@autolycos good suggestions! Have thought about forceps a few times too. I should grab a pair!
@nomdeb

@Geri a tiny glimmer of sanity

@WTL it would bring them in for sure.

@Nerdfest that's reassuring, hopefully this is an uneventful one for me.

Picked up a shawarma on the walk home from getting my COVID shot. A suitable reward!

Really they should cut out the middleman and just issue you a shawarma at the same time as they give you the shot.

@darwinwoodka my doctor is typically disinterested too, though thankfully I can get it on a walk-in basis at the local pharmacy. And still free, yay.

@nomdeb yes! So versatile.

@Aussiemandias I'm curious to see. I've heard a few first hand accounts of reactions this time - a 24hr discombobulation sort of thing.

My very first COVID vax was like that, but I've been fine with them since, other than the sore arm for a couple of days.

A bit uncomfortable this time! Not the jab itself, as that seemed okay, but I had a bit of a jolt from what must've been the juice going in.

Perhaps the 5G reception will be extra effective this time.

Okay, that was quick. Got the jab and I am presently in the post-poke pause period.

Finally out to get an updated COVID shot. It's been about eight months I guess. Tried to get the new one in November but I was apparently under the threshold date for my pharmacy.

@GustavinoBevilacqua haha, yes. Invariably everything I drop ends up under my workbench. I need to add a kick plate.

Perhaps among the most useful items in a #workshop? I've just re-ordered new palette knives and dental picks to replace some broken ones among the set I keep in my #toolbox.

Finding both crucial in the guitar repair/resurrection project now underway. They're inexpensive and when handy you find they have a thousand applications.

The dental picks were of great use in my long-running deck rebuild last summer, making disassembly much easier as I could clean out screw-heads for good grip.

#tools

@arstechnica good round up!

Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings
"You absolutely have to have a plan to compete with SpaceX on price."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/rocket-report-say-cheerio-to-orbex-china-is-getting-good-at-booster-landings/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@david_megginson nice desk piece!

@ninawillburger beautiful. Can't help but speculate that it had a little disk at the centre with that same concentric-circle motif on it, but it got knocked out.

Perhaps it's in some other museum labelled as a game piece or something. 😂

Here’s a question for #Mac nerds. Let’s say I want to locally redirect all requests to duckduckgo_com to noai_duckduckgo_com.

It feels like it could be done in the hosts file, but I’ve never tried doing it. Any suggestions? #MacOS

Time to put my shoes on for my run.

The Huge AI Blocklist by Laylavish looks to be abandoned 😦

Fear not! just-a-husk has cloned and is maintaining a list . Additional benefit is that it's now on Codeberg and not :sloth_sick:​ github :sloth_sick:​

:BoostOK:​ :boostRequest:​

The :uBlockOrigin:​ list is now https://codeberg.org/just_a_husk/uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist/raw/branch/main/list.txt

#NoAI #DeathToAI #uBlockOrigin #uBlock #AdGuard

@samuelpepys oh man, poor Susan. Not much worse than being 17th century ill, unless it's 16th century ill. Hope it's not plaguey.