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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 9h

The kind of thing that should be too obvious to say, but we're in *this* timeline.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 11h

If you fold it in half around some cotton balls and catnip and sew it up, it'll be a cat toy!

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not even in that space and I know those roles need to cross-pollinate back and forth or it all goes splat.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 13h

Would not shock me if there's something about gathering people together based on appreciation for a story about getting on a secret train and going away from the world that reinforces a lack of openness to branching out.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 20h

Aaaaaaaaagh so tired of digging out and lightly rephrasing a rule from one case to make it nice and tidy and memorable, just to find out that the next case makes that rule tidy and memorable and obsolete.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 20h

True but then also that's a reason why credit for free food isn't fit for purpose as a method of payment for a designer doing work for a restaurant, bc the designer/diner would be ethically obligated to pay in order to use that credit.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 23h

Also pigs could fly, hell could freeze over, etc.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 23h

Tips. Restaurants get away with paying servers far below minimum wage on the expectation that tips will make up the difference.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 23h

*Someone* in that staff was on yearbook in school or gets into Photoshop Tennis matches or makes memes.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whether it works for that...IDK, it seems plausible to me that LWOP, condemning the perpetrator to live out the remainder their existence in a cage, would do for telling the victim "we agree with you that this happened and was very bad, in fact it's in the maximum category on our list of badness."

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, it's clearly on the retribution theory of punishment since other measures are just as effective at deterrence and incapacitation (and rehabilitation is right out). Theoretically, retribution is supposed to support the victim by affirming that the crime was a certain degree of bad.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can put solar panels above cow pasture, also. The cows like the shade.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like presidents that don't ramble about it being OK to blow up our cities.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I haven't worked it all out but it seems like, if an unusual amount of vertical seams is acceptable, it should be possible to turn a used t-shirt into about 2-3 underwear items depending on one's preferred cut and the area of the shirt lost to vinyl print.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look, I thought it'd be fine bc I've disposed of single unsolicited loan offer checks that way a jillion times (just throwing the things away seemed risky). And the smoke smell has almost cleared up.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trying to wrangle some things with Credit One and they can't get a verification code to me by text or email -- anyone know whether that's messed up for a bunch of people?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*head tilt* Was the word being used ironically?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The bathroom was not only remarkably spacious but had acoustic characteristics that were beyond sound absorbing and into sound hoovering? Bc the conversation I'd expect to be capable of after a shootout without ear protection even if the bathroom was very large would be "what?" "huh?"

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are the characters supposed to be not very clever as concerns the essential nature of hurricanes (i.e. buncha wind + fuckton of water) or is it the author? Because AAAAAA.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In addition to the rest of it of which there is plenty, *maybe* the particular lab-grown plague lineage is similar to wild-type plague passed around by prairie dogs in the ways that matter, but I haven't heard anything to make me confident about that.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Off the top of my head though, it seems like "hmm, I'm not feeling 100% and Bob splattered a vial of plague the other day" would generate a hypothesis.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Time travel and then persuading his mother to get an abortion? (Which is only a true threat if we can get access to time travel, otherwise it's protected opinion.)

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As someone who wouldn't even personally want an abortion, I reorganized my life by getting rid of cycle tracking apps and no longer giving healthcare providers complete information bc I want even less to get prosecuted for a late period and I live in TX.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 04/10/2026

LibreOffice is free, open source & available for windows, ios & Linux. It does everything that MSoffice does except cost a fortune, spy on you & interfere with your work with AI nonsense.

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Lelani Arris @arthurdent2022.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last week after a Windows update my work computer suddenly demanded that I sign in or provide a license to keep using Office. My tech guy was out of town so I just downloaded LibreOffice and was back at productive work in minutes! Seriously, f$&@ Microsoft 🤷‍♀️

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Or even worse, "farting" and then finding the runs in one's underwear.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you think it was because I wouldn't sign her petition to the city council to ban Pride events a few years ago?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We got Impossible Burger to try at home once and it was OK. If you make a big thick burger out of it, the texture in the middle is weird, but if you press it out thinner so it ends up with a bit of toastiness the whole way through, it's decent.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a hearing I'm watching where the people have $21K/month in guaranteed income like pensions and are filing bankruptcy. Seems like a skill issue. If I had $21K/month, I could top up people's fundraisers *so much*.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2026

In July, we released Courtney 50.0. It may not be the fastest writing machine, but it has been honed fifty years of intensive language training. Based on the benchmarks demonstrated by this chart, Courtney 50.0 crushes the competition so significantly that we should have used a log axis.

An incredibly long graphic, using the graphic in the post text at the very bottom (a chart showing Open AI vs Grok vs Fable release date on the X axis, and model number on the Y axis). There is a long piece of whitespace, and then Courtney 49.0 and Courtney 50.0 are graphed at the very top.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now accepting good thoughts, prayers, whatever you've got: just applied for a job with my local Legal Aid, in line with the career change I'm working on. It'll work out or it won't but it would be AMAZING to get a foot in the door with an organization I wouldn't mind ending up at for good.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ohhhh, they're going to bump you to the front of the queue to replace a cancellation any time you need to get in sooner than first available, now that you're allies against senseless nonsense.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember that morning just over 25 years ago when 13 people told 2,977 people "I'm not even mad"?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even if you think a death penalty is theoretically reasonable... Even if you further think a nonzero rate of the wrong person getting the death penalty is OK... A 1/8 rate is BONKERS. "We're, like, almost 90% sure" isn't the "beyond a reasonable" doubt that's supposed to apply to shoplifting.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to him! LOL Vet'll sort that out the rest of the way soon enough of course. Seriously though, he looks a lot healthier, even allowing for the usual difference from handheld size to bouncy stage!

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait, is that the little guy the chickens were picking ants off of?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That still sounds like they're on the "don't start none, won't be none" system, at least.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven't studied them, but like, I'm pretty sure they aren't specifically vicious, so if I bring a bag of oranges and share, we can probably chill in the same room without undue unpleasantness.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This If our half of the species is supposed to know and avoid it, why isn't the cop/admin sliver of the species supposed to know and stop it?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Continuing saga of the coworker who gives out tracts: Today I asked to put her on a reference list bc I need six non-overlapping with bosses, and she said she didn't know me well enough. I feel you should be able to describe someone on a character level *before* you tell them they need Jesus.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Both can be biologically involved if one provides the unfertilized egg and the other provides the uterus. Other half of the genetic material from some donor.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, if people take full-on time off for a few months to deal with health stuff they've been pushing through at partial capacity for lack of options, and come back stronger, that's good all around.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Cornell rape gang" is the same number of syllables. Just saying.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/09/2026

Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wonder which of us it is. I'm not a full-on girly-girl but never felt non-binary enough to check a box about it, but of the options, more likely me than him I guess. Dammit I don't wanna change what pronouns I respond to though.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Damn, my husband's gonna be surprised to find out that one of us is trans so we can be gay. And I thought we just didn't want SARS.

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