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Last Notes npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian It has a few names including neutral third, submajor third, superminor third, maybe others depending on context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_third npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian my experience with thrift shops is that now is a good time to get used CDs, they aren't being snapped up like LPs (yet). Maybe because they aren't considered collectibles. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/116/874/168/344/173/352/original/7a7be532c010e469.mp4 npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I appreciated your thread about the movie because I'd only heard bad reviews, but also didn't know if the reviews were sexist or otherwise biased, because this is the world we're in. Hope to judge it soon for myself npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian what if the bird is mocking us by posing like this? "Look at me, I'm a human, I stand vertically and my knees bend the wrong way, and when I fall over I hurt my head! Ha ha!" npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian the cognitive dissonance is a bonus feature npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Is it my stomach growling or a cat snoring? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Sadly, despite wiping the surface with my shirt as suggested, it's not consistently playing video. I've emailed the library about it, they should find a replacement copy. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Oh it's glitching. This isn't good npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian My local library's copy of St. Elsewhere Season 1 is on double-sided DVDs. I was so confused. I thought those were a myth npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I sent a photo of my cats to a friend and he said it looked AI generated because it was too surreal. Happy #caturday npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian my physiotherapist once complained about how several of her daughter's classmates get these accommodations for their neurodivergence and ADHD, like extra test time or using a computer or some such. She assumed I was going to agree with her that that was nuts but instead I said how wonderful it was that schools were providing flexibility for students who work and learn differently. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian can I sauté them with garlic npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian never heard of it before npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian oh hmm, I should see if I can find some imported npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian starting to see the subtoots in my feed, and wondering what past subtoots were about either of them too. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I feel like I'm having to catch up on a lot this morning, having only vaguely heard of him before. Seemed like he's recently defending the guy who's being sued for embezzlement. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I love Twonks npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian The website says it's been delivered but I have cats sleeping on my legs npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian New Patrick Willems, this time talking about the glut of movie sequels https://youtu.be/ZGyyy3Old9A npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian "On vehicle for delivery" fuck yes npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian "Arrived at sort facility" again. Do they have several sort facilities in Richmond? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian "Arrived at sort facility" 4 hours ago npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian 15 years ago I had a job where I'd be talking to my teammates about our tech infrastructure or our databases and then one of them would respond with "that's what she said". And then the rest of the team (all men) would laugh, and everyone would forget what I just said, because it had become a sex joke. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Now it says weather delay. Bleh npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian It’s coming from Toronto and I assume by truck because the last update was Saturday. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian It's my birthday gift to myself so I'm excited to see the look on my face when I open it npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I think I'm slowing down a package delivery every time I check the tracking website npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian when I’ve tried to explain mastodon to some meatspace friends they don’t believe me npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Sando is 4 years old npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian That thing where someone photographs you when you're mid-meow and you end up looking really funny npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian write-in for more likely to boost if cussing npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Another toebeans photo for those who like toebeans npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian He jumped up to the speaker just as the track was ending and then he started meowing at me because the music stopped. Not my fault! npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Neat, #listeningclub is #spiegelapproved (tl;dr one of my cats is interested in music and if he hangs out by the speaker or turntable it means he likes what's being played) npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I mean that was definitely product placement for Conair npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Regular people are so screwed these days if anything bad happens. Companies, including insurance companies, can just do nothing and get away with it. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I bet The Littlest Hobo dog rescued children from burning buildings on weekends npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I might be misremembering but a friend once said that in the early days of Metafilter you could spoof another user by changing the url, because your logged-in user id or username or something was set in the url, and changing it changed who you were logged in as. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I'm curious what CRA leadership's (or the federal government's) plan is. I've seen where previous governments have shrunk an org down to being ineffectual but there was a reason behind it (like slowing immigration). I don't know what shackling the revenue service accomplishes. Are they going to increase income tax rates and stop us from disputing it? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian my accountant emailed back npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I’ve emailed my accountant again, as he has a more direct communication line. He asked them some months ago and they said they’d investigate and contact him, and then didn’t. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian it’s a minor point in that I don’t think I’m harmed by it, but the CRA never reviewed my 2021 tax return (submitted a year late) and they’ve never answered why. I’m not waiting on money from it but it’s odd. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I’m partial to “Drain You” but we can’t have everything. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian there was a self-titled Nirvana album? Or is it some later collection? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I think Vancouver and area are protected somewhat by Vancouver Island (and Burnaby is protected by Vancouver) npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I looked at Kagi a while back and got turned off by the extensive advertising of their AI functionality on their main page. I'm trying to avoid AI tooling as much as possible and already use the &utm google shortcut (with still-shitty results, but no AI) npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian it has a roof now? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian “A University of Chicago working paper found that strict return-to-office rules can cause senior staff to leave, which hurts innovation” npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian This is weirdly worded. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Yeah, there was strangely no mention of what to do if I was just lying there, and I’d heard the get-up-and-do-something suggestion before. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian One suggestion from the doctor was intermittent fasting, which wouldn’t work as hunger will stop me from sleeping. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I’ve been following the directives of the sleep clinic doctor for the last week and a half and wow, I’m sleeping less than before. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian About Here did a few videos about the multiple staircases rule, the first being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM&pp=0gcJCf0Ao7VqN5tD Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule) - YouTube npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian My comment about autistic people being able to detect fake behaviour is more just a reaction to the long-standing belief that we don’t have such a skill. Who knows, maybe it’s a special interest for some of us who’ve been hurt in the past. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian So it won’t shock you this person refused any conflict resolution I attempted, then. Though that seemed like a silent gen trait, from my experiences with other people my parents’ age. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I was thinking recently about some books I was given as a little kid, that were some Christian propaganda thing where the messaging behind the books were about thinking positively and being cheerful. Maybe there was more to it than that, but that’s what I remember. I don’t know if the person who gave them to me was trying to tell me to hide my feelings, but I was extremely bad at that as a kid. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Private equity taking over family doctors’ clinics means I can't actually get someone on the phone to see about switching my appointment today to a phone appointment. I have the phone number, which isn't on their website, but it's going to an automated system that says they're closed when their website says they are open now. The online booking system only lets you book new appointments, not modify existing ones. So I have to get ready and leave for the appointment on the off chance they can't make it a phone one, even if I manage to talk to a human before I arrive. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian last week it seemed like I was seeing more people mask than usual. Maybe news had already spread about this. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian A friend of mine experiencing depression for the first time (in his late 40s, I am so jealous) started Wellbutrin recently, after another medication didn't help. I mentioned I'd been on Wellbutrin since 2007. He then asked me if I ever considered coming off of it. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian is she scrambling for relevance? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I haven't had windows for over a decade. I tried googling and couldn't find what you were talking about npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian link? npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian with the US killing most science funding, I expect a bunch of those are going to be abandoned. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian 41 days later, my #meshtastic node’s count is at 601, with the same coverage area as before. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian "Qwant’s artificial intelligence, directly integrated into the search engine, now offers you short, precise answers to your everyday searches and questions." https://about.qwant.com/en/ npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Open source knitting machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFesPhYR8KI npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I've annoyed a relative by idolizing the slave who famously killed one of our ancestors (there's stuff on the internet about it, 230 years later). npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian How I deploy to production npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian When you're made of fur and daggers there is no space for toebeans npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian That's better npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian Spiegel wanted in on all the attention Sando's been getting posing on this shelf, but he doesn't have the toebeans #caturday npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I know it's not Caturday npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian will the game let me unionize the monkeys though npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian https://poorlydrawnlines.com/ npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian these are good metrics, given we don't know in most countries how much time people would take off if sick leave was covered. Of course, they're making the wrong conclusions from all this npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I find it strange that the CBC are in on this, because the Conservatives love to gut CBC funding npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian we just play LA on tv (and movies) npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian MacGyver came out in 1985; are talking about RDH specifically? IMDb says he was on General Hospital in the 70s. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian well, in my case it's that nobody had a moustache in my formative years except Tom Selleck, and then there was some long-standing joke that anyone with a moustache was "perverted", criminally or otherwise. So I think it's more I've been conditioned, than have a preference. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I'm still not ready to accept moustaches as being something a man has unironically or outside November npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I still have my Pearl Jam Vitalogy CD, which came in cardboard. I thought it was great npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I hope they've improved on the jewel cases, I have so many cracked hinges npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian if you google "Loudon Wainwright narcissist" you get a lot of hits... npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian https://www.oliviabelknaptherapy.com/post/you-have-to-live-your-life-responses-to-common-covid-minimizing-phrases #CovidIsNotOver npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I see others responded with useful links; I don't have anything handy, I tend to get a lot of information on TikTok, oddly. npub193gst0y7ymw34uxclj9ldfut5h4r20qskrzfe8jn6wrkfvufwsksvaqdzc Giflian I've heard of that before, where long covid starts a few weeks or months later. Are you looking for articles and studies that support the diagnosis, or are you looking for anything that says what your neighbour should do?
