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and the Goliath, by Michelangelo, Attenborough. I am sorry.

Truer words were never spoken. Consider: Tea is a beverage.

Thank you for the additional explanation! That is not what I was intitially visualizing at all.

I have enjoyed it, though it might need an update for 2026.

Speaking of, have you ever played Illuminati (card game by Steve Jackson Games)?

Wow, that's amazing.

hi and welcome to your first day of bluesky. a rhetorical question is one intended to raise a point rather than solicit an answer. please enjoy your time

@AlexBlechman Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they'll say “sure, that's easy" and then you'll ask "can the player wear a scarf?" and they'll go “oof” 8:28 PM Nov 24, 2022

@alinawithaface.bsky.social I saw this post from 2022 recently and thought you might like it:

I imagine it's just like slack-lining, but tighter?

This is one of your most relatable tweets.

I liked this article; I will be carrying a whistle and a phone for the foreseeable future (this week).

"Love bombing is a bad behavior that we (men) sometimes fall into. OTOH, I hope to evince sincerity by giving you this gift?" (that is, costly signalling)

a burlap banner with a purple fist holding a carrot, a pot of soup, and the outline of the state of Delaware says FOOD NOT BOMBS WILMINGTON SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY

Help my local Food Not Bombs keep our city's Code Purple shelters fed this week!

If you follow me and you reply with a $25+ donation receipt for one of the apps below, I'll write a microfic to your specifications!

7 slots open. First come first serve.

Venmo: @notbombsfood
Cashapp: $FNBWilmington

Yes. If there are one or more an exclamation marks at the end, it implies the existence of captive hugs.

You are a local leftist folk hero.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Wow

im used to waking up to insane news but "the us kidnapped the president of venezuela which we are now at war with" kind of. tops it all? im not really sure what to say? except that giving a madman and his cronies a huge army was a bad idea.

Bold, brilliant, beautiful, benevolent. A fae queen whose tongue strikes fear in the hearts of the thoughtless and/or unrighteous.

😅👋I am glad you two had a nice time!

💜, please and thank you!

You only have a few days remaining, so... Twelve? "The Thirteenth Curl" could be the title of a holiday movie.

The two I was thinking of are "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" (I don't know if you know magic kingdom fans, there's a skeleton song that has breached containment, but I think Doctorow writes from experience) and Eastern Standard Tribe.

Different algorithms lead to different posting patterns and community structures. Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow have written SF stories where different algorithm's "tribes" feud or war with one another. Seems pretty plausible to me?

I am all for alchemical rites of transubstantiation, but after enough cycles of calcination, dissolution, mortification, recoagulation, around and around and so on and so forth, I start to get tired, if not sore. What would you recommend to improve my endurance?

🌋🤯

It's because Calvin was allergic to calcium carbonate.

A croissant, a little monstera, and Carrie Jenkins's Sad Love, on a cafe table

I love Carrie Jenkins's books - evidence attached.

Who is going to keep taking care of everyone if we do

Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans have a book about game mechanics that includes a pattern language. I loved the Machinations tool and notation when it was free - I think it's paywalled now.