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  Does anyone know where I can find a list or even a collection of cards for journal prompts? I wanna make a daily habit of journaling, but sometimes the "write about how youre feeling/your day" feels too overwhelming, and having something more structured would help #writing #journaling

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  Would ya'll trust a used/refurb NAS drive from eBay that has a 100% SMART score and relatively low hours? These prices are appalling 😭 #NAS #Homelab

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  So rn I use Dove Original roll on deodorant. I love it, it smells lovely and lasts ages. But its a plastic container that is disposed of after 3 months. I want something refillable! - Wild: Nope. Unilever, evil company. - Nuud: No scents? - Dove Refill Kits: Unilever brand :( Any ideas?

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  As the internet gets ravaged by the terminal disease of AI slop, the Fediverse feels ever more precious. Genuinely, this is one of the few places left on the web where enshittification *isnt* absolutely fucking everywhere. Boy am I grateful for it.

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  I feel like now is an exceptionally poor time to build a NAS: what if the AI bubble bursts soon and the ram prices plummet? I'm about to drop £90 on 32gb of DDR4 😭 #homelab #nas

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  Imagine a town. One that prioritises people over cars, community over solitude and nature over profit. One that’s solar punk to its very core. What comes to mind? What makes your vision meet these priorities? Pls boost and gimmie your urbanism hope core. I wanna hear our collective visions for the future we dream of! #HopeCore #Urbanism #Architecture #SolarPunk

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  Does anyone know of a powerful NAS, ideally one thats upgradable that I can install my own OS onto? Id love a HP MIcroserver Gen 10 v2 Plus, but it sounds like theyre pretty loud? I have a Thinkcentre M720q, which is awesome, but figuring out how to power JBOD reliably and safely, and how to get 4 SATA connections out of it is a bit beyond me. I need CPU oomph because I'll be doing more than just NAS stuff. #NAS #Server #sysadmin #homeLab #linux

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  The fucked up thing about having #OCD and #autism is... Being autistic often means you miss out on these vaguely defined social queues... You get traumatised by how people react and you try and do better. This often leads to OCD, we obsess in outlandish detail about how every little thing could be interpreted to avoid ostracisation... Then finding yourself in OCD therapy, trying to unlearning what you learnt to stop yourself from getting hated by everyone. Its exhausting. #ActuallyAutistic

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  Gonna can #Mullvad VPN after what I'm hearing. Thinking about Windscribe. Not great that they're based in Canada, but they've got a no logs policy and port forwarding. AND their no logs policy has been tested in court. Any thoughts? #Privacy #VPN EDIT: Windscribe is apparently transphobic oof https://beige.party/@gildilinie/116834640383067769

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  Gran died on Monday. I booked last minute therapy yesterday. It had been 2 months since my last apt… He was trans, but I got an email from him saying that he’s put his medical transition on pause, possibly forever. He’s removed resources about the dangers of conversion therapy on his site, and he’s added a bit talking about how he’s “exploring his faith”. Much of the queer signalling on his site has disappeared. What. The. Fuck. #trans

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  Serious question: do most companies just make up work for their developers? Just heard of the ridiculous number of deploys Spotify does every day… it’s a music app released in 2008! What more could it possibly need?! It feels like most places just make up work for developers to do; because they can’t stand the idea that the devs they pay could be paid to only maintain and maybe not work every second of their lives. #programming

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  I'm trying to understand something: I've watched a YouTube video twice (refreshing between watches) and captured its quic packets using Wireshark. Exporting both watches into their own JSON files. Looking at the UDP and quic payloads, the encrypted data looks different? Its the same video, though! If the data being encrypted is the same, shouldnt it look similar? Is it because maybe the buffering took place at different time stamps on both watches? #CyberSecurity #Security

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  Attachment theory has been pretty helpful for me, though it has its flaws... It has helped me label and own my patterns, which has helped me gain agency over some of them (ongoing process!). However: one thing that bugs me a lot about it, is there's a _lot_ around parental blame. The finger is usually pointed at the mother, less often the father. In my case? It was school. My teachers, who spent 6 hours a day with me damaged me psychologically in ways I'm still recovering from t...

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  The #UK #LocalElections are gonna be weird. I'm predicting huge Green gains, but a sweeping Reform victory too. It's gonna be a _huge_ emotional roller-coaster. #UKPol

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  guys, I just wrote a clinical summary for my cardiology appointment on Tuesday. I finally got to use my clinical training :kek:

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  it sucks that so many of these smart cameras can just... capture my face without my consent. And use it for tracking databases. #Privacy

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  I deeply believe in restorative justice to the depths of my core, BUT: if you play YouTube videos on a long haul coach, out loud, without headphones? You deserve to be condemned to an eternity of damnation. I’m not even religious.

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  guyyyyys i've just hit my first #hEDS milestone! There's a stretchmark on my side and on one of my hips.

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  To those of y'all who suffer with #OCD , especially the 'pure O' type... I see you. Very few people know what the trauma of living with this is like, how it makes you question reality, how it gets between you and the people you love. Few understand the utter exhaustion, the terror of the "what ifs" and the "realness" of the lies your brain tells you.

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  Called my hospital about Mondays cardiology apt, I needed to send my Dr the clinical summary. The receptionist asked if I was the patient and for my date of birth and name etc, then asked AGAIN if I was the patient… i confirmed. She asked why I called, followed by: “Are you the patient?”. I confirmed AGAIN. Then, she said: “I don’t mean to be rude, but is the ‘Ms’ title on your file correct?”. I confirmed. If you’re not being hate crimed you’re treated as a fraud 🙄 #trans

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  Anyway, had my cardiology apt on Tuesday. He was absolutely _adorable_. The 1st first question was about my preferred pronouns. He arranged a tilt table test, echocardiogram, and a Holter test. At the end of the call, he asked whether it’d be ok to include what we discussed about my HRT. Absolutely no notes with this guy. Fucking incredible. Hopefully will be getting to the bottom of this soon #Trans #Disabled #Disability #LGBTQIA

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  PSA for those switching from #Spotify to #Qobuz : you can transfer your playlists for free via Soundiiz. Qobuz give a free voucher to transfer the library over. https://help.qobuz.com/en/articles/58315-how-to-transfer-your-playlists-for-free-with-soundiiz Fuck spotify! Remember they are invested in #genocide and are destroying the music industry. Don't fund them!

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  find it incredible that the #UK is just... Going about its business, reliant on oil as it is, and doing fuck all to ration it before we run out of reserves. Reminds me of when COVID started and we were watching the virus rip across the UK population, and did nothing about it until it was too late. I wonder what happens next 🤡

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  Just watched a sponsor block for a AI code reviewing service. It made me laugh because, this same YouTuber promotes AI coding tools. And I'm just like... We're gonna have AI code reviewing tools reviewing AI generated slop code. What could possibly go wrong? 🤡

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  i have fatigue fatigue

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  It’s actually amazing how fucking rude developers are. Like genuinely. Yes, there’s some who don’t mean bad, but there are loads who just don’t give a shit. I absolutely despise of this field.

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  I get that the reality of development today is that a lot of our tools are rented, and paid for... but christ: crafting an entire skill set around a proprietary tool is MAJORLY risky. Whether that's LLM slop bots, or some proprietary database, you essentially get held hostage by whatever enshitification crap they wanna do to their products. Long live #FOSS #programming

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  Well, after a long long week, my #programming CV is finally complete and ready to send out. If anyone is looking to hire a remote React and Express JS in the UK, give me a shout! I have over 13 years of experience, and have done consulting and mentoring freelance for the last 4 years. I can do full stack web development with either JavaScript or PHP and have experience with a range of backend tech like: Firebase, pocketbase and PostgreSQL #GetFediHired boosts so appreciated :blobfoxheart:

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  My sibling (couple years older than me) and I had a mutual friend. I stopped talking to him after he threatened to SA me when I didnt respond to his messages straight away (I was 15 at the time). My sibling cut contact with him a year later. Last year he turned up and posted a letter saying he had "reflected" on things, and that he wanted to be friends with my sibling again. (cont) 🧵

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@QueerMatters/116451560460465027 I just realised something: A lot of us fall down the self improvement rabbit hole to help with this. _BUT_, I think this focus on this can be a trap. We retreat into ourselves, "improve" parts of ourselves, overcome things internally etc... This is what we're used to: other people are dangerous, right? I needed to learn to be vulnerable with people, to practice rupture and repair. This has been a missing piec...