The Platform Excuse
I’ve recently gone “eggs as needed” with Facebook. As a webmatron these days it’s impossible to completely disconnect from them since they own so many of the resources most people on the internet rely on. However, I can so what many who are forced to live with psychos do and…
Open-Source Leg: The Quest to Create a DIY Bionic Limb | Digital Trends
Bionic prosthetics often cost upward of $100,000. But through the power of collaboration, engineers think they can build one for a tenth of that price.
Source: Open-Source Leg: The Quest to Create a DIY Bionic Limb | Digital Trends
The Filters Worked
I thought of entitling this post, “A Clear and Peasant Danger,” but that was too corny. Besides, he’s actually not a danger because he’s disqualified himself. He chickened out of the talk with Diva and got a little too passive aggressively judgy about my situation, so that was that. He’s…
Cancel Culture? Really?
Celebrities and “influencers” should stop whining about cancel culture. Whining about cancel culture is like me, as a human being living on the planet Earth, especially as a witch, whining about the fact that burning incense turns it to ashes. If your livelihood depends on some people liking you and…
Ableist Language Slip: Stupid
One of the reasons I like the effort to reduce the use of ableist language is that I am a fan of verbal precision and frankness. Though it may be impossible to extract all of it, from English at least, thinking it through at least leads to more accurate statements.…
