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A long time ago I wrote free software for USENET and the early days of wikis. I generally do not post or boost messages at this time (July 2023).

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CatsOfYore , to random
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Illustration from Joey Goes to Sea by Alan Villiers and illustrated by Victor J. Dowling, 1939.

wikicliff ,
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@CatsOfYore
Maybe kitty just wants to BOOP the goat? :blobcatboop: 🐐

CatsOfYore , to random
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Evelyn Nesbit with beautiful friend, 1901. https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:47171988$22i

wikicliff ,
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@CatsOfYore
"Evelyn Nesbit" is an odd name for a cat, but I'll allow it. 😜

futurebird , to random
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Found a queen ant on Park Ave. Looks like Prenolepis imparis, or the american winter ant. You can spot queens by their distinctive waddle. She was hustling along the side walk as if on her way to the Chanel store. Now she’s in one of my luxury ant condos— but don’t tell her I’ve moved her out to the Bronx.

wikicliff ,
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@futurebird
Go Ethel! Eggs, eggs, EGGS!!!

hrefna , to random
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"I think it's great that people are realizing if their social media app isn't talking to the fedi they needn't bother making it."

This is a bad take and you should feel bad for making it.

Snark aside: there's nothing magical about the "fediverse" and there's a lot to improve. Some of the ways that the fediverse has traditionally improved involved people going off and doing their own thing and finding ways to make it fit later.

wikicliff ,
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@hrefna
"But wait, there's more." Does it come with a free set of Ginsu knives? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wzULnlHr8w (for the whippersnappers who wonder what this old man is yammering about)

CatsOfYore , to random
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Cutest couple. 🏆 https://rockinghamlibrary.org/history/items/show/12487#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1608%2C-1%2C5480%2C2959

wikicliff ,
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I want to BOOP both of their noses! I suspect they might bite though--both of them! :blobcatboop: 👩🐈

hrefna , to random
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bangs head into table repeatedly

From "Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy in Transgender Population (Aranda et al, 2021)

wikicliff ,
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@hrefna
<notices headbanging>:
"Concussion Risk Associated With Study Analysis in Transgender Population" 😜

hrefna , to random
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<describing advantages and disadvantages of the patch and mention its size>

<send a picture using a .243 winchester cartridge for scale>

Them: "…………this is like a transfemme meme for a very particular type of transfemme."

Me: "…okay now look here"

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@hrefna
I was very confused for a few moments...until I remembered that there are physical things called "patches", not just software patches. 🤪

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Tulip, the eastern black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) is a median worker. She likes to hang out at the highest point of the driftwood branch. Like most elderly ants (she is nearly 2 years old) she no longer enters the main nest. (I think older ants avoid the nest chambers to prevent disease) she spends a lot of time looking up… she has escaped twice. On her first escape I gave her the pink dots.

https://youtube.com/shorts/DL5YlYt7ivI?feature=share

wikicliff ,
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@futurebird
Tulip dreams of visiting the Outer Outworld once again. 🐜🚀🌎

CatsOfYore , to random
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So glossy! Photo from my collection, ca. 1920s. The cat is identified as “Bamie” - maybe named after Bamie Roosevelt?

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@CatsOfYore
Long cat is looooooong! :blobcatgoogly2: 🐈

futurebird , to random
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It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.

Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.

I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.

wikicliff ,
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<wakes up as an insect> "Is this covered under my employer's health insurance?"

CatsOfYore , to random
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Kitty, no! 1920. https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:157529

Illustration of a cat pawing at the outside of a bowl of goldfish while a young girl seems to be objecting with one hand raised in a alarm from a short distance away. The cat and girl are in black silhouette and the cat and fishbowl sit on a light teal bar of color representing a shoulder-heigh shelf or mantle. The teal of the bar and the dark orange of the fish are the only colors, the black figures of the cat and girl drawing attention to their unmistakable body language.
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    • wikicliff ,
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    "No" to a cat just means "don't get caught". 😜 Also, did anyone else think the girl was wearing cat ears? (I may have been on Mastodon too long.)

    hrefna , to random
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    I swear to the gods I'm going to lose it if more people decide to chime in on this sort of thing with variations of "but no protocol can guarantee…"
    https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/112135996918942331

    hall of fame game missed the point GIF

    wikicliff ,
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    "But no protocol can guarantee people will get the point!" 🤪

    futurebird , to random
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    My husband is mad that I put a teaspoon of icecream in my oatmeal.

    But OMG I'm RIGHT! This is it! This is the ultimate soothing food.

    wikicliff ,
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    Sounds like a great mixture!
    goes and puts a teaspoon of oatmeal in my ice cream 😜

    CatsOfYore , to random
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    Wanderlust kitty longs for adventure on the high sea. 1956. https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210111522420/boroya-i-oslofjorden-august-1956

    wikicliff ,
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    Would definitely be a mighty pirate if only water wasn't so wet. 😜

    hrefna , to random
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    When I run into people and groups it's always a bit of a culture shock coming from… the rest of the European and North American scenes.

    They are their own thing, doing their own thing, and there's very little crossover with the rest of the LARP world.

    Which is fine, but it does create some weird culture shock moments (both directions), and I'm struck by it every time I see it in action.

    wikicliff ,
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    @hrefna Thank you--the Crash Course video was a very good overview. After that I read the Wikipedia page on LARP which presented a lot of the same info with a bit more depth.

    I see now how my request was a bit over-broad, kind of like asking "What's the deal with computers?" 😜 My main interest is in "Theatre-Style" LARP, especially in the tension between a more scripted story and a less scripted game experience. (Or tension between rules-based gaming and free character experiences.)
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