The Spider-George of Kidney Stones

@rocketpants.bsky.social

Agender trashgoblin. Arts and crafts ninja. IT techie. Dork. Nordlænding. Tidvis hissig. They/hen

Does anyone work in museum interpretation? How's it been affected by social media and short-form content basically rewiring our brains? Are labels still in? Do we need to radically rethink things? I'm thinking of writing something.

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

Researchers: The best way we can accommodate refugees is with well-funded welfare services, everyone benefits from this. Right wing: lalalaala we can't hear you, it's going to overwhelm those services and break the system, you have to vote for us (we'll defund the system so it breaks btw)

researchers: every unit of currency we put into this welfare service not only makes the user's life materially better, but returns about 150% of the spending in how it benefits society more broadly. right wing: ok but what if too many people use it though? also "too many" is "more than zero" here

I swear, if there's one thing that I think people could do that would instantly improve their odds of almost ANYTHING in life, it's to think at least one step beyond what they think they need to do. You don't need women to notice you, my guy, you need what happens AFTER they notice you.

the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold

22. juli 2011 var jeg nyutdannet i min første voksenjobb. De som kjente meg ville sagt at jeg var ivrig (kanskje til og med litt intens), entusiastisk opptatt av veldig mange ting, og særlig vennene mine. Jeg var utdannet fra universitetet i Oslo og Bergen, og hadde gode venner fra begge steder

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

Sånn apropos AI og plakater. Som en person som har laget ørtogførti plakater for diverse små bedrifter og idrettslag og tatt meg betalt for det, så kan jeg med hånda på hjertet si at det vanskeligste er å få folk til å bestemme seg hva som skal stå på plakaten og forhindre at det blir en roman.

Jeg skulle gjerne sagt noe smart og innsiktsfullt om smertebehandling. Men akkurat nå ligger jeg hjemme med en stent opp i nyra som jeg skal fjerne selv i "én smidig bevegelse" i morra, mens den eneste smertelindringa jeg får er paracet og et sympatisk trekk på skuldra. Så jeg er ikke helt der.

Majka@majka.bsky.social · 3w ago

så er det bedre å bare late som ingen ting og håpe pasienten ikke kniper for hardt før de er ferdige. Som pasient foretrekker jeg konseptet «informert samtykke», men legestanden er litt delt på om jeg fortjener det siden jeg bare er en litt hysterisk kvinne. *ikke alle leger men ALT ALT FOR MANGE

Imagine how disappointed I was when I bought all the early D&D gear only to find out that the whole Satanic Panic was horseshit and I DIDN'T gain wicked cool demonic powers.