Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think they are required to comment on something you're buying so that they seem more than Customer Service Friendly, and I guess it works on some people? 110
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Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026These are so gorgeous. I always drool over the beautiful stuff Mark donates for the Craft-A-Long 151
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Any preference on color? I have black, sky blue and grey on hand, but I love an excuse to run to Michael's. 220
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If I bring you a shirt that says that at Desert Bus will you wear it? I'm on a T-shirt making kick. 140
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh no. I am rereading an old book I know well, and I have accidentally fancast an actor as one of the characters, and now I'm gonna be reading the whole thing agonized that I'll never actually get to see that. 030
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It might not be racism that would ruin it now (although other people have said his eugenicism is clear from the text, so it probably will), but the cultishness. I stopped recommending it after I noticed other people sometimes got real culty-into Less Wrong with HPMoR as a gateway drug. 001
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I tend to find that when I go back and reread stuff I enjoyed the first time with a bit more perspective on the author's views, things I looked past become inescapable. I loved Diamond Age the first time, but I can't reread it because I can't get past the weird sex stuff. 200
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I read and enjoyed Methods of Rationality without seeing anything else of Yuskowski's. Somehow missed the eugenics. Now I'm scared to look again. I want the version in my head that my ignorance made innocent to exist, not the racist bullshit I read over but will notice now that I'm more aware. 100
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am not familiar enough with Gene Wilder to guess how he would feel about this situation, but I am certain that Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka would cheerfully end absolutely everyone involved in this soulless disrespect for the man who portrayed such a compelling version of him. 000
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm only 5'9" and I feel this struggle. Not the only thing I envy the petite for at times, but pretty high on the list. 110
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The plus side of accidentally cutting myself with an X-acto knife is that the cut is so clean it barely hurts and will likely heal well. The down side that I did, like, THE thing you're supposed to be careful not to do with an X-acto knife. 030
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So, my niece and I made cupcakes and decorated them together. I'm kinda mad how good she is at this. How is a seven year old showing up my piping skills? Proud/mad. 150
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I did get a gratifying moment reading a book recently when the perspective character beat herself up for not putting something together. 'I had all the pieces, I'm such a fool for missing this!' Yeah hon, you are, I got that hundreds of pages ago, but at least you feel bad, as you should. 030
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On the opposite side 'Wake me up before you go go' is followed by a whole bunch of stuff that would make me also ditch this dude. He doesn't actually want to come dancing, he's just clingy and feels entitled to demand you cancel plans to stay in bed with him. 041
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I can't help but feel that like when a billboard is advertising for more ads to display, it inherently undercuts it's own point. 'This ad space is so valuable and desirable we're using it to tell you to pay us for it! By choice! We totally have lots of ads that want to be here!' Desperate. 011
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I both do and do not recommend burning an emotionally significant empty shoe box in a small 'smokeless' metal fire pit. 031
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026When Ted Cruise says he puts hot honey on corpse feet then licks it off, he means he microwaves it first. Ted Cruise thinks hot honey is honey you've heated up. And he licks corpse feet. 120
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Maybe the horse is skipping a step in the logic. Kissing girls is so nice it will make everything else meaningless, therefore it's nihilistic? 020
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I had kind of interpreted it the other way around. We only have Murderbot's narration in the books, so it leaves out the boring stuff. We SEE the events it's commenting on in the show. But that is a fascinating way of looking at it. Now I kinda wanna watch the show again with that lens. 020
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As someone who feels Other, the show feels like a story About Us, the books feel like a story For Us. I hope future season strike a better balance of broad audience appeal without pamdering to the humans TOO much. 010
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's just that the TV show feels a bit more like telling a story for humans on their terms. The books are a story by someone who is Other, and if the humans choose to understand it through it's story, good, but it won't pander to them. 210
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Collapsing the survey crew from seven members to five was a good change for a screen adaptation. But making the married couple no where near as healthy and playing with adding a third, and making unreciprocated feelings a major motivation... It's fine. 120
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It wasn't. In All Systems Red Arada is married to Overse and they actually like each other. There are some minor unreciprocated crushes. A couple people have marital partners back home. This is all described in like one paragraph and then nothing but Arada and Overse being sweet comes up again. 110
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I like the show so far, but I gotta say, I'm kind of disappointed they mostly use polyamory as a punchline. In the books it's so well done that a broad range of relationship structures are normal and unremarkable. I'm hoping in season two they do better with that. 120
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Man, Platform Decay is really good but I continue to have my main problem with Murderbot in that I have finished it and now I am out of Murderbot. 1141
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I made cake. Bluesky won't let me upload photos, so have to image the series of images. Sloppy chocolate cake with three six inch tiers. Same cake with the top two tiers sliced in half, sliding away from each other, held in place on one side by a large knife and the other by hand. Cake parts in tub. 070
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yeah, that was kinda my reaction too. Nice, but also, oh god. 240
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Today my mom got jump scared by a goth at a bus stop. I was just driving down the road and saw two goths, and right as we passed one turned toward the street and I saw her makeup was extensive and impressive and then my mom was like 'Oh my god, what was that?!' 130
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026New Lonely Funeral video!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycw7...youtube.comLonely Funeral - Not a Love Song - [Official Music Video]YouTube video by Lonely Funeral Band 031
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The ending was so bad I took back my opinion that the show wasn't queerbaiting, but watching the actors together I think the writing team DIDN'T queerbait, they just didn't get a choice in the boys flirting no matter what the lines were so they gave up. Too much natural chemistry, OT3 inevitable. 010
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Cutting foam with a hot wire was a decently large part of set building in my high school theatre experiences. Most people are very confused that melting Styrofoam is pleasantly nostalgic scent for me, but I think you get the joy now. 0120
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Yeah, I'm glad the whole 'We stick a bit of copper the right shape up there and it prevents conception, why? We don't know, just do it' that I found when I researched IUDs turned me off before learning that that is also considered a painless procedure despite EVERYONE's experiences to the contrary. 120
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I answer, breath still shaky, that I don't want kids and she tells me that's what her daughter said when she brought her to work, I'll change my mind. Humiliation, unexpected pain, dismissal of bodily autonomy. If I hadn't already suffered medical anxiety, I sure as shit would now. 4/4 250
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026When the sample is taken I involuntarily buck and cry out in pain. I was given over the counter pain pills before hand as the only pain prevention, and told it wouldn't hurt. As I tried to recover, dept head says that I must have an abnormally sensitive cervix, keep it in mind when I have kids. 3/ 220
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They get me all set up in the deeply vulnerable and embarrassing position and all peer down a special microscope into my vagina. I am regretting allowing the observation, not really for the presence of a man, but three is suddenly a hell of a crowd. 2/ 110
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Necessary context: my first ever pap smear got a sketchy result so I had been called in for the much more unpleasant procedure one step up. Doctor doing the procedure is fine, but the head of the department comes in with a trainee and asks to observe. Trainee is male, other doctors female. 1/ 110
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026In an extremely on brand move, I have hurt my own feelings by becoming obsessed with a show that has a terrible ending. It aired from 2010-2015, this information was freely available, and yet. Ah well, this is what fanfiction is for. :þ 130
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Rhetorical question/trick question/sarcasm/humor to distract from the pain... What's the difference, really? 010
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If it's easy and simple to live a full life while not being weighed down by leases and mortgages how will capitalism properly chain you to massive amount of possessions and keep you and your labor controlled and owned by the people with enough money to be real people? 110
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I mean, maybe in some level it was a relief to no longer have a companion animal that had tasted human flesh? The psychic old man asked her not to hold it against the dog, but still, that's a hard thing to forget. 000
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026But they don't even want that redemption. This appears to be a prequel, meaning they somehow think there is a pleasing character arc that ends with the protagonist being Scrooge PRE haunting and rehabilitation. The very idea they need forgiveness offends them. 2221
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Because if they'd tried to make a panel for this baffling mistake of a film no one would have been there. If he'd announced crashing a panel he'd have been told no. He learned he gets to do whatever he wants to people and they don't get to say no. It was like, officially decided in a court of law. 110
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026When I volunteered for a food bank, grocery stores donated super carelessly all the time. Like, a big bag of leafy greens and leaking packages of meat. I desperately wish I could be a fraction as surprised as I am disgusted that they would donate known contaminated food. 0150
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Have you tried Smush? Your streak is only one of a whole bunch of things it tracks and congratulates, so missing a day doesn't feel like a big deal. 010
Boomer @dasboomer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Does YouTube think the Pacific Northwest observes Fascism o'clock? 000
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