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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 22h

me: [fidgeting with the 5lb sledge hammer that i've kept by my desk for like 3 months]

@kayila.bsky.social, perfectly describing what she is witnessing: "the autistic urge to hold something slightly heavier than you should currently be holding"

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 22h

baby's first MIDI controller! (belongs to @elliesaur.bsky.social, I just made the stickers)

An AKAI MPK mini two-octave MIDI keyboard sitting on a cluttered coffee table. The keys are labeled with square, rainbow-colored stickers with the letters for each note.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1d

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 3d

if you're starting with raster, PNG. if you're starting with vector (which would be ideal), SVG if you've got it, but I can work with PDF.

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 4d

you should send some files soon, because I have proper Cricut laser-printable vinyl and Oracal laminating film and sooner or later my ADHD is going to get the better of me and you're going to get twenty of the same logo in even nicer materials 😂

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 4d

yes and you'd be so fluffy that I could just strap you to my back and carry you around everywhere :D

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D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw the phrase,”people who identify as marginalized” and y’all I do not have patience for whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean today.

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 4d

rejecting the concept of "a cure for autism" is suicide prevention

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 4d

Like, how short would that average (but not typical!) time lost have to be before you *wouldn't* buy a mask?

julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, that doesn't work either.

Human risk understanding and tolerance doesn't follow the linearity required by expected value.

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, it's the lives to dollars conversion that bothers me.

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

(serious answer: not a *ton*, it can provoke bronchospasm if you're asthmatic, but it's likely just gonna give you a nice wet cough. handy if you have a dry cough, probably not gonna do much to prevent infection since iirc it starts in the upper airways.)

julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

yeah it seems to work as well on sinuses as it does on lungs! love that shit.

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 14d

I have advice to offer my fellow stuffy nosers, my booged-up compatriots, my brethren who wake up feeling like they absorbed zero oxygen overnight: Saline spray. The super concentrated hypertonic shit. Head tilted ninety degrees and such a long deep spray that you feel like you jumped in a pool

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

...but sticking an estimated value on it -- especially when pandemics can be unexpectedly deadly -- seems to be missing the point. human life doesn't multiply and divide like that.)

julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

(to be clear I am extremely a fan of good elastomeric respirators! everyone should have a solid N95 [or 99 or 100!] on hand for pandemics, bad air quality days, sanding, or whatever else floats their way...

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Rachel H @rachelcraves.bsky.social · 6d

But who do you ship Theseus *with*?

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

putting aside whether the glycemic index of sourdough is meaningfully lower, you can't really make that kind of generalizaton.

every (T2) diabetic has different tolerance for carbs. for some, 'slower' breads would be a problem; for others, 'faster' breads with protein and fat would be fine.

julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

congratu-fucking-lations!

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 6d

man that sure is some quality-adjusted life years dystopian style math.

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Ghost Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 9d

Dang, imagine teaching an electric railway engineering program and having your program’s own trolley to do it with, just switching the car onto the line when it’s time to go out and do coursework.

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