Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
If you get well into adulthood and all your addictions are expected not to kill you, though, you got some choices right.
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If you get well into adulthood and all your addictions are expected not to kill you, though, you got some choices right.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Excuse you
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I do think that terrorism charges in this situation would continue to be answered by the contained argument in the form "dude, it's not terrorism just bc someone has feelings," though.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's be careful about what we take it as meaning, bc the judge didn't specifically say "with prejudice" and there's not a jury yet, so most likely the same charges could be brought again if the prosecutors improve their presented evidence in specific ways.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Authors will research ANYTHING.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Damn, I thought maybe there was a chance of knowing someone who knows someone who would be in a position to spoil a kitteh.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
@weathermannx01.bsky.social Do you have college friends around there?
Jessica Kant (@jessdkant.bsky.social) reposted
Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to âhighâ
ashley fairbanks (@ziibiing.com) reposted reply parent
our public school system only teaches kids to take tests and then we are shocked they donât know how to do anything else? or that they canât solve âcommon senseâ problems when theyâve not been shown how to play or use their imagination or given unstructured space without entertainment?
Diane Duane (@diane.dianeduane.com) reposted
WE WERE THERE FIRST. LLMs only have em-dashes because *actual living writers* have used them for 100+ years. LLMs use them because *we used them first* and they stole them *to sound like real writers.* SCREW THE WRITING MACHINE! Read REAL writers. And reject the machine that steals from them!
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Still bonkers to me how the same people got so excited to complain about him -- when it's not as if he was even doing something blatantly disrespectful like mooning the flag -- as also make fun of other people as "triggered."
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, in ice creams, if the company isn't shrinking the container, there's a good chance they're whipping more air in so you get less actual product. (I had a professor in undergrad who'd worked in an ice cream factory before he graduated.)
Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social) reposted
âI trust my immune system. I donât need a vaccine.â Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers donât enter the ring without a plan. Itâs the punch you donât see coming that knocks you out.
Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social) reposted
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Please tell me they have a script that generates ads from popular searches and didn't realize it would lead to that.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Fitbit: *buzz on wrist* critical battery Me: Honestly? Same
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
A phrase some people need to get into their repertoires is "oh, wow, [if accurate]* that's particularly disappointing." *insert in case of unconfirmed allegations
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
The Craft Gods are kind for giving good things which answer many types of prayers.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
OK but I mean it's literally the point of those things that they're different colors, so the number one might need is limited only by the spectral resolution of the human eye.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, I figured it was because knitting needles for normal/small yarn sizes can't be ergonomic but loom hooks can and peg spacing can be small.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Hell yeah, an abnormal result! (Normies would be so confused.)
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Oh, frick, do I need to actually *do* stuff on LinkedIn, for career jumping into legal work? (I technically have an account, set up a while back, but have barely breathed on it.)
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Literal Nazi shit.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
The lower third in the preview frame is just remarkable in juxtaposition.
Anna Holmes (@annabookwriter.bsky.social) reposted
I donât think being racist, ableist, transphobic, homophobic , antisemitisc, Islamophobic, white supremacist is civil. At all.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
It's almost as if the names are made up and we just stopped assigning new ones.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I think, the way they figure that up, it means more purgatory first but eventually yes in most cases.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
If the Nazi is on the ground, since legs run stronger than arms, stomping is more effective than punching.
Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social) reposted
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
IDK why, the people I've talked to from that country have all seemed like decent sorts.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I was thinking 12.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Y'all's branch of the spiritual family tree has some points about some stuff.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Excuse you
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, for all that one might argue with Luigi about, he seems to have accurately identified his main problem.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
PSG, WSP
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I just skimmed; would "assholes who beef with other assholes for not being enough of an asshole" do as a takeaway message or did I miss something important?
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Why does my lime juice bottle say the serving size is one teaspoon? The serving size for lime juice is yes.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
And then Bedazzled Oval Office is absolutely blowing out people's tackiness meters everywhere.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
These days I say "well, I'm vertical" bc it's factually accurate and better than some options but I'm not going to oversell how well it's going either.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
And now the timeline brings me an example! bsky.app/profile/saff...
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
They say it was rodent populations following agriculture that gave cats the idea to hang out with humans, and, fair, but the way cats are about boxes, it wouldn't shock me if the development of basket weaving was involved as well.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Congratulations! He thinks you're ready to learn to hunt!
Plague Poems (@plaguepoems.bsky.social) reposted
I confess that I have little patience for those who crow about how we must protect and value every single life but who canât be bothered to wear a mask.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Might need another round of workshopping to fit it rhythmically to the tune.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Now I'm thinking about the exchange rate for damns and fucks 𤣠bsky.app/profile/ebri...
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Related: bsky.app/profile/sheo...
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm convinced that knees, ankles, and backs are as sketchy as they are because of nature making bipeds by just tilting up quadrupeds. Joint configurations that were fine with less gravity on each and the ability to tripod around whilst healing are not fit for purpose for bipeds.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I got a Boox reader -- it's actually an entire Android tablet but with an e-ink screen, so can run Libby, Bookshop, Kindle app for my previously existing collection, etc.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
I may raise a ceremonial glass to the firefighters and the passengers on that one plane, but it's well into time for things to be in the past damn tense.
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
Just got home. I figure some of you might need a timeline cleanse at the moment.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
How did you do itâ˝â˝â˝
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
like = ugh
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Y'all, I'm not *celebrating*, but my damns to give are finite and the set of things to give a damn about is large. I therefore do not have a damn budgeted to give for a certain event from today's news.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
...wtf is wrong with people? That's a topic where your dataset can't help but be more on point than theirs.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck cancer! And congrats to you and your medicreatures on said fuckening!
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
There's half a point in under there in that some universities have become three businesses stacked and wearing a tertiary education trench coat for tax purposes. However, I still feel they should do drug company patents first.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I suppose the answer to that question does help clarify where we are on the periodic table of fascism. Either way it's radioactive, but there's develop cancer in 20-30 years radioactive and then there's melt your skin off immediately radioactive.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone even know anyone who got the *class* pizza party, though? IME someone always messed it up.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
That could be on merch.
Fun (@funkelly.bsky.social) reposted
Hey can everyone report this post and account? This m AI account is attempting to trick people out of $4 by telling them it can diagnose Covid just by then m coughing on their phone
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Why not both?
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, that's why it's a trade-off rather than an ideal change... fluoridation does get to places other interventions don't reach (though bottled drinks limit the effectiveness there too). The real solution to trolley problems is stop tying people to the tracks of course.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
For me it's more to do with Raised By Wolves, but like, yeah. I could live with yeeting fluoridation and declaring mouth/teeth parts to count like any other body part for medical insurance purposes... it's a trade-off, but a defensible one.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
When they tell me to shut up, I just scream louder.
Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social) reposted
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't throw me in that briar patch.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Dammit, you're probably right.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Got me pondering whether it would be feasible to convince that type of pet owner that the actual rabies disease causes pawtism, not the shots.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Funnelface!
Michael Collins Morton (@mcollinsmorton.bsky.social) reposted
Early in the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, capitalism demanded a return to "normal," which resulted in essential safety being abandoned and Covid-19 being allowed to spread without any control. Thus was our fate sealed, and our current situation of ongoing harm rendered inevitable. #COVID19
PoP Nova Scotia (@popns.bsky.social) reposted
"Youâre not building immunity. Youâre accumulating injury."
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I knew the thumb thing was a bit of extra bendy (and filed it in the "hmm, something there" collection next to my ankles that really like a bit of support from boots), but, the fingers going past 180° thing too? Well, have I got news for me.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, isn't that just what hands do?
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
For example, what if a whole lot of the symptoms of aging are actually post-viral symptoms and we just never could tell for lack of a control group?
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
The absolute hell of it is, even sketchy countermeasures drove a major branch of the flu family tree into extinction! If people had improved countermeasures just a little instead of buying into the Urgency of Brunch, who knows what disease burden could've been *permanently* done away with?
Peter Morley âżď¸ (@petermorley.bsky.social) reposted
I want to give those of you who have not been exposed to this new strain of Covid a warning. It is very insidious. I have had it now for almost 3 weeks it does not want to go away. I thought I was getting better, but now having a problem breathing. Please be careful especially the immunocompromised.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Does throwing and fetching a tennis ball constitute work?
Dr Abolish ICE and Destroy Fascists (@pwr2dppl.bsky.social) reposted
Autistic affirmation: it's okay to need information
CisHet Billionaire (@bennettelder.net) reposted
Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
The way I figure it, as long as that and my fabric/yarn habit collectively stay cheaper than therapy, I'm doing OK.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
We actually used our hand-crank USB charger/flashlights when the power went out in the freeze, to charge my battery/handwarmer (and then our phones from it). When you use a handcrank charger to charge that, you get a little warmed twice!
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I'd kind of rather never need my tourniquets and quik-clot gauze, and at the opposite end of the seriousness spectrum I've had bandaids' adhesive go unsticky before getting all the way through the box. Definitely still good to know it's there though.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
You are my people
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
So what I'm hearing is a fire safety precaution actually led quickly to fire fuckery.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Make America Healthy Again by... hiding the risks of boozing?
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't accept payment in moldy fuzz.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Basically the verbal equivalent of how I occasionally buy first aid or survival supplies to shut my anxiety up about something, then.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
On the other hand, a person could do worse than to consider these sorts of questions beforehand and prepare and practice delivering answers as well. Obviously one can't prepare for everything, but it'll increase the chances of having an idea of how to structure a response that's on point.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
I could understand using that phrase if there weren't a more accurate easy way to refer to the intended time, but there are plenty of better options depending on exactly what you mean. "During the shutdowns" is my go-to.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you post your articles anywhere off Substack? I'm interested in sodium batteries so would really like to read it!
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
You're home?!?!?! đťđťđť
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Taste side effects from nasal sprays can also be from postnasal drip into the back of the mouth. If it's that, drinking something to wash it down is usually effective treatment (but might need repeated often).
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
If I have to read your stuff for work or something, whatever. But, if we're talking recreational reading? I have all of AOOO to choose from and three cards loaded into Libby. Do *not* expect me to fight your unscannable formatting; it's not going to happen.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Apparently trivial thing that will cause me to DNF a book within a page or two: lack of paragraph visual styling. I prefer first line indenting, but can live with the space between method. It's the unbroken left-flush wall that'll yeet me straight back out.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social)
Just Adulted So Hard i.e. made pasta salad for the week bc it's still too damn hot to cook individual meals
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
The only one I see assuming things here is you. I was brainstorming solutions.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally why it's called that *frantic handwaving* And even if she hadn't heard of the particular thing, like, wildlife licks their butts.
Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 (@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social) reply parent
The thing is, I could even comprehend a choice to roll the dice bc antibiotics exist, but the next step is to pop into a medical environment for the antibiotics to start on and you can throw them away if the rabbit tests clean.