<p>What I&#39;m listening to today: &quot;Our planet the voice&quot;, Croaker</p><p>This 1997 tracker jam by Croaker (who, as you&#39;ll remember if you&#39;ve been reading this thread the entire three years, later designed the video game &quot;Angry Birds&quot;?) is a buffet of jangling vibes, cheesy 90s PC synths moshing against hype, progressive electronica beats. Flavors of acid, Jungle, glitch, house flit in and out. Anyone who had this on their PC in 1997 probably felt like the coolest kid in high school</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRLd6cahDg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=JZRLd6cahDg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bark.lgbt/@nycki" class="u-url mention">@<span>nycki</span></a></span> nope</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> As the cockroach awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, it found itself transformed into an office worker. He was constricted by a tight, as if it was a noose, tie and when he lifted his head he could see he had 497 unread emails in his inbox, and one where a reply had been started with several pages worth of the letter &#39;m’</p>

<p>the book is The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueché.</p>

<p>OH: &quot;Reverse Gregor samsa&quot;</p>

<p>some of the stories in here, though. wow. I am so glad we have health inspectors and food safety regulations these days. imagine going for breakfast at a hotel and nearly dying of cyanosis from sodium nitrite* poisoning, the kitchen staff having confused the identical, unlabelled, and indistinguishable-by-taste salt barrels destined for the kitchen and meat curing house respectively.</p><p>(*usually the far-safer sodium nitrate is used for curing, but this was late war-time so they had to make do)</p>

<p>&quot;alleviation of the manifest particulars&quot; is a phrase I shall be adopting, though. said, naturally, in the accent and cadence of a 1920s BBC radio presenter.</p>

<p>Team Fortress 2 Comic issue 7 is finally, officially available <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/team-fortress-2-comic-issue-7-is-finally-officially-available/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/team</span><span class="invisible">-fortress-2-comic-issue-7-is-finally-officially-available/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeamFortress2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TeamFortress2</span></a></p>

<p>reading a medical book from 1947 and it&#39;s taking more cognitive effort to decipher the flowery euphemistic language of the time than it is to decipher the medical jargon.</p><p>&quot;avoided a flat-footed diagnosis&quot; = listed several possible causes.</p><p>&quot;an admission of intemperance&quot; = the patient had a drinking problem.</p><p>&quot;can seldom be repulsed by specific medication&quot; = we don&#39;t have any good meds for this.</p><p>&quot;he focused upon alleviation of the manifest particulars&quot; = he treated the symptoms, not the cause.</p>