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Apparently I have two types of friends right now: Those with covid and those with a bad cold/allergies who won't test for covid.
If you're one of the latter, be responsible and test. I'm sorry if it ruins your weekend plans, but you could literally save someone's life by being responsible.
^C to interrupt a work, then I go napping 
’Don't. Ever. Publish. Stuff. That. ONLY. Supports. Dark. Mode.
I mean, I know a LOT of people love dark mode, and given the benefits that darkening interfaces provides... I get it.
But there are some people (like me) who may be visually impaired. Astigmatism, for example, can make reading text that is white on dark a real PITA. An effect known as "halation" occurs, where each letter behaves as if it were a flashlight, gaining its own halo of light and making all text read more blurry than normal.
No matter how good your glasses are, astigmatism still causes you to see a little blurry—it's something you get used to. But this damn effect makes all the text read as if you don't have your glasses on, or even worse, leading to much more tired eyes or even pain.
For everyone's sake, if you really care about accessibility, respect user preferences. If you want a dark interface by default, offer a light version if the user specifies it (in web design, this would be prefers-color-scheme: light). The same goes for light interfaces.
Then:
"Grandma, why are you saving those bits of twine and pieces of used foil? You can just go to the store and buy new stuff."
"Grandson, I grew up during the Depression"
Now:
"Dad, why are you collecting all those DVDs and saving files to disk and all that? You can just go to the Internet and find that."
"Kids, I grew up during the Great Ensh*ttification..."
Before the invention of the camera, people had to paint selfies of themselves.
The first known selfie painting was made by Jan van Eyck in 1433.
#Musk reckons the main danger from CO2 emissions are that if they get too high, people will get headaches…but:
‘Michael Mann said that if CO2 levels get so high breathing becomes difficult, then the impacts of the climate crisis “will be so devastating as to have already caused societal collapse. It’s actually Elon’s ill-informed and ill-premised statements that are causing headaches and nausea.”
#ClimateBreakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/13/trump-musk-x-climate
Trump talked about ‘nuclear warming’ while Musk said the only reason to quit fossil fuels is that their supply is finiteOliver Milman (The Guardian)
UK environmental journalist Leo Hickman shared a transcript of the #ClimateChange section of the #Trump #Musk 3 hour interview. It’s worth a read.
Trump simply cannot hide his #ClimateDenialism, while Musk falls into my definition of evil. He’s deliberately fuzzy and mansplains a lot, but he basically knows the risks and the timescales. And he downplays it all for votes.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1OSCAkADVAbGE0cd6joBtF-pkos_Siqlxv0_678jZOCw/mobilebasic
Kawia is the name of this werebat, shown on his two forms.
DnD character for Furahi.
Digital. Procreate
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When I was 21 I was told that pregnancy could (and probably would) kill me AND that I was likely infertile.
I asked to have my tubes tied & was told “you’re too young. You may change your mind & want kids.”
🧵 on reproductive health, bodily autonomy & misogyny in medicine.
First off - this was devastating news at such a young age. I had stage 4 endometriosis, a tipped uterus, adenomyosis & other health issues that made pregnancy unlikely AND dangerous.
I was told in the event I became pregnant - they would have to recommend termination.
Abortion would ALSO be risky to my health - though less risky than carrying a pregnancy to term.
Given the threat it seemed perfectly reasonable to request a more fail safe method of birth control (tubal ligation).
I was having laproscopic surgery anyways to try and remove some of the endometriosis - so they were literally already going to be operating. Tying my tubes was a negligible risk compared to the rest of the surgery.
Imagine my shock when I was informed they wouldn’t do it because I might change my mind and want kids.
I asked them whether my “changing my mind” would change my prognosis or their recommendation. Nope. They would still recommend termination.
This was the first time I truly understood how deep misogyny and patriarchal values ran in medicine. My theoretical ability to bear children - whether I wanted them or not and whether it was safe or not - was more important than my health and my life.
It was infuriating. An IUD wasn’t an option for a myriad of reasons so I was stuck on hormonal birth control that I didn’t tolerate well. I was also getting sicker from the endometriosis & adenomyosis… and it quickly became clear a hysterectomy would be best for me.
Given doctors weren’t willing to entertain a tubal ligation - you can only imagine how they felt about a hysterectomy. Same tired arguments about how I could change my mind, I was too young, what if I met a man who wanted kids blah blah blah.
I got these responses from male and female physicians - all of whom were willing to let my health significantly deteriorate rather than “make me barren”. None of whom listened to what I wanted to do with MY body.
I continued to push for surgery because I knew it was what I needed - and was forced to undergo multiple psych evaluations. I heard everything from “don’t you want to be a mother” to “what if you meet the man of your dreams & he leaves you because you can’t have kids?.”
How is it appropriate to ask ANY woman these questions? Let alone a woman who has been told - repeatedly - that pregnancy would put her life in jeopardy? It was as though they thought something was wrong with me because I didn’t want to risk my life for a hypothetical baby. 1/2
#womenshealth #endometriosis #EDS #ehlersdanlossyndrome #pregnancy #gynecology #obgyn #abortion #reproductivehealth #reproductiverights #abortionIShealthcare #patriarchy #misogyny #Disability #Ableism #Denial #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #DisabilityRights #hysterectomy #hystersisters
I firmly told them that no I didn’t want to be a mother - I was barely healthy enough to care for myself. That IF I changed my mind I would happily consider adoption. They sneered and said “you may want biological children - many women do.”
In response to my theoretical “dream man” who wants to have a baby with me… I told them if he was really the man of my dreams he wouldn’t care if I was barren. If he cared - then he wasn’t the “one”. That got me fast tracked to ANOTHER psych evaluation.
When I started dating someone - I brought him with me to meet the gynaecologist in the hopes HE could change her mind. Instead they asked HIM to sit through an inquisition where he had to repeatedly assure them he wouldn’t “leave me” for being unable to procreate.
The experience was infuriating - especially considering the tenuous state of my health. I was in and out of ERs with severe anemia and hypotension. Off work repeatedly because I couldn’t get off the bathroom floor. Yet I was somehow supposed to WANT to become a mother?
Had my boyfriend wanted a vasectomy no one would have batted an eye. As Tim pointed out in his original post - men are simply trusted to know what’s best for their bodies.
Yet here I was being told I couldn’t possibly make a sound choice for my own health & wellbeing - while simultaneously being pushed to raise a child. Even at 21 it struck me as odd that they thought I was good enough to parent - but not to make my own health decisions.
The hysterectomy eventually happened - albeit as an emergency due to severe blood loss. Even then they kept saying “are you sure you understand you won’t be able to have kids?”
All I understood in that moment was I felt like nothing more than an incubator.
We need to respect women more. We are just as capable of making choices for our health as men. We don’t all WANT to have children - and not all of us are capable of having children. It doesn’t make us “less than”.
The way I was treated left me with significant medical trauma and a general distrust of doctors… because at no point did I truly feel like they had my best interests at heart.
I’m more than my fertility. More than my ability to be someone’s girlfriend, wife, mother. More than my disabilities. I’m a whole person who had hopes and dreams which were being actively discouraged by their reckless refusal to give me the medical care I needed.
My sincere hope is that in time this will never happen to any young woman. That they will be treated equally with men and allowed to choose for themselves what they want to do with their bodies. That they be believed, trusted & respected in all the ways I wasn’t.
Epilogue: Thanks to the dithering and delay of multiple doctors - my hysterectomy was done under the worst possible conditions. As an emergency surgery while I had a ferritin of zero. It did not go smoothly and I had a serious life threatening complication that was ignored by multiple ER staff. It took FOUR trips to the hospital - and a man - to get me the medical care I needed to save my life. I wrote about that experience (and the need for an advocate) on my website: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and
A story of medical gaslighting, negligence and neglect that very nearly cost me my life - and how my accidental advocate (untrained and unprepared) saved me.Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
So cool! A one-pixel-wide font that exploits subpixels.
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/slGDHG3oyt)
I went for my first Spidey-walk around my new neighbourhood.
Several pretty nice encounters with locals. A group outside the local club wanted photos (although only one of them actually stood next to me to be photographed!), a couple wanted pictures to show a young relative who, apparently, would be astounded that they'd met the real Spidey. A family with two young boys was just getting into their car after after presumably visiting relatives and the family seemed to like seeing me, although the boys themselves seemed not bold enough to interact. A guy told me he'd just "walked out" of work (not sure if he'd quit or just left for the day) after his manager had sworn at him and said just seeing me lifted his mood and made his day.
And all this just from my first 30 minute, 1½ mile walk. Gotta spend a bit more time out in suit in this area! 🙂
(Below, eight selfies of me as classic Spider-Man with my web backpack, one indoors before I went out, the others taken on a path beside a green part way along my route.)
This is why, when I got home on the motorbike late in the evening recently, rather tired, I sat down on the driveway to pet the local cats when they appeared rather than rushing to get inside and get my heavy, exhausting gear off. It's also why, when I go for a walk in suit, I want to do better at pausing to greet people rather than just waving as I walk, to make it clearer I have time and to maximise the chances of something good happening.
Some fiber providers are now talking about offering 50 gigabit to the home.
Mother fuckers, ZOMGWTFBBQ? I've been delivering FTTH since 2015, and I have the fucking bandwidth usage charts to prove this next statement: NO ONE NEEDS 50 FUCKING GIGABIT TO THEIR HOME!!!!!!
Instead of trying to go needlessly faster, how about we focus on actually delivering a good product worldwide? Lets just admit that 1 gigabit is good enough, and should be the goal everywhere. Let entities that actually need more bandwidth gets ELINE, or Dark Fiber, or whatever DIA solution can accommodate their need for 10, 25, 40, 100, etc gigabit.
Because this fucking arms race to deliver insane speeds to residences with 2-6 occupants is fucking wasteful as hell.
Oh wait, everything I just said would require us to re-examine our growth addicted economy. Yeah, cause that'll happen.
@ret My parents have a 200/200 fiber package, and it works fine. Plenty fast enough, and the upload is great.
I'm on 500/20 cable, and running off-site backups is a pain.
I've just got the Openreach line at my new home configured with a 115/20 service, but I'm considering getting Swish to install a line here too and relegate the openwretch line to be a backup, because AFAICT Swish's services are all symmetric.
Why anyone would install a fibre access network with asymmetric capacity I don't know (unlike DOCSIS or DSL it'd have to be a deliberate choice, surely?), and if the access network is symmetric, why would they not offer symmetric services? Presumably only to be able to keep selling overpriced symmetric services as "enterprise solutions"!
(I want to be able to stick a small server rack in the garage for non-critical stuff to save a bit on datacentre costs, and some outbound capacity would help. Even for that I doubt I'll need 1Gbps. Heck, even my datacentre racks only have 1Gbps BGP uplinks and I've only recently been feeling it might be worth upgrading — and that's only because of the risks of DDoS attacks and/or a greedy 1Gbps+ home user saturating one of those uplinks…)
It's simple, Prime Minister: X is for people who think that Britain is about to lock up everyone who isn't woke, Bluesky is for people who think that sounds like a terrific idea, and Threads is for people who have no idea what either of the others are on about.
Truth Social is for people who think they run the Internet, Nostr is for people who think they should run the internet, and Mastodon is for people who actually do run the Internet.
& 4Chan people don’t care as long as they have big tits.
⚠️Iceshrimp.social shutting down⚠️
Iceshrimp.social has now been running for a whole year.
I've always enjoyed running the instance and providing a platform for those interested in Iceshrimp.
However, I've recently been going through a tough time with depression, and managing and financing the instance mostly on my own has become increasingly difficult for me.
After much thought, I’ve decided to close down Iceshrimp.social.
I'm sorry for this spontaneous notice and any inconvenience it may cause, but I just need to take a step back and focus on my mental health right now.
Therefore, please make sure to migrate your account to another Fediverse instance as soon as possible.
If you need any help with the migration or are facing issues, please feel free to drop me a message. I'm happy to help.
I want to say a huge thank you to all of you. I hope you all find a new home that feels just as welcoming.
Take care of yourselves, and I wish you all the best wherever you end up next 
PS.: This does not affect iceshimp development in any way, since the instance was always independent of the development team.
The iceshrimp.social domain will be transferred to Zotan (the lead dev), as part of the shutdown process.
I know this is a bit late, but I wanted to wait for the official photo.
I would like to thank everyone who stood by me and encouraged me and the judges for choosing me as the best of the many super dancers! To the host for giving everyone an enjoyable show!
This win only inspires me to be even better in the future!
Thank you all very much too! I love you all! ❤
📸: @Cartooncoon (Twitter)
Judges: @chipfoxx @AshCoyote @Emily_Creative (Twitter)
Host: @KanaMauMau (Twitter)
#furry #fursuit #fursuiter #Dancing #Dancecompetition
🆕 blog! “Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!”
For lots of online accounts, a date of birth is nothing more than a very weak second factor. The majority of places aren't checking your identity, cross-referencing your birthdate, and personalising your experience based on your Zodiac sign. At most, they'll wish you a happy birthday and / or let you rec…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/psssst-your-date-of-birth-can-be-a-random-number/
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#CyberSecurity #opsec
For lots of online accounts, a date of birth is nothing more than a very weak second factor. The majority of places aren’t checking your identity, cross-referencing your birthdate, and person…Terence Eden’s Blog
Disabled people don't just "deserve" access to the world- we have a right to it.
Denying us the freedom to use a bathroom, enjoy a meal, or be a part of society is a denial of our human rights.
Until our rights are honoured, justice and equality remain empty promises.
#Disability #HumanRights #Poverty #Technology #Cinema #Accessibility #SDGs #Equity
This rings so true.
(Actually this new house was left in a pretty good state and I'm not sure there's a huge amount to fix — one leaking shower drain isn't a huge deal and is kinda all we've come across so far. More than that are the upgrades I want to do. But still, my dad mentioned in response to this that he knows every inch of the old house, having lived there 50+ years and having done almost all the work on it over that time, while this new one is mostly an unknown quantity.)
