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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2

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Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hey new followers, I recognize a few of you from Bird Hell Site (detector webapp came online or got noticed?) so I assume y'all know this, but so the rest of you know what's in the tin:

* quite autistic
* numbers are fun
* yarn yarn yarn
* cute lizard is cute
* fuck Nazi bullshit

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 8h

Your inbox isn't open from my side.

But for staying in touch if this place dries up and blows away, I'll be posting updates to ebrillblaiddes.dreamwidth.org at least to say where else I'm findable.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 9h

TFW your leg still hurts a further week after a week and a half later, so you're sure enough it's bone damage to buy a bottle of calcium supplements.

It is not swelling up or falling off or doing tingly nerve fuckery (the numb spot is old, fom The Wreck in '01).

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 7d

TFW your leg still hurts deep, close on to a week and a half later, but since the history is consistent with a bruised bone, for which medical treatment seems to be "well, try not to make it worse," you tell yourself that at home to save the co-pay.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 16d

CONFIRMED:

Also how did I get a bruise there from falling forward?

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 9h

Well then, I guess we have a religious right to discriminate against that church for being mean to some of God's children.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 16h

For those who can't speak the usual way, or write or text to have all of language to choose from, those who can need to try to make sure they can get the words they need in their tablets or card packs. And if that doesn't work, if someone's said it already, they can point or something to agree.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 16h

This

Of course *I* don't speak for all of us, only *all of us* can speak for all of us.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 17h

We have a back porch/deck type thing that is basically fine but some of the boards are loose, and when we do something about them, I want *so bad* to slow-burn-prank whoever has to deal with it next.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile, "because Girl* Upbringing is amateur ABA therefore makes us harder to diagnose" is RIGHT THERE.

*in this context, "girl" is functioning an adjective on "upbringing," i.e. parenting strategies (compliance-based in particular) done to most girls and people thought to be girls

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 19h

15 days

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

17 days to #LSAT score release day

Yes, I know the site is not supposed to update anything about it early.

Yes, I get that, if it glitches and shows a score, I wouldn't be able to trust that the score is a score rather than a placeholder or total random glitch.

Yes, I checked.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 20h

The pandemic of Covid-19 is still ongoing.

Covid-19 continues to pose a life-threatening danger to every human being.

Every infection of Covid-19 causes deep harm.

Wearing a respirator mask in all situations of potential contagion is necessary to prevent repeated infections of Covid-19.

#COVID19

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 20h

Because the cost of leaving light bulbs going came up while I was taking notes in E&M:

"I wouldn't want to pay $20 a month for *nothing* either, but $20 a month *to not argue about it* is not out of the question."

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 20h

Aw. Fuck cancer :(

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, is this implying that it's bc I'm demi that I supplied my grad school classmates with headache and allergy tablets and vitamin c lozenges?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

Also, feelings are not facts themselves but they are information. If I feel like the sky is magenta, the sky is still blue, but we could dig into whether I mean it as a metaphor (and for what), or if I'm wearing tinted lenses, or if I need the ER to call in a neurology consult, etc.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

If I were trying to give something addictive away for Halloween I would simply get a case of full size Snickers.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of one of those episodes of Gordon Ramsay Cussing At People where a vegan(?) restaurant was about to go out of business and one of the things he did to get them some cash flow was get a soup and a roll lunch special going.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

16 days

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

I can't help but wonder who's been providing his income during this "year to focus on personal growth."

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't that assuming Thanksgiving size portions? If it's actually fit for the intended use case, it would stretch a bit further without trying, for day to day meal purposes.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

If you've got freezer space, packing it down into meal prep containers to use like TV dinners would not be out of the question. (Could be true of most any catering size meal, really.)

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

The bottle, when full, is a decent paperweight, also.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

Frick. Does that work? I could find some drugs if it were for the greater good.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

Will you get ice cream for that? I feel like ice cream should be an option.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 20 pack (~a year's supply depending on dust levels, from what I can gather) for $5.99.

How in the absolute procreational act do they think it's OK to not even tell people that avoiding this is an option?

Two small rectangular filters, one very used, the other fresh for comparison purposes, demonstrating the difference between the two. When I say very used, I'm not saying you could grow carrots or potatoes in the dirt on the old one, but something lighter on the roots like a nice cherry tomato vine is not out of the question.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

Hey #CPAP Crewmates, IDK who else's relevant medicreature didn't tell them this but: the damn thing has a replaceable filter and I found out about it whilst looking for something else, after A YEAR AND A HALF.

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truetanker.bsky.social @truetanker.bsky.social · 2d

"Christianity is under attack!"

They say as they literally shoot a man of the cloth for doing what his religion tells him to do.

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