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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So you’re a writer? Of course there are jokes?

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Haven’t watched Loot, but the other three heck yeah

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My side of town tends towards being a little cheaper, but even the nearby rotten Robbie is 5.89, 6.09, 6.29, or god forbid you want diesel: 8.59

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a hot topic in the bay area Costco Facebook group. Pretty much everyone who can go there, does. The closest one to my house is, as of 8 minutes ago 5.45 for regular and 5.85 for premium.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ouch! Hope your recovery is swift and painless as possible!

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve seen some folks say their newer manuals are better. This one is Dora’s loft. I bought it at Michael’s a few months ago but I don’t actually know how recent a kit it is

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Similar but not the same. But I bet they copied the manual

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is that Cathy’s garden house? It looks like it. I could definitely swear I’ve tried to follow those exact instructions.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And then: cut the fabric into two pieces as shown! Now, I know what the numbers mean, that’s part of the initial instructions before you start. Does this note that it’s the *other* piece of fabric? Nope. If you made the mistake of stacking the two pieces for the earlier step, you’re boned.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Insert the silk cotton! It’s not silk, nor is it cotton. However, this might be another translation/dialect issue. The actual problem is… was this listed in the parts for this piece? NOPE. So now you have to go hunting for it while you’re probably dealing with glue on your hands.

Instructions for stuffing the fabric so it becomes an actual cushion.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These ones are ok. Ish. - I’m gonna let “turn over the fabric” slide as either a dialect or translation error. Though, there’s no red line on the fabric, this should say “like the red line” or “along the edge of the fabric.”

Instructions for properly gluing and turning the fabric inside out.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now, we “cut the bottom”. The sides are already split. Why did we not just cut on the already split side of the fabric so we didn’t need this instruction at all?

Instructions describing how to cut the bottom of the fabric.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So you cut the fabric out using the pattern piece. Note that we can make a reasonable guess that we need two pieces for the front and back but the instructions sure don’t say “fold one piece over, lengthwise” or how to place the pattern. It’s just “cut the pattern”.

A photo showing how to cut the fabric. The bottom of the pattern piece is placed on the fold.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here we have an example of why you have technical writers. Behold, my book nook instructions. This is the parts list.

This is the list of parts for a “sofa”. It’s about a dozen pieces of various types.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

OH in writer chat: it's only a drawer if it pops up in front of the background elements. otherwise it's just a sparkling resizeable side panel :P

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 28/04/2026

in case you were under the impression the occupation of Minneapolis was over

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

2. Yes. It’s a fair assessment. If if they, technically, don’t participate, they’re ok with people who do. Which is exactly the same in my book

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And it’s far from the *first* time this has happened to someone. I can see it once and then anyone who has anyone who understands anything about deployment and backups? They should have taken steps. The fact that this keeps happening? Those companies deserve to fail.

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FunkyBob @funkybob.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I was thinking "blame AI" is the new "blame the junior/new hire". But it's really so much worse, isn't it?

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... “It’s the ai’s fault!” it is not the AI’s fault. It’s your fault for choosing to continually use a hammer to handle glass and then being surprised pikachu face when things get smashed. We’ve already seen this play out multiple times. Why is ANYONE surprised?!

tomshardware.com

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Fired from the work force? That means women should not work? Awesome, we will stop doing literally anything.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We’re having to teach AI how to do our jobs, instead of helping users accomplish tasks. The only “productivity boost” I’m getting is that since I basically never actually get the info I need, I ask the bot to find and read the code so I don’t have to wait for someone else to answer me.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I can not tell you how I feel this in my bitter, black soul. I have spent the last week teaching an AI to do shit that people with a fundamental grasp of English understand. Today I had to mediate between 2 agents that were fighting about placement of information. Spoiler: both places were wrong.

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reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It is f***ing nuts right now. "You MUST use AI in your job, by the way we're going to replace you with AI, we don't actually know what your job is or what you really do," it's like a magic circle of crap.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don’t forget the big flaming butthole that was the Lucent Technologies logo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent_...

en.wikipedia.org

Lucent Technologies - Wikipedia

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

That is definitely true, it’s just the local chain most people recognize, I think? Otherwise people are looking more at their own neighborhood independents. This wouldn’t have blown up so much if it was a single shop or two.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I don’t know if you live here, but that’s basically been the sentiment. Philz has been the place people go because they don’t wanna support the big chains. Taking the flags down was a bad idea in general but it was -especially- going to go over badly here.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Project Hail Mary was just as good the second time.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Not much. Just a little hyper fixation.

A 3d printed figure from
project Hail Mary. It’s on a keychain, and resting on my leg

A more up close shot of my very own Ryland Grace figure from project Hail Mary.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Kevin R Free did a great job with those. I normally can’t stand audiobooks (for myself), but I’ve listened to those several times

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Husband pulled up a “guess the spaceship” quiz and .. I did not expect to see Nell. I don’t think I’ve see that ship in 40 years and I still knew it instantly.

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Purity culture, which lets be honest, has been plaguing the US in some form or another since the beginning, warps sex, making it violent or forbidden or something to be used against people. Sex, if you enjoy it, is simply part of being human. Moralizing sex fucks people up.

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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 21/12/2025

The core of the MAGA-GOP is not understanding the difference between apologizing for being white and being sorry for what has been and is being done in the name of whiteness (which they consider fair and “natural”).

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Awwwwwwww! Here is another Not-currently-hostile fauna.

A white cat with dark points. Belly up, eyes open even though she’s sound asleep.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Also the county assessor! But my family will get ballots in by Tuesday - one of my kids is voting for the first time.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I read foundation back when I was college age or so. :)

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I read the Lilith’s Brood series a few years ago, so good.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

That’s the nicest way to say “the adhd runs strong” ;)

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Happy to uh, help? :) Ask your local tech writer, they know stuff or something 🤣

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Oof yeah. I mean, I think one should definitely read some of their stuff but also, think critically about it? Like anything else you’d read? I love a lot of stuff Heinlein wrote (fair witnesses, marriages- including poly marriages using contracts), but a lot of it also.. 😬😬

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I’ve read a fair amount of Bradbury but not much Norton, even though I should!

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Mine was Shaboozey’s The Bar Song ;)

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23/09/2025

Not just apps and software. I wasn’t joking when I said a year or so ago that I hoped everyone responsible for an important data set had a pre-2022 snapshot and a plan for how to cope with rolling back to it eventually.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

coworker: do you have an example of this very specific behavior that's causing me problems with the markdown? Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page lol, sob.

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Esmerel @esmerel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I literally just finished _Old Man’s War_ and for a moment I was *so* confused.

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