jojowiththeflow.bsky.social
she/her | London, UK | 📌 biz support for hire | migrant | flawed | multilingual | ✨too much✨ | typoist | vegan-ish | burner of bridges | demotivational speaker | 🔗🌲 linktr.ee/jojowiththeflow | 📧 flowpr.co.uk/contact | ☕ https://joflo.ws/kofi
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(En daarmee wil ik dus niemand veroordelen, want iedereen moet kunnen hebben en doen en laten wat hij/zij/die wilt en wat mij rust geeft zou een ander juist stress kunnen geven en andersom. Geluk is kunnen leven hoe je zou willen 🥰)
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Nee, ik ben de huurmarkt zo goed als uitgeprijsd maar andere steden hebben nog geen tiende van de werkgelegenheid die Londen heeft dus ik blijf proberen. Maar zelfs als ik weer een vaste (of op z'n minst langdurige) stek vind, hoop ik 't zo beperkt als dit te houden (scheelt voor mij enorme stress!)
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Liever zou ik minder dan dit (nodig) hebben, maar in deze fase van mijn leven heb ik een thuiskantoor en een kantoorgarderobe nodig en die nemen nu eenmaal ruimte in. Belangrijkste is dat ik (buiten een bed) niet meer heb dan achterin een kleine bestelwagen of Londense zwarte taxi past 😎
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Voor iemand die in tijdelijke accommodatie woont heb ik veel spullen (=privilege!); alles wat je in deze foto's ziet + rugzak + doos breekbaar keukengerei + zo'n grote blauwe IKEA Frakta-tas voor m'n kussens/dekens (en daarin gewikkeld mijn monitor) + een lichtgewicht klaptafel en klapstoel.
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wow... 😮
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Bizar dat ik als witte migrant weliswaar anders wordt behandeld dan witte autochtonen hier (VK) maar wél privilege heb tov niet-witte autochtonen. En dat veel witte NLers mij altijd als Hollandser zullen zien dan niet-witte autochtone NLers, terwijl ik al decennia weg ben en dus uitgeburgerd.
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Ontspullen is heerlijk en in zekere opzichten zelfs (mentaal) absoluut mijn redding geweest. Maar misschien niet bij >30°C 🥵
(Disclaimer: Niet ieder mens is hetzelfde en ik ben waarschijnlijk nÃet neurotypisch en sowieso een raar/maf mens)
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Van de cafeine bij de ibuprofen of paracetamol wist ik, maar dit was specifiek originele cola vanwege de medicatie die ik op recept kreeg (zie mijn andere antwoord aan @ikbendaf.bsky.social) en ik kan niet zeggen welke van de twee medicaties en de cola wat deed, maar wel dat 't gewerkt heeft 🥰
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I've not been sick and today I feel a bit woozy but otherwise fine: no more head ache, no more light flashes, no nausea/sickness/vomiting, just a liiiitle bit weird but it feels **amazing** to just be sitting at my desk and typing this and not be in bed having a full-blown migraine 🥰
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So it's not that cola works against migraine, it's that it aids metroclopramide hydrochloride in working against migraine. I'm new to both meds and last night was my first time taking them and the first time I had a migraine come up but not develop into a full-blown migraine.
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She prescribed sumatriptan and metroclopramide hydrochloride and explained to me that the metroclopramide deals best with migraine-related nausea/sickness and that somehow the combination of original coke's sugar/carbon dioxide/caffeine works especially well together with tthe metroclopramide
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side note but if you want a European alternative to Coca Cola, I recommend Jolly Cola (Danish, nowadays owned by Carlsberg I think?) but that's hard to get here and more expensive
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Zo blij 🥰
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Goedemiddag (ik loop een uur achter, hier is 't nog middag)
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FWIW I will skip ***any and all political advertising*** regardless of who or what it's for or against and I'm certainly not going to pay YouTube to watch ad free as long as they're also making money from political advertising as incessant as this; it's nearly every ad break!
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...and it's EXPENSIVE! (I did not even realise that part until I had succesful surgery and suddenly wasn't chronically ill anymore... just living life got so much less expensive)
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Was it Right Here Right Now? With the (soviet?) imaging projecting on him?
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Is wel ver rijden naar waar hij woont, toch? Niet dat 't uitmaakt want uiterlijk maandag loopt'ie weer vrij rond en kan hij z'n ronde langs alle Nederlandse talkshows gaan maken
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They just need to find one trans person whose internal transphobia they can quote or just any other trans person whose words they can misrepresent, and they'll publish it as representative of (all) trans people. It's so weird
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I remember when @nytimes.com had fact-checkers who went as far as seeking confirmation or corroboration when opinion writers wrote inconsequential anecdotes about, say, walking into a bar. Now it seems they'll publish anything readers may accept however untrue because they don't know any better.
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(*note: they don't sell the short-sleeve version anymore and appear to be phasing out the long-sleeve cotton-rich ones in favour of synthetic-fabric alternatives)
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Jaeger's are fab but long-sleeve and at £79 not within my current budget. Uniqlo's are nice but synthetic (pencilled in as an alternative, though, if all else fails. No luck (yet) at TK Maxx but trying different stores.
And I had no one to complain to about this but needed this lunch break moan 🙃
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Buying men's shirts is not an option for my D/DDs and I've already got the Marks & Spencer's shirts (they're good actually, especially the ones with the extra reverse buttons on the chest)*. H&M's/Next's/George's/F&F's/Primark's etc women's shirts are translucent/transparent.
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So, no, I won't apologise for this 8-part threaded rant. I am but a broke, powerless (and effectively homeless) migrant whose only platform is my social media accounts and the only power I hold is to annoy the flying fig out of you all.
/rant over (for now)
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And I get it, we all have bills to pay and mouths to feed and we may not all be affected negatively by complying and conforming (whereas we will be, for sure, by not conforming or even resisting).
But it's so [bleep]ing depressing that this is it, now, this is our world #IHateItHere
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Any time there is a moment in history for press and media to step up, for journalists to do the thing of holding power to account, too many of them just... don't.
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This is how the moneyed buy power and influence. This is how we end up (again) with blaming countries for getting attacked or invaded. This is how powerless vulnerable people get blame for being marginalised and disadvantaged.
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This is how stupid takes over and how unreliable LLMs get to take over real people's jobs because if you dumb people down enough, LLMs may appear intelligent by comparison.
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I remember when @nytimes.com had fact-checkers who went as far as seeking confirmation or corroboration when opinion writers wrote inconsequential anecdotes about, say, walking into a bar. Now it seems they'll publish anything readers may accept however untrue because they don't know any better.
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You're about as convincing as trickle-down economics (which has been disproven time and again, but is still spread like gospel). Enjoy the ratio.
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(*zelfs dit was al laat, want de waarschuwingen waren er al decennia maar niemand die luisterde of 't serieus nam)
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"blijkt uit onderzoek van Pointer" - o ja, joh, nadat Viginum 't al gepubliceerd had in februari 2024* en tig andere onderzoekscollectieven sindsdien? (ja, ik snap dat 't geaccepteerde journalistentaal is, maar vind 't zeker zo irritant als makelaarstaal)
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(source: ScandiKitchen (UK) newsletter)
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Pfoe... heftig (en dan niet alleen voor hem maar ook voor jullie)