we don’t have a say in, are so important to our life outcomes, even if objectively you may think you’re the same person.

The person I am here in San Francisco: married, cis queer lady with strong feelings about / against transphobia, homophobia, evangelical Christianity, is absolutely default, and acceptable.

That same version of me back ‘home’ is a militant.

NilaJones,
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@skinnylatte

I find I am very curious how they reply, when you tell them this

NilaJones,
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@skinnylatte

Who would you have been if you had lived in Singapore all your life? Would you have those opinions? Would you keep them to yourself? Would you have had access to the experiences that have to develop those opinions?

Not your job to answer me :-). Although of course I am interested!

I just think they are good questions for us all to ask ourselves

And, belatedly, that was your point :-) I am embarrassed by my brain fog today

I'm sure that so many of us on the left in the US west coast think that we would have these opinions anywhere, and...

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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A group of young mages in the employ of a French king once used a wheel of fortune to travel through the air.

Alas, the ticket price was... murder.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-grants-61242039

NilaJones,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore

I am intrigued by the flooding part of this...

schwa, to random
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    NilaJones,
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    @schwa @zleap

    Child rape is not an honest mistake, either. schwa seems to miss the point here

    RickiTarr, to random
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    How To Do A Backflip:

    Step 1: Do a backflip.

    NilaJones,
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    @RickiTarr

    That's like those Chilton car repair manuals:

    Step 1: Remove engine

    augieray, to random
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    Years ago, I realized I was forgetting more than I recalled about the many studies I read that found was NOT just a mild, acute illness but led to chronic health problems. So, I created a spreadsheet to track these studies. Over the last two years or so, I've read significant parts of over 1,500 research studies, and my spreadsheet is approaching 525 reports that demonstrate COVID leaves people with damage to brains, hearts, immune systems, reproductive systems, and other organs. (1/5)

    NilaJones,
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    @shansterable @augieray

    Covid is well documented to -increase- incidence of autoimmune diseases

    tomkindlon, to mecfs
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    What are energy-limiting conditions? An introduction to chronic illness at work

    http://www.catherinehale.net/2024/02/what-are-energy-limiting-conditions.html



    @chronicillness
    @spoonies
    @longcovid @mecfs

    NilaJones,
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    @tomkindlon @chronicillness @spoonies @longcovid @mecfs

    This appears to link only to the introduction / ad copy for the manual, with no link to the actual manual

    Has anyone been able to find the real thing?

    NilaJones,
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    @tomkindlon @chronicillness @spoonies @longcovid @mecfs

    Thanks!!!!

    broadwaybabyto, to disability
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    I’m hearing an increasing number of people say they won’t even discuss common sense Covid mitigations because they’re so angry about the restrictions placed on them at the beginning of the pandemic. Their anger is literally preventing them from protecting themselves and others.

    I often ask if they’ve considered how angry they will be if Covid disables them and places permanent restrictions on their body? Especially knowing it was preventable. I’ve yet to get a good answer.

    NilaJones,
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    @broadwaybabyto

    Why are they angry about the restrictions?

    Brad, to random
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    March 20, 2024. I’ve been reading anecdotal Covid related posts since 2020 and they don’t seem to be getting any milder or better. I can’t imagine where we’ll be in just a few years from now. 🤷‍♂️ It’s a slow outta-control COVID train wreck that no one wants to talk about…

    NilaJones,
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    @Brad

    Yes. It IS terrifying to experience

    I cannot tell you how many times I have asked myself whether I'm just not able to live independently anymore

    But you develop ways of coping. One of the first things I did, on one of the first days that I could drag myself out of bed a little bit, was to paint bright nail polish marks on the control knobs for my heaters, so I could look from across the room and double triple quadruple check whether I had turned the heat off

    Because I couldn't tell just by looking at which way the pointer was oriented, even by confirming with touch. I needed something very very obvious, in order to comprehend the position of the knob

    And you go through worse times and better times, and worse days and better days, as far as brain function. You learn to save the decisions, and the riskier jobs, for the better times

    Someone I work closely with is just a couple weeks past her first infection. She was apologizing for her brain today. I told her I think this is the future. I think we are all going to have brain fog, and we just need to support each other, and understand each other

    broadwaybabyto, to random
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    I’ve got a friend who’s not taking any Covid precautions because he’s angry about restrictions placed on people at the beginning of the pandemic. He wants to forget it ever happened. I mentioned Covid can infect dogs. He loves his dog. He paused & said “well what can I do?”

    I felt a moment of hope because it seemed like the risk to his dog MIGHT be the thing that got through to him. I shared a few articles about Covid in dogs and he was horrified and genuinely worried for his pup. He wanted to know how to protect her.

    We discussed HEPA filters & ventilation, testing & masking around your pet if you have Covid. I explained how a layered approach is the most effective. His reply? “That really sucks. I don’t want anything to happen to my dog. But that’s way too much work.”

    This person doesn’t care about their own health or the health of those around them - but they DO care about their dog. Yet getting a HEPA & masking when ill was considered “too much” to prevent something they described as horrific. I don’t get it. How do we get people to care?

    Also if you’re not aware of the risk of Covid in dogs (and all animals) I highly recommend researching it and doing whatever you can to protect them from infection. They are completely vulnerable and need their humans to do the right thing.

    NilaJones,
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    @broadwaybabyto @furqanshah

    There IS something that supports that belief. It's the whole societal edifice of ableism

    It's the history of protestantism, going back to what, the 1500s? The doctrine that if you get sick or become disabled (or your dog does) it's because God is judging you, and you are a bad person

    Everyone says, well I'm a good person so it's not going to happen to me

    Combine that with a society where the disabled (who are now the majority in the US) are so segregated that they are seem to be extremely rare. He doesn't see very many disabled people in the street, in the coffee shop, at his job... So it seems like something that hardly ever happens

    As @Kjl said yesterday, the people (and pets) with bad covid outcomes are all either dead or stuck in their houses, so if you look around in public, it seems like everyone is 'back to normal'

    trendless, (edited ) to covid
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    :auraHCW: :n95:

    Vitacore's having a RIDICULOUS clearance sale on a few 3M respirators; in particular, a case of Aura 1870+ is as cheap as I've ever seen it (or any other Aura, for that matter) -- works out to $0.70/ea

    https://shop.vitacore.ca/collections/clearance?mc_cid=ffaa239e69

    🇨🇦 #MaskUp #BetterMasks #N95 #CovidIsAirborne @covid @covid19 @covidisairborne

    NilaJones,
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    @trendless

    Can anybody explain to me why good masks are so expensive in Canada?

    In the US, auras have been 50-75 cents for years. That's a normal price for name brand N95s. KN95s by brands I've never heard of are 25 cents

    subjacentish, to random
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    95% of Medical Treatment is just labelling something, I swear.

    You realize as soon as you unpack the acronym or know Greek & Latin.

    "Oh your chest hurts? Yes, we know about this. It's called Chest-Hurt-itis."

    "Oh your brain & liver are inflamed? You have Multiple Inflammatory System Syndrome."

    NilaJones,
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    @subjacentish

    Yeah I went to a dermatologist for a rash I've had for 20 years, that moves around from one part of my body to another when I cross contaminate

    She said it is eczema

    I went home and googled that. It means a rash of unknown origin

    jonny, to random
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    fuck this for real

    https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/general/news/automatic-e-bike-power-cuts-to-be-trialled-in-amsterdam
    re: https://mas.to/@Techaltar/112122593501451844

    one of the other great things about ebikes is that they are such simple machines they can be completely DIY from off the shelf parts.

    NilaJones,
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    @reinhilde @jonny

    Absolutely. I've been riding a homebrew ebike for 20 years, as a disabled person, and I can tell you that too slow is VERY dangerous

    Even on a little residential street, sometimes some asshat comes squealing around the corner in a car, and you have to be able to get out of the way fast

    My normal riding speed is slower than analog bike speed. I like to mosey along. But I also need to be able to scoot

    NilaJones,
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    @jonny @reinhilde

    I spent a couple years disabled-biking around west LA, and it was.... interesting

    The bike infrastructure mostly consisted of bike lanes on major car thoroughfares (other than freeways). I don't know why anyone ever builds those. They are the stupidest idea. Not safe to ride in, for anyone

    But over time, I did piece together some good routes from here to there, by going one block along the sidewalk, then down this alley, then down this residential street, then on this unofficial dirt footpath...

    Also the median parklike bike route from Culver City to the beach is cool!

    NilaJones,
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    @jonny

    This is making me remember a particularly hairy ride across town

    Coming from a more bike oriented city, I didn't realize there wouldn't be a bike shop every few blocks, and that I needed to keep things like brake cables on hand

    So I had no functioning brakes, and was trying to get to the bike shop -- which as the crow flies was probably about 3 miles away. But I took a roundabout route, because I needed to get down from the bluffs in a safe manner

    I took a street where I knew there were no cross streets, and a wide sidewalk which nobody ever walked on, bordered by bushes. I got down the long hill by coasting a bit, then purposefully crashing into a bush to stop my heavy electric bike, then pulling it back onto the sidewalk and coasting another stretch....

    At one point I encountered a maintenance crew who were working in the bushes, and had to try to explain myself 😂

    @smellsofbikes

    broadwaybabyto, to random
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    Let’s talk about THAT NPR article. I’ve taken a few days to grieve for those forced into dangerous situations by spouses/family who would rather go back to normal than protect their vulnerable loved ones. Where has kindness gone & how do we stop treating ppl as disposable?

    I wish I could say I was shocked to read that piece - but after 4 years of being abandoned by more people than I care to admit - little surprises me anymore. We were “all in this together” for a few weeks - and then people got sick of it.

    People don’t want to change their behaviours. For many healthy & privileged people the pandemic was the first time they ever had to make sacrifices or change their “normal”. Most didn’t like it.

    Some people were empathetic enough to see the isolation from stay at home orders and connect it to the lives of disabled people. I had a number of people reach out and say things like “wow is this what your life is always like?”

    Of course my answer was “Yes”. My chronic illnesses isolated me long before the pandemic - Covid only intensified that isolation. When people would draw parallels I felt great hope - I imagined we would move forward to a more inclusive society.

    Instead what has happened is people got tired of having to make sacrifices. Government & public health told them that they no longer had to protect the vulnerable & that it was OUR responsibility to shield & isolate.
    So they stopped masking & went back to normal.

    There were some holdouts - usually people who love or care for a vulnerable person. But as it became clear that herd immunity wasn’t coming, that Covid wasn’t going away…. Even those people grew resentful of the modifications to their daily lives.

    They started pressuring their vulnerable loved ones to stop worrying so much & go “back to normal”. Many started doing high risk indoor actitivies and simply lying about it - while others wrote articles for NPR.

    The sad reality is that people now view the vulnerable as THE people who ruined their lives. After all - mask mandates & stay at home orders were sold as a means of “protecting the vulnerable”. People are angry their “normal” was altered & they’re not being subtle about it.

    I would argue they should take that anger and direct it where it belongs - at government and public health officials who’ve bungled the messaging around Covid from the very beginning. The people who lied & downplayed the risks & cost us our best chance of containing Covid

    Of course most leaders and public health officials are telling people what they want to hear. That the threat has passed, that we’ve “defeated Covid” and that they can party like it’s 2019. As a result people aren’t angry at them - they’re angry at the vulnerable instead

    They’re angry at disabled people for trying to protect themselves, at advocates for reminding them that we’re STILL in a pandemic and at the sight of a respirator. These things & people remind them of that time in their life when they couldn’t do what they wanted.
    1/2

    NilaJones,
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    @broadwaybabyto

    I think it's just going to become normal to have brain fog, and fatigue, and a long list of never-ending infections and health crises

    I mean I think we're seeing this already

    Don't you find that whenever you have to talk to someone on the phone, in a business context, they are super out of it and confused?

    And I think this is what life was like for most people, throughout most of human history. Before the germ theory of disease

    smellsofbikes, to random
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    When I was walking back from the auto parts store with four brake pads in one hand and my N95 dangling from the other, my next door neighbor said "still masking? How long are you going to keep that up anyway?"
    What I said: until people stop dying of covid.
    What I thought: dude you were in the hospital on a respirator for a month in 2020 and in the last year have had two heart attacks and a stroke.

    NilaJones,
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    @smellsofbikes

    "Until you stop having heart attacks from covid"

    I'm trying to figure out how to write a real response to your post, and I just keep sighing....

    seachanger, to random
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    what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

    NilaJones,
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    @seachanger

    200 Millionth Solar Roof Installed

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