a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es

I just released a song on Bandcamp! It's called Don't Look At The Sun, and it's a joke song that's meant to sound like it could either be about having a lovely summer in the nice hot weather, or about the world ending by way of the Earth crashing into the Sun! Folky and chill with a cool Rhodes piano and acoustic guitar.

There are two versions, both the same except that the first track has screaming between 1:52 to 2:07 (some kids I recorded who were playing at the local pool, but very creepy with the reverb added!) and the second track does not have screaming.

Let me know what you think!

https://mustbetuesday.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-at-the-sun

#bandcamp #newMusic #folkRock #songsAboutTheEndOfTheWorld

hey there, I played Grey Area on stream with the other devs @BisTheFairy and cassie and we talked a lot about the game's development and story and just generally the thought process behind everything! hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzA2Px6SdxLH2Qi2uekUlD4GWeRScuqBs

If you've like me, you've found the "how much pain are you in on a scale of 0-10" question annoying to answer because everyone's 0-10 varies so much. Well, I wanted to share the new DVPRS pain scale, which defines 0-10 by how much it's impairing your life.

https://www.health.mil/News/Articles/2022/10/13/DVPRS-pain-scale

I you wanted some tasty modern recreation fonts of the olden days of Apple, here's a chart with the old name on the left and its modern counterpart on the right (they are searchable and all free)

For avoidance of doubt:
IPR supports trans rights and BIMPOC creators and gamers.
Fascists, Nazis, and TERFs can all fuck right off.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7338941576/how-two-photographers-captured-the-same-millisecond-in-time

"Behind every fortune is a crime"
Freight graffiti seen in St. Paul, Minnesota

same

“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases

tl;dr A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule.

Only in lab settings at the moment but still.

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/inverse-vaccine-shows-potential-treat-multiple-sclerosis-and-other-autoimmune-diseases

If you have #LongCovid or #MEcfs and are considering filing a long-term disability claim, this white paper by my old lawyer, Barbara Comerford, is a must-read.

Barbara has been helping people win lawsuits against insurers for three decades now.

She took my case against Prudential to federal court & kicked their asses so hard the judge wrote an absolutely scathing ruling against Prudential that set some precedents.

#disability #legal #lawsuits #ERISA

(pdf)
https://www.omf.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Disability-Insurance-ME-CFS-paper-for-OMF-FINAL.pdf

You know people tend to act like it's a sign of low effort to make a mario clone but as someone who has been working on exactly that for a few years now I can assure you that nailing that mario game feel has been one of the biggest challenges of my career

I just learned that my husband has possibly the most cursed WFH technique I've ever heard of:

1. He sets an alarm to go off every 30 minutes.

2. When the alarm goes off he checks his work email, makes calls, fills out forms etc

3. When he has finished whatever task he is doing he IMMEDIATELY falls asleep

4. The next time the alarm goes off he wakes up and repeats this process

It's like pomodoro technique for snorlax

STOP SAVING DAYLIGHT

* CLOCKS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CHANGED TWICE A YEAR

* YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT

* Sunset keeps getting earlier by a few minutes per day, which is sad but we can adjust to it, but then BAM we are all supposed to change the clocks so that it's suddenly A FULL HOUR EARLIER and it's PITCH DARK AFTER WORK what the hell.

"Hello I would like my saved daylight back please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

real talk: I've been quietly revolutionizing my life by shifting away from thinking of domestic and bodily upkeep as personal virtues and obligations, and towards concretizing them as things that make me feel better.

Like to take a specific example: folding and putting away my laundry. It's something I'd been habitually not-doing for years, and honestly it's something I still don't do consistently.

If I always tell myself "I should put away my laundry, leaving laundry unfolded is bad", I'm like... never gonna do it. Demonstrably. It's a line of thinking which, for me at least, produces anxiety but no action.

These days what I try to do is say "it's morally fine if I don't fold my laundry. If I *do* fold my laundry now, it means I'll be able to spend less effort trying to find socks before work tomorrow, and I won't be annoyed at the floor space taken up by the hamper of clean clothes." Framed that way it's like cool, I can do the thing because there's obvious, positive results from doing so.

And this applies to like, so many things? Dishes. Getting on the bike. Cooking more, and eating things which make me feel better. Not sleeping so late that I feel tired all day. Fuckin' flossing. It's nice.

I have an article out today that's about how one person's determination to solve her own complex health problems led to an extraordinary effort on the part of one lab at NIH & a discovery that could lead to treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome & #LongCovid.

#news #journalism #health #MEcfs

https://wapo.st/3Pem0G4
(gift link)