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It's turning summer, getting hot;
So let's install (or so I thought)
This air conditioner we bought
(I still can't find a proper spot)
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What does this duo do, you ask?
A useful and important task:
If you've drunk all of your own flask,
They'll fill it from that larger cask
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I loved the Thomas guides. I even managed to snag a few off eBay just for nostalgia's sake. I still navigate by GPS because a paper map can't account for real-time traffic conditions, but I think it's still important to know how to use one just for general space awareness reasons.
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To get enough sleep for work I need to be in bed at like midnight, so there's a clear conflict here, and I've been counting on having more energy for side projects or just for things in general. Something else needs to change here. It's not the only problem I've been feeling, either.
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Our hero's trapped, so it appears
The castle guard is armed with spears
There are no handy chandeliers
The one way out is down, he fears
(And "CUT!", the gathered cast all hears;
"Got that in one!" The film crew cheers.)
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This seems like a good opportunity to teach her about what's going on.
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"Full of grease and hair and muck / Clogged-up pipes now come unstuck!"
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Funny story: Not only do witches make great plumbers, plungers get an efficiency bonus as magic wands.
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The other was "Myst Island Prototype", which looked nothing like the one in the real game but was just a tiny desert island with a featureless stone cube placed there. There used to be a way to get the cube's faces to do things, but nobody knew how any more.
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Two stood out to me. One just called "Treeflower Island, 2" — the second in a series of related islands that the Corps gave a generic but evocative name to.
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The warehouse held each "island" in its own small cubicle, apparently shrunk down to fit in a ~2m cube, where people could see the general shape of it on the outside, and then enter through some kind of space-warping barrier that would scale you down equivalently so you could visit.
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It can be sometimes hard to get;
Some places, they don't stock it yet
But bunnies know they won't regret
The taste of fresh-picked violet
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An aunt of mine could zoom over 100 WPM on one of those back in the 80s. They are pretty impressive to see going full-speed.
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Posting this debunking of the “blackmail” so often b sky might think I’m spamming.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/a...
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Turns out the author's here on BSky too (and if you saw an earlier post by me, I'd mistaken a reviewer for the author, which is very silly given it _started_ as a BSky thread and I could've just looked)
bsky.app/profile/blac...
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A hollow stump's a cozy den
But these small bunnies don't know when
The cat might leave them be again;
Then they can flee (but only then)
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(I hadn't forgotten this one, it just took me this long to finally get over my writer's block about it)
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The mall has clothes, if you need those
And sales all day from morn to close
Alongside those, then I suppose
There's friends that any bunny knows
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Yes! Linotype is gloriously insane. It's mad-scientist typesetting, and it was used for decades because it was replacing something boring and slow (hand-setting rows of type). No, we'll just stick a pot of hot molten lead on the machine and send all these letter plates on roller-coaster rides.
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related
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They'd ridiculed him at the gym
He felt upset, his future dim
So off he went (and good for him)
Today he'd finally learn to swim
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What was genuinely great? Terry was very involved with the conventions. The conventions are very queer / nd / family oriented / disabled. The trans and queer female community embraced the dwarves like whoa. Terry went : 'uh. I wasn't expecting this but I'm absolutely leaning into this.'
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When taking ferries, don't forget
The schedule that the ferry set
If it leaves when you're not there yet
Then all you'll fare is fairly wet
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however "I don't want to drive and I want to play with my little tech devices" is a completely understandable impulse
I do this by riding the bus and it saves me probably tens of thousands of dollars a year
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Target FORGOT TO WRITE COPY for their pride line this year i’m obsessed with how much big box stores dgaf and have stopped pretending to
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We may have made this mutant blob
By accident (its name was Bob)
But he'll be fine; we say "no prob"
We'll clean Bob up, 'cause that's our job