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RT @mimismartypants@twitter.com

If you are hiking in a group and waiting for slower people to catch up, don't start walking again when they do catch up, because then you got a rest and they didn't.

I think about this tip a lot, in many different contexts.

The workers of the GMG Union -- my former workplace and a union I helped organize -- are officially on strike.

Among the issues they're striking for include ending the practice of forced relocations (which led to the mass departure of The Onion AV Club staff), remote work rights and full coverage of transgender healthcare costs.

How can you help? While the strike is ongoing, do not visit or contribute to any G/O Media websites (Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and The Root)

🦆 ipa for horse noises
🦆🦆 "ipa" horse blow snore snort
🦆🦆🦆 +"international phonetic" +"place of articulation" +"nostrils"

Good morning everypony! Today, may you have immunity to propaganda

Today, may neither of your mutual enemies' plans survive their first encounter with each other. May you, you survivors all, gain safety again.

The moment any other desktop publishing or word processing software adds the equivalent of InDesign's "GREP Styles" I will switch to it immediately, because that is basically my favorite feature and I rely on it.

FUN FACT: the "bystander effect" is bullshit

during the first "studies" done into it, the test subjects knew it was part of an experiment... so that data is completely useless. more recent studies done using actual real scenarios recorded on security cameras show people will nearly always intervene unless there's a danger preventing them from doing so

nscr.nl/en/bystander-blijkt-we

#VantaFacts

(rolls on the random encounter table:) A pit pony with cute little eye protectors is here. Its kobold friends have attached a little note to its harness that reads "frendly, NOT a monster! Wont attak, just wants carots + scritchs"

Who called it a dumpster fire and not a binferno

Horizon: ZD and forward (non-spoiler) 

Aloy keeps on complaining about how she was born to be the only one who can save the world. It seems bit of an overstatement. Sure, she's strong and smart and whatever, but that's all lagniappe; her raison d'être boils down to "breathing keycard".

New and improved‽ (mh+) 

I wish I'd switched to the other type (figure-eight coil) of TMS system earlier. The last couple weeks have been much better for me mood-wise. Also, the new place is way less expensive.

Also, Orrery starts a new job in a few weeks, and these folks take employee health insurance seriously. TMS might be covered, but even more importantly, I'll feel more confident actually going to the doctor for things. I have issues I've been sitting on for a long time; at first, that had a lot to do with depression, but after the last couple years it was because Kaiser Permanente is kinda butts.

Anyhow. I am a healthier pony than I was a couple weeks ago, with the promise of further improvement!

@jaycie *nods*

we've started playing with "neuroconformant" for similar reasons

- Packbats 🎒

Increasingly inclined to consider "neuro-privileged" as a more accurate term than "neurotypical," given how the pervasiveness of neurodivergence seems grossly underestimated.

I really appreciate that today's XKCD is perfectly singable xkcd.com/2583/

food 

me: mac and cheese. Horrid American invention, a slap in the face of Italian cooki

English manuscript from c. 1390, collected in 1780 in The Forme of Cury: "Makerouns: Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boiling water & seeþ it well. take cheese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above as losyns*. and serue forth."

* Lasagne. Ish.

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