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liferstate

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Transmasc, Bad Jew (TM), terminally Midwestern. My greatest strength and greatest weakness is I find almost everything interesting. Film thoughts intermittently tagged #cinemastodon. I'm the only #blakes7 fan I've ever met. I write (rarely) and make paper collages (somewhat more often). I only yell at the radio sometimes.

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John James is so afraid of Trump torpedoeing his chance to be Michigan's next governor that he torpoedoed his own chances by backing Trump's insane threats against the Gordie Howe Bridge. Outstanding work, everybody.

https://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/34195/republicans_john_james_and_matt_hall_defend_trump_s_threat_to_block_opening_of_gordie_howe_bridge

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My body can't tell the difference between "you have the flu" and "you are having a panic attack."

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How is Karoline Leavitt twenty-fuckin-eight years old? Her skin looks worse than mine does at 43 and my regimen is "sometimes I remember to moisturize." This woman has got to be spending thousands on beauty treatments and they're not doing a damn thing for her.

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So are we scoring this with the Benny Hill theme, or the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme?

Officers located a stolen vehicle being driven in the area of Jos. Campau, and a chase ensued. The driver of the stolen vehicle crashed into a tree, and the suspect was arrested after a foot chase.
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My personal conspiracy theory is that "green bean casserole" was invented by the McCormick corporation as a ploy to sell more French's crispy fried onions.

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This is my dad's dream car: a Cedric station wagon (though he'd settle for the sedan). Photo courtesy my brother, who lives in Japan and doesn't drive.

A classic boxy compact station wagon parked outside a shop. It's afternoon, the golden hour, and there are refracted rays of sunshine across the camera's field of vision.
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Work muzak is playing Free Bird, send help

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , (edited ) to random

Microsoft attempting to force people to switch from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has somehow resulted in a 10% increase in the market share of Windows 7 https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-7-usage-skyrockets-as-users-refuse-to-upgrade-to-windows-11-in-wake-of-windows-10-end-of-support

EDIT: Before replying to this post, please see this reply about how apparently the entire increase in Win7 market share is due to like one person in Singapore installing it a zillion times https://chitter.xyz/@Vordus/115301165497461902

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@mcc Unsurprising, Win7 was the last good windows.

@liferstate@mas.to avatar liferstate , to random

These days when someone who doesn't usually mask is wearing a mask at work I just assume they have COVID.

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On the one hand it's nice to know I have a robust immune response but on the other hand the day after a COVID shot sucks ass.

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of course trump is already spreading lies about the Michigan church shooting. just a relentless hate machine.

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@curiousgawker Is it supposed to be the radical left again. Because last I checked, leftists do not typically fly gigantic American flags from their pickup trucks.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?

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@NanoRaptor Asahi Pentax camera. My dad got it from the PX at the US army base in Munich in 1969. Haven't pulled it out in a while but there's no reason it wouldn't work if I loaded it up with new film.

I also have a handheld light meter, same era, but I've never been able to figure out how to take a reading with it so I don't think that counts.

@mayintoronto@beige.party avatar mayintoronto , to random

The Fedi is a cult. What does the cult worship?

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@floatybirb @mayintoronto And a very large cat.

@liferstate@mas.to avatar liferstate , to random

There's an old guy in the store wearing a t-shirt with a Bible verse about staying ready for when Jesus comes back. Which tells us 1) he definitely thinks he's getting raptured and 2) he does not understand the Bible verse. "The Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect him" does not mean "Tuesday."

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Also the design of the shirt was very weird— it had the aesthetic of something you'd buy from a hawker outside the Daytona Speedway.

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Cautiously refilling a mechanical pencil like it's an old-timey muzzle loading musket.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , (edited ) to random

Hey. I want to support adult artists.

Please recommend to me Itch comics, artbooks or ebooks that have been impacted by the recent mass de-indexing.

What I'd specifically be excited about:

  • queer/trans stuff of any gender
  • magical/cyberpunk bodyweird stuff a plus
  • I personally don't want to attend the dubstep convention

(Also up for non-Adult queer fiction/comics recs on Itch if you want to drop recs! But I've been doing OK there on Kobo. Got stuck in a cul-de-sac of slow burn OL stuff)

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@mcc I can't recommend anything on Itch bc I'm not familiar with the site. But a friend of mine makes queer & sexy comics (& many other things— coloring books, fabric design, stickers, etc).

https://www.rosalarian.com

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@mcc I honestly haven't read any of their erotic comics but I've enjoyed their not-sexy work, and like their art in general.

@floatybirb@mastodon.social avatar floatybirb , to random

My pet peeve for spaceship designs in science fiction is a lack of airlocks, or airlock locations that don't make sense.

I think spaceships should have at least one airlock at an extremity, so they can dock with a flat surface (like a larger space station). Some real space ships have airlocks at the nose for this reason.

Many fictional designs fail this check by only having airlocks in awkward concave positions where they would need some kind of extension to dock with an identical ship.

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@floatybirb A shuttle bay makes sense if the designer's mental model for a large starship is "aircraft carrier, but in space." The military ships on Battlestar Galactica are basically aircraft carriers.

Also, from a technical perspective, a shuttle bay set is easy to construct and gives the director a lot to work with in terms of camera angles, actors' blocking, etc.

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@floatybirb I had never thought of ziplines being used that way but it makes perfect sense.

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@floatybirb OMG this article has a photo of a guy in a cage on a wire being zoomed from one ship to another.

@liferstate@mas.to avatar liferstate , to random

Chinese speakers of fedi, what does this say?

Context: the paper is tucked in the back of a framed block print my grandma got as a souvenir in China. She was there on a group tour in the late 1970s.

Two lines of Chinese that I can't read
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar moira , to random

noooooo bingo

creature from the black lagoon bingo card (with no bingo)
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@moira So there were no science facts at all? Not even semi-accurate ones? That's kind of impressive.

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

President Trump says he will join the police and military tonight on patrol of DC streets. https://x.com/toddstarnes/status/1958561442657100214?s=46&t=jL8Ugia1L6n6Y47XLrW11Q

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@w7voa Will they give him a little plastic sheriff badge to play with?

@artemis@dice.camp avatar artemis , to random

I can't believe I'm thinking of shopping somewhere even more expensive when groceries are already so expensive, but I think we are going to have to stop shopping at the Kroger-owned chain here.

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@sidereal Small correction: Kroger is in fact a union shop (UFCW). @artemis @JessTheUnstill

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc.

Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?

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@gerrymcgovern A couple weeks ago I saw someone wearing a hair scrunchie with blinky lights inside. I did not know such a thing existed.

@liferstate@mas.to avatar liferstate , to random

Hating Nazis is not the same thing as loving Jews, part eleventy-thousand: Australia has had a string of violent antisemitic hate crimes over the last few months. And I'm not sanguine that all of it can be safely blamed on the far right.

https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/113935219324357299

@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io avatar Impossible_PhD , (edited ) to random

A small, friendly reminder:

Injectable hormones are suspended in castor oil a carrier oil. Castor oil Carrier oils are really good at keeping those hormones dissolved.

But castor oil carrier oils go rancid over the course of a few years, depending on what type they are. Faster if you don't keep it in a dark place. And rancid castor oil carrier oils don't work properly, and can even hurt you.

So, please keep an eye on the expiration date of any vial of hormones you have or get, and discard anything past its expiration date promptly.

Because you can't tell if castor oil carrier oils have gone rancid by sight. Only smell or texture.

And you can't smell or feel it in a sealed vial.

Edit: I was not entirely correct here--injectable hormones use a variety of oils, some of which are longer-lived than castor.

That being said, the core point remains: Please take the expiration dates on your injectable hormones seriously, especially if you have other comorbidities that can interact with injections.

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@Impossible_PhD Testosterone uses cottonseed oil. Any idea about the expiry on that?

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

Here in Fiserv Forum, as J.D. Vance begins to speak amid chants of “Ohio, Ohio,” he tells the Republican National Convention “we’ve got to chill with the Ohio love. We’ve got to win Michigan, too.”

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@w7voa "We've got to win Michigan" the hell you will, bud, in fact Michigan's gonna march on Toledo and reclaim it once and for all.

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

You know you’re in Hollywood when there’s a guy with a 16mm camera he owns recording the dancing in your hotel bar. Fun fact: He has to send the film to Denver for processing — $55 per roll.

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@w7voa (Alt text for preceding images: first image, a dark-skinned man smiling as he shows off his 16mm camera. Second image, a small group of people dancing to a DJ in a well-lit, oh so tastefully decorated room with white walls, blond hardwood flooring, and mid-century modern furniture.)

@liferstate@mas.to avatar liferstate , to random

Graphic designer Saul Bass directed exactly one film, an extremely trippy adaptation of HG Wells' "Empire of the Ants" called PHASE IV.

As far as I can tell the ants do not become large, so the film may not qualify for , but it does sound real fucked up. It's on Criterion til June 30, dunno about other sites.

(cc @futurebird )

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@futurebird Are they large, or regular ant sized?

The idea of being taken over by billions of tiny, hyperintelligent ants is more unsettling than being taken over by a smaller number of less intelligent ant kaiju.