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With having learned soldering, I have now taken the next logical step and joined an incredibly niche hardware community. Time to solder in a new battery, and listen to all my hottest jams from 14 years ago.

2022 book stats. This isn't correct, it's probably more like 30-something, Scribd lost my stats when we stopped paying for it. But considering I hadn't read one book for like 10 years, that's still pretty good.

My heart goes out on this holiday to the folks out there that have to be around toxic family, family members that misgender or deadname them, that abuse them, that don't accept who they are or who they love, that try to shame or guilt them, or make it all about themselves, or are white family members that still call things "da bomb".

The 1995 #prototype for Prey (2006) has been leaked into the #InternetArchive.

What a fucking fantastic year for preservation of #retrogames holy shit.

Merry Christmas everyone!!
archive.org/details/prey-1195/

Will someone on the @washingtonpost climate team please explain to their editors that this week’s “bomb cyclone” is NOT a “once in a generation” winter storm. Rather, colder cold snaps and hotter heat waves are long-predicted consequences of global heating in general & Arctic heating in particular.

#climate #lazyjournalism #storm

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022

Do you think Shaggy ever tried to get the rest of the gang to call him "Mr. Boombastic"?

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Shaggy's real name is Norville.
Shaggy's real name is Orville.

Hoo boy. Like 4,000 little tiny parts. Me, just having barely used a soldering iron, and only just bought a multimeter. No instructions included. Website is entirely in Chinese.
This is fine. This is totally fine you guys.

Meds, poor med compliance practices, ridiculous run on sentence for comedic effect, ADHD/The Sads 

Updated my phone, and now my 6pm meds alarm will only let me snooze it up to 10 times, instead of just letting me hit that button every 5 minutes for an hour and a half, because II can't just get up and get my meds, even though they're literally right behind me. Why did I start doing that in the first place? Because I haven't taken my meds yet, probably.

@caz @dlivaudais
Oh yeah, I've payed the on food many times. Usually, if it's not just forgetting to put it away after using some, it's taking something out of the fridge to get to something else. It's surprising how fast mozzarella goes bad at room temp.

Just set the bathtub to fill up, walked out of the room, and you know I forgot about that shit *immediately*. The only mop in the house is a Swiffer Wetjet.

What are your horror stories, so I can read them later and not feel like the worst person while I'm rewashing every towel in the house and watching my laminate floors warp?

horror movie talk 

There's a 4K new bluray remaster of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre coming out. While I certainly appreciate the restoration and preservation aspects, like....nah. That movie really only works as a worn-out 4th generation VHS copy. The better it looks, the more you notice that nothing is actually happening.

RT @PghAutonomy
Anonymous submission received 12.14.22

“This small gesture of solidarity is dedicated to the five Weelaunee forest defenders who were arrested and charged with terrorism yesterday.

Cop City will never be built!”

RT @will_potter
Today 5 community activists were arrested for protesting Atlanta's new "Cop City" with tree sits, forest blockades, and allegedly throwing rocks at police.

They're being charged with domestic terrorism.

Here's why all activists need to be paying attention:

@whiskers@monads.online Shame. Just the whole manual concept by itself deserves an award.

@whiskers@monads.online Were they not into it? I feel like the GB East/Nextlander crew would have championed that shit hard.

I mean, I probably shouldn't be storing the lacquer thinner and denatured alcohol in my office, next to the heater. I see that now.

A while back I saw an r/woodworking post where someone was asking for resources for woodworking plans. A few people told them to Google it.

If you Google it you get absolute horseshit. Just page after page of useless results. So we need to stop the fucking "let me google that for you" era and recognize that search is entirely broken in the modern day. We NEED human recommendations and information sharing now more than ever.

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