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taleslinger.bsky.social
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
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One comic device in P.G. Wodehouse I greatly appreciate but I feel is underdiscussed: Bashing the French.

I've once heard tharmt going off birth control can change someone's sense of smell so they literally can't stand their partner's smell anymore. Is there any truth to that? 🧪

Many try and fail to read Moby Dick. Many try a lot. So in novel is their white whale ????!? #booksky

Im (hopefully) the mellow kind of vegetarian, but there's also quotes like this:

I've got a full copy of Sandman for my birthday before all the stuff came out. Is it still okay to read it? Will I even be able to read it without feeling icky about it?

Grateful to all the bsky users tirelessly posting screenshots from X/Twitter. It’s just too bad there’s not some sort of app that the rest of us could use if we wanted to see X posts ourselves.

We've been binging something on Amazon and we've received the same 17 seconds trailer for 15+ episodes. Is that normal? #amazon

4'33 by John Cage is just perfect. No notes.

kate bush running past sisyphus

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

@jdyer.bsky.social Do you ever feel the need to pop in, say, GTAV, get a bit of a breather from all the text games?

I want to write an IF game, about Greek mythology. I'm hazy on the plot and characters. All I know is it'll have Atlas as a supporting character. #dadjokes

Halloween gave me unrealistic expectations about babysitting.

I'm watching Harper's Island. Anyone seen that? I liked it, though it's aged a bit.📺

Tabletop has come a long way in the 25 years or so I've been involved in it, but it still has a long way to go on inclusion and treating everyone like humans. Arkham Horror 2nd edition has 7 women and 9 men as investigators because I knew if I went 8 and 8 it was going to be a nasty fight.

in case it was ever in doubt which of us is the Too Online one in this relationship, my husband just pronounced incel as inkle 🥺

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Inform 7 author: These are both valid ways to refer to a cup in my code, but implementing liquids is a pain and I should seriously reconsider the plan for this puzzle

Having finished Justified, I kinda wanna wear a hat.

Oh, you "heard" there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord? Cite your sources, bro. This is how misinformation spreads

State of the world makes way more sense when you see a flood of people declaring that changing the website they post #resist on is tantamount to activism

@kevinwilson42.bsky.social We chatted for many years on the MUD, but I don't think that I was aware that you initiated both IFComp *and* SPAG? Wow.

@anandrewschultz.bsky.social Hey Andrew. I'm curious what kind of FAQ you wrote? GamsFAQ has helped me innumerable times over the years..