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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I am, once again, hospitalized with #pancreatitis -__- this is my sixth bout. Morphine is taking the edge off here in the ED, but I'm still at 5 or 6 out of ten on pain. I hate chronic illness so much, man :( 😥 #ChronicPancreatitis #ChronicIllness

Me in a chair in the hospital getting blood drawn for labs.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Is 246.77 USD/mo supposed to be the *better* price? That's practically a car payment in itself!

Screenshot of a marketing email from CreditKarma, which reads: "Leave overpriced car insurance behind. Your car insurance could be an estimated $246.77/mo.*" A green button with black text reads "Seep options". Blue text reads "Illustration", likely the alt-text for an illustration (I did not enable remote content for this email).

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

www.tiktok.com/@annevictoriaclark/v… "You can't hold me responsible for what the robot does. Except when it does things that are productive. Then you have to pay me for it."

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Hmm. I wonder what/who LongRange Capital is. >LongRange Capital was formed to take a longer-term perspective to investing and to build stronger and better middle market businesses through a company-focused and customer-first philosophy. Our capital offers […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

From the... English Language Centre, providing... proofreading, editing, and formatting services -__-

Screenshot of a portion of a table describing various Latin abbreviations, their full Latin spellings, and their English-language meanings and usages. Here, the "et al." and "ibid." abbreviations are described. Alas, the same English-language description is used for both words: "Used in endnotes and footnotes when you cite the same source and page number/range". That definition only applies to "ibid.", not to "et al.".

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

15 minutes in and the evil overlords are just out there spilling their guts at a poolside at some gaudy conference somewhere (probably Vegas).

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I aspire to one day have such a title. From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA LG makes Google seem saintly. #DMCA

A cropped frame from "216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem", a video^W documentary by Gamers Nexus on YouTube. Pictured is Louis Rossmann, a well-known and prolific right-to-repair political activist, with a chyron that reads "Louis Rossmann" and below that "Professional DMCA Hater".

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Polydipsia? Check. Polyuria? Check. Polyphagia? Check. It's uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus! If I could just stop eating that would be greeeeeeeeeaaaaaaat. Thankfully though, an insulin pump is on the way.

Screenshot of a graph showing time on the x-axis and blood sugar levels, in mg/dL, on the y-axis. The time period is 12 hours. The graph starts off at 300 mg/dL at around 1200, trends down to about 100 at around 1700, and then climbs back up to the maximum the meter reads at 400 mg/dL by 2200, where it has stayed since. A large yellow circle is above the graph with black words "HIGH" written within it (although with a downright-facing arrow indicating that the level is coming down at least).

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Been loving this feature of #Thunderbird lately. "Ignore Thread". A story in four parts.

A screenshot of Thunderbird, showing a single convoluted email thread spawned by one person trolling/flaming/ragebaiting the national Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) forum into getting 50+ replies of varying nestedness. The offending post that kicked off the war:

>New member here, but seriously questioning why I’m here when I’m reading the forums and there are people here who fundamentally disagree with me on protecting democracy. Please don’t just tell me to read ML theory, I have and it doesn’t convince me. Explain to me why the DSA is a better place for MLs to organize than PSL, RevComs, etc. They’d find a lot more like-minded comrades there!
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>I would like to think a redline of the DEMOCRATIC Socialists would be to protect democracy, no?

$A smaller fraction of the Thunderbird UI, showing a context menu enabled by right-clicking on the root of the thread, navigating to the threads sub-menu, and then selecting the "Ignore Thread" option.$ The same "dsa" folder in my email, now with only two emails instead of a 50+ long thread of flamewar.

The same "dsa" folder in my email, now with only two emails instead of a 50+ long thread of flamewar.

The refreshed-after-shaving meme. Not sure what it's actual name is. Shows a bald black-and-white line drawing of a shirtless man with his hands on his jaw, eyes closed, mouth open. He appears refreshed and peaceful after (presumably) shaving away his beard.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

So there's this cool new artist/musician/photographer/model --- I guess everyone has to be multi-hyphenate now --- I found on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@illumitatiana?lang=… She started? is part of? a music project called "Contact Sports" which […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

A screenshot of a linktree-like landing page for a single, Me & My Machine, by Contact Sports, a music project of some kind by Illumitatiana. It sports links to YouTube to watch, Apple Music to Play, Spotify to Play, iTunes Store to Download, YouTube Music to Play, Amazon Music to Play, Pandora to Play, Tidal to Play, Deezer to Pre-save... Notice the distinct lack of any "purchase" or "buy" options here.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Not gonna lie. #Walgreens comingling full-price items amongst its "discount" section is really scummy.

A picture of a discount section of an aisle in Walgreens, where discounted items are (seemingly intentionally and strategically) comingled with full-price items.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Do people just not use #GreaseMonkey anymore? Trying to find useful documentation on bootstrapping a script was impossible. I figured it out, but still. What a PITA. I also had to fiddle with MutationObserver to avoid setTimeout calls. But... hours later […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

A screenshot of a portion of a table from an internal substitute assignment job board/portal, where substitutes can pick different assignments. By default, the table has no "NOTES:" row; I added that in with the GreaseMonkey user script. By default, you have to click the stupid little paper icon, and the notes will then get populated in a modal. You have to do that one-by-one for all the jobs. Which is absolutely ridiculous and a total waste of time. Now, I get those notes automatically.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I mean, you *are* my bank. Surely you *already know* that I am aware of *dozens* of ways to lose my money. Maybe even hundreds!

A screenshot of my email client (Thunderbird) showing an email from A+ Federal Credit Union <noreply@emails.aplusfcu.org>, addressed to me ("Preston Maness"), with the subject line "Preston, There's More Than 1 Way To Lose Your Money". (There is also a small section about various email stuff: DKIM is valid, SPF passes, DMARC passes).

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Dear #LetterBoxd, are you out of your god damned mind? I'm not "renting" *shit* for 20 fucking dollars! I better own the damn thing in a 4k unencumbered MKV file for that price!

A screenshot of the LetterBoxd Video Store, showing an "unreleased gem" --- The Weed Eaters (2025) --- that is "available exclusively on Video Store" available for rental for US $19.99.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Ma'am, if you're spinning fast enough that I have to frame-by-frame to count, that's too fast^W^W --- WICKED SICK ACTUALLY KEEP DOING THAT Pulling a 1260 like that is nuts. For the figure skaters in the room... that's a triple axel. Skater is Anajulia […] [Original post on tenforward.social]

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

You know I've got more Jennifer Lawrence GIFs in here than I thought. I'm sure that means absolutely nothing.

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Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Alright this is an animated webp file. Let's see if mastodon animates it properly.

A sloth working at the DMV in Zootopia slowly opens her mouth wide in an expression of laughter.

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