The Atwood Propane Gas detector in our RV has reached its 84 months EOL. I know this because it's flashing its orange light, and beeping every minute or so. Neither of these behaviors is stopped by the Mute / Test button. The only way to stop the noise is to kill power to it, living us completely unprotected until a replacement arrives.

Do product designers not think of these things? What if that had started in the middle of the night? Was EOL really 84 months ±1 minute?!

#rv #atwood #design

The #Handmaid’s Tale has become more and more plausible

Margaret #Atwood has said the plot of her book The Handmaid’s Tale, which tells a story of an #authoritarian #regime under which women are forced to reproduce, has become “more and more plausible” in recent years.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Atwood said she believed the plot was “bonkers” when she first developed the concept for the novel because the #US was the “ #democratic ideal ” at the time.

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Menards has a #BlackFriday deal in honor of #Atwood & #HandmaidsTale. Whoda thunk any BigBox store would sell Red Cloaks to the #Woke demographic?

Oversized Red Comfort Hoodie Blanket https://www.menards.com/main/black-friday-2025/oversized-red-comfort-hoodie-blanket-with-premium-fleece/4025/p-1642874373359986-c-13917.htm

Menards has a #BlackFriday deal in honor of #Atwood & #HandmaidsTale. Whoda thunk any BigBox store would sell Red Cloaks to the #Woke demographic?

Oversized Red Comfort Hoodie Blanket

"At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/01/margaret-atwood-interview-handmaids-tale-author-new-memoir?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1761978340

#Atwood #author #freedom #interview