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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 1d

Having some people over to celebrate Halloween (by eating ghost pizza and decorating Halloween cookies).

Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!

A white woman dressed as a reverse mermaid posing coquettishly beside a wall in a hallway. Her top half is a cartoonish fish costume, with a green "kelp" skirt of tulle. You cannot see her face, but you can see her fish costume face and dorsal fin.

A white woman taking a mirror selfie. She is dressed as a reverse mermaid. Her top half is inside a big blue cartoonish fish costume (you can see her face peeking out the mouth). She is wearing a green tulle skirt and nude colored shorts for the lady bottom half.

Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 2d

It depends, I think. If he had ever read or heard about Edward Topsell's the History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658), he might have seen what Topsell called the allocamelus (p78). He thought this creature was the offspring of a camel and a mule.

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A line drawing in Edward Topsell's History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents, showing a man next to what is labeled as an allocamelus. Although the book describes this as a smooth-backed camel with a donkeys head, it looks like a llama.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 16d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 16d

Out of idle curiosity I checked in on the mariners/tigers game at the bottom of the seventh, and it was 2-2. That was two hours ago, we are now at the bottom of the 14th inning, it is still 2-2.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 16d

I remember my mother didn't let me watch it (she thought it was rude) so I had to read my magazine to keep up. DA was my whole connection to most of TV, movies, and comics aimed at kids, since most of them fell under my mother's idea of "rude."

Cover of the February 1992 issue of Disney Adventures magazine. The characters Earl and Baby Sinclair from the TV show Dinosaurs are on the cover. The headlines read "Dinosaurs: Gotta Love 'Em! Top Secret Detectives. The Man Who Eats Bugs. Wayne's World The Great Gretzky." The cover promises an all new Darkwing Duck comic is inside

Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 21d

Lore is my favorite thing about baseball! I really enjoyed listening to baseball on the radio as a kid because the announcers had time to explain and contextualize things. I hope you find a team to root for!

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 23d

Every 2 weeks, my wife, our kid, and I have Book Club. We each read a book and share it. There's a giant gavel, it's fun.

I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)

Hand holding The People's Project, curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 24d

Yes, but also they won't pay you in anything but "exposure." So, not worth anyone's time, I would think.

We are a "4thluv" market, exposure only. No monetary or any other compensation for either the ezine or the print magazine

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 25d

I give when I have a little because all we have is each other.

I hope they get one moment of peace. Fixing an immediate need usually doesn't solve the bigger issues (there is always the next round of bullshit), but one little moment knowing this thing at least is handled, I hope they get that.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 27d

I'm glad this helps!

Also, I think this is the plot of movie Memento (2000)?

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 29d

Last night Lara and I got dressed up and went to the theater to see The Play That Goes Wrong. I love a farce, and a -live- farce is such an impressive technical feat.

A selfie of a smiling white woman with short curly hair, wearing big batwing eyeglasses and a bright pink lip. You can see part of her gauzy black dress with gold diamonds and large red roses.

Flyer that is a prop for the play. It is a missing dog poster, there is a photo of an English bulldog on it. It reads: "Missing Dog

Winston

Breed: English Bulldog
Color: Brown/White

If spotted please call 206.677.8777"

Handwritten on the flyer it says "ASAP We need him for Act 2!"

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · 29d

I don't know if this helps, but the Mississippi state department of health has a free cookbook called Freedom For Life. You can find it here.

msdh.ms.gov/page/43,0,29...

Self-Management Programs - Mississippi State Department of Health

msdh.ms.gov

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Sep 17

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 15

I wanted to take theater tech. Theater tech got to run the light and sound boards (also sit on the vending machine to run the spotlight). Wear black and a headset and make sure everything ran right? Heaven. I acted, danced, sang, played in orchestra, but couldn't do tech b/c I took the AP track.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 11

Okay, I am done with the news today. I have a pizza birthday dinner to attend (someone in this house turned 11 today), and I need a little time to get my party face on.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Moonlighting. It sets the tone for the show really well. Silly mystery, zippy wordplay, and two smartasses who have romantic tension which comes out as slap, slap, kiss. You'll know pretty quick if you're into it or not (I super was).

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 7

After dinner out, I read a book with a cup of tea. On my way back to my car I heard live funk music. I followed it to a little theater and was let in for free to see the last hour of an excellent band. It was a really great time! Fun little community event.

Photo of E. Pruitt, bassist and band, performing on an indoor stage. People are sitting around tables listening. The sound board guy can be seen on the right, adjusting levels.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Larger, obviously this hobby would benefit from me living in a -larger- place. With a room for sewing (not a tiny desk in the corner of the dining room) and a giant table. I think though, I am going to figure it out because this hobby makes the artistic part of my brain very happy and I need that.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not only do I have a library, my wife -works- at the library. This might be the way.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 5

I bet I could. I might consider it in the future, but I will admit right now I am feeling very 3 years old about it; I wanna do it myself! [randomly kicks the air in a fit of pique]

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had never heard of this. Thank you! I will have to do some math.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have two quilt tops I much want to quilt but I do not have the space to pin one of them and I somehow miscalculated the yardage I needed for my backing on the other. I know I could make my life easier if I quilted small(er) things (or lived in a smaller place) but I dream in big cuddly blankets.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can we enter this in a spreadsheet or something for you Hank? My answer is 397.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Aug 30

Every time my kid adds a new food to her list of food she will eat it is a celebration for all of us. She is so giddy from the success of tonight's vegetarian corndog (delicious) and side of red bell peppers with dip (the dip helped a lot) that she is right now reading a kid's cookbook in bed.

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Amber Piona @geekydancer.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oh! I think that might be "Suffer the Little Children" which was collected in Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

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