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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 15h

I was looking at a radar/storm map earlier today, and there was a marker for a possible tornado in the northern Phoenix area. That might have done it.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Some people have genuine trouble with needles. I used to do a lot of blood donations. One of the things that gets you asked back is NOT being yet another XXL dude that passes out from needle sticks.
I am told it's fairly common, and 110 lb nurses don't need to deal with that.

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IMPEACH DAMMIT @lee-gfyarnnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Weavers: there are looms in Philadelphia needing a home. Spread the word. Gift article: share.inquirer.com/IdOGai

Are you looking to buy looms? The Weaver House in the Bok building is closing.

The shop owner is looking for a single buyer for the floor looms acquired from the University of the Arts after the school shuttered.

share.inquirer.com

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 1d

I keep waiting for someone to dust off some of the odder old pulp SF, like CL Moore. C'mon, with just a little work, a Northwest Smith film trilogy is right there.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 2d

The Otter Limits

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Trans Rescue Action 🏳️‍⚧️ @transrescueaction.bsky.social · Mar 30

There is ongoing scam happening posing as a black trans safe house in Texas. The fake org is "Black Trans Texas Connection."

There is an IG page
@blacktransscam

that verifies its nonexistence by checking w local orgs in its supposed operating city of Houston. 👇

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 3d

Just needs a straw skimmer and some smoked spectacles.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 3d

They should have called it Short Eyes.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 4d

A few years ago, I woke up with a riff stuck in my head that I couldn't identify. Took a while for my brain to catch up enough to recognize the opening of Television's "Little Johnny Jewel". Drove me nuts for hours.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 7d

They are certainly a part of mine.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 7d

I am not sure what sort of occasions this would be suited for, but I am fairly sure that the amount of scarring this would show is poorly suited to them.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 8d

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 9d

I recently worked through all the California-required disclosures for selling my late parents' house, and one of the questions was about any death in the house in the last 3 years. Some cultures around here can take it very seriously, as I expect you know.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, it was something different when I read it at 14 or so, but I had... questions. Later, I realized that the same era had produced the Aquarian Occult Revival, Scientology, and the Human Potential Movement, and in that light, this book is at least a relatively harmless product of the time.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 16d

I bet Jeffries has such a stiffly-worded note ready to go about this.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 17d

I'm glad I got to experience them when I could still fit into Size L, before all the exercise and such made it impossible. I still miss the Polk St. Headlines store.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 17d

Remember, it's pronounced "Bigbooté":

The baddies from "Buckaroo Banzai," including Lloyd as John Bigbooté.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 20d

The the men of the modern right seem to spend the years between 18 and 35 looking like their balls never dropped, and then rapidly devolving to look like 60-year-old rummies by 40.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 20d

I'll try to not read it for four minutes and thirty-three seconds.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 20d

Been reading him since the late 70s when I picked up The Jewel in the Skull.
Even if he doesn't get name-checked a lot, I see his influence in a lot of work from the last 30 years, from novels to anime, RPGs, and illustration. It's like his ideas are now so ubiquitous as to be invisible.

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 20d

Great sound. It always strikes me how much lower wolves howl compared to coyotes.

David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 20d

Take comfort in Wilde's maxim, perhaps: "There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 21d

Yep. When I was growing up, we lived in London fairly often, for anywhere from a year to a few months, and I can remember turning on the TV in the 70s and seeing these dudes. That was pretty disturbing.
And then there's the old Robertson's Marmalade labels and their mascot...

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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 21d

Someone's going to show a cheeseburger using one of these instead of a processed "cheese" slice. It may have already happened.