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i just learned the youths have redone myspace with spacehey and wow, what a blast from the past

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From Woroni, 1986. 

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down detector confirms it's not just me, whew

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nvm, it's still happening and i also can't reblog anything

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i think one of my broswer add-ons broke tumblr, so if you see a bunch of likes from me on one post, it's because the like wouldn't stick, grr

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i plan on becoming a child prodigy at 44

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i am feeling just a little oogy and i hope it doesn't mean i'm finally getting the flu everyone else in my house got last week (and is still recovering from)

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This is one of those things where the discourse is just completely broken. Both of these takes are shit and no one is concerned about the actual problem.

Republicans want to bring back incandescents because they just want to trigger the libs and have decided light bulbs are woke.

And the "LEDs are fine" crowd are throwing people with flicker sensitivities under the bus. And, no, you don't have to be "pretty far on the spectrum" to notice a difference. And even if you did... why in the world is this person so dismissive of the millions of autistic folks?

LEDs, for the most part, are superior to incandescent bulbs. Collectively they save people billions of dollars in energy costs and greatly reduce fossil fuel use. You have more options for color and brightness. You can control them with your phone. LEDs are fantastic.

Unfortunately there is a design flaw that makes LEDs hard to use for certain people. Due to AC power, most LEDs have a 60hz refresh rate. Meaning they turn off and on 60 times per second. With incandescents this didn't matter because the filament didn't have time to lose its glow between cycles.

Most people cannot see this flicker in LEDs. But there are millions of people who are sensitive to it and it can cause migraines and discomfort.

The solution is definitely not to go back to incandescents. There are flicker free LEDs and I think with some regulation we could make sure all LEDs are flicker free or at least make sure flicker free bulbs are easy to find and not priced at a premium.

Thankfully there is a group testing bulbs to find the ones that will most likely cause no discomfort. They call themselves the Flicker Alliance and their website has a pretty decent selection of tested and approved bulbs.

So if you feel like your LED bulbs might be causing you distress, that is a good resource to try. I think there is also something you can do to make sure the LED drivers are using DC power, but I haven't really looked into that.

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i hope im a positive influence on somebody’s life

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reblog this to put a leaf on your mutuals head

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*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

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running for president as a member of the American Fujoshi Party with a foolproof plan to address male loneliness

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Reblog to meow at prev

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i'm trying to find a specific list of books/writings from a book club or syllabus related to abolition. specifically, i think most or all of the writings were from abolitionists before the civil war, and part of the focus was on seeing how people thought, argued, and sustained themselves and the movement while not knowing how close or far away their goal was. (i also want to say it was put together no earlier than 2020, by a modern-day prison abolitionist - someone like mariame kaba - and it circulated on twitter? but i'm not confident.)

does anyone else know what i'm talking about?

edit: it's possible that one of the books on the list was Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860)? although again i'm not confident.

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i guess i’m feeling feisty tonight, because rather than just walk away i sent a photo of my hand flipping the bird

i impulsively decided to make a facebook page to connect with some of my family, and after submitting my email verification code (aka having given them very little info), i was immediately suspended for “suspicious activity” 😂

and in order to appeal, they want a selfie of me that they’ll save for one year (“encrypted”)

or i guess i wait 180 days for the account to deactivate and try again? as if lol

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i impulsively decided to make a facebook page to connect with some of my family, and after submitting my email verification code (aka having given them very little info), i was immediately suspended for “suspicious activity” 😂

and in order to appeal, they want a selfie of me that they’ll save for one year (“encrypted”)

or i guess i wait 180 days for the account to deactivate and try again? as if lol

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