health, positive
Asked the hospital whether I could have another blood test for potassium to make sure I am balancing it correctly for the transplantation, even though no tests were scheduled until going into hospital; somewhat pleasantly surprised to find a blood test form in my e-mail inbox within the hour, without any questioning or arguing, on my way to the testing place now
@silvermoon82 @smitten RCS is now common/default on Android at least, and that does provide all of these things, and it's mostly a behind-the-scenes change and falls back to SMS where it's not supported.
(The reason WhatsApp originally became popular in NL was because it was free to send messages, whereas SMS cost money per message)
personal experiences, re: bitterness re: attempts at a queer shelter thing
@elilla And a detail that I missed: a big part of what makes this work also seems to be that we try to talk out issues *early*, as soon as they start grating, before they have a chance to fester and cause grudges and frustrations to build up
personal experiences, re: bitterness re: attempts at a queer shelter thing
@elilla For what it's worth, I think that this is actually very useful advice - you can usually learn most from how things have gone wrong. Stories and experiences like this are exactly what helped me figure out healthier ways of community-building over the years.
The result so far, here, is a household that I would say is somewhere between 'polycule' and 'small commune', but moving towards the latter very very slowly and gradually as we figure things out and stabilize them, I guess we'll eventually end up shaping a commune out of the household, though who knows what the future holds. And it all pretty much started as "me hosting queer folks" too, and just sort of developed from there.
What has helped a lot here too is that we all come from an online queer community that has a strong emphasis on conflict resolution and talking out problems, leaving a ban as the last resort when someone is structurally refusing to engage in the conflict resolution process, and so much of this is "just" a matter of porting that to a physical household/community, and working out the pragmatic issues like chore division and delegation. We've all already had a chance to practice this mode of interaction in a lower-stakes environment.
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@benjojo ... but whose outcome will still somehow be affecting you and me pretty directly
Nu staat er weer een verwarmingsmonteur bij de buren, en de schilders zijn ook nog steeds overal bezig...
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@th This seems like a very rigorously tested passenger information system
Another form of adding extra rails to the track (tho not for running trains of different gauges) is installing guard rails, also known as catching rails
Those are most commonly used (and often mandatory) on bridges and in tunnels. Their purpose is making sure the train keeps running in the same direction and doesn't fall out of the track in case of a derailment
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