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Kirsty Hall
@kirstyhall.bsky.social
Artist & purveyor of obsessive projects. Scots bi feminist with MECFS. Had arse cancer, it was tedious but it's fixed now. Cis/her. No terfs or fash. Insta: kirstyhallartist/
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Haha, as if my oven shelves are clean enough to cook on! He’s having a laugh.

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It’s a constant struggle keeping on top of it, isn’t it. I have to wait for the chicken to cool down before I can go back upstairs, so I’ll nibble away at it over the next half hour.

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Leo Szilard, on escaping Germany the day before the Nazis closed the borders: "In order to succeed in this life, you do not have to be clever. You don't have to know what the future may bring. All you have to do is understand what the future may bring one day before most of the others do."

Typewritten manuscript of what was probably an oral dictation that Szilard made in 1960: "Perhaps because such an important part of my life evolved during the first World War. I had the tendency to limit my possessions to what could be held in two suitcases. I think I would have
preferred to have roots, but I couldn't have roots I wanted to have
wings and to be able to move at a moment's notice came to be important to me."
(continued) "Now that, for a second time, there was a major upheaval in Europe — now that there was war again — I benefited from having wings and of not having roots. After the Reichstag was put on fire, I lingered for few more days in Berlin. Having given up my apartment there, I lived in the Secretary House of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin Garden (?), and was thus in close touch with the scientific community of this Institute. My colleagues found it difficult to bring themselves to believe that the Reichstag was set on fire on orders of the German Government. Germany has always been a very orderly country and setting fire to the Reichstag appeared to be a very disorderly thing."
(continued) "After a few days, having listened to all of my friends give their interpretation of the situation, I took a taxi — I locked my two suitcases, I picked up my two suitcases and drove to the railroad station where I took the night train to Vienna. I expected the train to be packed; it was empty. There were Nazi guards on the frontier but they didn't bother any of the few passengers who were on the train. In contrast to this, the same train which reached the Austrian frontier on day later, was jampacked. The passenger were asked to leave the train on the Austrian frontier and their luggage was searched and their purses were searched. Many were turned back and were refused permission to leave."
(continued) "All this goes to show that in order to succeed in this life, you do not have to be clever. All you have to be is a tiny little bit cleverer than most other people are. You don't have to know what the future may bring. All you have to do is understand what the future may bring one day before most of the others do. As a result of a chance encounter in Vienna - by the time the wholesale dismissal of professors of the Germans got under way, I found myself in London."
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Made myself a tasty dinner AND cooked a big pot of Tuscan chicken for the freezer. Now sitting here wondering how on earth I can manage the kitchen clear up. Cooking with a chronic illness is a constant challenge.

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JBgarius.bsky.social

UPDATE: I ended up feeding them anyway as my wife was asleep. Have just finished streaming, and discovered that once she woke up they were adamant that they HADN'T been fed and managed to secure an extra dinner each. So Team Cat won there.

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SLuntonuggan.bsky.social

[Death, starvation, medical neglect]

Maeve’s ME/CFS ultimately left her unable to eat or drink and lacking proper care she slowly starved to death. The coroner’s conclusion that “There is no known treatment for ME“, missed the point entirely. So have others who’ve implied that Maeve died of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Maeve was not asking for treatment – she was asking to be kept alive. Other people have been as sick as Maeve and survived. Other people have even been as sick as Maeve and fully recovered.

The difference is that they got care – and it wasn’t specialized ME/CFS care or care that could not have been done in a hospital or even at home: they received the kind of care that people who cannot eat or drink get as a matter of course, and that made all the difference.
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SLuntonuggan.bsky.social

One thing I was talking about with my therapist is how the Venn diagram of "people who have experienced PEM that forces you to lay in the dark and quiet for days and try not to think too hard so you don't crash again" And "people who are well enough to talk about those experiences" Is very small

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I once asked my mum what the Swinging 60’s were like and she relied, ‘Pah, they weren’t swinging anywhere except for a few streets in London’. I always remember that when people hype up particular parts of the past.

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Sroannasylver.bsky.social

Most confusing thing to me is, who the fuck ever said there was money or fame in SFF short fiction Like I adore it but come on now, they couldn't think of anything more lucrative to cheat at?

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And why haven’t any of Gail Carringer’s books been adapted? Her gay ones are way too spicy but Parasol would be a fab universe to televise.

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Kirsty Hall
@kirstyhall.bsky.social
Artist & purveyor of obsessive projects. Scots bi feminist with MECFS. Had arse cancer, it was tedious but it's fixed now. Cis/her. No terfs or fash. Insta: kirstyhallartist/
147 followers100 following271 posts