Notices by artsyhonker aka Kathryn (artsyhonker@mastodon.art), page 4

@verityvirtue big mood

@distel And I know not everyone wants to cycle that far; but for me, hills are the next worst thing after motor vehicles.

@distel When I Rule The Universe (...sigh) I will make a law that *all* train tracks must have a car-free cycleway built parallel to them.

Railway grade is such easy cycling that it just makes sense.

@JubalBarca Slowly is about it, really.

That, and find local activities to go to that are weekly or monthly so you see the same people over and over again.

@distel I do agree re: trains. Trains should be way cheaper than they are!

@distel I try to reduce flights; I get terribly seasick on boats and have immediate family in North America, so it's not always trivial. I haven't been there since 2014 and will probably have to fly to visit in 2020. I don't drive at all, though.

@garpu Yes, it is confusing.

I worry that a second referendum wouldn't help matters. The first one was only "advisory" yet the government is treating it as something they must do at all costs, disingenuously treating election results (where no major party had a non-Brexit platform) as a "mandate".

I feel like something else is going on, and I fear what that might be and what it means.

@garpu I'm not the right person to ask.

I think RTE has fairly reasonable coverage today:

https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/

Halloween might get pretty weird.

I'm not an EU citizen so can't vote in EU elections but if you can, please do. Maybe good turnout in those could send a message to the UK government about wanting to stay.

@cassolotl Also if I am doing something that requires a lot of dexterity I can always take the splints off for a bit.

I keep them in ice cube trays when I'm not wearing them, so I don't get them mixed up.

@cassolotl No problem. :-) They have really helped me; my hands were getting worse and worse, and now they are getting stronger and stronger. There is some loss of manual dexterity, but that was worse at the beginning, I don't really notice it so much now; and for me it is much better than the constant hand pain I had!

@cassolotl Some of the American sites have decent pictures of the types of splint that are available for different issues. I looked at
https://www.silverringsplint.com/ a lot.

I tried various splints made from wire, too. I found (and hand therapist said this is common) that these were uncomfortable -- they dig in a lot more than flat splints.

I have found the silver splints a lot more comfortable than the plastic.

There are also people 3D printing splints!

@cassolotl I have splints from ringsplintsbyzomile.co.uk and one fancy thumb splint by We Design silver splints (but I needed a hand therapist prescription for that).

Before I had the silver splints, I used oval-8 plastic splints. Some NHS hand therapists will prescribe these and some won't (sigh). I used to buy them from http://www.3pointproducts.eu/ (cheaper than buying them singly).

Basically, I tried the plastic ones first, then upgraded.

The FT seems to have an up-to-date guide that isn't too terrible:

https://ig.ft.com/brexit-countdown/

Are we still careening toward a no-deal exit on 12th April or have we been given another extension because the dog ate Parliament's homework or whatever?

I don't want to leave, but I also struggle to keep track of what's happening without compromising my mental health.

@vfrmedia excellent! @TheGibson

@vfrmedia Did you get caught?
@TheGibson