Howdy! I'm Jacob (or Cobb or cobbland, or Illuminated Snail if you're feeling fancy). I mostly write tabletop roleplaying games and adventures. I'm also working on a novel and write the occasional short story (mostly scifi). And I'm neck-deep in learning full-stack web development. I also enjoy watercolor painting, retro gaming, graphic design, sustainability, and stuff.
Here's a re- #introduction.
Hi, I'm Emily (She/Her). I love #writing, #knitting while watching TV, #videogames and reading. I'm a player in 4 different #DnD games.
I've been retraining in cybersecurity for over a year, and I'm currently in my first cyber related role.
Rewatching: #Daredevil S2
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Playing: Death Stranding
Knitting: A massive blanket
Also building a new website in my free time, using Ghost.
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Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion. β @whatareyoureallyafraidof on Tumblr
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'The Consequences Were Dire:' In Voucher Vote, Texas GOP Finds Out Hardball Politics Also Apply to Them - The Barbed Wire
βThe Consequences Were Dire:β In Voucher Vote, Texas GOP Finds Out Hardball Politics Also Apply to Them
Turns out when you spend years making sure the governor can crush enemies, you end up on the menu too.Brian Gaar (The Barbed Wire)
American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately
Looks like they're coming for everyone here, or at least trying to keep their numbers up
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American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately
A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately.Matt Lavietes (NBC News)
Rabbit Sucked Into United Airlinesβ Plane Causes Engine Fire | HuffPost Latest News
Well that's unusual... What's the airspeed of a rabbit?
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Rabbit Sucked Into United Airlines Plane Sparks Shocking Engine Fire
The terrifying moment caused "a giant fireball," prompting everyone to panic, one passenger said.Jazmin Tolliver (HuffPost)
First time I've ever heard of THAT happening.
Well .. when ramp agents can get sucked in while the engine is in idle...
Imagine what's going on at full takeoff power ;)
The fact that no one ever debates what the definition of a βmanβ is says it all about the recent UK Supreme Court judgement.
Transphobia is deeply rooted in misogyny.
Itβs the idea that women should look a certain way, based on sexist ideas of female sexuality through the male gaze, and should act a certain way, based on a patriarchal belief system.
Itβs the idea women are only good for procreation and satisfying men sexually.
Thatβs why we never hear about trans men.
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say - CBS News
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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.Alexander Tin (CBS News)
How old am I?
I'm so old I remember when Google search provided more value than surveillance advertising.
I'm so old I remember when an operating system was not considered an advertising platform.
I'm so old I remember when "Artificial Intelligence" was a serious enquiry filled with brilliant people, and not a scam machine populated by sleazebags.
I'm so old I remember when "user" didn't mean "product".
I'm so old I remember when "corporation" didn't mean "person".
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I distinctly remember someone telling me about this "Wikipedia" thing and me thinking it was the stupidest idea I'd ever heard of - who's going to write stuff for a free encyclopedia? And who the hell is going to use it? How could it ever grow to be a significant size?
Yeah OK I was just a teensy bit wrong about that.
"Nah, you're just prompting it wrong."
"How do I go about prompting it the right way?"
"You really need to know the subject you're asking about. Then you can help it avoid making mistakes."
"If I know the subject deeply myself, why am I asking an AI about it?"
"It helps to train the AI."
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In my honest opinion, cities on the western side of Oregon, and maybe as far south as down to Salem, it's safer. Outside of that, and especially once you get closer to the side of the state where the eastern Oregon counties want to join "Greater Idaho"? Maybe not so much.
Also, if you do visit Portland, I recommend you stay out of Downtown. Especially Old Town and at night.
Open air drug markets. Fentanyl. We have ads on local radio telling people to carry naloxone nasal spray in case of accidental exposure on public transit.
@wolfinpdx include Eugene/Springfield in fairly liberal. College towns like Corvallis and La Grande lean liberal. Bend is neutral left.
Even as far south as Florence on the coast I have seen men turn away when some guy brings up his right leaning politics.
Any place where people live in cities people have some empathy. The angry men are people who stayed in dead end rural areas to survive off family property.
I am glad there are exceptions.
I always think in terms of personal risk. I have since 9/11.
I was in the streets during Dubya's administration. Old habits kicked in during Trump's first term.
Then the pandemic happened. I got sick and have been out of work. Maybe long COVID. Can't get a diagnosis. With Trump in office a second time, I am now surviving. I would be homeless without my partner.
We have friends who are at risk because of Republican politics. I worry for them. I would say if you don't need to come to the United States, just don't. Things are accelerating.
Find other ways to resist. Support those of us who are in hostile territory from outside our borders. It may be safer where you are. You can effect change from a position of greater freedom and strength.
@wolfinpdx I am in the same boat you are, only a little worse. I had COVID pneumonia and coughing for 4 months, lung pain for 9, and lasting damage that I took another year and a half to get over. I lost sensitivity to heat and cold, so my body didn't sweat enough, and I still get very cold below 73Β°F. My internal thermostat is burned out.
As of now I have burned through all my retirement, my savings, and I am trying to sell a small boat. I am 52, and with the gap nobody wants..
@wolfinpdx ...to higher me, for anything.
AND I live alone in an apartment, with no partner. I am 2 weeks and $1,000 away from being homeless. And the economic uncertainty this administration is projecting to businesses might be the deciding factor. And of course all aid for desperate people is being slashed.
This phone I bought 4 years ago and the annual plan I renewed 6 months ago while on a temp job is the only way I am communicating.
I am not in a position of strength.
London.
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New York offers free air conditioners for the summer. Here's how to apply
New York State opened applications for free air conditioning on April 15.nbcnewyork.com - SANDRA ESCALLΓN
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#PennedPossibilities 645. What was the most unexpected challenge you encountered while writing your WIP?
I didn't expect large parts of the Western world to fall to fascism while I was writing a series about the West falling to fascism, though, in retrospect, I should have seen that coming.
@WarmasterPalak I think journaling separate from your writing can help organize your thoughts to disentangle plot from the bits that are sticking in your brain from reality.
My current story had a lot of elements that were too much to process at the start of Covid and it helped to find a way to focus on my story vs my life.
It's difficult when life is following plot in spooky ways because you don't want to feel like your story is swept up in the chaos of reality.
Oh, my god, yes. Talking about the various plot points has helped put them in distinct perspective.
Important info from the Aussie embassy in Germany re #AusVotes. In person voting happening in both Frankfurt and Berlin, #DemocracySausage in Berlin only.
Hive mind: any suggestions?
On my Macbook Air, Safari has been behaving weirdly when I plug in my external monitor. Many (but not all?) of the Safari windows get rendered full-window (even though they weren't when I was only on the laptop, nor before I disconnected and reconnected).
I had suspected a bug with BetterSnapTool, which I was using, but I've deleted that and rebooted several times since.
I *think* this may have started happening at the last Mac OS update.
It's not terrible, just really really annoying. So far web searching hasn't yielded any hints. Any thoughts?
I'm using just one monitor on my Mac, but have also noticed that any window dragged to the edge of the screen automatically goes full screen. Super annoying! Fixed this under Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows... UNselect the options Drag, Drag, Hold, and Tiled.
Ahhhh...
There is a way to try T-Mobile on your device without switching all the way if you want to compare coverage to your existing carrier.
White House Counterterrorism Official Suggests Critics of Mass Deportations Are βAiding and Abetting ...
White House Senior Director for Counterterrorism Seb Gorka accused critics of mass deportation of being "on the side of terrorists."Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
We are not lawyers, nor our alter egos play as such on the Internet. Ergo in the face of legal challenges we are only rusticos.
If you feel ad idem and want to lend a hand, or head, to #FDroid pro bono and bona fide, you can help in our ongoing efforts ad infinitum.
Quaeritur right here: f-droid.org/2025/04/16/strengtβ¦
#Mozilla #EFF #SFLC #OpenTechFund
Strengthening FOSS Legal Resilience | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
As part of the FOSS Sustainability grant awarded to F-Droid by the OpenTechnology Fund(OTF)earlier this year, weβve taken on the task of developing clear,com...f-droid.org
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Remember, income disparity in the US was at its LOWEST when unions were at their STRONGEST!
Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace.
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#Labor #Democracy #UnionStrong #USPol #NoRepublicansEverAgain
Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace. | The Nation
Authoritarian regimes make crushing unions a top priority for a reason: Strong, independent unions are the best safeguard against tyranny.The Nation
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in reply to The Icarian • • •These people really live in a different universe #BillionaireGrifters #billionairesaretheproblem