jhgoforth.bsky.social
♿Muscular dystrophy 筋ジストロフィー
Artist, writer, excess reader of all things history, fiction etc. general purpose smart arse. Lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.
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Don't need more water diversion for farming out there. They'll definitely be diverting the Mississippi River out west for our new banana plantations.
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Considering I'm up at 4am unable to sleep due to leg cramps and needing abnormal amounts of trach suctioning, I'm not sure most people can get close to the frustration we deal with at times.
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Because of my muscular dystrophy, my eyes don't close all the way while sleeping. This has resulted in me getting gunkier eyes when I wake up. I'll do through cycles where something gets caught up in my eyelashes and down behind eyelids. Can be painful and difficult to flush as that response is weak
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Your posts make me miss FFXIV. Been like six years or so since I've played now.
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age and where in the US you went to school are probably big factors. i get the sense a lot of what we read as kids in the 80s and early 90s are not often a part of the curriculum anymore.
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i recommend this often as well; older book (1994) and it is about recording stories of the original pushing out of peoples from their homes post WW2. the repeating nature of things is heartbreaking.
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this was a big introduction for me on the various issues in mexico. special mention later in more recent publications are the revisioning series; A Disability History of the United States and Indigenous Peoples History of the United States.
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up until around early 90s; as a kid in 80s/early 90s, in our remote farm house we had a shared 'party line' with if i remember right, 4 other homes. so you could pick up the line sometimes and they'd be talking to someone so you'd have to wait for them to be done to even make a call.
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i think i've missed the clip art. is it one of those lazy photoshops where they just turn the object (ie flower) upside down and reverse it then put it in water with no distortion? because that's like beginner fail. (also beautiful shot; you got the color very nicely)
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Unfortunately this has long been the predictive nature of SF. Re: any of William Gibson's works over past 40yrs.
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And also not get worked up if younger people have things different from when you were that age.
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Deciding on composition and posing. I'll go through many thumbnail iterations and fuss over it far too long
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And saying temporarily is such nonsense, already being floated that it goes to his "presidential library" so he can continue using it post presidency.
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The nearest for my issues would have been over two hours away from my family and everything I know. I'm already very isolated and frankly I'd have been in one during COVID with my respiratory issues and probably be dead at this point.
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I imagine my cats as one is sarcastic and the other never gets the jokes.
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I don't know how parents survive in this digital world.
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America has goldfish memories sadly. The only period of my life when I was still physically able to be out and about (degenerative disability), I lived in SF at the time and went to anti war protests at the time. No one listened then and poo pood the fears of rising fascism.
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Do parents even regularly play music in the home anymore I wonder? We had the radio on a lot growing up in 80s and early 90s. I suspect with digital services and algorithms it's become much more fragmented and "personalized" that you'd have to go out of your way to hear some things.
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Is this an interest issue or a too many streaming services fragmenting audiences issue?
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I have to go through two separate programs to get my care remotely covered for hours I need (more than welcome to DM for info comparison of notes)
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I have family to fall back on nearby. Without them I'd have been put in a facility and honestly I think I'd have died a short time into it. Especially when COVID hit.
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Thankfully there aren't many videos of me and even less audio (especially as I lost my voice 8yrs ago having to get a tracheostomy). But if someone ever did do this to me, please beat them to a pulp.
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And my needs aren't that complicated. It is mostly just tracheostomy care.
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I have need of RN help and in the 8yrs now the agency has never been able to fill all my monthly hours. And similarly went through many that can't function as home nurses. Some are more comfortable working in an institution rather than a home.
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Mine won't eat the plastic but any plastic bags he has to bite it and make little teef holes in everything
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yeah; there are too many people who never figured out how to find their purpose in life. so when someone comes to them at the right moment and says they have all the answers, whether AI or not; they are susceptible to being manipulated and influenced in many ways.
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nice to see paw paws (or as we call them often down here, arkansas bananas) get some love. we had a few groves near our farm when i was growing up.
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and much harder to verify sources/citations from which gAI is pulling from
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If that's your issue about me pointing out irony of doing nothing but a sign I think you might want to reread......sorry you didn't get the sarcasm I guess.
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A puppy lawyer. I..will take no more questions at this time without him present....
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As someone that is regularly in the hospital for tracheostomy surgery, I've not seen masks anywhere outside of OR since COVID mandates enforced them. Thankfully I can wear a version on my trach when I go out and no one realizes I am.
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Had my regular 6month outpatient surgery for trach change yesterday. All throughout the hospital were notices posted about telling a nurse if you have symptoms of measles. Not all a sliding back in time...
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i've often pondered that if a zombie apocalypse happened, i'd want to hole up in the nearby university's main library and be the knowledge keeper in the dystopian wasteland....
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last wish story cemented her for me; but I appreciate both in different ways.
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so pretty.
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as far as mainstream uses of AI going on lately;yet to see anything that isn't basically just a way for people to justify their laziness. I wish it had a more practical use for me with a disability but i've yet to see any implementation. and often it is actively hurting (see medicaid and algorithms)
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it's sad we have so many people in power sliding backwards in to the days of eugenics. i'd like to say i'm shocked but as someone born with a disability in my 40s....it's not all surprising.
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Scifi generally goes two ways, post capitalism like trek or full on capitalist dystopian corporate nightmares
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I guess that fits his actual skill set.
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I suspect you aren't just "here's a phone go wild" sort of parent so it'll be fine.
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i kind of think i like wisteria more than sakura. it's got a vibe more my style
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Yeah, if I see someone follow me and they have a tag with my rare disability, I'm usually curious at a minimum. And if they turn out to be nuts and/or intrusive, can always block.
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also when is our space version of the spruce goose happening? (99% sure it'll be elon making it)
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weird take seeing as we've been going to space since the '60s and it's only in recent decade or so that the idea of space tourism has actually begun. kind of a poor comparison to make.
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I sort of gave up on dating by my early 30s. Never felt like the people I fell for could ever see past my phys limitations and I'd end up being their emotional support but never got that in return.
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As I get older I'm starting to think it's just not giving too much of a crap? Not entirely sure because I've never been good at dating anyhow
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Get the memebros by charging $69. Easy income.
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Sounds like harassment in a large company scale, crazy.
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It is heartbreaking the number of family cemeteries untended there are in remote areas where I live.
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is he old enough to drive?