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old-timey temperance literature on alcohol, tobacco, other drugs 

My doctor's office has these vintage posters in the waiting room. I especially like the bit where marijuana eventually leads to "insanity".

There's also a phenology model sitting in a corner and a case filled with bottles of patent medicines.

starkatt - Sunday.

Me: "I'm gonna see if I can track down extra-secure replacement pin backs. This new mecury enamel pin is awesome but I think it's gonna fall off.

@rowanyote "Oh, I have some of those! Would you like a few!"

Saying "I wonder how to do x" and having her reply "oh I have some and am happy to share" is the Rowan Experience. It's almost a superpower.

help tor.com just published this on their official bird site account

"2 Four 2 Furious
a novel of the craft sequence"

twitter.com/tordotcom/status/9

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention signal.org/blog/looking-back-o

Amazon and Google are both coming out opposed to people using their services for domain fronting, to circumvent censorship.

Note that Signal is actively blocked in Egypt, Oman, UAE, and Iran. So, that sucks.

new VIP emoji! 

New VIP emoji selected by my $5+ patrons are now available!

:dog_tilting_head: :cat_tilting_head: :anticipation:

mutant.tech/use/#vip

My ISP is doing a contest to win a "gaming monitor" and my first thought was a branded baby monitor to make sure your streamer is safe and calm.

Welcome back, weirder.earth, formerly a.weirder.earth! Stay weird!

(their admin is still @dzuk)

Anyway goodnight things will look better tomorrow.

Or maybe not!

But I'll still keep trying.

Being able to externalize negative moods is one of the best mental health tricks I know. There's something about transforming "I feel shitty" into "feeling shitty is a thing that is happening to me right now" that makes it way easier to deal with.

listen humans are a bunch of garbage apes that fell out of the trees and somehow figured out space travel, none of us know what we're doing and we all need each other to survive

Random falling-asleep thought: it’s absurd and obscene that you can walk into any house of worship in the US and get religious guidance for free, but non-religious guidance is $200 an hour if you’re lucky.

(ngl I am actually super irritated with the whole "add zombies to public domain works" thing but the joke was too good to pass up.)

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Who decided to name this book "Feed" and not "Fear and Zombies on the campaign trail 2039".

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