Momerath @Momerath@wandering.shop

This is a long shot, but does anyone know of - or happen to be - a neurologist willing to discuss a long weird medical history with someone who has been spending years researching and looking for solutions because of repeated failures getting doctors to actually investigate anything? That’s going to require patience for someone getting surprising results from various questionable approaches, who suspects those surprising results warrant follow-up but has never been able to get doctors considering those results long enough to take them seriously - they just get discarded and the doctors go to their usual diagnostic sequences, which usually involves a lot of repeating stuff that didn’t work and then just dead-ends from there. That’s what we want to avoid.

We’re definitely in “would pay actual money to just talk for a while to figure out and discuss what next steps should even be” territory here. Neurology doesn’t strike me as a telemedicine-friendly pursuit but maybe it is...

@Cyborgneticz Note: Even if you sci-hub it, always also request it as an interlibrary loan if you are an academic.

The ILL program gets funding based on use, and if people don't use it it will go away, and it has gotten me a BUNCH of stuff that sci-hub doesn't have (obscure journals, books, technical reports)

If you live in a christian-dominant culture, which includes secular europe, critiquing Islam "just as hard" as you critique christianity is aggressive, and it legitimizes violence against Muslims

Two Muslim women were stabbed in Paris today with the person stabbing them making a racist remark during the act

Fuck this narrative that only Muslims are at risk of violent extremism. And fuck the people who fan the flames of division. So, fuck charlie hebdo

In case you haven't heard, legendary satirist Tom Lehrer has released his entire body of work to the public domain. You can download all of his lyrics from his website until 2024, when the site goes down.

At this point only the lyrics are in the public domain, but the music is going to be added as well at a later time.

https://boingboing.net/2020/10/20/brilliant-satirist-tom-lehrers-catalog-now-in-the-public-domain.html

Wget On This of the day: the venerable Tom Lehrer is making most of his songs public domain! https://tomlehrersongs.com/

#PublicDomain #OpenCulture 🐘

I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

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Turns out that the reason the FDA stood up to Trump is DIRECTLY related to the scientific community condemning the actions of the head of the FDA, which gave him the spine to stand up to Trump when Trump tried to push for a vaccine authorization before the election

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6514/266?rss=1

I always hear people ask: is being queer a product of nature or nurture? Are you born queer or do you become queer?

The answer is in fact extremely simple: whichever one makes it so we don't get eugenicized or have more of our rights taken away

this is the last possible image i expected to be reposting with captions, but the information seems too important not to share

a free font from the braille institute with increased readability for people with different levels of visual ability

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont

The above story was prompted by @Momerath !

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#readmystuff #Writing

I'm guessing no one thought they'd be writing this headline with the word "another" in it: "LAX reports another sighting of person wearing jet pack"

Not as close to the airport this time, but seriously, WTF, 2020?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-14/another-sighting-of-person-wearing-jet-pack-near-lax-prompts-new-investigation

I don't miss travel _this_ much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing. - Arundhati Roy

Registration #A613114 - 1962-11-26
Title: Negroes with guns
Author: WILLIAMS, ROBERT F.
Claimants: Marzani & Munsell, Marzani & Munsell, Inc.
No renewal record found.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001268503