Dr Zara Bain

Lol, LMAO even

Beloveds! Frenemies! Those of studied indifference!

We’ve got an unexpected gap in our processing queue for transcription work in particular that I’d love to fill ASAP — who needs transcription support, and who knows people who need transcription support?

Come and talk to us! We can help

🗃️ Skystorians and genealogists- this is a case of using an LLM to search for archival records at The National Archives, Kew- which showed hallucinations. Interesting read though not unexpected

Idk it’s not been shocking to me at all as someone who was very much stuck without access pre 2020

Make something a crisis measure, then claim to end the crisis? Measures are gonna disappear

I'm in two minds about this because yes I'd rather they tried *at all*, but I also get so frustrated when something's advertised as hybrid and then isn't accessible to me because my sound-sensitive autistic ass cannot handle bad audio quality.

prob still prefer they try, but ugh.

That’s fair, I think I’m just v done with the “nope! No trying! Hybrid is OVERRRR” posture

And then I remembered the entire epistemologies of ignorance conference with zero remote access who were like “but you could fly here with your kids and we’d have childcare? That help?” No reader it did not and guess which perspectives would be systemically excluded guess guess guess

Today’s reminder to be angry brought to you by a note about a social ontology conference that said “in person only”

Like yeah my guys, fuck the people who can’t get into the room! Got sick kids? Sick yourself? Up yours!

Just even have an iPad or laptop with Zoom so people can listen in, even if it’s not Done Well

Nobody but university management gives a shit if it’s Done Well, the rest of us know the bar is in hell

If you’re hosting in-person-only academic conferences, may I say a hearty fuck you!

Yours sincerely,
An academic who pre-COVID needed remote access and couldn’t often get it with hugely marginalising impacts on my and others’ like me capacity to contribute to knowledge

I am home with the kids all day with a stinking headache and a mid cycle period but at least I have stronger antibiotics and we’ve got the pickler triangle (it’s a giant four parter one) out

Just what you need with pancreatitis 🤒

I had similar with COVID but never with non COVID

they gave me IV fluids and my body’s gone AH I KNOW let’s have a mid cycle full on new cycle period yeah sure sounds good

Hive mind some help please:

Has anyone else had a thing where a big infection (bacterial or viral or both) has mucked around with their menstrual cycle especially by dragging it forward by weeks?

I am quite tired

got home via uber with a nice guy who when he learned I’m originally from Harlesden told me a story about having his new air jordan’s stolen off him as a kid and having to go back home to Acton on the bus in just his socks

I probably would have, what a twat

upside I am lucky to encounter doctors with knowledge of EDS who are like “let’s just get you a big bag of fluids to feel better, EDS patients tend to like that”

got a bacterial infection on top of this viral infection lads, boooooo

WHAT NO

honestly I am so full of contempt for people who listen to things on their phone with no headphones in medical waiting rooms TURN IT OFF OR GET HEADPHONES

LOOK AT THEM THEY ARE PURRFECT

woke up with a massive migraine and so ended up in A&E via 111 and ambulance and now awaiting a bloods review, entertain meeeee

just in case we didn’t get it!! Yknow! In case it wasn’t all clear enough!!

everything they say about sex being really about power for men who want to start a forever war bringing the full might of its lovingly decal’ed and signed and petted military arsenal against girl children in schools

waging war on children getting an education in a country often framed as barbaric, with bombs sent from a country whose leadership would prefer its girls in paedophile sex trafficking rings

Bombing any school is atrocious but a girls school feels particularly something especially during, you know, everything

The only radical idea that anyone has ever had is accountability for people with power.

All else is mere reform.

My god, that WAS last month