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Midwesterner in South Jersey, tired Gen Xer, sometime Perl developer, doing weird things with sewing robots. Once and future gamehawk.bsky.social She/her, generally. (Header image: cropped Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry for the Kansas Capital.)
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I actually LOVE being this guy, but the tricky part is that very few people want to pay you to do this

submitted 13 hours ago • 60 comments

Why, that hardly seems newsworthy at all! Perhaps there's some more info that could have made it into the post/preview?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Gotta figure out what battery the laptop takes so I can order another one but in the meantime just gonna put together something from bits and pieces.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

IF they take our covid boosters (and honestly even if they don't), just a follow up to say that you should go back to masking if you stopped!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Yeah, I should clarify: when I say I just got a booster it's because I got the 2024/2025 shot last fall soon as it came out. If you haven't had that one yet, do it, it'll give you *new* superpowers. If you have and it's been more than 4-6 months, refresh it while you can.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Silver lining: BK felt it was urgent enough that although he's at his SO's place for a few days they both went and got boosters. Honestly nothing gets us off the ADHD "I should get that done soon" high-centering so well as being told "you better not do that."

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I had to read off my car's VIN several times in the last week or two and one was on a bad connection so the rep asked me to use the phonetic alphabet and despite working for an airline and in IBM shops (therefore giving me two separate alphabets to choose from) I mostly blanked on *either* word. 🤦

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

PSA: I made the mistake last time of breezing past CVS's checkbox for immuno-compromised because its examples are things like HIV and cancer treatment. CHECK THAT BOX. The "etc." bit includes e.g., asthma, or obesity, or any of the other "trivial" things that mean covid is more likely to kill you.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Just scheduled an update for this afternoon since I've hit the six-month mark and I don't wanna hafta drive to Canada more often than strictly necessary. (No offense to Canada but it's kind of a long trip.)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sitting in a Ford dealership with the Today Show and campaign ads on the TV and just got an email from Dollar Tree asking if I was "down to party" so I'm questioning alllllll the choices that led me here.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I wanna move off enoki to a mushroom that works.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Had a dream I discovered that my new gym shoes' laces had a TOS I had failed to read and the startup decided to end the license and wanted them back. I yelled "Come and take them" when the shoe store owner was reading the letter to the large crowd of customers, which is kind of embarrassing tbh.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

tfw when you know it's a rickroll and you click through anyway because it's a good song

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I've said this before but: They should have special TV channels that doctor offices can subscribe to that replace all the restaurant commercials for waiting rooms where people are fasting. 😒 (I am just the driver so I at least had a snack first but I promised lunch after)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This. Alternately: we need a "don't show images without alt text" toggle on our timelines (and then folks who do use alt text but don't correctly mention that it's a t.s screenshot get muted).

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I snagged this and also noticed that @premeemohamed.com 's Siege of Burning Grass is 0.99 as well so if you don't have them SPEND TWO BUCKS.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

They migrate through Kansas and my first (only?) sighting of them was hearing a huge crowd of people laughing uproariously outside my apartment. I peeked out and the high school practice field next door was absolutely blanketed with birds. Their calls en masse are... something else.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know" news flash: I am neurodivergent (also a bit out of touch: had to get to #24 in my ranking before I had four I knew) openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... CW: they include Potter characters, which I did not know going in. 😒

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

wat

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Outdoor dining downtown just off the main intersection of our tiny technically-a-city and enormous dude on enormous Harley just plaintively yelled "Why did it take so long for the light to turn green, I don't geddit!" to no one in particular.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

:spit-take:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments