“we send notifications so you know that your <body> is being <moved to the bedroom>. That's being informed. No other <creeps> do that. We also let you <leave the room>. That's consent.”
See now how it sounds to people?
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jun-2026 12:40:00 JST 
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 02:45:42 JST
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Sounds like a news bulletin from the Night Valley: <to be read in a very warm, calm, and reassuring voice>
“You are advised to please avoid the area surrounding the unreflecting pool; anyone caught looking at the unreflecting pool will be arrested for vandalizing the pool with their eyes. If you do find yourself in the vicinity, be sure you don’t notice the scum.” /s
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 00:10:51 JST
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If we have built a society (online and irl) that harms nearly everyone who is part of it, the best solution seems to be “make society better” rather than “let’s fold the lives of children into even smaller boxes”
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 10:45:55 JST
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Yup. ‘US officials show up at event intended to commemorate the defeat of the Nazis by themselves spewing Nazi rhetoric’ is a little on the nose, but a good indicator of where we are in this moment.
“Each time a life like his is lost,” Vance added, “the proper response – the only response – is righteous anger.”
Those two words “like his” are crucial to understanding that sentence properly.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 06:14:08 JST
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If Danielle Smith and the UCP were truly worried about abuses of MAID they would be busy ensuring that the right and ability to *live* with dignity is available for *every* Albertan, because that’s the essential flip side of the coin for MAID.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 04:49:55 JST
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@dalias @quixoticgeek @AeonCypher
Good thing there aren’t some kind of newfangled remote control flying devices someone could just pilot on up in there…
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 02:00:12 JST
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But a disembodied brain is not a person any more than an isolated eye or heart… a person is an emergent process that cannot be recovered once it stops.
“Not alive, but not dead”
I think the headline is wrong on two counts…
If we are referring only to tissue, then it *is* alive - they are all living cells - and are not dead.
If we are referring to the person, then they are not alive, they *are* dead.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 00:16:05 JST
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I think that “perfect” is the only thing worth striving towards, even as we know we cannot accomplish it; that holding perfection in our imaginations is part of what makes great art and life.
But this message bumps up against our society which makes imperfection blameworthy, that piles shame on top of flaws and striving, a society that prefers to judge the worth of a person instead simply accepting it as given.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 00:16:04 JST
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In a different stream, I encounter kids who have been taught the opposite: that mistakes don’t matter, everything is flawed therefore striving isn’t needed. This kind of carelessness is dangerous for them and us.
Finding balances that learn through flaws rather than being rigidly perfectionist or placidly careless is how we teach kids that the beauty of life is who we become when we strive toward perfection in our humanity
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 07:56:54 JST
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I think aerosol precautions are warranted for a whole bunch of reasons, but being near a potential hantavirus case certainly would rank up there, and it will until we *know for sure* … but even then, what harm does a mask and some air cleaning do?
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 07:56:51 JST
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Yes… the idea that (as far as I’m aware) they were just put on commercial flights without even the simplest, most minimal precautions is negligence of criminal proportions in my books.
Hantavirus has always been up there on my list of “yikes! that exists” bc of the case fatality rate and the speed with which it progresses, but now add h-h transmission & up to 8 weeks incubation … it’s a containment nightmare.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 07:56:50 JST
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I hope we get lucky, because that seems to be what we (collectively) are relying on 😬
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 04:23:28 JST
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Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest an argument against masking.
Early in Covid, washing groceries, quarantining deliveries were all appropriate responses at the time, even though surface persistence turned out to be a low risk vector.
Right now the precautionary principle dictates taking measures against aerosol spread regardless of what I or anyone else *thinks* might be most likely in the long run.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 03:58:52 JST
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Thanks for this, it’s good for people to keep their worries straight.
The primary vectors of hantaviruses are *known* to be biological castings / excreta, we should expect that the Andes virus will continue that.
Just as we should have *known* that droplets and aerosols are vectors for corona viruses and should have expected that in our Covid responses. -
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 03:58:51 JST
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Someone wearing a mask bc hantavirus concern won’t do any harm (and may avoid other illness), but that mask won’t help if they rub their eyes after using a contaminated lavatory.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 14:36:48 JST
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Spin: “Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don't represent who I really am.”
Truth: "Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that represent who I really am.”
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 03-May-2026 08:18:46 JST
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Since Sergei Brin is worth something in the order of $264B, he stands to pay about $13B in this one time 5% proposed tax. $57M is pocket change on that scale and will net him a 230X return on investment.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 18-Apr-2026 06:45:25 JST
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Once again for the back of the room: blocking a person does not ‘silence’ them or impede their free speech. It is a simple action of self-determination, like hanging up the phone, or getting up and moving to a different table, or telling a person they aren’t welcome in your home. The anti-blockers think you owe it to them to stay on the phone, that you can’t leave the table, or will show up at your home anyway; these are people who show themselves to be dangerous.
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 01:16:50 JST
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The French government thinks it was 20-40 tons 🤷♂️
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DavidM_yeg (davidm_yeg@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 01:10:52 JST
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I think toulouse is on the lists precisely because of the muslim terrorist panic after 9/11 🤷♂️
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