Hey, that was me, and I fucked up. That was not a brigading post. That was me wanting to talk about what people were saying about us on our instance. We just have a rule to link to the source and I did that without thinking about the implications. I understand that makes me short-sited, I understand it makes me dumb. I do feel bad about what it caused and I did apologize.
The uncertainty is awful. It took me ten years to get diagnosed with anything. I had so many doctors that thought I was just seeking pain pills. I had to beg a primary care physician to refer me to a rheumatologist. The rheumatologist guessed what I had within 5 minutes. A few blood tests, X-rays, and an MRI later and I had a diagnosis. Ten years and then someone guesses it in 5 minutes. Autoimmune diseases are weird like that.
I’m also incredibly pro-vax, but those things knock me on my ass for days. Seems pretty common for people with autoimmune diseases.
It’ll be fixed soon hopefully!
Yeah, I’m never sure which ones are going to take up a lot of space, so I’ve decided to simply spoiler tag all emotes in other instances for the time being. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, I think I saw a PR for it.
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Might be best to put those emotes under a spoiler tag when on other instances, comrade. A common complaint about us is due to the emote sizing bug.
Okay.
Thanks for looking out for us. I wish more people looked at it the way you do. It’s been really weird seeing headlines since 2022 that excitedly proclaim “hey its only old people and disabled people dying now!”
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What you really want is others to give you an equal share even though you haven’t done anything to earn it and I fucking have.
A core belief most of us have is that workers are very literally not being given what they’ve earned. But we also believe that all humans deserve food, shelter, and care. If you think that’s evil, there’s not much more of a discussion to have.
it even helps my sinus’ when I’m cleaning the house.
One of the best parts about having a bunch of cloth masks from early in the pandemic is they’re great for cleaning. I wear one when I clean my cats’ litterboxes every day.
I wear N95s outside the house, but cloth masks have still proven useful.
“dip”
as in “no dip”
I’m so sorry, it’s not a good time. I hope you find treatment that offers some level of relief.
Hope you enjoy it!
Haha classic Dirt_Owl
thank you
also the flu is absolutely not harmless, we are extremely lucky that it’s seasonal (unlike covid)
[note: this is not me saying covid is not harmless, it is extremely harmful]
I want to share my experience as a disabled person, because I think it’s very easy to simply not notice our non-existance:
I don’t exist anymore. I’m a hermit. It’s been years since I’ve done anything in public. I go to the rheumatologist, I go to a lab to get blood tests, and once a year I get an x-ray to make sure I don’t have TB. I don’t do anything else. There’s about a two week period where being outside isn’t some unbearably high or low temperature that exacerbates my condition.
Please care about covid. Just, please. Do it for people like me if that helps you, but mostly do it for yourself. This virus can make you like me and it’s miserable (I was sick before Covid, but Covid is known to trigger autoimmune conditions which are the primary cause of my suffering).
Interesting, thanks for the explanation!
I’m not going to engage with you on anything other than the “disengage”, but part of our “disengage” rule is that you absolutely cannot dump a bunch of text in an argument and end it with “disengage”. You need to actually disengage when you say “disengage”.