Sam Barnett-Cormack

I will add, though, that I don't find it plausible this was deliberately done by anyone with intent to convince anyone that the new version was the actual text of the constitution unless they, the person doing it, was incredibly stupid.

"Operator error" I could just about consider plausible. "Coding error" would seem incredibly unlikely, but also unlikely to be fixed that quickly.

Not impossible. But pretty implausible. Just from a technical point-of-view.

It's actually possible that this whole furore of reaction is the intended effect, then they can claim people are being reactionary over what's obviously an error.

(What makes it less likely to be an error is that the corresponding annotations to the removed parts of section 8 have also disappeared)

Well, no. It's just the Library of Congress's "annotated constitution". The senate's version is intact, and even if it weren't it would have no effect.

That is, as I suspect you know 😉, not the point. No-one doing this would think it changed anything. It raises the questions of who did it, and why.

Fortunately, I was asleep when you posted that😄

I'm definitely going to need today to recover, though. I have chronic balance problems, and it's still off from baseline.

Taxi to my home station has been laid on.

Yeah, though it usually takes physical contact.

There is a non-trivial risk that I will end up in Scotland even in that case.

If I fall asleep, I'll miss my stop.

I am trapped in St Helens. Replacement bus showing up as being in one hour.

My narcolepsy meds start to be unreliable in about ten minutes.

I don't think this suggests there's anything wrong, I'm sure it's just me adjusting to the new prescription, but it's kinda disturbing.

Since I got my new glasses, both with the varifocals and the readers, when I watch someone doing face-to-camera on the TV, my depth perception goes weird sometimes.

Like it looks like someone's head has been recorded separately and stuck on to the video, like it isn't really attached to their body.

I really wish that celebs and major institutional users (like media, government etc) - and, frankly, anyone else in a position to - actually used domain verification on Bluesky. Always feel a sense of doubt if accounts are really what they claim to be if they haven't.

Knowing that the reason one has exaggerated emotional reactions is emotional dysregulation/lability due to #ADHD doesn't actually help deal with them as much as one might hope.

Easier to be kind to yourself about it, but the emotions are still there.

Really sad to have learned that Lisa Egan - @lisybabe.bsky.social - has died. Dedicated, passionate and also capable of being a lot of fun. Will be sorely missed.

You mean like an entirely philological structure for his fictional languages? ;)

Looking at data dispassionately, there are a number of ways that the US doesn't fit in with the global economic north.

This is one of them.

Moving my head up and down all the time (and somewhat left and right) is annoying, and not great for my balance (positional vertigo - not BPPV, some other unspecified cause of positional vertigo and imbalance).

I recently got my first ever pair of varifocals. Optician does free second pair (with single vision lenses) so ordered readers as well, thought it would be useful sometimes.

Readers were delayed, finally got them, and my god it's better to use them if I'm doing mostly close stuff.

As a postscript... anyone know *why* every #rollator I could find on sale is wider than the one I got like ten years ago?

That last thread was quite banal, but this sort of thing is actually a significant part of the life of some of us, so, yeah.

If you get it, you get it. If not, might be worth learning more about the everyday realities of being disabled.

So the search ended up being much quicker, and I should have a new rollator Monday-ish. Same as the old one but updated, slightly wider (which is annoying but I didn't find *any* significantly narrower), and with big front wheels.

The end.

A short time into my search, I discovered that a new iteration of the same range was being made, just with a different manufacturer name. And they were still making a version with larger front wheels (an upgrade I'd been wishing for, for white a while)

I had found out, over a year ago, that the company that made my current one didn't do rollators any more, so was resigned to arduously searching and making compromises.

Opportunities to buy a new one in person are limited, though I was near a store for work recently, so tried some out, and figured that I had enough info from that to find what I wanted online.

The other week, a nut fell off my rollator. I still had the bolt and wheel, and fortunately my selection of bits at home included an appropriate sized locknut, but getting home with 3/4 wheels was interesting.

Chatted with a bloke who felt he should have moved on his wife’s death by now and be feeling Mwrry about Christmas. She only died in August 2023!

If you’re finding the festive season tough due to bereavement, you’re not alone. There’s space for you here. #JoinIn

A white man with a beard and a wry expression, wearing glasses, and also wearing a paper crown from a Christmas cracker that is clearly significantly too small to actually go over his head.

My head is too large for Christmas

I would comment, but you knew what you were doing...

A picture of plated Christmas dinner, with slices of rolled turkey breast stuffed and wrapped in bacon, pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bacon), a meat stuffing ball, a piece of baked stuffing, and roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips and beetroot. Cranberry sauce on the side.

This year's Christmas dinner. Not entirely happy with it. Potatoes should have been in #sousvide longer, and both the meat stuffing and the dryer stuffing have the wrong texture.

But I'm not beating myself up about it. So, score one for #mentalhealth I guess.

Happy Christmas to all, and any other relevant season's greetings.