Orion Scribner @frameacloud@dragon.style

@porsupah

:O

That's the only kind of tattoo I want!

Here's a custom style that you can use to make #Dreamwidth mobile-friendly. https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1533020.html

@porsupah

Thanks!

I'm having trouble finding a primary source that makes predictions about #covid19 in year 2021. If you've seen one, would you please reply with a link to it?

@porsupah

Oh gosh, who knows.

I forgot to include this part: before you can pay for anything on Amazon Fresh with EBT, you need to register your EBT card with them. Here's where you do that, and it tells which regions are eligible: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=19097785011

Using EBT to pay for Amazon Fresh is a completely separate thing from using your EBT card (or your Medicaid card, whichever you have) to unlock a discounted subscription to Amazon Prime, which apparently works anywhere in the US. (Your EBT card unlocks this discount, but your EBT balance won't apply to Prime purchases, only to Fresh purchases.) Here's where you do that: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16256994011

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Amazon, and I'm aware of a lot of ways that Amazon sucks. I'm sharing this hard-to-find info to help #LowIncome folks get their food and necessaries safely.

* First, before you place your order, look up your EBT PIN.
* You need to allow all pop-ups, temporarily. You can only check out your order if it can display an EBT verification window at a certain step.
* For similar reasons, you need to disable your adblocking and JavaScript blocking add-ons, temporarily.
* Everything in your cart has to be eligible for EBT. The check-out is supposed to be able to handle an order where part is on EBT and the other part is on a credit card, but if you try to do both, then the transaction will never go through.
* If the transaction still won't go through, probably one of the groceries has become unavailable, and it didn't tell you. Everything's flying off the shelves fast right now. Close the tab, open the front page of Amazon, edit your cart, and then try to purchase again.
* Once you finally get to the EBT PIN screen, move carefully, because this is the most inaccessible UI for a PIN that I've ever seen. It's almost like a deliberately annoying minigame out of Nancy Drew Interactive. Wait for the screen to rearrange the locations of each button after you've entered each digit, and make sure you don't hit the wrong buttons because they moved.

The above knowledge comes to you from a very tense evening helping a loved one buy groceries online while the site fought our every step! We eventually succeeded! 🏆

@kistaro

Try placing your order with grocery stores. My family couldn't get Amazon Fresh to deliver to our location since the beginning of isolation, but we've been able to order groceries from PCC.

Has anybody seen a reputable source explaining how we're supposed to clean all our groceries to get rid of #covid19 germs, when we bring our groceries home? Like, I can wipe down jars and plastic packages with some alcohol or soap. But what am I supposed to do to sterilize lettuce, apples, cardboard containers, and other tricky stuff like that?

@anthracite

"Dealing with Dragons," by Patricia C. Wrede. A princess is fed up with being told how princesses should act, so she moves in with a dragon. My all-time favorite dragon book, and fairly funny. cw: delicious food, dragons casually eating people (not graphic), murder mystery... and I forget if petrification was in this volume or later in this series.

"The True Meaning of Smekday," by Adam Rex. A girl searching for her abducted mother goes on a road trip through the apocalypse with an alien invader. Generally extremely funny, but also has parts that will make you cry. cw: abandonment, apocalypse, colonialism, body horror, floods, gross food.

"Rogues to Riches," by J. Robert King. A slapstick con-artist duo get into trouble in a D&D world. cw: bad politics, dragonslaying (graphic), gore, gross stuff. And maybe sexism, iirc.

@roguecnidarian

Coooool...

@porsupah

That's cool. I want one so that I can gain a tactile understanding of it. I mean, so I can poke it and go "Wha? How can it do that?"

"the human body uses tensegrity since tendons are very similar to the strings in the model"

That is a charmingly unsettling fact. Now I will perpetually have the knowledge that my entire meat machine is as physically dubious as this floaty table.