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@calmicc.bsky.social Hell yes to xenogears.

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Strife would be on the list for me too.

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@calmicc.bsky.social Ah, so narrative drunkenness, not business being assholes drunkenness.

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@thepatches.bsky.social That sounds good, actually? What is?

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@calmicc.bsky.social What did they do?

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@thepatches.bsky.social Oh wow. There are times when I’m convinced this game was actually just a fever dream I had.

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@rog.bsky.social Oh wow, what beach is that?

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@thepatches.bsky.social I’m sorry, but how very dare you.

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@danhon.com I’m sure we’ll all enjoy our time in the “health farms”.

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Gods damn it all.

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@maisielynnie.bsky.social If ever there was a believable typo, though 😝

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@clpolk.com And the rest of just nod sadly.

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@fraying.bsky.social But also: I’d rather see US TikTok die than be owned by Zuck or Musk for what should be very obvious reasons by now.

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@fraying.bsky.social There seems to be further nuance there—some are claiming pay rates were ultimately higher, but overall funding for services was lost. I don’t think Hayes’s link is necessarily a useful fact check on the initial claim, though I agree the initial claim isn’t correct either.

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Basically shit’s a mess.

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@calmicc.bsky.social This rant was too short. I want more ranting. And more unhinged ranting.

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@jcsackett.bsky.social It did! Hurray!

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@fraying.bsky.social Friendsgiving can be anytime.

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@kierongillen.bsky.social Genuinely hoping to see this, here or in your newsletter. Wasn’t something I knew I needed until you brought it up 🙂

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@loadingreadyrun.com Checkpoint, I think? Can’t remember if it was on PATV or escapist. And then I discovered your sketches and watched a ton of them. I think it was during the last season that was via kickstarter.

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@pmac.io Both things have been stated to be true. I assume that at any point the muskrat can decide to make deleted names available.

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@clpolk.com I mean, if you’re going to make an exception for something, Aldis Hodge is a really good exception to make.

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@pmac.io In the process of deleting everything in mine as well, then putting up a “Go here” pinned tweet and never looking back.

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Only reason I’m not deleting my account is I don’t want someone else using the name in 6 months to post god knows what, given I linked that account from a fair number of places.

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@edmondsscanner.bsky.social I feel like “can install the light fixture” is the modern day sword skills.

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And “can fix the plumbing” is modern dark alchemy.

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@fraying.bsky.social Chris Evans has sounded the trombone note of a slow slide along the Kinsey scale for many a person, I think.

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@thepatches.bsky.social Surely there’s on listing of Resident Evil? Or at least Resident Evil: Apocalypse?

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@clpolk.com I didn’t know this was a “new” idea. My grandpa did this in Kansas till he quit the farm. Jesus.

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@calmicc.bsky.social Ah, that old chestnut.

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Being a parent is trying to do everything your kids want to do and then them being sad and mad at you because you couldn’t alter the timeline to fit in the other thing they just thought of but is now the most important thing and most fun thing that has ever existed.

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Thing 1 was up a good chunk of the night puking. Wife and I are now playing the favorite game of parents everywhere: is one of us going to get the stomach bug too?

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I assume Thing 2 is doomed; siblings don’t stand a chance.

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Coming up on 41 years old, and I stillI still find myself pretending I’m throwing fireballs at monsters in the dark on my morning walks. Growing up is a myth.

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I just received notice from livejournal that I signed up for it twenty years ago. In related news, I am a withered husk slowly being blown away by the wind.

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With my wife out of town, our cat Jonesy is trying to help me get Things 1 & 2 ready for school.

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Happy holidays, from our skeleton to yours.

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Today I learned that nice steel pots often have aluminum plates sandwiched in the bottom layer to improve heat conduction.

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If you’re lazy and don’t take the pot off the shelf, only testing the side with a magnet, you won’t know that your pot can’t work with induction ranges.

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Learn from my mistakes.

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Past me did something clever in this code; past me even remembered to document it. Past me didn’t account for how absolutely without context the present me is. I cannot figure out why I designed these modules the way I did, but annoyingly I can remember there was a very good reason.

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I didn’t have “late night Hospital trip for possible broken rib or possible internal injury” on my agenda today, and yet here we are.

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Unpopular opinion: I miss twitter. Like, the twitter from a decade ago. I had crafted a place that was private, with almost all of my friends, and it was great. I can’t seem to figure out how to make new connections online, and the fragmented social world now doesn’t help.

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Trying this cross-post thing again…

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Doing that oh-so-boring test post to see if my cross-posting with bsky works.

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I’ve been trying to write short story lately. Once upon a time this was something I was supposedly good at, but it’s shocking the degree to which I’ve seemingly lost any facility with writing prose.

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Thing One and Two start 3rd grade tomorrow. Can’t believe the summer is over so fast, can’t believe they’re growing up so fast.

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Time needs to slow the fuck down already.

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Just found out Bram Moolenaar died a few days ago. Vim has been a constant companion of mine in any computer I’ve used since my first job. Sad to hear of his death.

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Thing 1 & 2 have finally joined their peers in being interested in Pokémon. I’ve gotten a deck help them figure out the game.

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Surprising how quickly old trading card game skills come back after decades of not playing. Fortunately without the useful obsession with “cool cards”.

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⚽️ It’s 11am and the whole family is exhausted. While I enjoyed the shared experience of watching the US/Sweden game this morning (at least till the end 🤣😭) I do wish it hadn’t required us to get up at 5am.

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Testing posting from drafts – everything I do lately starts there, would be nice if this works for micro.blog as well.

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I’ve had to stop reading Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire. I love the Wayward Children series, but I can’t take the prequel stories that you know end in tragedy.

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I’ll jump back in on the next book in the present, but I can’t do anymore before someone comes back to the real world. 📚

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My wife’s aunt and uncle have daytime tv on all day everyday. I always come away from visiting them profoundly glad we don’t have cable.

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H and I are living in Durham again for a week while the kids are with their grandparents.

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We’re in a downtown apartment without kids; feels like life when we first moved in together, only not. Fun for a week, but already a good reminder that I like the life I have, not the one I used to have.

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SCENE: Upstairs hallway

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(MOTHER and FATHER are in conversation)

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THING 2: (emerging bare ass naked from the bedroom) BATHROOM!

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(THING 2 exits, stage left, dancing)

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I know for many it’s an annoying plant, but I love the smell of honeysuckle this time of year on my morning walks. A highlight of the day.

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Realized the other day that I’ve reached the point where the celebrities announcing health problems are my contemporaries rather than my elders, and I don’t like it.

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I need to clean up the wiring and install some storage hooks and mounts for power and my headset, but I finished my desk build!

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