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As someone who's had back issues, could some explain to me why people wear weighted vests and add all that sustained compression to their spine and think it's a good idea? Rucking feels like a macho flex because regular walking is for pussies.

Just read two quite intense novels back to back, and was feeling a bit at sea about what to read next. My TBR pile was not enticing me.
So I got out my 30 yr old copy of Neuromancer, because it's always right!

Bra artikel kring Modicförändringar och antibiotikabehandling.
De är dock lite för diplomatiska om du frågar mig. Det stinker "vi vill tjäna pengar på vårt påhittade koncept" här tycker jag. Den här behandlingen marknadsförs också på tveksamma sätt via influensers på social medier redan idag.

Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?
It was billed as a treatment worthy of a Nobel prize. In 2013, two studies purportedly showing the effectiveness of oral antibiotics in treating back pain were published in the European Spine Journal​1,2​. Given that 10–17% of the population in England report back pain, which is often chronic and difficult to treat, the findings were accompanied […]

Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)

From Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq

Free agent CB Samuel (spine) given OK to play https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46837307/free-agent-cb-asante-samuel-jr-spine-cleared-play

Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things he did in the last scene.
Improv teacher Steve Hoopla in today's 'story' course guided us through some "Because Games", in which scenes are to be causally connected. Each following on from prior scenes. Because that happened, this happened.
He didn't explicitly mention Pixar's "Story Spine", but the main loop in Pixar's story template is "...and because of that..." looping over and over between the introduction, call to adventure, and conclusion.
Causality is what strings a story together, gives it structure an avoids it being just a disconnected dream sequence. This scene is only happening because of the events in the prior scenes. It gives the string of scenes meaning and relevance.
So good fun to drill some of that stuff with the team and end up with sheep infestations and santa claus robot wars among other laughs.
Gonna miss next week's session due to a prior engagement, but the team is gelling well. Pretty sure we could do this show without much further guidance really. Everyone's very good.
#london #improv #hooplaImpro

Backbone test. 
(They have the votes; do they have the spine? Pressure from us helps strengthen theirs.)
"Senate Democrats alone can halt funding for ICE. So far, the Democratic leadership has not stepped up. Only enormous pressure from their constituents will force them to show any backbone."

This from @… is a very good question. My own educated guess is that ICE has been compiling a “future harassment” list, rather than already having a “kill list;” the former makes far more sense in the context of their behavior here and Good’s history.
Regardless of the answer, it is a •very• good question. If Congress had a spine, they’d be marching DHS in front of them to answer it.
https://mastodon.social/@gooba42/115860722794412354

Just heard a story on the Indiana Senate showing some spine in the face of violent threats, it occurs to me that if one had billions of dollars, one could probably buy a LOT of untraceable threats. There doesn’t need to be a mass populace making threats, just a paid staff.

Maybe I should run for Congress. If you get elected they remove your spine. *rimshot*

I have psoriatic spondylitis, which is pretty much psoriatic arthritis that attacks my SI joints, spine, lungs, & skin. It came w/ horrible eczema, mostly on my face (ARGH), elbows, & in my ears. I’d hate to add up how much $$$ I’ve spent on eczema creams over the yrs, but it’s a LOT. Not too long ago, a derm I know told me to try Desitin diaper cream. I did. It works better than anything I’ve ever tried, & it’s $6-7. 1/2

Oh, FFS. And here I thought EU leaders might have grown a spine. Guess I was wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/07/european-commission-ai-artificial-intelligence-act…

Can we just impeach Schumer and replace him with someone with a functioning spine?
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbkarl2hd72f
(And yes, I'm aware that impeachment doesn't apply to congress. Screw the particulars, the point stands.)

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"

The thing that Renee Good now knows, that Tortuguita knows, that Heather Heyer knows, that I only know because I glimpsed for a second, is that when you die fighting oppression you live forever in that memory of resistance. When we carve their names into a monument, along with all the other names of the murdered and disappeared, that will stand, perhaps, across from the statue of Willem in the park where the Northwest Detention Center once stood, they will always be reminders of what it looks like to sacrifice everything in order to be on the right side of history.
The names of those who resist live as ghosts, summoned by name to haunt future oppressors, summoned by name to awaken our own conscience to the call. Martyrs, whispered like the White Rose or yelled as a threat like John Brown, cannot die so long as any of us with a bit of spine carries even an ounce of humanity.
It is possible to die knowing you did the right thing, and I have felt it. There is an acceptance that is impossible to imagine without being there, without feeling it for yourself. You have nothing to fear in resisting, even if it ends you. But you will never forget the shame of doing nothing if you fail to.

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Dear @… ,
I’ve just finished your latest #book “Moral Ambition” with that intimidating back cover text as my first one this year. I found the table of contents populistically appalling and the actual content really

RE: https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/115872271324375378
No spine, no guts, no heart and no balls.
It's a wonder they are still alive.

Are there any librarians or bibliophiles out there who can tell me what the best glue is to use to reattach these loose pages to the spine? 🙏🏻 (book is 30 yrs old & often reread)