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The calls to 911 poured in from staff at "Camp East Montana" in Texas,
the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility,
at a rate of nearly one a day for five months,
-- each its own tale of pain and despair.
A man sobs after being assaulted by another detainee.
Another bangs his head against the wall after expressing suicidal thoughts.
A pregnant woman complained of severe back pain and also had coronavirus.

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

Things that are awesome: buckling spring keyboards. Decided it was time to clean the keycaps so pulled them all off, tossed them into the ultrasonic cleaner, heated the water to about 55C, added a few drops of dish soap, and let them clean for about 15 minutes.
Removed the keycaps, blew them off with my Wolfbox blower, then eventually installed them back into the keyboard. It's nice to have the keyboard clean and clicky. Also: installing buckling spring keycaps is a pain in the …

Lazy web request:
I’m trying to find back pain management advice that is based on scientific and medical research, rather than quackery.
I have seen that “The Back Book” from NHS exists, but it’s from 2005.
Anyone have an up-to-date, credible resource on back pain management to recommend? Thanks.

Yesterday was complete shit. I was in pain nearly all day and afternoon. Got a little relief in the afternoon (thanks Illinois gummy!) and then had insomnia & more pain at bedtime. Finally fell asleep then awoke and ran to the bathroom at 4:20am because I thought I was going to sick. Ugh… had some food, took my morning meds, and back to bed.

Highly recommend not to wake up at 2:30am with upper back pain (I know this can be a sign of heart trouble but I have zero other symptoms, presumably it's caused by age-related "you moved your head wrong").

This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.

Fuck! The pain is so intense I had to go lie in bed with two heating pads. I was lying flat on my back trying to assemble USB controllers but I could only get a few done. 😩

Been another eventful week around the "new" house. Got the shed built. What a pain in the ass metal sheds are. This one was no different. Shout-out to whoever decided it was a great idea to plastic wrap every painted panel like they were PC case panels. I hope you stub a pinky toe every other day for the rest of your life.
With that done, next task was to put up the shelf frames I brought with me. Was able to get 3 shelves cut out of the former back porch ramp plywood. Got 3…

Indoor track run. Debated running outside, but the wind started to pick up, and rain was in the forecast (plus random ice and ICE). I figured out the foot pod, so the Garmin is tracking my track runs inside now, somewhat accurately it seems.
Hoping to get back to 5 days of running in a week (probably not this one, lol), my health is not doing so great; cholesterol and BP are high, and asthma and chronic pain have been a bit of a struggle. I weigh more than I have ever weighed in my lif…

Sometimes I try to alleviate the pain by lying face down on a bed. Lately as soon as I do this there’s a cat on my back providing pressure and heat therapy. (And occasional acupuncture!)
#caturday #catsOfMastodon

If I had to settle for a b-list superpower, I'd choose the ability to make spell-checkers and capitalizers become sentient *just* long enough to experience rending pain. They've been torturing me for 40 years, I'd like to give a little back!

The EMC disk shelf decided it wanted to ramp the fans to "taking off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier", so I decided to updated all the Proxmox nodes, the NAS, and then power cycle the EMC disk shelf.
Fortunately, that worked and everything is back online. Definitely a pain in the ass though...
#homelab

I quit Google Docs and switched to CryptPad last year but I gotta say, sometimes it's not easy.
I am willing to put up with rough edges and weird issues like taking over 30 seconds for a page to load and render, but I can see how normies would just stick with Google's offerings.
I will not go back to Google because fuck those fuckers, but as we've learned I have a high tolerance for pain.