patrickjohanneson.com
Part-time prevaricator.
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
Avatar by Hallie @halliebateman.bsky.social Bateman
Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante
I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
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well, I appealed and they downgraded it to "non-sexual nudity", which...
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Grow some oyster mushrooms on 'em?
(note: probably shouldn't eat the resulting mushrooms)
grocycle.com/growing-mush...
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not the first time I've wished this place would implement an Edit button
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Red sun, or red Kryptonite? (I haven't regularly read Superman in years, maybe decades, but back in the (uh) (checks notes) (can that be right?) 80s, it was red Kryptonite that had unpredictable effects on Supes.)
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When I first saw this, I thought, Have they tried doing something *useful*?
(And I say this as a Canadian, unaffected yet also directly affected by the shitshow in Washington)
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Before I saw who posted this, I thought, Hey, that looks like something out of a @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social book.
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The act of writing is the act of thinking. You could, of course, interpose an AI generated thing at any point in the process, but it wouldn’t actually save you time. If you know what needs to be on the page, you will write it better than an AI. If you don’t, the only way to find out is the writing.
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honestly I'd settle for decent search again
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oh good, @moderation.bsky.app thinks Ken-doll nudity is "explicit sexual content", apparently
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and now it's shuffled on to "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" by Glass Animals (great song, bizarre frickin' video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSEp...
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"Detour Up" by Metric
www.youtube.com/watch?v=45it...
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Jeopardy Masters, while my wife snoozes on the couch next to me
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@rodhilton.com is here on Bluesky, too.
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couldn't decide, so you get both
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Ooh, hadn't thought of Ant-Man.
I did watch the first season¹ of The Sticky, based loosely² on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.
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¹ And only, since apparently it's now been canceled.
² Very, very loosely.
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We had a clawfoot in the house where I grew up. If you wanted to shower, you used the stand-up stall in the basement bathroom.
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As the French say, «quelle surprise»
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There's a lot of dreamy images in the story; I think some of the best ideas have come to me when I'm half awake.
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Here's a quick peek
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Will do. (Also probably a re-watch of the Ocean's movies.)
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You probably wouldn't like the lake of words in the secret room at the heart of the library, then
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If it says "sift", I'll still make it, but nothing's getting sifted.
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Oops, I didn't say anything about myself:
I write SF/F, and I also like to take photos, often after dark. You can find a bit of both on my site.
patrickjohanneson.com
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I'm also starting to do searches like "how to write a heist" because I've got a motley crew trying to steal a time machine from Area 53 (like 51 but a prime number), but I've never written a heist before.
As for cozy spaces: Libraries make me happy, but really, anywhere I can hide out and read. 2/2
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I'm also concerned about the masseur's chin
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I'd swear it was Spïnäl Täp (or however that's all umlauted up)
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see also Tim Horton's 🇨🇦
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...not that I've ever been particularly fashionable.
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I have a silver¹ one somewhere, but I don't think I've worn it in public since, oh, 2005 or so.
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¹ It could well be mostly black by now.
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The simple solution is for them to resign en masse
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And a thumb ring—are those back in style?
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not sure if that pun is deliberate or accidental
(either way, it's newspaper-headline–worthy)
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If people want respect after they're dead, they can always try not being gigantic pieces of shit while they're alive
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Right? I spent two days tracking down a bug in my Multisite installation; turned out I was (mis?)using `$query->the_post()` where I shouldn't ought to've.
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When the aurora is that bright, it ain't cheating, it's a gift
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Every new headline in this saga makes the whole thing worse.
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"AI" made the whole frickin' thing.
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at least it's not present tense