Cavyherd

"Unity and peace are the fruits of justice—not the causes." —A.R. Moxon

Liegehuman to guinea pigs • Let's not crash the biosphere, plzkthx • pronouns: not particular

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2024-07-07 18:18:49

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@npub1psd…9sr7
"There are no adults. It's just...us." —Lois McMaster Bujold

2024-07-05 18:56:09

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@npub1psd…9sr7
But not ratcheting backwards at least? Small mercies....

2024-07-03 10:43:53

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Only if it was swift & comprehensive. I don't feel like I could depend on the Daleks to Just Get It Over With. I think they'd spend too much time on threats.

2024-06-24 16:36:00

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Well I mean I suppose you could theoretically use it for AR, too. As long as you didn't, like, need to navigate through the room....
Yeah, I was kind of gobsmacked by the whole concept.

2024-06-24 16:26:38

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Have you tried the ultra-cheap/free version? My work's "health" vendor was offering a "VR app": Came with a box you strap to your face that you rubberband your phone to to make "VR" "Goggles" 🤦

2024-06-21 21:49:39

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@npub1hyk…3p33
Link goes to "Oops! That page can’t be found."

2024-06-21 05:18:26

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@npub1asa…n9sr
I am not a baker. I know these words have meaning, but... 😂

2024-06-21 04:21:04

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@npub1asa…n9sr
Possibly dumb question: bc it needs baking? & GG crusts don't get baked...?

2024-06-20 20:52:29

I like lemon meringue pie, but I wish I could find a commercial frozen brand with a graham cracker crust.
Or, more precisely, I wish such a thing was available where I shop....
#Food #Pie

2024-06-18 21:10:53

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@npub1psd…9sr7
You need to give them a stern talking-to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA&t=734s

2024-06-15 13:41:19

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@npub1psd…9sr7
But also a gratuitous nixi tube readout?

2024-06-13 23:26:02

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@npub1hyk…3p33
"When deregulation and markets fail, the answer is always more deregulation and more markets."
From the Department of "If It Doesn't Work, Do It Harder."

2024-06-07 19:08:35

So I guess frozen orange juice concentrate isn't a thing anymore?

2024-06-01 05:40:03

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@npub1f2y…m58m
Yeah, I was...unimpressed.
The first half moved along reasonably well, but it seemed like the second half, they were scaling down to the more personal stories and just...didn't do that as well...?

2024-05-31 00:25:01

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@npub1psd…9sr7
It says something when informed people not even living in the relevant country are celebrating....

2024-05-29 17:57:34

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@npub1psd…9sr7
"fettling"? 🤔 This is an interesting usage. (& also, TIL a new word!)

2024-05-18 04:06:09

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@npub1khx…geyg
Oh geez. I think I'd have to study a la carte. I could never settle down to just one subject.
& the more you know about different stuff, the more different stuff becomes interesting.

2024-05-15 23:39:53

via @npub1hyk…3p33, this right here is why, when an experienced coworker suggested I use AI to learn how to code, my reaction was basically, "HAHAHAHA LOL no."
https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1773779967521780169

2024-05-14 20:23:56

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@npub1psd…9sr7
> "Queen Carmilla"
Am I detecting a dreadful joke this Yank is unequipped to get?

2024-05-14 19:48:44

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Good heavens. I do that *without* chemical help. That sounds decidedly hazardous!

2024-05-14 16:09:57

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@npub1ljz…4ags
4/4:
https://wandering.shop/deck/@[email protected]/112439805447255389

2024-05-02 07:19:25

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@npub1qlu…5xtc
#science #TerryPratchett #Alt4you
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/369/802/702/847/215/original/ddd35a988cb2c933.png

2024-04-23 04:06:19

Seriously, is there anything better than the umami salty brown crunchies off the edge of the frying pan 😋
#Food #Cooking

2024-04-11 19:56:05

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@npub17z6…4mp8
The implicit corollary is, of course, that "Kids are too dumb to be cis," also.

2024-04-10 21:33:30

Whoa—!
I just accidentally combined raw sweet onion with coffee ice cream and—that was actually *really* interesting. And not in a bad way at all 👀 🤯
#Food #Flavor

2024-04-10 21:25:59

Okay, this is incredibly cool. Went in to get my blood draw for my work-sponsored labwork this year, and this is the contractor my employer is using:
I'm particularly delighted by their logo.
https://tribaldiagnostics.com/
#Indigenous #HealthCare

2024-04-10 04:15:21

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@npub1k4q…3lsq
Heh. I have to wonder what she would make of somebody like me who decided fifty years ago that I was never going to own a car, because of environmental reasons. (And, well: ::waves hands generally::)

2024-04-06 19:30:08

Time to re-up this from Awkward Yeti: (Nick Seluk)
https://linktr.ee/theawkwardyeti
#trauma #MentalHealth
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/225/512/346/654/681/original/a062ea5885c659c5.png

2024-04-02 18:58:45

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@npub1asa…n9sr
This was the practice's Zoom equivalent, and there was a whole bunch of build-up, "Sign in fifteen minutes early! Do your tech check!" 🤦

2024-04-02 18:03:06

Now on my first telemedicine appointment w/ my doc.
Any bets on whether they're any more punctual online than they are in person?

2024-04-01 22:05:36

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@npub1asa…n9sr
Huh, how interesting. My skin otherwise generally runs to the dry side. It's just That One Ear that has a tendency to clog up. Smaller ear canal, or something? 🤷

2024-04-01 20:51:16

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@npub1asa…n9sr
wut
Statins? Huh. I wonder what the mechanism is. (Well, I guess they affect fat metabolism, so maybe not as left-field as it seems at first blush?)

2024-04-01 18:48:38

TFW you're sinuses are clogged except it's just your ear plugged by wax.
#WhyAreBodies?

2024-04-01 02:22:16

So, the #sewing gods smiled: not only was there (almost) enough thread in the bobbin (but another full one in the drawer), but my #ADHD stochastic teleportation relaxed and my good sewing scissors even turned up: right where they were supposed to be (and absolutely Were Not the last two times I looked).

2024-03-31 16:55:42

Opinion:
Is hummus warmfood or coldfood?
#Food

2024-03-26 17:35:09

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@npub1qzc…yetl
It'd be really neat if we could come up with everyday some nuts-and-bolts Things To Do to forward this ambition.

2024-03-22 17:40:29

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@npub1asa…n9sr
Mine does to. But that's mostly to protect *them*.
(& I *think* H₂O₂ is more about prefenting infection from injury, but I could be wrong.) Anyway, they don't have doors on their cleaning rooms, & the HEPA filters are in the hallways, and unmasked support staff wanders in & out, so I'm hoping this'll be an effective extra level of mitigation.

2024-03-22 17:14:53

So somebody explain to me why an MBA doesn't contain a year of: "Okay, we now have a mature product that works well and people using it and depending on it. How do we not screw that up?"

2024-03-22 17:13:16

So, I've got a dental cleaning today. I hope the dentist still has "Wear N95s around this patient" on my chart. If not, somebody's getting a Talking To.
Meanwhile, I'm going to give this a try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUJGYM894Bw
#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #Covid

2024-03-21 01:13:22

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@npub1ntq…rg38 @npub1748…kuje
And also: those scams typically filter for folks who aren't paying *quite* enough attention....

2024-03-18 05:23:25

Okay, that's...next level. I contrived to sit with my legs crossed in such a way, that I cut off ALL feeling in my left leg below the knee. Like, I can feel a bit of pressure on the arch of my foot, but when I put my foot down on the floor—bupkus.
Oh, this is not going to be a happy experience while it comes back 😖

2024-03-14 20:13:43

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@npub19h0…2gqw
Okay, what slays me is that there's a perfectly functional skateboard, scaled just to that turtle's size, available on the market (although I suppose it could be homemade)

2024-03-12 15:34:43

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@npub1se6…cmph
It's so frustrating. Like, "Really? You can't take the bread out of the plastic bag before tossing it in the bin?"
& people seriously can't be arsed to walk the extra eight feet to get the recycling into the Actual Recycling Bin?
I guess we're supposed to be grateful they don't just dump it on the ground alongside the contents of the night's chambe pot??

2024-03-10 18:37:20

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@npub10n9…tjug
After I moved into this place 30 years ago, I resolved that when I move out, it'll be in a body bag.

2024-03-10 16:38:00

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@npub156n…mvgw
"Win your effing brains out, dude. Enjoy!!"

2024-03-10 00:52:44

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@npub1se6…cmph @npub18lj…80hq
Bonus points to #Mastodon for the ability to follow hashtags. This was something I didn't clue into until I'd been On Here for nearly year, & it was a complete game-changer once I discovered it.
(Also, def one of those "Why tf doesn't EVERYBODY do it this way??" features.)

2024-03-10 00:49:31

Pro-tip: maybe *don't* eat a load of choc choc chip and coffee ice cream if you're about to embark on an #anxiety-inducing task....

2024-03-09 23:48:20

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@npub1r4h…u0jf @npub1tmp…jy3t
"Rabbit hole" is an entirely inadequate metaphor to truly convey the hazards of that class of problem.
FWIW, my solution would be to assume Mercator, adjust the frame until it "looks right," and move on. But this is not the focus of my particular nerdery, so I definitely see where the problem would lie.
#ADHD FTW

2024-03-05 06:54:14

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@npub1xus…550h
Splashy splashy! "Ack! A human's watching me! I'm gonna be calm and dignified—oh who the hell am I kidding?" Splashy splashy!

2024-03-01 06:10:06

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@npub1gmx…atcq
That's a mammal. I can tell by the fur. And I'm assuming there are two appendages there...?
I can't even work out the orientation with any confidence 😂

2024-03-01 02:21:20

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Sadly, at this point, it seems
s/or/and/ 😢

2024-03-01 00:49:22

Gods, I'm getting tired of chewing my tongue off resisting the urge to lecture people about their carelessness around covid.
"You haven't tested negative until you've tested neg twice consecutively 48 hours apart."
"Oh, the CDC says kids' cases are milder? THIS CDC? The same one that says one day of isolation as adequate?"
"Tired but 'productive enough' ISN'T RESTING. NOT RESTING is a set-up for LC."
FFS. Really hard not to be angry, bc It Doesn't Help. But 🤬🤬🤬🤬
#Covid #CovidIsNotOver

2024-02-18 18:26:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I don't know most of the jargon, & this is hilarious 😂

2024-02-14 16:12:14

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@npub1psd…9sr7
That somehow seems very on-brand for them 😏

2024-02-14 05:28:51

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@npub1gmx…atcq
#CDCsays if it doesn't kill you, you're not trying hard enough

2024-02-07 16:17:13

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@npub1psd…9sr7
The pink crepe neck ridge just really makes it.

2024-02-05 06:38:18

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@npub1gv8…uu0q
BWAHAHAHAA you're so cute.
Do you have any IDEA how much money the tax prep industry pulls in?

2024-02-01 11:09:52

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@npub1wga…r29c @npub1fal…x5g3 @npub1gmx…atcq
Except I really want them in N95s, so I took a liberty with @npub1wga…r29c's image:
#CovidIsNotOver
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/855/675/592/430/529/original/b0fd70972bacf4e1.jpg

2024-01-31 16:50:46

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@npub1fal…x5g3 @npub1gmx…atcq
"unless you feel some sort of obligation to your community, she said."
Does she—not hear herself??

2024-01-31 05:44:14

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@npub1dq0…glnl
I've been valiantly resisting the urge to create a video of me sitting in my normal position, looking into the camera.

2024-01-28 23:53:22

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@npub1d62…tshf
I did get an actual live human response when I reported it. They asked for more detail, it wouldn't reproduce in the moment, and then it got lost under the tsunami of the week.

2024-01-28 23:43:35

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@npub1d62…tshf
Thanks for the reply. Nice theory, but:
This is often coming from a screencap (which *should* be a simple png) opened IN Preview, copied & pasting TO Preview. (Maybe even usually.)
Like, "Oh, I see you copied something that looks like it's an image of a Pixelmator window! Okay, I'll helpfully tell you it came from Pxm!" If I select a copy area that breaks an window frame of a window, THEN it'll copy over. But WHY?? Like, HOW does that make any sense?

2024-01-28 20:58:05

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@npub1d62…tshf
This is one reason I have a deep love for Mastodon's edit function.

2024-01-28 20:54:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7
I'm trying to work with a vendor to get documents containing our information edited and uploaded to our website.
This is proving to be, what you might call, an "iterative" process.
I really can't help but wonder how much of this has to do with covid.

2024-01-28 20:45:03

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@npub1d62…tshf
You laugh, but as I was taught in my NLP training, "the brain does not get negation." So if you're trying to change a habit, you're FAR more likely to succeed with a "I want to do [thing]" than "I don't want to do [thing]."
Don't think of a blue horse, and all that.
My favorite wording fail is to leave out the crucial noun that makes the rest of the sentence many any sense at all.

2024-01-28 20:30:33

God dammit.
A friend is in the hospital (with a cancer that I strongly suspect is a consequence of covid). I'm probably not going to get a lot of time with him left.
He mentioned he wants to find an aid to walk with him around the third floor. But, "Yesterday the staff was overloaded."
I would volunteer to go walk with him.
But he's in the hospital.
Where patients aren't masking. And the staff is masking with surgicals.
😭🤬😭 >
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsNotFuckingOver

2024-01-28 12:34:55

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@npub1d62…tshf
In fairness, leaving off a crucial word is a really common typing fail. (Especially in the last few years, for some reason—it's one I'm really prone to.)
Worse, typos in headlines can be really fucking hard to spot. My favorite example: Science research center opens the first box of completed annual report: four color glossy publication. Pull out the first copy—only to (finally) spot the glaring typo. On the cover. In the title.

2024-01-22 04:57:34

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@npub16nf…q6as
Wouldn't the sun be *setting* over the Pacific Ocean as viewed from the California coast...?

2024-01-22 04:54:10

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@npub16nf…q6as
Wait—

2024-01-15 18:04:57

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@npub1gcs…uxx5 @npub1xr8…3q0g
I'm reminded of that time I think it was Senator Allard came to the research center I worked at at the time to talk to us about "global warming" and argue that it was all hokum. "Why, we exhale carbon dioxide all the time! How can it be a pollutant??"
One of my deepest regrets is that it didn't occur to me at the time to say, "Okay, if you think CO2 is so harmless, let's tie a plastic bag over your head and see how long you feel that way."

2024-01-15 16:08:04

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@npub14ka…um78
Linen? I thought linen was a plant fiber.

2024-01-15 01:34:37

Anybody out there use #MacOSSonoma? Can you explain to me why it steadfastly refuses to copy some images? All I get is some text indicating which app the image would have come out of? It's infuriating.

2024-01-12 05:09:40

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@npub1gmx…atcq
I wish my weather forecast would settle down. First it's gonna snow. Then it's not. Then it's gonna get ridiculously cold. Then it's. Maybe it'll be windy? Maybe not!
Guys, just roll a D20 already, geez!

2024-01-05 22:36:50

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Oh yeah, THAT'S a good idea 🤦 😬

2024-01-03 19:00:51

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@npub12ld…d8ag @npub1lvw…fuem
I imagine getting steamy & sweaty becomes an issue, as well.

2024-01-03 18:24:41

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@npub1lvw…fuem
I looked into getting one of those a couple of years ago. They're expensive, & they kill hearing & peripheral vision.
The AIR2 is a less-bad solution (no hose & filter/fan box) but doesn't solve the vision/audio/expense problems.
https://microclimate.com/products/air2-x-microclimate

2024-01-03 06:48:55

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@npub14ux…jx88
Something for which I will be forever grateful was the segment in 7th Grade Social Studies class on Advertising. Laid out the various techniques, such as "bandwagon," "endorsements," & so on, & how they worked on the audience's mind.
I don't remember if it was ever said explicitly in as many words, but the Tl;dr I came away with was, "to whom is it useful that I believe this?"
Has provided grounds for a very helpful skepticism, ever since.

2023-12-26 22:08:29

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@npub1hgr…2e7r
I was going to make a donation, but unfortunately, doing so requires a 2FA code sent to what appears to be my landline 😢

2023-12-07 17:46:54

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@npub1psd…9sr7
I enjoyed this video that came across my TL yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1KY

2023-12-06 17:00:32

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@npub1xyj…6rzz @npub18q7…00xv
Where yours has "inny" ridges, his has "outies."
I particularly love its little glaze feetsies. Those are what prompted me to wheedle him into giving it to me 😊
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/534/303/002/502/823/original/f62dcfd02bde2e52.jpeg

2023-12-06 16:40:05

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@npub1xyj…6rzz @npub18q7…00xv
I have a bowl that Jon made that is in somewhat the same spirit. I love it very much.

2023-12-06 16:25:24

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@npub1xyj…6rzz
@npub18q7…00xv 😊

2023-12-06 05:11:00

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub16hm…xt0c
Speaking as an American: 💯

2023-11-05 02:10:16

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@npub1psd…9sr7
both and...?

2023-10-28 21:22:43

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@npub1psd…9sr7
It's going to be fascinating to see how this plays out. And by "fascinating," I mean, "Yeah, I decided in 1970 that I was never going to own a car, and it looks like that was possibly a more sensible life-style choice than I'd realized at the time."
Modulo an actually *stronger* presumption of car ownership in the local culture, despite my town's commitment to "walkability." City policy doesn't, sadly, dictate the location decisions of local employers. :-\

2023-10-28 21:16:27

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Also electrified cargo and commute bikes.
& also: it's not like current battery tech isn't it's own special environmental/social nightmare....

2023-10-28 21:14:59

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@npub1psd…9sr7
One of those "on balance, actually good news, but BOY is it going to be a bitch getting there" problems....

2023-10-28 19:59:05

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@npub1typ…c8hh
Just think what we could do if we could replace all that polyfoam packaging w/fungus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoA6vUD-h8

2023-10-21 20:54:55

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@npub1psd…9sr7
@npub1l56…3q52 @npub19q3…ezrr If you haven't seen this conversation, I suspect you'd enjoy it. It seems...relatable.

2023-10-08 16:50:06

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@npub1hyk…3p33
We presume @npub1ept…jcl3 has been alerted to this....

2023-10-07 19:45:05

So I've got a question.
I'm in the middle of reading #kimstanleyrobinson #MinistryForTheFuture, and it's very interesting, but I am (unsurprisingly) noticing a yawning void where #Indigenous thought about planning for the future would be.
So my question is: Is there a work (or works) of fiction (or nonfiction, even) that approaches the question MftF tackles, but from an Indigenous framework?
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Future #ScienceFiction #SciFi

2023-09-23 03:03:51

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Yeah, but the nurse didn't ask; she just DID it. +1 bc I didn't expect to get *any* follow-through. ::strut::

2023-09-23 02:59:37

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Had my yearly physical today. Rocked my N95. Waiting room was empty, & they got me in quickly so I didn't feel the need to go wait outside. One staff member behind the front desk was actually masked! (surgical :-\)
A couple of minutes into my session with the NP, she asked, "Would you like me to mask?" "Yes, please." (Or, I thought to myself, you could just put one on w/o asking.) (Surgical again, but I'll take what I can get.) Nurse came back with my flu vax—masked.
2 points!

2023-08-31 04:37:56

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@npub1agu…j0sk
How do they hold up? I read some of them back when they were comparatively new. The field has, shall we say, moved on, since. Maybe time to do a reread. I have a lot of those on my shelves.

2023-08-31 03:57:52

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@npub1agu…j0sk
Can't quote sources, but I thought #StarTrek's use of the term was explicitly a call-back to Asimov?

2023-07-12 20:51:32

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@npub156n…mvgw @npub1hgr…2e7r
I mask everywhere indoors except my home. (I even mask while passing through the short common hallway to go outside.) I don't mask outdoors with one or two friends. Around more people outdoors, I generally mask.
I avoid being around other people indoors where ever possible.

2023-07-10 23:46:41

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@npub1nxt…055a
The other thing that blows me away is the production quality (styrofoam boulders notwithstanding). I had only ever seen them in black and white up until /very/ recently. There are still a very few eps I haven't seen in color (which I hoard to my soul like a fine vintage whiskey).
The lighting alone in these things could be its own master class.
#StarTrek

2023-07-10 23:44:50

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@npub1nxt…055a
Same same. Just finished "Charlie X," and I'll never forget the first time I watched it as an adult.
As a kid, I was all Team Adults, but with some history and human experience under my belt, it's just heartbreaking now, watching Charlie struggle to connect and Kirk just absolutely tripping over his feet. >
#StarTrek

2023-07-09 20:34:33

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@npub1d62…tshf
It's very weird; I generally much prefer 1st person, for just the reason you cite. But my stuff always winds up coming out 3rd? This puzzles me.
As to what I'm good at? I like dialog and I /feel/ like Im good at it, but I haven't really had enough readers to have any sense if I'm actually good at it.

2023-07-05 20:06:51

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@npub1psd…9sr7
This here former-colony resident endorses this ambition and cheers you-all on!