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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 3h

It's frightening how many people I am friends with or follow on LinkedIn who comment/like posts from LinkedIn lunatics. Also, I'm especially annoyed with the overall BS of corporate ideology.

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 4h

Oh ho! Eyes are peeling @mozilla.org! Don't let this Michigander down!

Mozilla @mozilla.org · Sep 16

Some sessions will be live streamed, yes! Keep your eyes on this space as we get closer to #MozFest for more details 👀

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 4h

Just learned about #MozFest via LinkedIn (geeze) and I want to go! It's in Barcelona in November! Conf passes are only €45! Schedule looks amazing! BUT! Can't make it due to cost of travel and short lead time. And no virtual component other than Discord. :(

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 4h

We do not discuss that nor check ingredients. We just assume they are taking a loss. Either way, it'll last me and Mr. Lisa quite a while!

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 5h

I've spent my time on Bluesky for a bit. Time to get back to the grind!

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 5h

Read. 👇(There are two other things you can do and yes, Google is evil, but it is helpful: Go to account settings > security > dark web report and to have Google remove results about you (name, address, phone number), go here myactivity.google.com/results-abou...)

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13d

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

I'l have to get space on DIgital Ocean, create a DNS entry for the sub domain, and teach myself Docker to get it to work. Or I can "hire" Mr. Lisa to do this for me, which is an option. He needs a new project AND he knows Docker.

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

I have issues with companies like HootSuite, which charge zillions for their social media management apps. For the work I do, I would be in debt if I used them. Checking out open source apps and looking at MixPost, which looks really cool, has a reasonable flat rate. It's self-hosted with Docker.

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

I don't think I've ever stolen t-shirts or any kind of clothes from exes, as they were either too small or too big! I will say the t-shirts I bougth in the ealry '00s when I was traveling aborad are now too small but damned if I will part with them.

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

My county, and the next one over, are on it with the plowing. My area is run by the township, so we're typically last to be plowed. It was bad enough last season, I didn't go to work 2 or 3x? The guy who plows our driveway was on it as well. Cabin's windows are brand new and the car has beefy tires.

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

There was a company 20 yrs ago called Neighborhoodies (seems to be long since gone) who made hoodies with the name of your neighborhood blazen across your chest. I got one for my neighborhood, left it at a friend's house, and never got it back. So, I feel you. I have not forgiven that person.

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

I have five degrees (including two masters, of which one is a MLIS) and my other duties as assigned are: restocking bathrooms, vacuuming, watering plants, clearing spiders from the book drop, cutting out stickers to give to the kiddos, and more. So yep, that MLIS degree is worth it. /s

Andrew Stout @thomasacstout.bsky.social · 1d

Before I went to grad school, I worked multiple jobs that involved restocking bathrooms

Two masters degrees and two professional library gigs later - still restocking bathrooms 📚

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

The company Mr. Lisa works for has ALL their shit in AWS so Mr. Lisa was hauled into work crack of dawn Lisa time to fix. DO NOT KEEP ALL YOUR SHIT IN ONE LOCATION.

Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social · 15h

Lots of web services offline due to Amazon Web Server outages (lots of companies use their server services).

Including lots of our library resources from various providers. #academiclibraries #medlibs 📚

www.independent.co.uk/tech/aws-ama...

Amazon internet outage breaks dozens of major apps, websites and banks: Latest

DownDetector has been flooded with huge spikes for many apps people use every day

www.independent.co.uk

Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

"The Dog With No Ears." I was five. (I even "published" it by sewing the pages into a book with thread.)

Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 7h

I was thinking about early writing recently and I'm curious—short fiction writers: what is the earliest short story you remember finishing that wasn't for a school project or anything?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

I bought two excellent things at Costco this past weekend:

- An extremely large pumpkin pie for $5.99, and it is very delicious
- My velour tracksuit in puke green for $18.99

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 6h

I enjoy it! (I'd say "we" but Mr. Lisa is slowly getting over the idea of being rural.) It's over 50 years old (nothing compared to your delight) but we've been working on replacing/winterizing for a few years now. Last winter was our first full winter. 146" of snow! And we survived!

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 13h

I live in an A-frame cabin in the woods. No, this is not the setup for a horror movie. Anyway, our heat is a gas stove in the common area. My office is in the loft of the A-frame. Heat rises. I'm sweating bullets over here. If we didn't have a ceiling fan up here, I'd be a puddle of mush.

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 1d

ALSO THANK FUCK! I was going to start importing it via Canadian friends!

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 1d

Define your taste in books with 8 authors

📚 Jane Austen
📚 Terry Pratchett
📚 Kate Atkinson
📚 Emily Henry
📚 Abby Jimenez
📚 Mary MacLane
📚 Clarice Lispector
📚 Ursula Parrott

(Interestingly, Terry Pratchett is the only male writer in my list and in the fantasy realm.)

The Stick: Tea and Books @poetsofsweetpea.bsky.social · 1d

Define your taste in books with 8 authors

Leigh Bardugo
V.E. Schwab
Tana French
E.A. Aymar
Stephen Graham Jones
Matt Dinniman
Emily Henry
Andy Weir

#booksky 💙📚

Ulrike @uli2912.bsky.social · 1d

Definite your taste in books with 8 authors
- Maggie Stiefvater
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- V.E. Schwab
- Dietrich Stogner
- Emily Tesh
- Anne Rice
- Leigh Bardugo
- Stephen Fry

#booksky 💙📚

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

the idea of antifa paying protesters is so funny. if i wanted to get paid to destroy the government i’d run for congress

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 1d

In this issue of AMUN: Buying clothes off the rack, accountability, following morning after the elbow concert, and more! 👉🏻 open.substack.com/pub/amostunr...

A photo of the entrance to a Dollarama store. Two emojis on top of the image: one is a candy bar, and the other is a single tennis shoe. In white text, it says, "A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #224 Is Canadian candy worth the wait?" And below it, also in white text, it says, "Right now, the answer is a resounding, 'No.'"

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 1d

I have 1 laptop VPN'd into a UK IP while other devices are US-based. Google picked up on this, signed me out of ALL devices, and asked me to change my password immediately, thinking the UK login was a hack. I changed my password and signed back in. Pain? Yes, but I wish this was a common thing.

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Happy Lisa-ween! @pookiebear.net · 1d

I would watch a buddy movie with Ethan Hawke and Peter Dinklage all the live long day.

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