Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 11hIt should be feasible! The biggest New Skill here would be working in the round, and the trickiest bit of that is just getting that first circle started. 050
Reposted by Heather ShipmanMarissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Eldercare, exhaustion, and golems in my new story in @lightspeedmagazine.com today, "Until the Cure"! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/unti...lightspeedmagazine.comUntil the Cure - Lightspeed MagazineThe golem who cares for my mother is patient, as I am not patient. The golem who cares for my mother is kind. It is precise. I took everything I wanted to be as a daughter, and am not, and I put it in... 03623
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think about this story a lot. Thank you for writing it, @naomikritzer.bsky.social ! 0166
Reposted by Heather ShipmanMaxim Dvedenidov @pyrohgen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Being an adult is somehow being both the lab rat and the scientist running the experiment. 331245
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not all the bloodwork has come back yet. They took an epic number of vials, though, so maybe one of the others will be more useful. (Eeyore voice): Mayyyybe. 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026which is its own sort of hell; "inflammation" is ridonkulously difficult to research as a layman because of wellness-influencer-slop, so I haven't gone down that rabbit hole much yet. I've been hoping it goes away while treating any of the other piles of stuff that I have that might be causing it. 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026O, the brief excitement of getting a bloodwork result that says HOLY SHIT ABNORMAL, thinking it might finally hold an answer! and then looking up what the test is and it's just, like, "is patient lying y/n" (this is an exaggeration) (it's testing for the existence of inflammation) 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I dunno. I didn't love astronomy enough to put up with... whatever those vibes were. 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In hindsight, that project seems even dodgier: the code was already written, all I had to do was load the film up and run the command. There was no verification that the data had actually been copied correctly. Did it even matter whether I screwed it all up? Was the science not the point of me? 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He was also surprised I finished his fairly simple digitization project in a week, and had to scramble to find another. 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I could never put my finger on why I didn't stick with astronomy after undergrad. Nobody harassed/assaulted me, so surely I couldn't blame it on that? But I often think about the REU mentor who was "so relieved!" that I was pretty. 130
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Doesn't have to be the gut triggering a flare, off. I think a lot of the flare triggers boil down to "I spent more energy than I actually had" and it turns out even just thinking too hard can fit that bill, I definitely have flared into migraines and "flu-like symptoms" just from braining. 010
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A lot of my flares like this were coming from the gut first, even though that's not at all where I was feeling them yet. 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026From an ME/CFS/fibro perspective, I would wonder if the causality is going the other direction - that both the migraine and the ache/fatigue after might be "flare" symptoms, arising from something going on abdominally. 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026(suspiciously) shake that trenchcoat again, see how many more brains are stacked up in there 010
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mine is a pound of ground sausage and a pack of frozen peppers and onions, instead of the lamb and spicier peppers, and just one kind of canned tomato thing, and whichever close-enough spices I could get easily. It is still delicious. 010
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I learned about shakshuka from a Rachael Ray episode, and looking at her recipe I realize I dumbed mine down quite a bit. Hers is: www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rach...foodnetwork.comLamb or Beef ShakshukaGet Lamb or Beef Shakshuka Recipe from Food Network 111
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I always enjoy your articles; I feel we enjoy many of the same things. I wish I understood my own recipe; I'd like to *live* in the sensation of endless delicious books. I'm bouncing off many of the books I pick up, lately - but I think that's an artifact of picking up many more books than usual. 010
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026yeah, "shot, then chaser" seems a relevant/good philosophy here, I think. 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Lately, mine has been getting a strawberry milkshake: delivered. It feels a grand decadence! 010
Reposted by Heather Shipmaniucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay, 218104082356
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Vision... has a dad? ...is a dad? but the "it's a boy" line seems to imply only one kid?? Not the twins? Only one twin? Some totally new immaculately-conceived-Visionbaby?? wut 210
Reposted by Heather ShipmanJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“I better not write this thing I love, or else jerks might interpret it the worst way possible—” Fun fact: if you ever hear this voice, you are legally allowed to beat it to death with mental hammers. 111288461
Reposted by Heather Shipman Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This whole thread is a delight. 015763
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I really enjoyed The Dragon Has Some Complaints by @wiswell.bsky.social ! I sat with chapter 17 (It Feels Like It Never Changes) for a good long while - it really captures the struggle to maintain hope through incremental progress. It's too easy to forget that it *is* changing, when change is slow. 172
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I feel like getting (1) squished in a (2) library is probably, like, a double whammy on one's ability and inclination to make noise? I bet you'll do better next emergency, now that you have had some practice! 190
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026you scream, i scream, we all scream for ice dream? 020
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026(I am not going to die today; I do have the a/c going, and the woozies are much less of a problem these days than they used to be.) 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026(It has really been an Experience to discover the degree to which I *AM* my body, not an independent brain that happens to be carried around by some body-that-could-have-been-a-jar, and there is a lot of Me that I absolutely do not control.) 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Heatwaves, ironically, make my chronic illness(es?) psychologically easier to bear; my heat woozies are prrrobably the symptom closest to being able to ACTUALLY kill me, so the goal for the day becomes just don't die and that feels achievable! I can let everything else slide, guilt-free, for that! 100
Reposted by Heather ShipmanOliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Susanna Clarke on illness www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...theguardian.comSusanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness 025394
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026omg they made Lessons In Chemistry into a tv show! and it's Brie Larson!! i think this is my jam!!! 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026... was it deliberate, do you think, that they cast Doc Ock as the wearily superintelligent octopus voiceover in Remarkably Bright Creatures? that has to be on purpose for the lols, right 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This attempted Earthrise is an atrocity. I was looking for an interesting gray, in the pile of little paint tubes. What possessed me to squee and pick up the copper? the moon is not copper i am now pretending this was an underpainting, as if i know what an underpainting is 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I do not know what reckless courage came upon me to attempt painting on an 18"x24" canvas, instead of a tinier, more easily buried display of my ineptitude. 100
Reposted by Heather ShipmanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.cbc.caNASA scrubs promise to land first woman, first person of colour on the moon from web pages | CBC NewsU.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th... 381578603
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I'm a little bummed about an all-male Artemis crew, but at least (a) it is not also all-white and (b) it's not going to the moon itself; a necessary test, but hopefully entirely boring. I *want* to believe this one's all dudes because the ladies are getting actual moon missions. I hope that's true. 010
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026i like being taken seriously when i present my data 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026"oh, you are *interesting*," purrs my favorite doctor as she peers at my minor but prophetic eczema and looks up obscure conditions and rare side effects 100
Reposted by Heather ShipmanFrankenstein's Mons Pubis 🏳️⚧️💖🏴☠️ @samanthaduke.bsky.social · 29/05/2026My mom finally switched from google to duckduckgo, and has already substituted "ask the Duck" for "google it" No notes 251691390
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026OMG the great CANADIAN baking show has shown up on Roku!!!! (Different judges/hosts, it looks like, but same, whaddyacallit, production team?) 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026i now have one (1) "signature" recipe and it is salted bourbon-butterscotch brownies 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I can pretty reliably bake a pan of brownies, these days, and riff on various flavors. Cookies, alas, are still a little out of reach - individually scooping/shaping is a risky energy commitment, still. But I can do it SOMEtimes, and that is PROGRESS. 000
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My brain fog has lifted far enough that I can read through an unfamiliar recipe and understand it, on a good day! 100
Heather Shipman @heathershipman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I can stand up and lift a pan! I can continue holding it while BENDING OVER to put it in the oven! My heat tolerance is sufficiently restored that I do not risk passing out face-first into the oven when I open it! 100
