Notices by Dr Alice Violett (alicemcalicepants@ohai.social)

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You have been blessed by the mental health duck! Boost for one (1) mental health.

Popped into town for a couple of bits on a peak Christmas shopping day, and this spoke to me.

@TheBreadmonkey @LoganFive Hee Hee!

Alas, my 3pm meeting today is not as fun as it sounds (it's to do with a research group that develops new medicines).

I don't think I've seen this new Liz Climo comic posted here yet, which surprises me.

Cat: Meow!
Me: You've been fed!
Cat: I was told there would be no fact-checking.

Previous boost: I've got a short story where the protagonist (thinly-veiled me) uses an innovative VR therapy to talk to previous versions of herself. Her 4-year-old and 9-year-old facsimiles actually listen to her, even if they don't heed her soothing words, but her 15-year-old version just isn't having it.

I've been having a confidence crisis over this story (and writing in general) but I feel a bit better about it now 😄

I contributed to a report for the WHO Behaviour and Cultural Insights Hub, so that's pretty cool. It's about how history (all sorts of times, contexts and considerations) can inform how we think about and address loneliness today, and is a super interesting read: https://bci-hub.org/documents/history-loneliness-what-we-know-so-far #history #loneliness

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

Never quite sure if I finally got the hang of social situations in my mid-20s, or if I just aged out of being stuck in places with people who were too immature/cliquey to make the quiet weirdo feel wanted and included.

Maybe it's just extraordinarily good luck that I've repeatedly found myself among people who 'get' and value me, and avoided assholes over the past decade or so 🤷♀️

Came across this recently, and reminded of it just now when I had to remind myself I can just say 'sorry for the delay getting to this' without adding 'I had lots of meetings/was swamped/etc'. #trauma #ptsd

Previous boost: a compliment I got on my PhD work a lot back in the day was that it was very "human" 😁

But srsly, I doubt AI would get the same results I did from my sources because it would just count up words like "lonely" and "spoiled", whereas I looked into the surrounding context, eg 'I suppose I was lonely' suggests people didn't remember feeling lonely, but later imposed the judgement that they must have been because they didn't have siblings.

#TuneTuesday #LocalBands @HauntedOwlbear @Kitty

The Mono Polys - Bluebird
https://songwhip.com/themonopolys/bluebird

A local post-punk band who were around about ten years ago that I got quite into. Unfortunately, their story had a sad end.

@BigGayShaun also helps avoid misunderstandings such as Doctor Whore Watch (DoctorWhoRewatch) and Su's anal bum party (SusanAlbumParty) 😁

#ThursdayFiveList #TheBlue @neurothing

Softcult - Perfect Blue
https://youtu.be/jTZD-dRqOzE?si=G-WBmb5fqIx_QRoX

Heavenward - Be My Blues
https://youtu.be/Evp70dkaE0M?si=uf9Q_ZKnchE0Bu3P

Nothing - Blue Mecca
https://youtu.be/hpGQkvcYTYA?si=9y0BkC0-GS7kyC5G

Placebo - Post Blue
https://youtu.be/6vlm4JsBsPE?si=Ilof1_O0HIIB2T7i

The Rasmus - Blue
https://youtu.be/cD6w_bryXSQ?si=f1DZCDt4pP5g-Jeb

#TuneTuesday #MagicSongs @Kitty Steven Battelle - Magic Carpet Ride
https://youtu.be/bLL1lPlhroA

#ThursdayFiveList #TheShadows @neurothing

Teenage Wrist - Digital Self (🎶 I'm just a shadow of my digital self 🎶)
https://youtu.be/NmdxO78GP0c

Joy Division - Shadowplay
https://youtu.be/yPt3-lB5Lsc

Ride - Shadows Behind The Sun
https://youtu.be/D74uGxU9QoY

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow
https://youtu.be/VnxLp0JlT_Q

The Rasmus - In The Shadows
https://youtu.be/7gwO8-oqwFw

#TuneTuesday #BangersAndFiller @Kitty @derthomas Least favourite song from my favourite album.

I *think* Better Nature by Silversun Pickups is my favourite album, and my least favourite song on it is The Wild Kind.

It's not bad by any means, but not on the transcendental level of most of the other songs, and it feels a bit tacked-on - the album could naturally end on the penultimate track (Ragamuffin) IMO.

https://youtu.be/KS-AGyTBjYc