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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, but I meant purely mechanically.

Vampire lore varies, but people often extrapolate not showing up in mirrors to not being photographable. So, if you screenshot a posting vampire's post, do you just get a blank image?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

How do screenshots of posts interact with vampire rules?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, the movie was whatever. But how many quarters did Round Table Pizza make off of my overconfidence in timing my corners on the damn lightcycle game.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 1d

It's the oldest story -
Masses are oppressed
Faces, clothes and bladders
All distressed
Rich folks get the good life
Poor folks get the woe
In the end
It's nothing you don't know

You're in Urinetown!

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 2d

My "Carbon Black" Preppy has been inked without a deep clean for 18 months. Maybe twice over that time, the flow got annoying. So I pulled out the nib out for a quick rinse, stuck it back in, and all was good.

I wouldn't be so casual with, say, a piston filler, but the Preppy's been fine.

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 2d

I've enjoyed the Maruman Spiral Note basic notebook in B5, dot grid. It's not the sleek black cover but the basic "student notebook" Maruman line. And while it's metal rings, by flipping pages all the way over, I get one landscape B5 page for notes where an open A5 notebook would be too big.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, in my experience (in the US) B5 sized notebooks are far more common with Japanese brands. Leuchtturm1917 is only European brand I see making them, and it's the expensive, hardcover kind -- nice if you like that, but a bit much for general note taking.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

I mean that one should be like the free space in Bingo. How anyone ever gets that wrong is *wild*

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

For well-priced notebooks that perform well with fountain pens, Kokuyo Campus are far better than they have any right to be. Maruman also makes a bunch of styles of "business appropriate" basic black notebooks and notepads with great paper inside in a lot of rulings.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

And not as rough to clean (in my experience) as I feared due to warnings about pigmented inks.

It's best in permanence, has good flow even in a pen that's sat for a bit, and it also *looks* the best with a smooth matte look when dry. I truly love it.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

Well, his doctor the previous term is now a Republican Congressman from Texas, perhaps this one does not plan to remain in the medical profession either.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

On the subject of pumpernickel, are deli sandwich orders also a mandatory disclosure in NYC?

I am picturing someone getting corned beef with American cheese on a baguette or something equally atrocious.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

a black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat pointing at something .

Alt: A black and white animation of a scowling man in a suit and hat, who raises one arm to point away from him while speaking. Subtitled with "Get out."

media.tenor.com

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

Cinnamon Raisin?!? WTF!

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

Completely ungrounded speculation, but did she drop something diving for cover from a border patrol car trying to run protesters over?

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

And much like the actual Wario, a figure with a "there but for the grace go I" tragic backstory leading to his current state.

But however regrettable that is, he has become irredeemable, and must be consumed by flame. Or, you know, Ice Flower if that's the kind of level it is.

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 3d

1300 words a page! What is this, microfiche?

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 5d

Wait... how does one even uses their "AI" without providing Input?

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 7d

So was it the lady, or was it the tiger?

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 7d

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, I am irritated when a company retires a software offering that I enjoyed and was used to. And heck, the "new version has changes I don't need or want" is all to common to all kinds of services and applications!

One can enjoy "AI" LLMs without needing to get weirdly anthropomorphic about it.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 9d

Oh gosh, if we're going disco, the only issue with a creepified version of "Stayin' Alive" would be being *too* on the nose in an extended "escaping from the killer" sequence.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 9d

Does Siouxsie count as pop? Am I telling on myself in some way by even asking?

In any case, downtempo "Peek-A-Boo" intrigues me as to its possibilities.

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 9d

At least it doesn't experience the rush of happiness thinking they are on a path to self-actualization, only to then have their optimism dashed to pieces.

Because, you know, it not having a mind or feelings, and all that.

Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 9d

And also far *better* than they appear on paper.

(Glass breaks)

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Robert Brydon @robertbrydon.bsky.social · 9d

Deleted it. That was not the way to express what I wanted to, and I appreciate the call out.

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