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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · Apr 3

#Introduction

💜 Wife to @random-seed.bsky.social
🐱 Cat Mom to #BodhiTheFluffButt
💾 30+ yrs #IT • #Linux • #DevOps • #InfoSec • #ProjectManagement
🌈♾️ #ActuallyAutistic • #OCD
🎮 #WoW • #Fallout76 • and more
🥟 #FoodSky
📚 #BookSky

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly.

I was thinking that. I don't know why I didn't outright say it.

Brain is migraining and not firing on all cylinders atm. 😂

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 20h

Grrr. Census forms.

Autocorrect *makes rude gesture*

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 20h

So, unless you could read and write well enough. Often times, there was no one on hand to correct the census taker, who where barely educated themselves.

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 20h

I'm big into genealogy. And it's one of the biggest hurdles I've encountered when tracing ancestral lines. Church baptism and marriage records tend to be more accurate versus census data when it comes to names and appropriate spelling.

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 20h

Also, if you look on senses forms in the 1800s through the early 1900s, a lot of names were spelled phonetically. My great-great-grandfather came from Switzerland. There it was spelled Schneiter. By the time it rolled around to his son, the spelling became Synder.

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 20h

You had to have numbers memorized. Otherwise, how could you make a collect call home and have it be from "Pick me up at the roller rink?"

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 20h

He ain't foolin' us with those Rust-Oleum spray painted polyurethane casts from Home Depot.

The shit is easy to find and price out on their website.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to our USian neighbors

Scene from The Good Place where Janet says "Fun Fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place... because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide"

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 2d

ain’t this truth
and it sucks

show some empathy, folks

Quote post by @_heatherlynn.
i will also add: everyone's fine with your disability until your disability affects -them- or what you can do for them.
Original post reads: everyone's fine with your disability until your disability actually affects you.

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 1d

A two-panel cartoon labeled "How it started" and "How it's going" shows a riot scene with a labeled "Capitol PD" officer being chased and beaten by masked Trump protestor from J6, and then the same masked figure labeled as "ICE" beating a frightened Statue of Liberty in the next panel.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

Rounding up the Anti-Fascists.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Fuck Christopher Columbus Day

A Native American woman in traditional jewelry holding her middle finger up text on the bottom of the image says fuck Christopher Columbus

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 2d

Or we have delayed empathy. Especially when we are ambushed in social situations and don't have time to properly process.

I'm very empathetic to most things but have delayed empathy on occasion. It takes me a bit to catch up in those situations and have an appropriate reaction.

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking ghouls.

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 3d

Kid Rock music is the official soundtrack for copper theft.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑 @lafayetteindivisible.com · 4d

🎉 Keep up the pressure #BlueDot #Hoosiers. Keep callin' those legislators, and for 🗽's sake and the future of your/our children & grandchildren, pls come protest at the #Indy State House at noon, tomorrow, Oct. 10. @bindergirl.bsky.social @stumora.bsky.social @woodenstares.bsky.social @hoosleft.us

Adam Wren @adamwren.bsky.social · 6d

Scoop: President Donald Trump’s mid-cycle redistricting push is on the verge of stalling in Indiana, top state Republican officials have warned the White House.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vance heads to Indiana after Republicans warn White House of stalled redistricting push

It marks the vice president's second trip to the Hoosier State over the remapping effort.

www.politico.com

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 4d

several bottles of ketchup are lined up on a table

Alt: several bottles of ketchup are walking out

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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 4d

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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, picking anyone on the right side of history would be "trolling" him at this point. There's so much wrong about him, it isn't hard.

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 4d

"Maria Corina Machado is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 4d

I can't even with these fucktards anymore...

JFC

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 4d

I'll take "Things That Didn't Happened" for $1000, Alex.

Dude really needs to a goddamned muzzle on that garbage disposal mouth/voice... whatever the fuck that is.

𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 4d

"I need to blame something, so I'm going to lie and manufacture false evidence."

What a dumb ass.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."