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On this boiling hell weekend, I want to wish a very happy Throw Your Senior Dog in the Shower Ever 20 Minutes and Plop Her In Front of a Fan Day to all who are celebrating.

A tessellation of Rascal Zine book covers against a purple background -- the cover is a seafoam green cartoony, toothy mimic with its pink mouth open, it's tongue sticking out, and the Rascal logo in the middle. It was illustrated by Will Kirkby.

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Got some good stuff in here this time around. Some @zeogenesis.com, some @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social, and the inevitable @handiworkgames.bsky.social background.

Very sad to be missing all the cool cats at @sqlbits.bsky.social this year. Hope everyone has a good one!

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@sonicpodcast.bsky.social
So I've just found that my podcatcher keeps logs, and wow...

Beating me on 56 😭

Absolutely shat the bed on today's minutecryptic.com
Been on a roll of 1 or 2 under par, but missed this rather simple one 🤣

Ah wish I could get out there!
I'm always sad I never kept up my German after GCSEs 😔

So I've discovered a real urge to have a go at cryptic crosswords. I'm still terrible at them, but can do about half of a Guardian quick cryptic! Has anyone got any good pointers or resources for UK store cryptics?

MY BUUUUUT!!!

Hello Rob. If you check your emails you will see that I have already agreed to the by-laws and informal agreements. Please stop stinging me.

This is our old pup Penny who had two teeth taken out today. She's very sorry for herself but it's a very brave girl and all the very nurses loved her up ❤️

This is not just literal fascism, it's 1930s-vintage fascism.

One of the first and largest Nazi book burnings targeted the world's first gender clinic, destroying its irreplaceable library of over 20,000 books.

(From: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...)

Cover of Gore issue 2. Illustrated image of the face of a person with short dark hair who is peering over the edge of a table, their hands clutching the table. Out of their mouth protrudes a giant, glossy spider, legs breaking through their cheeks and eye sockets, pulling the smile into a grin. On the table is carved gore II.

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Illustrated imaged of a person with short dark hair sitting in a cozy armchair in front of a gently burning fire. On the mantle are pictures of friends: Pinhead and The Thing. They're reading Gore Zine 2 and look to be gently smiling. Behind them, in the window, is a sicko, fingers on the glass, saying, "YES...HA HA HA...YES!"

Thank you so much for your support on Gore Issue II's first day. We're very proud of our gross and horny turd, and we hope you grow to love it as much as we do. #horrorcommunity #queerhorrorcommunity #fellowsickos

Was good to see you, and glad you had a good time!

Back at work after an amazing #SQLBits!
First year as a runner this year, and I've discovered new exciting pains, but had a brilliant time helping out.
Especially enjoyed "Anyone can be an alphabet soup ally" by Linda Torrång and Jess Pomfret, and was super impressed with the non-technical talks!

Anyone had a play with Terrform modules and know a good learning resource on how to set them up?

I ended up in a Reddit thread on “what movie traumatized you as a kid?” and I had to scroll until I found my nightmare movie

So here, you can do the same: reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

Nice to see I wasn't alone with Return to Oz being waaaay up there!

Being the local cat weirdoes, we got a new visitor today. Meet Turnip who's off to get a check over and chip scan later. He's SUPER FRIENDLY but we already have a dog and two local cats so we'll be looking for a foster, shelter, or forever home to take him asap

Mr. Cheekers managed to hock up his hairball last night, poor little bean! He seems a lot happier this morning ❤️

😬

Too soon!

Fun day of repeatedly restating that Azure SQL DB is not the same as Azure SQL Managed Instance.
"Let's use the managed one"
"Oh the more expensive one with feature parity?"
"No, the Azure one"
I'm going to petition to rename those two 😅

Caved in and decided to venture back into the world of social media!

Scrooge, but wearing a hockey mask cos it's friday the 13th.

"You boy, what day is this??"

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