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Really want a small cake vs really need the dr not to say my abdominal pain is down to my weight… a never-ending chronic illness story 🫠

a man is blowing flames out of his mouth while playing a musical instrument ALT: a man is blowing flames out of his mouth while playing a musical instrument

Them: how are you doing?
Me: I don’t know. I’m listening to a lot of Rammstein 🤷‍♀️

DecodeME: The Results announcement post. The graphic has a blue background with a DNA helix. In the centre of the graphic it says ‘We have released our initial DNA results! We have discovered that your genes contribute to your chances of developing ME/CFS.’ At the bottom left of the graphic is an image of a research paper.

Our initial DNA results! DecodeME have discovered that people with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences compared to the general population.
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Summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
Check out our full preprint paper: shorturl.at/VwN3s

Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illness

#DecodeME #MEcfs #LongCovid #c4news
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Key genetic differences found in people with chronic fatigue syndrome People with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, appear to have eight genetic signals that differ from those without the condition

www.newscientist.com/article/2491...

#MEcfs #MEscience #pwME #DecodeME

I have MECFS it fucking sucks

"Novels take a long time and you could die at any minute, so you should just start now." - Maggie Stiefvater

I LOVE this tense scene on Murderbot, where lives quite literally depend on its ability to make small talk… really brings home how terrifying small talk is for some of us. 😅

congratulations!

eeep won a little prize - girl's still got it 🥳
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As someone who mostly reads horror, I'll never understand the vitriol towards "cozy" books. People say they are escapist, unserious, allowing readers to avoid big issues. And I'm like, girl, WHEN did your dark romance book fix society? Did I BLINK and miss your detective thriller solving crime?

Between Victoria and Seven Sisters You Were Perfect On her journey home, a woman imagines what might have been

Finished the thing I wrote! AND put it out into the world - we are rolling again baby! 🥰🎉

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Wrote something today!!! For the first time in aaaaaages 🥰🥰🥰

painting of a man lying on a pile of books with the text "I don't have insomnia. I have a good book and no respect for tomorrow."

The truth:
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Two photos. In the first, deep in a conifer forest a man in winter clothes holds a reindeer and sprays something from an aerosol can on the antlers. The second photo is of a small town street in the dead of night. Little shops and dim street lights. A deer stands in the middle of the road. It's barely visible, just a feint silhouette. But, its eyes and antlers glow like something ancient and supernatural.

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/)

File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

I’ve got a joke about Echo, but you’ve probably heard it before

#gardening Bluesky I need your best rosemary growing tips PLEASE - I’m losing yet another plant: convinced I’m under some kind of rosemary black thumb curse. One soaked to death in our English wet. One got some kind of spore. Now I’ve no idea what’s wrong. Maybe a bad frost?? Help me! Please 🙏

Vince Gilligan Calls for Writers to Cut Back on Villain Stories Amid Current Political Climate: “They’ve Become Aspirational” The 'Breaking Bad' creator said in now looking back at Walter White, "I think I'd rather be celebrated for creating someone a bit more inspiring."

So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

I’m just going to leave this here; I keep losing it. And it’s my favourite.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149814...

I did it. And no, I am not unscathed

I dislike the idea of flash as just a shorter, short story beholden to all the rules & constraints of short stories. In that case, it becomes a trick of compression alone, a hurried up, stunted short story that caters to declining attention spans. If you write flash, is that what you're aiming for?

Start a big dumb project that's going to go nowhere. It's fun. It's pointless. It's like gambling with free lottery tickets. Any of this shit you just make up could become a bestseller. Give into the literary hysteria in 2025.

a woman in a blue and white dress is laying on the floor with the words she 's not dead she 's just having Alt: Margot Robbie as Barbie in a blue and white dress is flopping on the floor with the caption she’s not dead she’s just having an existential crisis

As of 26 minutes ago I am 35 years old. Tell me WHY I am feeling so weird about this birthday!? 😫

Daniel Craig in Knives out, smoking a cigar, pondering. The subtitles read “Compels me though.”

Reading The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters.
Nothing’s really “happening” in the traditional sense of the word, events are gently meandering along. Characters are neither likeable nor unlikeable, and not driving the story. It’s not strongly emotive; closer to quietly unsettling. And yet…

Don't, it snacks on your words when it gets bored

I'm prone to writing on the move and needing to sync everything. So I just cannot get past that it's not iCloud compatible. I've tried with Dropbox but I loath it. Truly. (Or it loathes me maybe?)
I love the sections in Scrivener though, you're right. They're amazing for hopping about

I've always been attached to Pages for the actual typing out of the words bit, but does everyone else find it super clunky for manuscripts (or is it a skills issue with just me)?

Any #writingcommunity folks recommend their favourite planning or writing platforms (preferably iCloud-compatible) ??? Scrivener and I are having another fight.

The first “working” day of 2025 and our wifi has borked. Completely dead. Bereft of life. It rests in peace. It has run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It is ex-wifi!
And I am not taking this as an omen of the year to come.
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