It's time I can return to work coming Monday.
I'm #hacking too much which gives the #SideEffect of #smoking too much.
+sigh+
#SelfControl is NOT my strong side.
Revealing #prednisone as the substance left me astounded.
I mean, sure -- it utterly screws blood sugars, easily making a patient #diabetic
I'm not sure if ALL patients get this particular #SideEffect, but if your blood sugars tend towards the higher side of normal, prednisone will push it *well over* normal.
7/x
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Side Effect:
🎵 The Loneliest Man in Town
https://gibberish512.bandcamp.com/track/67-side-effect-the-loneliest-man-in-town
from the album "Karate Chop" Vol 2 (Pre Chopped Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop Samples)
Why #Israeli #Soldiers #Rape, #Torture, and #Massacre.
Instilling #fear in the #citizens of #Gaza is not a #sideeffect of the #IDF's #brutal #violations of #humanrights. It is their #strategy. "these #practices are intended to #punish #Palestinians for #resisting #occupation and seek to #destroy them #individually and #collectively."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide
A change of season.
Not change to summer from spring,
Change that makes it burn.
#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #ClimateChange
Author Notes (nerdy trivia for programmers):
As someone once observed, there are two ways you can change your socks: you can put on a new pair, or you can monogram them. I learned this because Bernie Greenberg said it in a tutorial on the lisp programming language, several decades ago, when I was at MIT, though I don't know if it was original to him. But I've always liked that set of mnemonics for the two kinds of change, and they were part of the inspiration for this haiku.
The first kind of change (referenced in the middle line of the poem, line 1 if you 0-index the lines) is variable assignment, without side effect:
1> (setq *season* *summer*)
The second kind of change (referenced in the final line of the poem, line 2 if 0-indexed) is mutation by side-effect to an object:
2> (incf (average-temperature *summer*) enough-to-make-it-burn)
- - - - -
For others not familiar with lisp, you'd probably expect something more akin to this pseudocode for the corresponding examples above:
1> season := summer
2> season.average_temperature += enough_to_make_it_burn
A fellow #cat owner I follow lost one of her cats to a reaction to Nexguard, a #flea #treatment, a rare #SideEffect due to a #gene #mutation. Both her #cats, sisters, became #sick and one is being treated.
We’ve used Bravecto and been fine, but had no idea.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SundaySoul
Side Effect:
🎵 Private World