@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.
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.
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
Just heard that the Health Secretary is using the 'issue' of permitting transgender people to be treated on wards with other people of the same gender as a distraction from the NHS strikes.
Let me repeat: rather that talk about the NHS strikes and NHS underfunding, the Health Secretary is pursuing a crusade against sick trans people.
@mybarkingdogs@bookstodon I'm totally not critiquing you, I'm presenting my thought process as someone who has written some cop fiction and thought hard about whether I want to continue doing it and if so, how would one go about it.
@mybarkingdogs@bookstodon apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know. This is partly me writing down for the first time stuff that's been going round in my head.
She's just this guy, you know?I'm a science fiction and fantasy writer. I like robots and dragons, silliness and literature.Used to be an academic; may get too deep into analytic philosophy unexpectedly.I'm agender and disabled #MECFSBuy me a coffee on Ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/drrhubeTumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/rhubeNo unsolicited advice.Not keen on DMs.Note: CFS drastically reduces my spoons. If I miss an alt description please don't chastise or quiz me about it.