Alacran

First I got a wall but Firefox reading mode got me through.

The relevant parts:

How Can You Avoid Getting Bit?

In order to avoid tick bites, wear long clothing, stuff your pant legs into your socks and consider treating your clothes with permethrin insecticide to avoid unwanted passengers. Environmental Protection Agency–registered tick repellents, especially those containing DEET, are also effective at keeping the parasites and other bugs away. Avoid obvious tick habitats such as shady brush, even if it’s in your own yard. When you return home, throw your clothes in the dryer and do a thorough check for ticks on your body. Ticks love nooks and crannies, so pay extra attention to damp spots such as your armpits or the backs of your knees. Also check your dogs because dog ticks can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which can also infect humans.

Even with these preventive measures, if you see a tick lodged on you, skip the matches or nail polish and resist the urge to pick it off with your fingers—you’ll only leave the tick’s mouth lodged into the skin. Instead use tweezers and pluck at the site of the bite as close to the skin as possible. If you’re planning to go camping in areas with known high tick counts, carry fine-tip tweezers—they could save your life. The CDC advises to consult your health care provider after noticing a tick bite if you start to experience flulike symptoms such as headache, chills or fever. It’s always best to catch tick-borne illnesses early.

If you’re not in the Americas, the Rocky Mointain Fever won’t be relevant. But for example, in Europe, Tick Borne Encefalitis (TBE) is a big problem. Information on this and even other countries:

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/tick-borne-diseases

I am playing it right now! It was at 20% sale a few days ago. Don’t know if it’ll get even more discounted later.

It is nearly perfect for the deck. I only have a small grievance with moving things in the inventory. It takes a long while to step through the slots. But maybe I’m doing something wrong.

Tunic is also on my wishlist. Crossing fingers!

Is this a reference to something?

This is just a teaser and I’m looking forward to the finished images.

However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they’re that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.

That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.

As soon as I read this, the song started playing automatically in my head. Along with most of the visual sequences, and Richard Dean Anderson’s smile.

Ohh such a nice stand and such growth!

I deleted my posts but not my account so that I can keep deleting them.

At the rate of one gram per hour.

The instance I’m on is for science! mander.xyz

It’s always jarring when people expect something like reddit and find something else that looks almost like it, but it’s actually different. It helps to get reminders that it’s not reddit and it doesn’t have to be. And that this is actually a good thing.

For me, it helps that I’m old and used to spend time in forums with small communities, but for younger people this may never have been a thing. It’s a little exciting to think about someone being exposed to it for the first time, if they stay long enough to see the benefits.

I like the part about how this is not meant to be a resilient information exchange. protocol. I also do see the ability to defederate as a very useful tool rather than an jnstrument of censorship.

I have blackout curtains but somehow my brain isn’t fooled and I’ve been sleeping very little as a result.

This took me a moment

I feel seen

For me, unless it fits in the mailbox, you have to be ready to receive a package. I thought about it for days only to forget about it this morning when it arrived. Luckily I was at home.

It’s definitely a convenience if you’re already a driver. But there’s no reason to get one just for identification purposes.

I don’t know where op is from, but at least in Sweden you just get a “national ID”. Same shape as a driver’s license, works all over the EU, none of the pesky driving and the passport stays safely at home until it’s time to travel out of the EU.

I’m 36 in Sweden. I never got one, I’ve never needed it. Public transport and an electric bike have worked perfectly. I don’t like the idea of driving. Owning a car is expensive and stressful. I also have ADHD.

I never ‘got’ twitter. I’ve created about 3 accounts over the years only to leave them behind. It’s just not for me. I’m also a long-winded person, definitely not an “x characters” person.

I made a mastodon a couple of years ago, I figured it would go the same way. But it didn’t. I found a couple of sweet people that made multilingual puns and liked animals. They had fun friends. The little community grew from there. Now I’m a regular user. When I post, I’m mostly sharing things to “my friends”, not screaming into the wind. Most of this little network is on separate instances each too.

The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it’s genuinely there.

It’s not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it’s not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren’t even needed!