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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 14h

This is going to be me now. I've been masking, but unmasking to eat/drink/for photos. And I've avoided covid so far.
But, I've been put on an immunosuppressant, so that ends. If I'm not outside or with trusted people, I'm masked.

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 19h

I am SO glad I didn't have this information when I was there for a month, most in its territory.

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 1d

Yoink!

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 1d

Starting @tkingfisher.com's "What Stalks the Deep". Will I sleep well tonight? How about tomorrow night? Only time will tell.

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 3d

I just wish Seanan and Ursula would quit releasing new books at essentially the same time.

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that's certainly a take on it.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 4d

I can't help with the deck, but sometimes I forget 'finished a book' means something different when you say it.

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 4d

Special-size notecards (so you can't just refill with 3x5 cards.) With Printed Circles!

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon of bugs bunny laying in the dirt with a caption that says hmm

ALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny laying in the dirt with a caption that says hmm

media.tenor.com

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 7d

They've lost him? AGAIN?!

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 9d

According to MAGA, we're already doing that.

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 16d

For my author friends.

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 17d

I am *SO* looking forward to the Hugos in LA.

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 19d

Tweet from @SketchesbyBoze

"Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential."

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 19d

It's tradition to tell the hives when a beekeeper dies.

Has anyone told the chimps?

RIP, Jane.

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 20d

This aged well.

Alt text for those who need it.
Picture of trump with a quote below it.

"A #shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak."
Donald J. #Trump
2013

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 20d

Would my favorite authors Please Stop releasing new books at the same time?!

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 20d

Hey, the Omnibus Edition only weighs a bit over 2 kg.
I think the only fiction book I have that is heavier might be "20 Years of Dilbert"

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

goes first

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

"air in the tires..."

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

and a clean serving spoon on the saucer.
She looked like somebody had hit her with a half-brick in a sock. The other church ladies looked almost as shocked.
After the meal, my aunt took her aside, said something to her quietly (she never told), and never returned to that church; even in death. /fini

Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

at these things, so we all went to the groaning table loaded with at least 8 C&D crock pots, several tater tot casseroles, baked beans, and all the Midwest things you'd expect.
When we were finished, every dish had at least something taken out of it except her crock pot, with the lid still on 4/

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

with chicken and slick dumplings. If you don't know what those are, go look. You back? On with the story.
At his funeral about 10 years ago, my aunt who was the most petty person I'd ever met told the family to not touch her chicken and dumplings. We were all scared of her, so... Family always 3/

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

He got everything at cost. The only Non-GM things on that car were the air in the stores and the water in the cooling system.
He never forgave her.
Couple of things you have to know about Missouri Synod Lutherans: they invented passive-aggression, and the go-to potluck dish is a crock pot loaded 2/

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Adventure Mammal @sspiffyblue.bsky.social · 22d

Back in the 70s, my uncle in rural MO was a well known member of a national car club for a certain high performance GM car. At a national meet a woman who lived near him was a judge and downgraded his car for "Non-GM parts." Now, Doc had been a dealer mechanic for that brand since the 50s. 1/

sol @evan.sooscreek.productions · 22d

“Leave their church potluck casserole untouched”

If you didn’t grow up in evangelical circles, you have no idea how cold this is. I’m just picturing a woman hissing at her husband who works for ICE because“They won’t even touch my tater tot casserole anymore Bob.”

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23d

Disinvite them from the tailgate. Do not go to the baby shower. Call out their bullshit on Facebook. Do not just purse your lips and nod politely.

Ostracize the living shit out of them. Leave their church potluck casserole untouched. These people are extremely vulnerable to social shame.

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