Please boost for sample size. Alright, same question, but this time for the whole fediverse. How many new members do we have? I became part of the fediverse in: #Poll #Polls #Fediverse
@ZebraFeatherAH @icy_silvertail - I haven't drawn or written in years. Mostly depression and health issues. You're not alone. I draw when I can. Same with writing.
I squandered a fairly popular webcomic in the 2000s and 2010s because of all this. But I never considered the comics dead. Just...I do them when I'm able.
My spinal injection was cancelled at the last minute (it was supposed to happen in two hours) because my insurance never got back to the hospital about coverage.
Now I have to push out the injection another month, worry about possible continuing nerve damage in the mean time AND ended up putting out a friend who was going to drive me there so I could be sedated.
I really REALLY hate the American healthcare system so so so much.
My spinal injection was cancelled at the last minute (it was supposed to happen in two hours) because my insurance never got back to the hospital about coverage.
Now I have to push out the injection another month, worry about possible continuing nerve damage in the mean time AND ended up putting out a friend who was going to drive me there so I could be sedated.
I really REALLY hate the American healthcare system so so so much.
@eniko we were looking forward to COVID being over so we could do our part to import the Asian tradition of wearing a mask when you know you're sick, so you don't get your friends sick
but of course now it looks like COVID is going to be the rest of our lives, so we just wear a mask all the damn time regardless. like. yeah.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... go fuck yourself, I'm never trusting you again, jerk." - @Yuriel
“When drivers fail to yield for pedestrians, it’s not because they can’t see them, it’s because they don’t care.” Kudos to @VisionZeroYVR for this brilliant intervention. https://momentummag.com/vision-zero-campaign-bricks-vancouver/ #TheWarOnCars
I didn't realise this was a thing, do people really think Mary Shelly wasn't the first SciFi author? 🤔
@sciencefiction @writers @writingcommunity @writing
#MaryShelly #Frankenstein #Monster #SciFi #Author #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#BoostingIsSharing
I was in school before most schools had a free breakfast program. This meant most mornings I did not eat breakfast. By mid morning, it was hard to concentrate. I'd be watching the clock until lunch, which I got for free due to financial hardship. This was alleviated when I went to a school with free breakfast, for which I qualified. I still had ADHD struggles, but at least I wasn't watching the clock anymore, waiting for lunch. There was a brief time where I didn't qualify for free lunch. Lunch looked like a peanut butter sandwich, often without jelly, or buttered bread, and sometimes just a carrot. Subsidized school meals was a lifeline for me. Now some people want to grow the program, so that kids don't fall through the gap like I did, and others want to take it away completely. Children can't learn when they're hungry. And sometimes, those school meals are the only decent meals they have. Summers can be rough.
mischievous #MoodMusicMonday
Sound of Cylons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMUezhpuEoE
Do you think an average #Mastodon user with a couple hundred followers could post a silly #poll to the #Fediverse, and get a million or more votes in 7 days?
Please boost to widen the sample. ;-)
did y'all know WOMEN used to do computer work, not men.
i didn't. i just found that out like 10 years ago and am still shook to this day.
especially when finding out about NASA team of Little Old Ladies and Native American and African American women used their CROCHET, CROSS STITCH & SEWING skills to embed memory chips into everything involving the Apollo project.
🗣 HOW WAS I NEVER TAUGHT THIS AT SCHOOL!!!
and guess what? by their "identity politics" some where bilingual, even polyglot...🧵
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Creative Text Writer for MTG: Universes Beyond
Writer for Sea of Legends
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter