jobear.bsky.social
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jitsi is browser-based and free.
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tell me you don't use MS Access without telling me...
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You have ruined me. Was looking to see if I could preorder the new book and came across this one: "Mommy's Favorite Smell: What Smells Better Than Fresh-Cut Grass or Just-Baked Cookies?" *spit-take*
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that's a much better idea. or better yet, cut back spending to only essentials for 2025; i'm not sure I could do that, but if enough people did it would make an impact.
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I don't understand it either, for the same reason I don't want to play humans. my everyday life isn't my game life. otoh, not understanding isn't the same as trying to stop other people from doing it.
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Bluesky tells me you can't be messaged.
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I would love to talk about it. i have an unshakeable feeling it would benefit me but I can never seem to get started.
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the list of things you're being forced to handle without an oxygen mask of your own was already Too Long. of course it's ok that you couldn't do your best ever job at this OR ANYTHING with all that's going on.
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i understood that reference
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on one hand this is awesome. on the other i would be concerned about audience consent.
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instead of feeling accomplished I completely fail to move on to the next thing.
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I do this for D&D; funny which things I'll make up and which I want right. A "Skeletron" that makes itself into various shapes out of multiple skeletons on a whim? Done! what do they weigh, what shapes are most deadly, how much weight can roll over a person without killing them? To the internets!
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'would you trust an Ankh-Morpork lawyer?' If I knew someone who had one i would advise them to stop talking to the lawyer and talk to Vimes.
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I judge you excellent in the arts of self-awareness and self-care.
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...they are using, and the biggest trick of all is learning to not try to read the whole thing as a single clue, which the setter will almost certainly try to get you to do :).
I tell you this because it's fun to talk about. There's lots more, and there are good articles on the internet. Enjoy!
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Cryptic clues have 2 halves - the "definition" which is basically a straight-up crossword clue, and what i call the "shenanigans" which is usually some tricksy way of literally describing the word. Where the clue breaks is part of the puzzle, as is recognizing hints for what flavor of shenanigans...
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SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER FOR TODAY'S "MINUTE CRYPTIC"
SPOILER SPOILER
So the non-spoiler is it might help to google some descriptions of how cryptics work.
SPOILER: The shenanigans here are "venn's first" is the letter "V" and "borderless diagram" is that word without its first and last letters
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I have a tiny quibble with the definition :).
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Well, fuck. Love you.
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wow, your prices are even higher than here.
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nice! my brain wants those to be stacks of cheese, tho.
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They want less guilt trip. In a baptist church. I grew up in one of those and let me tell you "You should care about people who don't look like you" is a poor shadow of a guilt trip when "You're going to burn for eternity for thinking about maybe having fun" is right there.
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Basically wherever they want :). They've each made their own choices.
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The Great Holy Awakening suddenly created over a dozen new gods from existing and dead powerful people.
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Try telling that to Samuel L Jackson.
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Dude, stop dropping mics like that - it's bad for them!
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I agree, but bsky news is just your friends repeating what they heard on the untrustworthy news sources, so getting your news here doesn't bypass that problem.
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LOLweep
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Putin on a stick.
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That is always a qualm I have when big projects are cancelled due to Bad Actors, but I don't see another answer. I don't think suing would work, but...trying would be interesting.
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I hate when this happens, but I prefer it to the reek of perfume I sometimes get.
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I hate it when that happens :(. <3
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That's exactly what my father would have said, and you made me smile.
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Thank you for this.
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Ah! I didn't know the vernacular. Thanks!
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There's a pretty great musical you should see!
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He kept quiet as long as not many people were paying attention to the July podcast that came out about this, and wrote this denial only after a new article came out and at least one publisher said they won't publish his work anymore? Interesting.
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This is worth a read: n-glob.tumblr.com/post/7726688...
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What else would they mean?
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Well poop. Glad to hear it's for the best, but that doesn't make it not ouchie.
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Too Soon
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Sam has to be Alex. I kind of like Ify for Taskmaster.
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Yeah. spoiler spoiler spoiler coming really spoiler:
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you can't have a movie about a normal person doing something awesome anymore, it has to turn out that they're magic or related to someone or something. Feh.
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That's mostly a side note, but I'm reminded I benefitted from never being told it was weird or wrong, but ironically that's because nobody talked about it.
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very young me thought my aunt's partner was a man; she was "butch", she had a deep voice, and she wore PANTS (*gasp*!). When my dad twigged to that he laughed at me. I thought he laughed because he thought I didn't know girls could be together, and it was YEARS before I realized *he* didn't know.
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My parents asked if I "liked" anybody at school and I said "Yes, Eric and Katie," and they concluded I didn't know what they meant by "like". So I guess I always knew? But it was awhile before I knew that wasn't how everyone was.
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OK. Imma have to send someone through the drive through for one.
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OMG. How much?