<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>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ" class="u-url mention">@<span>SnoopJ</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> i would become Annoying</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> *thinks* would they listen</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> can you file a bug about it</p>

<p>It&#39;s just never gonna stop bothering me… it&#39;s just never gonna stop bothering me!!!</p>