Mastodawn

sooooo Microsoft did automatically install Copilot on my Windows 10 computer. Checking has revealed that I probably had this fucker on my computer for (at least) 15 days without realizing it, which is. super great.

I had previously thought only Windows 11 users needed to worry about this, but I was wrong! Learn from my mistakes!

sjgochenour Nov 23

Because I am in the back half of rewriting this draft, my brain has provided me with a half-dozen ideas for NEW PROJECTS I CAN START AND NOT FINISH.

- podcast by gremlins about French castles which gradually becomes more and more surreal

- contemporary romance about hereditary members of a secret society founded by a Jacobean cheesemonger/serial killer

- new book covers for everything with INTRICATE VINES

- eleventy billion more books in the Goblins & Cheese universe

sjgochenour Nov 19

azteclady Nov 19

Heads up: helping neighbors.

Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia is holding their annual warm clothing drive, with a silent auction (ends on Thursday)
https://www.32auctions.com/bundled2025

There's also an amazon wishlist, and at the bottom there, there's also a gift card you can contribute to:
https://bit.ly/bundled25

Or you could donate to their food pantry through the donate button at the top of this page:
https://rodephshalom.org/

sjgochenour Nov 18

anxiety edging up into panic for most of this week. feeling quite wry about all this.

sjgochenour Nov 18

Ada Palmer Nov 18

MIT engineers have designed a programmable drug-delivery patch that could help the heart heal after a heart attack. The flexible hydrogel patch, applied directly to the heart, releases three drugs in sequence over two weeks: one prevents cell death, another spurs blood vessel growth and a third blocks scarring. The approach mimics the body’s own healing timeline, restoring heart function far more effectively than traditional treatments. https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-patch-could-help-heal-heart-1104?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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A new patch could help to heal the heart

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help promote healing and regeneration of cardiac tissue.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

sjgochenour Nov 16

ankles are foolish! as are all human joints!

sjgochenour Nov 6

azteclady Nov 6

#PSA #CallToAction #NYC #Libraries

Hey, New Yorkers, time to put all that joy and enthusiasm to work: demand that the city council allocate .5% (yes, HALF of a percent) of the city budget to the city's libraries--because fuck Eric Adams, and because you NEED those libraries to work properly.

You can use the link below or contact the council directly, but you NEED to act.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/city-council-we-demand-half-a-percent-of-the-overall-city-budget-for-libraries

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sjgochenour Nov 4

This musing brought to you by translating some headlines from the Boston Globe for a letter I'm writing.

sjgochenour Nov 4

I feel reasonably confident I am at a solid A2 level in Portuguese now (maybe even elbowing my way into B1), but I've now studied enough languages to know the amount of work it's going to take me to keep improving. Feeling a bit discouraged.

sjgochenour Nov 4