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Kaburi, the Anomaly

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Smol scientist in a big world You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. -Dolly Parton

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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
WA was the easiest home purchase of the four. NC was a pain because everything moved at the speed of Small Town South, MA was a nightmare because I only had four days after closing on the WA sale to drive 3500 miles for the closing, and NY has involved a literal environmental disaster/spill cleanup.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
(I tried to get the movers here sooner so I could get the cash but this was the first availability they had that didn't conflict with work stuff.)
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
That's $120,000, which having been unemployed for 10 months I obviously won't have until I finish selling this house. I'm fortunate that my company's relocation package includes advancing me 90% of the proceeds from the sale once I've formally vacated the property.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
This is the fourth house I've bought, in four different states, and it's the first time that I've had to put the entire down payment into escrow before we sign the contract. (Legally NY requires 10% of the sale price into escrow at minimum but my lawyer wants me to put the full 20% down payment in.)
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
The movers aren't coming until Wednesday, so I'm taking all the stuff I don't want going into storage back to NY tomorrow and cramming it into the apartment closet. 😕 Tentative closing date for the new house isn't until November 30 because New York is stupid.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
(Of course I broke her leash by getting it caught in the car door when we were loading up this morning so I have to run to PetSmart at some point because she's gonna need a walk.)
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
I spent the first 30 minutes after we got here just laying on the couch with the dog, which both of us needed. I think she might be more burnt out by the apartment than I am.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 1h
Back at my Massachusetts house for the weekend, prepping for the movers to come next week. I wheeled my freezer out into the driveway to defrost, and now I'm taking down all the art, curtains, and wall shelves because they want anything that's getting packed taken down before they get here.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 22h
Damn, Katie Zacharia didn't even make it half a Scaramucci.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
why are all the lorehold students fuckin ripped
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Scientific publications are one of my hyperfixations, lol.)
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
And it's not like the authors or their various institutions and affiliations get a cut of that money! That's what frustrates me the most. I wouldn't mind spending this much if the money were going back into research.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Since I'm building our first actual internal chemistry capability from scratch, my company doesn't have subscriptions to *any* of the relevant journals. I've had to special order almost 100 articles since I started **six weeks ago**. I don't even want to think about how much that's cost us.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
In hindsight, four Nespresso pods before noon might have been a bit excessive.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Death Becomes Her for Tax Purposes
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 15/10/2026
"Generational National Trauma" is the only status quo my generation has ever known.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I have to empty my voicemail daily because I get 20+ spam "personal loan approval" calls every day. Usually they come in sets of three. I wish I had something to offer besides "been there". 🫤
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thursday is my Early Morning day, where I have a standing 8 AM call with one of our CRO partners, and I cannot stress enough how non-functional my brain is for the rest of the day.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Claude how do monetize ball"
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The fun* part of starting a lab from scratch is constantly realizing you have to order basic things. Today's realization: I don't have any stirbars.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The overall play pattern of "early creatures that give extra land drops or tap for multiple mana" to set up "MFing Kaiju with X = fuck you all" is what I'm going for, with ways to grant haste and/or trample to the ones that don't have them innately.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Noodling over this during lunch, I realized part of the problem is I have too many ways to cheat out creatures that don't work with X-creatures. I need to either shift to fewer X-creatures or fewer cheats. And I think the "correct" choice is fewer cheats.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think I've leaned too far into the X Spells Matter side of the deck, and it's also becoming too green-heavy.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Unrelated, I was testing updates to Animar last night and I think the deck has drifted too far from its original goal of "big fuckin monsters". I need to give it a major overhaul.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Love having a meeting where my boss is at a conference so I find out *IN THE AGENDA SLIDE* that I'm presenting his part. I don't even have access to the project SharePoint yet so I couldn't have prepped even if I *had* known I was on deck.
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
fucking finally
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026
of all the people who should not want to play this particular game, jd vance is at the top of the list
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
32 oz of water, 16 oz of tea, and 10 oz of coffee later, it's safe to say my headache is not from dehydration or undercaffeination.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
1992
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Black and white and red (flags) all over
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not have enough work work to keep my brain from spiraling about moving work.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
[Publisher] has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) [IP] + [IP] [game genre] as it pivots to complete [Silicon Valley Fad]. "No more [verb]" a director told staff. All [noun] developed with [Silicon Valley Fad] workflows."
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Managed to get the one Lair I wanted (Bowie Trinisphere)
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My only meeting for the day got cancelled and I'm out of busywork. I have no idea how I'm going to keep myself entertained until 5 PM.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I've been sitting at my desk daydreaming about this for two hours now.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trying a new recipe today: crockpot beef stroganoff. I have a chuck roast, mushrooms, and onions simmering away all day with assorted spices (mostly thyme) and vegetable stock, and when I get home tonight I'll shred the beef, skim the fat, and stir in some sour cream and fresh parsley.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing beats waking up from a stress nightmare in a cold sweat at 6:30 AM on a weekend morning.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You should all be proud of me. I went to a store today, tried on new jeans, liked them, and bought two pairs.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've never actually done it.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Despite having been there (several times) I refuse to believe that Yonkers is a real place and not a fictional town created for Hello Dolly!.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My current rant is about the lack of DIY car washes. I just wanna use the big cartoon gun to clean my jeep and apparently that requires driving to New Jersey. Or Yonkers.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This came up again today because I was struggling to refer to "not Buffalo but not NYC" before going on a rant about how weird shit is around here. (I was informed actual region I wanted to bitch about was The Hudson Valley™.)
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yesterday my lawyer referred to this part of NY as "Downstate" and I kinda hope that's real.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Going on a bender* *making a second cup of Earl Gray
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Being the de facto head of my department (as the sole member of said department) is kinda stressing me out because I keep having to do things that are way the fuck out of my wheelhouse.
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Homemade chicken with cashews and fried rice
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things I would murder for:
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Kaburi, the Anomaly @kaburi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It took me way too long to find that. All I could remember was "that one really hot robot I run in Kwain".
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