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Been through so much in the last year that I see the first gray hair in my beard at age 35 lol

I don't put it on unless I'm prepared, because if I hear even just that opening chord, that's what's happening for the next hour. I recommend it highly but warn anyone that it's a wild trip through some very, very desperately dark places in memory of a clearly beloved friend, and they lost another, their sound designer, just before release. need to put my mind somewhere else now.

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Just got surprised with a rendition of the most devastating moments of De-Loused in the Comatorium. RIP Julio and Jeremy. Gonna have to cool down in order to sleep now. whew. I do a pretty good job of forgetting that I have PTSD.

If you're unfamiliar with pulmonary hypertension, read up on it sometime: it's a trip through many fascinating and very important processes in the body -- many of which are only recently discovered, and still pushing the frontiers of medical science -- that everyone should know about!

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Excellent news from my pulmonologist: on today's stress test they observed good vascular gas exchange. Repeat echocardiogram next month will verify whether right side cardiac hypertrophy has resolved; if so, we'll repeat right-heart catheterization testing and try discontinuing medication. I am deeply grateful for everyone's support and very hopeful this incredible good fortune will continue and allow me to actually beat this thing ❤️❤️❤️

Police slam their SUV into an #LGBTQ bar in St Louis, Missouri, Dec 18.

They then arrest the co-owner for felony assault but haven’t released body cam footage. Bystander video shows no assault.

Now they are threatening to condemn the building because it’s damaged.

riverfronttimes.com/news/city-

#stl #acab #barPM

If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting.

Go to account.adobe.com/ -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.

If they want to learn from your work, make them pay for it.

[Edit to add: before you gripe at me about using Adobe, read mwl.io/faq#tools ]

Floppy Disk archiver and emulator, prototype is in! - video 💾

Beyond the wanton slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians -- many of them children -- the systematic elimination of hospitals, universities, and cemeteries will provide history with no doubt of the genocidal fascist constitution of the state of "Israel" and their intention to erase Palestine.

it's too bad expressing pain and struggle is illegal for me specifically and not anybody else, that's kind of odd isn't it

@AnarchoNinaWrites "Observing humans under capitalism and concluding it’s only in our nature to be greedy is like observing humans under water and concluding it’s only in our nature to drown." Mark Fisher

Y'know that feeling when you see a friend's playing one of those new games you've been meaning to pick up ... then you realize an ellipsis is hiding, "REMASTERED"

Stop shaming people into voting for a genocidal slimeball and remind them that voting isn't a popularity contest or a personal endorsement, it's an opportunity to choose your adversaries.

Whom would you rather face -- incompetent status-quo Joe, or viciously successful Don?

Israel has destroyed all the universities in Gaza. Every single one of them. That is a war crime, pure and simple. It’s the obliteration of education and Palestinian future. Every university in the world should be outraged.

twitter.com/fbhutto/status/174

@palestine
#Gaza
#universities

Remember when there was a debate over whether hospitals were being bombed? 100 days later, NONE of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are fully functional, according to the World Health Organization.

Source: NBC - In Gaza’s collapsing health system, doctors preside over deaths that should be preventable nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-ho

After the death of my previous bill to provide for a right to inspect source code of software used to generate evidence in criminal cases, I thought I'd just give up on it, but this case is convincing me to give it another try once the next filing period comes around...

https://mastodon.social/users/arstechnica/statuses/111783919998343286

AT&T is sending out letters warning they want to kill virtually all landlines (and perhaps related data circuits where fiber is unavailable) across essentially their entire coverage area throughout California. This would have devastating effects. Related CPUC meetings will be taking place through March.

Landlines provide crucial services for individuals, businesses, and other organizations in a wide variety of situations -- not just emergencies when cellular and Internet service tends to rapidly fail, but also for vast numbers of people in areas with poor, unreliable, or in many cases (even in large sections of major cities!) NO cell service, NO fiber, etc.

Landlines often provide the only available communication in a wide variety of security and safety situations, from elevators to interior spaces of all sorts where cell service simply doesn't work.

Many disabled and other persons have crucial equipment that depends on landlines. Often they are not tech-savvy and do not have friends or relatives to help them through forced technology changes.

AT&T has been shirking its public safety responsibilities for years, while still leveraging their effective monopoly on services in so many areas.

Their new effort must be stopped. I'll have much more to say about this as the situation progresses.

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