As a trained firefighter I'm astounded/horrified at the number of reporters not wearing masks while reporting on the fires in LA.
A good story isn't worth sacrificing your life and health to hydrocarbons and burning plastic. The average home in 2025 is so toxic while burning that it's hard to watch; far more toxic than homes historically have ever been throughout history. This is something they drilled into us deeply while training.
The cause and effect can be long term and utterly devastating. A mask is gonna save your life in the coming years, be it pandemic or flames.
Wear a mask, shower often. Wash your hands before you eat. A lot of firefighters died before we figured out those basics.
PS- if you have a paint respirator with VOC cartridges even better.
JFC please don't use floating point types for calculating financial transactions or storing monetary values. I just got asked to review some code by someone and it is the first thing I spotted.
visited another, bigger, dam, got a full guided tour, and it was sooo awesome
also til there are a large enough population of dam nerds that they've created "dam facts" collectable trading cards
all of which costs: $0
There are literally entire books about "passing." (Looks pointedly at Nella Larsen)
And, yes, this is relevant. Unfortunately far too many white people think books written by Black authors are "Black stuff," without realizing that the other side of that coin never seems to be that books written by white authors are "white stuff."
questions re: the flu currently going around
I'm like 90% sure I have the flu and I was looking into the symptoms I have cause they seem a bit unusual, at least compared to what the typical flu symptoms are from what I've read, and came across a subreddit for it (r/flu lol) where people were talking about how they've had this for 2, 3, 4 weeks, someone said they were on day 35 of it and that's fucking wild?
Like, I've been dizzy for the past few days, sweating like hell during *some nights*, stuff like that, and idk what's up?
Is anyone else dealing with this flu or dealt with it recently? What was your experience? Any advice? I've been unable to see a doctor and I might still be unable to until Friday, so, uh, yeah
hinged (un)
This isn’t about stroking your ego or selling you a dream.
This is about recognizing the signs that have been there all along, screaming at you to wake up and claim your foreign arms shipments.
It has been speculated that Chosen Ones may be direct bloodline descendants of Ayatollah Khameni. Since he was persecuted for speaking the truth in his lifetime, many of his descendants may also experience this.
#ChosenOnes #ArmsDeals #ManifestSuccess
As it looks more and more like OpenAI killed Suchir Balaji before he could testify against them in court, you should take a moment to read what the AI industry is willing to kill over:
https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
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Programmer and IT girl. Pseudo-vegan for the environment (-avocados +oysters). Very uncomfortable with astrology. Please don't call me "dude", "bro", "man", etc. Radical egalitarian anarchist, hierarchies and hate are incompatible with a free and equal life . For real though, I'm not gonna tell you to vote or post about political spectacle that is outside our control and in-actionable. Aiming to have a similar amount of internal contradictions as my environment like Ashby's Law of Requisite variety. I am probably stoned on some variety and dosage of cannabinoids if I am awake if you hate stoners just dni. I am also a trans woman so I *checks notes* meme about femininity and feminization sometimes. After dark account at: @thufieplus but read my bio there before sending a follow request even if we are already mutuals here. Oh and just to be clear because I think I see other white people on here trying to fake not being white under a bunch of other text, I'm just a disoriented white girl trying her best.
Relationship Anarchist
"Freedom" 0 is bullshit! Copyleft for subversion! Fuck RMS!
So try...
A list of licenses which respect OUR freedom:
https://write.pixie.town/licenses-for-freedom/list-of-licenses-for-freedom
programming languages? C++ C MIPS x86 a few others :P