Notices by Dr Ro Smith (rhube@wandering.shop)

#MECFS has anyone tried ashwagandha or astragali radix to help with fatigue and brain fog?

I feel like it's so easy to get taken in by snake oil when there are no approved treatments, but also the fatigue is so overwhelming.

Found a mushroom in my window box. Any #mushtodon folks want to venture an ID?

I am in the north of England. And don't worry, I have no intention of eating it.

#mushroom #mushrooms

Is Mastodon aware of the Tumblr 'poob has it for you' meme?

For serious, I think there are a lot of people on here who would enjoy the fuck out of the counter-culture there.

Sources:
https://www.tumblr.com/orcboxer/745857099387584512/have-you-seen-the-new-show-its-on-tubu-its?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/daemonhxckergrrl/773969347453550592/it-frustrates-me-that-theyre-trying-to-force-us

#poob #poobHasItForYou

Thinking about my decade-plus of work writing and editing copy for web and the tiny errors (or perceived errors that weren't even wrong) I was flayed for as I learnt my craft and trained my eye.

And then so-called 'AI', and the glaring falsehood and nonsense words, endless repetition and empty fluff, that users are told we just need to deal with.

The weeks of debates about a single word... and no one gives a shit about the reputational damage to all the huge companies posting this utter shit.

I've deleted my NaNoWriMo account. They not only have a generative 'AI' sponsor, they're defending letting you use AI to plaigiarise yourself to 50,000 on the basis that disabled people need AI.

I have a cognitive disability that makes it very difficult for me to write and I am FURIOUS.

Make no mistake, it is very fucking ableist to use people like me as a shield when you are STEALING FROM PEOPLE LIKE ME. They are the ableist ones here. https://www.404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-policy-classist-ableist/

#NaNoWriMo

@Lilysea @3TomatoesShort to me, dizziness is what I really associate with POTS, the rest could 'just' be ME/CFS. But either way, I have heard that both the tilt table and standing test are unreliable, and 'failing'it doesn't necessarily mean anything. I was told the tilt table test wasn't worth doing. I did the standing test and only had the required results on the third day, which tracks as my symptoms were much stronger. I was advised that if you have a diagnosis for something else it's not>

Chastising people you don't know for not using alt text is the new accosting people using the priority seats on the bus that you don't think look disabled enough.

You cannot tell in what way someone else may be disabled just by looking, and that's true online as well as in meat space.

You cannot judge what is 'easy' for someone else based on what's easy for you.

Real allies don't harass one group of disabled people in the name of another.

I'm glad I spent money on a comfortable mattress. Today is so cold and grey and wet, and this house does not at all feel like home, but my bed is a cosy solace.

@dangillmor I loathe 'nudge' marketing. No one feels more inclined to install your app because you refused to give them a 'no' option.

Awake, but I don't like it.

Reminder that it's not just women who need abortion care, and when you frame it as a *woman's* right to control her body you are excluding many people who have even fewer legal rights over their own bodily autonomy.

People who have wombs are first and foremost PEOPLE, and that is what gives them the right to determine what happens to their bodies, including terminating something that could take over that body in service to another person. We ALL have an absolute right to say FUCK NO.

@_L1vY_ @inthehands @pinsk @geoffreyconley I miss following her on Twitter! I wish she were on Masto (or where she is if she is).

This is a shot in the dark, but I'm looking for an audiobook on the history and archaeology of Troy/Hisarlik, preferably reflecting more recent academic work than 2011 (the date of the work I've just been listening to). I'm interested in a work by an academic who really knows what they're talking about, not popular history with unexamined bias.

It's OK if it's situated within a broader history of Ancient Anatolia or similar, as long as it covers Troy in detail. Any recs? @bookstodon

@pettter congrats!!

@babe I somehow forgot he was married to Billie Piper. How, how, how?

A reality check on Spotify: as much a it's a good service for me, it's not for artists.

I listened to my top song 117 times on Spotify. If he got top pay of $0.005, he earned about 6 cents for my listening.

A friend got me the album for my birthday. I don't know how much money he saw from that, but it will have been more than 6c.

@pettter I've been reading around and... it looks pretty legit... https://www.themarysue.com/annie-altmans-abuse-allegations-against-openais-sam-altman-highlight-the-need-to-prioritize-humanity-over-tech/

No idea if this relates at all to his getting fired (I doubt it), but this article from The Mary Sue suggests some pretty fucked up stuff: https://www.themarysue.com/annie-altmans-abuse-allegations-against-openais-sam-altman-highlight-the-need-to-prioritize-humanity-over-tech/

@pettter Wow 😮

@Gargron 😭😭😭 I am in York, which is a little too far, and they are a little too young for me. They're so very sweet, though!