chris balser 💙

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she/they. systems lead at CDPR Boston, previously at zenimax online, bethesda, blizzard. all are equals under the sun. be just and kind. i also do art and write. apparently some form of wizard.

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For the best results, follow instructions carefully when maintaining your Macintosh.

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🧪 This paper says that the Covid virus uses histamine receptors to help it enter our cells, and that ordinary antihistamines can prevent mice from being infected. This seems exciting? But the only coverage I saw was on...Newsmax?? Someone tell me what I'm missing. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 | mBiojournals.asm.org In addition to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can utilize alternative cofactors to facilitate viral entry. In this study, we discov...

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To the AFGHAN To the SHAWL 'til the yarn roll out its ball ALL these stitches fall Aw, skein skein skein - Lil Jon in the retirement home

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wild hair up my ass to figure out why I call yelling hollering. Oh, cuz rednecks are still using middle english. ok. cool. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hallo

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If your win10 install is pushing Copilot on you: 1. Run PowerShell as Administrator 2. Paste: Get-AppxPackage *CoPilot* -AllUsers | Remove-AppPackage -AllUsers 3. Press Enter (There will not be any output if it is successfully removed) 4. Reboot Repost to save a life

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Happy #NonBinaryPeoplesDay 💛🤍💜🖤 Pls be nice to your nonbinary friends today, and for the other 364 days of the year. #nonbinary #kidlitart 🎨

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as a parent there are times where I just grab some lunch meat and eat it on its own while I'm scrambling to do something. in every such instance I wish I had made a sandwich instead. even just a lettuce wrap would take little time and improve the experience.

I once saw a guy on Reddit say that a sandwich is NEVER worth the time and effort it takes to assemble it. I think about him every day.

If you see this, QRP with a character that has long hair. #art

If you see this post, QRP with a character that has long hair #art

if you ain't read the entire broken earth trilogy do yourself a favor and do it. it's got it all, and defining "it all" would be spoiler after spoiler but trust me it's got it

The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Timewww.esquire.com See if your favorites made our expanded list.

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Hey wow as someone with a stutter y’all are not kind At all Do you know what happens when you have the kind of stutter where you swap words? Your brain makes an association in a split second and you go “no, not that”, especially when nervous, and it just blorts out of your mouth.

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this is cute 👀

We’re raising some shell in Another Crab’s Treasure with Aquarium staffers Cristian and Rylee! Join us Thurs., July 11 at 3:30 p.m. PT on Twitch or YouTube as we chat about clawesome crustaceans and how we can protect their ocean (and mobile!) homes. It’s shore to be a shelluva good time! 🎮 🦀 🐚

a couple good offerings. may I also suggest:

we are trying modeling and reason with our toddler, who is three and a half, and they're very receptive to doing what we'd like as long as they know why. kids are really smart.

( [1/2] An Addendum: Many people who might have been reared this way may wonder... what other approaches exist? The short answer? A lot. The two most common are modelling, where you actively seek to demonstrate positive behavior and its rewards so as to show them how to tell something is good and

saved you a trip youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E?...

Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Usyoutu.be Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us”Directed by Dave Free & Kendrick Lamar Production Company: pgLang / project3Executive Producers: Kendrick Lamar, Dave FreeProduce...

feels like we developed biphasic sleep both as an adaptation to extreme heat and extreme cold and shifting away from that at the advent of electricity for reasons of employment has harmed us as a species.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

the sky crashed at Planet Hollywood

IMMEDIATE PURCHASE

UHF in 4K is out TODAY from our good friends at Shout! Factory

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frame from a non-musical with a great soundtrack

Frame from a non-musical movie with a great soundtrack

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People who like Peanuts have good vibes online. Maybe a little bit sad, but the world is hard and they know that. People who like Krazy Kat have chaotic vibes. Engage at your own risk. People who like Popeye have insane but friendly vibes. People who like Moomin have beautiful vibes and are handsome

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One for the syntax folk 🐦🐦

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Summer is good. Go make a little sandwich. Go eat a fresh strawberry. Go read a little book by the water.

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Americans. Hey. Your president? He has a severe stutter. Trump uses a known rhetorical style (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga...) to make it nearly impossible for a person with no impediment to respond. So no, quit playing into Trump's hands by cracking jokes about a person *WITH A DISABILITY*.

Gish gallop - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Like a little romance in your video games? How do you get your woo on? Which game character stole your heart? Take @hmcd.bsky.social's annual romance survey and share the love 💖 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Romance in Games Survey #3docs.google.com It's time to re-run some of the player behavior survey questions around romance in games, to see how things have changed over the past (checks notes) nearly 15 years! There are also some new questions...

oh it's yuri day? read teppu please

the eighth, invisible word: You.

Microsoft invested $13 billion in AI

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“In a unanimous decision, nine judges held that there was no legal basis for the longstanding military exemption given to many ultra-Orthodox religious students.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/w... 🎁

Israel’s Supreme Court Rules the Military Must Draft Ultra-Orthodox Jewswww.nytimes.com The court ruled there was no basis to exempt the ultra-Orthodox from service, a decision that threatened to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government amid the war in Gaza.

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We’re monster-maxxing, we’re ogre-pilled, we’re going beast mode, we’re scream-queening, we’re swiping fright, we’re Frankenstanning, we’re entering our eek era

What is happening?