Ethan

ReCalibri They always make us do everything ourselves, anyway

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people.

I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

On the plus side, at least I'll have a sick muscle pump going when I die from the plane either falling apart or crashing into something.

Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.

There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.

This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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computers

Today, on my dad's last day of radiation for prostate cancer (his 2nd cancer), I was with my mom in pre-op for her shoulder surgery, coordinating with the clinical/care teams on meds, aftercare, etc., and... I think this might be the first day I've ever truly felt my age. This is 40?

😔

A few months ago I read that many datasets used to train these AI models are full of porn to ensure “women aren’t underrepresented in the dataset.” Once you know, you see it everywhere.

Read this twice.

“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

This was my exact first thought when I saw how highly shared/reposted it was.

The best part is seeing what happens when you give children a joyful way to start their day. They show up energized, confident, and connected. This is what happens when streets feel welcoming and movement is part of the morning routine. #BikeBus

“Delaying the shot from birth to 2 months, one of the potential votes for the committee, would lead to at least 1,400 infections, 300 cases of liver cancer, and 480 deaths every year – all preventable by vaccination…It would also result in more than $222m in additional healthcare costs every year.”

I mean, the world will burn, that's for sure.

There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.

Thinking about how difficult it has been for my partner... who has had to sacrifice every weekend, every holiday, every work break--for 2yrs!--to bed, just so they can keep their day job and their income source "safe" from POTS. Colleagues might never know this reality if they didn't speak it aloud.

A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"

As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed

An "A.C.A.B.: Anarchists are About Books" tote bag stuffed with the board game Bloc by Bloc and a copy of The Lineages of Change Tarot, sitting between copies of the books Driven by the Movement and Read This When Things Fall Apart, all against a background of black with small white and gold stars. The word "SALE!" runs along the top in bold white text.

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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

Another helpful reminder that the Altmetric Score is not an indicator of quality, but of attention. Not all attention is good attention!

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

A white stoat wearing an elegant tweed suit with a red vest. He holds a lantern out, autumn leaves swirling at his ankles, while an banner flutters over his head that reads "Unclench your jaw."

Hey you

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

For the past five years, my nesting partner and I have headed into the forest, to give our thanks to the many ancestors (human and non-human alike) who hold us gently, and search for our badnjak, the centerpiece of our Sczcodre Gody ancestral alter. It essentially serves as the kickoff to Kolęda!

That's pretty cool! A museum scanned their entire collection, and then matched the distribution of colors to the era from which the object comes. The browns of 19th century, reds of mid-20th, recent blues. But also more and more of Pure Black.

Source: lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape...

We have created three distinct certifications tailored to key audiences: Gemini Certified Educator: for teaching innovation and student success. Gemini Certified University Student: for academic excellence and professional preparedness. Gemini Certified Student (K12) for responsible, informed use by high schoolers. Please note a foundational course completion is required before the assessment can be taken.

Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...

wild considering most sex workers I know have had at least one of their accounts yeeted for the crime of existing

Bottle of Galaxy-flavored torani syrup

Back of the bottle which reads: Torani Puremade Galaxy Syrup is an out-of-this-world, fantastical flavor that brings to life the molecular structure of dust clouds in space-which share the taste of juicy raspberries and dark rum—in a delightful way.

The inspiration behind this is def from a study of Sagittarius B2, a giant molecular cloud composed of gas & dust towards the center of our galaxy. Astronomers searching for amino acids ended up detecting large amounts of ethyl formate. This compound smells like rum & gives raspberries their flavor!

People in power don’t like it when you ask too many questions, ya know?

Yeah, but, how can they coercively control all of us, if too many of us don't like, won't accept, and refuse to conform to useless (at best) and violent (at worst) norms?

Anti-neurodiversity/sanism is always a not so thinly veiled attempt to maintain the hierarchy(ies). Change my mind.

Dems released their vison of “winning” which was leaning away from immigration and “identity issues”

MEANWHILE IN CALIFORNIA

( and god I do love the number of of folks who basically just in their phone . Because they can do this all day)