Do you know how many truly terrible COVID and vaccine takes I've seen from cardiologists and ophthalmologists? How many terrible mask takes I've seen from engineers? How many proudly bad ideas I've seen on public safety from people with PhDs?

Ugh. I do not need to be having a high pain day on a day when I am oncall. Then on top of that I nearly gave myself a concussion working outside. So this day is going to be great, I can feel it. Maybe I'll spend the rest of the day playing BG3 and/or mandolin.

@hrefna I get the impression that a *lot* of that is self soothing. But I do wish people could go self soothe in a way that doesn't distract and delay real responses.

The way it is usually made in this tradition is a lot simpler. It produces a product that for ritual purposes works well, is safe, and is hard to screw up.This particular attempt is a mixture where I'm trying to more closely replicate what is found in nature. So it is a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, mineral salt, and sodium sulfate with water and I'm doing everything at lower temperature. We'll see if I like the end product.

@jdp23 I've maintained for a while now that I am not afraid of Threads federating, I'm afraid of Meta releasing a _client_ or a _server_ platform.We are in such a vulnerable position against that and with an active user count that is flat-to-negative growth it makes everything particularly vulnerable.Especially given all of the people who aren't here. @Jennifer

Ugh, saw a photo earlier from a staged rope shoot and I just can't get it out of my head as something I'd love to do something in the same style as.It was just so pretty and would not be difficult to set up. But I'm nowhere near having a setup suitable for it right now.

Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl

I like this post on a few levels, but I would compare it to a hurricane, personally. Speaking as a Katrina survivor who grew up there.With a hurricane you often don't know ahead of time whether to stock up, to ride it out locally, or to flee. The calculus in fleeing is always more complex than anyone who has never done it before can imagine. Also: no matter what happens or what you decide people will decide that your decisions and thoughts on this were wrong.https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113481934294617395

Men's reviews of me: "Toxic" "Bitch""Incompetent""Fake job""Unnecessarily rude"Weird how I never got these comments when presenting as a male. Absolutely bizarre.

@hrefna i used to hate how having a single-user instance meant perpetually awful federation since big instances never join relaysnow i see this as a blessing

Your side effects are your protocol. In this essay I will…

@fairhavenguy Clever. Nice attempt to derail. Peace.

I do not understand allosexuals.

@hrefna salvation (and hydration) can be surprisingly exothermic!

"Anarcho-capitalists" are not anarchists under most definitions of the word, but even to the extent that they _are_ anarchists or lean toward anarchism (which, again, by and large they don't), it is often inappropriate to use the broader "anarchist" labels to describe them without qualifier.

Sometimes having a developed witness is a PITA.Most peoples suicidal ideation seems to come in the form of "having suicidal ideation" and that's enough by itself, but then you get a developed witness and it is like "I observe that I am having suicidal ideation. I observe that this has been going on for $X amount of time. I observe that that I feel $Y…"Like can't I _just_ be depressed? Let me just be depressed.(no, I wouldn't trade it, but it is bemusing to me)

The parallels with activism, organizing, and community building could not be clearer. We see it in open source: a glorification of "getting things out" and "do-ocracy" at the expense of asking if we are even doing the right thing or what externalities may exist. The people who go "oh just jump in and contribute your idea!" (ignoring everything that goes into that) are actively encouraging this mindset.That was a very interesting insight and made me glad I attended.4/4

In some cases you aren't actually improving your situation by moving to a smaller company for a variety of reasons that I'm happy to talk about some time.That said, some of these alternatives are _quite_ good and worth looking at for your individual use case.It's just worth doing due diligence to make sure that you are actually getting what you want and that it is actually doing what you want, because just being "european" does not guarantee that (though it may help in other ways).

Yes, so much this.https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-aftermath-of-competitive-hyperbole/sharetoken/06368b8b-5e89-401f-8999-7ceb8c66fbae#politics

We really need to do more to separate the "Divine Feminine" from the TERFs.They hold no claim on it, never have, and you don't have to scratch very hard to find the term being used inclusively. But they keep trying to claim it for themselves nonetheless.