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GinevraCat

@GinevraCat@toot.community

#Neurodiverse family person. #Education, coding, play, science. Face the #ClimateEmergency.
Born at ~330ppm CO2
Good in a crisis, as long as it's someone else's.
#CovidIsNotOver

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RickiTarr, to random
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Without looking it up tell me something you know about The Great Attractor.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr It gets us all in the end!

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the hardest you've ever worked?

If you want to tell me the hardest you've ever worked it, please provide photos.

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr First year teaching at a village school - 20 kids from ages 6 to 12, multiple (mild) special needs.I was setting up curricular and each kid got a personal weekly schedule. It was absolutely exhausting. I didn't have a free weekend that whole year.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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Have you been infected with COVID-19 multiple times? | ABC

🔹Immunology experts say contracting COVID multiple times is a sign there could be a problem with the immune system.

🔹Researchers have found the more times you're infected the higher chance you have of developing long COVID or other chronic health conditions.

🔹Those at risk are urged to be up to date with their booster vaccinations.

"Getting COVID-19 multiple times means either you're exposed to it a fair bit and you're not as diligent protecting yourself, or there might be something wrong with your ability to fight infections," Professor Faux said

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/nsw-multiple-covid-19-infections-health-immunology/103417278

GinevraCat,
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@Susan60 @MyView @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Legislating a health and safety requirement for "clean indoor air" and carefully enforcing it would go a long way to helping - especially in schools. But that would cost actual Governments money, so 🤷.

KatyElphinstone, to random
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Subject: Advantages of having an autism diagnosis,

#AskingAutistics, esp if you've got experience of seeking, getting, or considering getting, a diagnosis... for self and/or child.

What are/would be the benefits of the diagnosis?

Anything at all!

Reposts appreciated too ☺️

GinevraCat,
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@KatyElphinstone Diagnosis for my children- helpful for me to understand how to research helpful interventions, and request accommodations at school. Also, for my youngest, to understand him a bit better.

Cons: Diagnosis can be disadvantageous in some adult contexts e.g. here in the Netherlands, autistic or ADHD diagnosed people have to pay for an independent psychiatric evaluation before being able to apply for a driver's license. 1/2

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark @KatyElphinstone For DEPRESSION too!?!?!
Wow! I understand the ADHD (grudgingly, after reading about accident statistics), but every year is excessive.
Also, the stats mostly point to undiagnosed and untreated ADHD as a risk factor for driving, so I feel like I'm being punished for responsible self-awareness!

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark @KatyElphinstone Ugh. Pfft.

GinevraCat, to random
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I am SO SO exhausted.

Also, is anyone else getting an "eye headache" lately? Basically like a sinus headache, mostly on one side, with a bonus pain like you're being stabbed through one eye?

#PermantlyExhaustedPigeon #IsThisAFunNewVirus

yaneerbaryam, to whn

"Hundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin.

#covid @whn

https://news.sky.com/story/the-nhs-sold-out-its-staff-doctors-whose-lives-were-devastated-by-long-covid-to-sue-health-service-13055384

GinevraCat,
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@yaneerbaryam @whn GOOD!! I hope they get significant compensation.

skaly, to random

PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU DON'T WANT ANOTHER HOLOCAUST
Yesterday in London in Leicester Square 3 Israelis were speaking Hebrew between them then a person asked them if they're Jewish and once they said yes, he and his group started hitting them and soon about 30 people were hitting the 3 Jews in public in central London. It took the police half an hour to respond. We can't even speak our native language in public anymore and that's why I'm leaving the UK. SPEAK UP. END ANTI-SEMITIC HATE NOW.

GinevraCat,
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@skaly That’s an awful incident. Absolutely disgusting that people are attacked like that based solely on their (assumed) nationality and political stance. 100% a hate crime.
#AddingWrongsJustMakesMoreWrong

luckytran, to random
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them.

GinevraCat,
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@irina @luckytran In the early 2010s I worked at a nursery school. One of our 3 year olds got measles and ended up in intensive care. His mom asked the Dr how this could happen to a vaccinated child. Doc replied that without the protection from the vaccination he'd have died.

GinevraCat, to random
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Does anyone else have the problem that only their fingers remember their passwords properly?
So I'm fine on a normal keyboard, but as soon as I have to enter them in a phone or mobile device I'm screwed!
#MuscleMemory

Triffen, to FiberArts
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Took this picture of my latest #sewing projects in dim morning light during missile attacks, with no electricity or water at that moment, and later the attack ended, the tees went to school in children's backpacks, and I never got to see how they fit, or take a better photo.
I was told they go over the heads just fine, which was my main worry with this kind of a collar.
Sometimes I try to separate topics of the posts but I can't really separate #WarVsUkraine from the rest of my life.

GinevraCat,
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@Triffen These are lovely. The collar style looks really good for fitting over a child's head.

(Also, no need to separate posts about your life in war and sewing- unless you want to.)

olena, to queer

Which flavor of #neurodivergent is inability to feel belonging to any group? I think, I finally got why I don’t get that #gender thing. Basically, a gender is just another cohort, with some assumed properties. A group one feels belonging to. And I have never felt as a part of any group. I never fit in. Each cohort is supposed to have certain properties, and I just never have all. I just feel like impostor in any, including any gender/sexuality groups, including #agender #queer #nd #AuDHD

GinevraCat,
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@olena @btaroli @actuallyautistic Like the dwarves in Terry Prattchet's Discworld!
#genderIsASocialConstruct

cstross, to random
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Thought for the day: Air Fryers are obviously the next instar (larval stage) of the venerable Instant Pot. They seem to have hatched from the 1980s Food Processor and they're on an ontological road to somewhere ... so what do they mature into next? Microwave ovens? Or something new and terrifying?

GinevraCat,
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@cstross How many people will set it to Unicorn?

grrrr_shark, to random
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Honestly, I think the thing in my life that I'm still actively angriest about is that about 2 years ago, I told everyone who had any ability/responsibility to help in our situation at home that I was going to break, irreparably, and that I needed someone to help me get off this ride for a while.

What I got instead was folks arguing about what the ride was and who was on it, and the biggest authority saying, "well, you're still breathing and coherent, so we're not gonna do anything."

GinevraCat,
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@grrrr_shark I still want to come visit. I am a safe rant-space. (I suck at self care things like cooking and cleaning, but I listen well!)

cstross, to random
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There are currently 6 hours and 58 minutes of daytime each day in Edinburgh, until the 25th.

My office SAD lamps are set to "high risk of retinal burns and melanoma" for the next week.

I want to sleep 26 hours a day, but I have a book to write.

GinevraCat,
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@cstross But the missing inbetween days are coming! They don't count.

IzabelaKaramia, to random
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Slowly waking up.

Last night's bedtime reading with Ginza was finally finishing The Kalevala and after that I began reading for the first time Tolkien's The Silmarillion. I read The Hobbit in 3rd grade and Lord of the Rings so after that, have reread those works a few times in life. But it's taken 40 years for me to finally dip into the mythology Tolkien had created.

GinevraCat,
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@IzabelaKaramia That’s so wonderful that she trusts you now. Two days ago I got close enough to the stray kitten / young cat in our bicycle lockup at work to see that they really needed medical attention. They were looking poorly, badly underfed and a bit unsteady on their feet. I managed to lure them into a box and handed them over to animal welfare. I hope they make it and find a good forever home. 😥

RickiTarr, to random
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HAPPY ART SHOW SUNDAY:
POETRY EDITION

I feel like doing something a little different today, so drop a piece of poetry you wrote! It can be old, new, or written on the spot. It can be funny, sad, dramatic, or challenging, whatever you feel like!

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

-Plato

GinevraCat,
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@RickiTarr

Christmas is shiny, and twinkly, and cold
But I can't feel the magic.
I feel sad. And old.
I miss my bright feelings
I miss my strong core
Miss my teenage metabolism
(More and more).

I still like to eat all the sugar and fat
Life's not at all fun if I can't even have that.
So screw you, cholesterol,
Screw you, eating plan
Now I'll look at the lights,
And scoff treats while I can.

(Bah, humbug).

GinevraCat, to foss
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On that note, I want a basic, non- internet-linked daily symptom-tracker app. Anyone know of one? (Open source would be nice.)

(Or want to build one?)

#DailyTracker #AppDevelopment #FOSS

GinevraCat,
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@adamsdesk That sounds excellent! Thank-you. I'll try it.

pvonhellermannn, to humanrights
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948, the declaration was a response to Nazi atrocities and presents the foundational principles for human rights across the world.

Never has it been more important to remind ourselves of their existence and validity.

I invite you to read and share them today! A brief 🧵 1/n


https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

GinevraCat,
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@pvonhellermannn This toot with part of the UNDHR about parents having a prior right to choose the type of education their children receive was key in getting home schooling legalised in South Africa.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third

"It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents"

#COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19

Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

GinevraCat,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 That's really interesting and encouraging. Especially because I read an article yesterday where nursery / daycare centres in Germany(? I think) with donated HEPA filtration units were compared to those without. In the HEPA-equipped centres, infections were 30% higher.
I did not read the original paper, and it wasn't a controlled study, but it was interesting to think about how that could happen.

Neverfadingwood, to random
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I'll tell you a story. When I was at school, there were two kids in my class who made my life hell every day. One of these kids, call him Mr X, subsequently made a small name for himself in the music biz. I know this because, as it turns out, his interests and mine intersect. I have a friend here who has also made a small name for himself in the music biz, and Mr. X has just got in touch with Friend regarding a release he has for sale. 1/

GinevraCat,
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@Neverfadingwood I don't think people change their basic personalities. Good call.

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

Do you use the word "Neurodivergent"?

Why or why not?

Do you think it's ableist?

If you don't use it, what word do you use?

@actuallyautistic

GinevraCat,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic I use it. It helps me remember that 80% of the people I met think very differently to me.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful & visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... & The Other One.

Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now, dotes on mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/

GinevraCat,
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@futurebird @gerbrand Statistics also has a tendency towards the dark arts. She's frequently found bent over her tarot cards or crystal ball trying to predict the future.

#statistics #MathsFamily

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