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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 2h

It is amazing how little Ajmal’s Amber Wood smells like any kind of amber. And it only smells of wood in an unpleasant way. …apparently it’s made of a family of synthetics that smell very different depending on your genetics.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 8h

@weaselbotaur.bsky.social The thing is, Jira doesn’t feel like a tool made by developers for developers. It feels like a tool made by MBAs for developers.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 9h

I would be so happy if Jira ceased to exist. People keep telling me it’s _so_ much better than Bugzilla, but I have no idea what’s supposed to make it even _vaguely passable_.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15h

I remember when “Present your papers!” was the synecdoche for an oppressive regime.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@taikatua.bsky.social Never, so long as it’s proportionate to the rest of the creature. I don’t like hyper-anything, though.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Work (−)] Yay. A bunch of time-wasting procedures that do nothing of value have been imposed on me.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek Hot Take] @fluffy Thank you! I shall take a watch.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek: Strangers form the Sky] One thing about reading some of the more expansive novels from the TOS era is seeing just how much of what I had grown up thinking the Federation ‘just was’ from TNG and that I’d mentally assumed when watching TOS was not actually _a part of the […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek Hot Take] @fluffy No. Strangers from the Sky was just making me think of it because it has Spock stuck in the past on Earth.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek Hot Take] The lyrics just make me giggle. “Iiiiiiiiii hate you! And Iiiiiiii BERATE you!” “iiiiiiiiiii EXCHEW you. And IIIIIii say SCREW YOU!”

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek Hot Take] Okay, the whale probe and the _pink song_ were the only too good parts of Star Trek IV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3NG2JX6lc

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek: Strangers form the Sky] As far as I’m concerned, this is the canon first contact. Why should people who have clearly shown they can’t write first contact with Vulcans competently be the ones to decide what canon is?

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek Hot Take] Carbon Creek is better than Star Trek IV. The only good thing in Star Trek IV is the whale probe. Everything else is a bad 80s sitcom someone mistook for a Star Trek movie.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek: Strangers form the Sky] Still better than first contact with Vulcan being an afterthought sideshow to Sexual Harassment Cyborg sexually harassing Data while Captain Picard acts out of character for two hours.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Star Trek: Strangers form the Sky] I must have read this before, since I distinctly remember the scene where an earth man in a time where United Earth is coming together after the Eugenics wars, decides to give Spock the first name Ben after Benjamin Spock (the famous pacifist and child […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I need to remember to stop being overly polite in parking lots and just GO when the car stops instead of waiting for it to go.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[MIPol (+)] I am supporting _Socialized Electrical Infrastructure_. _Heck Yeah!_

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[MIPol (+)] I wouldn’t normally vote for the ‘anti-technology’ candidate, but _EdTech games generally suck_ , and I am more than happy to support anyone who pushes that. And anyone who’ll resist capital wanting to flood Primary and Secondary school with ‘Hour of AI” and other Slopaganda.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[MIPol (+)] Also I used to think voting for the Regents of various Universities was a bit odd (Did you know that the big state universities are chartered in the state constitution?), but with Trump declaring active war on the concept of ‘knowledge’, uh, yeah. There’s the anti-‘being […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[MIPol (+)] Also ‘Secretary of State’ might be the only position where “I’m a skilled software engineer!” is actually a qualification I’d take into account, so you can keep from being led down the primrose path by the worst companies in the world.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[MIPol (+)] I actively _like_ my state senator and feel _good_ about voting her. As opposed to “Well, I guess you’re better than the other guy.” She isn’t completely technologically illiterate, took an interest in RealPage after I emailed her about it, and _is a really good preacher_ on top of it.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[Pol, Media Snark] > […]he worked as a journalist before joining Fox News[…] That sounds accurate.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

There. Turned gesture navigation back off on my Android because it’s honestly just less usable for me. I do not like the accidental back and how it can often be difficult to get ‘switch’ instead of ‘home;.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

[Other People's Religion (Christianity, Silly)] The only part of the service I have an actual problem with is ‘sinned against your goodness’. Not the sin part, the ‘your goodness’ part. I do _not_ hold with theological voluntarism, I do _NOT_ assent to the wrong horn of the Euthyphro dilemma […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I, _personally_ , find the way basically every house of worship for _any_ denomination built in the past forty years seems designed to have as much glass as possible and to let as much sunlight as possible in to be _really oppressive and unpleasant_.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

[Other People's Religion (Christianity, Silly)] …it is very slightly distracting that my immediate mental referent for people speaking in unison is The Borg.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

[Other People's Religion (Christianity, +)] They preached on the Rendering unto Caesar passage this morning and did a very nice job of contrasting the Kingdom of God with Christendom, the corrupting state power. And named Pete Hegseth as a representative of the Empire, claiming to make the army […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Honestly, I adore Brut. It’s like classic Old Spice. One of the classic old-time drugstore fragrances that’s really well-composed.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

2 mL of Fougere Royale costs as much as a whole, big bottle of Brut. And, while it’s a whole lot nicer than Brut, it’s not _that_ much nicer than Brut.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

The note still reads to me very distinctly as ‘shower gel’, however.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Sartoriel has the water/metallic notes of the kinds of ‘blue’ fragrances I’ve been turned off of, but in the context they feel almost like they serve a similar function to a green/aldehyde opening.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine] …but that doesn’t mean they still can’t _have_ an open marriage. It’s the 24th century, after all!

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine] Well, I guess with the show’s chronology this was before he got married so it doesn’t technically _need_ an open marriage.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine] > “Dax and I had some *great times on Risa.” …my headcanon is now that Sisko and Mrs. Sisko had an open marriage, and…

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

[Star Trek: Strangers from the Sky] Mental health professionals in the Federation have a _terrifying_ amount of unaccountable power.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

1970s era vintage Charlie is _really_ good. The bright green floral aldehyde is just _fresh_ , and while it has vanilla in the base, they don’t do what so many modern fragrances do and dump in vanilla until it overwhelms everything else. It’s well-balanced and you have to ‘smell carefully’ to […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

[PH (+)] THERE. * Have a self-pay appointment with a physiatrist. * Have a skin-cancer screening with an actual M.D. (My moles are all unpigmented, so the ‘uneven pigmentation’ test that most people rely on does not make me confident I will get a good diagnosis from a physician’s […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The “But rental!” argument for DRM is…well, I won’t say ‘the worst’, because it’s not like there are any good ones. But among the most wrong-headed. As if the government has an interest in forcibly ensuring the eternal existence of a revenue model built on properties of an entirely different […]

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Duckduckgo is developing areally bad case of “Ignore half the search terms by default”

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Though it honestly lost me right at the start because the butterfly scene in the book felt so frantic and almost strangely sad and the movie just made it a “Well, that happened.”

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I think a big part of it is just that I _hate_ 80s soft rock. I hated it during the 80s when I was a kit. I hate it now. It’s why I’ve never rewatched The Fox and the Hound in spite of liking everything else about it. I just can’t stand the soundtrack.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I might be the only person in my generation to actively dislike the film version of The Last Unicorn. But even if Peter Beagle himself wrote the screenplay, I _still_ feel like everything about it fails the book.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

When I saw this movie the first time, I hadn’t heard Powerhouse, and so the horns in the very start and Xylophones made me think it was a take-off of Sabre Dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY0AA2O6QJ0

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I picked up “Meijer’s” and “Kroger’s” from my father., But he was _all in_ on it. He shopped at Ace’s Hardware and K-Mart’s and Target’s.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I hate that the current web has so much ‘random popup on hover’ crap. It’s like I can’t even try to move my mouse where I can find it without the page rewriting itself and popping up visual noise all over.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Caron un Pour Homme is not a ‘floural fougere’ by any stretch of the imagination, it’s a lavender oriental.

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

[Subposting myself, Silly] BILLIONAIRES! BILLIONAIRES DON’T LIKE PROGRESSIVE TAXATION!

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Sciurovulpes Ludens @lightspill.tailswish.industries.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The one carve-out I would leave is an authorial avatar not separable from the author while the author is alive. Someone’s fursona, for example. Dolly Parton is both an intentional presentation of a character _and_ a real person. It would be almost impossible to write something showing Dolly […]

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