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Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🐻 (he/him) @rossz28.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Cheers was a holodeck program. 😉

Saavik, Capt. Bateson, Horny Alien Nurse, Capt. Janeway, and Data

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

I'm mad that Twitter keeps yanking me back bc it's where my friends are saying things

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Today I had a fire to put out at work and I was so very happy that I had something meaningful to do

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

No idea but that scene allegedly has heavy LDS ties so maybe not terribly surprising

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

I used to have a phone shortcut for an ASCII shrug but for the last few years I just end up googling "shruggie" whenever I need it and plaintext-pasting from the Atlantic title article about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

I'm really just here to make things easier for you, personally, Loopy

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

You dropped an "A", bud... let me help you with those esthetics

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Like... we have no idea how many blow-up fights or rough nights or hurt feelings have come up for that couple around this and maybe if they have system that works to manage that, no further judgment needed? bleh¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

My take on the whole recent Oppenheimer porn tiktok drama is that if people have privately struggled with porn being a problem in their relationship and they found a way to manage it that works for them as a couple, good for them? And that's about all that needs to be said

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

I did too! the writing is much better I mean it still has a lot of sex and action but also good writing

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

Carnival Row is so much better than I ever expected from a "steampunk-flavored show about Faeries" Orlando killin' it--the drama and writing are great, also significantly more mature, serious, and darker than anticipated

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

What's punishing is that I have A-List so I'm not only forced to watch this multiple times per month, but I will now also be forced to think of the cave analogy every time

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

you have to fully embrace it unselfconsciously in understated ways that don't make it your whole identity to be able to loop back around as an integrated part of an overall persona

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

How nerdy is it to put a sharp-edged fantasy knife replica in my kitchen just to cut cheese and maybe vegetables with

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

11/ This is mostly complaining, which I feel awkward about. I will eventually do something about this or something will change. But... sigh. I just want to feel productively distracted right now with something helpful for our business's bottom line.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

10/ In some ways, not having enough to do even 4 months after mom passed is almost _harder_ than if I was really busy with work. I have way too much time to reflect rn. But not enough focus/energy to productively invest in starting up something new. I do feel obligated to be _available_ to work.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

9/ Frustrated. I wish I could either figure out something to write or do on my own time that I really believed in (which is cruxy/stuckness for my personal projects since mom got sick and died), or could get a formal assignment through work. Arrgh.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

8/ I do like and trust my management; I believe them when they say stuff is coming and the timing is uncertain. I know why it's taking a while and can see that I'm not the only one in this position. I just want to be building again, though.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

7/ In the meantime, I don't know what to do with myself in this weird limbo of employed but without any strong focus or project area and unable to get myself to a place where I can focus enough on something else to engage with it. I don't like it, not comfy. Not sure what move to make.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

6/ In an ideal world, work would get much busier and I'd get to go build stuff with a team like I wanted when I took this job... I've been patiently waiting and champing at the bit for months on that. But no clue when it's going to happen. This is what I want.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

5/ So I'm in this position where I don't feel like I can start something new, don't really want to look for a new job, don't feel focused/motivated enough to solve the writing problem, and don't know how to get myself unstuck.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

4/ But it is frustrating bc I took this job in the first place so I could build things with a team, and I am very much not able to build right now for complicated resourcing reasons--no team yet, no team in sight. :/ I'm doing good R&D work, but kinda in a vacuum.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

3/ Unfortunately, writing is one of my primary outlets for both business ideas and blowing off steam. This is compounded by a somewhat frustrating work situation. I am comfortably employed and grateful to be employed rn. I am also wildly under-utilized atm. Can't expand while staying anon.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

2/ I haven't written essays, books, or tweet threads recently because I've been stuck on this idea that I don't really know why I'm writing or who I want to read it, while at the same time feeling worried that the wrong person could read it and this would create annoying problems for me.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

1/ Stuck-threading on BSKY because it feels somehow lower risk than threading elsewhere, and also I'm aware that threading like I do on Twitter might blow up feeds so I'll try to keep it short... But I feel stuck and it's frustrating.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

In spite of spending almost as much time struggling with optimization settings as playing the game... Baldur's Gate 3 is an incredible work of staggering genius and you need to play it I'm already planning 2nd, 3rd, 4th playthroughs

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Every time I run into TB3 issues with this dock I'm reminded that Dell docks are garbage and there are reams of threads about this and I think about replacing it, and then I just sigh and do some driver shenanigans and forget about it till next time

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Why are hardware issues always so dumb and so rarely fixed by anything the help articles recommend It's always a solve from some guy on reddit from 2 years ago with an obscure registry hack out of left field that solves the problem It's never a loose cord

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

To be clear, my issue turned out to be "your dock isn't working for stupid reasons that appear to only be fixed by reinstalling the default laptop Iris XE driver for unknown reasons... it will continue to crash every time you play BG3 and require another repair operation"

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

I'm going to lose my mind if I read one more hardware troubleshooting thread that confidently asserts that the issue is "most likely" a loose cord or that I just need to unplug and replug this is never my issue

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

general ennui lately but what else is new employed, happily partnered, San Diego is nice I'm glad you seem to be feeling better about LA than your last situation!

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Might be more motivated to check it out once it's on Xbox Why is it so hard for games to get on Xbox, c'mon guys Game Pass is cool af but I'm kinda regretting how many games I see that are like "PC and PS4... xbox later"

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

I wish I could get into action-combat RPGs Seems like whole classes of very cool games would open up for me, but I just don't find it very rewarding I'm watching first looks at Wayfinders and I'm just like... eh

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Adam Cerious @adamcerious.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

boss: you have to take a drug test me: *knows all the drugs* no problem

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

I'm off Twitter for other reasons anyway and bsky is an okay alternative I wish it were possible to lure over critical mass and keep them here But to do so would be to ask everyone to voluntarily (perceived) status shuffle and abandon dopamine for a while; big ask

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

How are things going after the last move? Any better?

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

whoa gdi well... wait, how much is also fear that _others_ might hear the accusation and believe it vs this tho?

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Forget about becoming the person you want to be: successful, lauded, confident, assertive, talented, rewarded, etc. Instead, work on being the kind of person you actually like to *be with:* kind, thoughtful, generous, easy-going, joyful.

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Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 @liminalwarmth.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Need more people just talking about their weird special interests at length

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