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grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • Artists, scientists and engineers have a magic trick.

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  • Graciously, I think they're coming from a place of ADHD and assuming that engineers, artists, and scientists either don't have ADHD or have the superpower "hyperfocus".

    Sadly, hyperfocus is a fickle muse who has chosen not to grace me today. [sobs in ADHD techie]

  • A clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it.

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  • Thank you for clarifying. TBH I got who was saying what a tad mixed up in the thread.

    I can get behind not outright mocking folks that seem interested in leaving the cult. I just also think the sadistic and casually cruel folk are the norm rather than the outlier, based on experiences growing up in a Red State and visiting as an adult.

  • 9 dead in Massachusetts assisted living facility fire described as ‘unfathomable tragedy’

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  • Bad joke. I have distant elderly relatives (my aunts' cousins) in Fall River. Now I'm worried I'll get bad news at tomorrow's family stitch 'n bitch.

  • A clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it.

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  • I'm not convinced that "showing empathy" is the way to court Republicans. It's just seen as weakness, and weakness is a joke to them.

    I'm thinking back to my grandmother's funeral in Appalachia. She had a small terrier as her companion in her final years. They were inseparable. Multiple of her male relatives made the joke "I thought we were just going to toss the dog in the grave and bury him with her". Hardy-har har. The dog was small and therefore weak and therefore a joke.

    There were similar scenes between my mom and her coworkers when my dad was in hospital dieing of COVID-19. I'm not going into them because I already done triggered myself.

    Anyways, that's how I ended up with a surprise dog to take back home to a blue state. He's still a good boy, even though he's now a grumpy teenager.

  • UwU brat mathematician behavior

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  • [Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.

  • Dogs are so easy to medicate...all it takes is a little cheese or lunch meat. 🤣

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  • My last pup had a liquid medication, twice a day. We had them make it fish flavored. She loved that stuff, it was so easy to squirt it in her mouth with the dosing syringe.

    Current pup has 2 pills twice a day. He's mostly deaf but can still hear that bottle open. He's sneaky and will walk away to spit out the pills. He'll refuse pill pockets. He knows all the tricks. I just have to shove the pills down his throat, then watch him eat a treat so I know he didn't cough a pill up into his cheek or beard. Grumpy old man dog.

  • Trump's (Acting) FEMA Head Still Missing, Presumed Hiking Appalachian Trail

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  • My dog ate breakfast at a reasonable time this morning. This is notable because he ate yesterday's breakfast at 3am this morning.

    (Old dog, forgets to eat. Sometimes I have to jump-start his appetite by literally spoon feeding him, then he'll finish the rest of his super-smelly wet food himself)

  • DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas

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  • Exactly. I'll just go tell my teenaged cousin he needs to move and if he doesn't then any ills befall him are on his shoulders. I'm sure he has full control of his situation and has chosen to live in Texas. That's the choice I'd make if I was a trans teenager, for sure. /s (he knows I exist, am supportive, am queer, and am in a blue state, there's just... circumstances. He's racing towards graduation and college as fast as he can.)

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • TBH, ADHD is a part of my identity and my ADHD coworkers clocked me, as did my boss whose daughter has ADHD. (Librarian-hood is not the realm of the neurotypical.)

    So, not something folks at the grocery store would notice and mileage varies as to what is part of someone's identity.

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • Kids can be cruel.

    I'm glad this Barbie exists. Representation matters, and this toy is one way to show little kids it's ok to have T1D. If a kid knows that Barbie can wear CGM then maybe the kid won't be a jerk when they meet a new kid with a thing on their arm.

  • How thoughtful of them!

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  • Ok, unrelated, but now I'm thinking back to when we had to put down our dog. Later that day we stopped by the store and we were visibly sad, but still needed groceries.

    The workers were so lovely. One asked what was up, told him, and he gave us flowers and some stickers. That helped a lot. It was our first pet loss as adults and it was good to be reassured that our feelings were ok.

    Sometimes stickers help.

  • How thoughtful of them!

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  • Looks like it comes with access to an online doctor who can prescribe you meds to treat the UTI.

    You can probably get a sticker or lollipop at the pharmacy if you ask nicely.

  • Can you guess, chat?

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  • TBH, I have a small personal massager I use for my face. Vibrating the sinuses helps make all the mucus and gunk move, like jiggling a ketchup bottle. It helps my sinus headaches.

    But yeah, they knew.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.

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  • I had beef last weekend in the form of my partner's leftover canned Italian wedding soup. I think the prior time was a few months earlier when a takeout order was screwed up and my fish sandwich turned into a cheeseburger.

    I try and avoid beef because of the environment and because of cute cow videos. But, if it would go to waste otherwise, I'll go ahead and eat it.

  • YSK that apart from not having a car and voting, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat.

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  • Ten years ago I got caught by surprise bacon in frigging Pennsylvania. I'd done the "make a vegetarian meal out of sides" thing while visiting my parents.

    The restaurant named all the cheeses in 5-cheese macaroni and cheese but didn't mention that bacon was also mixed in. My mom parent-pressured me to not send it back and I ate it, suffering the gastrointestinal consequences later.

  • Amazon engineers and marketers were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery

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  • I did that during the height of COVID, when my household was only going to the store once a month. Imperfect Foods was how I got fresh produce in between those trips.

  • The filters in my Corsi-Rosenthal Box look after 30 days of continuous use...

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  • Just get the ice delivered from the local grocery store.

  • The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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  • My archive's server uses Anubis and after initial configuration it's been pain-free. Also, I'm no longer getting multiple automated emails a day about how the server's timing out. It's great.

    We went from about 3000 unique "pinky swear I'm not a bot" visitors per (iirc) half a day to 20 such visitors. Twenty is much more in-line with expectations.

  • Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups

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  • I wonder how much that has to do with state rules on voting in primaries. Like, when I lived in MA I was registered independent because that would let me vote in any primary (but only one). My current state, I have to be affiliated with a specific party to vote.