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dinsley.bsky.social
director of engineering, software dev, ruby, security, foodie, gaming, politics, cats, adhd, chronic pain, disabled. he/him.
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At the emergency room with what they think is pneumonia now, because my health wasn't bad enough lately. Shortness of breath really sucks.

Took the day off today and tomorrow for self care and rest. Fresh shower and beard trim, and some video games now. Distractions from the endless pain 🙃

A perhaps more significant complex traumatic stressor is behaviour patients are forced to endure from dismissive & psychologically abusive doctors. This is going to be a long one. /1 🧵 #neisvoid #complextrauma #medicalgaslighting #medsky #eds #pwme #pots #mcas #pwlc

One of the best parts of disability is slowly becoming isolated from friends/family because you're unable to do things and have to keep saying no due to health.

I started wearing my Apple Watch again and this popped up earlier when I was stressing about Cinder, my nerve pain, and everything else going on lol

Cinder has not been doing well the last 2-3 weeks and got really bad the last few days so he had to goto the emergency vet. They ended up diagnosing him with diabetes now, and is trying a new oral medication for it. The month was already stressful and I'm so emotionally drained.

Still fighting off this sickness (not covid) and getting some couch cuddles with this old man kitty

First extended time off in six months and I'm sick and feverish hah 😭 so glad I got the kids Christmas stuff all wrapped and ready yesterday. Tonight is laying on couch watching Gladiator 2 🤧

Cinder getting toasty in front of the fire 😂

The number of half-finished UI component libraries in the Rails world right now is astounding. Half have a price page and aren't even at the point they should be sold. RubyUI seems to be the furthest along both at quality + feeling like there will be longer term support. Are there any others?

I just found out that Laura Jane Grace did an entire Operation Ivy set at Supernova Ska Fest and I have so much serotonin right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFQL...

I can *not* stop laughing at this lol

my nervous system when I wake up in the morning

Yup

HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE HE KNOWS IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD SO KEEP IT SECRET, KEEP IT SAFE

I had to take the day off today due to pain. I'm so frustrated and tired of this. I can't even distract myself with video games because of the nervous system symptoms down and in my neck/arm/hand. Pet pictures, movie suggestions, and audio book ideas would be amazing 😭

Post work Ruby cuddles as I disassociate in pain lol

My coffee cup today.

I wanted to try and get some holiday shopping done today but the ride sharing here has no return rides back. I got stuck for hours last time and ended up getting a flare up. It was awful, lost some fine motor control for a few days of hands. The one day I've had some energy lately too! 😭

Today was a bad pain and energy day, but I got a shower in and am going to throw on a movie and try to play some stalker 2 again. Rocking the caveman look for the end of the year I guess 😂

My oldest is finally getting affirming care/prescriptions and would love someone to chat to on how to best support them as a parent. Do I have any mutuals who would be open to sharing experiences? 🙂

Worked my way through all the Alien movies again.. it might be time to rewatch Constantine.. I need some more movies to watch to distract from pain. Anyone have any under-rated sleeper film suggestions? Any genre.

My favourite part of disability in a capitalist system is getting to decide between things like taking a shower or making dinner because of energy and pain after work. To say I'm just exhausted would be an understatement.

If you're an open-source maintainer of Ruby gem(s) where you have public methods that can raise exceptions... pleeaaase document those in your method documentation, so people don't have to go spelunking into the internals of your library. In the meantime, I will submit pull requests. 😂

Watching Alien Romulus and eating Tater Tots. Delaying the start of the work week as long as possible 😂

I got Stalker 2 mostly running okay enough to play except for the memory leaks which eventually lead it to being unplayable. Such a poorly optimized game right now, but having a blast once getting past the initial issues

Could the BC LDB please make the packaging for cannabis related items harder to open for people with disabilities? 😭 Not frustrating at all trying to take high dose CBD while having motor function issues with hands and shooting nerve pain.

Watching Smile 2 after a long week at work.. Cinder says it's time for cuddles

Perhaps Semgrep could use some more memory in their VS Code extension while being idle lol

I was really hoping to get some more Stalker 2 in tonight, but my nervous system has me in a ridiculous amount of pain. The evening will probably be disassociating in bed instead 🙃

Kids fed. Work wrapped up. Pizza eaten. STALKER 2 loaded up. Time to turn off the brain.

Man - I'd be so fucked if I didn't have extended health to cover prescriptions. I did all my refills at once today and saw the pre-insurance cost..