Introduction
Oh yeh, #introductions, I should have done that.
Am Gwenfar, addicted to #plants and #gardening, but that's mainly over at my #gardening, #food, #cooking alt: @GwenfarsGarden.
This alt is kind of my general musings on any thing from #politics, living with the #ChronicIllness #MECFS and in general, #disability issues. Love #SciFi and adoring/worshiping cats. My cat is @FreyaKitteh. I'm also really keen on pre-1660 British #History, particularly social history. Currently been learning more about Anglo-Saxon England. My degree was gender in Early Modern England.
My politics are #Anarchist #IntersectionalFeminist #AntiRacist etc. Still have masses to learn, particularly with unlearning #WhiteSupremacy, #Abelism, #Fatphobia etc. Very much a work in progress.
Boringly white cishet. She/They pronouns. #TransRights!
health, cognitive dysfunction/brain fog
You know when you walk into a room and suddenly stop, as you’ve forgotten what you went into the room for? It’s pretty frustrating, right?
Now imagine that happens to you at least 30 times on a daily basis. 40 times, 50 times, etc, not just when you walk into a room, but for every tiny detail of daily life. This is the best analogy I can find to try and describe what cognitive dysfunction is like for someone with a chronic illness like #mecfs. Trying to think is like swimming through treacle and then forgetting what you were swimming for.
I mean, it’s more complicated than that. You might be in the middle of re-reading a novel, that you only originally read 6 months ago, but mostly forgot. You leave it for an hour, come back, and can barely remember what you’d previously read and have to go back to reread the previous chapters.
Or you might want to look up the pathetic amount of interest you were paid from your small savings account for the previous tax year as you need that info to add into your tax return. And you just sit at your computer, staring blankly, trying to remember what steps you need to take to find out this information.
1/3 #CognitiveDysfunction #BrainFog #MECFS #ChronicIllness #Disability #Spoonie
bad leftist takes, rant
There's still this troubling attitude on the left that it's valid to criticise people on the right for arbitrary qualities that have nothing to do with their actual beliefs because we have to 'attack on all fronts' or whatever. But that's like...such bs if you feel the need to do that in a way that's going to hurt marginalised people. Making fun of a bad person's appearance, style, social skills, education, etc. is only leaving the door open for racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism, classism, fatphobia, religious intolerance, and all the other forms of bigotry you're supposed to be fighting. If you don't care about the fallout of your meaningless snarky comments, that means your leftism is all about self-aggrandisation instead of helping people uplift each other out of oppression. Which kinda makes it shit. You can't 'attack on all fronts', you gotta put in the worthwhile effort to be a decent person.
Oh hi!
I wrote a dark but sweet fantasy novel of libraries and necromancy.
It would be amazing if you shared this post around.
📚 💀 🖤
Buy links and sample chapters: https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/books-and-bone-by-Victoria-Corva/
brighton UK, social justice organisation question
Anyone with experience with https://onca.org.uk ?
I would take the good, the bad, the heard of, the I know a person that heard a thing, etc.
@GwenfarsGarden cats will sit where they want to sit.
@GwenfarsGarden I mean...
the cat, most likely:
Attention human flying tube controller person! the secondary flux capacitor relays in the aft compartment have fused, I strongly urge you to make an emergency landing posthaste!
...
Attention human fly... oh ffs do I *have* to do everything myself?!
And yet another cat with no fucks to give...
'Angry' Cat Attacks Pilot, Forcing Plane to Make Emergency Landing
https://www.newsweek.com/cat-pilot-attack-plane-flight-1573256
That cat was paid off by big automotive
Another cat with no fucks to give..
London Euston cat-astrophe averted for train-surfing puss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-56271478
It took 2.5 hours to get the cat off the train
@GwenfarsGarden always the ring bearer, never the groom
Another 'double' snowdrop, this is Galanthus 'Ophelia'.
More pics, including a comparison for those interested, with the previous snowdrop, G. Dionysus, in the blogpost: https://www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2021/03/galanthus-ophelia.html
So #YoungWallander is alright. I mean, it has nothing to do with the original series, other than having Wallander in the title of the show. Most of the actors are British from what I can tell, apart from Wallander himself. And apparently it's filmed in Lithuania instead of Malmo. But ignoring all that, it's alright.
Why is it I can hate cops per se, but love detective stories? (rhetorical)
tech question; printers
I am looking at getting a refurbished HP LaserJet printer off of Newegg. Same series as the ones I’m used to. Anyone done this? Is this a bad idea? New printer is out of the question. I hate that I need a printer, and tried to go without one, but I actually still need a printer for work.
🚨 Semi-urgent question regarding real project 🚨
You have co-developed an index of data on public projects that are aiming to make life-on-earth less bad. Your aim is to grow connections and networks to accelerate positive change ☮️
You want to give sympathetic projects and mappers access to the data; you want to restrict, as far as possible, commercial users profiting (e.g. targeted ads) without contributing 🕵️
What do you do? Explanations and boosts welcome! 👍
If anyone is interested I finally found a L*sh Snow Fairy dupe! The scent 'Ice Pixie' from here: https://bridies-bombs.myshopify.com/
It's a small business, the bath bombs are great (as are the other scents) and the packaging is environmentally friendly 💜
Plant mage. MECFS (slow onset) & disabled. White cishet. Loves pre-1660 British history. Lover of cats. I enjoy colouring in (low spoon activity) - see #GwenfarColours posts. Anarchist. Formerly lived on the lands of the Woiworung & Boonwurrung peoples, Melbourne.
This is my general musings & political alt.
My gardening, food & cooking alt is: @GwenfarsGarden
Hooman to @FreyaKitteh
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