Lily Ballard

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Rustacean 🦀. Code witch. Mother. Autistic. Fibro. Plural. Apple. She/her.

[janey! @janeylicious]

it was nice knowing y’all. 2007-2022, wow.

births, deaths, everything in between: met the wife here, made friends, met amazing people, had multiple career/life 180s and still found community. i will miss everyone! i don’t love mastodon so i’ll just be floating around lurking. ❤️

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@a_hoverbear @grhmc @wilsonjholmes If you install fish via Nix outside of NixOS you can also override it to inject the nix profile at the same point that NixOS normally provides its own env vars, though sadly this requires rebuilding fish as it has to write a file into the same derivation.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I've been covering bad parts of the internet for long time now.

For years, there was one site extremist researchers warned me not to cover because publicizing it would be dangerous.

But it's time people know KiwiFarms—and how they're chasing political enemies around the world.

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@bilm @kabojnk @AphroditeSW @jeffmc I know I’m 2.5 years late to this news but, fuck.

[@[email protected] @yaahc_]

If you thought carbon offsets were a scam, just wait till you see the new kind of offset that cloudflare came up with!

[@[email protected] @yaahc_]

I've never checked and never plan to but I know ppl who who've been attacked by this site and wouldn't mind having one less hate group to worry about

[janey! @janeylicious]

ohh me too. a dr ignoring me until he saw me w/an mcat prep anki deck, the next 15m was unsolicited lecture on his specialty.

my multilingual dad w/icu delirium, the yt drs thought him rude until i said he had a medical degree & wasn’t speaking english. whiplash from that 180 🙃

[void angel 𒌓 @egregirls]

poll -- 3 polls

do you have cPTSD, BPD, or think you might have it, and/or went through trauma and neglect to the degree that it shaped you (trauma/I'm fine)

do you think human beings are mostly kind of gross, only sometimes being able to transcend that (gross/okay)

[janey! @janeylicious]

every fucking time they are white, and it is a variation of kidnapping, nanny, or adoption. there’s also q’s about externally visible genitalia of the kids.

bonus: if they know there’s not a husband, they want to know which vagina birthed them (none!) and if we used donors. 🤮

[hasherezade @hasherezade]

- where do you see yourself in 30+ years?
me:

[janey! @janeylicious]

2 years of medical intervention to ttc, 2 awful pregnancies w/hemorrhaging and 9mo of HG, and 2 kids later: no trouble removing tubes but everyone pushed back on a hysto. it‘s been easier to explore from a gender affirming standpoint than just that i’m fucking done with it. 🤨

[janey! @janeylicious]

i would love for apple to come out with a simplified privacy-preserving guide to tracking cycles in the Health app, along with changes to make sharing and off-device storage of this data more difficult and with a warning.

paper tracking can be a nonstarter for disabled folks 🤷🏻

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@isaiah Wow that sounds really bizarre. Kinda neat to consider but probably had some logistical problems when dealing with young kids 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

I got diagnosed recently with fibromyalgia. I’m not sure if there’s anything really to talk about with this, I just realized I hadn’t shared that here.

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@isaiah Thanks 💕 And yeah I’m sure I’ll find something now that I have a doctor that actually cares

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@isaiah I’m really glad it’s working for you. It looks like it’s approved for fibro as well, but I’ll have to talk to my doctor to figure out what’s the best for me

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@isaiah 🫂

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@isaiah It turns out there’s a drug used off-label for fibro that can really help with the sleep problems, but it’s literally GHB 😅

[Lily Ballard @LilyInTech]

@isaiah I’ve heard that Gabapentin can help. I used to take that for some nerve damage. I was trying Effexor but the side effects are not great, so I need to talk to my doctor again about the next thing to try.