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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2

@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social

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Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hey new followers, I recognize a few of you from Bird Hell Site (detector webapp came online or got noticed?) so I assume y'all know this, but so the rest of you know what's in the tin:

* quite autistic
* numbers are fun
* yarn yarn yarn
* cute lizard is cute
* fuck Nazi bullshit

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 8h

Also, the Temu model is not improved by paying $25 for people's time to put the 89¢ gadget through a system that collects 23¢ in taxes.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 10h

I found a cheap *old* offline one on eBay, just saying.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 10h

Yes this. We can compromise quantitatively -- $250 would be fit for purpose if the $800 isn't coming back -- but there is not a universe where sending 89¢ Temu gadgets through the full system ends well.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 11h

Welllll... there's a loophole people use in states that are stricter about raw milk.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 11h

Barter is what popped into my head also.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 13h

They could be migratory, following around an optimal day/night ratio.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 14h

The Good Samaritan totally left the dude a trowel and told the innkeeper that the dude would settle up for himself, you know.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 14h

Sprouting seeds (for salad in a week) miiiiiiight fly. Regular garden seeds, yeah, no.

If someone has some they really want to share, they can show up in the food bank parking lot with a sign and people who are there for food can also check it out or not.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 14h

... are y'all allowed to have that kind of issues?

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 18h

Y'all. GRAB THIS if you like history city simulators.

Zeljko Kos - Making Pompeii: The Legacy @zzeljkokos.bsky.social · 18h

The first major update for Pompeii: The Legacy is here!
🔥 5 new buildings
⚙️ Tons of fixes & optimizations
💧 Aqueduct polish coming next

To celebrate 1 month of Early Access, the game is 20% OFF on Steam!
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#SteamSale #IndieDev #CityBuilder

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 18h

Who would have standing to file a complaint on that subject?

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 18h

Thunder would beg to differ; belly rubs are his favorite.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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lacey, infested with bears @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

Food $0
Data $150
Rent $800
Big Ballroom $350,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

Pic is from yesterday bc I was going to post #ProofOfCat but he purred me into a coma (i.e. unplanned chair nap).

Black cat seen from above/behind, wrapping his front legs and to be honest whole self around a human arm.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

Furthermore, since it's my understanding that the Canadian Conservative Party is about half a step to the right of the American Democratic Party, the split of those 24 Senate seats would probably be about 18 blue/6 red.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

In addition to the rest of it OF WHICH THERE IS PLENTY, Canada would be, like, at least 12 states.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 1d

TFW you find a spot where the audio went all weird for a few seconds mid-hymn but it was during a chorus so you can just cut it out and crossfade in a neighboring copy of the chorus for patch material

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

This is a rather diplomatic comment to leave on a freakin' weird comment.

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

like = rage

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I was gonna say, I do not understand how power tools are involved in laundry but the concept has my attention.

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

My phone just suggested I rename this picture (its filename in my phone is "white house demolition trump did that.png"). Am I on a watchlist now?

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 7d

Bodged a little something together, what do you think?

News photo of the White House with a chunk torn out of its side behind a fence, with flage overheaded. Added to the news photo, a sticker of Donald Trump is placed in the lower left corner, pointing at the damage and labeled "I did that!"

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Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 2d

Not to steal @rincewind.run's show, bc my quotenapping skills are not equal to theirs, but then this one's from Long Earth so really more adjacent.

I checked; it was published in 2012 so probably written by 2010.

Screenshot from book of text "This evening she stared gloomily at a screen which showed Brian Cowley, increasingly notorious figurehead of a poisonous movement called Humanity First, spewing out his manipulative bile, folksy homespun anecdotes hiding some smart, but very divisive and dangerous, politics. Impulsively she turned the sound off. Still the hatred seeped like sweat out of the guy's face."

Avrila, dodging COVID round 2 @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social · 3d

I can reach two conclusions from this graph:

1) After you've run for President, people have formed an opinion about you
2) People agree on "F Schumer"