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Speaking of, OVH is such a weird creature. A multinational company with datacentres all over the world, but they still make adorable English mistakes like writing guenuine instead of genuine.

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i have noticed that productivity under adhd is like racing in mario kart. it's hard to start moving but if you keep building up momentum and doing things you can blaze through all the stuff. the problem is, if you get hit by an obstacle, you drop everything

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*voice drops by an octave*
I ran out of gender fluid, where is the next refill station?

Underappreciated Scrivener feature I miss whenever working in LibreOffice: splitting a document view into two so that I can scroll to two different places in the same document and compare.

(This is, of course, familiar to me from Codium and other code-text editors.)

I haven't gotten a communicable illness in almost five years, and I'm immunocompromised and highly susceptible to communicable illnesses! How did I do it, you ask?

It's masking. That's it. That's the whole secret.

I wear an N95 when I'm around people who aren't my spouse or I'm in a space that recently had those people in it, and he does the same. We don't unmask around anyone who's been unmasked around others in the past two weeks. Zero exceptions. Zero infections.

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

Need a fancy name to use instead of #selfhosting? I got something for ya ;)

Introducing #SPI — the Sovereign Private Infrastructure. Sounds a lot more sophisticated :) (Yes, I work in marketing, I admit :)

And yes, the S could also be Self-managed or Self-owned if you want to avoid Sovereign. I however think it is time to take language back from the extremists. Best way is to confuse them. Divide et impera, as true Federati should do :)

New lupus treatment could end need for lifelong medication
Doctors are hailing a groundbreaking new treatment for lupus that genetically modifies a patient’s cells to fight the autoimmune disease and could end the need for lifelong medication. About 5 million people worldwide are thought to have the condition, which mostly affects women. "“If this works, it’s life-changing. Until now, there’s never been anything for lupus that is a possible cure." buff.ly/4eOFlZ8
#ShareGoodNewsToo

If anyone happens to know the street photographer in Exeter who just caught me being attacked by pigeons, please: I *need* a copy of that. Thank you!

#Exeter

(Inspired by a conversation elsewhere but it's honestly an evergreen toot that I could relevantly post every day)

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Nerds, please learn that "doesn't work for my needs" and "is fundamentally broken" are two different things!

You start a new international train service on 15 December. When do you announce it and start ticket sales?

:sncb: and :sncf: think 3 December is acceptable :bonk:

when i first coded my blog i was like, should i have comments? and instead i decided to make a static site without analytics or javascript because the only comment i really want is "i believe in us, comrade"

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@beeps Absolutely, and segmenting up the intersection risks escalating from the already not-great implication that neopronouns are a combination of he/she/they to implying that particular neopronouns align more strongly with particular "standard" pronouns - which is something we probably shouldn't assume.

Maybe the user setting the pronoun could decide where on the intersection is highlighted, with perhaps an option of choosing a point outside of the rings entirely.

But at a certain point it begins to stretch the constraints and utility of the iconography.

@beeps Neat idea, I'm not sure that I love that the neopronouns are a clear afterthought all bunched together in one category - but nice to have interactive iconography for pronouns otherwise.

Somehow I hadn't (knowingly) seen the pronoun icon before now, but somehow I've seen it multiple times today.
pronouns.design/

That's sorta neat.

Let's start the week with something lighter: lessons from the world of bug nerds and their forums, on how to be better actors in our communities in hard times. Happy Monday, critters near and far!

#Insects #Nature #Activism #Humanism #BetterWorldsTheory
open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/

Nu ben ik echt al tijden volwassen maar ik heb nog steeds geen glijbaan in huis.

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