NilaJones

Gardening, housing, long covid

According to autocorrect, I have pest viral illness and brain of hog

Sounds about right

When I'm not here pestering people about viral illness, I am generally rolling in the mud, eating, or asking a friendly farmer to scratch my back with a stick

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2024-06-08 19:24:02

'We're going to need a bigger graph.
Whooping Cough in England.
This is the fault of the people who think sickness makes you well.
Anti-vaxxers. Natural immunityers. Pro-infectioners. Anti-mitigationers. Immunity Debtors. Most Peoplers. Anti-Maskers. We-Have-The-Toolers.'
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1799021088812507371.html
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/112/582/160/200/977/554/original/210c21962bd1493e.jpg

2024-06-02 05:04:33

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@npub1tj8…z2ed
How do you keep your brassicas from bolting???
I've tried planting in the winter, planting in the spring, planting in the fall... I'm thinking to try planting some this week

2024-05-13 19:41:35

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Don't worry, frayed edges on jeans are stylin!
Looks like you may have a thread tension problem, tho?

2024-04-27 07:49:24

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@npub1v52…qu8a
When -I- was a fledgling, trees were made of wood and leaves! But I guess we have to move with the times, and nest in these metal trees now. At least they are louse proof!

2024-04-01 18:50:38

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@npub1yne…sy9d
I'm thinking we need a solarpunk / hopepunk / clifi book club! Anyone else interested? Zoom?

2024-03-24 05:57:07

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@npub1qjr…kgt0
It's perfectly normal to grieve the life you thought you would have
It's not very much fun, I know. But I don't think there's really any shortcut
You do come out the other side after a while, though ⛅

2024-03-23 20:12:31

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@npub1pmx…exkq @npub1x4n…7h77 @npub1qny…y0sg @npub18fz…hy22 @npub1gxp…8dpd
This appears to link only to the introduction / ad copy for the manual, with no link to the actual manual
Has anyone been able to find the real thing?

2024-03-23 19:28:30

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@npub1asa…n9sr @npub1uha…xx68 @npub14uk…2erc
My rent in 1980 was $100, in an expensive college town

2024-03-14 20:01:13

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@npub1kcp…7tdy
'And you do have to wonder how much of this is Covid-specific, right? Like, if a partner needed you to take extra precautions because they had cancer, or got into a terrible accident, and you wrote an article about what an inconvenience that was, people wouldn't stand for it.'
BINGO

2024-03-08 06:42:44

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@npub1qk5…jlda
If it doesn't, it probably has some viable seed in there
Mullein root or leaves make a wonderful muscle relaxant salve. I put it on my back after working in the garden!

2024-03-03 17:26:34

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@npub1pmx…exkq @npub1gxp…8dpd
I love that they distinguish between SI (common, for the reasons they describe, aka ablism) and depression (much less common)
@npub1gmx…atcq may be interested in this distinction

2024-02-17 21:36:48

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Definitely the spike protein just discovered to lurk in the bones of the skull is completely irrelevant to anything brain

2024-02-17 21:35:58

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@npub1q4w…zz4r @npub1gmx…atcq
Yes it's well known, from 4 years of covid research, plus 40 years of MECFS research
When people say they are out of shape after covid? Really it's their mitochondria. Possibly also the micro clots in their lungs

2024-01-29 01:35:46

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@npub10q3…kgta @npub1gmx…atcq
I would appreciate a link to the post you are discussing. I don't know if I've seen that one?
I saw one where someone said she wished that someone had taught her fighting skills, and offered to sit with her at the principal's office if needed, because that would have been helpful to her when she was bullied

2024-01-18 20:34:40

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@npub1qk5…jlda
I loved watching this! The sound is really good, and your engine purrs beautifully
What are the ladies carrying long poles for?

2024-01-13 21:28:15

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@npub1ecp…59pq
DEFINITELY
I ranted about this to a nurse friend in the spring of 2020
I asked her if she was masking, and she said no
I went on about how people in the community, in her church, etc -- anyone who knows she is a nurse -- if they see her not masking, they are going to think it's safe to not mask
It's not just about her own safety
Another thing I learned in that conversation: She had seen the news stories and stuff, but did not take covid seriously. She was assuming that if it was a serious threat, she personally would receive email in her inbox -directly from the CDC-
I showed her the CDC website, which at that time was saying everyone should mask
This person is a lifelong leftist activist. She is not some MAGA person
The faith people have in the health care system, even people who work within it, is just unreal if you have a disability

2024-01-04 20:06:05

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@npub1pmx…exkq @npub18fz…hy22 @npub1ua6…gx9n
Am I reading this correctly?
1/4 of kids in this massive, massive study have long covid -whether or not- they have ever knowingly caught covid?
Because they have all had it, probably multiple times, and they just don't know it?
💔💔💔💔

2023-12-31 05:45:44

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@npub1zt3…0v09
You need to pull out the chicken wire to get at the clover. Mulch is not going to do it. Clover has huge root systems!
After that, you can lay the chicken wire over the top of the mulch and the plants. You don't need to bury it. That way you can remove it easily when you need to. Like to pick the berries
Traditionally, the way people grow strawberries is in rows, with pathways in between the rows. They let the runners grow into the row, then they mulch over the parent plants, and the runners are the new plants. This is for replacing the plants when they get too old, and are not productive anymore -- which is after one or two good years (not counting the year you planted them, when they probably didn't make any berries)
Your question made me curious, so I searched, and apparently the modern recommendation is to just rip the plants out after 2 or 3 years and plant new ones. Although I didn't see anything, in my quick look, to say why that might be better than using the runners. It seems kind of wasteful!

2023-12-22 04:45:47

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@npub147c…27uk
I've been growing artichokes in zone 7 for 20 years. I get lots of artichokes! Sometimes as many as 30 on one plant
The plants are normally perennial here unless we get a bizarrely cold winter. Even then, you can cover the ground around them to keep the roots warm, and they will resprout

2023-12-14 02:53:24

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@npub1vt2…ejuh @npub1gmx…atcq
What is the diagnosis for people who are insufficiently worried about societal issues?
I didn't know that was a thing, in the DSM
We hear about denial all the time, but it's generally referring to interpersonal stuff, not societal

2023-12-12 06:40:39

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@npub1rul…a37y
'I witnessed almost every publication that I once held in esteem become complicit in normalizing a level of death once billed as incalculable. It was galling, crushing work that wrecked my faith in journalism and its institutions.'
Damnnnnnn...

2023-12-12 06:07:34

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@npub1t2r…qjkt @npub1gmx…atcq
There have been some studies showing people do get long covid from vaccines. But of course it's much more common to get it from actually catching covid!
Anecdotally (I haven't seen any studies that cover this aspect), it seems that most cases from the vaccine follow this pattern: Person gets acute covid, gets long covid, eventually gets better after a year or whatever. Then gets another vaccine, and long covid comes back, maybe permanently
In other words, the same pattern that happens with acute infections. Sometimes people get better, and then when they get another covid infection, long covid comes back and maybe is permanent

2023-11-27 03:16:55

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@npub16zx…xzxc
This is pretty much the stupidest thing ever
I can't speak for other countries, but in the US, women have always been more leftist than men
And most have always had to face the choice between marrying a man who doesn't who really, fully, entirely, support us having human rights, or not marrying a man

2023-11-24 21:33:33

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub15s7…cfsl
Yes, and that requires access to science education
It's like the covid vaccine. For the vast majority of our society, the only education they've ever had about vaccines was when they were little kids and their parents told them, 'this shot will keep you from getting sick.'
So that's what they believe will happen with the covid vaccine
...Except for the people who have had some adult education, and it was on youtube, and it consisted of a charismatic person claiming they were a doctor, and that the vaccine would do horrible things to them

2023-11-24 21:22:18

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub15s7…cfsl
I think another factor is that, just like poor people and people of color, every white woman has been lied to and treated like an idiot by doctors
Once you catch them out at a certain number of lies, you start wondering who to trust. You start being suspicious of all experts
For people to whom personal expertise has been denied, people who have been shut out of universities and STEM careers, the whole concept of expertise is suspicious. Is it a real thing? Do these people really know?
This is another part of how qanon appeals to poor people
The medical system plays a big part in the creeping fascism in the US

2023-04-24 19:38:25

Well that's frustrating. I managed to permanently delete one of my more popular posts. I will attempt to replicate it:
Newly disabled people are feeling all kinds of stuff. The internalized ableism that says they are worthless if they can't produce, shock that there is no real safety net, shock it how terrible the healthcare system is, terror for how they will survive, grief over their lost abilities, and the friends and family who abandon them... It's not only internalized ableism

2023-03-04 19:51:41

@npub1m9u…rmq9
@npub152c…wzga
"One person with the measles virus—a standout among infectious microbes—might infect 15 others within 12 days. But [with] Omicron... a single case [can infect] 216 cases after 12 days"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/omicrons-surprising-anatomy-explains-why-it-is-wildly-contagious/