re: Personal mental health good news.
For those who're coming into the saga late or could just use a refresher:
rTMS stands for "repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation", a modern treatment for severe chronic depression (and other things!) that uses series of carefully-directed strong magnetic pulses to... uh... shake loose depression crystals? The important part is that it's the only treatment that's ever actually worked for me for more than a few weeks.
I had a wildly successful run of treatment a little over a year ago, then my insurance provider at the time – Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield – decided I'd had enough wellness and stopped paying, so I had to stop treatment. As expected, I ended up right back where I started... semi-functional, and too irregularly to accomplish pretty much anything with my life.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to getting back on these treatments.
Personal mental health good news.
Finally, something goes right!
By that, I mean that Kaiser Permanente will cover my TMS treatments, meaning I get to be something closer to healthy!
Perhaps I should be grateful, but right now I'm just relieved... and trying hard not to make guesses about when they'll yank this away from me like Anthem did last year.
For now, they did something right, and I get to imagine a future again.
THIS IS SO GOOD and i wish id looked for it BEFORE turning my family off of SU with the first few plodding episodes
Flood Order: a means to get a new fan into the show in the most efficient way possible
https://katsuricata.com/floodorder/
Microsoft Edge contains a hidden whitelist that lets Facebook always run Flash, even bypassing click2play policy:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-edge-lets-facebook-run-flash-code-behind-users-backs/
Brexit, ukpol, satire, ghouls, new banknotes
Some suggestions for post-Brexit notes:
More #drawings from earlier tightened today! These six are monster girl designs, maybe for a fighting game?
Self promotion, birdsite link
I guess in honor of getting name-dropped by bestseller sci-fi author Charlie Jane Anders (https://twitter.com/charliejane/status/1096415179917676544) I've put my trans adventure novel Supervillainz back on my website for free: http://alicia-goranson.com/?page_id=44
Still using mIRC? Time to update: https://www.mirc.com/news.html
This release fixes a major security issue involving remote code execution vulnerability that affects all versions of mIRC to date.
Updating would be a very good idea.
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