the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

(that was quite an adventure and resulted in us learning a surprising amount about plumbing)
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(technically we already did open up and look at how another piece of extremely expensive equipment works but that's because we bought it used for literally about a fiftieth its original price and it wasn't working entirely right so we had to fix it)
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i'd love to take apart the 1505 and look at how it does all its stuff but i don't think our boss would appreciate us voiding the warranty on a $100k piece of equipment
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when you use a tool on a daily basis it starts to feel really normal and nothing exceptional but

if you think about it a lot of the equipment we use as electrical engineers is really fascinatingly complex stuff
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sometimes i see @LexYeen posting stuff and just get to thinking about multiyeentaurs.... they're good
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okay got this figured out, it turns out the throw pillows could be unzipped and the cover bits put into a washing machine
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hmm. two is a good number of heads to have today, i think -F

does anyone know a safe way to clean upholstery? it's not actually stained or anything, but we have some throw pillows that we need to wipe down with something for mysophobia reasons, and I'm sure clorox wipes would ruin the color
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what does scroll lock even do
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alligators.... more like palligators
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I love you all 💚
very glad to be surrounded by friends
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This honestly felt more like a glimpse into another reality than like some idea we came up with.
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so last night, before falling asleep, we (Rose, mostly, I think?) had some kind of dream-idea-worldbuilding-vision-thing

a big pointy castle on a hill, like something out of a gothic horror thing, but the whole thing is a mechanism of unknown purpose that's been there for as long as anyone can remember

most of it is broken, except that maybe it's not because some of the things it does do stop working if you try to fix an apparently completely unrelated part of it

people working with it have figured out what some of it does and how to use it, but some of the things that it does are really difficult to even realize that it's doing them, like retroactively making small changes to history (like making it so that you were wearing a hat all day yesterday or something)

the north half of it is pretty much entirely unexplored, because no one has figured out how to get it to let you into the northwest wing and the northeast wing is as far as anyone can tell just an ordinary dilapidated castle except for the fact that random things in the south half stop working if you try to repair or replace any of the disintegrating furniture or crumbling walls

no one working with it is quite sure they were always the species they currently are. they *were* always that species, they have photographs and family history to prove it, but they might not have been always that species when they found the thing

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-hyphen
₋lophen
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our mental state is just. falling apart
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everything is hard and we really need some help
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i don't know how much longer we can keep doing this

it's just

so hard
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hansan of tizer
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the person doing this youtube video that frequently references the company Shugart Associates seems to pronounce associates with /s/ where we would pronounce /ʃ/ and that's somewhat interesting to us
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