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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1h

To answer some questions:
- We met on a BBS she ran
- She was always the better parent to stay home with the kids
- We only had two books overlapping when we combined our libraries, but hundreds more since then
- I taught the kids early driving

Two women standing in front of a colorful mural. The one on the left is wearing jeans, a black shirt, orange earrings, and a headscarf. The one on the right is wearing shorts, a sleeveless print top, pink hair, and an aqua sunhat. They are both smiling.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1h

30 years together!

See, good things can happen online! (We met on my old BBS, The Travelers Guild, which ran Citadel-86. I wooed her with my cat and Mustang.)

Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 1h

This is the day, 30 years ago, that @silmaria.bsky.social and I went on our first date.

We've accomplished so much together, but I think the really important thing is that we continue to choose each other, over and over, every day.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 2h

Building is still there! (I mean, this picture is from 1994 so it's a pretty safe bet that it was still there, but still.) If I'm reading the card right, built in 1916 with 7 stores. digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...

The restaurant is now Soberfish and calls itself a Thai Sushi Bar.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 3h

In 2021, then police chief Arradondo campaigned in uniform against the measure that would allow the council to radically restructure the police department (the only serious attempt to defund the police that happened here) and appeared in uniform with Mayor Frey at campaign stops.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 18h

From my projectionist days:

"Wrapped head, thrown platter."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 18h

In bizarre news of the kittens, it appears they dragged a stained glass hanging the size of 2 hands all the way across the bedroom and into their lair under the bed.

We are just as confused as you are.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 18h

We're out of diapers.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Andy @alleysofmpls.bsky.social · 1d

A-plus sign

Hand-written sign that says “U had yer Lurnin. Lettuce hav Hours”

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

Hot chocolate with Bailey's is a cool weather delight.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

Just after we moved we needed a cable I had gotten rid of.

Never again. Just mummify me in them when I kick it so I have them in the afterlife.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

The Salvation Army has repeatedly kicked lgbtq people out into the street to literally freeze to death.

They are evil.

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Because it needs to be said:

The Salvation Army does not exist to save you

The Salvation Army exists to convert you

And if they cannot convert you, they will not lift a finger to save you

Do not support those whose “charity“ comes with conditions

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

You'll never wrench my old Centronics parallel port printer cable from me.

Never.

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Energy Chris @energychris.bsky.social · 1d

Read this whole thread. This is what a true Christianity with Jesus at its center looks like. Not whatever the hell the perverse shit MAGA cultists are spewing. I’ve long ago given up on the Catholicism of my youth because so few had the courage to follow what Jesus actually called for.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

You're right, I miscounted. 5 is still more than 4 though, even if it was limited hours.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 1d

You would have to be over 70 to only have had 4 channels in the Twin Cities. We've had 6 channels since 1955 and at least 8 since 1982.

TelecomOne @telecomone.bsky.social · 1d

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 2d

I still have a teeny bit of hope that we'll get a Brewers vs Mariners World Series.

I'm realistic enough to realize probably not, but..... Maybe?

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Inkling @printinkling.bsky.social · 6d

So we really don't like to build our name off of someone else's dipshittery

but five months after this post
(which was not the first SM fuckery)

almost EVERY new sticker client mentions wanting to get away from Sticker Mule

So thanks, I guess, weird Sticker Mule guy.

Inkling @printinkling.bsky.social · Apr 15

We quality checked THREE THOUSAND stickers by hand this morning

I've had actually conversations with every single person who has ever ordered stickers from us.

We care about the quality of clients receive, not how cheap we can make them.

But go off about your robots, Donkey Show 💀

Sticker Mule CEO fires workers, touts robots: ‘Automate, automate, automate’

CEO Anthony Constantino says the company has installed 250 robots at production sites in past two years

www.timesunion.com

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 2d

This game is making me understand why people make video essays about video games. I mean, I've enjoyed listening to them before, but it's made me understand the urge to make them.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 3d

(Spoilers for a 5 year old game, I guess)
Also... her life probably sucks the least of the NPCs with quest chains, and she's mourning a dead husband. I'm doing her quest chain a bit differently, as it's definitely a "conversation choices change the ending" quest.

Damnit, I have thoughts.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 3d

Playing more 2077, and I like that there's a canonically trans character and that it's no big deal. We don't get to know her well enough in her quest chain to know how bad it was growing up, but it's.....kinda hopeful that there's a trans character whose life sucks for other reasons.

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Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 3d

I think you're overestimating how much of the bible that's they can't twist into evil they're reading or aware of. They're all about stoning and not about "the least of these".

Silmaria 🏳️‍⚧️ @silmaria.bsky.social · 4d

There are already enough NOTAMs that pilots are sometimes miss important things. This nonsensical garbage just gives them more crap to wade through to get to actually germaine data.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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