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"Riding your trike can be a great way to get in shape and lose weight!*"

*must weigh less than 250 lbs or the vehicle may spontaneously collapse

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i also wish some asshole hadn't stolen my e-trike SEVEN FUCKING MONTHS AGO

i wish e-trikes didn't cost 5,000 goddamn dollars

i'd even accept a regular trike if anybody made the damn things but they're uncommon enough in the US that they still cost like $2,500 and come with tight weight restrictions

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last boost: GOOD, i wish America could make headway towards discouraging cars and favoring cyclists and/or public transport where possible

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@ben Funny, I took the picture on Thursday, literally the day before you πŸ˜€β€‹

But yeah, had a much more pleasant experience riding Amtrak Cascades to Seattle and back than I've ever had on a plane. Didn't even mind that it was slightly slower; the amount of security-theater that my grandma and I _didn't_ have to go through, the Red Cap man helping us with luggage and getting her up the steps, and not having to be buckled into our seats for "take-off" gave us a better experience than any airliner.

@ben Yes it is - and like an hour before noon, at that, with nearly nobody around. More employees than riders. :blobfrown:

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@gifsbot At first I'd assume this got corrupted in transit, back in 1994, but the filename indicates this is deliberate. I wonder how they accomplished this effect. What graphics formats of the time stored the color channels separately so they could diverge like this when the data is thrashed enough...?

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Back in the day I used to use this Winamp plugin to simulate vinyl noise: winampheritage.com/plugin/izot - I kind of wish there was an equivalent for foobar2000. (I know there used to be a foobar plugin that enabled the use of Winamp plugins but I'm not sure if that supported DSPs, and I think it stopped working several foobar versions ago.)

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@mcc I've wanted something like the prototype steam controller that used a trackball for the longest time. I want more games that use trackballs and spinners. There's almost no USB support for them, and it's tragic.

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I ported a USB DisplayLink driver to @polpo's PicoGUS card so I could use it to watch MS-DOS games make changes to the VGA palette in realtime. Specifically, I ported "libdlo" to use the TinyUSB stack in host mode, then spent way too much time optimizing it until it was sufficiently fast.

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Urgent PSA for all trans folk referred to London GIC (aka Tavistock GIC, Tavistock and Portman; formerly Charing Cross) who are still on the waiting list 

Hey folks :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:

You may receive an SMS text from +44 7860 039092 or similar. It will read along the lines of:

From: Tavistock GIC

Hello, you are on the waiting list waiting to be seen at the GIC you were referred between 20## - 20##. We understand during this wait some patients will no longer wish or need to be seen.

Please respond to our question via our secure portal within the next 14 days. drdoctor.thirdparty.nhs.uk/???????????????

Thank you.

We've seen screenshots of people of people referred 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. This was the Reddit post that made us aware of this. A friend of ours, referred in 2019-2020, received and responded last week.

It very much looks like the NHS powers that be have contracted a third party to reach out to patients on this GIC's waiting list, in the hopes that many won't respond in time for any number of reasons. They're trying to artificially reduce their huge waiting list via nefarious means, rather than tackling the systemic issues.

If you have been referred to this GIC and haven't yet received an SMS text, or you have changed your mobile phone number or any other details, you can attempt to log in to the main login portal without the unique code.

Please spread this far and wide. People need to know about this, so they don't lose their place in the queue and have to be referred again πŸ₯Ί

Lives could literally depend on this 😞

#trans #transgender #NHS #NHSEngland #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransHealthcare #TransLivesMatter #healthcare #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #queer #TransLiberation #TransLiberationNow #TransPeopleAreLoved

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I'm looking for a replacement top shell for my midnight purple 3ds which is cracked. I remember seeing AliExpress listings for replacement shells where every bit was cloned but the top shell was refurbished from original, though they were never in stock. Now I can only find clone remakes that don't quite look right. Does anyone have any idea how I could find this? Boosts appreciated.

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Spare me from the dudes who reply β€œwho cares” to posts on social media. I care, that’s why I posted it, fucknugget

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