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@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-07-11 18:27:24

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

~ Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in Marin hospital EXAMINER STAFF REPORT Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the Grateful Dead, has been hospital ized. His attorney, Chris Andrian, con- | firmed that Garcia was in the hospi- tal but had no further details, other than to say, “Just tell everybody who loves Jerry to pray for him.” KFOG reported today that Gar- cia was admitted to Marin General Hospital with a high temperature. The hospital would say only that “a Jerome Garcia” had been admit- ted…
Saturday, July 12. 1986 Page Y Garci » GREENBRAE, (AP) Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead rock band, has been hospitalized after slipping into a diabetic coma that resulted from an infection caused by an abcessed tooth, a band spokesman said. (Garcia, 43, was in Marin General Hospital, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, but hospital spokeswoman Sandra Currie would not release any information about his condition. Band spokesman Dennis McNally said Garcia lapsed into a diab…
Jerry Garcia in the hospital
1 EE Pa ee. = ee. tls wn. \ : 'y . GARCIA G — From A-1 Deadheads. : Early last year Garcia was arrest : ed in Golden Gate Park. Police said he had cocaine and heroin in his "car. The charges were dropped when he agreed to enter a drug-di version program. A friend said: “There is absolute ly nothing illegal connected with "Jerry's illness. The infection has heen painful, and he’s basically ex ' hausted.” :
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-09-10 21:52:02

The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…

Americans on how 9/11 changed their lives: ‘It completely unraveled the US’
Twenty-five years later, the Guardian asks US readers how the attacks affected their lives, and their country

@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2026-09-11 14:17:58

I've been at The Firs, Elgar's birth place. As well as hearing Nimrod played on a 1927 wind-up gramophone (see @…'s post if you want to hear it) I learnt a lot about Elgar as a man and a polymath, and as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. The odds were stacked against him but now he's a national treasure. My friend's gre…

Banksy-style black and white wall painting of Elgar on his bike, tie flying and hat blowing away, legs akimbo, coming straight at us.
Statue of Elgar reclining on a bench
Sign board describing artefacts in a case. No 2 reads The Elgar Sulphuretted Hydrogen Apparatus with a note underneath that says I'm not typing that twice
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-09-06 17:47:09

Folk who've been following me for a long time will remember that last autumn I was posting pictures of doing the joinery for a new workshop. And then I went mad, and got ill, and for most of this year there's been no progress.
But my friend Lucy has been here for a week, and between the two of us the frame is now erected. Now I need to sort the timber stack (which hasn't been improving while I've been ill), erect a roof, and build some walls. But the bit I couldn't …

Lucy standing in front of the north end truss, which has just been erected and its tenons forced into their mortices with a Spanish windlass. The truss is held upright by temporary diagonal braces. Between the pillars, various carpentry tools lie on a very chaotic timber stack.
The footing of one pillar of the south end truss on an old tree stump. The reason the building is so crooked is because it's foundations are the stumps of four trees that were blown down in Storm Arwen.
General view of the newly erected frame from its north east corner. The chaotic pile of sawn timber runs through it from north to south. Beyond, the trees on the edges of the wood are still standing, but most of the centre was blown flat in the storm, and new young trees are only slowly beginning to grow through the remaining wreckage.
Looking down on the new frame from my bedroom window. One of the new top rails still needs to be cut to length, and there's at least one brace still missing (I'll add more if I think they're needed. This is enormous progress, and a weatherproof workshop will be a great improvement to my quality of life.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-08-09 11:42:19

I couldn't decide what to do today and where to go. I got up too late for a longer hike due to the heat. In the end I just got on my bike and followed the road and pushed myself for some training effect.
It was a really enjoyable ride except for the last 10km where the heat got really annoying.
Is this a #silentsunday contribution? I think so... No talking, less thinking, j…

summary of a cycling activity, showcasing the following key details: - **Distance:** 67.50 kilometers - **Total Time:** 3 hours, 9 minutes, and 56 seconds - **Average Speed:** 21.3 km/h - **Total Ascent:** 574 meters - **Average Heart Rate:** 155 bpm
This image captures a breathtaking and serene mountain landscape, evoking a sense of tranquility, natural beauty, and adventure. The scene is dominated by a lush, green valley framed by dense forests of evergreen trees. The trees, with their vibrant green foliage, create a rich and textured tapestry that stretches up the slopes of the surrounding mountains. A **rocky riverbed** cuts through the center of the image, its surface a mix of smooth stones and patches of water, adding a sense of move…
@davej@dice.camp
2026-07-08 22:48:25

Are you in #Canberra? Fancy rip-roaring, dungeoneering, surrounded by actual, friendly people, verifiably made of meat?(*)
Saturday, 25 July, 1pm.
Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden.
Walter’s Burly Griffins will host the following #DCCRPG scenarios for your gratification:
• Dread Dawning…

Walter’s Burly Griffins July 2026 - Dungeon Crawl Classics
Walter’s Burly Griffins invites you to their monthly open table to meet and play Dungeon Crawl Classics TTRPG with fellow adventurers.

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2026-09-09 04:51:38

Damn it, Jim, I'm an Engineer and not a Chef. But I need this!
Le Creuset Star Trek Edition!
blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star

Le Creuset Cookware Announces New LE CREUSET x STAR TREK Collaboration for 60th Anniversary
The first big announcement for STAR TREK’s 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier

@scott@carfree.city
2026-07-07 20:29:54

I usually get the small coffee at Fox & Lion. Today I was feeling extra sluggish and ordered a large, and it's cartoonishly enormous! What have I gotten myself into

A very tall skinny paper cup of coffee along a table in front of a street-facing window. There are potted plants on the table and a yellow painting of wheat on the window.
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-09-08 04:21:09

Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…

Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.