Personal
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Personal Posts
![Leaving Twitter FibroJedi - Leaving Twitter aka Flying the Nest](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2024/04/fibrojedi-leaving-twitter-flying-the-nest-500x281.jpg)
he question of leaving Twitter has been brewing for many months now. While I can be very reactionary, when I know there are knock-on effects for me, or it impacts others, I try to take my time. I...
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![Profile: Fibro Jedi Fibro Jedi Author Profile Page | History, Background, Subject Areas and more.](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2024/01/fibro-jedi-author-profile-500x263.jpg)
Find out a bit more about Fibro Jedi, his background, interests and more. Connect with me over Social Media, explore my world, and more →...
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![Website Server Move Notice FibroJedi Server Move 2023 Info and tatus](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2023/05/fibrojedi-website-server-move-2023-500x281.jpg)
Before getting into the boring stuff, I want to say thank you for giving me this "problem"! It's because of you people using my website so much that I need to take the next step in improving the syste...
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![So Much To Do Blog: So Much To Do - But I Do Not Need to Carry It All](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2022/06/so-much-to-do-not-need-to-carry-it-all-500x281.jpg)
A random post explaining how the content I make here will change soonish, what my focus is and what I will/won't be doing →...
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![Why Are People Anonymous on Twitter? Why are People Anonymous on Twitter - some arguments for and against](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2022/06/why-are-people-anonymous-on-twitter-arguments-for-and-against-500x281.jpg)
I write under a pseudonym on Social Media. So why are people anonymous on Twitter - and what are my reasons? Here you go! →...
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![WorldAnvil Review for Fantasy Writing Review of WorldAnvil for Fantasy Writing - How I use their World Building tools.](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2021/09/review-of-worldanvil-for-fantasy-writing-500x261.jpg)
How I moved my fantasy world-building over to World Anvil to take advantage of their tools to enhance my writing....
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![Meet my Patreon Supporters! Huge thank you to my Patreon Crew from FibroJedi (FJ)](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2021/06/thank-you-to-my-patreon-crew-500x261.jpg)
Everyone in the world relies on someone or something to be able to live. Even the most independent people may still have a job, or want a home delivery or need to see friends. It's just part of how we...
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![Like Butter Scraped Over Too Much Bread I felt like Bilbo Baggins - Like Butter Scraped Over Too Much Bread](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2021/01/like-butter-scraped-over-too-much-bread-fibrojedi-reconsider-your-life-500x261.jpg)
In recent years, most major life changes can be traced to being caused by, or massively-influenced by, health crashes. There are exceptions of course, the birth of NJ simply coincided with a total...
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![An Introvert in a Digital Extrovert's Clothing Have I Been an Introvert in a Digital Extrovert's Clothing?](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2020/11/have-i-been-an-introvert-in-a-digital-extrovert-clothing-500x261.jpg)
Chronic moaners aside, we live in an extrovert's and optimist's world. Posts saying "look at this amazing thing" are more attractive than "I did a thing, look if you want". Charismatic, outspoken lead...
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![I Don't Have Three Hands I Don't Have Three Hands - What I am Keeping and What I'm Dropping](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2020/07/i-dont-have-three-hands-500x261.jpg)
A few days ago, I had three drinks I needed to carry up to my office. I took one drink in each hand and told my three-year-old daughter I would be popping down for the last one. Her response to mos...
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![It's Okay to Not Be Okay - an Update from FJ Its Okay to Not Be Okay - Why Im taking a Month Off](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2020/06/its-okay-to-not-be-okay-500x261.jpg)
It's okay to not be okay is a phrase that has long been part of how chronically-ill people relate to each other. However, it's only been in the last year or so that it has gained prominance. Even the...
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![In There Somewhere - A Poem About My Mum Behind the Dementia In There Somewhere - a Dementia Poem about my Mum](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2020/02/in-there-somewhere-dementia-poem-500x261.jpg)
As at the point of drafting this, my Mum is in likely last-stage Alzheimer's Disease. She's had, as I see it, rapid-onset dementia because a couple of years ago all she had was poor memory. We don't k...
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![I Will Respawn - My Decision to Stop Streaming I WIll Respawn - FibroJedi is Stopping Streaming](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2019/09/stopping-streaming-i-will-respawn-500x261.jpg)
I am in the process of drafting a cross-game blog post this week. In it are various life lessons reinforced by those games. But I have to remind myself of one in particular: defeat is nothing to be as...
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![When Social Media is a Force for Good Social Media is a force for good! A story about a lost wedding ring.](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2019/04/social-media-is-a-force-for-good-500x261.jpg)
Social Media often hits the news for all the wrong reasons - and we do need to address those. But I'm not giving the negatives any airtime here, because I want to celebrate when Social Media is a forc...
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![You Behind the Illness - Who Am I Underneath the Fibromyalgia? You Behind the Illness - Who is Fibro Jedi behind all that pain?](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2018/05/you-behind-the-illness-fibro-jedi-500x261.jpg)
This "You behind the illness" post lets you get to know me better behind the pain, depression & anxiety >>...
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![A Need to Focus and Not to Focus A Need to Focus - and Not to Focus](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2018/01/need-to-focus-500x261.jpg)
My first blog post here on Fibro Jedi dates back to 11th August 2015, a crazy 2½ years ago. As with my Twitter account, it was originally set up to vent into the Void about living in Chronic Pa...
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![Happy Christmas from the Jedi Happy Christmas from FibroJedi](https://fibrojedi.me.uk/shocemsy/2015/12/happy-christmas-500x262.jpg)
I have finally finished work for 2015 and am taking virutally a virtual holiday. You guys and girls have blown me away with social media follows, tweets/retweets, comments and have taken this wee site...
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