Extropic Crusader (BLM)
@extropiccrusade.bsky.social
She/they; SRE on hiatus: burnout sucks; writerish, doodles, plays with power tools and hot iron, bakes, crochets, gardens, reads copiously, and drinks a LOT of tea. #UglyDogs FTW
My mom gave me the mini cider press I've been coveting for several years, and I had a few apples from my tree frozen downstairs.
This cider is INCREDIBLY sweet, and about as local as possible. I am now looking forward to next fall with a mad scientist cackle that should probably worry my family.
This cider is INCREDIBLY sweet, and about as local as possible. I am now looking forward to next fall with a mad scientist cackle that should probably worry my family.
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My mom gave me the mini cider press I've been coveting for several years, and I had a few apples from my tree frozen downstairs.
This cider is INCREDIBLY sweet, and about as local as possible. I am now looking forward to next fall with a mad scientist cackle that should probably worry my family.
This cider is INCREDIBLY sweet, and about as local as possible. I am now looking forward to next fall with a mad scientist cackle that should probably worry my family.
The ground is frozen, so of course the plant I want is back in stock.
Sorry, garden store. I don't get to buy any plants until March.
Sorry, garden store. I don't get to buy any plants until March.
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The ground is frozen, so of course the plant I want is back in stock.
Sorry, garden store. I don't get to buy any plants until March.
Sorry, garden store. I don't get to buy any plants until March.
Movie you've watched more than six times, with a gif. Hard mode: No Star (Wars|Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times, with a gif. Hard mode: No Star (Wars|Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Hey #UglyDogs - caption this? I'm trying to figure out exactly why the shark thinks it's a sled dog. The corgi obviously is a @runmuppyrun.bsky.social wannabe. 😆
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey #UglyDogs - caption this? I'm trying to figure out exactly why the shark thinks it's a sled dog. The corgi obviously is a @runmuppyrun.bsky.social wannabe. 😆
Me, to my mother, in text: I apologize for all the times you were right, and knew you were right, and I ignored what you told me because I didn't want to believe it.
Why yes, I'm dealing with a teenager, and it is totally karmic payback for my teenagerdom. :lolsob:
Why yes, I'm dealing with a teenager, and it is totally karmic payback for my teenagerdom. :lolsob:
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Me, to my mother, in text: I apologize for all the times you were right, and knew you were right, and I ignored what you told me because I didn't want to believe it.
Why yes, I'm dealing with a teenager, and it is totally karmic payback for my teenagerdom. :lolsob:
Why yes, I'm dealing with a teenager, and it is totally karmic payback for my teenagerdom. :lolsob:
The library gave me _What Stalks The Deep_, and I mainlined it in about 4 hours, and now I'm buying it. The middle sworn-soldier book didn't do it for me, but the first one was also a delight. (Different flavors for different tastes!)
Thanks for another excellent creepy story, @tkingfisher.com !
Thanks for another excellent creepy story, @tkingfisher.com !
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The library gave me _What Stalks The Deep_, and I mainlined it in about 4 hours, and now I'm buying it. The middle sworn-soldier book didn't do it for me, but the first one was also a delight. (Different flavors for different tastes!)
Thanks for another excellent creepy story, @tkingfisher.com !
Thanks for another excellent creepy story, @tkingfisher.com !
Dear Jade Plant,
Gravity is still there, you didn't need to test it. Guess I'm potting up some clones? Maybe don't do that again.
Love,
Your Human
Gravity is still there, you didn't need to test it. Guess I'm potting up some clones? Maybe don't do that again.
Love,
Your Human
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Dear Jade Plant,
Gravity is still there, you didn't need to test it. Guess I'm potting up some clones? Maybe don't do that again.
Love,
Your Human
Gravity is still there, you didn't need to test it. Guess I'm potting up some clones? Maybe don't do that again.
Love,
Your Human
I would like the 2+ hours I have spent debugging what has gotten borked on my kid's laptop such that parental time reporting turned off. He applied a security patch, bang, no more time reporting.
He was using that to track his own usage stats, thanks. Gah. It looks like a bit flip, but WHY?
He was using that to track his own usage stats, thanks. Gah. It looks like a bit flip, but WHY?
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I would like the 2+ hours I have spent debugging what has gotten borked on my kid's laptop such that parental time reporting turned off. He applied a security patch, bang, no more time reporting.
He was using that to track his own usage stats, thanks. Gah. It looks like a bit flip, but WHY?
He was using that to track his own usage stats, thanks. Gah. It looks like a bit flip, but WHY?
Having spent today arguing both with various pieces of technology (successfully, but I needed to invoke customer service) and with a virus that my kid brought home just before Thanksgiving, I am so very flat tonight.
But my mom will enjoy the e-reader, and I will enjoy giving it to her.
But my mom will enjoy the e-reader, and I will enjoy giving it to her.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Having spent today arguing both with various pieces of technology (successfully, but I needed to invoke customer service) and with a virus that my kid brought home just before Thanksgiving, I am so very flat tonight.
But my mom will enjoy the e-reader, and I will enjoy giving it to her.
But my mom will enjoy the e-reader, and I will enjoy giving it to her.
> Besides Grateful Dead (0), Phish (0), and Widespread Panic (0), introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Peter, Paul, and Mary
October Project
Great Big Sea
Indigo Girls
Arlo Guthrie
Peter, Paul, and Mary
October Project
Great Big Sea
Indigo Girls
Arlo Guthrie
> Besides Grateful Dead (2), Phish(0), and Widespread Panic(0), introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Richard Thompson
Jethro Tull
Luka Bloom
October Project
Boiled in Lead
Richard Thompson
Jethro Tull
Luka Bloom
October Project
Boiled in Lead
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
> Besides Grateful Dead (0), Phish (0), and Widespread Panic (0), introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
Peter, Paul, and Mary
October Project
Great Big Sea
Indigo Girls
Arlo Guthrie
Peter, Paul, and Mary
October Project
Great Big Sea
Indigo Girls
Arlo Guthrie
Wildlife I have evicted from my garden repeatedly:
- White-footed Deer Mouse
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
- Eastern Cottontail
- North American Raccoon
- Mourning Dove
- White-footed Deer Mouse
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
- Eastern Cottontail
- North American Raccoon
- Mourning Dove
-housefly
-earthworm
-silverfish
-head louse
-daddy longlegs
-earthworm
-silverfish
-head louse
-daddy longlegs
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Wildlife I have evicted from my garden repeatedly:
- White-footed Deer Mouse
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
- Eastern Cottontail
- North American Raccoon
- Mourning Dove
- White-footed Deer Mouse
- Eastern Gray Squirrel
- Eastern Cottontail
- North American Raccoon
- Mourning Dove
The oven worked today, held on long enough to handle stuffing, muffins, cauliflower, and pie. The electrician will be called Monday.
Anyone who has suggestions on which powers to propitiate for a successful and uneventful repair, please let me know.
Anyone who has suggestions on which powers to propitiate for a successful and uneventful repair, please let me know.
It is the night before Thanksgiving and my stove has decided to trip its breaker when it gets turned on broil. I have not tested it on bake, and I'm praying it's just the broil setting.
But yhere are not enough capital letters in the English language to express my feelings about this.
But yhere are not enough capital letters in the English language to express my feelings about this.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The oven worked today, held on long enough to handle stuffing, muffins, cauliflower, and pie. The electrician will be called Monday.
Anyone who has suggestions on which powers to propitiate for a successful and uneventful repair, please let me know.
Anyone who has suggestions on which powers to propitiate for a successful and uneventful repair, please let me know.
It is the night before Thanksgiving and my stove has decided to trip its breaker when it gets turned on broil. I have not tested it on bake, and I'm praying it's just the broil setting.
But yhere are not enough capital letters in the English language to express my feelings about this.
But yhere are not enough capital letters in the English language to express my feelings about this.
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It is the night before Thanksgiving and my stove has decided to trip its breaker when it gets turned on broil. I have not tested it on bake, and I'm praying it's just the broil setting.
But yhere are not enough capital letters in the English language to express my feelings about this.
But yhere are not enough capital letters in the English language to express my feelings about this.
I have spent the past few days getting stuff out of the house: donating it, recycling it, throwing it away when there were no other options.
For the first time since we had to clear the basement of boxes for the plumbers (2+ months ago) I am not faced with a wall of boxes at the top of the stairs.
For the first time since we had to clear the basement of boxes for the plumbers (2+ months ago) I am not faced with a wall of boxes at the top of the stairs.
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have spent the past few days getting stuff out of the house: donating it, recycling it, throwing it away when there were no other options.
For the first time since we had to clear the basement of boxes for the plumbers (2+ months ago) I am not faced with a wall of boxes at the top of the stairs.
For the first time since we had to clear the basement of boxes for the plumbers (2+ months ago) I am not faced with a wall of boxes at the top of the stairs.
I had a job interview today, and it was the first time I have ever had an interview cut short. Correct call, though.
I asked how the ML algorithm had been trained. They equivocated, and I said, "I want to know if your algorithm got trained on stolen data that will get the company in a lawsuit." 1/2
I asked how the ML algorithm had been trained. They equivocated, and I said, "I want to know if your algorithm got trained on stolen data that will get the company in a lawsuit." 1/2
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I had a job interview today, and it was the first time I have ever had an interview cut short. Correct call, though.
I asked how the ML algorithm had been trained. They equivocated, and I said, "I want to know if your algorithm got trained on stolen data that will get the company in a lawsuit." 1/2
I asked how the ML algorithm had been trained. They equivocated, and I said, "I want to know if your algorithm got trained on stolen data that will get the company in a lawsuit." 1/2
Me: Ugh, this pot I transplanted my rosemary into doesn't have very good drainage, I'm going to have to be really careful about watering.
Pot: :develops hairline cracks:
Me: ... You know what? I'm fine with this for this winter! :puts saucer under the pot and calls it good enough:
Pot: :develops hairline cracks:
Me: ... You know what? I'm fine with this for this winter! :puts saucer under the pot and calls it good enough:
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Me: Ugh, this pot I transplanted my rosemary into doesn't have very good drainage, I'm going to have to be really careful about watering.
Pot: :develops hairline cracks:
Me: ... You know what? I'm fine with this for this winter! :puts saucer under the pot and calls it good enough:
Pot: :develops hairline cracks:
Me: ... You know what? I'm fine with this for this winter! :puts saucer under the pot and calls it good enough:
While I was on vacation - in a quiet space with most of the comforts I wanted, and enough sleep - I still had a day where the torrential rain and the November lack-of-sunlight wrecked my enjoyment of the whole day.
And I knew what was going on! I knew my brain was lying to me!
#StupidMeatsack
And I knew what was going on! I knew my brain was lying to me!
#StupidMeatsack
Knowing a thought is disordered isn't a banishment ritual!
Well, for a handful of people, it might be, and talking to someone else for perspective might offer a course correction. But for the majority, NO!
Well, for a handful of people, it might be, and talking to someone else for perspective might offer a course correction. But for the majority, NO!
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
While I was on vacation - in a quiet space with most of the comforts I wanted, and enough sleep - I still had a day where the torrential rain and the November lack-of-sunlight wrecked my enjoyment of the whole day.
And I knew what was going on! I knew my brain was lying to me!
#StupidMeatsack
And I knew what was going on! I knew my brain was lying to me!
#StupidMeatsack
Why do cats like investigating tea mugs? Even the stuffed ones!
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Why do cats like investigating tea mugs? Even the stuffed ones!
Ah, Monday morning with kids. One gave themself a bloody nose, and the other one wanted my hot glue for a school project that is due this morning. (This is the first I've heard of it.)
I didn't like sitcoms even BEFORE I was a parent.
I didn't like sitcoms even BEFORE I was a parent.
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ah, Monday morning with kids. One gave themself a bloody nose, and the other one wanted my hot glue for a school project that is due this morning. (This is the first I've heard of it.)
I didn't like sitcoms even BEFORE I was a parent.
I didn't like sitcoms even BEFORE I was a parent.
Did bells this morning and then got a special order from @breadboardbakery.bsky.social containing *16* of the most perfect apple-cheddar scones known to human. Now I have tea, music, scones, and a book. Cannot be beat.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Did bells this morning and then got a special order from @breadboardbakery.bsky.social containing *16* of the most perfect apple-cheddar scones known to human. Now I have tea, music, scones, and a book. Cannot be beat.
Ah hahahahaha!! FINALLY. It is time to see if the bicycle really is a magic super power or not! @premeemohamed.com 's latest hit my library and I have it in my clutches and I am so ready for this!
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ah hahahahaha!! FINALLY. It is time to see if the bicycle really is a magic super power or not! @premeemohamed.com 's latest hit my library and I have it in my clutches and I am so ready for this!
What you do not see is called garlic. It is odorous, tasty, and one of the healthier vegetables known to man.
(I've only been trying to get this in the ground since EARLY OCTOBER I would like a little break please? Today's "fun": my garage roof is rotting. 😬 Thank goodness for gardening.)
(I've only been trying to get this in the ground since EARLY OCTOBER I would like a little break please? Today's "fun": my garage roof is rotting. 😬 Thank goodness for gardening.)
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What you do not see is called garlic. It is odorous, tasty, and one of the healthier vegetables known to man.
(I've only been trying to get this in the ground since EARLY OCTOBER I would like a little break please? Today's "fun": my garage roof is rotting. 😬 Thank goodness for gardening.)
(I've only been trying to get this in the ground since EARLY OCTOBER I would like a little break please? Today's "fun": my garage roof is rotting. 😬 Thank goodness for gardening.)
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This is brilliant. Do not skip the alt-text.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is brilliant. Do not skip the alt-text.
Three days' work. One complete jelly roll. Doubled batting. Six bobbin winds. 50 feet of binding. Innumerable pins. Ten placemats.
And my thread neither jammed nor broke this entire project, so thank you to whoever it was that told me that thread gets old and I should chuck my grandmother's stash.
And my thread neither jammed nor broke this entire project, so thank you to whoever it was that told me that thread gets old and I should chuck my grandmother's stash.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Three days' work. One complete jelly roll. Doubled batting. Six bobbin winds. 50 feet of binding. Innumerable pins. Ten placemats.
And my thread neither jammed nor broke this entire project, so thank you to whoever it was that told me that thread gets old and I should chuck my grandmother's stash.
And my thread neither jammed nor broke this entire project, so thank you to whoever it was that told me that thread gets old and I should chuck my grandmother's stash.