I write and think about culture (for fun and to pay my rent). My obsessive interest is people and how we work, individually and collectively, which makes me interested in most things, with a particularly keen interest in cogsci and psychology (I grew up around medical science). I studied painting and drawing at uni and I used to play in bands and work in the music industry. Maybe I'll switch to using my real name here eventually.
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Last Notes npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Not sure about this read on it. It was weird timing on Trudeau's part to remove her from her position just as the budget came out. Clearly there was a lot of internal conflict. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Post npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Sorry to share a link to Bluesky but the fabulous Dr Flowers as usual breaks things down with extreme clarity. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Not in Berlin but Canada gets a bit grim too. I take vitamin D and use a very bright light in the morning, it helps support your carcadian rhythm. You can get light therapy lamps/lights for pretty cheap these days. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's shocking how abusive hospital systems are to all healthcare workers and how little mental health support there tends to be. That medical residencies were designed by a cocaine addict and have never been fixed, and are super macho/stoic, is all you really need to know. @npub1nzj…pmgc npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura So, I'm becoming concerned that Bluesky is going to become just as, if not more, of a vector of right wing propaganda as Twitter was as we get closer to the Canadian elections. Maybe less of the very bro Canada Proud and overtly White supremacist type of stuff but definitely the "we're just sensible conservatives" that a lot of people who think they're smart fall for and that of our very corporate owned mainstream and business media promotes. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Spoiler: Mussolini did not actually make the trains run on time. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I read some things about it here. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is also very tied into rural vs urban/Montreal in Quebec, along with narratives about being colonized by the English while denying French colonialism and while also acting like a colony of France (in Legault's government's case). But then there are things like favoring immigration from Haiti because of french and stuff like the FLQ's relationship with the Black Panthers. Some of this is also generational and about very wealthy Quebecois businessmen exploiting the rest of us and destroying the remaining bits of the socialist state (PKP, etc). It's an attempt to return us to the Grande Noirceur. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura A stark contrast to some of what's happening in Ontario, Canada where the Premier is pushing through legislation that allows drivers to kill others with impunity. It's insanity. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I think one thing that people who lead relatively secure and affluent lives don't understand about being poor is that long term planning is much harder when you're poor (just like bulk buying at places with member fees is). If you're worried and struggling to survive now it's very hard to plan for the future or to know if you can even afford a future. This doesn't mean poor people don't dream of better futures, it just means they have less or no resources to plan or enact future plans. This becomes even more relevant if you're part of a demographic at risk of being murdered by police or other people. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Jesus, I just had a thought about Musk and human experimentation that is far too dark to type out loud. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Says the man fucking around with brain implants... 🙄 npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura What a lot of people want is our governments to stop hurting us. This is how people end up here, we need to understand these things, not just mock people who don't have the resources we do. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura It's a pretty easy tactic and used by right wing and neoliberal governments everywhere to justify privatization. It's being done to healthcare and education too. The incompetence obviously makes breaking things easier. [@peter_mcmahan](https://mas.to/@peter_mcmahan ) npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Give people permission not to perform normality. Performing normality in terribly not okay situations helps fascism (same in domestic abuse situations with authoritarian abusers as it is on the national level when fascists are in power). Us weirdos often end up being Cassandras BECAUSE we have a hard time performing normality. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Did PR block him from building a resort or something? Did Miss Puerto Rico rebuff his sexual demands? This all seems rather personal! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Food theft and fraud is a huge crime thing! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I had a big day planned and it's a beautiful fall day. I went to bed early then woke up in the middle of the night and didn't get properly back to sleep so now I'm tired because second sleep eluded me and I have yet to really start my day. It probably didn't help that the cat was having a fit about neighbor cat being on the back balcony so I had to chase it off and spend some time soothing her. This not smoking cannabis thing isn't helping my sleep cycles and I've only gotten one good dream out of it so far. Before I go to sleep I'm going to have to tell myself to at least have some good dreams I remember! npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura 💯 See also Pinker. The very carefully coiffed big hair is always a red flag (unlike the shaggy unkempt hair and beards of many real scientists and intellectuals they're trying to signify they are). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura This is all such bullshit. It'll be great in natural disasters. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Our local Quebec 24/7 convenience store, Couche-Tard, recently tried to buy 7-11 (but maybe only the Japanese ones?) Also, how can I suck at trivia games but remember things like this? npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Oh that's a common right wing conspiracy theory and it's vintage Alex Jones climate change denialism. They're coming for our guns, oil and beef, the very foundations of American maleness is under attack, etc. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality—the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Ridiculous. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I'm fine with my DNA being used for science (I'm currently in a study about detecting ovarian cancer that includes testing for genetic markers, for instance). I do not trust corporations (including pharmaceutical corporations) with any of this (in large part because I come from a medical family). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I made a very tasty Madras curry with butternut squash, chickpeas, tiny potatoes, mixed greens (frozen spinach and fenugreek leaves, some fresh mustard greens) and coconut milk for dinner. It was delicious but not very photogenic. It will be even more delicious tomorrow. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Exactly why I resisted the lure of cheap DNA tests (that I'd only want to do for medical curiosity reasons anyway). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura "A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that specific networks in the brain, when damaged, may influence the likelihood of developing religious fundamentalism. By analyzing patients with focal brain lesions, researchers found that damage to a particular network of brain regions—mainly in the right hemisphere—was associated with higher levels of fundamentalist beliefs. This finding provides new insight into the potential neural basis of religious fundamentalism, which has long been studied in psychology but less so in neuroscience." npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Yeah, is Singh trying to get Poilievre elected? npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Yeah, it's more that nobody wants an election sooner and that this seems to play into Poilievre's hands and makes him look more powerful (it doesn't matter if the NDP claim they've been plotting this for weeks, that's also not great optics, just like being played and out manouvered by Poilievre is bad optics). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura And I hate all of this for you as much or more than I do for myself, especially since I'm old and have lived a lot of my life (even if some of it was made very difficult by disease and doctors who didn't listen to me about my own body and take the time to run some very simple tests). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I share this feeling in a slightly different way. I have Graves Disease and finally got diagnosed (it took 12 years for a proper diagnosis but I've had it most of my life, going in and out of remission). I had a thyroidectomy a year before the pandemic, it took about a year to heal and stabilize and I was only starting to feel good and stable when the pandemic hit. So now I feel more whole and fully myself but, you know, civilization is collapsing and I'm now 60 (but feeling better and physically stronger than I have most of my life) so what's the point in trying to make plans like trying to return to school (for a degree that will take over 5 years) and starting a new career? It's a weird limbo to exist and to try to survive in, especially since I also have some young children and young people in my life that I care for deeply. npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura I am on step one, roasting the eggplant slices for eggplant parmigiana. If I manage to sustain any ambition, I'll also make seeded crackers and maybe some banana bread. It seems unlikely that I will manage all three (especially with a skype with my mom in the middle of it all). npub1c2wecxfe2yzs248m45nrd6w4w0rztha8lf42nax37w729kjpwqlsuxugye Fifi Lamoura Trying to work up the energy to get all the cooking things done before the heatwave starts to descend on us tomorrow... So far I am not succeeding, guess I am just going to have to push and shove myself into doing it.
