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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Though I didn't know him, the sudden, untimely, unfair passing of Peter Morwood leaves a horrible void in my usual online space. If you're so inclined, Ko-fi is a way to support his beloved Diane Duane at this time. ko-fi.com/dianeduane

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Current mood: despairing about my ability to read every book I got through Overdrive before I have to return them. (Did find one irritating wonky thing in the Kobo integration, but it remains a pretty smooth integration that lets me bite off more than I have time to chew.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Because my mother might see it elsewhere namespace, and that could distress her, last night's cooking show based realization is that all the recipes and the little metal recipe box are gone. The box of birthday candles (reused always) with the little wooden man who graced our cakes is gone.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

On the plus side, I am taking the opportunity to use longish car rides to break in a pair of my "I was the target market" Docs.

Feet wearing 1461 Bex Dr Martens Wednesday collab shoes in a UK 4 resting on a car dash.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It is now two weeks post-fire. We have hit the "everything is annoying me" part of the process. Sadly, this is not an actionable part of it, which is also annoying me.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

There's no good time for an octogenarian to lose most of her documentation to a three-alarm fire, but "right before the Real ID deadline" is certainly up there with worst times. Signed, no memory of how long we have been at the DOL office. (Appointments are booked out to May.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Anyhow, my childhood home, which my parents and siblings still live in (though one of each of those is current in a care facility) just had an electrical fire tonight, so my octogenarian mother is going to be crashing on my couch. Sadly, the inevitable meltdown must be delayed.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The living room smells like the hardcore laundry soap designed for workout clothes, as I finally washed the weighted blanket that still stank nauseatingly of a dog who passed six years ago. (It was in a plastic storage box. I wasn't using it reeking of Daisy, to be clear.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The Depop issue is settled. (I am now unsure if the seller blocked me or if Depop was just being a pill, but after I filed my refund request, she filed a support one, and it got sorted.) Somewhere, lost in the USPS system, are a pair of cute boots, but my part in their story is now over.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

On the one hand, emotional awareness re: why one might be feeling various ways is great, very healthy. On the other, however, it doesn't make one feel less like they're being nibbled to death by ducks.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Anyhow, enough talk from me about the current clusterfuckery of it all. Retaining a shred of joy in difficult times and all.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

So at some point, my younger sibling's batshittery went full-on conspiracy theory, and apparently, everything since 2014 has been a psyop against us for the benefit of...something involving the military, I think. I kind of blocked it out.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I am not a vegetarian, let alone a vegan, but damn, I love Next Level Burger. (I discovered its fantasticness when I had to find reasonably priced vegetarian food when a friend from Jerusalem was in town last year. The Fire Chzburger is, in fact, fire.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Much as I am keeping politics out of the account, not only is it a weird time being a birthright citizen, it's weird to see headlines about a grade school carpoolmate/FB friend in the context of the country exec filling his seat after friend won a different elected position.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I am not much into baseball (or sports in general these days), but I am a Seattle native, and I am thus required to inform everyone that that one guy who didn't select Ichiro in their HoF ballot should go to their room and think about what they've done.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In happier news, the Silent D Corries that I got on closeout do fulfill most of my desire for a pair of Prada Monolith Oxfords. (Shoes that aren't Docs? In my collection? It's more likely than you think!)

Silent D Corries platform Oxfords in black.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Interesting day to be a birthright citizen.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The first Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend episode since the start of the LA fires in which Sona lost her home is so freaking good. Genuinely one of their best episodes ever. It's genuinely moving, yet often hilarious. (Watch the video if you get a chance vs. just the audio version.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I hadn't actually planned on coming here for dinner, but our random drive took us ten minutes away from Twede's.

Alter to David Lynch outside Twede's Cafe.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Plex people, speak to me of what I should be doing with my Plex! Give me advice on how to get the most out of it!

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Why, when USPS has screwed up and started to send something back to the sender, despite everything on a package being correct, can't they fucking reroute it back to the original destination when the intended recipient, who had already filed a service request, contacts them?

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Putting "Lynchian Normcore" in a Yuletide request one year and actually getting it remains a fannish high point. (For the Jenny Slate web series Catherine, which was at one point more than a decade ago how I self-soothed.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Argh. One of the (many) new movies I saw last year was one I remember describing as a movie designed for me-as-a-teen, but which movie was it? No idea!

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I am very aware that my fondness for "Dancing Through Life" says something about me, none of it especially good, but the amount of cheerful nihilism in it just delights me so.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Self, you are typing in the dark on your phone. In a parking lot. There will be typos. You cannot edit them. Accept. Move on.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Me, mere days ago to a friend on FB: "Sad to see you go, but all elsewhere places would involve crossing the streams, and I do not cross the streams!" Me, just today: crosses the streams on a fucking whim. When I get bored, I should really just play The Sims.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I tried to do the responsible thing and tell my besties that I needed an adult to tell me no re: these shoes when the seller made me an offer. Instead, they betrayed me, and I was enabled. What the hell do I wear with these?

Betsey Johnson black rhinestone loafers with a bow on top.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As someone who crochets with pencil grip 95% of the time, I will never join the cult of Furls (team Clover), but I will admit they're pretty. (Pencil grip was hitting a painful spot on one finger, so I am knife gripping it at the moment and broke out the Furls.)

A black and white crocheted blanket in progress with a Furls 6.0 mm hook on top. The hook is multicoloured sparkly blue acrylic.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Have successfully built tomorrow's demo. I feel I have earned a nap and/or a few hours of fucking around with drawerfic. Like a boss. Except I refuse to be a manager, so like a tired IC who's still got vacation brain. (I won't. It's PR time all the time. No naps!)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"Why did I sign up for a Scribd trial?" RIGHT! I needed a copy of the New Yorker Style Guide for Reasons. (Sadly, multiple reasons, all of which involve fandom, none of which involve rational making of decisions on my part.) @cupcakegoth.bsky.social, my bad and sorry, not sorry? 🙂

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I guess it's time to text the wider in-laws thread and see how the Southern California branch of the family-in-law is doing. (I think they're all out of the way of this batch of fires, but the situation is an ever-changing one and all.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Howdy, FB-abandoning-or-minimizing peeps who are awesome enough to know both the wallet ID and the fandom ID! This is me, following you as you post your info. (Still mostly on Tumblr, the most low effort of social media sites, though. Because it's low effort, and my brain is full.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Anyhow, enough about me and my boring life. What the heck are all of you up to these days? (I mean, if we're Tumblr mutuals, I already know, but you can still tell me.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BTW, fanpeeps, where I have been: Tumblr. Mostly Tumblr. I got actively squee fannish about stuff again last year (first Wednesday for a bit, then Lockwood & Co.), can't handle Discord, and there was nothing on DW, so, yeah. Tumblr sucked me back in. 🙃

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is my first year not doing Yuletide since 2006. I had a small baby/toddler in 2006. I have a kid a few quarters away from an AA in 2024. It feels like the end of a huge era in my life, and I'm kind of bummed about it. (There weren't four fandoms I could reliably offer this year.)

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Nuking reposts and quote posts from my feed (sorry not sorry) might make this place almost usable for fandom purposes. Oh, to be able to import every single filter and blocked tag I have on Tumblr, though.

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Minim Calibre @minim-calibre.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Slowly finding people. Is it accurate (I am basing this on a quick trip around the UI) to assume that this place doesn't yet have robust filtering options? Signed, my Tumblr filter list looks like a CVS receipt.

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