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“We never really know what’s going on in other people’s lives. If you want people to begin #understanding your cues, then start paying attention to theirs. Everyone has stuff.”: buff.ly/SoMKuU6
by lainieishbia
#ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #empathy #human
by lainieishbia
#ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #empathy #human
A Recipe for Asking for Help When You Have a Disability
"Humor is the ultimate dipping sauce for everything."
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“We never really know what’s going on in other people’s lives. If you want people to begin #understanding your cues, then start paying attention to theirs. Everyone has stuff.”: buff.ly/SoMKuU6
by lainieishbia
#ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #empathy #human
by lainieishbia
#ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #empathy #human
This spot excerpt may be challenging to implement to people who do have issues being "with it."
What I do like to do is to use my good time to learn about people and be upfront. "Cues" imply guesswork, which is risky for anybody with communication concerns.
What I do like to do is to use my good time to learn about people and be upfront. "Cues" imply guesswork, which is risky for anybody with communication concerns.
“We never really know what’s going on in other people’s lives. If you want people to begin #understanding your cues, then start paying attention to theirs. Everyone has stuff.”: buff.ly/SoMKuU6
by lainieishbia
#ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #empathy #human
by lainieishbia
#ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #empathy #human
A Recipe for Asking for Help When You Have a Disability
"Humor is the ultimate dipping sauce for everything."
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This spot excerpt may be challenging to implement to people who do have issues being "with it."
What I do like to do is to use my good time to learn about people and be upfront. "Cues" imply guesswork, which is risky for anybody with communication concerns.
What I do like to do is to use my good time to learn about people and be upfront. "Cues" imply guesswork, which is risky for anybody with communication concerns.
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wait at the corner
we’ll be flâneurs in the dusk
make light of the breeze
we’ll be flâneurs in the dusk
make light of the breeze
April 3, 2024 at 1:44 AM
wait at the corner
we’ll be flâneurs in the dusk
make light of the breeze
we’ll be flâneurs in the dusk
make light of the breeze
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I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
Great story, also points up how much fabric we use every year which can't be meaningfully recycled as of yet.
Polyester (Polyethylene Terephthalate aka PET or PETE) is used in plastic bottles, glitter, and manufacturing but fabric is the top use by far.
Polyester (Polyethylene Terephthalate aka PET or PETE) is used in plastic bottles, glitter, and manufacturing but fabric is the top use by far.
This is the best kind of chemistry that can have an immediate positiv impact: 🧪
newatlas.com/environment/...
newatlas.com/environment/...
Simple solvent makes polycotton fabric completely recyclable
What we think of as polyester fabric is most often actually a blend of polyester and cotton, which has proven very difficult to recycle. A new solvent, however, breaks the blend down into its two comp...
newatlas.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Great story, also points up how much fabric we use every year which can't be meaningfully recycled as of yet.
Polyester (Polyethylene Terephthalate aka PET or PETE) is used in plastic bottles, glitter, and manufacturing but fabric is the top use by far.
Polyester (Polyethylene Terephthalate aka PET or PETE) is used in plastic bottles, glitter, and manufacturing but fabric is the top use by far.
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This is the best kind of chemistry that can have an immediate positiv impact: 🧪
newatlas.com/environment/...
newatlas.com/environment/...
Simple solvent makes polycotton fabric completely recyclable
What we think of as polyester fabric is most often actually a blend of polyester and cotton, which has proven very difficult to recycle. A new solvent, however, breaks the blend down into its two comp...
newatlas.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the best kind of chemistry that can have an immediate positiv impact: 🧪
newatlas.com/environment/...
newatlas.com/environment/...
The Memristor 2:
Shiitake cyborg takes Mars
Then thinks about things.
#scihaiku
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-b...
Shiitake cyborg takes Mars
Then thinks about things.
#scihaiku
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-b...
Scientists Built a Working Computer Memory Out of Shiitake Mushrooms
A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current generation of memory hardware.
www.sciencealert.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Memristor 2:
Shiitake cyborg takes Mars
Then thinks about things.
#scihaiku
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-b...
Shiitake cyborg takes Mars
Then thinks about things.
#scihaiku
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-b...
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it’s really difficult to figure out what people mean over text sometimes!! not having body language or facial expressions is a huge debuff!
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
it’s really difficult to figure out what people mean over text sometimes!! not having body language or facial expressions is a huge debuff!
Worse: disability itself makes a child more prone to being abused. The "nearer normal" the child is, the worse, IMO.
I've listened to stories which would give Stephen King nightmares. But it doesn't take much. Denial of key resources, misunderstanding, internalization of disability as failure...
I've listened to stories which would give Stephen King nightmares. But it doesn't take much. Denial of key resources, misunderstanding, internalization of disability as failure...
I think a lot about how profoundly unfair childhood trauma is.
It gives you a disability for effectively the rest of your life, AND can make you underearn, struggle with stability, become abused later in life, on top of impacting your physical health for years.
It gives you a disability for effectively the rest of your life, AND can make you underearn, struggle with stability, become abused later in life, on top of impacting your physical health for years.
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Worse: disability itself makes a child more prone to being abused. The "nearer normal" the child is, the worse, IMO.
I've listened to stories which would give Stephen King nightmares. But it doesn't take much. Denial of key resources, misunderstanding, internalization of disability as failure...
I've listened to stories which would give Stephen King nightmares. But it doesn't take much. Denial of key resources, misunderstanding, internalization of disability as failure...
In duckweed, a flash--
Bluegills duck the shoal's edge
To dive much deeper.
#haiku #WildWalkPrompt #Shoal
Bluegills duck the shoal's edge
To dive much deeper.
#haiku #WildWalkPrompt #Shoal
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In duckweed, a flash--
Bluegills duck the shoal's edge
To dive much deeper.
#haiku #WildWalkPrompt #Shoal
Bluegills duck the shoal's edge
To dive much deeper.
#haiku #WildWalkPrompt #Shoal
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Sigh
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sigh
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Feelings were what
I was inattentive to--
first mine,
since they never mattered
Then yours,
since they mattered too much.
Best way I can explain that:
try being attentive to the alien
Without the freakout and running
from the flying saucers,
while feeling the facehugger stir within...
I was inattentive to--
first mine,
since they never mattered
Then yours,
since they mattered too much.
Best way I can explain that:
try being attentive to the alien
Without the freakout and running
from the flying saucers,
while feeling the facehugger stir within...
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Feelings were what
I was inattentive to--
first mine,
since they never mattered
Then yours,
since they mattered too much.
Best way I can explain that:
try being attentive to the alien
Without the freakout and running
from the flying saucers,
while feeling the facehugger stir within...
I was inattentive to--
first mine,
since they never mattered
Then yours,
since they mattered too much.
Best way I can explain that:
try being attentive to the alien
Without the freakout and running
from the flying saucers,
while feeling the facehugger stir within...
Now that's an interesting twist. This debut novel may attract good attention. That said, I've been on chronic illness & pain groups online over the decades. There have been many memorable people, but nobody looking for fake relationships. Maybe I just joined the wrong groups?
Sabina Nordqvist is writing romance with disability at the center and I'm here for it
It’s All in Your Head
A “poignant and swoony” romance about a woman with a rare neurological condition who agrees to fake-date the hot guy in her chronic pain support group—...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Now that's an interesting twist. This debut novel may attract good attention. That said, I've been on chronic illness & pain groups online over the decades. There have been many memorable people, but nobody looking for fake relationships. Maybe I just joined the wrong groups?
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November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I don’t want us relying more on AI for human connection because empathy and socialization is already at a cry for help. So many ppl don’t know how to talk to others in grief, depression, hardship, crisis as it is. Society as a whole is getting more awkward and afraid of human interaction
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I don’t want us relying more on AI for human connection because empathy and socialization is already at a cry for help. So many ppl don’t know how to talk to others in grief, depression, hardship, crisis as it is. Society as a whole is getting more awkward and afraid of human interaction
The correct phrasing would be of /concordance/ between twins for schizophrenia. Identical have greater concordance than fraternal, but even so, around 50% of twin pairs are discordant for schizophrenia. It never was estimated as high as 80% genetic in any papers I've read (a good while ago.)
How often have you heard that schizophrenia is “80% genetic”?
That number is almost certainly too high because it comes from twin studies that overestimate heritabilty.
Great explainer of this phenomenon👇
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychiatry
That number is almost certainly too high because it comes from twin studies that overestimate heritabilty.
Great explainer of this phenomenon👇
#neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychiatry
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The correct phrasing would be of /concordance/ between twins for schizophrenia. Identical have greater concordance than fraternal, but even so, around 50% of twin pairs are discordant for schizophrenia. It never was estimated as high as 80% genetic in any papers I've read (a good while ago.)
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Disability loss of right hts!
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Disability loss of right hts!
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An article by a professor at the University of Michigan
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
DEI Isn’t Wasteful. It’s Necessary for Good Medicine
Lupus patients pay the price when we erase inclusion from medical research.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
An article by a professor at the University of Michigan
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
Fun Fact: Lupus is 2 to 4x more common among Black people than white people. Blacks also have a higher risk of death & disability due to lupus.
Humans are diverse at every turn. Science should reflect that.
🧪 time.com/7333975/dei-...
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Brain Circuit That Forces Behavior Into “Repeat Mode” Identified
#neuro #brain #circuit #behaviour #psychiatry 🧪
neurosciencenews.com/brain-circui...
#neuro #brain #circuit #behaviour #psychiatry 🧪
neurosciencenews.com/brain-circui...
Brain Circuit That Forces Behavior Into "Repeat Mode" Identified - Neuroscience News
A new study has identified a specific brain circuit that can push behavior into a compulsive “repeat mode,” forcing mice to continue digging and sniffing even when rewards are available.
neurosciencenews.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Brain Circuit That Forces Behavior Into “Repeat Mode” Identified
#neuro #brain #circuit #behaviour #psychiatry 🧪
neurosciencenews.com/brain-circui...
#neuro #brain #circuit #behaviour #psychiatry 🧪
neurosciencenews.com/brain-circui...
The world goes ka-boom
from subjective mushiness--
Our haikus doomed life?
Sabotage AI
With (oh yeah, that's what she said)
nonsense metaphors.
from subjective mushiness--
Our haikus doomed life?
Sabotage AI
With (oh yeah, that's what she said)
nonsense metaphors.
"... Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode." 🧪
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The world goes ka-boom
from subjective mushiness--
Our haikus doomed life?
Sabotage AI
With (oh yeah, that's what she said)
nonsense metaphors.
from subjective mushiness--
Our haikus doomed life?
Sabotage AI
With (oh yeah, that's what she said)
nonsense metaphors.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"-- FDR. Interesting thread. Physiology is complex.
Long ago, I learned about eustress-- good stress: the body can adapt to regular & predictable stressors, and distress-- stressors which are unexpected, hard to predict and adapt to.
Long ago, I learned about eustress-- good stress: the body can adapt to regular & predictable stressors, and distress-- stressors which are unexpected, hard to predict and adapt to.
“Crum is a psychologist who studies s’thing deceptively simple. She examines how beliefs shape physiology. Not in the loose mystical way that phrase sometimes gets tossed around. Her work cuts closer to the bone. The body is not a passive machine. It responds to expectation. It listens to mindset.”🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"-- FDR. Interesting thread. Physiology is complex.
Long ago, I learned about eustress-- good stress: the body can adapt to regular & predictable stressors, and distress-- stressors which are unexpected, hard to predict and adapt to.
Long ago, I learned about eustress-- good stress: the body can adapt to regular & predictable stressors, and distress-- stressors which are unexpected, hard to predict and adapt to.
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Recently finished up my last freelance work of the year before moving on to a mad sprint of book writing, so —rather earlier than usual — it's time for my year in review! Here, in no particular order, are the features I'm proudest of.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Recently finished up my last freelance work of the year before moving on to a mad sprint of book writing, so —rather earlier than usual — it's time for my year in review! Here, in no particular order, are the features I'm proudest of.