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@rahaeli.bsky.social

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Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19d

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

synecdochic.dreamwidth.org

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3m

my wife just texted this post to me to make sure I'd see it too so I am passing on the horror

Ethan @ethanclsn.bsky.social · 14m

My lovely boyfriend has chosen to torture me with this abomination from a restaurant in California and so I am sharing my pain with all of you

A Door Dash listing for a sandwich called "Taylor Pork Roll" which is so many levels of wrong

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14m

I genuinely got all choked up watching that!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24m

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30m

Aww yeah Sarah declared a random craving for Rita's today and it turns out they're closing for the season this weekend so we just made it under the wire

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Omg best kitten naming scheme

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

It's been a fun 10 months

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Veronica (the duckling-poster) did say there may be eggs somewhere so we may have a return of PEAS! soon!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, exactly! I try really hard to remember but also I have ADHD and if just trying to remember something worked I'd have had my car towed for expired registration way fewer times in my 20s lol

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I just wanna talk to the asshole who ran those cables

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I am so fucking lucky, and I make sure she knows how much I know I am!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

So much "yes" to all of this! (And the more you train your brain to think with that coding, even for a fictional reason, the more receptive you are to the undertones of it elsewhere.)

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

(OTOH, removing the ability for you to search your own posts would mean it would be more likely to be a "setting of last resort" and not a thing people commonly turned on)

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I could see that working well

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I mean I've kinda been nonfunctional since January but yeah that level of pain would be the kind of nonfunctional where the possibility of "someone is gonna die and if they are all very lucky it will only be me" starts appearing on the far horizon and I try to stay far away from there

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I genuinely do not know why my GP can't order one and neither does she

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

If it's any consolation, you are one of the folks I'd give an explicit "okay, not the time for jokes" warning to if you hit the arrgh button!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I'd say I'm surprised except I'm totally not

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

or "the plagiarism box" also works too!

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I like "stochastic parrot" and "glorified autocorrect", myself

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

If it helps any: my go-to is "what test or treatment would you order for a thin person presenting with my symptoms? Please document in my chart that you are refusing that treatment solely on the basis of my weight."

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

It's just been so nice to actually be able to register hunger again

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

--and when you apply the correction factor for corneal thickness, I'm well back in normal range.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

I think that was one of the battery of tests they ran, yeah! He said basically the structure of my eyes look perfect except for the nearsightedness/farsightedness. I read as having slightly elevated intraocular pressure but I also have really thick corneas--

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

....extra ribs in her cervical region? Holy shit that would fuck up so much

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

It's shorthand for what's actually happening, which is "a post of mine has received significant enough organic attention from people sufficiently outside my social cluster that it's beginning to get shown on Discover to people very far away on my social cluster similarity scale"