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   Kevin Fox (kfury@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 01:08:26 JST Kevin Fox

   Gmail turns 20 on Monday, and the articles are starting to come out.

   As a web designer it’s incredibly gratifying to have worked on a site that had served people for 20 years. I’m forever grateful for the opportunity.

   https://www.theverge.com/24113616/gmail-email-20-years-old-internet

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   Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 21:49:25 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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   Now while this thread focuses on a country in the Horn of Africa, I think everyone living in Europe and North America should take note, because this is violence that you may yet see in your own communities.

   It is very easy for the far right to call for deportations. Let's be frank though, if Vladimir Putin supporters decided to hold a festival fundraiser in Seattle...you can bet everything that clashes far worse than what we're seeing here would break out.

   As such, the racism is uncalled for.

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   Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 04:20:23 JST Qasim Rashid, Esq.

   Need to point this out.

   As a murderer stabbed a Muslim woman named Dr. Talat Khan to death, witnesses report that 17 Texans pulled out their firearms. 17! The murderer stabbed her, stopped to check her pulse, confirmed she was alive, & went back to stabbing her to death.

   And 17 "good guys with guns" did nothing.

   A reminder that the "good guy with a gun" myth is a propaganda point to sell more guns. It does nothing beyond an anecdote to save lives.
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12688199/pulse-talat-khan-miles-fridrich-texas.html

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   Axios (axios@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 12:17:36 JST Axios

   In 10 days, the U.S. will fall off a "child care cliff" — that's the day pandemic-era funding for the industry runs out.

   As many as 70,000 centers, looking after 3.2 million children, may close after the funding runs out, according to one estimate. https://t.co/XZovI3aQQ1

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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 23:58:22 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   I've got a doctor's appointment the day after tomorrow and I need to figure out how to get there given my PPCS right? Okay.

   Setting the stage: I'm still recovering from a concussion almost 11 months after receiving it due to developing persistent post concussion syndrome. Likely because I have a history of head injuries. Last time I got a concussion I had persistent post-concussive syndrome for over a year and a half as well. The symptoms include difficulty processing information quickly, light and sound sensitivity, brain fog cognitive, and of course awful headaches. Lately it's been especially bad because I have been recovering but I just pushed myself WAY beyond what I was ready for last week and it's coming back to haunt me.

   So.

   The doctor's office is not remotely within walking distance, so my primary mode of transportation is out of the question. Not to mention the fact that when I took a long walk the day before yesterday it made my symptoms so bad it was probably the most painful headache (or most amount of pain period) that I've ever been in in my life — even including when I first got this concussion. I also nearly blacked out near the end of the hour long walk. So walking is out of the question.

   I can't drive in this condition for obvious reasons and the last time I tried to just push through and drive I got into an extremely dangerous position with oncoming traffic and also damaged my car. Plus I want to keep driving to the minimum besides the short little grocery trips my girlfriend and I take and very long road trips that can't be taken any other way, for climate reasons. So that's out.

   As much as I would love to bicycle, given my history of being extremely susceptible to head injuries even when another person wouldn't have gotten them, and those head injuries being extremely serious to the point of being permanently life-changing, and my history of clumsiness and accidents both in general and specifically on bicycles — including some pretty bad ones — I think bicycles are generally out of the question permanently for me. Even if they weren't in general, I don't think I could handle bicycling right now because PPCS flare-ups obviously give me a lot of difficulty quickly processing information and being aware of my surroundings as well as make exercise extremely painful because the circulation sends blood to my brain (which is what happened with the walking I think).

   What about public transit? Well, I sat down to try to plan out a bus route and pretty soon gave up after it just made my headache way worse. Planning out a bus trip seems to be infinitely more confusing then planning cross country flights with three changeovers and dealing with multiple cancellations and switches of those flights. I've got to have Open Street Maps open to use its unreliable beta features to plan out my bus route including three to four changeovers at seemingly random locations throughout this town and like 20 minutes of walking between each changeover, (and without the app I'd have to plan which changeovers I needed to do and how long to ride each line and which lines to use and how to walk between them and stuff myself which adds even more complexity); then I've got to cross reference that with the bus arrival and departure times from the incredibly buggy and basically non-functional official city app — except that the official city app actually doesn't work and just displays a warning icon when I try to actually get the time tables for any stop. It's so incredibly horrible and confusing and awful that it's almost absurd. What would be a simple 5-minute point A to point B car ride or a simple 15 minute point A to point B bike ride looks like it will end up being a 55 minute confusing ordeal more complicated than any flight plan, on a tiny metal box filled with people who I guarantee won't be masking or using any other hygiene, and so risking further disabling me and giving me more chronic illness. And of course this too will be filled with extremely overwhelming sensory input that will put both my PPCS and my autism on edge. And then I have to figure out how to pay which will probably require literally getting coins or signing up for some weird ass special plan or some fuck.

   Or I could Uber. Which I hate doing because I would rather not support that company and because it's bad for the environment but at least it doesn't give me a horrific headache or put me in some kind of danger like the other options do.