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“It is better to bend than to break”
I’m just a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made of stardust.
CoSoNaut #20876
Joined Apr 2018
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My first time back on here in over 2 years. Means nothing to nobody but I am in a far better situation than I last was.
I am alive. I am alive.
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This poem might change your morning. When I lost the ability to walk, it changed my life.
When the world crumbles around you, you have to look at the wreckage & then build a new one out of the pieces that are still here.
Remember, you are still here.
The human heart beats approximately four thousand times per hour.
Each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words "You are still alive".
You are still alive.
Act like it.
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Shoutout to the most unexpected thing I’ve seen today.
Guys, Gen X still got it. My dude here smooth af, dutifully answering the call to bust a move.
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Good morning CoSo!
Today is a beautiful day to be alive, if for no other reason than the alternative is, shall we say, less than optimal
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I once went for a job as an exotic dancer and they were like do you have any exotic dancing experience? And I was like well, I once unpicked a wedgie with both my arms full of fishing gear, so, yeah.
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I wrote about Sudan 3 weeks ago, around its one-year-anniversary of brutal civil conflict. (If anyone wants access to that historical explainer, let me know.)
The crux of that piece, as with the one I wrote on Tigray two years ago, was reflecting on the work we can do even when we can't directly push for change.
The lesson from Sudan, where civic protests first toppled a dictator, is to *never* let militaries control a country's path to more democratic futures.
Today my new test socket for my prosthetic leg will be ready. I’ve waited weeks without being able to wear my leg at all so I hope (so hard) that this one is a good fit. It’s excruciating to just sit here helplessly day after loooooong day.🤞
It’s been 6 months with the prosthetic and I still can’t walk on it save for very short distances. Like a lap around the living area. Idk why mine gives me such pain but they’ve agreed to recast a socket in hopes of a better, tighter fit which is supposed to make it all better.
It’s been almost 7 years since my leg was destroyed. Patience is what I keep telling myself, but being stuck in a body that can’t move on its own is torturous for me.
I hope it’s able to be fixed. Soon.
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There's some real fucked up weirdos out there folks.
Still waiting on hold - 43 minutes now. But my call “is extremely important” to them so I continue to ride it out.
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Today is World Water Day.🌊🥤🚿🫧
Protect, appreciate, and conserve this life-critical resource.
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In August 2022, Ottawa Impact, a far-right fundamentalist group created by 'parents' rights advocates' captured a majority of the 11-member county board of Ottawa County, Michigan. Two years later, Satanists are set to give the opening prayer for next month's board meeting. (No, really.)
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For some time I have been contributing to the Ocean Conservancy. Living in the Caribbean for 7 yrs, I saw first-hand the plastic pollution killing the sea and its inhabitants.
It recently occurred to me that instead of a mindless/faceless donation, my money is better spent changing from cheap plastic garbage bags to biodegradable trash bags.
I had been using them in my van for waste disposal since I first went on the road.
Please consider changing as well 🐠🐡🐢
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Also, from that episode of This American Life, there's one segment in particular that folks here might find fascinating.
It's about a journalist in Berlin who got poisoned on a trip back to Russia... and who took *forever* to accept that this was what had happened to her. Her reality had forever changed once she became a target, but she wasn't ready to process this right away.
Food for thought. What are we unprepared to accept about what's already changed in our lives?
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/826/unprepared-for-what-has-already-happened/act-one-7
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new variant of the wiper malware AcidRain, known as AcidPour, has been discovered by SentinelOne’s threat intelligence team, SentinelLabs.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1769726024600768959.html
AcidRain and AcidPour have a similar reboot mechanism.
https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/acidrain-a-modem-wiper-rains-down-on-europe/
More here:
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/acidpour-wiper-linux-ukraine/
The greatest lie I’ve heard lately is this:
Thank you for continuing to hold, your call is extremely important to us, someone will be with you momentarily.
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@bettertobend. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
(Hunter S Thompson)
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@bettertobend I have it saved to my hard drive.
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Writing about a topic with a geographical dimension? Want to make a map for your readers to make it easier to visualize the data? Here are some suggestions. https://wondertools.substack.com/p/create-cool-maps
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To those in the black and brown community still arguing with their fellow black and brown citizens who are still considering voting in any manner that empowers Trump (fascism) in a real, binary choice between fascism and democracy -- and not voting IS a vote for Trump -- I remind you of this:
Don't waste your time arguing with people Harriette would have left behind.
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“It is better to bend than to break”
I’m just a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made of stardust.
CoSoNaut #20876
Joined Apr 2018