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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 11/09/2026

The pattern is what they use in primary school. Print traceable letter shapes. Then without the tracing. Then with sentences. It's literally just tedious repetition.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 25/08/2026

One way to make it more fun and very slightly less boring is to generate new pangrams for every page of writing. As you go, you can move to sentences with more normal letter distributions.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 25/08/2026

Source: I am dyslexic, have AuDHD, and taught myself to have good handwriting as a young adult. It was exactly the same technique when I was learning a language with a non-Latin orthography in my 30s.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 25/08/2026

There is only one way: practice. Slowly and carefully make the letter forms you want, over & over. In your practice, you always focus on getting the letters as correct and good-looking as possible. You improve by becoming faster and requiring slightly less attention each time.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ploopy has launched the bean. Repeat. Ploopy has launched the bean. ploopy.co/bean/

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 29/01/2026

Looks gorgeous! I just wish the price were exactly one dollar more.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 19/01/2026

Why is every single emu in the entire world a monsterfucker? They're all more into heir human zookeepers than other emus? How? Why‽

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 10/01/2026

I think society would be better if more people dressed like Pokémon gym leaders more often.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 24/12/2025

Who has time to remediate anything? Just mitigate and move on. Or accept if you're nasty.

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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Screenshot of an email:

Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me

Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.

According to our records,

1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members

Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜

If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!)

—-

Regards,
___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5)
Partner Infra Platform Experiences team

As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™

New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account!

Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 30/11/2025

As a nonbinary person, I am equally at-ease in both Sephora & Home Depot.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 21/11/2025

Elim Garak invented Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 21/11/2025

I aspire to one day offer a player or reader clues revealing an insight with one hundredth as much bone-chilling horror as when the Alvarezes finally understood the implications of the worldwide layer of iridium at the K-T boundary after the peak biodiversity of the Permian.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 19/11/2025

If you _really_ don't want CPR, try: "I have a large capacitor laparoscopically implanted between my aorta and superior vena cava. Any significant voltage applied over my chest will cause it to explode, killing me instantly, and potentially injuring you too. DO NOT RESUSCITATE"

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 19/11/2025

Don't tattoo "DNR" on your chest. Nobody is going to delay CPR for even a second unless you have the state-specific signed, dated, & notarized paperwork handy, and even then it's probably not going to be noticed unless someone is waving it in the rescuer's face and advocating for you.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 19/11/2025

Can you imagine what it would be like if the Federalist Papers constantly nagged you to subscribe so that you could receive Publius' latest newsletters right in your mailbox with bonus content for premium subscribers, and were interrupted by mid-essay ads for Better Help and Squarespace?

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 17/10/2025

But then I "just" need to "quickly" grab something from this one API and before you know it I've added another 300 lines to the constellation of shell scripts which keep my life running.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 17/10/2025

Use sophisticated data structures and functions rather than uncounted throwaway arrays or piping everything into and out of a massive state variable via jq!

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 17/10/2025

Write neat elegant stanzas rather than two-hundred-character pipe-filled monstrosities

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 17/10/2025

Focus on application logic and flow control rather than spending all your time mangling strings and escaping quotes!

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 17/10/2025

I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 08/10/2025

So many institutions simply refuse to send any actual information via email — you have to log into their site to see what the heck they're talking about when they say "you have a new message" or "monthly statement available".

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 08/10/2025

Amazon is a particularly notable offender here. When you make a purchase — they don't even email you a _list of the items you just ordered_. This, I believe, is because they're mad at leaking business intelligence to whichever "organize my inbox" companies people use. Tough deal, Amazon; suck it up.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 08/10/2025

Financial, medical, & insurance companies force a false choice between receiving stacks of paper statements (yuck) and paperlessly getting vapid emails which don't actually include the records which they're telling you now exist for you to manually sign in and download.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 05/10/2025

Utterly terrifying nightmare in which some sort of bundled crapware sneakily made its way onto my machine and uninstalling it involved completing a series of increasingly unhinged and downright psychotic CAPTCHAs.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 05/10/2025

I am fascinated by the legal theory that Congress cannot delegate any authority to executive *agencies*, but absolutely _can_ delegate everything & the kitchen sink to the "unitary executive".

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 04/10/2025

I feel embarrassed that every time I want to compare strings or numbers in bash or zsh, I have to look up the extremely fiddly syntax to make sure I don't dig myself a new grave. But really, the shells should be embarrassed to be so unintuitive about this stuff.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 28/09/2025

I'm not a huge fan of the military in general, but I have incredible respect for the brave aviators of the crow early warning & air defense network which keeps our neighborhood free of raptors and safe for our pet parrot. Thank you for your service. o7

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 27/09/2025

There are no wikis or forums any more — if you want information about a project, you need to join one of two chat clients. Slack, the corporate one owned by Salesforce, will sometimes send you a surprise bill for like two hundred thousand dollars. Discord, the gamer one, is microtransaction hell.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 26/09/2025

His judgement later turned out to be completely correct: the warning was a false alert caused by an unusual reflection of sunlight off high-altitude clouds.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 26/09/2025

By declining to report an apparent US launch of five missiles, he likely prevented an overzealous Soviet "counterattack" which would have destroyed Europe and started a global nuclear war.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 26/09/2025

42 years ago today, on September 26 1983, Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Defense Forces made the incredibly brave choice to disobey the letter of his orders and ignore the early warning system he oversaw.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 25/09/2025

I'm enjoying The Pitt — very much the prestige TV successor to ER. But they just featured a spider bite. My suspension of disbelief is forever ruined.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 23/09/2025

Why should resistance be constrained by non-violence when oppression has no such limits?

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 23/09/2025

Just show me the actual information you notionally want me to pass along to my system administrator! It's okay, they're on the other line, I'll just check with them directly. Don't worry about it, they have a proper Unix beard and/or cat-ears and programmer socks.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 23/09/2025

I hate when tech tells me to check with my system administrator. It's just rude (and often lazy). It's like a plumber asking "Is there a man around I could talk to?" because they don't want to have to explain themself.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 23/09/2025

OH via the Frontline Fifth Podcast: > People think that th Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in journalism. Incorrect! The highest award is getting killed by the CIA.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 18/09/2025

(*Excluding mandatory safety equipment)

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 18/09/2025

So next time you're considering crossing the Atlantic, see if a berth is available on the _Anemos_.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 18/09/2025

The TOWT _Anemos_ (2024-present) is a contemporary sail cargo vessel which can move 1kt of cargo and has a 15-20 day passage from France to New York (roughly the same as a contemporary cargo freighter), but with negligible carbon emissions.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 18/09/2025

This was Matthew Turner's design strategy. The _Amaranth_ (1901-1913) set the record from Astoria to Shanghai at 23 days. The _Benicia_ (1899-1920) made it from Newcastle to Kehei in just 35 days. Turner’s masterpiece, the _Galilee_ (1891-1909), made it between Tahiti and San Francisco in 21 days.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 18/09/2025

Before refrigeration, transporting fruit by ship was a game of sheer speed. You wanted to pick up that absolutely freshest (perhaps not even ripe) fruit possible. As you sail, more of it ripens and rots in your hold. The faster you reach your destination, the more fruit you have available to sell.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 18/09/2025

My favorite sailboat racing class has got to be “Use as much contemporary sail theory and engineering design as you’d like, but your vessel has to (1) be *assembled* with materials and processes in use before the 20th century*, & (2) carry at least this much simulated cargo.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 13/09/2025

For that you need a thermobaric weapon, minimum. Which has got to be worth a few million swords, at least? Though, in the original Hebrew, I assume there's some ambiguity about whether it's ten thousand normal-sized swords or one giant sword ten thousand times larger than usual.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 13/09/2025

A weapon more powerful than ten thousand swords, huh? So… a single belt-fed machine-gun emplacement? Maybe a couple of belt-fed machine-gun emplacements? Not exactly the sort of thing which destroys a city and leaves it engulfed in flames.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 13/09/2025

In a show I'm watching, a supernatural entity just prophesied a divine weapon "more powerful than ten thousand swords", and this monologue is superimposed over apocalyptic imagery which resembles the aftermath of a nuclear war.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 11/09/2025

My favorite way to enjoy excellent art is by looking at screenshots of screenshots of it without any links back to the original. That slaps actually and is very healthy.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 10/09/2025

And I would definitely not attack Poland with a drone barrage just large enough to make it extremely clear that this was deliberate and intentional, causing damage & harm to civilians, but small enough not to practically inconvenience Polish military readiness in any way.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.lowengr.im · 10/09/2025

I'm not an experienced 4d-chess spymaster-dictator. But if I wanted to test NATO's resolve, I would not start with the state with massive ground forces and no chill which has just begging for an excuse to fuck me up for years.

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