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  An odd glitch on my laptop that has persisted for multiple reboots over multiple days now: A short clip of audio, a female voice saying "and we have names for him" keeps playing... randomly... for multiple days now. At first I thought it was coming from a browser tab... had to be, right? I'm now down to five open browser tabs. All but one are specifically muted (though they don't play audio). And yet every so often without warning I get "and we have names for him&quot...

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  Wow. Either Tylenol or Ibuprofen actually work. Not sure which, but one of the above very much does relieve pain very much quicker and more effectively than I recalled. I woke up with bad neck pain a couple nights ago, and it's stuck around ever since with a headache to keep it company. I'd spent a few hours off and on in the shower under hot water that failed to help in any real way for a day and a half. I *finally* walked to the grocery store and got a bottle each of Ibupr...

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  Alright. They didn't ignore freefall and rotational pseudo-gravity *entirely* in Project Hail Mary -- they just did the worst possible job with it. That would be bad enough in any film, but these were *major* parts of the plot and major challenges worked around in the story! And they just side-step it all entirely -- it's like there's a narrative "gravity switch" where sometimes things just "float" and usually not... and down is alwa...

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  Oh, you have a website? Cool, I'll go check it out. Oh, you have an app? Yuck. Sorry to hear that.

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  I just realized that I've *never* actually watched a single video ad on the internet in my entire life. I use YouTube and block those ads, and most others are blocked too - & I close any video immediately when any ads/sponsor messages/spammy stuff in general happen. I can't actually imagine what it would be like to actually watch an ad on a computer. That's just something I remember from back in the age of TV when I was a kid - I hated it then and am glad that...

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  The pull of the #mushroom cultivation rabbit-hole is profound. You can grow oysters on cardboard? Seriously? Cardboard? I have access to an infinite supply of cardboard + all sorts of empty food-grade containers I can divert from recycling every day. And I have quite a number of chefs I can hand any mushroom producing container to once it starts fruiting. Oh Hell Yea!

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  Wow. I almost wound up not filing my taxes this year. H&R Block's site is filled with promotions and gotcha paid stuff that you have to opt out of over and over again while going through filing steps. I'd gotten to what *looked* like a step you couldn't pass without buying an optional service. And so I thought I was done. Finally realized after getting a few "let's finish" emails that that step *could* be passed without buying someth...

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  @MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social Thanks for the note on the oysters - I ended up going to I-Naturalist and found that the ones I wanna try already live here. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy. I'm gonna let lion's mane and shiitake each have a log of their own and let them fight for the stump. And I'm planning to de-pot all of my vegetables (that originally were going to be balcony plants) before I move them out, and put them in burlap mounds/balls, half with button mushroom spawn added to a wood-ch...

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  I'll be occupying my time during the upcoming summer break from work with a bit of gardening - a large maple tree was just taken down at the rear of the property leaving a huge stump and some torn up de-landscaped area around it. I have several types of peppers and tomatoes as well as broccoli waiting to be moved outdoors ---- And lots and lots of mushroom liquid cultures in an ever growing collection. What's odd is that I can't find any kind of USDA climate zone table for mushroom...

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  @futurebird@sauropods.win I noticed at some point that the kid who occasionally works at the corner grocery heard "a couple of" as a nonspecific quantity. He would always ask "so how many?". I found this fascinated and have tended to buy stuff in pairs ever since. He now assumes I mean two, but always double checks. "And a couple avocados please" "So is two okay?" .... I've bit my tongue so many times to stop from asking: "If the next custom...

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  @fsinn@mas.to Besides the idiocy of believing in "biblical prophecy" to begin with, anyone who *believes* in "Armageddon" and *wants* it to happen and wants to help bring it about? Fuck Them. Fuck Them All.

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  RE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/116163253755776732 How?! How can people possibly be this dumb? I simply can't think of anyone who literally believes in magic and the supernatural as an actual adult. These are nasty fucking children commanding forces. Deluded Idiots. Evil Idiots. Fuck anyone who both believes in "Armageddon" and seriously *wants* it to happen! Seriously, *wanting* to help bring about the end of the world because you were told it was a good thing in church should abso...

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  @futurebird@sauropods.win I was just doing a search for stuff on YouTube and realized that I basically *always* filter for "Over 20 minutes" and pretty much no longer see anything shorter in search results. I've basically been doing that since they introduced "Shorts". I don't look at unfiltered YouTube search results at all anymore 'cause there will be tons of "Shorts".

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  #Ficus experiment. The tree is a Ficus Obliqua, one of a bunch I started from seed in 2022. It had eighteen siblings once, but the lankier or bigger leafed ones I gave away and I'm down to three now. It was in a two gallon-ish flower pot until last month. Now that I find myself in a place with a large window and a balcony, it's been de-potted to give it room to grow. The tray underneath is filled with expanded clay and baby watercress. The mound is seeded with mini-clover a...

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  Anyone else find clips of "USA! USA!" chants at the Olympics chilling? I heard that at least three times as sound-bites on NPR, and each time I thought "Yikes", and "1936".

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  So basically Trump wants to destroy anything America achieved during the Obama and Biden administrations *and* wreck the future just so that in his fuzzy fantasy his time will have been a "high point"? Is that what's going on here?

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  Yes! It has strawberries! I wasn't sure any had managed to root before being washed off since the wild strawberry seeds take quite some time to germinate (a couple weeks compared to three or four days for the clover), and takes another week or more before there's a distinct leaf that identifies it as "not clover". But I've *Finally* spotted at least three of the little guys, scanning with a magnifying glass. The seed-packet instructions and most guides suggest stratifyin...

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  I've suddenly found a whole new kingdom of life to obsess about growing. I've now got an absurd collection of #mushroom cultivation supplies coming from Amazon. All because a fungus added itself to my little mound planting, colonizing the whole hill from top to bottom all the way around, is loving life, and is clearly not bothering the plants one bit. So I'll pasteurize the soil and bark for the next mound and stuff in a bunch of spawn for oysters or shiitake or both and hopefully...

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  Every time I see the name "Tik-Tok", the first thing that comes to mind is "And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same."

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  Horrible: "TLDR". Moreable: "AIDR".