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We have a ton of redwings that live near us. Anytime I think "hey, that's a bird call I've not heard", Merlin tells me nope, another call from a RWBB.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 04/10/2026

Yet another great thread

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 04/10/2026

I would suggest buying a mask, knowing it fits well, and bringing it. Rent the fins. Well fitting masks and rentals have not been a good pair in my experience.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 02/10/2026

Gozilla gonna get laid!

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 02/10/2026

Had to take a pic of those when I saw them in the store. Sound horrible. Some of their weird ones are good. Like the Churro Oreos. Don't taste like churros, but are a very good cinnamon Oreo. Think I'm gonna use them for cheesecake crust during the holidays if I can find em again.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 18/09/2026

Maybe this thing. It was very very tiny, and my first guess was that they were some form of low CR fae.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 18/09/2026

They seem to maybe be a conifer specific species of Wooly Aphid.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 18/09/2026

So. I discovered a new creature this week. They were teeny tiny, like a bit smaller than a pearl cous-cous, flying little powder blue puff balls. We saw them in the lodgepole pine forest around Toulumne Meadows campground. I hearby name them Grays Flying Micro Puffball.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 18/09/2026

Sunset at camp. There is a fire burning in/near Yosemite, and some of the smoke is blowing thru in kinda banks.

Sunset behind Lone Pine Peak (12,920'), with smoke from the Dome Fire blowing through.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 17/09/2026

The wind picked up enough that we stowed the awning. So, the view from the other side!

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 17/09/2026

Today, by 9:30AM, we had woke up, drove an hour, hiked a slot canyon, learned about borax mining, and were otw back to camp for breakfast burritos. We then packed up and are now at a CG in Alabama Hills, enjoying the breeze and views.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 14/09/2026

The best pic of a squirrel I've ever taken. And some pics from along the Mist Trail in Yosemite. Tonight and tomorrow camping in the high country @ Toulumne Meadows.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 12/09/2026

First full day in Yosemite! Going to do a little walk near Hetch Hetchy (never seen that area), then try to catch sunset at Glacier Point.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 11/09/2026

C o l o r. I can spell!

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 11/09/2026

As a boy (who does a full bleach + cut + colo) every 6-8 weeks, my haircut cost is kinda insane. How bout we make them all $20, across the board?

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 11/09/2026

I thought it was a Navy rum drink.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 09/09/2026

spliced together. The last syllable of each phrase was enunciated oddly, like if it ended in "ing", it was stressed, and the G was pronounced hard. "running" would sound like ruhn-in-guh. So bad.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 09/09/2026

I was listening to an audiobook of some of Dasiell Hammet's stuff the other night. The voice actor had a weird and offputting way of reading. Like he was presented with a spreadsheet of the text broken into 3-7 word phrases, sorted alphabetically, then read in that order one at a time and then 1/2

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 09/09/2026

Sours are either brilliant.... or absolutely undrinkable.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 08/09/2026

Oh, it does. Vinegar. Garbage tier hot sauce, Tabsasco is.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 08/09/2026

This time next week, I'll be looking up at the stars at Upper Pines CG in Yosemite Valley. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 04/09/2026

Midwest raised. I remember a similar phrase being used for the same thing, but Polish instead of Chinese.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 27/08/2026

Went with Wife Unit to see Henry IV part 1 last night. Pretty cool production, and man the Elizabethan Theater here in Ashland is very, very cool. Saw a bat catching the show as it flitted about eating bugs.

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Shechemist @shechemist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It is national dog day. Here are our two favorite knuckleheads.

A black and white dog laying on a concrete patio facing the camera with a brown boxer behind her facing away from the camera looking to the left.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 24/08/2026

Jfc. I go into the store, we are down 5-2. Get home, down 16-2. These guys suck.

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Shechemist @shechemist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sadie in a sunbeam.

Sadie the black and white dog is sleeping in a sunbeam on a brown couch and under a red and white blanket.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 23/08/2026

(1) The first form of Strahd, with the PC minis spread out, after most of them ate a lightning bolt after unwisely clustering together. (2) The Final Form of Strahd in the Final Battle, just before the players defeated him, successfully ending his threat.

5 painted miniatures representing the PCs on a digital map, facing the mini representing Strahd.

5 miniatures surrounding a mini representing the Final Form of Strahd in the final battle of a 4 year campaign.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 23/08/2026

Yesterday I ran the final game in our Curse of Strahd campaign. 4(?) years of games! I've been playing/DMing D&D since around 1982, and this the first time I've actually finished a campaign. Feels good, man.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 17/08/2026

After a terrible trip a couple weeks ago, I went back and fished the Rogue River again. Redeemed with this nice Chinook. Soy glazed with maple carrots for dinner. The rest is brining overnight, will become smoked salmon tomorrow.

A middle aged dude in purple hat and green flannel, holding up a fairly large Chinook salmon

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 16/08/2026

Swans. LCD Soundsystem. Bauhaus.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 13/08/2026

Your pet(s) is in a band. What genre are they? What is the pet's role in the band? Bonus: what is the band name?

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just got back from a trip to Alaska, where I purchased possibly my favorite souvenir of all time: the Bottercelli

Art print of a parody of Botticelli's The Birth Of Venus, but the people are otters. Otter Venus stands in a shell, covering herself with paws and a strand of kelp. Otter Zephyrus and Aura with wings and cloaks float at her side.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 08/08/2026

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY to Col. Archibald Percival "Wigglebutt" Philpott-Hawethorne "Beef" Wellington "Tre" III Esq. DSO!!!!!!!

Baby Beef with his siblings, around 6 weeks old.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 06/08/2026

I'd have to go with a proper Cubano, or a Reuben. I did have a roast pork and broccoli rabe sandwich from a food truck in Portland years ago that might beat them, but I'd need another one to be sure. And sharp provolone is a thing? I thought provolone was just a bland Italianish version of Kraft.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 06/08/2026

Hey, @golikehellmachine.com and other Portland peoples: Family trip to Portland this weekend. Had planned on going to Pambiche for breakfast Sunday. But their site seems to indicate no longer having a breakfast menu. Any must-try spots for brekkie?

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 03/08/2026

I'd read The Glass Key several times before I watched Miller's Crossing, and was like.... this is so familiar... what's going on here?

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 30/07/2026

Oh, people pay a premium for peg pix.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 30/07/2026

I am re-reading (well, listening) to this now. I absolutely love this universe and hope to see more and more of it fleshed out.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 30/07/2026

$17,000 for the ambulance. Seventeen Thousand Dollars for a ride for a ~110 mile trip. Fuck American "health care". 2/2

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 30/07/2026

Had gallstones while camping in the Teanaway area of the Washington Cascades. Went to Ellensburg ER. They said I should have it done in Seattle, since they couldn't do lapro there, and if I drove myself, it would then be an elective in Seattle. So they sent me by ambulance so it wouldn't be. 1/2

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 27/07/2026

Many many moons ago, before I moved there their for my brief stint, circa 1994, I did The Great Gumbothon. Three days, 13 bowls of gumbo, 11 restaurants. Couldn't get in to Emeril's, but they had a gumbo-only walk up, and the gumbo I got there (twice!) was life changing.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 27/07/2026

Mother's for a po boy/gumbo. Court of the Two Sisters for a nicer sit-down.

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Shechemist @shechemist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Penultimate D&D game is completed and I, shockingly, rolled a Nat 20 on my last attack finishing off a boss. Last game will be next month and we are having a friend come down to play the Final Boss. Squeeeeeee

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 26/07/2026

Miller's Crossing is one of my favorites.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 26/07/2026

Yes, most of then have been dietary.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 26/07/2026

Just finished running the Curse of Strahd penultimate session for our table. Next month is the grand finale, complete with a special guest who will be running Strahd himself, with instructions of "fuck em up, no mercy". This will be the first campaign that I've run to completion in 30 years.

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Gray @mindpoison.org · 25/07/2026

Check out League of Pigs on YouTube. Small cute pigs, representing several countries (USA pig: Piggy Smalls), running races on an ever changing track. With Wide World of Sports graphics and announcing. It is truly wonderful.

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