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Remember that story about polio survivors who need iron lungs being left out in the cold by the company responsible for the devices?

There's a good follow-up.

"Armed with scanners and 3D-printers, computer experts, hobbyists and hardware fiddlers are determined to fix the problem."

"Lillard and her cohort might be the last of the Iron Lungs, but they're unlikely to be the last getting vital healthcare support from the maker community."

wired.co.uk/article/iron-lung-

Because it's the season, y'know what?

I'm thankful for you. For *you*. Your existence, your sheer weirdness, your wonder and beauty. By being so uniquely you, you make the world a little more different, more novel, more fascinating

Thank you for being here. Thank you for continuing.

Thank you. 💜

shoutouts to those of us who, by choice or necessity, do not have a traditional family to share Thanksgiving with.

you're still loved and cared about.

family is what you make of it, not who you're born to.

Well, thus far, I love Forza Horizon 3!

...except for the crashes.

Folks I have some ideas concerning a small blog, focusing on fitness, nutrition, and other aspects focused around the concepts of Primal/Paleo and applying them to the modern world. How might y’all want to view this kind of content?

Tumblr? Wordpress? Squarespace? Something else? I want feedback so I can have info to help y’all out! <3

"What the forge does to your Light must be respected, and feared. That path is not for everyone.[...] That forge breaks the brittle. And it bends the weak. But the strong, the strong walk away steeled and tempered. Unbreakable."—Lord Shaxx

Seriously, what is it about Destiny that just makes me fucking grin? Something about the mythos, the energies, the gameplay, the voices, the designs? It all makes me want to bring it wherever I go. The raw positivity in the face of impending doom is uplifting.

Carry the Light.

Twitter, Nazis 

Twitter unverified a couple of Nazis. Okay. This is still not nearly enough.

They should've banned Nazis from their platform two years ago, before politics turned into the mess it is today.

They still could ban Nazis today, but instead just chose to remove a little checkmark from them.

That they haven't done this - and that their CEO is presumably still following Nazis - earns them exactly zero credit in my book. It's a crappy compromise, at best.

Okay sometimes Reddit is Good

reddit.com/user/ObiWanKenobot

User has made three posts:

- "I found these pills in my son's laundry, what are they?"
- "How should I ask my child about spironolactone and estradiol?"
- "My daughter is so much happier!"

Work, Woo 

Man, documenting and rebuilding networks feels a lot like uncovering ancient spells and reworking them into automated runes. It's exhausting, but feels good to work my magic. Bending packets and making them glow~

friendly reminder to wrap your heavily political posts inside CW tags.

some people here (including me) abandoned birdsite for the purpose of avoiding the worsening Political Discourse there for the sake of their own mental wellbeing.

seeing all of it again around on mastodon doesn't help them at all, and pretty much the reason social media slowly fatigues me

#meta #tea: Remember, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that machine that "invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"?

Only decades after reading that, in an office in another country, did I first meet an older British "tea" machine. It could, in theory, produce chocolate, coffee, or tea; but invariably delivered a cupful of brown liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike any of them.

And I said, "Oh THAT'S what he meant."

LOOK I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT HUMANITY WAS PUT ON THIS EARTH TO BE THE CURATORS OF THIS BIOSPHERE AND THAT MEANS RESPONSIBLE, SUSTAINABLE HOUSING PRACTICES OKAY

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For all the new people wondering how to use Mastodon: The only wrong way to use Mastodon is to use it to be a jerk.

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