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Extropic Crusader (BLM)

@extropiccrusade.bsky.social
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She/they; SRE on hiatus: burnout sucks; writerish, doodles, plays with power tools and hot iron, bakes, crochets, gardens, learning pottery, reads copiously, and drinks a LOT of tea. #UglyDogs FTW Let's melt some ice.

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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 14h
I'm gobsmacked that Muppy did not pull her human face first into the dirt. Woo hoo!
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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 21h
It’s a beautiful day in the tiger enclosure and you are a horrible goose.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not a cliffhanger! Excellent sticking of the landing, too.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am currently doing an impossible luge run through @jennlyons.bsky.social 's _Green and Deadly Things_. I say luge run because I got it out of the library this morning and I am 2/3 of the way through it and if it ends on a cliffhanger I'm going to *scream*. 😁
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am so tired of my family being sick. 😮‍💨 We haven't had a full week of school without someone being sick yet. 😛
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That's waaaaay too pretty for fruity-pebbles. That's Autumn's glory, in full array. Looks like you had a fabulous time!
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(That trailing " migrated from the middle of my sentence to the end. I blame gremlins.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And then I said, "Hell with it, if I'm having a screwup day, let's do a BIG screwup and slapped 6 pounds of clay down on the wheel." And it mostly worked. As in, this is a recognizable (if a bit lopsided) bowl. What. I don't. Uh. Ok then! I'll take it! Also, the capybara survived firing. #pottery
A large, visibly lopsided but I don't care that much the fact that I made it this big at all is kind of a miracle, bowl. A ruler next to it measures it at about 5 inches tall.A large bowl, with a ruler across the top showing it's about 11 inches in diameter.A bisque-fired clay capybara figurine, facing right.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Finally got to throw properly for the first time since September - first October was trimming, and then this past Tuesday the studio monitor had to take a friend to the ER, which absolutely preempts me playing with mud. But my new block of clay was a bit dry, so my initial attempts were a bit um.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"someone mutters *at* the street lamp gutters" 5 year old me had no idea that when gas street lamps ran out of fuel, they would gutter. My mom thought this was hilarious, so I remember it, because I was so offended at being laughed at. My version made perfect sense. (Trash in the gutter.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Looks like the boot ghost has very good taste - Asolos are excellent. (Wish they still fit *my* feet. Blah.) Good job rescuing it from the ghost, Turkeydog!
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My mum has COVID for the first time, and lives too far away for me to cook for her. THIS IS VERY NOT OK. I have just shipped her an awful lot of (very good) store bought soup as a compromise.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everyone in the house but me is asleep right now. It is not late in the day, but clearly whatever this virus is that has invaded the domicile, it is fierce - my teen rarely falls asleep before ten. He was unconscious before 7. I think tomorrow will be a hot cider Skratch day at this rate. 😮‍💨
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mmm. I'd rather see what's at the top.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Mum, this situation is extremely sus, DO SOMETHING."
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Skritcha skritcha skritcha
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is Challah just really wagging in that picture, or is his tail just that short? (They are SO cute.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I got to pet a ten month old Cardigan Welsh Corgi this morning. Absolutely NO manners to speak of yet, but once he realized that I was another corgi and not actually a sheep, he did calm down and let me give him all the skritches. He has one blue eye and one brown one, so he can see the fae.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
s/studiously/seriously/ (WTF autocorrect?)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There was a dead rabbit in the yard this morning. It was incredibly gross. And being the adult on scene, I got to be the one to deal with it. I would like an indulgence that says I've fulfilled my adulting quotient for the month, because studiously. Yuck.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's actually a technical term, for raising the walls on a pot. Specifically JUST that, but it's become an overloaded term for generating pots out of mud.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is nothing so delightful as trying to help someone and hearing them say, in amazement and happiness, "What WITCHCRAFT is THIS?!" And then they threw a pot. 😁 (I was then asked to demo again by a different student.) So yeah, that kind of made my day.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today has been a LOT of running around, but I did get the glorious moment this morning during pottery where the teacher was helping another student, so someone who was stuck came and asked ME for help. And upon showing them how I center clay on the wheel, and talking then through it, they got it.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I approve of the fact that Humor is the one that's upside down. I remember some of those books.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh thank you! He's impossible to shop for.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Up the stairs, thankfully not down, but I got some spectacular bruises on my shins and knees from the edges of the stair treads. Green and black for days.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Had to go to the dentist today: older filling failed and needed replacing. I'm at that awful time when the Novocaine is just barely hanging on, but has also migrated all over half my face. I have pins and needles everywhere. My dentist and I agreed we should all become sharks. (She has hobbies too.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Malaya is doing great then! Coffee Shop and now an entertainment venue.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(I picked this thinking that surely someone would have already done Sesame Street. But no?)
en.wikipedia.org
The Electric Company - Wikipedia
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(And frankly, everyone should have help lined up, automatically, without prejudice.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I remember you telling me that. It is something I keep firmly in mind, because it's always possible that I'll stop being "I bite your face a thousand times" and go into "I freeze like a rock" territory. And I want help lined up if that happens.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm just gonna boost Kiya here, because I am lucky in that my flight/fight/freeze reaction has historically been "I will chew off any pieces of you that touch me, so help me God" and there are too many people who don't react like that. Intentions matter - but actions matter too, if not more.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A friend of my mom's used to joke, "'Family' from the Latin, 'familia,' meaning 'trouble.'" Today, I think it faux-translates to 'exhaustion'.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm so glad you got to write this -- and I'm not reading it, nope nope nope. Not this and not Wolf Worm. I'm going to go reread Snake-Easter in joy and gladness instead, and thank you for all of your wonderful warped fiction. 💙
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was sure it would be a moose.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What fresh hell. I'm sorry.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#EmbodimentWasAMistake
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Back to the gym for the first time since summer, because summer was not great, schedule-wise. There are a number of muscle groups that would Like A Word. And one single muscle in my right shoulder that wants some lidocaine and acupuncture. Need to talk to my friendly acupuncturist about when's good.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You? Write a book about error analysis of complex emergent problems in large scale systems?? ....naaaaaaaaaaah. Been done already. 😁 (By you. Give me necromantic queens instead please.)
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok, well, Wickhills by @premeemohamed.com is one of the best fantasy novels I've read in quite awhile so I'm going to go with that...probably for whoever is looking for fantasy at the moment.
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war.Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec's easiest mission. But now he's on the run from the intelligence agency he works for, dodging a handler who might have gone rogue and relying on a secret patchwork of illicit resources and dodgy contacts. Turns out his defector might be carrying an apocalypse-level magical weapon — and protecting it requires Ferec and his team to go underground, literally. Down here, the rules are very different... and the tense peace between every city in the world will shatter unless Ferec can drag their darkest secrets into the light.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😁 I like the way you think. (Also your suggestion is obviously a time traveler, given when I placed this hold.)
A screenshot of a Libby hold for Wickhills, by Premee Mohammed. The hold has several months before it's going to come up.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just finished the Poet Empress. Recent reads also include Children of Strife, Daggerbound (and necessary rereads :-), The Burning Kingdoms trilogy, and Ode to the Half-Broken. Suggestions?
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Only the dishwasher and the cable were in the same room, and they're on different breakers. :-/ I'm suspecting gremlins, honestly. Possibly teenaged gremlins.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok, if dishwasher was first electronic entropy, and the charger cable burning was the second, and my kid's school Chromebook was the third, that sounds like three. Why do we suddenly have a bricked e-reader? :grumble:
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"pok!"
Four jars of apple scrap jelly that have come out of the boiling water canner and made the fabulous noise. (Sealed jars go "pok!" as the air inside cools and sucks the lid down.)
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Flashdance - the audition scene m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wRV...
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Flashdance: Audition Scene (HD CLIP)
YouTube video by Binge Society
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yelp: We're sorry, we can't merge your created-by-mistake account with your old account. Delete the mistaken account and add the email address to your old account. Also Yelp: We're sorry, that email address (that was on your mistaken account) is invalid. Use Gmail or Outlook. Me: How about NO. 😡
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes. They're only worth it if you're keeping the old windows.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When I got them, they were $300/window. I'm sure they're more right now, but still.
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Extropic Crusader (BLM) @extropiccrusade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I use these on the first floor, and while they're kind of a pain to store, they are absolutely fantastic at keeping New England winters on the outside and heat on the inside. Also, they muffle the snow plow noise. indowwindows.com
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Window Inserts That Provide Comfort, Quiet, & Savings | Indow
Indow makes window inserts that improve energy efficiency, comfort, and noise levels without the need to buy replacement windows.
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