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I'm partway through a wilderness medicine textbook from NOLS (formerly National Outdoor Leadership School). Something from the section on burns keeps ringing in my head because it's interesting in its literal truth but also figuratively resonant… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

"something extratextual was always going to be conveyed"
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MeFi post - 2 months ago

mittens please go ahead and post it! [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Glad people are liking this series! chavenet -- indeed, btw, in another post Davies does call Pound a fascist. AsYouKnow Bob: yeah, he came to my attention about 20 years ago, too! In the last 10 years I think he's been concentrating more on… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

This bit of conversation is taking me back about 20 years! "Sadly, No" and its Shorter category Davies, 2003, possibly starting/naming the "shorter" style of criticism (satirical summaries): ...people don't necessarily… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Glad it's useful! When I want to read someone's old threads, I find it so difficult to dig through old tweets through the Twitter interface, so I thought this might be a useful resource to make and share. It's been interesting seeing her gain more… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

(Oh, whoops, the oranges and lemons piece on MetaFilter previously.) mhoye, believe you me, that One-Minute MBA piece is in the draft of one of these Daviesbrations: Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Rhaomi, you have done a superlative act of service in putting together and publishing this post. Big thanks. People who love feed-reading and are seeking good feeds to add to their feedreaders might enjoy this list of fiction magazines' feeds I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

"Anything out of the ordinary?" Yes, if you'd like, every week!
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

"Not everything that is private is meant to be secret"
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

"I wake up later and I can’t pretend anymore."
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

People who like Becky Chambers and Murderbot often also like, in my experience: Courtney Milan's and K.J. Charles's romance novels Ursula Vernon's (also writes as T. Kingfisher) short stories and novels Naomi Novik's Temeraire… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I think that, like me, you may enjoy fiction centering on personal stakes, especially around labor and healing. Here are three short stories by authors who have also written a lot of other work, so if you like these stories, you can seek out… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Rosemary Kirstein's "Steerswoman" novels are engaging and -- like the Murderbot Diaries -- feature a curious main character who's really good at analytic thinking, and who found a cadre of like-minded people and solves mysteries with them… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

You might also like the recommendations from this thread. But it is from 2022, so, not super recent. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Listen to a chunk of stand-up comedy and consider how it could have been done better. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I want to mention two approaches that worked for me to similarly improve some conversational habits. One was mindfulness meditation, which generally helped with impulsivity. It helped me feel like time slowed down between stimulus and response in… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese, I would not give this response to some people, but I know a little about you from your past MeFi participation, and I think you might be on the wavelength to not think I'm a terrible person for offering it… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

[Side note. Usually, when I post to the front page, my posts get significantly more favorites than they do comments. In the past ~14 months, my posts that have gotten more comments than faves have been about: * bacon * changing a flat tire *… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

apartment dweller wrote: I recommend the SuTab pill prep, if your doctor approves. My prescription plan D (Medicare) doesn't cover it, but you can go to the manufacturer's web page and get a coupon that brings the cost down to $50 (you have to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Society for the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Incorporated and other scifi/fantasy orgs such as Arisia Hesperian I was thinking about how one aspect of MetaFilter that is a special challenge/opportunity is that some of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Flickr Foundation Whose Knowledge? Growstuff Allied Media Projects Action Network Even more loosely similar: MLTSHP (not a nonprofit, as I gather) and the now-defunct Stumptown Syndicate (used to be… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

In open source software foundations, check out the Python Software Foundation and the Django Software Foundation. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

And: McIntosh is MeFi's Own. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Very cool! On Instagram, his mission statement - I am on mobile right now but perhaps someone here could transcribe it from the image. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I've been listening to Keep It Together and Look Alive and Easy Wonderful and Lost And Gone Forever quite a bit recently so this is such welcome news! Thanks for the links! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

"My best friend is a dolphin and sometimes it’s weird."
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

I'll repeat here something I said in 2019, on the MeFi community on Dreamwidth, in a discussion of IRL events: I've tried to organize several, sometimes successfully ("success" here meaning that at least one non-me person comes), and… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 3 months ago

Celia Lake's mystery romances, and Rosemary Kirstein's speculative procedurals starting with "The Steerswoman" (the Kirstein books are a series to be read in order). [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

antiwiggle, China Mountain Zhang is one of my favorite books and I hope you read and enjoy it! Let me know if you would like spoiler-y content notes/warnings. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I'm so glad to share these with folks. nathanfhtagn, I hope your difficulties ease, and until they do, I'm hoping these stories continue to offer fun, solace, escape, beauty, wonder, mirrors, camaraderie, or at least a few minutes of distraction… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

From a total of 261 patients, 30.4% treated with this strategy survived, compared to 13.3% when standard resuscitation protocols were followed. AMAZING. Great news! Thanks for sharing it! Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

"Never stop doing stuff! Always stop doing stuff!"
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

I saw this film in theaters. And the most memorable moment was that for a few seconds, somewhere in the middle of the movie, a woman runs into the storm-chasers' workroom and yells something, and I sat astonished because she looked like me. I caught… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

I participated in an event series where our meetings had not one leader but four leaders, each of whom did one specific thing. Facilitator (meeting content) Gatekeeper (who is speaking too much or too little?) Timekeeper Notetaker Here is a… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

New York City: thanks to Ask, we have a list of restaurants that have heated outdoor dining suitable for small group meetups. (Recently verified.) [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 3 months ago

equity, licensing, and headaches
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

Found this film via DirtyOldTown's comment in the weekly free thread and watched it with my spouse. WE LOVED IT. So sweet and smart! Thank you so much for the recommendation! [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

Previously [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Background character played by a young Anthony Rapp! [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

Memories. Playing an X-Men arcade game during a long Saturday speech & debate tournament with other high schoolers. Travelling the week of the Dark Phoenix saga and arranging to watch the show in some distant relative's living room. The… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Metasyntactic, thank you for the report! I also think the hybrid option might be better for me -- textbook-type classroom material online, and then in-person simulations and scenarios to hone my skills. It's a good question, what I'd want to get out… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

So glad to share! I'm thinking of going for Wilderness First Responder training in the next few years. I welcome thoughts from any of you who've done it. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Also, Fastmail gives you web space so you can put a simple static webpage up. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I use Fastmail for my email and calendar; here is a referrer link that saves you 10% off your first year. Very solid, has a mobile app and a web version but also integrates with my desktop email application, has good personal customer support if I… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This was absolutely my favorite episode so far of SNW. Jokes that, in retrospect, are exposition; a bunch of character development for La'an; a genuinely interesting Kirk; a Manny Coto Would Be Proud retcon ..... [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

And - since I am rereading some of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books -- I recently reread the amazing short Discworld fanfic that justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow posted as a MeFi comment in 2012, a letter from Vetinari to Drumknott, that speaks to me… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Ryvar, I appreciate your point of view and how carefully you've worded things. I was thinking of sharing some ways friends and I have used various LLM-based tools to do good things we couldn't do before, but (a) Artw has made it clear that no points… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I've also been enjoying reading the gentle fantasy romances of Celia Lake. As the author describes them: These cosy historical romances explore life, magic, and love. My characters have come through challenging times (emotionally, physically, or… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

My spouse has launched a new effort to make it easier for people to access Schickele Mix recordings. ....This site presents all of the extant information online about Schickele's amazing music-education radio show Schickele Mix,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

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