Brunella Longo
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Brunella Longo
@brunellalongo.bsky.social
Technologist, Writer
(London, UK)

Recent titles:

>The Blind Spot. Adverse childhood experiences and autoimmune diseases. Short stories

>The Sicca Messenger: on knowledge about Sjögren's and other autoimmune diseases

>Source. Poems about homelessness
I vote for obesity, notwithstanding that illegal immigration + cybercrime are serious home office administrative issues impacting society...

To see obtuse advisers earning '000£ in Gov jobs while I'm self-employed freelancing on UC with no health element b/c "I function" is tearing Britain apart.
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
And I forgot to mention buses and need to use FFP2 masks while travelling.... then wash and wash and wash everything. Feeling alright this morning but for slight headache and awful grittness / sore eyes, so back to usual medications and remedies and normal... unstable stability of condition(s)
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There is also in my experience the combined effect of orthographic automatic corrections and man in the middle algorithms that transform perfectly correct texts in nonsense, HAUNTED in HUNTED, changing syntax and meaning, for instance OF instead of OR or HAVE in HAVEN'T like in my previous reply
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's inevitable. Ebook readers could be exceptionally helpful as proofreaders! Not to mention editors & publishers... they still exist...if they want ...
I am old... especially with my poor eyesight and TED and Sjogren's... if I haven't seen less than 10 typos in 177 pages... well done! #selfcare
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I suspect they are not elderly people, with chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases but it would be interesting to know which sociodemographic profiles are getting this craze... What consequences they are going to experience in a few years time...
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
it seems a great idea against trolls spam and the like but I'm not 100% sure the AT protocol is completely safe against spoofing... it should be though
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's been an incredible finding for more than 40 years! Come on....
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Same reaction by a reader who liked The Blind Spot (the short story that gives the title to the entire collection) as she liked the sister's story "The Burn" and said it's actually TRUE: this is what happens with some studies... well...yes! I write factual fiction with science in the footnotes 🔭
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by Brunella Longo
Problem is not Trump here. Problem is how impartiality and professionalism are derided within the BBC and its whole media ecosystem, its contractors, the toxic culture that transpires from this story... a fake montage on a White House candidate broadcast by the BBC the week before the election? Sad.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Problem is not Trump here. Problem is how impartiality and professionalism are derided within the BBC and its whole media ecosystem, its contractors, the toxic culture that transpires from this story... a fake montage on a White House candidate broadcast by the BBC the week before the election? Sad.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM