doephin @Doephin@awoo.space

@Phorm Instructions unclear, accidentally summoned a bottle right behind you

@catgoat Screen tearing / frame lag on the windows version maybe?

Seattle has a (much smaller) local one that's open again. Time for a visit I think.

Looks like a big pinball museum in CA is closing, combination of COVID and that sort of thing being niche and kind of expensive to run :/

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/a-look-back-at-the-museum-of-pinballs-huge-collection-of-games/?comments=1&start=80

...probably for the best that I'd be outbid for any of them 2-3 machines I'd want to go for >.>

@Soreth @Soreth Would you accept a less fancy restaurant with an ocean view and really good fish

(I may be jonsing for Kona here)

@catgoat hey broken in similar ways buddies!

..it sucks

So I've been kind of iffy on my doctor for a while. He doesn't understand the concept of "acceptable side effects"- every time I mention I can tell the asthmamedicine is working because it does funky things he freaks out. He doesn't seem to consult or make notes at all, so he'll mention wanting to do tests then drop it unless I bring it up, cover the same stuff over and over. Oh and he's very reluctant to do any sort of pain management, gets very hand wringy about the potential side effects.

He's moving to a new practice soon, so I had decided to stay with the alternative doctor they offered, problem "solved".

A week ago my hip went VERY BAD and I was in the ER for eleven hours. X-ray, CT, MRI, all not very conclusive.

On the follow up visit, the new doctor wasn't available so I got the old one once more. When I mentioned the pain was less he said "So what do you want to talk about?" and I did a ???

eventually he came up with a list of several possibilities and after dithering referred me to a rheumatologist.

Then he outed me to the provider IN THE REFERRAL EMAIL.

I wrote to ask WTF and he profusely, over-reactedly apologized, and then I felt like I had to explain that wasn't the only reason I wasn't going to seek follow up care with him anymore for the reasons above and now *I* feel like the asshole for some reason?

@Phorm @JulieSqveakaroo you work with enough noxious shit they're probably good to have on general principle. won't stop gasses and I'm sure there's plenty of chemicals they're contraindicated for but "asshole didn't wash off all the nasty dust" seems like a co worker you would have

@JulieSqveakaroo @Phorm listen to the roo for the roo is wise

Also consider an n95

@Phorm Oh yeah if you're already having pressure issues spiro probably isn't a good option at all.

So you're probably familiar with this but rectal will work- but it'll absorb things *fast*. I suspect this tends to lead to very spiky E levels.

@Phorm Soreth's issue was pretty classic low blood pressure BTW. This is how I got spiro approved back in the day when trans healthcare wasn't covered; I had high pressure and "just happened" to pick the one that blocks T

@Phorm So my deal was ~100mg of spiro, plus injected 0.4ml /biweekly of 40mg/ml estraodiol, and that did fine. Spiro is not the best option as AAs go, and some people can get away with just flooding with E instead, but it's generally fine.

Swallowed E does have a reputation for weak effects, IIRC sublingual, patches, and injections tend to have the best reviews and are as a bonus less liver stress.

Unfortunately a lot of the variation isn't well studied medically so this is more oral history and black magic than science.

@anthracite Like the ADF filed a court case claiming ruining sports. Because a catcher on the other team had short hair and therefore must be trans and cheating.

I still wanna know what huge feat of athletic prowess they think the poor girl did.

@anthracite then the bigots would cry about ruining sports *and* still find a way to whine about trans people participating

Cursed discovery of the day: Gmail allows sending attachments not as attachments but as GDrive *links*. Naturally there are no indications which is which until you open the email

Result is I now have a bunch of emails with "attachments" that don't exist. I almost certainly have the files- I am a compulsive data hoarder- but it's still annoying as hell

@Phorm @Soreth Mentioning Jafar at this point probably goes *really badly* doesn't it :D

@anahata@tech.lgbt the full pic is a little higher tech than Shadowrun :) but thanks!

So you might recall that WD Mybook Live mass wipe from ~last week. It gets weirder!

It turns out:
-The devs commented put the password check in their factory reset code
-The drives had been hit by another exploit that had them running a bot net
-User data was probably just collateral damage in a rival botnet taking that one out!

Internet of Shit everyone!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/hackers-exploited-0-day-not-2018-bug-to-mass-wipe-my-book-live-devices/?comments=1

And just when Seattle cools off a bit...the air quality drops to orange because fuck you.

(it's not wildfire smoke, the heat is from a high pressure dome meaning the pollution just will...not...leave..)

@JulieSqveakaroo More worried about gunking up the internals. I have an air purifier in the same room for the output