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Some of y'all don't have Task Initiation as your weakest executive function and it shows.

i guess i'm a lurker on cohost now. that's sort of my default anyway. my personality forms a lurker/replygirl bipole.

uspol, Meta (the company) 

Meta has categorized the group Jane's Revenge which has been carrying out acts of vandalism against so called "pregnancy crisis centers" as a terrorist group. This puts it internally on the same level as ISIS or open Nazi groups:

theintercept.com/2022/06/28/fa

@niconiconi i remember browsing through books written in the 1950s that used electrical analogues to talk about mechanical systems, and wondering why people didn't do that anymore.

@Sailorplutoid@cybre.space all the old biddies get up early and expect to be able to pick over the best stuff

Is there a single place where one can see printed samples of most of the ibm selectric typefaces online?

My Google-Fu isn't helping me much.

boosts welcome

@confusedcharlot I was mostly in it for the watching and didn't plan well enough to have my better cameras charged, but I did end up successfully pointing my smartphone camera through my telescope to get a few decent shots!

Here are a few more or less at random, I might put together an animation or something later, we'll see!

@confusedcharlot Portland was socked in with clouds, so I drove out to the other side of the mountains to get out from under them.

Bonus shots: a cloud passing in front of the half-eclipsed moon, the mostly-visible moon reflecting in the river, and a shot of sunset at the replica Stonehenge where I set up 🙂

if we assume from now on that google can't source good info, it may be time to move to a "have a collection of reputable sites and use their internal search, or use site:domain"

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covid, death 

#COVID killed roughly 1.9‰ of the global population over the last two years and left lots more still suffering long term effects. Let that sink in for a moment before laughing about people still wearing masks and avoiding crowds and indoor gatherings.
arstechnica.com/science/2022/0

i think we're getting a little outdoor pellet stove. heat and light in the night, you know?

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