Notices by Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)

@binarydigit take the rest if you need the rest <3

@inthehands have you got children? Although yes I'm also entertained by them :)

There are now 4 shows done by the same animation house - think "learning blocks" or something is the collective term:

- Alpha blocks
- Number blocks (my kids LOVE number blocks, and I can see why, they're very good)
- Colour blocks
...and the most new ones
- Wonder blocks (essentially introducing algorithms!)

@inthehands the eldest is also still only 7 so I don't have to go too deep into the physics of it just yet... But I should remind myself of how it all comes together so I can explain better.

I blame the BBC children's TV show Colourblocks for bringing up this subject...

@inthehands I mean, yes. I know that but I still find it 🤯

Was trying to explain to my eldest why actually cyan, magenta and yellow are the real primary colours, and why red, blue and yellow are not and... Well, it still blows my own mind.

I get very confused between light/cone colours of red, green and blue being also primaries, which mix together to make C, M and Y, and then if you take the latter three colours as pigments you can mix most anything from them, and just 🤯

I'm still surprised that magenta and a little yellow makes red.

@aral how long until it's not just foreign students but then also black, or native American, or disabled, or trans, or female, or gay students, who are keeping those worthy young white men from the places they deserve...

@binarydigit ooh. Are you using another online place for repositories?

Sara's sugar sagas:

I mean, I try not to eat sugar. Chocolates around Christmas and ice cream in summer are hard to ignore, of course.

After a long OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test) I was clearly v. hangry and jittery and was heading into hypoglycemia, so I now officially have Postprandial Hypoglycemia (basically a pretty solid regular sugar crash).

I am to go to a nutritionist, there was talk again of the weight loss injections (do not want, they apparently can cause more hypoglycemia)

1/?

and I am apparently only mildly insulin resistant.

The mild insulin resistance means my body doesn't immediately pick up on the blood insulin, and doesn't start processing the sugar out of the blood quickly enough - so another glut of insulin goes into the bloodstream, and then it's all processed all at once and then some - leaving me with not enough sugar left over.

So I am not close enough to diabetes to just be prescribed Metformin but thankfully they let me have it anyway privately,

2/?

off-label I guess. I know it really helped me 20 years ago, and it's taken that long to get back to this situation where I don't feel myself in my body any more and something had to be done.

Now the thing is... I don't think I'm special.

I reckon lots of us who are fat have very similar issues. We have bodies that maybe overshoot the blood sugar storage, leaving us sapped of energy and hangry and all we can do is keep snacking to keep the low blood sugar symptoms away.

3/?

So... In this case it makes sense to eat low or no carb, because that would stop the sugar rising and the need for the insulin and sugar spikes and troughs in the first place.

But these keto diets are hard, and not necessarily completely healthy in themselves, causing other issues. Also it's more expensive when you can't just fill up on carbs.

I don't know. I'm not sure where I'm going - but just know if you're also fat - I see you, I know it's so hard and that you didn't choose it.

4/4

My State of the Browser talk slides are here:

https://slides.sarajoy.dev/whimsica11y-sotb2025/

They may need a little updating from what is local on my computer, so some minor changes may come later 🙂

#SotB2025

@binarydigit oh how exciting! Behind you all the way 💪💜

@aral @SeaFury yes I'd be very happy to help you spread the net!

@helenchong @keenan @binarydigit I'm bsod 🟦

@binarydigit it really is. Basically no one eats their way into high A1Cs or overweightness on purpose.

Either we're all stuck with no time to eat a healthy balanced diet, or all we can access or afford is high carb stuff, or sugar crashes and lows give us the jitters and brain fog and hangriness (it me).

I feel I have no time left to exercise for myself - the exercise I do get is riding kids to school or daycare, running after buses or trains, walking to office - not quite enough probably.

@binarydigit it's so hard. I've always had a body that gets tired fast and ravenously hungry and I only ever gain weight without intervention - even when I'm super active it tends to just slowly gain.

I've reached my limit again and the tiredness is making me a worse mother so I've been bothering the endocrinologist to see whether I can be helped. We're fairly sure I'm somewhat insulin resistant.

Anyway solidarity because it sucks having to monitor intake.

I am trying currently trying very hard not to go around apologising to people at work who I may have annoyed - but I was myself rightfully annoyed and had to make my situation clear.

Is it a female thing? I'm just wanting to go around and make nice again. Sighhhh.

Who is Tom Seidel? Followed me on Bluesky and he has a bunch (like 30k) of followers but I can't figure out who he is.

Says he works for 100100, what is that? I can only find reference to something Russian.

I dunno, I'm just very suspicious.

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/tomseidel.com

Everything just seems sort of generic but maybe he is real. I'm trying to tune my bullshitometer.