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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
Location Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Pronouns he/him/eggs/bacon (EN)
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
1mo
I finally finished that book. It took many small sessions to do so. Ugh.

Looks like they set it up for a sequel. No thanks.
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1mo
@GeePawHill I recall a middle school art class exercise where we turned a portrait upside down and drew it as we saw it.

Some very odd proportions like giant cranium happened. Mine had done that but also the clasped hands in lap turned into a very tangled mess.

The teacher explained it as my brain jumped in and tried to think of them as hands and fingers instead of the exercise of just seeing the shapes and lines.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@kimsiever He has been nearly invisible. I am so disappointed.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@ZenHeathen Now I somehow want to put up a little library that only has out of print sci fi classics in it and . . . how would that work exactly, with an increasingly rare source.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@ZenHeathen Libraries have limited space and e lending needs the book to be in some provider's catalog for that purpose and I hate everything about both of those things being limited.

I've checked the local library and its regional partners and yup, there's like five of Pohl's books available in hardcopy and none are of the Heechee series. Zero available for e-lending. :-(
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
1mo
@Pinchy63 @ZenHeathen The bummer is the only thing wet, keep up. :P
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
1mo
@ZenHeathen Nifty.
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@ZenHeathen Better after the nap, which might have just been laying in a dark room until the painkiller kicked in. Also, an edible because why not.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
2mo
OK, advil and a nap coming right up and then we'll see how it goes.
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2mo
I somehow have a headache that isn't a headache? Mostly a light discomfort between my eyebrows and at my temples, plus my eyes won't focus on text very well at the moment. Weird.

Already checked to ensure my glasses screws haven't started to loosen up again, so it's not focal misalignment there.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@ZenHeathen The gallery part has me intrigued.
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Just finished the last episode of Counterpart. A new to us series from a few years back. 👍🏻 👍🏻
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
2mo
@ZenHeathen @Pinchy63 Cloud storage is just a penis extender for your local hard drive.
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@ZenHeathen todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/116474583571306194
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@ZenHeathen infosec.exchange/@mlle/116480401457997521
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I have added so many things to my filters, and yet the banana republic hijinks still surface in my feed.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
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@ZenHeathen is there a van with hoses running out to a house?
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@ZenHeathen pressure washer then vacuum? Detailing a car?
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@ZenHeathen paramour
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@ZenHeathen Friends with benefits?
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