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donni, to random
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Can’t sleep due to 17 vague fears and 4 specific concerns

Armadillosoft,
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@donni {{{ hugs }}}

JenMsft, to random
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Well well well, if it isn't the consequences (having to leave the house) of my own actions (making plans)

Armadillosoft,
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@JenMsft {{{ hugs }}}

shoq, to random
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I can’t win. I finally get the damn boot off my right foot, and the big toe feels fine. But the right-side of my foot now aches when I walk on it, badly, and the incision scar burns when I wear any shoe. Sigh.

Armadillosoft,
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@shoq {{{ hugs }}}

Armadillosoft, to random
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RT @KeithDJohnson
v @ai6yr

Some elevators help you envision equivalent measurement classifications.

https://sfba.social/@KeithDJohnson/112085971776052111

mcc, to random
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Phanpy now has a version of https://cohost.org 's best feature, and it works with your existing Mastodon/Fediverse account https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/111997146906858162

TLDR: You follow 40 people, but the people who post infrequently tend to get their posts flooded off the TL by high-volume accounts such as me (mcc) asking cursed C# questions at odd hours. Wouldn't it be cool if you could get the best elements of a sort-by-last-post view and a sort-by-account view in a single screen? (See screenshots at link.)

Armadillosoft,
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@mcc I do this with lists.

Armadillosoft, to random
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There are many red-tailed hawks around here lately.

This one was particularly fetching. Love its pantaloons!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/53550593481/in/album-72177720315065444/

CindyWeinstein, to ethelcain
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“Whenever I f---ing rupture,” Norris-De La Cruz said, “I’m giving my lawyers your f---ing name.” Words to live and maybe even die by. This is a must-read article about the devastating consequences of . As we have seen in , there is more to come.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/texas-woman-ectopic-pregnancy-abortion/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDwgAKgcICjCO1JQKMLfRdDDXxvMB&utm_content=rundown (gifted)

Armadillosoft,
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@CindyWeinstein gift link not working

Armadillosoft, to random
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maddowshow

Programming note!

MSNBC will broadcast the Supreme Court audio live at 10amET this Thursday for arguments in the 14th Amendment case that could keep Donald Trump off the ballot..

Then, at 8pmET Thursday night we roll out the long desk for special analysis of the case.

Armadillosoft, to MusicTheory
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Circle of Fifths, Explained:

"The circle of fifths is arguably the most helpful way of visually organizing Western music theory’s 12 chromatic pitches for learning. Seeing the notes laid out in a circle will help you unlock an understanding of how major and natural minor scales are organized, and also how they are related to each other. ..."

https://online.berklee.edu/takenote/circle-of-fifths-the-key-to-unlocking-harmonic-understanding/

1/30/24 14:14

Armadillosoft, to random
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But also, Medicare is ridiculously complicated to deal with and we old people do still get to interact muchly with our insurance companies.

RT
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reminder that it would be cheaper for the US govt to pay for your medical care than it is for them to pay insurance corporations to deny your medical care

https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/111811997346673240

Armadillosoft,
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@seachanger

Hope so. But we all pay for health insurance and the groundswell of our complaints has not yet swamped the power of the health insurance companies.

Armadillosoft,
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@seachanger

It's not that I am giving up. However, progress has been slow and one runs out of energy and time after running the marathon for so long.

Also Powers That Be are strongly entrenched and pessimist that I am, I fully expect democracy to fail before the health insurance lobby does.

Would be happy to be proved wrong.

Armadillosoft,
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@seachanger

Fine line between trying to warn folks of imminent disaster (which is what I fancy I am doing) and becoming an "unwitting helper for the wrong causes through spreading doom and naysaying".

If you feel I am doing the latter, feel free to disengage from me.

Cassandras have a history of being misinterpreted until it's too late to act on their warnings.

Armadillosoft,
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@seachanger

California has its own system, built upon Obamacare, but with uniquely Californian wrinkles.

A bureaucratic nightmare for me. It would notify me weekly that I would be losing care imminently if I didn't upload my tax documents again. Also pretty expensive and no choice of doctor.

Also there are lots of doctors here who will accept an annual fee and give you "premium" care. At a higher price not subsidized by Medicare.

Swede1952, (edited ) to ilaughed

My Kingdom.

This hawk was in an oak tree outside my backyard fence this morning. I tried taking a photo through the storm door because it was raining. But some leaves were covering the head of the hawk, so I made a hasty waterproof cover for my camera and went out into the rain to get some photos. I think that this is a Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) based on its size, but it could be a sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus). I'm basically guessing between the two they look so much alike.

Among the bird world’s most skillful fliers, Cooper’s Hawks are common woodland hawks that tear through cluttered tree canopies in high-speed pursuit of other birds. ... With their smaller lookalike, the Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawks make for famously tricky identifications. Both species are sometimes unwanted guests at bird feeders, looking for an easy meal (but not one of sunflower seeds).

Armadillosoft,
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@Swede1952

You might try inaturalist.org for help in species identification.

Armadillosoft,
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@Swede1952

Good thing about inaturalist.org is that it is (mostly) people-powered.

The website tries to guess when you upload your image, but then the flesh-and-blood community weighs in.

Another helpful tool in my toolbox.

arstechnica, to random
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Meta verification proved useless—and my family is still locked out of Insta

Bottom-of-barrel support experience shows the company's true feelings for customers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/meta-verification-proved-useless-and-my-family-is-still-locked-out-of-insta/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Armadillosoft,
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@arstechnica I had same problem with Threads. Literally no one home if you have even the most common request.

Armadillosoft, to random
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Heuristic: The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does ()

Corollary: There's "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."

  • Stafford Beer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does

So what purpose do "pro-life" laws that result in the deaths of both the pregnant woman and her baby serve?

v @yogthos

https://mas.to/@yogthos/111744697310417583

danielpunkass, to random
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I discovered my last name in a giant Siri word list among the macOS system files. Right where it belongs, next to "Tacos Autentico".

Armadillosoft,
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@danielpunkass So satisfying to have found one's rightful place!

jerry, to random

PSA: I wear progressive lenses and have long struggled with working at my computer. When I got new glasses, I also got a pair tuned to the distance I normally sit from my monitor and I will tell you it’s made a world of difference. Something to consider if you wear glasses. I got the cheapest lenses and frames I could get that weren’t cat lady glasses (not that there is anything wrong with those, they just make me look funny)

Armadillosoft,
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@jerry My husband does exactly this, down to the buying the cheapest frames he can find.

As a result, roughly 99.9999% of the time, when he sits down in the driver's seat, he's wearing the wrong glasses for driving.

thestorygraph, to bookstodon

We’ve just launched a brand new Recommendations section! 🥳

Everyone gets their own personalised StoryGraph "bookstore"! 😍

Browse lists curated just for you, including genre picks, suggestions based on your recent reads, books similar users loved, and more. ✨

@bookstodon

Screenshot of the top of the new "Advanced Recommendations Search" menu on StoryGraph. The top section reads "What are you in the mood for? Books with a similar theme/feel to.. You can select up to 3.' Two books have been selected, and their cover thumbnail shows alongside the title and author, and underneath is a search bar with the placeholder "Search by title and author or ISBN".
Screenshot of the new "Similar users loved.'" recommendations section on StoryGraph. Two book covers are show side-by-side, and there's a "Browse" button top right.
Screenshot of the new "Based on recent reads" recommendations section on StoryGraph. Two book covers are show side-by-side, and there's a "Browse" button top right.

Armadillosoft,
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@EVDHmn @lunacia @thestorygraph @bookstodon Our local small bookstores all have websites. They host events and ship books that can be tracked. And you can also call them on the phone and a real human answers. Admittedly not 24/7 but at predictable times.

Armadillosoft,
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@EVDHmn @lunacia @thestorygraph @bookstodon Any time I order anything online, I print the receipt to a file and store it in a folder in a purchases directory on my laptop. Same for emails about shipping and returns. Means that even years later I can remember where I got something from and what the warranty is and whether they accepted returns gracefully etc.

Can't always trust that a vendor's website will still be there when you need it.

Armadillosoft,
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@EVDHmn @lunacia @thestorygraph @bookstodon I embed the date of purchase and product name in the filename. Store everything as a text-recognized PDF. Searches take seconds.

Armadillosoft,
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@EVDHmn @lunacia @thestorygraph @bookstodon I also do this for books and products I am interested in. I print reviews and product information to an off-line folder.

clive, to random
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I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just start readin'

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

Armadillosoft,
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@clive Love this!!!

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