Jason C Daniels
@jasoncdaniels.bsky.social
Disabled 54 yr old software engineer. I enjoy programming, TTRPGS, food & more! If you ever see me yell "I live!" I'm exaggerating.
#spoonie #disability #ttrpg #programming #cartography #gamecartography #art
Under 18? 🚫 DNI!
#spoonie #disability #ttrpg #programming #cartography #gamecartography #art
Under 18? 🚫 DNI!
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I suppose it's about time I make an introductory thread.
Hi, I'm Jason. I came over from the other site when Blue Sky was still invite only, roughly a couple months before that ended, IIRC.
I'm here to mostly have light hearted friendly fun with others.
1/11
Hi, I'm Jason. I came over from the other site when Blue Sky was still invite only, roughly a couple months before that ended, IIRC.
I'm here to mostly have light hearted friendly fun with others.
1/11
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Bring back CDs, taped, etc.
Bring back ownership.
We gonna wake up one day and half the music gonna be
gone bc of an agreement or lack thereof between labels and stream sites
Bring back ownership.
We gonna wake up one day and half the music gonna be
gone bc of an agreement or lack thereof between labels and stream sites
Major record labels are reportedly pressuring Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services to raise subscription prices, saying current rates haven’t kept up with inflation, according to Financial Times.
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Bring back CDs, taped, etc.
Bring back ownership.
We gonna wake up one day and half the music gonna be
gone bc of an agreement or lack thereof between labels and stream sites
Bring back ownership.
We gonna wake up one day and half the music gonna be
gone bc of an agreement or lack thereof between labels and stream sites
Well...my gut has decided severe flatulence is what it should be doing... This started at 10pm. It's 2am. I need to sleep but can't due to this. Gah!
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Well...my gut has decided severe flatulence is what it should be doing... This started at 10pm. It's 2am. I need to sleep but can't due to this. Gah!
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South Carolina’s measles outbreak shows the damaging effects of vaccine misinformation. #RSNA25
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/h...
South Carolina’s measles outbreak shows chilling effect of vaccine misinformation | CNN
As South Carolina tries to contain its measles outbreak, public health officials across the nation are concerned that the highly contagious virus is making a major comeback.
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
South Carolina’s measles outbreak shows the damaging effects of vaccine misinformation. #RSNA25
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/h...
And the "tea" I make to help with potential URIs is playing havoc with my gut (a risk I was aware of.) Bleh. Today is a "push water" day. This is... not fun.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
And the "tea" I make to help with potential URIs is playing havoc with my gut (a risk I was aware of.) Bleh. Today is a "push water" day. This is... not fun.
One thing that has always driven me batty about Meyers-Brigg personality type tests is they often pose a preference question for two items that are supposedly on a spectrum, when one is in fact a subset of the other. Ex: real, vs possible. All real things are possible. Improve the phrasing!!!
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
One thing that has always driven me batty about Meyers-Brigg personality type tests is they often pose a preference question for two items that are supposedly on a spectrum, when one is in fact a subset of the other. Ex: real, vs possible. All real things are possible. Improve the phrasing!!!
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I have regularly seen that reviewers and editors do not open supplemental files or read tables and figures tbh. I got comments back from reviewers particularly from software research journals that were continually wrong about the details in the paper itself. So yeah idk if review can be the savior
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have regularly seen that reviewers and editors do not open supplemental files or read tables and figures tbh. I got comments back from reviewers particularly from software research journals that were continually wrong about the details in the paper itself. So yeah idk if review can be the savior
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"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
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I understand that it is "fashionable" to blame everything on the orange fascist yet he did not get to his position, hold his position and execute all of these things alone. And when he is gone all of those folks will still be around so they need to be identified now.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I understand that it is "fashionable" to blame everything on the orange fascist yet he did not get to his position, hold his position and execute all of these things alone. And when he is gone all of those folks will still be around so they need to be identified now.
... And just like last year, I've caught something. FML. It's not as bad, yet... But I guess this means I can't attend significantly sized gatherings (8+) for long periods. And since I had to take Lyft, it cost just over $200 (hosting family members live a fair distance from me.)
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
... And just like last year, I've caught something. FML. It's not as bad, yet... But I guess this means I can't attend significantly sized gatherings (8+) for long periods. And since I had to take Lyft, it cost just over $200 (hosting family members live a fair distance from me.)
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Fahrenheit 451 / 1984 were my immediate thought
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
www.rawstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Fahrenheit 451 / 1984 were my immediate thought
I knew a Canadian lady, online, who romanticizes the 1920s in the USA. I always wondered if she truly understood how few rights she'd have had in that era as well as lower quality of healthcare. (has some serious medical issues)
One thing people say that I absolutely hate is “ I was born in the wrong era.”
Stop romanticizing other time periods because you never took the time to dig into history
Stop romanticizing other time periods because you never took the time to dig into history
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I knew a Canadian lady, online, who romanticizes the 1920s in the USA. I always wondered if she truly understood how few rights she'd have had in that era as well as lower quality of healthcare. (has some serious medical issues)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Tiger beetles
2. rabbits
3. toads
4. cannibalistic katydids
5. H. sapien sapien cv. americanum (They're worse than ants around here.)
1. Tiger beetles
2. rabbits
3. toads
4. cannibalistic katydids
5. H. sapien sapien cv. americanum (They're worse than ants around here.)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
A long tailed weasel
A western tiger salamander
A mountain lion (on camera outside our house, but I heard it yowl which is why I checked.)
A Chincoteague pony
An antelope
A long tailed weasel
A western tiger salamander
A mountain lion (on camera outside our house, but I heard it yowl which is why I checked.)
A Chincoteague pony
An antelope
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild.
A Sealion, who checked me out while I was kayaking in Marina del Rey
A bobcat, out and about while I was walking
A rattlesnake, at Will Rogers park
A skunk, toodling along on the sidewalk while I was reading.
A black BEAR:
A Sealion, who checked me out while I was kayaking in Marina del Rey
A bobcat, out and about while I was walking
A rattlesnake, at Will Rogers park
A skunk, toodling along on the sidewalk while I was reading.
A black BEAR:
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Tiger beetles
2. rabbits
3. toads
4. cannibalistic katydids
5. H. sapien sapien cv. americanum (They're worse than ants around here.)
1. Tiger beetles
2. rabbits
3. toads
4. cannibalistic katydids
5. H. sapien sapien cv. americanum (They're worse than ants around here.)
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One thing people say that I absolutely hate is “ I was born in the wrong era.”
Stop romanticizing other time periods because you never took the time to dig into history
Stop romanticizing other time periods because you never took the time to dig into history
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
One thing people say that I absolutely hate is “ I was born in the wrong era.”
Stop romanticizing other time periods because you never took the time to dig into history
Stop romanticizing other time periods because you never took the time to dig into history
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Rosalind Franklin (1920–58), physical chemist, @newnhamcollege.bsky.social revealed DNA’s double helix at www.kcl.ac.uk. Contemporaries @cambridgephysics.bsky.social + KCL won the 1962 Nobel. @nobelprize.org.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Rosalind Franklin (1920–58), physical chemist, @newnhamcollege.bsky.social revealed DNA’s double helix at www.kcl.ac.uk. Contemporaries @cambridgephysics.bsky.social + KCL won the 1962 Nobel. @nobelprize.org.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
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And my little brother said writing poetry was useless! Apparently not!
You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And my little brother said writing poetry was useless! Apparently not!
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🤦Flu and other viruses circulating now aren’t like 'colds' – they can hit hardest in children, older people, pregnant women and those with health conditions.
🤷Each year too many end up in hospital when a quick, safe vaccine could have prevented it. #Flu #COVID
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
🤷Each year too many end up in hospital when a quick, safe vaccine could have prevented it. #Flu #COVID
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
NHS Christmas virus warning as flu and Covid-19 cases likely to rise
Doctors expect winter flu cases to rise in the coming weeks
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🤦Flu and other viruses circulating now aren’t like 'colds' – they can hit hardest in children, older people, pregnant women and those with health conditions.
🤷Each year too many end up in hospital when a quick, safe vaccine could have prevented it. #Flu #COVID
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
🤷Each year too many end up in hospital when a quick, safe vaccine could have prevented it. #Flu #COVID
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.
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Alberta just opened the door to two-tier healthcare.
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Alberta just opened the door to two-tier healthcare.
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
The "no AI" policy is part of what draws me in. These days when I look for various medical-condition-adjacent articles, I keep running into obviously LLM generated trash. It's clear no editor even looked them over.
Having actual-human-written news (and spoofs) is important! Support it!
Having actual-human-written news (and spoofs) is important! Support it!
As I said to Onion members:
"We’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically."
So help out! Grab a paper.
"We’re an independent company, we don’t use AI to write headlines and make art, and we’re one of roughly three publications who are up for the fight. Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically."
So help out! Grab a paper.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The "no AI" policy is part of what draws me in. These days when I look for various medical-condition-adjacent articles, I keep running into obviously LLM generated trash. It's clear no editor even looked them over.
Having actual-human-written news (and spoofs) is important! Support it!
Having actual-human-written news (and spoofs) is important! Support it!
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Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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I get the Onion in print and it is the best piece of mail all month.
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I get the Onion in print and it is the best piece of mail all month.
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Former Washington Post contributing columnist here — let’s help the Onion smash the Washington Post!
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Former Washington Post contributing columnist here — let’s help the Onion smash the Washington Post!
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"Health experts warn that decreased vaccine rates have correlated to increased outbreaks in the last several years of vaccine-preventable diseases including measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-c...
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-c...
What to know about the new CDC deputy director who has been critical of COVID vaccines
A top Louisiana health official has been appointed principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
abcnews.go.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"Health experts warn that decreased vaccine rates have correlated to increased outbreaks in the last several years of vaccine-preventable diseases including measles and pertussis." #RSNA25
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-c...
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-c...