Lauren Brian @lbrianwrites@computerfairi.es
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
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A statement that the pandemic is over is a political one—with over 1,000 weekly deaths reported by CDC in the US alone. Those who want to protect themselves from infection, long covid & its many consequences, will continue to take precautions.
Those infected and subsequently have ill health, brain fog & more, may find their cognitive & physical ability limited, and loose their jobs & find difficulty getting or keeping a job. They may have trouble with daily matters & getting help.
Today I learned that the student newspaper went digital-only in 2021.
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Every school board election is a logic puzzle where you have to figure out which two names out of eight are not religious zealots
The student union bakery keeps small cups of puppy chow on regular rotation. My stomach hates peanuts. I shouldn't sell my pain so cheaply, but, god, puppy chow is so difficult to resist.
No brain, do not listen to your stomach telling you the answer to your intense acid digestion that's escaping all your prescription acid-reducing meds is to eat more food. More food will not "absorb the extra acid." That's not how any of this works. We just need to fast for like three days. Brain, you know this.
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Snake fight thesis defense fanfic
It's hilarious https://archiveofourown.org/works/28299630
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3) An oral history of KidPix by Craig Hickman, creator of the iconic children's bitmap drawing program which was published by Broderbund in 1991
http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
(By the way, you can play with a JS/html version of KidPix on the web here: https://kidpix.app/)
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Bosses rig #union votes the same way Republicans rig elections: #disinformation, divide-and-rule, #VoterSuppression, #gerrymandering. Union organizers know how to win that kind of election, and they can teach us all.
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
And while it's a shitty move by HR, abetted by the spinelessness of our lovely Admin, it's not like they're getting CS pay with their new classification. They still make double what I do easily. They still treated CS like bottomfeeders they way TT did. My ability to empathize is somewhat tempered.
Feeling some schadenfreude today. some of the NTT faculty that thought they could petition HR for acknowledgement of the fact they they do full TT work got not only denied, but smacked down to my (CS) level. As if HR wasn't where bureaucratic sadists go to indulge themselves with the devil's own approval.
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there's a reason it's compsci people insisting that #AI thinks "just like us" and #AGI is right around the corner: people in human cognition know how far off we are from even fully undersatnding ourselves
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/new-brain-network-connecting-mind-and-body-discovered-71074 #neuroscience #cognition
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Check out @grubstreetwomen 's groundbreaking new book on the Hroswitha Club, founded by women book collectors excluded from Grolier membership--it's free to download until the 28th: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/hroswitha-club-and-the-impact-of-women-book-collectors/D4C67BCB0F31072BFCB12EC3544057BC
And/or (I'm doing both!) watch her talk on the club for the U. of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library: https://youtu.be/9nHy5qbVJqo
I thought PT was going to help, but it seems to have given me fairly intense arthritis in my other knee. So, I have one that won't hold my weight, and the other that I can't put my weight on without intense stabbing pain. And three more PT appointments left.
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So today we re-learned that the wealthy are above the law, because they can buy freedom, and that one cannot hope that a corporation launching a civil suit will begin the process of justice, because the aim is always just money.
That was heavy. Have an elderly cat, instead. I really love her grey fur.
My shitty ex and their ableism and abuse
It's a sucky combo of ableism, gaslighting, and concern trolling masquerading as allyship that's damn hard to get out from under. It was for me, anyway. (They would say I haven't. "Denying you have autism is, itself, a Sign of Autism," they said to me often.)
My shitty ex and their ableism and abuse
(I do not have autism. My ex
used autism-as-a-self-diagnosis to control people around them, because to the ex, "science proved" that autistic brains were "too inflexible to appropriately" interpret their own experiences" and thus anyone they deemed to have autism needed a "real person" like them to tell the autistic person what to do and how to be. )
My shitty ex and their ableism and abuse
My ex liked to say my sensitive hearing was not just a weird meat-body thing, but a "Sign of Autism" -that no one but an autistic person could be hurt by noise, the more pain, the more obviously autism.
Well, I have measurable hearing loss now and noises that hurt before no longer bother me. Does that make me less autistic?
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The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one wa…
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
