Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Please keep an eye out for people trying to brand monkeypox as a "gay disease", explicit or otherwise, and push back hard and early!

I've already started seeing the same kind of "the damn gays fucking everywhere" rhetoric that also popped up during the first years of the AIDS epidemic in the US. That rhetoric was directly responsible for (tens of?) thousands of deaths.

We absolutely *cannot* afford to let homophobes gain control over the public narrative around monkeypox, and let them use it to once again kill queer folks by denying them crucially important healthcare.

@maya (Then it'll be an Artisanal GMO-free Wellness Improvement)

@maya Might also be worth looking for a solution where you can genuinely keep your feet up while sitting! Apparently that's actually a pretty good thing when sitting behind a desk a lot, though I haven't read up on this very much.

@maya Ah yeah, if it's leaned back, then the 'raised edge' of the seat can be constricting blood flow in your legs, and lead to numbing - so that's definitely a real possibility. Chairs with extremely sink-in-y pillows tend to have the same problem!

@maya Oh yeah I almost forgot, it sounds like you might have blood circulation issues - you might be able to get significant improvements simply by alternating between hot and cold during showers, even just in the last minute or so (and this doesn't necessarily need to be uncomfortable!), as that helps blood circulation going.

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev what.

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev (Nit: Holand -> Holland)

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev beginner-friendly

@maya My advice would be:
1) Try them out *in person*, and if possible, try them out for a full day (though I realize that especially for cheaper options this is hard to do)
2) If you need to spend a lot of time behind a desk, get two different chairs that put you in different postures, and alternate between them. I've found that this helps a lot. You might want one of them to be a stool instead.
3) The best semi-affordable widely-available option that works for a lot of people that I'm aware of is the IKEA MARKUS. But try it first!
4) Second-hand 'commercial' office chairs can also be a good option. The Comforto 77 is a good option that works for a lot of people.
5) A separate backrest (ie. not continuously attached to the seat) often helps to keep a good posture.
6) No matter how good the chair, sitting for hours on end is always bad for your body. Take regular breaks - use something like Workrave to enforce it, if necessary. I've also found brief equipment-less core exercises to work very well for keeping my posture healthy.

IKEA used to have a *very* cheap and *very* good (if slightly uncomfortable) plasticky desk chair, the ALRIK, but unfortunately it's no longer available :( You might be able to find it second-hand, though!

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev @pleb@hunk.city Hmm, I was assuming from your description that you want to retain messages until they have been consumed by all expected consumers, so that nobody misses any. If so, you'd definitely need something more specific than just any pub/sub queue. Not sure whether Kafka can do this though.

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev @pleb@hunk.city Or replicated/mirrored queue or something

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev @pleb@hunk.city Something something multi-consumer queue?