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my watch is a too accurate signifier for how bad mh is because I won't go outside and won't wear the watch so it runs behind....

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i have a very nice seiko watch, it's automatic so as long as I wear it my movement keeps it running on time

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pleroma.gnusocial.club just your average rms defending, kiwifarms federating pleroma instance

not drinking coffee would probably improve a lot of things but it'd make even more things way worse for me

if anyone knows of any alternatives to tinder that are good for queers or more like the way okcupid used to be do lmk!! def not going back on the dating circuit till things are more back to normal but I do miss it

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ok unpaid work done, meeting/deadline done,
maybe go outside a bit later

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:bing: how to do freelancing while just getting paid, without having to bug uncooperative scroungy asshole clients all the time

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today i will do some unpaid work and meet with my group for a uni project because they put an illegal deadline today

it's a national holiday (but fuck the king anyways)

as we talk about the morality of vaccine patents

i think it is a nice time to also remember historical precident

jonas salk did not patent the polio vaccine. he went out of his way to make sure it was not patented.

he never got rich. he actively made sure he didn't get rich off of it.

but that history is full of stories about how for the rest of his life, jonas salk did not have to ever pay for a beer in any bar in this country. he would get on airplanes and once somebody recognized his name, the entire damn plane would stand up and clap for him. he constantly had hotel rooms comped, meals for free at restaurants, thus and so.

because he was surrounded by people who knew he had saved their children from having to ever consider the fear of an iron lung, and were overwhelmingly grateful for it.

he was always modest and demure when recognized thusly. but i think that when people start saying "well why else would someone make a vaccine, if not to get paid for it and hold the patent", i think it is good to remember these stories. the world did not punish jonas salk for not patenting the polio vaccine. the world loved him for it. maybe not in the structures that billionaires are most used to. but they did love him for it, in small ways, in humble ways, on the individual level.

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