@pre@boing.world2025-05-31 12:24:33
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world2025-05-29 18:06:45
Do you even lift, bro?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-05-30 14:30:40
As the debate over the BBB moves to the Senate, the immediate imperative is to
expose the damage the bill does to millions of Trump’s voters
to benefit his Mar-a-Lago and crypto-wealthy friends.
But it’s also an occasion to shatter the illusion that Trump is some sort of policy innovator.
Extremism and authoritarianism are not new ideas, and his legislative program would be familiar to Calvin Coolidge.
@coreyjrowe@detmi.social2025-04-30 20:38:18
A trip so nice, I'm doing it twice!
I'll be attending the June MARP membership meeting in Traverse City and exploring BATA again, this time with better weather and my bike in tow. Save the date: Saturday, June 7th, 11:00a-1:00p 🚆
@jpanzer@mastodon.social2025-03-25 02:47:08
@atthenius@fediscience.org2025-05-25 22:12:30
I will sit here.
And there.
And any.
And every where.
Destabilizing work site be d’m’d- I will devote myself to serving the American people.
By continuing my work on sorting out and prepping for extreme weather across the continental USA
Every single one of my colleagues is just as dedicated.
Why am I doing research ‘in exile’?
If it’s a test of my commitment to my mission: bring it.
https://bsky.app/profile/drkatemarvel.bsky.social/post/3lpbwem2yvk2o
@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-05-30 07:28:40
A Be star-black hole binary with a wide orbit from LAMOST time-domain survey
Qian-Yu An, Yang Huang, Wei-Min Gu, Yong Shao, Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Tuan Yi, B. D. Lailey, T. A. A. Sigut, Kyle Akira Rocha, Meng Sun, Seth Gossage, Shi-Jie Gao, Shan-Shan Weng, Song Wang, Bowen Zhang, Xinlin Zhao, Senyu Qi, Shilong Liao, Jianghui Ji, Junfeng Wang, Jianfeng Wu, Mouyuan Sun, Xiang-Dong Li, Jifeng Liu
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2025-04-29 15:38:03
Statement by YDS Dean Greg Sterling.
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We are relieved that two members of the YDS community, Rev. William Barber and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, are safe and unharmed following their arrest while praying in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday. We applaud them for their courage in standing up for Christian values and doing so in accordance with the venerable tradition of nonviolent action.
@jaygooby@mastodon.social2025-05-27 16:34:11
At the beach innit
@matthiasott@mastodon.social2025-05-27 15:38:30
Doing a quick UX/UI audit of a website for a client. And what can I say…… 🤔
