Garth Brown

Garth Brown

@garthling.bsky.social

Joni's mad scientist, Charm's human

145 Followers 113 Following 28 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago

Same! There are supposed to be 8 possible pangrams today. How could that not be one of them?!?

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2 months ago

I've loved everything I've bought from them (favorite knives, non-stick pan, carbon steel pans). This is the first I've heard of nitrided steel. Very tempting.

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6 months ago

It hadn't occurred to me that my great grandpa was short because of malnutrition. He was missing part of one finger, and worked as a breaker boy an hour West of Philly, ~1900. How he said he lost the finger changed depending on what made a good story at the time.

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1 year ago

42?

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1 year ago

That's where we got ours. Might need more, nom nom nom.

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1 year ago

I've used it for cheesecake. There was a subtle texture difference. You probably wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for it.

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1 year ago

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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1 year ago

1 / When my spouse was a small child, Mount St. Helens erupted. (It was still spewing ash when his family visited; he can remember the sound of ashes raining down on the camper roof.)

The area was devastated. You can see plenty of remains of the destruction today.

But

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1 year ago

A self-canceling memo, promoting gender ideology. Begs for malicious compliance.

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1 year ago

That's what I assumed he meant when he said he could end the war quickly. His approach has always been handing the most powerful whatever they want, while others have no say.

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1 year ago

Before I played this one, I had been complaining about all the technical terms they don't recognize. Then I found pangram PHENOTYPE. 🤔

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1 year ago

When he said he could end the Gaza and Ukraine wars, this is the sort of thing I assumed he meant. Hand the powerful everything they want, unconditionally. How so many people heard something else, I do not know. Remember moving the embassy to Jerusalem? Remember handing Afghanistan to the Taliban?

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1 year ago

And anyone I'm interested in is now over here. FB would be harder to replace.

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1 year ago

On, yes. But I still haven't found a way to prioritize original content from people I know, or I would have seen this a week ago.

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1 year ago
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He was ready for this moment

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1 year ago
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Charm was trying to nose his way past my phone when he posed for this close-up.

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1 year ago

Maybe it informs their moderation somehow? They've tagged every single original-content post that Valerie had made here as spam. I don't see any way to tell them that something is clearly not spam.

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1 year ago

Why in the world would they label this spam?

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1 year ago

This reply of yours is hidden. I had to click on two different things to un-hide it for me.

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1 year ago

I really don't get the moderation here. Is it all AI? I thought there was supposed to be some input from users, so I could say "no, this is clearly not spam" or something.

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1 year ago
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Ouroborocatos celebrating the new year.

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1 year ago

That makes a lot more sense! The original metaphor (or whatever you'd call it) never held up. Was there supposed to be some random third party going around with his heart?

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1 year ago

Maybe one's a top, and the other's a bottom.

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1 year ago
Cream colored cat belly fluff

Need some deep, plush, soft, kitty belly floof? Here's some from Charm.

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1 year ago
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I’m a Good, Normal Family Man Who Just Wants to Inspect Your Genitals Before You Pee “G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender m...

"As a God-fearing citizen, I want the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a sexual predator in every cabinet position, and for a good man—like me, for instance—to stand sentry outside every bathroom door in America."

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1 year ago

Same type for me. I played lots of Pac Man, Pong, the infamous ET game....

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1 year ago

We joined a few days ago, and I haven't used a blocklist yet. In Settings -> Moderation, I set everything to SHOW. Looking at their profile, the account was completely blurred, with a link to @moderation.bsky.app . Nothing else.

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1 year ago

Eh, I just joined a few days ago, and I've never been one to post much. Besides, if you're looking at what I've posted, you've seen my fierce kitty. No rats around here. Spouse got blocked two days after joining, so it's a big part of my experience here so far.

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1 year ago

The moderators are effectively the platform. The blocked my spouse, no explanation or recourse, no way for others to even see their profile, gone from followers/following lists. Poorly trained moderation AI? Right-wing bots after they/them?

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1 year ago

I'm not sure that's true. We're trying to figure out why my spouse's account was blocked by "moderators". There was no apparent way to find out why, or for me to see their account. I opened up all the settings I could find. I think the most controversial thing they did was specify their pronouns.

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