Annette

Annette streaming. She's on the Thinky Dailies website, a page of numbered puzzles, each with a cute illustration with a cartoon cyclops. We're looking at puzzles 21 to 30, with names like "The Chronicle" and "A Good Citizen".

Sticking with this formula for now. Thinky Dailies and then, perhaps, maybe, we can finish the Roottrees family tree. Or we'll just stare at the family tree blanky for a couple of hours. Also a possibility. twitch.tv/clockworknet...

To the left is a drawing of the character Frallan with her Super Mario Maker 2 ID, G0H-XVC-PXG. To the right is a screenshot of "Fortress of Mystery" with the Course ID 3B8-QDQ-3SF.

Frallan has made a new Super Mario Maker 2 level called Fortress of Mystery (3B8-QDQ-3SF). No difficult platforming here, just a bunch of tiny puzzles!

It shows the narrow little alleyway at the bottom of Mitchell Street, but doesn't show the broad Buchanan Street at all.
Okay, that's not entirely true. It has a little landmark pin on St Vincent Street for Buchanan Street. Maybe Google thinks they roll it up and store it away there?

A view of Glasgow city centre in Google Maps. Conspicuously Buchanan Street subway station is embedded in the middle of a large solid block. Further south an even larger larger block is encase by St Vincent Street, Queen Street, Argyle Street and the narrow alleyway at the bottom of Mitchell Street.

The missing pedestrianised streets highlighted in red pen: Sauchiehall Street runs east along the north of the city centre, then Buchanan Street turns south, then Argyle Street runs east through a smaller pedestrian area.

Latest Not Just Bikes episode reminded me of how annoying and disorienting Google Maps can be. Oh yeah the biggest city centre streets with all the shops on them? Dunno mate, never heard of them. Sounds made up.

Annette on the title screen and main menu of The Roottrees are Dead. We see a copy of The Butler County Times with the game's name as a headline. Three girls with long blond hair grin happily on the set of a photoshoot. Annette has long red hair and a large pair of headphones. She's overlaid in a 90s-styled black, pink, green and blue graphic.

Continuing to slowly catch up on Thinky Dailies and then we'll see if I can figure out what to do next in The Roottrees are Dead. twitch.tv/clockworknet...

Sonozaki Mion as Willy Wonka and Maebara Keiichi as Charlie Bucket. Mion, sitting at half a desk covered with similarly bisected objects, is angrily reading from a contract that she needs a magnifying glass to read the small print of. Keiichi is standing by mutely.

How I'm imagining these club rules are going to end up...

ClockworkNettie - Twitch Thinky Dailies catchup 6-10

This is good. Let's keep doing it. twitch.tv/clockworknet...

Annette streaming "thinky dailies". We see a bunch of puzzle thumbnails numbered from 6 to 20. Each has a cute cyclops cartoon. The first five are "the leaky pipe", "slippery steps", "a strange package", "this way or that", "herding the sheep".

Same again, same again. Puzzles then Roottrees. Starting shortly. twitch.tv/clockworknet...

Annette streaming video games. She's looking at a web-page for "thinky dailies". Ten puzzles are each shown with a cute cyclops cartoon, a title and a difficulty rating from 1 to 5, starting with "A Shadowy Pursuit" at difficulty 1 and with the most difficult puzzle shown "The Perfect Slippers" at 5.

Not sure what to play next. Going to try some puzzles with Thinky Dailies and then maaaybe The Roottrees Are Dead. We shall see. twitch.tv/clockworknet...

Okay it appears to be entirely sourced from this Facebook post: www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
He didn't call it an AI mural, he didn't say "we used AI". The text of this article is accurate but this image makes it sound like he used AI or intends to use AI when he clearly says otherwise.

"I'm the artist painting the AI Glasgow mural. This is why we used AI."
Are these words a direct quotation? Because they appear to be very different from what the artist is quoted as saying in the article. They seem very misleading about his position if he didn't use them himself.

Annette playing the Seance of Blake Manor. The housekeeper, Caitlin Joyce, and cook, Saoirse Murphy, are standing around a cleaning cart in an empty ballroom. They're dressed in ~1900 servant clothes. Annette has a magenta and green 90s background around her.

By popular demand (okay maybe it's just @keiraslan.bsky.social) let's find our Evelyn.
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Soon, soon. I'm just cold and tired but soon.

I note that you can get a Tripper ticket for four weeks of unlimited bus travel for £86.00 and a four week underground ticket for £60.00, which is why I say you really need to be using all three for these prices to begin to make sense.

A map of the Glasgow/Paisley/Renfrew/Erskine area. Central Glasgow (including the entire subway ring) is zone 1, the surrounding area is the donut-shaped zone 2. We see zones 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 extend off the edges of the map clockwise from north-east, many with no named towns or stations in them. 3 has Kirkintilloch and Coatbridge (not on train lines), 6 has Houston (also not on a train line). (While I'm noting it, Erskine and Renfrew are in zone 2 but also don't have train stations.)

Table of adult zonecard fares. Highlighted are the fares for zone 2 (which is noted to include zone 1): one day for £11.70, one week for £41.00, four weeks for £148.00, 10 weeks for £349.00, and a year for £1,599.00.

I really want a Zonecard but daaaaamn how do they justify the prices. You really have to use all of bus, train and subway, and at least two of those every single day your ticket is valid. You have to be playing Jet Lag The Game to make this worth it.

I do want to play Jet Lag The Game though.

At this point in your mission, you may have come to suspect not all is as we told you. You exist in a simulation, built to contain a terrible evil. As the simulation finally breaks down, know that your work is at an end. Your sacrifice has brought that evil to its final resting place. Forgive us.

Bad news: Very hard to find hardware stores with this in stock. Visited four places today and only Screwfix actually had the parts and demonstrated clear understanding of the problem.
Good news: After replacing three different seals nothing is leaking now.

Yeah, watching a few videos, I suspect it's supposed to have an "anti-slip collar" and a "tapered rubber seal" and somebody has instead bodged it with silicone sealant.

🌊🫡🌊

Thanks, I will try it in the morning. Do you think I can put it on top of the sealant or should I try to scrape it off first?

I guess since all the relevant parts detach I can just shove them in a bag and take them to a hardware store in the morning.

I'm quite sad about this.

I tried to extract it, but it split. Of course, now it leaks *a lot*. I need to replace the gasket but I have no idea how to measure it to buy a replacement. What am I looking for? Do I need to replace the whole assembly or can I buy just the rubber rings? What are they called?

A different connection is highlighted, this time above the U-bend and at the bottom of the T piece that allows the washing machine to connect to the drain pipe.

However, in a sad cautionary tale, I have created a worse problem. This bushing here wouldn't screw back on when I disassembled it again to take measurements and photos. The rubber gasket inside it had slipped and gotten trapped between the bushing and the side of the pipe.

I disconnected it because it was thick with gross black gunk inside and the washing machine draining backed up into the sink. (I do not yet know if this helped.) But when I reassembled it, this part leaked a slowly, presumably because I disrupted this horrid silicone gunk seal?

A U-bend constructed of white PVC pipe below a kitchen sink. A small line connects in from the side for a washing machine. Highlighted is one of the twisty joints. I don't know what they're called. Bushings, maybe?

The same joint disconnected. The left side (towards the sink) has a wide pipe with a thread. The right side (towards the drain) has a narrower pipe covered in messy silicon sealant. The bushing is retracted as far as it goes until it hits the next one along.

Friends, this thing drips. What do I need to fix it? Whereas every other seal down here has a rubber seal that the screw-on part compresses against the end of a mating pipe, this connection has nothing. It has a longer narrower pipe on one side and seems to be slathered with silicone sealant.

Oh god 💀💀💀

Surely, surely we are close to cracking this case... twitch.tv/clockworknet...

Annette streaming the Seance of Blake Manor. She's looking at a strange wood, glass and brass device full of swirling ectoplasm. It has a meter that is half-full, and two of four red lights are lit.

Well... half of our time has gone and we have saved less than half of these souls... let's hope these mysteries start solving themselves...
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