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guinness world record (gaming edition) holder 🛼🌊🐦‍⬛😸🎤 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her 🗺️ san "frisco" fran www.holly.zone
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went to the fair

Holly, in an olde timey dress, next to a jester shrugging while holding a "free shrugs" sign at a Renaissance faire
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DOCTOR: How would you rate your pain on a scale from 1-10? ME: I don't know, maybe like, a seven? DOCTOR: Liar. You're a liar. We measured your pain against the new Universal Pain Index that accurately ranks all the pain in the world and it's barely a three. We're telling everyone. Everyone you know

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My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO

Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...

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After the last 15 years of everyone trying to gamify everything, it's wild to see devs talking about actively choosing not to for the health of their users www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/...

Akama: It's always been our hope that people will continue to use Alarmo for a long time. With that in mind, we were also concerned that game-like elements might not be compatible. For example, if we were to create a system in which you receive a reward every time you wake up, it may motivate you to wake up as long as you’re still receiving the reward. But if we create that system, once the rewards stop, you may lose your motivation to wake up.

What's worse, once you get used to that system, you might even start to think, “Well, if there’s no reward, then I don’t need to get up.” We concluded that it would be best to remove game-like elements to encourage users to continue using it for a long time. Also, there were comments from the development team like, “Let’s not give users more tasks to do.”
Tamori: We decided not to implement elements that could restrain the user’s actions or be overly pushy. If we'd wanted to, we could've even implemented a system where users get a gold medal for waking up earlier than the alarm time and a bronze medal for waking up later. But that would've also meant pushing the idea on users that “waking up early is good, therefore you should wake up early.” That may be right for some people, but when it comes to Alarmo, we wanted it to be something that gently supports you. Regardless of whether you wake up early or late, it has the feature to simply record and let you know the hours of sleep each night. We hope that Alarmo will stand in a place where people will casually use it for a long time.
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Internet Forums are alive and well, and I have tried to create the most extensive list of active, interesting or useful niche communities I could find. Here is that list, for @aftermath.siteaftermath.site/best-active-...

The Steve Hoffman Music Forums.
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hey buds, friendly reminder now that ballots in SF are mailing out: if you vote No on K you are dead to me 🖤

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ever learn a Bird Fact that completely recontextualizes your understanding of a lyric

lyrics to Ted Leo and the Pharmacists's "Counting Down the Hours":
But after listening all morning as I drove down 95
To a story of detainees who were barely kept alive
I could deal with trying to process pigeons acting like they're doves
But not with interference from the power lines above
screencap of the Wikipedia article for "Rock dove" with a section highlighted reading "In common usage, it is often simply referred to as the 'pigeon'"
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today marks the start of my 69th month of HRT............ nice 😎

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Holly Macdonald
@holly.zone
guinness world record (gaming edition) holder 🛼🌊🐦‍⬛😸🎤 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her 🗺️ san "frisco" fran www.holly.zone
83 followers110 following70 posts