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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 20m

The woman interviewed gets shots every 6 months. But a good mask is much more effective protection against covid infection.

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 2h

Ppl should ask themselves if they want more virus or less virus and then let that answer guide them to be quiet about maskers or keep being obtuse.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 41m

The mask material itself probably doesn't go bad. The straps might deteriorate, especially if they feel akin to rubber bands.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 44m

tbf, for measles the best defense is a couple of vaccine shots. I got one last year as a booster, plus I'm in the "one shot in childhood" age.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, "high quality" is pretty vague. Fried or scrambled eggs can be cheap, quick, and taste great, though it's not Chef Cooking. Rice and beans, + spices and ground meat, can be cheap, taste great, and take little active time via a slow cooker.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actual apartments won't have raised beds, and may not have much space or sunlight for pots. North-facing windows, say. Possible concerns about small children or pets. Option for some, not "anyone can do".

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course some people make their own, though I suspect many of the "from fresh" are growing their own tomatoes. Often canned > store "fresh" because canned can be picked at peak ripeness.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In Japan I found bags of frozen garlic cloves (whole) and frozen diced avocado. I've been tossing cloves into a pot, though might be better to thaw and cut/crush. Not sure of the best avocado use, I thawed some to just eat.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In 2015, 62% of US households lived in detached single-family houses, plenty of potential garden space, typically far more than they could use (large minimum lot sizes). Another 6% lived in attached housing, less clear on the garden space front. www.eia.gov/consumption/...

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Energy Information Administration (EIA)- About the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS)Table HC1.1 Fuels used and end uses in U.S. homes by housing unit type, 2015U.S. Energy Information Admi...

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That said, big bags of store brand instant rice can be cheaper than I expected, around 450 calories/$. Making your own would be cheaper, but not a huge optimization if you're also buying meat etc.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah! People can choose whatever, but they should be making _informed_ decisions. A rice cooker with "keep warm", or putting some cooked rice in the freezer (make your own microwave rice) can each further reduce the "plan ahead" problem.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

US apartments: majority use electricity to cook[1], but many do use gas; it's pretty regional. (Also, almost all apts do have an oven.) Many apts don't have good ventilation, so yeah, long gas use is a valid concern for some. Not majority. [1] www.eia.gov/consumption/...

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Those cruelties seem an adaptation choice; Book K&L are thick as thieves, and IIRC Mary is at worst ignored. Mockery aims outside the family, apart from Mr. Bennet's contempt for the women he chose and raised.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lack of schooling is literally his fault. He could have hired a governess. They did have access to books or hired teachers, but at their discretion, no direction from the parents. Basically 'unschooled' kids, in the hippie movement sense.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mr. Woodhouse recommends gruel for your recovery.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes that goes the other way, too. "Fan loved artist before getting to know artist better."

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Amethyst @amethystoscuras.com · 30/09/2026

inspired by the bluray commentary

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Text: "no, I don't have mommy issues, I have mommy solutions. mommy theories. mommy practices. I'm head of research at the mommy institute. I've been putting in the hours. she cradles me gentle in the dark, held still like never before, and I know for once what it is to feel love"

Below the text are pictures of Iroha, Kaguya, and Yachiyo

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Year late, but can you expand on this?

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

how would you expect a kid on a laptop or even school tablet to be accessing IRC?

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stone age societies famously low in warfare /s I would have turned to other explanations, like dragonrider peacekeepers, or geography.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What surprise twist? The very first words are SF, describing a lost colony planet that engineered dragons.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Or in comics, Saga, though there the fantastic elements are more outright magic, not buffer 'psionics'.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Darkover in particular had books with very different feels, from Age of Chaos high fantasy, to rediscovered planet oppressed by Terran colonists skeptical of any such powers. Stross's Merchant Princes series for a different straddle. Zelazny Jack of Shadows, Creatures of Light, Lord of Light.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot of earlier lost colony SF straddled the line, especially with psychic powers added. Darkover, Pern, Warlock, Steerswoman, Angel with a sword, Cloud's Rider, the Morgaine Cycle (I'm mentioning Cherryh a lot for some reason...)

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think my local library had Walter Jon Williams in fiction, despite a carousel of SFF paperbacks. Though now I'm not sure if they had a section for SFF hardcovers.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And it's _always_ been a post-apoc society, from the very beginning. Though a lot of details were inconsistent within _Dragonflight_ itself, never mind it and later books.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Related question is how many people there actually are. Big continent but not very arable, and needing universal stone shelters to survive every 200 years. And how much people shuffle around for ultimately genetic diversity reasons.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum are looking disappointed at you.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah, 5 could have been better. Also none of the main characters are fully isekai, though there is some "oh I'm actually a lost prince"

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm inclined to maybe grumble about Pern being excessively low tech. Like, why would they lose printing?

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OTOH, very old and dim memory suggests that AIVAS needed a "WTF are y'all speaking now" period before it could talk to the humans who dug it up. Of course, parchment docs are written, not spoken, could be more stable. And AIVAS had oral and written interfaces.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Related issue: how stable has Pern language been over _time_? I think there are enough old documents, plus dragging up Oldtimers from 400, that this is a real questions. I know a lot of scientific vocabulary got lost, but I think old docs were otherwise readable?

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

OTOH, I find Tolkien's justification for Common/Westron unconvincing, especially in the 1000 years before Bilbo and Frodo. Stability over 1000 years and 1000 miles, with little trade or contact? Suuure...

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I dunno. Adapt poems and songs, or teach kids to understand you? Esp. if your ideology includes maintaining a common tongue. And if your org has been doing this from the beginning, thus curbing dialects. A lot of Pern was planned for the long term by the early "oops, Thread" generations.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In her notes in Tales of Earthsea, Le Guin seems to posit something similar, minus the Harper organization. 'Creation of Ea' and 'Tale of Morred' etc, being universally known and anchoring language against drift. As if all Greeks knew Homeric Greek because of the Iliad.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't recall if it was 100% explicit, but I totally see the Harpers having a role here. Educated in a central place, then going out to all the Holds and Weyrs with Teaching Ballads. Maintaining something like Classical Arabic or medieval Latin, but at a popular and oral level.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thread is supposed to be the external threat that drives all that, but I find that a bigger handwave than Harpers maintaining at least a diglossic lingua franca.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is it explicit they're speaking 'English', vs. some language we read as English? Something like feudalism could plausibly re-arise with the right circumstances, but Pern is odd in avoiding those. No war! No obvious ruling class oppression. People obey Lords Holder... because.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The precise reason is late, but "dragonriders get apostrophes" is an obvious pattern from the beginning. Though not applied to queen riders.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Those differences are functional, not just drift. Harpers are big on Teaching Songs, IIRC, so I think unification efforts are plausibly oral not just written.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/09/2026

Aha, a very helpful apostrophe history chart!

Anne McCaffrey, whose popular Dragonriders of Pern series included character names such as F’lar. Dragonflight, the first book in the series was published in 1968, but appeared in short story form in Analog science fiction magazine in late 1967． Although McCaffrey may have been extraordinarily influential in popularizing this use of the apostrophe, I did find a few earlier examples.
YEAR DETAILS
1955 J'onn J'onnz (a character), Detective Comics
1959 Hawaii becomes a state (Hawai'i, Maui, O'ahu, Kaho'olawe, Lanai, Moloka'i, Kaua'i and Ni'ihau)
1965 Muad'Dib (a creature and a constellation), Dune, Frank Herbert
1967 TPau and T'Pring (characters), Star Trek, "Amok Time," Theodore Sturgeon
1968 F'lar (character), Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey (published in short story form in October and December of 1967.)
1969 Pei'ans (a race), Isle of the Dead, Roger Zelazny
1969 D'donori (a place) Creatures of Light and Darkness, Roger Zelazny

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also something the Harper Hall would try to fight. Writing popular songs in the desired dialect to keep everyone on board, or at least diglossic.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pretty sure even isolated Benden Weyr was Searching new riders, not just using its own children. So most people came from outside as teens.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trung seems busier; both threads had multi-day breaks.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Staying quiet is her best move, really.

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"In a short time, I shall have a daughter married. Mrs. Wickham! How well it sounds! And she was only sixteen last June."

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🔞 spikysketches 🔞 @spikysketches.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Stop tut-tutting artists for making art you or the hive decided was immoral because it's bad in real life. Christ. Never see anyone complaining about fictional murder when they watch a procedural crime drama, but fictional sex has to follow The Rules or else the artist deserves harassment, right?

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you're first in a town, that's more like top 0.01%, not 10%...

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mindstalk.bsky.social @mindstalk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

She's heir to 30,000 pounds. Income of 1500 a year, compare to Bennet 2000. I've heard the gentry average was 800/yr.

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