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cetan

@cetan@toot.community

northern Illinois, United States

  1. "nothing is true"
  2. "mistakes were made"
  3. former distributed computing cow
  4. #boardgames
  5. #photography
  6. #eaglescout
  7. aka phule
    https://flickr.com/photos/phule

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loren , to random
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what movie should i watch, i want to watch something that is really weird and different, maybe kind of funny, can be dark but not horror. anything come to mind?

cetan ,
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@loren The Three Colors trilogy: Blue, White and Red, or maybe Children of Men? Or how about the documentary Dark Days?

cetan ,
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@loren or maybe, even if you've already seen it, Run Lola Run

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I have 38,000 followers on Mastodon. If only 1% of my followers gave me one dollar a month on Patreon, I would be making 38 million dollars every single month. The power of the generosity of strangers blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

cetan ,
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@lowqualityfacts strangely if the other 99% also gave you a dollar you would end up with $0. Math is so funny.

loren , to random
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I love when the plants get shoulder height and strong enough for the birds to stand on

cetan ,
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@loren I wish birds would see me as a tall plant

loren , to random
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Throwing cigarette butts out of the car window: ❌

Throwing cicadas out of the car window: ✅

cetan ,
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@loren there were cicadas on the train on Wednesday! I demand a refreshed movie called Throw Cicadas From the Train.

loren , to random
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🚩 Marked safe from

Getting bonked by a red-winged blackbird

Today

cetan ,
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@loren be cautious about tomorrow. They may redouble their efforts after seeing this post!

loren , to random
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blue eyed friend

#cicadas #insects

cetan ,
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@loren woah blue eyes? Only orange and red here. Very cool.

dbsalk , to bookstodon group
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As I noted right here in this feed, this past Saturday was Towel Day. That inspired me to check out The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy from the library to re-read it for the first time since 2000. It still holds up! What a delightful classic.

Also worth noting: Douglas Adams basically described an e-reader device almost 30 years before Kindle came on the market.

#FridayReads #AmReading #Fiction #DontPanic #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: "...he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press-buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million 'pages' could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words DON'T PANIC printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub-meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in."
Sign, white text on red background: "DON'T PANIC AND CARRY A TOWEL"

cetan ,
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@dbsalk @bookstodon it is so wonderful. my oldest read the whole series during lockdown and loved it.

loren , to random
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big bee!!

cetan ,
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@loren we've had male carpenter bees hanging around which, while they are big and round, is also worrisome because that means there's a female somewhere nearby probably doing terrible things to parts of the house :(

loren , to random
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this is your heads up that i will be posting a bunch of cicada pictures but will tag them with #cicadas since i know they are not for everyone. feel free to mute the hashtag to avoid seeing them. i think they are precious and beautiful so i am not interested in hearing anything negative about them as there is an easy way for you to avoid seeing them if they are not for you.

cetan ,
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@loren

Kylo Ren saying "More!!!"

loren , to random
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A reminder to all cicadas: I am not a tree!!

cetan ,
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@loren but you might be?! Better test to be sure.

loren , to random
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Got some pictures of the bunny with my new minolta lens! And of course I had the iso set wrong for the whole roll of film. Oops! Lmao

cetan ,
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@loren were you underexposed or overexposed? Depending on where you get stuff developed you might be able to ask them to push the film if you are underexposed.

cetan ,
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@loren depending on the film stock they should be able to push that (assuming they have the capability). Certainly wouldn't hurt to let them know that you underexposed when they develop.

loren , to random
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Went back to check on the tadpole pond and hit the frog jackpot

cetan ,
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@loren Frog Jackpot would be a good band name.

loren , to random
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weird egg

cetan ,
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@loren or...latest flavor of jelly bellies?

loren , to random
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Happy “didn’t sleep, time to get up” to all who celebrate

cetan ,
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@loren it me!

futurebird , to random
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"... averages 31 years, with the longest recorded lifespan reaching 51 years. This meter-sized beetle is native to Mexico and Central America, where it inhabits dry and arid environments...."

Meter sized?

METER SIZED?

I need to stop using google the first few results it shows for simple insect questions are always GPT garbage ... LORDY.

cetan ,
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@futurebird large beetle size of a small beetle?

cetan , to random
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What amazing serendipity on the timeline! @loren @Michigander

ktempestbradford , to random
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Didn't realize that by coming to this airport I was entering the 3rd circle of hell....

#WhyTho

Oscar Mayer branded gummy bacon
Oscar Meyer branded gummy hot dogs. All of these candies look like the products they're based on, adding extra horror to the proceedings.

cetan ,
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@futurebird @ktempestbradford I was given the gummy hot dogs as a joke for Christmas and I did eat them. They are sort of mango-ish flavored and not hot dog flavored which was both a relief and a disappointment.

loren , to random
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if you posted for Trout Faire today i appreciate you. What a great holiday. Thank you to @nash for alerting me to this wonderful event. See you all back here next year! And if you muted the word trout then i probably won't lmao!

cetan ,
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@loren @nash I got 99 problems but a trout ain't one.

loren , to random
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Feeling like a man trout of time

cetan ,
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@loren
trout trout
let it all trout
these are the things I can do with trout
come on
i'm trouting at you
come on

lowqualityfacts , to random
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That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

cetan ,
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@lowqualityfacts I feel really bad for peg leg pirates who never get to experience this.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Makes you think.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

cetan ,
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@lowqualityfacts it worked for our ape ancestors. They were the kings of monotonous tasks. The only difference was they were up in the trees. Skyscraper office buildings are our attempt to return to that time.

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