Here’s some of what was in my medic kit during the 2020 protests in Denver:
Gloves
4x4 gauze
Roller gauze
Cloth tape
CAT tourniquets
Molefoam
Moleskin
Water (eyewash)
Baking soda in water (teargas wash)
Jolly ranchers (sugar)
Gatorade
Masks
Tampons
Sanitary pads
Wet wipes
Trauma shears
Sunscreen
Goggles
Personal helmet
Personal P-100 w/chem filter silometric respirator

Anyway, that’s what an ER doc who also works on ambulances and is wilderness trained carried. Stay safe out there.

Look at this! I love it

Measures 5.8 x 21cm on 300gm cotton rag Fabriano paper. Drawn with archival black inks, some alcohol marker for the shading, Faber Castell Pitt pens for the colours, and Sakura GellyRoll for the gold and silver

£40 if you want it, plus shipping is £2 UK, £3 EUR and £5 everywhere else. DM to snag it!

#MastoArt #Art #FediGiftShop #CelticKnot #HandMade

I’m so old I can remember when nothing in my house ever beeped.

Around the same time a professor of Economics came across the mass arrests taking place. She saw a student being violently arrested and like any compasionate person asked the cops why they were being so violent.

So naturally the cops arrested Caroline Fohlin, Professor of Economics at Emory.

📸 CNN

#Emory #Atlanta #ACAB #StopCopCity #FreePalestine

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Wish I had the optimism of dogs at a barbecue

I think this author has never had mono.

like a pebble
my nerves are worn smooth
by the soothing waves

#DailyHaikuPrompt (beach) #haiku #senryu #poetry #beach #PNW

updated my recommended network/firewall topology #infosec

@muz4now Comparison is the thief of joy.

The #ActivityPub ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. One project, #ActivityPods, is making an ambitious effort to combine the Fediverse with the power of #Solid.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

Runaway horses gallop through central London, blazing a path of mayhem and injuries

Five military horses got spooked during a training exercise, bolting and weaving a path of destruction across the city before being captured. Several people and horses are being treated for injuries. #press

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1246807622/runaway-horses-central-london?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.

We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion

We've been rewatching Ted Lasso and I noticed Dr. Sharon Fieldstone's collapsible bike also had collapsible pedals, and now I think that's the best invention on the planet.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Thing I just said to my cat: "Well, I have written one good sentence today, so now it's time for lunch."

NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.

supremacy is for pizzas only.

Devs sometimes talk about being "close to the metal" but there is no other software engineering team in the world right now that are simultaneously working as close to and as far away from the metal as the people keeping Voyager working.

Bought some Italian butter cookies this morning. Asked for an assortment.

Clerk: Any allergies?

Me (being silly): Just cats.

Clerk nods and made a show of putting back one of the cookies.

Journalists: Here's a news org covering the simple reality of the Trump/Republican assault on American democracy. The lede, in the Nevada Current, says:

"Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states."

Try some unabashed truth-telling, journalists. It's liberating.

https://nevadacurrent.com/2024/04/21/trump-rnc-promise-aggressive-election-interference-in-battleground-states/

Pic of the day: Olympus OM-1 and Kentmere 100 film.
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #SilentSunday #freelensing #Bloomscrolling

Had a pretty fun time w the macro setup. Still my first day, I have a lot to learn.

Best friends.

#Dog #Dogs #Photography #DogsOfMastodon #dogsoffediverse

You know how dim sum means ‘touch your heart’, in that the food is so wholesome and good that it warms your heart (if you don’t feel heart warmed from dimsum, find better dimsum)?

I’ve been thinking about how even though I didn’t grow up on corn, things with masa feel that way for me. Tortillas, pupusas, arepas: it’s not my culture really but it’s sort of one of the only other things where I feel this, I suppose, heart tingling feelings of happiness and warmth

#Food

I’m a cheese lover not a cheese fighter

Use an unacceptable color

#ObliqueStrategies

#SilentSunday

@nomdeb
My sister taught gerontology and works end of life organizations, and has a lot of first hand experience in these matters. This is her list of what we should do.

More happy dog antics.

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@35millimetre 😂 Furby dogbot

Father of sharecropper family. He is sixty-nine years old, has six acres of tobacco, has a large family. Heard in conversation on his porch, "Land is like folks. It gets tired and needs a rest." Person County, North Carolina

#sixacres #PersonCounty #NorthCarolina

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017772340/

Just a reminder in case folks forgot. A tiktok ban that isn't a sweeping social media practice reform is just racism and sinophobia.

Facebook has provably done much worse things, to Americans and American minors, than TikTok has been accused of doing.

every tech company designing products that assume a fast, reliable, always-on network connection is henceforth required to use hotel wifi for a month

these are just the rules i do not make the rules

They don't make buildings like this anymore.

(#philly)

Location: 39.95 -75.16

Signs of spring in Alaska: waiting for a tire swap and an oil change.

Dude: "Are you here for our family friendly 4/20 event?"

Me: "No, I'm here for Grandma Wei's food truck."

😁🥢🥟

#GeekAllWeek

The road leading to our home is turning into a tunnel.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #RuralRoads

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

Jonathan Harker. Dracula (1897)

~Bram Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912)

#books #literature

Convention Hall

As seen from the boardwalk in Asbury Park. Konica Autoreflex T, Shanghai GP3 New Color, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm

Two sets of photographers and photographed frame themselves in camera(s) in Times Square.

#fujifilmtx1 #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #film #nyc #streetphotography #believeinfilm #xpan #hasselbladxpan

discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

There are no free SAT seats within 100 miles for the next two test windows. I didn't know that was a thing.

Looks like we have a road trip in our future.

We’re still about three weeks away from the Sun not setting and this is as dark as it gets. #Nunavut #Arctic