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This is what I’m talking about. Those are product names. Those drugs are called “montelukast” and “cetirizine”. I do wish they’d pack this bullshit in.


Probably because it doesn’t have a Wi-Fi radio, mate.


The scent of citrus flowers on a spring afternoon is quite intoxicating!


TERFs: Trans people are weird and icky and you should stay away from them on account of how weird they are.

Also TERFs: "I got kicked out of a lab for getting up close and personal with dead women's bits without permission and so we had to take the bodies home to keep looking at the necro vulvas. This is a normal hobby and nobody has a restraining order against me."


I declare it officially spring in the Algarve!


Well this is sexy: combined influenza and covid test.


Protip: do not buy tests from Lidl. Maybe the top one is weakly positive. The bottom one appears to be an elephant.


Made myself an Apple Watch strap.


My haul from the @Raspberry Pi :raspberrypi: shop: two BME688s and a ZeroW


WARNING! I have a marlinspike and I’m not afraid to use it!


Attempt 4: spliced, bicolour


Improving my paracord skills. Attempt 1 on the left with a clasp. Middle is attempt 2 which is a strap knotted together at the end (the knot is ugly). Right is attempt 3 which is a single loop, spliced at the end. I’ve ordered some elastic to make them elasticated and a marlinspike.


Finished my belt! Here’s a pic of me holding it. Took a few attempts to get the length just right.


#ABoK


Testing @monaapp@mastodon.social with Friendica. Does it support the thing no other app has yet managed? Photo upload!


It was a lovely day today, so we went for a drive up into the mountains and met this friendly woofer!


Self awareness level: zero


Poor @Sylvia Knight broke the rudder on her kayak today, being epic. What's impressive is that she then did this, after the rudder was broken!


Few more days, I think. They don’t ripen quickly at this time of year.


There are two types of #EV chargers: AC and DC. The DC ones are generally known as “rapid chargers” and are the EV equivalent of filling stations, delivering a lot of charge in a short time. You use these to extend range on a long trip.

The AC chargers are what everyone uses at home, overnight, to slowly charge their car at a much lower power level. These stress the battery a lot less and also, the power grid can cope with them easily, which is harder with the beefier DC rapid chargers.

But there are also public AC chargers. These are generally used if you’re staying somewhere for several hours, as is the case here where I left my car overnight in Malaga, or by plug in hybrid owners who, for some reason, have to show the world that they can go three more metres before their engine comes on after leaving the supermarket 🤷🏻‍♀️👍🏻

#ev


Loving the vibe in Malaga! Not been here before (other than the airport)

I really like the place.


Oh we’re off to sunny sunny Spain! Y viva España!


And here it is in “vertical mode”


Coolest feature of my apartment is “Random Knob By The Hob”. Here it is in “horizontal mode”:


Spring is arriving in the Algarve!


I am not a coffee drinker. Being cursed with supertaste, I have spent my life finding the stuff utterly undrinkable.

But now I'm nearly 50, many of my taste buds have died off and I have been slowly managing to acquire the taste.

The flat in Portugal came with an expensive coffee machine, which @Zoe O'Connell uses but I don't (it'll do hot water, but not hot enough for decent tea, so I reverted to the kettle very quickly).

But today I asked it to make me something called a "Latte Macchiato", which the picture shows in a glass.

And now I know why. The preparation is quite a show! The machine adds hot milk, then milk froth, then coffee. The coffee drops straight through the froth layer to form a new layer in the middle which then artfully diffuses into the milk below.

Tasted not offensive too. Actually almost pleasant.

But as a tea drinker, I have a very very low tolerance for caffeine and OH MY GOD ALL THE THINGS SOMEONE TURN THE WORLD DOWN!!!!!!!Eleven!!!!


@James Graham I asked it and it said,

Unconditional surrender to the mind means to let go of the ego and open one's mind to the possibilities and potential of what can be done. It means to surrender to the higher power of the subconscious, to surrender all preconceived notions, and to accept the potential of what can be accomplished. It is a surrendering of the sense of control and an allowing of the natural flow of life to take its course. It is a letting go of the need to be in control and a trusting of the process.

It then showed me this photo.


What fresh hell is this? AI search engine, you.com allows you to search social media handles. Here's what it says about me, most of which (in fact, nearly all of it), is bullshit.

When I tell it it's almost completely wrong, it castigates me for giving it "incorrect information"!

Can we burn these things with fire now, please?


Portraits of the wives at f/0.95


@Alexandra Lanes @Sion [main] aerodynamics. It’s a Venturi tube. Here’s now.


Me and the lads on our way to intercept a Chinese Spy Pigeon


You guys! I think this fediverse thing might have legs! These are the stats from my micro instance, and I guess there are loads more corners that it doesn't know about!


#Friendica server now migrated from a 2 gig RPi 4 to an 8 gig early 2015 retina MacBook Pro running Ubuntu.

The MBP was headed to the skip, but it turns out it makes a pretty kick-arse #ActivityPub server.

Reuse is better than recycle.

Here it is, in my server cupboard! If you're reading this post, that dilapidated Mac in the corner served it!