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Cerulean

@Cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy

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Why the Lōng Face? Binary but with more digits. Singular but faceted. [bridged from dragon.style/@Cerulean on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Life is too fast for me, and all my attempts to compensate for it backfire. It stops me from doing lots of things, and I was beginning to think I would not escape the poetic tragedy that it would prevent from me even seeing this one film before it left theaters. But I finally did, and it sure […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

This battery pack that charges at home overnight and jumpstarts a car by itself has got to be my best investment of the decade. I only have to spend a few minutes berating myself for my mistakes instead of days on end struggling to ask someone for help.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Hoping to hasten the recovery of my shoulder has complicated my relationship with showers even further. Hot water on my back is a great relief, but the work of washing and drying myself is a bit more than I think my arms should be doing.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

My left shoulder spontaneously went all enfuckened this week. I've been trying to rest it but I have a suspicion that I am out of warranty and my wing is just going to hurt forever now.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I have to suppose other people can be told "be ready for a phone call, we will not tell you when, we will give you a time frame and then let it run out so it could be at any time indefinitely, but you must answer that call and immediately commit to an exact schedule months away" without it […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Appreciating the slow burn of a "I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy" bumper sticker on the back of a Toyota Prius

Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

The longer I struggle to hold my sleep pattern in place for the sake of some compulsory schedule, the more dramatically it launches forward like elastic when I am allowed to let it go.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Just learned that Tesonet, the parent company of all the omnipresent YouTube sponsors selling dubious "privacy" (Incogni, SurfShark, NordVPN), has a Nitnet at-phabet logo. It doesn't even start with n.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

[A brief history of "philosophical" puzzle games] Braid (Jon Blow): What if Mario could rewind time, and it looked like a painting? Meanwhile, read the story of this douchebag. In the climax, he discovers that there is another perspective from which he may not be the good guy, and he retreats […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

55, tired, and trying not to reflect too much.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I've just got so much avoidant dissociation to do still

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Jury summons! Now I get to spend this month extra-stressed about sleeping wrong and how badly I can be punished if I don't perfectly do everything demanded of me at any arbitrary time. Guess I won't schedule or think about _anything_ else!

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

My decade in phones. I probably could have gotten years more out of the S9 just waiting for it to break or even trying to glue it back together myself, but better to have it sorted.

Photo of three phones. Samsung Transform Ultra: Front and back slide apart (for physical keyboard). Replaced battery just before made obsolete by network. Samsung Galaxy S9: Front and back are not _supposed_ to come apart (but have, because they are rounded shells with no sides to hold them together). Samsung Galaxy A16: All sides are actually flat. A bit bigger than the pockets of my favorite jeans.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

I booked an ordinary eye exam based on what I thought my sleep pattern was, it turned into an absolute chaos of three-hour anxiety naps, and I cancelled. This does not bode well for me scheduling anything more important.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Whoa Black Betty (ambigram)

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

So I got a puzzle in my head, because it feels better to be thinking about abstract problems than real problems, and it seemed suited to ES1, so I spent time making it, even though it has literally no audience. It is not going to appeal to the players of Escape Simulator to whom a "puzzle" means […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

The back of my phone is coming off, in a way it is not supposed to. It still works, but I feel like I shouldn't carry it around letting lint get into the sides. Probably the battery is bloating, but now they make these things so you can't just change the battery or even pay someone to do so […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

There is "gaslighting", and then there is gaslight. I'm not saying it makes _sense_ that the people at the oil change place yesterday went through my glove compartment and took the one CD case out of ten that was empty because it belonged to the CD in my console. But, as the wisdom goes, it is […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

To learn that the novel "Three Bags Full" ("Glennkill") by Leonie Swann is being turned into a movie "The Sheep Detectives" gives me very mixed feelings. It's being marketed like a comedy, but if you know where the story goes I'm not sure they can handle it as gently. The thing is, a long time […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Matt Rose refers to emoticons as "analog emoji", presumably because they're older than emoji. Even setting aside that both are technically digital, is that really an appropriate analogy? It seems backwards to me. A digital time is made of characters I can type, like 4:38. Whereas an analog clock […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

The pollen is really hammering me here. Ever since 2020 I've been so careful that I haven't caught so much as a cold once, but the plants have resolved to remind me what it's like. It's going to be like this all week at the least.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

[spoilers for Cursed Words] About to end this muppet's whole career.

Screenshot from an endgame. The final boss, the host Michael who looks like a fugitive from Sesame Street, is down to 2948 out of 38204. My player character Nina Nix is a happy ghost puppet gal who reminds me of friends. The stickers include strong "face card" synergies and a rare stamp that reliably supplies consumable shiny question marks. The grid contains no actual letters.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Playing a lot of word games makes one aware of odd things like mandatory plurals: As the dictionaries have it, there is no such thing as one sud, nor can you give an alm. You can, however, have a jink at any altitude.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

"Cursed Words" releases today. Of the twenty to thirty scrabbalatros that have been rushed into existence, it is the only worthwhile one I have encountered. I played the demo enough to nearly max out the available discoveries. I am not allowed to play this until I have done my taxes.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Visibility, huh. I acknowledge that I haven't had anything to say worth saying in a while. I don't know, what difference does it make. Gender is for interacting with other people. I've got my quiet lair and I get to sleep whenever I need to. I can pass time in the parts of the internet where […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

DO, an osteopathic doc RE, a halting problem done MI, a state split by a lake FA, the site that has my pr0n SO, the one who holds your hand LA, another place you know TI, a calculator brand and that brings us back to DO

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

That's a lot of fireworks. Maybe...? No, someone did a sports is all.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

I still play the Quordles daily. I don't do any of the others; four is just the right number for strategy. Frequently there are trilemmas like "shake, shale, or shave" or "daunt, haunt, or vaunt" that call for awaiting more info from the investigation of the other words, or ruling out all […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Getting some amusement from a small release called "Marble's Marbles", an homage to Marble Madness and the genre of games that followed it. It does commit the classic sin of making keyboarders like myself use orthogonal controls in a diagonal isometric setting, but it is still playable, and […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

If you have had more than enough of wintry themes for a long while, a listen to Seven Snake Songs by Louie Zong may be just the thing. It's a dry heat for the soul. youtu.be/vL4xbDRYIFg

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

It's that special time of the year when the whole world slams to a dead stop and you're supposed to do nothing but reflect on your weird nonsense life. I feel like an exhausted old crank, answering the occasional inquiry about something I said or did 30 years ago in webring times when I still […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

Sometimes a meme gets your head and you gotta draw it from scratch.

Cartoon of a businesslike human woman entering a kitchen and finding that a pink puppy-girl has overturned the trash bin and is happily eating garbage. The trash is labeled "gendered language". The human is labeled "regular society slowly and painstakingly getting a few words like 'actor' to include women". The dog girl is labeled "online trans girls employing constructions like 'dragoness' and 'administratrix' to validate ourselves".

Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

I wasn't a console gamer, but I keenly remember what stuff sounded like in the '90s when the limits of technology were opening up, yet still existed, and creators were exploring all the possibilities. It was a sort of computer jazz whose entire spirit was simply "this is neat." I am struck by […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Happy Halloween to anyone wondering about me. I just haven't got anything going on. Escape Simulator 2 just dropped and everyone's talking about uninstalling ES1, so that's the end of everything I built in it, finished or not. There's a room contest for ES2 with a ten-day deadline (which would […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Most everything I get into seems to involve teaching myself a process that won't be useful for anything else, putting all my focus into finishing one thing, and arriving at the conclusion that it was worth doing once but mostly only for the lesson that it won't be worth doing again.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Monotype reached out because they want to phase out "outdated" agreements and I still haven't signed my rights away. I'm still pondering how best to tell them to eat sand.

Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

My main objective is to not start tomorrow exhausted, but I keep noticing things that I need to spend enough time cleaning to make them merely look like they were last cleaned a long time ago, as opposed to never.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Really I'm just constantly stubbornly distracting myself from the fact that I have one week to fix my sleep patterns and get all my shots before my parents visit me on their way back from an Alaska cruise. They know I'm anxious about it; I already begged off of meeting them in the city when they […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

[game tinkering] Because my focus has to be increasingly pointless so I don't bait myself into hoping the things I do with my time will mean anything to anyone, I have been going through the image files in Balatro and enhancing them pixel by pixel. Noting that […] [Original post on dragon.style]

Balatro screenshot with HD cards and jokers. The ace of spades has a fancy design inside, in keeping with tradition.

Balatro screenshot with HD designs. An arcana pack is open so you can see what I did with the tarot. This turned out to be an unusually good run, with two rainbow Madness and a Blueprint, carrying the green deck into ante 12 of purple stake.

Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

[food waste] This evening I found a big box from one of those meal prep companies outside my apartment, delivered in silence to entirely the wrong building. Because I've been languishing inside all week, I have no way to know exactly how long it's been sitting there. The cold packs were […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

So! TaskFaster 2 is ready to play in Escape Simulator. Hope someone likes it! People liked the first one, with qualifications. I am proud of my caricatures. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/file…

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Steam Workshop::TaskFaster 2

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

Focus on the inconsequential is how I get anything done, but not anything I need to do.

A drake-style meme of myself, indicating distaste for doing "anything expected of me" and preference for "replicating someone else's show in someone else's game, twice"

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

Today I went into a movie theater for the first time since 2018, because Craig strongly recommended the new Naked Gun and I trust his expertise on such matters. Y'all, it is the real thing. I have enjoyed reimaginings; this is not that. This is not "we have the rights to the name and we're gonna […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

I was feeling bitter and morbid about everything for about a week, and it seemed like I might stay that way, but I finally managed to stop thinking about it, and I had a extraordinarily restorative nap today. I took a shower without procrastination and headed out to get some stuff done. I […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

Jesus Christ, Monotype.

An email from Monotype, the parasitic font distribution monopoly, that announces: "A new AI writing tool is now integrated into the Founry [sic] Platform! It gives real-time suggestions to improve grammar, tone, and discoverability."

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

[kinda heavy reflection] If, during the rare events of social connection in my life, someone had successfully impressed upon me the truth: "There is no test to pass or fail here. This is not your chance to belong if you do everything just right. It does not lead to anything. This is the prize […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

I chose to delete something I made just to stop people telling me they hate it. I don't expect to have to do this again, but it's worth noting how impossibly low the return for creating anything at all continues to drop.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

@Phorm Some of the good stuff youtu.be/hnFbGDwUOh8&t=130

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

Huh... Men Without Hats just reappeared and dropped a song and video, "I Love the '80s", that, even though it's obviously a fact they were around in the '80s, has all the hallmarks of the limited imagination of someone who was not. It's fine, I guess, but it smells of desperation. "MWH released […]

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