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Puck

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Foul mouthed old crone

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flexghost, to random
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Party of law and order strikes again

Ahh. Today is another day where it’s great to be off Twitter. Imagine the copium.

How’s your morning?

Puck,
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@flexghost
It was nice. High 5ed my friends, went for a nice walk, came home and had another cup of coffee.

atomicpoet, to random
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Today has been an unbelievably stressful day. Two things happened:

  1. Someone, who lives abroad, called me up at 9AM to tell me they’re in Canada for one day and they need to meet up with me. So a serious chunk of my day was entertaining them and dealing with whatever thing came to their mind.
  2. I found out that my strata council allegedly defrauded my complex of $100,000s, and I suddenly now have to pay thousands into the property’s contingency fund. Lawyers are now involved, and certain people fled the country.

It’s a good thing I take blood pressure medication.

Puck,
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@atomicpoet
Dude. I am so sorry.

adwright, to random
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Someone at Microsoft needs to get their head shaken for them.

Twice in as many days I've had Microsoft put up notices that cannot be clicked away.

WTAF

Yeah, I know you're deep-sixing the world's most common and popular OS, hoping the planet will throw away the majority of computers in existence so they can run a crappier OS you sell.

No, I just want the weather on my taskbar, not a consumer portal for you.

Microsoft, please fuck off, please fuck off, please fuck off.

Puck,
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@adwright
I've always been Linux curious, I'm thinking it's time to wipe my old machine (XP) and find an easy distribution on it. It's still got plenty of power to run things.

Puck,
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@adwright
I run win10 on my currant box but there are things I'm not pleased with and I know they'll force me into 11 eventually. So learning linux on the old machine seems a good idea be before that happens. I won't even fire up the old XP machine until I turn off my modem so it doesn't automatically connect before I can shut off the connection. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll look into them.

Puck,
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@adwright
Yup. Being on a tight budget is cruel. None of us who worked all our lives should be in such a tight corner.

atomicpoet, to random
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I’m 42-years-old, and I’m always looking out for new music. And not just new music – forgotten music. One of my hobbies is trawling YouTube for songs with 0 views.

But I’m an outlier. For most people, discovery of new music peaks at adolescence. And when you hit your 30s, musical taste calcifies.

There’s lots of data to back this up.

I notice this doesn’t just happen with music but with movies as well. Lots of older men don’t want to watch new movie franchises. They want to return to the old “nostalgia” well again and again.

Personally, I find such malaise depressing. I never want to stop growing as a human being, experiencing new things.

CHART: When was the best decade for music? Your answer probably depends on how old you are
CHART: On average, peoples' music taste evolved quickly through age 25, before reaching "maturity" in the mid-30s
CHART: average number of artists in listening rotation by age group

Puck,
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@atomicpoet
I don't mind an oldie now and then, but been there (literally), wore out the t-shirt (literally). I too, want to keep moving forward. I found the 80s had a dearth of stuff I liked, but the 90s roared in and haven't stopped since. I have no desire to live in the past.

glassbottommeg, to Birding
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Any #birding / #bird folks have a clear understanding of why Stellar Jay seem to pick up and mimic predator calls?

I think our Stellar Jay is making Osprey noises now? She was doing Red Tailed Hawk noises last year.

honey what kind of rough crowd are you hanging out with when you migrate

Puck,
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@glassbottommeg
Our Blue Jays will mimic various hawks around here. I wonder if it serves as a warning when one of those hawks are near?

atomicpoet, to random
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It’s been five years since I closed my Facebook account.

Puck,
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@atomicpoet
I keep mine because I can't persuade family and long distance friends to move to the fediverse with me. I love them all, I need them all and we're not big phone talkers.

atomicpoet, to random
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There’s one thing I miss about Classic Mac gaming: scouring Tucows and download.com for shareware titles.

I’m not saying things were better back then. But I had a blast, and I remember it fondly.

Puck,
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@atomicpoet
Wow, there's an old memory. Download was my go to.

adwright, to random
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Love getting tossed off the path by some chud riding a rolling ball through the Public Gardens at 30kph.

It's hilarious. If I were to slug him with a 2x4 that'd be assault.

Chud gets to do what he likes and the rules are fuck you peasant.

Puck,
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@adwright
I keep threatening to start using a walking stick. Local park has a 6 foot wide boardwalk, no bikes allowed. But now and then some ass brings a bike out. Be a shame if the old lady slipped and the stick went into the spokes as they flew by.

adwright, (edited ) to random
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Today's Poll:

The humble folk or the privileged?

I have pooped in a porta-potty (like you see at festivals or construction sites):

Puck,
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@adwright
I worked construction all my life so...

There's a nature preserve I go to once a year with only porta potties, so, yeah. But generally, I only poop at home, I'm fussy like that.

adwright, to random
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One thing they don't tell you about growing older is it's like a second puberty.

Puberty you go from baby-smooth to tufts of hair under your arms, on your face, on your nards and toes and all round your arse. A lot of that honestly not an improvement.

You get hit with a 2nd wave of that as an elder - surprise! - you have new hair growing [spins wheel] on the outer edge of your ears, on your nose, on your tragus, in your freaking eyeball. Deep roots, attached to nerve endings like cat whiskers.

Puck,
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@adwright
I have wires growing out of my eyebrows now and they'll get longer than regular eyebrow hair. And a damned chin hair. That won't show up for weeks, then overnight, boing!

Oh, and they make electric nose hair trimmers, my husband had one. No pain involved.

Puck,
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@adwright
Yeah, the physical part of getting older is an insult.

clive, to random
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What if this is still early stage capitalism?

What if it's still just hitting the clutch and, like, shifting into second gear?

o man

Puck,
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@clive
I think the gears are stripped out and we're coasting on a wing and a prayer at this point.

elaterite, to Astronomy
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A waxing gibbous moon framed in the fork of an eroded branch of a Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine) at ~3,048m (10,000ft) in the White Mountains of California. (This is a single frame photo made by a human, #notAI.)

#BlackAndWhite #Moon #Botany #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Trees #Photography #Darktable

Puck,
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@elaterite
This is beautifully done. I generally think black and white are over done and bland, this just pops.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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Can someone please explain to me what’s going on?

I legitimately have no idea, and I don’t know why I upset this person or even what they’re trying to communicate with me.

No, I’m not being obtuse. I really don’t know.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/sssystemic/statuses/112129909662820466

Puck,
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@atomicpoet
Don't sweat it. I think they mis-read your meaning and then they failed to be clear about their intentions. Sometimes communications get crossed and there's no fixing them with unreasonable people. I think that person was unreasonable.

adwright, to random
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That thing where you're hanging on to everything in your life by your toenails and you are getting the sinking feeling that this is the way of things going forward until it all fails.

Puck,
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@adwright
I was there last year. Come January, my outgo was going to be much larger than my income and I was already barely hanging on. In the nick of time, an old friend from 40 years ago needed a place and I had a spare room. So, the bills get paid and we have groceries. I hope you find a solution, too. You deserve better.

divya, to random
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    Puck,
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    @divya
    I'll let you in in a little secret, blue eyes creep me out, even though my mother's eyes were blue. Hazel and brown are lovely, though.

    adwright, to random
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    Something is still having a go at me.

    Fever, chills, fever, chills, no appetite.

    Much fun.

    I roast and retch or I freeze and shiver.

    Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

    Puck,
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    @adwright
    There's a nasty noro virus going about that's tearing up everyone's digestive system.

    adwright, to random
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    I've told this story before. For the ones who've heard it already, sorry.

    Being homeless and hungry is so alien to most folks they can't imagine what the minute by minute reality of it is like.

    Not they don't want to, can't. The lived experience is just not in their files.

    Like bedbugs used to be. Homeless and hungry are words that didn't correspond to anything.

    They don't get that your belongings are not safe, that you aren't safe either. Every minute of every day.

    /1

    Puck,
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    @adwright
    And so many of us are only 3 months away from it happening to us. It's something you don't want to contemplate, so you just keep plugging along.

    adwright, to random
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    I'm halfway done the final exhibit of my great big graphics project, #126 of 126.

    It feels weird. So weird.

    I'm about done widebanding some of the rarest stuff on Earth, a Mission From God level amount of sheer luck having covered me while it was done and now it's ending and my home is probably going away because some rich folk want it and I got nothing so when my home goes away that's pretty much it for me, it feels like thanks for the labor, now the really bad times are coming for you.

    Puck,
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    @adwright
    I wish there was something I could say or do. It hurts my heart to see you in this position.

    adwright, to random
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    Looks like my building has sold. No notice pre-sale fire inspection today. Shit.

    Now I get to know fear as the dice are rolled and I find out at some point if I'm homeless now.

    Puck,
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    @adwright
    Dang, that's scary.

    SrRochardBunson, to random

    My ❤️ goes out to everyone living with chronic pain. I'm on day 3 of an intense shoulder inflammation & it's definitely effecting my thoughts and feelings.

    Puck,
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    @SrRochardBunson
    Sending big mom hugs. Unrelenting pain affects our world view, I hope yours is better soonest.

    Puck, to HashtagGames
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    Is that a burrito in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

    #TacoBellARelationship
    #HashTagGames

    bluecat, to random
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    I am currently tears level overwhelmed and I am not much of a crier these days so... it's bad.

    When I get this overwhelmed (I legit just have too much to get done right now in not enough time), it affects everything else. My memory turns to shit, and my body feels awful, and my mood is like... totally unsalvageable and I just feel like an absolute total failure at everything.

    What do you do? Please tell me what you do to help yourself when you feel like this because I am really on the struggle bus right now.

    plznthx

    Puck,
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    @bluecat
    Mom Hugs if you want 'em, Blue Cat. What I do when I get overwhelmed is just pick one doable thing. Then the next. Just do the next right thing, one at a time. And don't forget to Breathe.

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