@jzb

At our polling place, none. I think there was a lot of early voting and mail-in this year.

Me and my first-time voter

Hey, let's fixate on some other global crisis for a bit! Here's Covid levels in Boston sewage, year over year.

If you haven't gotten your booster yet, next week seems like good timing.

Sourced from the data in the pdf (ugh!) at https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm.

@rbowen

Yeah. The headline is ironically inflammatory, and that's not exactly the picture I'd choose to highlight it, but the article itself is great.

@JessTheUnstill

(I commit to this joke taking on faith that people who get the terminal keyboard symbol compatibility joke will also have seen Donny Darko.)

@JessTheUnstill

Sometimes I doubt your commit to Capitalism^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Sparkle Motion

Words with two Es are more common than words with J, Q, V, X, or Z.

V is more common than all duplicated letters except E.

37% of remaining words have a repeated letter. E is, unsurprisingly, the most common, but only 7% of the total list.

17% of remaining likely words have adjacent double letters, with OO, LL, and EE the most common.

52% of remaining likely words end in Y, E, R, or D — 19%, 16%, 9%, 8% respectively.

23% of remaining likely words start with S. Runners-up C and B at 8% each.

60% have a vowel as the second letter, followed by R, L, and T (9%, 7%, 5%).

19% have an E as letter four. No other real stand-outs.

The middle letter is up for grabs.

@amie

I think I have a picture somewhere...

@amie

I clearly remember, going through Schiphol in the 90s — the signs there at their time said "disabled toilet"

I wish my texts would make up their mind about whether Kamala is dropping in Pennsylvania and needs my donation or surging in Pennsylvania and needs my donation.

@benroyce @n_dimension @Gorfram @Mikal

I mean, US and British colonialism in the 20th century sure didn't _help_. We don't (as a county) mind oppression in Saudi Arabia as long as the oil flows. And we preferred a puppet state to a democracy in Iran.

If we hadn't carried out the coup in 1953, Iranian public sentiment likely would have remained generally pro-US, and the last 50 years would have been _very_ different.

But...one can say that about a lot of what-ifs.

@corq @krypt3ia

They don't really want you to work, per se. They just don't want you to get to retire or have health care needs.

Secretly, they'd prefer to just disintegrate surplus old people. (Hmmm. Time to rewatch Logan's Run....)

@vathpela

But with this... it seems to _reduce_ anxiety, plus I've gotten about a dozen little home projects I've been procrastinating on done this week, plus I noticed several times yesterday that when I saw some small thing out of place around the house I just kind of... tidied it up? And then went back to what I was doing as if it were nothing?

@vathpela

Fortunately I'm still okay on that (although on a statin, yay). But I'm curious about the adhd meds change. I am trying Azstarys, and despite being named after a discount GoT dragon, it seems _really_ good after a week. I did not have high hopes because straight-up methylphenidate makes me all anxious at any effective dose....

@vathpela

We should compare adhd drug notes sometime.