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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The fog reminds me of when I used to have dreams. I remember walking through the lamp-lit mist from my first apartment to get my mail at night. The early internet was connecting us, not separating us. I listened to tracker music in ModPlug on the white finger-hole computer speakers. One that […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@fluffy But I do. I remember the original packaging for Goldfish, which showed a school of Goldfish crackers swimming in one direction, and one with a face drawn on rebelliously turning to swim in the opposite direction. And later, the package design changed so that the Goldfish with the face […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@fluffy I'm thinking of the Electric Monk from Dirk Gently. A machine that believes stuff for you. That's the whole selling point of these things. Why reach your own conclusions about the truth or wisdom of any particular thing when you can just get a device to be really certain about it for […]

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

(Yes, I am talking about Coyote vs Acme, to be clear)

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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 · 14/08/2026

[spoilers for Werewolf (1995)] @fluffy I looked up the review by my friend who literally has devoted most of his life to watching and reviewing films and werewolf films in particular. In it, he says that the uncut version runs 22 minutes longer and that he has no interest in seeing it to find […]

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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

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

@fluffy 11 wide by 9 tall, that sounds like what you need are file boxes from an office store. The corrugated cardboard ones could be adequate for a reasonable price and you could easily affix a few together on a base to the desired length.

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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 · 22/05/2026

Okay A-Best, I know normal can't be expected to imagine that a phone call in the middle of the day could wake someone up or why that could be counterproductive, but if I already knew for sure when I wanted to try again I would have selected "reschedule" instead of "cancel" so I don't know what a […]

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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 · 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

@saphire Yup. A Samsung Galaxy S9. The minimum purchase my phone company would allow when it updated the network. I am probably going to replace it with a Nuu flip phone now that that's available.

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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 · 08/05/2026

Noting that since these were released, the channel has been churning out longer and increasingly soulless mixes with cover art that superficially imitates the first, and the "creator" reacts to inquiries and accusations of ai slop with evasive jokey indifference, seeming to think it's a laugh […]

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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 · 28/03/2026

@fluffy Looks like it's still grown today, so it really is a matter of context.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

@fluffy The other day, as I often do, I wondered about the origin of a word and opened dictionary dot com. Mocha gave its name to a dark bean variety long before it meant chocolate in coffee. This is probably a coincidence, and whoever imagined that human-animal hybrids might grow cocoa-coffee […]

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

@fluffy True, shapes are important. I haven't had normal popcorn in a long time but Popcorners are great

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

@fluffy In days of old these were called "popcorn balls" and were a bit of a holiday thing

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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 · 29/01/2026

@fluffy (Cows do have horns, but dairy farmers typically remove them at youth just to make them slightly less dangerous to work with)

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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 · 05/01/2026

@kit Back when I self-published a book, a minimum of ten at a time was mandatory. I have no idea if I still have access to the other nine. And when I say self-published, I mean I paid a printer for the print run, took all the orders, and did the fulfillment myself from home. That means I could […]

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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".

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

[game tinkering] I just learned how to use github for the first and probably last time so that I can share my "Sharp Cards" with the Balatro world. github.com/CeruleanKay/sharpcards

A close-up sampling of the enhanced cards.

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Cerulean @cerulean.dragon.style.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

@robinhouston Of course, it was bound to be. Perhaps "flatship"! This appears to be unused, and being of one fewer dimension than the name implies is consistent with "spaceship".

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