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It's stable now, but that was the start of a very difficult year that began with a retinal disorder and ended in a fairly serious cancer diagnosis.

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All pf this crap with my eyes started after this ride just a hair over four years ago.

The official Mastodon app ain't too bad.

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Mother of the year. Olare Motorogi Conservancy, #Kenya. © Yaron Schmid (Photographer of the Year 2022 entry)
#MothersDay2022

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Musicians of the fediverse, you still got over 1 week (until May 17th) to write, record and enter your song to the #fedivision Song Contest! Read up on this year's rules on fedivision.party and join the fun!
#eurovision #Fedivision2022 #music

Finally two days of endless rain gives way to sunshine.

Someone made a working 3d-printed F1 transmission.

youtu.be/Gfx-vCVJx7Y

Seamless shift is insane.

I just cannot deal with it. I am fuel light intolerant.

Trackball is standard. You can get a touchpad (and I thought I would) but this really grew on me.

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Not entirely sure why Masto rotated this 90 Degrees but whatever

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The dog doing his 'I should probably buy a boat' pose.

I've been using an MNT Reform daily for about a week now. Review coming soon.

Cancer cells have very high rates of uptake (they metabolise aggressively) thus making this test useful for tumour detection.

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Routine PET scan today for surveillance purposes.I get a radioactive glucose solution injected, wait an hour, then spend 45 minutes in the scanner (a big white donut that looks like something from ST:TNG) and this obtains a heat map of glucose uptake.

Decided my back lawn needed a trim (I like cutting grass in the Spring sun) and ended up doing all three lawns while the dog played with his favourite toy on the tether. Spring is good.

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This week on my podcast, I read my Medium column, "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs," proposing a theory of the relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power (happy May Day!).

onezero.medium.com/revenge-of-

Let's break it down. Start with "chickenization": this is a labor economics term referring to industries that follow the model of the American poultry industry.

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Good of vimeo to no throttle their API so Youtube-dl can work with no issues *knowing glances toward Mountain View*

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