Dormant here now. I'm out. https://teapaw.org/t.co/NU17qgnOKf https://teapaw.org/t.co/GwIH6Eq7ar
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So btw my attitude to Tweets is apparently like my attitude to adjectives: why use 1 when you could use 5? I live in a richly verbal world
I loved that my most viral thread is the one about sea sponge tampons, and it involved the word “clacker”.
If that is my legacy to the world, I am *delighted*.
And probably when I finally get my blog back up and running, I’ll share those posts here.
But removing the ability to block people is just another way of saying, “I don’t care about harassment,” and “I don’t think people should get to set boundaries online.”
It takes away agency. We all need to be able to limit the feed, to choose who and what we engage with.
So at some point I’ll be fucking off.
Which fucking sucks, I love all the people I’ve found here.
I loved posting funny science shit and having it shared publicly so everyone could be entertained and get hysterical.
I’ve been meaning to bounce across to Bsky for a while. I keep not doing it because I’m a creature of habit and the horrific hell of the last couple of years has already made it hard enough for me to get back to who I was before.
To just be myself, online. Without being scared.
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Submitted draft of a report I was working on yesterday, and since it’s been basically alternating “monitor/train/supervise puppy” and “write report” for a few weeks, I was looking forward to some downtime.
And now I feel like a puppet with its strings cut.
I mean this is one hell of a crash — physical energy, mood, pain symptoms — and, look, there have been some triggers the last few days.
Feels like I’ve been hit by the proverbial truck.
People ask me “is scuba diving safe?” and I will generally say, yeah, these days, it’s bloody safe.
…as long as you dive within your training and experience, with a buddy and well-maintained equipment. To me that’s *assumed.* There are redundancies and failsafes and protocols.
So “it is very safe” isn’t a guarantee of safety; more “shitty outcome unlikely,” and sometimes, “here’s what we do to keep risk low.”
We can invest more cognitive energy in grasping a complex situation so that — after a while — a sensible assessment becomes near-instinctive.