Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
oh I haven't done _Organic Syntheses_ roulette.
hm, nothing matches 7667
but 5727 matched two articles! here's the first one
http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=v90p0240
while back I talked a bit about a class of reagents based on a substance nicknamed "TEMPO", or 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl-1-oxyl radical, a stable nitroxyl radical compound that is the basis for a family of oxidation reactions in organic synthesis
this is one such reaction, using TEMPO in an oxidation of a benzyl alcohol to a benzaldehyde
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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if you wanted to do a smol doodle of me it would make me so happy 📝
it doesn't matter if it's not fancy, i will like it just because it is a gift from a friend 
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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anyone want to hear a funny but kind of sad story about me and the *smells like sushi flavortext in my fight
Parallax webcomic, p. 29, family drama
Lomax's mom hollers out the question, "are you all right?" Lomax is not all right, and their bafflement is extreme
so is their cat's. Ramsay hisses in fright in a corner, then dashes out of the room in one bound
(btw, after Kara / Chara had somehow achieved soulbonding with all three of the Toriel kids, and was trying to relax on the couch, our cat Gibbs came up and regarded Chara from a short distance away. definitely questioning. no hissing tho)
Parallax webcomic, p. 29, family drama
perfection is spoiled again. page twenty-nine
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-29
Lomax screams loud enough to be heard outside, startling a passing bird. curiously the window to his room has _two_ horizontal cross bars, not one, as seen from inside. maybe a blunder
🔴 or a different window
Lomax's collision with default reality is a rough one. apparently they collided with the floor, too; Lomax vaguely remembers floating in the air
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sesame street, autism advocacy, anti-autism, medicalization (---)
Sesame Street has given up working with ASAN to work with Autism Speaks instead. https://autisticadvocacy.org/2019/08/asan-has-ended-partnership-with-sesame-street/
Excerpt from the linked open letter:
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For several years, ASAN consulted with Sesame Street on their See Amazing project and the development of their autistic character, Julia. Until this summer, the content Sesame Street produced showed parents that their autistic children could live great lives, and taught autistic and neurotypical children ways to become friends. Through this approach, See Amazing successfully encouraged the inclusion of autistic children in their communities, and had a widespread positive impact.
Sesame Street has now decided to undo that progress. Its latest PSAs featuring Julia promote Autism Speaks’ “Screen for Autism” initiative and their resource for parents of newly-diagnosed autistic children, the 100 Day Kit. Like much of Autism Speaks’ recent advertising, these PSAs use the language of acceptance and understanding to push resources that further stigma and treat autistic people as burdens on our families. The 100 Day Kit encourages parents to blame family difficulties on their autistic child (“When you find yourself arguing with your spouse… be careful not to get mad at each other when it really is the autism that has you so upset and angry”) and to view autism as a terrible disease from which their child can “get better.” It recommends compliance-based “therapies” and pseudoscientific “autism diets,” but fails to educate families about communication supports. It even instructs parents to go through the five stages of grief after learning that their child is autistic, as they would if the child had died.
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so nobody (of course) answered my question about what happened to witchcraft.cafe
well, what happened to witchcraft.cafe?
PLEASE?
so nobody (of course) answered my question about what happened to witchcraft.cafe
well, what happened to witchcraft.cafe?
PLEASE?
set different squares to mean things, try to set up lines of things to give yourself bonuses? heck, the possibilities are manifold
huh you know a bingo interface that you could edit would make a pretty sweet interface for a gamified way of setting yourself reminders of shit you needed to do
ok it's got a fresh OpenBSD installation on it, w00t
now the next step is trying to figure out how to set up ssh remote access
so that'll be another week or work, bleh. you know I may be the engineer in this #pluralgang but I kinda hate computers too
Chara why do you have to be a video game character who HATES COMPUTERS
don't you know how weird that is
Parallax webcomic, p. 28
U..!
that'd better not be on some sort of test, [expletive deleted]
Parallax webcomic, p. 28
page twenty-eight. the second perfect page, haha
https://www.parallaxcomic.com/comic/page-28
Lomax is still blinded from the henshin sequence and their vision is slow to clear. vaguely though you can make out the window with the cross motif that we saw in an earlier page; they're back in their own room, it would seem, from wherever they were, head aching
they catch sight of their new appearance in a full-length mirror
Lomax's response to seeing they're an anime character now: "U..!"
ok took the old drive out (don't wanna reformat that one, anyway it's only 160 GB) and put a blank 1 TB one in. now it's a question of what to run
Linux, because we're marginally more experienced with it
or BSD, because fuck Linux, seriously
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re: unpopular positive movie opinion
@Alyx *nods*
there's those, and there's moments like the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident with Stanislav Petrov deciding that this wasn't nuclear war based on nothing but his own judgment
...I'd love to see more stories about people in that moment of nucleation point, stories about the seed crystals dropping into the supersaturated solution
those'd be good stories
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scope and emotional weight (death and abuse mentions) re: unpopular positive movie opinion
@Alyx ...heh, it actually ties into a thought I've been knocking around for a long time, about scope and emotional investment
a lot of stories about saving The Whole World™ fall flat for me - the scope is just too big for the events happening in the narrative - but I can get completely invested in a story about an estranged daughter trying to make a good Thanksgiving dinner for her family because her mother is dying and they want to bury the hatchet
(...although not specifically that story recently, because both that mom and my mom are pretty abusive and I'm not up for thinking about that kind of gesture right now, but yeah - "Pieces of April" (2003), good movie)
By reframing saving the world as saving a handful of people, The Core kinda follows the same thought process, actually
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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re: unpopular positive movie opinion
@Alyx yeah, definitely
plus, like, as a matter of practicality? it doesn't matter if you can defend it philosophically - if it gets you unstuck and able to act and do good, /it worked/
they did save the whole world
even if, in the end, they did it by trying to save a few people
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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re: unpopular positive movie opinion
@Alyx I've thought back /recently/ on that bit about the characters feeling overwhelmed at the idea of trying to save the whole world, and them reframing it as just saving a handful of people instead
as someone who has a hard time thinking of myself as important, that idea just /worked/ for me
but we welcome most folks, all of us. even you, Zebratron ;=3
