Bionic Wookiee

@debrierley @MFWitches And your browser.

@MFWitches Problem with Bluesky is it’s only available on your phone.

We’d like to get off this shitfucked hellsite where the owner is now fully in league with (or maybe even more-or-less in charge of) the US government. But we feel we cannot leave till more of our supporters follow us over to the blue place. To leave here or even reduce our posting here will damage our campaigns while we still have 62,000 witches here, which will ultimately help the fuckers now hellbent on turning the world fascist because many thousands of people will miss out on taking action. Please follow us over there at @mfwitches.bsky.social, so we can get the hell out of here at some point. We’ve so much witchy mayhem yet to perform, and so very little fucking time. #ToYourBrooms

It turns out that insulin doesn’t magically freeze if you put it in your checked plane luggage! #ADC2024 #betterposter #myfirstposter

Very concerning when a top-level domain registry disables your domain a month after accepting renewal payment, and then does not respond to any support tickets or accept phone calls. Anyone else having trouble with @COCCA_Council ? (not bionicwookiee, another domain)

@DiabeticDadUK This graph might illustrate it. The improvement in both A1c and TIR was dramatic. Note "AID" is what used to be called "closed loop". You can see when I started AID ("HCL"). And when I went "Fully AID" (removed the "hybrid": no meal announcements) life got even easier.

Good morning, sweet blooded folk. I saw an A1c of mine from 2017. It was 6.9%. I was on MDI (x7 or x8) and finger pricking (x10+) to achieve that. My A1c today is 6.7% So, why do people like me need HCL? Why do you need HCL? #GBDoc #DOC #T1D

@PracticalDeeb @RenzaS Some people who manage their T1D intensively might look at that and say “I wouldn’t want to go down to 70%”. But that’s population-wide data WITHOUT all that work. And the AID systems are getting better. Some of us manage 95+% with MINIMAL interventions thanks to AID.

@RenzaS Community want choice and, in this case, it is a really smart choice. 70% TIR is the average result in large population studies. Overnight levels automatically managed. Significantly less need for correction boluses. This initiative will save lives and improve quality of life.

@RenzaS Inner thigh sometimes. But on facet towards the front. Not interested in having them rub on the opposite leg.

@RenzaS I don’t find it credible either!

@Pancreassassin You mention “screen out” which says that you’re using a pump that has a thick metal case. You know, the sort of stuff that blocks Bluetooth signals…

@RenzaS @BeanditoBetes @glucosegoddesss Oh that graphic really defines it as scam. “Antioxidants”? “Lemon extract”? 🤣 I suppose one of the things I’ve been taking lately is “potato extract”, but that says nothing about what it is!

@IceSheetMike @Pancreassassin Sure. For the Australian Antarctic Division we had to meet the same medical criteria as someone over-wintering there. Just In Case. T1D was an automatic “fail”. I didn’t try to fight it (although these days I’d have a serious conversation about it). I just found another way.

@Pancreassassin T1D stopped me from getting to Antarctica via a “humanities berth” (as an artist) aboard a government resupply voyage. So I found another way, including 3 trips leading photography tours.

@RenzaS I haven’t had that one. But I have had “How bad [or was it “extreme?] is yours?”

@parthaskar Sorry, I looked and couldn’t easily see whose mistake you were quoting. I won’t try to school you in the use of actual “quotation marks” rather than apostrophes. 😀

@BionicWookiee Do you understand ‘quote marks’? It means they aren’t my own words Given that I am one of the leads on #LanguageMatters and helped make it policy in the U.K.? I can assure you I am aware But thank you.

'#Diabetes control is about Individualised care- not blind chasing of targets' A reminder of the consensus statement regards #Frailty- which further amended @NICEComms guidelines -& incorporated into QoF as well Result? Drop in hypos in elderly 🙂 #CPD onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dm…

@loopingntheloup Congrats to you both! Mind you, after trying watchfaces like that I found it really annoying at half past the hour when it was hard to see the CGM details. I won’t be surprised if he keeps changing things around to suit him.

So proud of this wee sausage who set his watch up out of impatience himself while I was at the airport. 🙏 to our #WhatsAppLoopers for the perfect pointing for him & he’s now bursting with confidence and has a better tool to help him. HE told me what his high alarm is to act on.

@bewestisdoing See ya there Ben!

I will speaking at DDATA on what open source needs, and what open source can do next in diabetes. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and data access, data governance issues remain the same. youtube.com/watch?v=c98Twe…

@casuallycatie No, but usually enough for twice the length of the trip.

Do any other diabetics pack over a month worths of supplies for every trip you go on, no matter how short the trip is, or is that just me?

I missed the screenshot, but there was a very unfortunate association of body-type image with T2D in Jorgen Rungby's talk about Neuroprotective mechanisms. I almost spat my drink over my screen. #dedoc #EASD2023

@rama_lakshman1 compared ultra-rapid insulin (Lyumjev) to rapid insulin in @CamAPS_FX and found surperior results. #EASD2023 #dedoc

The auto-syringe ! A must visit at #EASD2023 the stall of diabetesmuseum.de something truly unique #dedoc #payitforward #diabetestech