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cavyherd

@cavyherd@wandering.shop

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

Misincarnated Martian • Liegehuman to guinea pigs • Let's not crash the biosphere, plzKthx • pronouns: not particular
#StarTrek #GuineaPigs #Stargate #Sense8 #Writing #ScienceFiction

Avi: blue & red Yin/Yang symbol, transected by black & white question marks, the dot of each centered in the loop of the other. Profile img: colorful sculpture like what an spider might weave if she could do embroidery, & was on an acid trip.

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pluralistic, to random
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I, a total stranger, was thinking of befriending your kid, but before I did, I thought I'd ask you, are they a boring, selfish jerk?

It's fine if they are, I'm just really trying to find quality people to be friends with, so I thought I'd ask you, is your kid a dick?

Wait, don't get offended! How are people supposed to know whether to hang out with your kid if you can't answer a simple question?!

cavyherd,
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@pluralistic

WRT the last paragraph of that screencap: "Sure, Jan."

cavyherd,
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@glitzersachen @pluralistic

Indeed & just so. & one may hope that "Jan" comes to appreciate the effort involved after some number of attempts at doing so.

cstross, to random
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Wrt. Trump, all I can say is:

FOUR MORE YEARS! (In Prison!)

cavyherd,
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@cstross

It says something when informed people not even living in the relevant country are celebrating....

cstross, to random
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5/29: What's the average time to complete a writing project between the idea and publishing it?

I'm trad published: production takes 12 months, in lockstep with hundreds of other authors.

Time to write a novel … I started next year's "A Conventional Boy" started in 2009 and finished it in 2023, which is a new record for me. But 2015's "The Annihilation Score" squirted out in just 18 days (then a couple of weeks for fettling and polishing)!

Long term, I average 1.5 a year.

cavyherd,
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@cstross

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

cavyherd,
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@cstross

Well, given that the definition references hearths & furnaces, I would deduce that it's an old term.

It's just new to me—which I find delightful & astonishing, given that I have a not-small vocabulary, and yet still run across New (to me) Words fairly frequently.

(Bonus points for English of non-American origin/usage 😊)

_L1vY_, to random
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I've said it before but I'll say it again.
It's not that everyone I know who had has developed terrible new medical issues.
It's that everyone I know who has developed terrible new medical issues recently had Covid.
And in every case I'm thinking of, it's become a health crisis within about three months of their most Covid bout. (Usually not a bad bout, either.)

cavyherd,
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@_L1vY_

Just lost a friend who had covid last October, was diagnosed with MDS in November, which progressed to Leukemia in April.

I don't know there's a connection, but the timing seems...concerning.

afewbugs, to random
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"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.

cavyherd,
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@afewbugs

It's a variant of the Vimes Boots principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

cavyherd, to random
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via @pluralistic, 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

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

cavyherd,
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@RickiTarr

People really have no concept of how involved "functioning in society" is, which is one (of many) reasons why the cult of the "individual" is so pernicious. Most of "privilege" boils down to social connection: navigating schools, jobs (& the job applications), personal finance (which is heavily dependent on having one to learn effective financial skills & thinking from), interpersonal relationships that then provide resources to fall back on in crisis....

& on & on & on. >

cavyherd,
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@RickiTarr

It seems like the foster system assumes kids will just pick this stuff up "naturally." They don't put half the effort into preparing kids for the adult world that wildlife rehab workers invest in, say, raising up condors for reintroduction into the wild.

(Of course, that effort presumes awareness of the level of instruction needed, & the impression I get is that foster systems typically struggle just to keep kids fed & housed.)

bruces, to random
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*Giant "battery" tubs full of hot sand. This really has a post-apocalyptic tech feeling about it

https://youtu.be/bZ9TyJ1bQ3Y?si=5MG8-WAEyGGAGJmj

cavyherd,
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@bruces

I wonder why sand & not water?

franco_vazza, to Astronomy
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new Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on its way towards Earth, although producing a smaller event compared to last weekend.

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/540/20240513-m6-6-solar-flare-with-earth-directed-cme.html

(Radio astronomer in the house is freaking out again because her observations must be rescheduled again 😬 )


video/mp4

cavyherd,
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@franco_vazza

Why is this year reminding me more and more of Heinlein's "Year of the Jackpot?"

compost, to fediverse
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The reason why we would love to see more accounts talk about composting on the is simple.

You will be able to focus on your area and explain to local people what they can compost and where they can get their organic matter.

You can create a local community that will help your local area make a better place.

If we started this account it is for a main reason. Make people understand that by choosing to compost they can have a positive impact and do something about the .

So creating a multitude of local accounts that will allow people to organize and make their area a better place is a very powerful thing to do for the .

cavyherd,
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@urbanmicrofarmer @Bon_Jardin @compost

Are you aware of sharewaste.com? That's how I found my current composter who takes the output from my guinea pig cages. (Our municiple contractor stopped taking anything but food scraps and plant cuttings, so the newpaper would have otherwise gone to landfill.)

cavyherd,
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@urbanmicrofarmer @Bon_Jardin @compost

Composter reported that two cubic yards of finished compost went to the tree planting project at a local high school a month or so ago. This made me very happy.

mastodonmigration, to random
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Notice. For those who may not follow astronomical news our Sun is "going through some things" this week.

Huge Coronal Mass Ejections, the largest in decades, directed towards Earth took place yesterday and will result in a severe Geomagnetic Storm arriving tonight and tomorrow morning. There is potential for disruption of communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations.

For much more on this event @AkaSci has this excellent thread: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112413669499567336

cavyherd,
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@mastodonmigration @AkaSci

Hm. I wonder if this accounts for the outage on my Masto instance?

(I love getting news like this a day too late to prepare....)

COVID19_DISEASE, to random
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⚠️ BREAKING

MERS Outbreak in Saudi Arabia puts health experts on high alert

The pathogen, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, is a close relative of SARS-CoV-2 but has a far higher fatality rate – 35 per cent of confirmed cases have died, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO expects that less serious and asymptomatic cases have historically been missed, which could also affect the overall case fatality rate.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/mers-outbreak-saudi-arabia-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome/

cavyherd,
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@COVID19_DISEASE

What does it say about me that I read this & just laugh bitterly.

jonny, to random
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My labmate had never heard the truth that "furries run the internet/develop all critical infra/etc." And it got me wondering how that came to be. Has anyone written like a cultural history of how furries came to concentrate in sysadmin roles and whatnot? It could be that theres no story it just is that way, but I wonder if there were notable examples of like "a team at Bell Labs in the 1960s were all furries and..."

cavyherd,
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@jonny

@ksonney ☝️❓

renegadejade, to random
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Caught between “haha, get fucked fascists” and the reminder that simply using a restroom risks violence.

cavyherd,
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@renegadejade

One could concuss oneself with the facepalm

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

cavyherd,
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@PJ_Evans @mekkaokereke

Pretty sure nobody in my lineage was on this continent two hundred years ago.

cstross, to random
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I am having a brain fog day—the worst in some weeks (months, even). Can't work. Should probably go back to bed.

cavyherd,
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@cstross @slashdottir

Reminder (shared with me when I was having similar "it's not as bad as some" struggles): It's not a competition.

I also have to regularly remind myself that rest & self-care now increases capacity later.

thor, to random
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Get your weird haircuts or your tattoos or piercings.

Doesn't make you a non-conformist. That's just cosmetics.

How about making non-conformist life choices? No decoration needed.

Problem is that this is risky. Most people just want to appear bold. Much easier. But also a lie.

cavyherd,
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@thor

Take, for example, cars.

I decided, a very very very long time ago, that I would never own a car.

Normally, it's mostly just tedious. Since the pandemic, it has risen to become whole-ass problem.

And the decisions makers cut no slack because: everyone has cars, amirite?

RickiTarr, to random
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This feels appropriate in the moment:

cavyherd,
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@RickiTarr @shadow

Oh god what now?

New shenanigans? Or more of the same with variations?

TonyStark, to random
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Junk health insurance plans are a bad deal, often leaving people with thousands in medical debt. Junk health care plans mislead consumers and don’t offer real coverage.

The new rule announced by the Biden administration is an important move to crack down on junk health insurance, protect patients, and ensure access to quality health coverage. #BidenDelivers

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Landmark Rule to Protect Americans from Junk Health Insurance |
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/28/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-landmark-rule-to-protect-americans-from-junk-health-insurance/

cavyherd,
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@Barbramon1 @TonyStark

Don't have time to read closely so not sure if this angle is covered, but what's pinching me right now is dental insurance. My dentist of 15 years has left the network my work provides, which means I can stick with them & pay $134 for a check-up & cleaning?? (Which is supposed to covered 100%??) out of pocket—or change dentists.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

Edit: I don't even want to think about the next time they want to give me a crown—that's already $650

cavyherd,
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@Barbramon1 @TonyStark

::snort:: No. This practice now makes me pay up front, then the insurance sends a check for the portion (about half) that they'll cover.

Yeah, I didn't figure the initiative would cover dental. We seem to have the idea in this society that having healthy teeth is somehow a luxury.

suzannealdrich, to Writers
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Any here? Are you fans of Scrivener, or Ulysses, or perhaps Obsidian Notes? Looking around for a writing system that will be future-proof. Also love the idea of using Markdown because that’s what my blogs all use now.

cavyherd,
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@LLS @clive @suzannealdrich

Okay, that's kind of brilliant....

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