Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@qoto.org
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Chemist, science defender, medical writer. Tolkien & LeGuin fangirl but will read cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. 
Classic rock, words, mythology, clouds, maps, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping 
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Joined Nov 2022
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@christianselig Just read FlyingLaserTurtle’s outlandish attack on Apollo’s “inefficiencies.” Have you had an opportunity to publicly voice your concerns with Reddit’s accusations? If not, let’s make a video.
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@christianselig I can't believe they're using commenting and voting to determine how active users are, and using that to justify the claim that Apollo is less efficient. I almost never comment or vote. I just browse. A lot! I'm sure I blow through hundreds of requests a day, and by their metrics Apollo is just being incredibly inefficient because the requests per comment/vote would be astronomical. 
@staidwinnow Yes, that’s what it looks like to me, and seems to be the consensus of those who use the app and Reddit more heavily than I do.
Unfortunately I guess a sufficient mass exodus from Reddit in protest is unlikely. Assuming the iOS:Android user ratio to be ~50:50, that’s still a sizable number of iOS Redditors who don’t use this app or wouldn’t be willing to leave the platform.
One of the main strengths the masses have is…being a mass. But I think people have to be hugely uncomfortable to change their habits. Together with the psychological pull of the social media siren song, this won’t be enough.
@staidwinnow In this case I don’t know that most people paying will help. I subscribe to the app because it’s priced reasonably and I thought it was worth supporting (and so do many of the commenters in this post) but the cost appears astronomical:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
@brianvastag The company I currently work for was started by the CEO because she developed a serious chronic disease. (She’s still able to work but needs some flexibility in her work schedule and location [remote vs mandatory onsite]).
She got very frustrated telling employers about her diagnosis but still getting insistent questions about how soon she’d be “better” and able to work 70-hour weeks 
To add insult to injury, we’re in a healthcare-related field!
Take care of yourself...best wishes with your condition.
@juglugs This word brought to mind L.M. Montgomery’s 1908 novel, “Anne of Green Gables.”
As a preteen I asked my mom what her all-time favorite book was and without hesitation she named this one. I read it and found that mom was right again! Terrific book.
This word came in when the young female protagonist, an unhappy redhead, was sold hair dye that she expected to turn her hair black. It was green! Today that’d be fine but not then, so she had to have her all her hair cut off.
As it was growing out she tied it up in what I’d pictured as a sort of headband at the time…but it’s more like a hair net. Anne called it a “snood” and noted to her best friend that she thought the word sounded very romantic!
#snood #bookstodon
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The first time I heard the word “launch” I had no idea what it meant. I quickly understood that launch day is like test day in school. A day where pain teaches you what you should have learned. And because of that stinging pain, what you learn at launch day has a good chance of staying with you.
As someone who enjoys the Apollo app for Reddit, I’ve been distressed about the new pricing and Reddit’s apparent attempts to drive away third-party app developers. Apollo’s developer (https://mastodon.social/@christianselig) made a terrific app (and the Pixel Pals are adorable )
Gordon Gekko (“Wall Street”) wasn’t entirely wrong but greed is taking us straight back to monopolies in many areas of business.
Anyway, while reading Reddit posts on this topic I’ve seen a fair amount of fediverse-bashing. I thought this OP made some solid points.
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Medical history includes substances considered non-medicinal today, such as fragrance (unguents, oils, attars, etc).
Took a fantastic class from Nuri McBride, fragrance anthropologist extraordinaire, on vessels used from Neolithic times until now to make and store fragrance for rituals, adornment, and medicine.
https://deathscent.com/2020/01/28/the-sweet-smell-of-plague-preservatives/
Photos show a double pomander (apple opens to the skull) from 1628 possibly made for King James II of England.
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@Neekerbreeker Right now they do, but in a generation or two they might have lost that businessy flavour (if they survive, and if we do).
I almost expected "lexicon" to be listed as a verb in the OED :D (It's not, but "lexiconize" is there, from 1892.) Verbing and nouning are as old as English
@stancarey Eeek!! These usages sound very business-speakish.
Upper management at my company would find them interesting but I might not share…they’d get <s>added to our lexicon</s> lexiconed for sure 
I had no idea verbing and nouning went back so far! Everything old really is new again!
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Dear Indeed.com
If you think I am sharing any of this sort of information with you, you need to understand I don't trust employers NOT to use this information to DISCRIMINATE.
The latest church "incorruptible." (Don't bother traveling to view the remains...science has this, at least to some extent.)
https://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i42/Bodily-Bookbinding-Chemistry-Mummies.html
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Happy news: You can join this year's Dead Duck Day celebration on June 5. #DeadDuckDay https://improbable.com/2023/05/28/dead-duck-day-is-approaching-again/
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The most important thing is the most primitive thing: keep the base full of hate for Biden. He must be depicted as incompetent so the fiction of the salvation of the nation by Trump or the Florida Fascist will seem justified.
https://bird.makeup/users/speakermccarthy/statuses/1662624437399584768
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We were never supposed to have a state religion. So why are we allowing SCOTUS to be filled by Federalist Society?
NAACP Florida travel advisory issued!
Wow. But this is very good. The hatefulness of DeSantis and his followers should be called out loudly and often.
"Today [May 20, 2023], the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida.
The formal travel notice states, 'Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.'"
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-issues-travel-advisory-florida
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@staidwinnow @TheEuropeanNetwork Having big economies like California begin to decouple their economies away from fossil fuels are great steps especially by providing proof it's possible.
It looks like 7% of new cars registered in Spain were battery electric, but sadly 7% were plug-in hybrid though so still importing too much oil. Hopefully not for long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country
I hope right-wingers who follow RNS actually read this. Good piece.
Religion News Service, Opinion: What Governor DeSantis needs to learn about the Holocaust and the Bible (https://religionnews.com/2023/05/12/desantis-florida-holocaust-bible-woke/)
'Let me be blunt about this. There is nothing “woke” about Holocaust education. There is nothing “woke” about educating about genocides. Unless you believe that teaching children about one of humanity’s greatest crimes, and one of modernity’s greatest moral failures, is somehow “woke.”'
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Chemist, science defender, medical writer. Tolkien & LeGuin fangirl but will read cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. Classic rock, words, mythology, clouds, maps, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping (Profile banner, Irina Irbis, ArtStation)
Joined Nov 2022
