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# Shower Thought Questions:
1) Can a mage use FAB as an ink only visible with astral sight?
2) Does that mean I can put FAB in a printer and print things that spirits can read?
3) Does that mean I can print off top secret data and make a backup with an ally spirit?
@HippyWizard @FrauAnarcha The first two I think yes. I don’t know the connection between fab and a ally spirit though. That’s a rule I am unaware of.

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@HippyWizard @FrauAnarcha Though I wil say I don’t think spirits inherently are literate. Ally spirits and a couple others sure they can be.

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My kid said today

"Mummy, I want us to make cookies"

Well, needless to say, there was no arm bending about it

...
But now I have soo many cookies and I need to stop eating them
this is so cute :)


I just bought a sea shanty from @The Corodon who turned around a sea shanty in under a day, and put cool RPG artifacts in it. And uh - it's amazing! I'll hopefully have a recording up soon!

But - uh - holy shit!
I've sung through it once to the music, it's so good 😶😆😆



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this is the realest shit one month later
Lol, this is business as usual, twitter is in a worse spot


https://soundcloud.com/user-310458959/work-of-the-framers?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
I don't normally like class anti-solidarity - but this song is exactly what I want out of folk other than that, the exact kind of rhythm - something you can be a crew to

This recording is hell - but this song always makes me feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6uhsHO5iU


My "automatically follow back" setup has saved me so much time these last few days
lol I just followed you here after coming across you on the birbsite. Hope you don't mind!
That's literally what I was talking about! It meant I didn't need to do work to follow you back!

I'm really excited to meet you! And I love how active the Fediverse has been!


Today I learned that a friend of mine in the US had their boss ask them "Did you consult your Canadian Tech Friend?" when they were out of ideas

And that's the greatest professional designation I've ever gotten
depending on how your D20 rolls, your Canadian Tech Friend can become a Canadian Tech Fiend
Well, yeah, I am good at terrible advice!


For the last few month my mother in law has taken my kids to the park for 3h to give me opportunities to do other things

Most days I clean frantically in that time

Today I have an appointment an hour and 15min later but right now I feel like doing absolutely nothing

So I texted my partner: "Gosh I feel like just not being productive"

His response: "You can be"

Just a gentle reminders for others like me in the world.....

You can... just not be productive sometimes.... it's okay.... you deserve rest sometimes too ❤️
Maybe I can give you my wife's mobile number and you can tell her that? She won't listen to me :)
I honestly think it's really important to rest but hard to dismantle the messaging from society that we must constantly go. I hope your wife gets rest tho!! She deserves it!!
think working from home during the pandemic was the worst thing for her. She has such a hard time disconnecting from work when it is always right there. Now she works a "hybrid" schedule, which I think is the worst of both worlds for her. As someone who has worked from home for 25 years, I'm pretty good at disconnecting.
My partner is in the same mood: "I can't believe you, you said you love me". 🤷‍♂️


My 3yo is asleep
My wife is at the store
My 1yo found a plate he could smash
My wife moved the broom to a room where I couldn't find it

Needless to say, my barely speaking 1yo now knows the word fuck
It's OK

My 3yo had a swearing phase, but he got bored when we didn't get annoyed
That one's pretty dang cute

Swearing in French got me through middle school, so it's good to learn!


I officially think I can list as my job qualifications:
1) Constantly terrified of realistic threats
2) good at regex
Oh, I 100% think these are easily my most marketable skills quite seriously.

Being terrified of realistic things is INCREDIBLY hard. And a solid regex can save millions of dollars for the right company.

I once found a bug we'd introduced 6 months ago by going through 1.5 TB of logs and constructing useful graphs, using nothing by a t2.large and grep/guplot.


How do people figure out what new people to follow on here.... at this point I've relied solely on
-recommendations from @silverwizard
-people who followed me
Might participate anyway tho 😊, thanks!
"they" say you can follow your local timeline and also follow hashtags you are interested in and check out folks who make posts that interest you. That's usually how I do it.
I should figure out following hashtags! That's a great idea 😊, thanks!
On this page: https://convenient.email/search?tag=photography, click either the "Follow" link (on vier) or the Plus button (on frio).
Thanks! Can I just switch out the word photography for other cool topics too?
Indeed! you can click on all the links of this post of yours: https://convenient.email/display/2c704a81-5263-63c2-b755-a2b195161310
Have you never used hashtags links before? It's a straightforward way of finding related content, however it requires people to have some discipline tagging their posts.
No, but I don't have a lot on my feed with tags
Part of it (a large part) is that she's on an instance of 4 people).

She's also on friendica where we have Community timeline and various forms of your follows. But her Community tab is all hackers because her instance is mostly me.
Ha! Yeah, for the Local timeline to work well, you need to find an instance that shares some of your passions. Luckily, it seems to be easy enough to change your "home" instance. And this site helps pick one:

https://instances.social/
I appreciate that! Although, I am inclined to stay where I am... @silverwizard is my partner so I trust him as my admin more than anyone :)
ha! Good point 😀 Luckily, there are plenty of ways to find interesting content on Mastodon


My Burning Wheel plot arcs have now hit the point of 29 NPCs that need to share spotlight. There are 6 cliques, only 12 of them have beliefs written - but the other 17 have a lot of important narrative that need to engage.

It's a complete mess, toooo many people to manage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXGjwf6zUWY

This video is a horrible video where someone is mean to Postel and 100% wrong. It is bad


I don't get the concept of the Battlestation pic

Though I am a Minimum Viable Computer type for local usage. Gotta make sure your exocortex is distributed.

Though Post Keyboard!


With the current YouTube weirdness I might need to resume work on my YouTube frontend


I have a very technical feed

I don't consider myself to know nothing, but nothing makes me feel like I know nothing more than being surrounded by technicality 😂

I find this amusing, I mpre so find it super cool! I do not feel sad about it!!



Be careful about what you see in your kid's candy, you never know what horrible things people sneak in them. I saw a mars bar and it was made with child slavery

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Yeah, two clauses, likely independent though


Second assignment marks are out. (Looking at the calendar, I'm starting to think there won't be an assignment 4.)
First midterm (of two) is written but marks aren't out yet.

If I get a weighted average of 43.9% on the coursework for the rest of the term I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.
(For clarity, that's the number to meet _or exceed_.)


Thinking about this because it feels like a thing that I should communicate.... but I can get pretty bad social anxiety so if I like your post but don't respond, it could very well be because I'm panicking in one way or another, but often about "being too much"....
Not exactly sure where this expectation of yours comes from, but nobody I know expects people to comment after they liked a post.

A naked like is a perfectly fine social media reaction, nobody I know would take ombrage if a comment doesn’t follow. Sure, a comment is nice, but not everybody has something relevant to add and it’s fine.
Thanks!

I think that tells me all this is all in my head. I think I just worry a lot on social media, more so than in real life even


Giving out these tubs of cotton candy this year so as not to use chocolate. Hope the kiddos love it.... my dream is to be the house in the neighborhood with the best candy and Sean's is to have big sized candy that's he feels it's a cool thing as part of the infosec community

40 tubs of different flavoured cotton candy

Help! It's only 7:40
I didn't want to say anything not to ruin your moment, but I was pretty sure 40 tubs would be a little light. I guess your plans for neighborhood candy domination needs some refining for next year.
It was based on The Spreadsheet
Tell me more, I'm very interested in anything spreadsheet.
Becky just tracks how many kids we get
You are both very cute nerds, but also basing your predicted attendance on 2020-2021 numbers was risky.
Yeah, but they were a spike on 2016-2019 it seemed
Just brought home 20 more tubs with Shæ

To be clear: it's cotton candy


Dr. Who reunion episode parody staring all the British PMs from this year

Call it The Five Doctors or something

From the Wikipedia page:
Rishi Sunak is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022
I thought Wikipedia was using the present for currently serving officials, only using the past tense when they leave office, so I briefly thought his tenure was already over.
I am glad that Wikipedia has all British PMs as permanently in the past tense from now on

Or, at least, I assume


I found out today that there's an Oracle Linux
I went to the webpage ,and a blocking Cookie Consent Banner, and I decline, and I get "We are processing your request, this could take up to a few minutes to process."

WTF
Yeah - apparently it's a wannabe CentOS - which makes sense. But it's the root of the MySQL docker container, which I am sad I need to touch it.


It's unfair the one of the greatest makers of consumer grade computing is Microsoft
Microsoft has for a long time been a company whose software arm made the world a better place by keeping senior management from pushing their hardware arm into bad decisions.
But that's not true! TPMs and other crap leak into their hardware all the time. Proprietary drivers and other crap do too!

It means that their hardware is always slowly reclaimed.

Or the fucking Microsoft Mouse, the greatest mouse ever made


Finally all set up for Halloween and these pumpkins are done! Only took me an hour and a half 😅

One pic of a car, one of a spider web with a dangling spider beside, one of a pumpkin and the last is a silhouette of a cat's face

I love these :pumpkin_laugh:​ especially the pumpkin one


Thinking about a conversation with @silverwizard the other day where we chatted about how useful (and just nice!) It is that I know my fediverse instance admin personally (because he's it) because I don’t have to think about the trust issue or my admin doing something that I might not agree with.... it's a safe space

This was in a larger conversation about decentralization and community


My purchases in the month of October:
3 Host Bus Adapters
25 Lenovo HDD sleds
A Keyboard with Magic Circles instead of letters

I feel like this is good
How about the HDD screws score?
It's the best kind of purchase!
I bought stuff to make powered cars and do science and math experiments with kids at a school supplies store, so, oops, but I remain on brand


I wonder if new shoes would help my back issues

Though I also just need to unfuck my back from two kids


My follow policy seems to be "follow everyone who might be interesting"

I'm gonna have DB size issues again...
I'm not even following back, I'm proactively following

But I also am pretty OK with a *massive* feed, and want more fediverse side people


You can tell there's no punks in the GOP because no one ever made a MAGA zine


Finally got to run a tabletop exercise.

Several people left upset and worried, and a little afraid. But it was successful, and we have some action items.


Adding a "Best Before" tag to all my AWS resources

owls, but spooky 🎃 reshared this.



I will never create a mastodon account!
Me neither! Not that Ihave much control in what you do but if you're committed so am I 😋
I feel like most people think it's a joke :)


Been drinking a Pumpkin Espresso Porter recently, and I feel like that should be too much, but it's amazing



@CityKitchener This statue was put up by the Daughter of the Empire, a white supremacist group who campaigned against immigration and tried to dispossess Black residents of land & property.

This statue does not represent our community and should be taken down.

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I feel like I'm committing a crime by mapping a hostkey into a server, so each time I remake the server it has the same hostkey

Madness! Just eat it raw!


I am the kind of person who knows enough to know they know nothing about computers and yet I want a full set up to include little connected computer hubs all around the house with a plug inable "lapdesk" with a full clacky keyboard and a nice monitor and mouse so you can bring a full complete desktop setup around like a laptop
Is it too much to ask to be able to bring my lapdesk computer to my future school and sync the files to home (yes, yes it is... but @silverwizard had some thoughts and I think it might actually work 😶😶)
Just need to buy a lot of computers - which is mostly a thing