IMAGE ID: "[#changing your #taste for the #cissexuals' palate is to #sacrifice your own #tongue" in black text. there are #wolves on either side of the text with a black border and white background. black stars and #trans symbols decorate the image. END]
@Lazarou@JackTheCat I remember being told by a cider maker that hanging some meat in the vat improved the taste - so the odd rat falling in was fine as long as the filters worked 😳
And there is a decen West Country cider called Black Rat - coincidence?
"There's plenty of things the Biden administration is getting very, very badly wrong, but we shouldn't lose sight of how its progressive wing is making real, lasting change for the better. Competent Administrations are the true peoples' champions."
The most consistent bright spot in the dark swirl of US politics is the competence of the Biden Administration's progressive enforcers: people like #RohitChopra, #JonathanKanter and #LinaKhan, who keep demonstrating just how far a good administrator can go. Anyone can have a vision, but knowing how to execute is the difference between hot air and real change:
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Thank you for your replies about our concerns with UX.
To explain the context, we worked a lot on the UI/UX due to several feedback. We didn't push all that work on our git but that was somewhat a fail.
We asked the help of UX designers and we wanted to open a collective dedicated to that work.
But, we were deeply surprised to see so much messages telling that the UX was OK. We were not used to it.
“We performed fungiform papillae biopsies on 16 patients who reported taste disturbance lasting more than 6 weeks after […] infection.” “In all patients, we found evidence of #SARSCoV2, accompanying immune response and misshapen or absent taste buds with loss of intergemmal neurite fibers”
Taste (5min) https://www.doc.cc/articles/taste
Great short read on subjectivity, gatekeeping, and the risk of leaving words undefined. Taste is the ability to identify quality. And it can be trained and acquired. #Design#Taste
Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".
Marcel Duchamp once noted in a 1968 interview with Francis Roberts, “If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved—bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.” For those fortunate enough to live in post-industrial societies, where choices are now nearly limitless, taste is everything. Taste shapes what we purchase,...
Do you believe that #music heals? I do. The #curator behind "Another Day, Another Track" is processing a traumatic accident through music curation and tells me why she thinks #sza's "Ghost in the Machine" is a critical song for understanding humanity.
“Excess risk was 17% at 6 months
More #COVID19 survivors than controls had symptoms at 6 months (adjusted risk difference [excess risk], 17.0%). Excess risk for some symptoms in infected participants was 2% to 10%, with the greatest excess risks for altered #taste or #smell (9.8%), post-exertion #malaise (9.4%), #fatigue (5.4%), shortness of breath (7.8%), and impaired #concentration (8.3%) and #memory (5.7%).” https://campaign.openworlds.info/@nedhamson/110470605974824545
How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1 — Die, Workwear! (dieworkwear.com)
Marcel Duchamp once noted in a 1968 interview with Francis Roberts, “If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved—bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.” For those fortunate enough to live in post-industrial societies, where choices are now nearly limitless, taste is everything. Taste shapes what we purchase,...