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I almost feel faintly guilty-- we haven't had the faintest trouble with our power so far. c_c; Too close to the University, maybe? I know nothing about the local power grid.

Hey, folks! Got a question for some work-related research:

Are these electric bikes? Could these be some kind of charging stations in front of them?

goo.gl/maps/TjotFxUGGAs

Thanks! I know nothing about this stuff, and the electric bikes I'm seeing Google bear no resemblance to these.

current earworm (WARNING: minor memetic hazard) 

I don't know how the fuck the Lovin' Spoonful got stuck in here, but there they are.

youtube.com/watch?v=Zab7V3_xDf

@green Just gotta run an errand or two real quick and I should be at Chaco soon! Probably 1:30ish.

301-level pop culture seminar 

daria : beavis and butthead ::
marla : tyler durden ::
susan sarandon's therapist character : rick sanchez

discuss

I feel so old tonight, in the best and most gratifying kind of way.

I just never expected any of this postfurry stuff to come to anything. :) It's a nice surprise, like coming out of cryogenic storage and remembering that 30 cents you had could probably buy a skyscraper. :)

my character sheet 

EQUESTRIAN: Pinkie
LIBERAL FANTASY COP: Boyle
OOOVIAN: Cinnamon Bun
YOUNG ONE: Neil
BURGER ANIMIST: Gene
ISIS AGENT: Pam
HOLLYWOO STAR: Todd
FRAGGLE: Mokey
DUCK: Neo-Webigail
COUCH HUMAN: Lisa
TURTLE: catgirl April O'Neil

day job 

Your humble inquisitor has been sent to spend a month amongst the nobles. We all know this is a farce.

Nobody here will be subjected to my torments, and whether the reasons be just or unjust, it's nice to spend a month in the capital, drinking fine teas and talking shop with the ecclesiasts.

(Translation: reviewing the American research team this month. We are "better" than the outsourced one, but for reasons of policy and attrition, not necessarily talent. Still, it's a nice break.)

birbsite 

corollary:

shitposting is a piece of unwrapped hard candy you found in the couch cushion but "it's probably fine"

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birbsite 

retweets : neurological hygiene ::
floor toast : microbial hygiene

pls discuss

Hey roleplayers,

What would be your preferred way to roleplay? In a browser, a downloadable app, in a game? Would you prefer to walk through different rooms to different areas? Host your own genre of RPs (maybe for specific shows or something) with your own rooms and stuff?

I'm bored and thinking of making just. Good stuff for people who like to text rp

#roleplay

I watched a janitorial contract training today that was recently revised. I watched as learners who came in fearful, afraid to fail: No pass, no work.

I saw them slowly absorb the new approach: "Our goal is not for you to pass a paper test. Our goal is to help you learn to be safe at work. We have a translator to help you. We will stay as long as it takes to ensure you know what you need to."

I saw smiles; I heard laughs. Lives made better. #thinkingsmall #smallstories

@zebratron2084 I have a story fragment somewhere that'd work here in different ways:

make the antagonists to the plushies be plastic action figures, all hard angles and gendered content and story-constrained play (GI Joe, Transformers, Barbie). Plushies would be nonbinary agender rebels. :-P

All of it taking place in some kind of Lisa Frank rainbow-nightmare dystopia, basically Cold-War Care Bears, if Care-A-Lot were a lot like 1950s Vienna, teeming with candy-faced assassins and glittery noir tragedy. Some reality shift at the bottom of it has brought Real-World Consequences to the magical realms. Some still cling to the Old Ways-- some crazy cultists even propose bringing another goddamn Megan, as they call us, into their world...

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Oh my god.

One-shot tabletop RPG where all the characters are International Plushies Of Mystery working for totally different interests.

And each one has a magical McGuffin sewed into them that they're trying to transport in secret. (One has a plush TF bomb... one has a tiny mouse diplomat with an oxygen tank sewn in with them... one has a high-powered radio transmitter that's performing a nearly successful SETI scan... one just glows mysteriously when they open their mouth, and so forth...)

today's creative exercise 

@zebratron2084

1: Frabricate
2: Feline
3: Variably Animate
5: Revisions
6: Aetherfriend
7: Aetherborn
8: Companion
9: Brand-animate
10: Squishfriend

today's creative exercise 

@zebratron2084
1: Mollimorph (from Latin "bestiola mollis")
2: Felanthropus (with the added benefit of being gender neutral)
3: Clockwork synth
4: Monoelemental
5: Postanimate
6: Concordant mindform
7: Autonomous mindform
8: Synthetic pleasure worker (as occupation), eucharisynth (generically)
10: Teuthomorph (after the scientific name of the order of squids, Teuthida)

television 

Today, after all Dan Harmon's highs and lows since Rick and Morty started, I'm going to ask myself a fundamental question:

"Can you ever go home to Greendale?"

today's creative exercise 

You do volunteer social work on Luna in 2200 AD. You have Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism and life is pretty good, but culture moves so fast, it's hard to keep up with.

Formulate non-judgmental euphemisms for one or more of these insensitive Old Terran Hegemony terms:

1. "talking plushie"
2. "catgirl"
3. "wind-up doll"
4. "alchemical golem"
5. "the undead"
6. "imaginary friend"
7. "tulpa"
8. "pleasure droid"
9. "cartoon mascot"
10. "tentacle monster"

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