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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I have a lot of hand-specific assistive tools. A box chopper like this is a fantastic kitchen tool -- highly recommend.

A photo of a white, grey, and clear box chopper kitchen tool, showing the press-down lid, the gridded blades, and the catch container for the chopped veggies. An assortment of different blade grids are also shown.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I use an oil filter wrench to open jars. Great leverage, sometimes need to put a grippy thingy over the lid first.

An oil filter wrench with open toothed black jaws and red coated handles, like pliers on steroids.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Waiting for my own turn with the fancy new ergonomic cushions...

A fawn greyhound in a red fleece shirt and black collar lounging verrrry comfortably on a tan couch with dusty blue ergonomic cushions. He has a very cheeky, sneaky grin.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How about an account impersonating a well known scifi author? (That's the real Adrian Tchaikovsky.)

Screenshot of a BlueSky account impersonating the author Peter Hamilton.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Already caught in the net of the list I mentioned:

Screenshot of the account of Ashish K Jha, an infamous and dangerous COVID minimizer.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

Ba-Tampte Half Sours! Fermented and deliciously different.

A full jar of Ba-Tampte half sour cucumber pickles. The jar has a red and white label and lid.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

My greyhounds have been breed ambassadors for years, and I've told many people they're like very large housecats. They even wash themselves like cats! Many can live with cats as well; most adoption groups do cat-testing prior to placement. Happy to chat with anyone who's curious about 'hounds.

A sleeping fawn greyhound being guarded by his faithful and alert tabby cat.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 20

Cover image of the book Where the Wild Things Are by author Maurice Sendak.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 19

Cover image of the book 1491, subtitled New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 18

Cover image of the book An Immense World by author Ed Yong.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 17

Cover image of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 16

Cover image of the book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by authors Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel. It has a tan background with title and authors in a black serif font, and a round inset image of woodblock art of two workers on what appears t o be a timberframe structure.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 15

Cover image of the book The Outsider by author Colin Wilson.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 14

Cover image of the book A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle. It has a tonal blue background with the author and title in a white serif font, and a photo image of a statue of an angel in a cemetery.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 13

Cover image of the book Cat's Cradle, author Kurt Vonnegut (Jr). It has an off-white background with a drawn/etched image of an orange sun and two human hands with string in the classic children's game cat's cradle.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 12

Image of the cover of the book Little, Big by John Crowley. It has a sepia-toned photograph of a young woman in a long skirt standing in the center of a one-lane dirt road.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 11

Cover image of the book Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse. It has a white background with colorful tumbling blocks along the left edge, and the title and author's name in a black serif font. The first line of text on the cover is "There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 10

Cover image of the book The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs Paperback by Patricia McConnell. The title and author are in a white serif font on a red background, and there's a black and white photo image of a small white dogs on a leash leaping with all four feet off the ground. Only the lower half of the person holding the leash is shown; they're wearing trousers, and overcoat, and sensible shoes.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 9

Cover image of the book Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong. The background is goldenrod yellow, a open-mouthed sinuous tiger in a woodblock style is in red along the right edge, and the title and author's name is in a black sans serif font.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 8

Cover image of the book The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 7

Cover image of the book A God Within by René Dubos. It is in a very minimalist style with a black serif font for the title and author, and a small sketch of a lone sailboat in full rigging on a single line indicating the water's surface.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 6

Cover image of the book The Overstory by Richard Powers with a painting of redwood trees.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 5

Cover image of the book of poetry The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck. It has a blue and white cyanotype image of the leaves and flowers of an iris on the left, with the author and title in black type on a wide band of gold on the right.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 4

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 3

Cover image of the book The Once and Future King by T. H. White. The cover has a background of broad stripes of antique white and light aqua; the title and author's name are in all caps in a black serif font.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 2

Book cover image of The Glass Bead Game by author Herman Hesse, also published with the title Magister Ludi. The cover shows about 14 small glass spheres (like marbles) in clear, blue and aqua casting long shadows.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 📚💙 Day 1

Book cover of The Poky Little Puppy, a Little Golden Book for children. A brown and white puppy on a grassy hill play bows and looks inquisitively at a lizard.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Sympathize so hard, and have often wished email had never been invented. Had this hung at work:

Gaping Void cartoon with angry purple monster in a bow tie showing teeth and a scribble above its head indicating steam cloud. Text says, I do the work for free. I get paid to deal with all the fucking emails.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

This is what it should look like

Four line of code for uBlock Origin that stop YouTube from playing incessant adds.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

And in case it gives you a smile, here's my current buddy from HSCC, Griffin.

A grey cat with light green eyes lounging on lighter grey velvet fabric. He has the large cheek pads of a recently neutered tom, and an expression between pensive and slightly peeved with having his picture taken.

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Vers @versive.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

This style is supposedly safer (can't personally attest since it's sitting on my wish list at present):

Image shows a light blue alternative mandoline slicer for veggies with a holder that keeps fingers away from the blades, a handle, and a fold-out stand brace for stability. Below the slicer is a clear bin of grated fresh carrots.

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