morgawse.bsky.social
History nerd, language geek, LARPer, perpetually in need of caffeine.
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I live in the UK in a suburban house with many sparrows nesting in the eaves and I can confirm they give exactly zero fucks about next door's fake bird of prey.
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I wondered about a possible disabled wearer - it seems like it might make it easier for someone who needs assistance dressing, or perhaps with personal hygiene.
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Not a fucking chance. I work as an admin officer and there's barely anyone in the building, besides the admin team, who knows how to work the printer beyond the absolute basics. Smart people, with college degrees and difficult jobs they're skilled at, but the printer might as well be magic.
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I just want written walkthroughs. I don't want to watch a video, they take ages and they make noise and it's hard to identify the right bit. Just write it down. Please. Add a picture if it will genuinely help but write. it. down.
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I knew about the EDS/local anaesthetic issue (first hand, in fact *ouch*) but if that's the mechanism, that explains why my current dentist is able to numb me successfully. Unlike the others he doesn't send me out to wait for the shot to kick in, he just jabs me and gets to work.
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A rheumathologist once gave me a leaflet that had a little side bar about how progesterone-only pills are contraindicated in EDS because of the increased joint laxity. So I think there must be some, but it was a decade ago so I don't know the source, nor do I know how accurate that is, sorry.
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That brought me so much joy when I first read the book that's in, and he's definitely at least making a cameo appearance next time I run Scion.
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Good movers are something else. I hired a packing service last time because I couldn't face doing it myself. They showed up first thing in the morning and my entire house was in boxes by lunchtime. Total breakage when we unpacked at the other end: one single wine glass. Magic.
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So there's clearly *some* appeal in that kind of play; the meetings just grow organically and people keep coming back for more. Perhaps, like the computer game, it's more appealing to DO than to read about - you get to make an actual difference, and scaffold the rest of your game around that.
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I agree with you but this sparked thoughts about the large fest larp I play, where the players are explicitly the movers and shakers and who's-who of a major empire and its bureaucracy. Somehow quite a few of us end up in wall-to-wall in-character meetings, then producing in-character reports. (1/2)
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I feel like it's cheating because I'm only up the road from there, but that's Llyn Padarn :)
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I once had an xray that made all the A&E nurses gather round and go 'well, *that's* new, how'd you do that!?' Those nurses have seen everything, so that's what moved me from 'eh, it's probably dislocated, whatever' to 'uh oh' (and I got surgery and 5 days inpatient treatment for my trouble).
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I chipped in a little bit. My late grandad was a farmer who built from nothing in Europe just after WW2, and I think of him every time you post about your friend. Grandad would've helped if he was still here, but he's not, so that's on me to pass on.
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You're more patient than me, I'd find that grounds to go with someone else. I figure if they're already not listening to me before they have my money it's not going to get any better after I sign a contract.
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Mine pauses if you lift the pot, for safety, but then comes back on at the same setting when you put it back down. I had to replace one pan because it was too old and wobbly to make good contact with the surface, but the rest were fine. I find induction cooking very similar to gas, it's nice!
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I have never been able to explain this beyond 'they smell dodgy' but in almost every instance where I was able to follow up, I turned out to be right. Can't teach it either, it's experience and vibes.
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I love watching you post about this; for a number of years I played far too much Eve Online and became responsible for vetting corp recruits. It got to a point where I could spot spies, griefers and other bad actors from the summary without even using any of my vetting tools.
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I got in trouble at work for 'hacking'. By which they meant, I'd logged into Outlook on the web from home to send an email. Company IT not only allows this but publishes a how-to guide, however the concept of webmail was foreign to the manager in question so I got yelled at. People know nothing.
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I drink negligibly little alcohol and am happy drinking Coke or water, but sometimes it's nice to try something new. Fortunately I am mostly surrounded by proper adults who are happy to accept 'no, thanks, I don't drink' or 'no, thanks, I'm driving' as a polite refusal these days.
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That annoys me immensely. I'm fine with them costing more than a Coke because there's more ingredients, a fancy glass and some bartending skill involved, but I'm not paying a tenner for two different flavours of juice and some soda water. Be reasonable.
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Thank you, that's very generous! She has a whole stack of other autoimmune issues going on and her doctor seems very engaged and willing to look for things, so hopefully they'll be receptive to the suggestion. We'll find out.
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I've been meaning to thank you for posting this; I've had it bookmarked so I can show my mum when I go home for Christmas. We both have EDS and she reacts to everything under the fucking sun for no adequately explained reason. She looks exactly like that when it happens. MCAS would explain a lot.
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Why do these agencies live in the dark ages? I had to update the address on my car logbook with the UK DVLA and you can do that online but only in business hours. Apparently it's to match the opening hours of the helpline. But I don't *want* to phone the helpline, that's why I'm doing it online!
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Other people have covered all the sensible stuff but while we were painting in a freezing cold house because the boiler was broken and the plumber due the next day, I picked up a bag of bird food and filled the feeder the vendor left. Watching the visitors brought joy to the chilly coffee breaks.
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The dimmer switches that were here when we moved in wouldn't play nice with LEDs and buzzed very faintly. Partner couldn't hear it but they were doing my head in. I lasted 5 months before I swapped in normal switches and LED smart bulbs that could be dimmed with voice control.
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I got to pet an eagle owl once and it was the best day. She was really soft!
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When we bought ours we spent three days in a bureaucratic crisis over something to do with mineral rights (!?). I eventually lost the plot and asked how much the indemnity insurance to make the problem go away cost. £60. I paid it joyfully just so I could stop hearing about it.
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Really interesting article, thank you! I'm most familiar with a much smaller scale urban river restoration project than London or Paris would be, in Den Bosch, Netherlands. The restoration of the Binnendieze over the last few decades has been a boon for an already picturesque city.
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The Victorian lighthouse is now a B&B, which has the most incredible view over the sea. The whole thing is a fascinating example of thousands of years of human landscape interaction.
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The goats wander into town when they feel like it and present great tourist photo opportunities as well as a traffic hazard.
The headland also contains a 4000 year old Bronze Age copper mine as well as a succession of more recent buildings.
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The Great Orme, a limestone headland in North Wales, is home to a number of endangered native plants, butterflies, birds and bats, as well as a herd of entirely non-native Kashmiri goats, whose ancestors were a gift from the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria.
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The neighbours on either side of the house I grew up in each had a lovely fish pond. The grey heron would come and sit on our roof to decide where to get lunch that day. (We did not have a pond, so found this much less upsetting than either neighbour).
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I drive a manual transmission 2008 Fiat and it's not perfect but at least I can tell what bloody gear it's in. I wouldn't have thought that needed explicitly calling out on the new-car-wishlist for when it eventually goes to the great scrapyard in the sky, but here we are, apparently.
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They are worth every single penny and I'm never moving without them again. They turned up one morning just as I was loading the car with stuff for the tip, and by the time I got back most of my house was in boxes. I could not have done in three weeks what they did in one morning.
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Oof, that's very close to home. I mean, I'm still here but it's not the same and it never will be.
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No photos to hand unfortunately, but the Sint-Janskathedraal in Den Bosch has always been a favourite of mine.
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I first learned this as an IRC mod in my teens but what really drove it home was running/moderating Eve Online groups and spaces. Turns out you can make even those pleasant despite the notoriously ruthless and toxically-online demographic if you *actually use your modding tools on the problem*.
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That's actually a thing?! I thought I was losing it when I kept picking weird fiber bits out of where my alledgedly dissolving elbow surgery stitches had been a year after the fact. I'm sorry this is happening to you but I'm glad to know it wasn't just me!
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Two years ago we moved from a house with leaky, 40-year-old double glazing to a house that'd had all the windows replaced a year before we bought it. That winter we were actually warm for the first time in 15 years, and spent less money despite energy prices rising. The difference is huge.
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The red flag is definitely meant to be 'bleeding restarting after periods conclusively stopped'. This happened to my mum as well, spotting age 59 after she'd fully stopped having periods. Thankfully she saw a doctor, got diagnosed and treated for cervical cancer. This was 10 years ago, she's ok now!
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I once left my wallet on my seat when I got off a train. The person who found it messaged me on Facebook before I'd even got my coat off at my accommodation, and sent it back to me with the conductor on the next train. I was both grateful and mildly disturbed at being so easily found.
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Oh no. I can barely stand the big supermarkets as it is, which is why I usually get delivery. The only time live music in Tesco is acceptable is at Christmas, when our local one seems to sprout a male voice choir. But I live in Wales, so they're always really good and it's kinda atmospheric.
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I basically never want to talk to someone on the phone if I can help it, so I will have already tried the website, the chatbot, and the automated menu. If I'm actually calling, I really need to speak to a human right now. Companies underestimate how much we don't want to talk to them either.
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Due to an incident involving student idiocy, the nearby sea, a cultural misunderstanding, and a bucket with an insufficiently tightened lid, my undergrad dorm kitchen did at one point contain a number of escapee crabs, and the security guy did yeet several out of a window. I felt bad for the crabs.
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I'm only 400 yards from the sea in an area where one might feasibly but very rarely see a walrus (it'd be out of its native range but it's not unheard of for stragglers) and I'd probably still be less surprised to see the fae.