PhD researcher in regulation and governance, studying how communities mobilise to reconfigure the regulation of licit and illicit drugs. I'm queer and trans (nonbinary, they/them pronouns) and a person with disability.
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Last Notes npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I am an absolute fiend for losing glasses, looking EVERYWHERE for them, buying new ones then finding the lost pair... npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Look at this nerd wearing not one but two pairs of glasses around their neck 🤓 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I used OpenOffice.org as my daily driver in law school when I was too poor to pay for Microsoft, and after 3 years, as soon as I could, I paid for Microsoft. I can't stand their AI integration push but you can't deny the effort they put into smoothing UX. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I know people on the mod team I wouldn't trust to moderate my posts at Aus Social with an understanding of the place (queer, mad, disabled, sex positive, hard left, antiracist) they are coming from. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Does anyone have any tips for alternative online office suites? I am using Google Workspace at the moment and I am stuck with it for some time as it houses my Android phone profile, but I have moved mail and calendar to Fastmail and I am keen to move my online storage and office apps elsewhere as well. This is partly due to Google's collaboration with the IDF on AI killing machines but also the non-optional insertion of AI functions into everyday UX. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Urgent: in search of a queer owned or friendly sex-positive instance, as I am no longer even pretending to be an academic and the poor sciences.social mod team probably have no idea what to do with my sweary grompy tendencies. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Cops in uniform at Pride just want to express their true authentic selves npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders There's no rush. It's a Big Spoon project, you really want to get it right to avoid data loss. Edit: and I will still be using Drive, since Dropbox is a piece of shxt and Apple's offering doesn't work across OSes. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders DNS records activated ✅ #FastMail transition is nearly complete, just 4gb remaining on my Gmail import. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders And the ease of transition with Fastmail is :chefskiss: npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Fastmail it is, because I care about UX and ease of transition more than I am fussed about super duper privacy. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Friends, I want to move away from Google Workspace for everything except Drive and my Android account. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders What does this even mean at this point? npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Ahhh my lovely friend's mum passed away. Fuck cancer. 😭 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I had 3x double shot coffees this morning and then slept for 3h 11am-2pm. I think I have to talk to the GP about doing that sleep study. 😴😩 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Roasted harissa chickpeas in the style of fatteh with toasted pita wedges, tahini-yoghurt mix with lemon and garlic, and Shirazi salad on the side. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Yes, that's very true. Most people on low incomes are not shopping at Trader Joes! And at lower price points it's tricky to find vegies unless you supplement with frozen. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders It's been quite the day for noise intrusion. Windy weather poses major sensory issues for me. The café downtairs was drillling and sanding and cutting into brick this morning while I was trying to sleep after last night's insomnia. And now the café's awning is squeaking as it moves in the wind and the Red Rattler is absolutely pumping with what sounds like hardstyle. Good times. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I found this article enormously satisfying — a splash of cold water on the panic about ultra-processed foods, and a huge dollop of common sense about food and eating. No, the method is not scientific and it ignores the wealth of population evidence that these foods are associated with ill health. But equally, the nutritional epidemiologists ignore issues of cost, time and pleasure in their calls to abandon the entire food category. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Dry humour in the Graun! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders RUDE. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders ok so I'm glad to hear it's not just me! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Tiktok app reinstalled again on my Android phone. That's the second time I've spotted it. Very dodgy. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Cancelled an appointment because I drank too much coffee this morning and my anxiety is through the charts, the Daniel Reeders story. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Starting to think that Woomba means 'rain'! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Took a med I usually take with food on an empty stomach instead and it's a lightbulb moment, like YEAH RIGHT this is how it's meant to work. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders omg I cannot believe I had forgotten about Archy. ahahahaa. what a delight. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Who says that, Vanessa? And RUOK? npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I wrote up the thoughts I shared earlier — on drug switching and 'drug talk' among patients — as a post on my blog, Boundary Objects, which covers public health and mental health. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Most definitely doable in Affinity! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Oh damn, I am sorry to hear you had such a disrupted night. And holy moly that's a lotta rain! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Packed! Home now!! Never doing that again!!! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I just have to pack a bag and then I can go home but can I pack it? #adhdlyf npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Ahhh fuck, I have to stop cat-sitting. It's fine when cats are happy and well, but with stressed or sick cats I keep being reminded of my cat Shifty who we had to euthanise at 4yo after 2 years in and out of the vet because my fuckwit ex bought him at a market pet store and he had FeLV. Add those memories to a depresso patch caused by moving out of home for >1 week and I'm just in horrendously bad spirits, crying uncontrollably. It's too stressful and I have to stop doing this to myself. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Damn. Feeling better already. L-drug is powerful stuff. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I'm having the annual X-NY depresso patch. Lots of sleep, big fight to maintain routines, smol crises are debilitating, and I'm having big trouble reassuring myself these moods and emotions are only temporary. Upped my dose of mood stabiliser. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders ooof that sounds oppressive! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Attn: Queer Fronds 🌿 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Okay, I spent one day 'just sleeping' and that didn't seem like a good enough excuse to lose a day of holiday so I spent today in hyperfocus writing a literary nonfic/autobiog book proposal. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Folks, at $workplace I need to contract a skilled and engaging health promotion generalist with podcast production capability for a moderately well-funded but also fairly short time-framed project. If you fit the bill or know someone who might, could you please DM or e-mail daniel at napwha.org.au before xmas? Thank you in advance! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders *taps mic* A bit of personal news: npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Okay so I am also a December miseryguts. Xmas in a very complicated family was never a fun time and I gave up celebrating it yonks ago. But I am wondering if you might like to check in with each other around the day itself. Could be a videocall or just chat depending where moods/feels are at? npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders He was an engineering student when WWII broke out and he volunteered for the Dutch Resistance destroying bridges used to bring Nazi troops and supplies. Then he came to Australia to work on the Snowy scheme and continued blowing shit up to build roads and tunnels! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders my grandfather was the opposite of a brick maker... He blew up bridges 🤣 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Gemma Carey was a friend, my employer and one of my PhD supervisors, very much in the past tense on all counts, and she died unexpectedly last week. Despite our falling out I've found the news incredibly distressing. Speculation is so unhelpful. Gemma was Extremely Online and the media coverage of her death is focusing on her tweets, which is predictable but completely overlooks her stellar academic career. My thoughts are with her husband Ben and their 2yo as they grapple with this loss. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders oh that is excellent news! And rescue breathing - is that also known as 'box' breathing (because it has four movements)? That and Celebrex are my main strategies for living with the cardiac asthma and it sounds dumb to be the Buddhist saying 'yo breathing really works' but IT REALLY DOES YO 😅 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders oh noooo 😖 did it end up being enough coverage or did you need the reliever? Honestly, it was not 'wood fired heater' level cold this week! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Ugh today has been rough. Got dehydrated so I got interstitial cystitis. Drank a heap of soda water to fix it. Depleted my electrolytes so heartbeat went funny. Drank all the Hydralyte and I'm back to normal. Lessons were learned. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I thought Rishworth was a wally for insisting renters need to hold an ambition to someday own a home — now here's her NSW counterpart claiming on live radio that you can rent a liveable 2BR apartment in Sydney for 'a couple of hundred bucks a week.' npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Okay. Yup. Imigran hangover is a real thing. But after 2x50mg and a few hours of sleep my vision is back to normal, which saves me making an emergency trip to the ED. Well done that GP for talking me off that particular ledge. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Woke up with slightly doubled vision. GP saw me immediately and is pretty confident it's migraine. I haven't had one for yonks — I used to have 2-3 per month. Intrigued to learn Imigran is now OTC. Gonna take two and try to sleep. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders From the presentation I am currently writing: npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Please help me lazywebs: can I have a one-sentence definition of explanatory sociology and one other sentence explaining what it means by mechanisms? kthxbai love you npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders For us anxious people there's a tendency to expect the worst, but it almost always helps to go in with an expectation that practitioners want to do the right thing if they can, and this is a problem we can solve together if I give you the right information, etc etc etc. I feel bad saying that because I know it's really hard to do that when you've had shit experiences of past care. In my work I train people to educate people with HIV on how to be 'effective patients' (ugh ugh ugh). npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Okay, wishing you courage to quietly and firmly insist there is an issue and it needs to be fixed. Advocating for yourself is hard when the issue is subjective but you have solid objective evidence (the old splint no longer fits) to draw on. Good luck! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders the conference panel I am organising is programmed up against... lunch. how am I meant to compete for audience members with meeting a basic human drive, and claiming a rare moment of pleasure and connection in an otherwise cognitively intense couple of days? ugh. definitely not added to the program in a last minute panic about the lack of representation, for sure. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Well, you also found the Camel Appreciation Society on Mastodon 😂 It's a form of community that is both tenuous and strong. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I am so glad to hear this. And yes... the start being made, that's the thing. We crack up on our own timetable and we heal on our own timetable too. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I'm thinking of the paradoxical coping I both witnessed and did in the early days of the pandemic. 'Oh, it's not safe to go outside? You're telling me!' npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders So I think we cope a fair amount better than most folks in the immediate aftermath of the crisis. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders A lot of queer and crip and BIPOC folks have written about something I call 'paradoxical coping.' npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Afternoon toot frens. Very flat mood today. Done laundry, got bread, need to shower and if I can find the motivation I'd like to make channa masala for dinners. Let's see. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders It's a dark pattern alright. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders iinet just increased the cost of my plan and it requires a phone call to cancel it. *grrrrr* npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders apparently there are no kids from happy homes getting drunk or blazed or wired or wasted on a regular basis... npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I am probably taking part in an interview for a study about past problematic drug use and its relationship (if any) with trauma. The study seems so carefully designed and I have major topic envy. I personally find Dr Gabor Mate's claims that all drug use and dependence is an expression of trauma VERY annoying. It's a deficit account that ignores the fact that drug use is pleasurable and meaningful and our brains form affinities for regularly administered substances with these effects. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Oh gosh. It seems like the Australian national pastime is trying to guess where people are from without having any sense of facial morphological diversity on a global scale or the deep history that produced it. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Gonna be calling them chilly bins till the end of my days. Saves me the pitfall plus it just sounds really cute. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Bitta context https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I just nearly used the word Aussies use for chilly bins in an international FB group that is full of Canadians. My heart skipped a beat — that would not have gone down well. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Oh my god imagine driving one of those on country roads on solid tyres 😨 Sure, you never get a flat but your spine would cop it... I hope your dad understands how strongly you feel about keeping his stories going. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders the car distribution system was a lot more diverse in its operations back then, it seems! I'm guessing your dad might have been able to fabricate missing parts himself? npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Huh. Based on their rough habit and charming personality I assumed goats and camels must be related but they are about as equally related as they are to hippos and whales, i.e. not very. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Do you get any other symptoms like rapid heartbeat, though? npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Mmm that sounds like an incidentaloma to me! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/401/357/568/876/270/original/43b84d940b80fc75.png npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Plus the Big List of Things! Which never went away. It's a lot. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Nerves still jangling? 😭 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I think I am meant to pay them a further $30 to speak to an actual doctor who will use their highly specialised training to infer that my breathing issues don't require a call to 000. I am probably just going to go to the thing. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I may need a med cert to take work off tomorrow. It's our AGM and it's a 9-5 meeting that I really doubt I can manage with post-Covid symptoms. Both of my GPs are on leave so I checked and the pocket doc (InstantScripts) will do one for $19 — but you're not eligible if you're having breathing difficulty. My guys, I have cardiac asthma, breathing difficulty is a fact of my daily life. I know the exact case their lawyers had in mind when crafting that exclusion, too. *grrr* npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders That's it, for sure, gonna sleep this med off. I gotta be functional this week. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Fuck cancelling the WaPo, cancel Amazon. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I am okay with being vaccinated but blood draws still make me squeamish after all these years. More than once I've had a nurse or phlebotomist say 'Don't you pass out on me!' npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders For a number of years I was on B-cell depleting therapy that interfered with that exact process and I had to get all my vaccinations redone every 12mo. Do you know how many separate vaccinations we get from birth onwards? It's like 43! (It's not, I've forgotten how many but it's a lot. I felt like a pincushion.) npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders A new study provides at least part of the explanation why Covid vaccines and infection don't seem to provoke long-lasting protection against subsequent exposure. The authors speculate that the spike protein may be too amorphous to trigger the transfer of antibody templates into the 'deep freeze' of bone marrow for later recollection and reuse. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders $14m sculpture unveiled at NGA called Ourobouros by sculptor Lindy Lee. Artistic merit is in the eye of the beholder but in my view this is gorgeous — both intricate and monumental https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/24/national-gallery-of-australia-lindy-lee-ouroboros-sculpture npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders this question is a tiny bit opaque to me but I *think* you are pointing out the social psychologists are the natural enemy of FB. Am I in the ballpark? npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders My former research centre couldn't advertise a study or activity if their lives depended on it. Today they have posted on FB about an upcoming SASP conference and *nowhere* is this acronym defined. So I googled and it's social psychology. Not usually a discipline that struggles to communicate its view of the world to the public! npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders I can't help interpreting the clip as 'Kimbra blindfolds give boring guys and turns them gay' 😅 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Oh this is delightful. Very different choons but something about it reminded me of this fun track by Kimbra from wayyyy back (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elyk9MBY72U npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders CRPS has a scary reputation but it can be treated effectively with nerve blocks and stimulators if that's what's happening. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Also, *big sigh that this is necessary* I would ask about CRPS from the trauma not from the surgery to avoid the doc's medico-legal paranoia kicking in. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders So you can ask the surgeon in medico-talk, the name for the nerve situation is CRPS. But google that one lightly, ok? It could be alarming. Just remember that nerve jangling is normal after surgery and we're hoping it settles down on its own soon. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders And I am mostly recovered after the Big Squishhhh. No more travel but a couple of big events to organise before the end of the year. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders You are right to keep an eye out for fever, low BP and any ''feeling of impending doom'' (that's the medical term for it!) that would signal possible sepsis. But yes, living with dental trauma for so long means the nerves will take a while to stop jangling. If it is that, pain management nerds recommend breathing but *not* mindfulness to signal 'oy, you lot can chill tf out now.' npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Did not know there's a name for it! And that sounds a bit scary 😬 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Glad your temp and BP are okay but what an absolute bugger, though 😞 Rest is definitely the right thing — those dinged-up facial nerves will take some time to settle. Hoping they get the memo soonish so you can finally get some decent sleep 💜 npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Went back to the optom to ask for multifocals instead of reading glasses. I saw a different guy and he was a bit concerned that my last measurements showed a big jump in my prescription. Redid them and found a less dramatic increase. Still no idea what caused the change, though. 😑 Anyhow, multifocals are go. npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders Me: tired, dying npub1cnvy5ja8qamyvu7e50wmm4u6jtec4uyxha68jgamxenqhhmlx0uq0gtgt4 Daniel Reeders This paper just has the cutest title ever.
