ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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"I wonder," said the robot, "do you think I am human?"
"You feed me, and stroke me, and you are warm to sit on," said the cat.
"Does that make me human?"
"No. But tell me, do you enjoy my company?"
"I do," said the robot.
"That is all I ask of any human," said the cat.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
For people dealing with air quality right now: this diy filter idea worked incredibly for me. I can breathe in our apartment now. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.king5.com/amp/article%3fsection=news&subsection=local&headline=this-diy-air-filter-for-wildfire-smoke-is-less-than-20&contentId=281-584346009
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RT @neonfiona@twitter.com
i can’t believe celine dion ended gender and made all babies goths. 2018 has been saved
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If mugs were invented today the handles would be sold separately in randomized blind boxes.
@TheSoundOfBot may I recommend dolphin.town
re: wildfire
@aldeka Don't
It sucks here
I was debating buying tickets to somewhere, just for the weekend. It's expensive though. Probably just going to literally not leave the house all weekend, which also sucks
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Please boost, looking for friends/followers
Hellooooo
I'm actively looking for more people to follow and be friends with! I'm into video games and computers and music and art! If you just do commissions a lot, I would love to follow you! If you just post about complicated tech stuff all day I will probably be interested! Please check out my pinned info page if you're interested too, and please give this a boost so I can meet more potential friends, thank you!
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urbanist musing
what if instead of parking minimums for new developments we had energy efficiency minimums? throw some solar cells, all-electric appliances, and decent insulation on your condo and then you don't have to spend half the land on car storage if you don't want to
the more power is generated locally relative to what is used, the less we need to tax poorly maintained power and gas lines...
Doctor who this season is going more historically-inspired than before. I like it.
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Fit bits are just Tamagotchis for adults but turns out you're the blob you're trying to keep alive.
local politics
Oh hey. One of the local ballot measures I was voting on passed by ...80 votes. So my wife and I together were 2.5% of the difference between passing and not. That's neat.
Triple Blackout
@icetsvu if she was a guy who n Silicon Valley, she’d get a few mil in funding easy
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Updating existing packages -131%
Installing new packages -245%
Removing conflicting packages 476%
someone who is good at percentages help. my hard drive is starving
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Horses in fantasy books: not afraid of anything not even dragons, can walk for days with heavy equipment and no rest, never gets lame, super loyal to their rider, never dirty always has a shining coat
My horse: afraid of funny looking trees, plastic bags and people on bikes, is sweaty after one hack into the woods, trips over his own hooves, would find the closest grass plot to graze on and leave me to suffer if I fell off, never been clean
Interesting article - what the media could do to suck less at election coverage. (was originally a tweethread) http://pressthink.org/2018/11/election-coverage-the-road-not-taken/
D&D, USPol, joke article (actually funny, I laughed)
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deltarune
So at first I thought the floral scent coming from Toriel's trash can was simply that she bought floral-scented trash-bags or something else ridiculously mom-like like that. Then I read her comment about "finding an appropriate place" for Asgore's flowers . . .
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"You know humans will only tolerate us if we follow their rules," the vampire leader said.
"But it's fun, and edu-"
"Read the box."
"Um. Lego."
"And?"
"4-99 years."
"You were made three hundred years ago. So stop it."
"This set only says 8+."
"Oh? That's fine."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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There once was a wicked princess and a beautiful witch, and she said "There's nothing I cannot be."
Her cat, just as beautiful and wicked, yawned and said "True, but if you are what you want to be, what's the point of being able to be something else?"
So soon there were two cats.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
uspol
Well, that happened. Funny thing is, overall that election went about as expected. Backlash, dems take house but lose votes in the senate.
But it's also a reminder - this is normal. There's always a backlash, (c.f. 2006, 2010, 2014). We have to make sure that this keeps going into 2020 - and that's the hard part.
I'll take a few days off, rest. But in two weeks, it's back to trying to figure out how to keep the House and take the White House in 2020.
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
