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E. C. Bigribs

eedly@mindly.social

<p>Tester of software. </p><p>Servant to cats. </p><p>Rider of motorcycles. </p><p>Adequate spouse. </p><p>Recovering malcontent. </p><p>Occasional assembler of words and images. </p><p>Sometimes deliberately obtuse for comedic effect, other times accidentally obtuse for bathetic effect; rarely but not never both at the same time. </p><p>Possibly five raccoons in an Aerostich suit. </p><p>Sancho Panza to a thirteen-year-old Doña Quixote. </p><p>Still bad at boosting.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NoTagsPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoTagsPub</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NoBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoBots</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NoBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoBot</span></a></p>

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    Yet another in a long series of indignities. #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon

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    @siege@masto.hackers.town I&#39;d suggest that the driver is some kind of shiny piercing. To me, the best advertiser name would be something like GRAHAM&#39;S ANGRY COOKIE SHACK that would just spell out GAY COCK when the race car isn&#39;t, um, erect.

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    Northern flicker! Taking a dirt bath! In the driveway! #BirdCallout

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    Three years ago today, I spun out my bike and broke my ankle in the middle of the Elliott State Forest. With the then-very-new #Boygenius song &amp;quot;Not Strong Enough&amp;quot; bouncing through my head, I stood on one leg, lifted the bike back up, and followed the map to the nearest exit from the forest. I hit snow, and a mile later I was confronted by a fallen tree across the road. So, one-legged in the snow, I turned the bike around and headed back out the way I came, 20 miles in first gea...

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    Earlier today I made a remark somewhere around here about how the teenager rarely wants to do errands on the #motorcycle. Then the planets aligned—which is to say she had some homework she wanted to postpone—and we went to the store.

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    @Pepijn I have picked up a barred owl and a red-tailed hawk (not at the same time). However, I have never been in a situation where either I or a swan/duck/goose would benefit from me putting hands on it, so I&#39;ve kept them to myself.

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    @EdCates I have hearing aids, which *almost* work like a bluetooth headset: I have to hold the phone within about half a meter of my mouth, but I can speak in a conversational tone, and nobody can hear the other end of the conversation, so in the supermarket it generally looks like I&#39;m clutching a holy object to my chest and talking to Jesus about whether we need eggs.

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    The council has convened. #CatsOfMastodon #caturday

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    @TheNeedling I forgot that Fife was a real place (I know I know, debatable). For the past several years I&#39;ve come to believe FIFE WA was some cryptic USPS acronym for &quot;we decided to keep your package&quot;.

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    I like the #PWHL innovation of Jailbreak Goals. I think if you score in an even-strength shorthanded situation, they should call it a General Amnesty Goal and let everyone out of the box.

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    So Getty Images has a few photos of my grandmother as a young woman. They were fashion photos published in Vogue in 1927-28; we&amp;#39;ve come down a bit in the world since then. You would think that, for an exorbitant fee, I&amp;#39;d be able to order a print or two, n&amp;#39;est-ce pas? Non! I could license them temporarily for a specific approved purpose (i.e. not hanging on a wall in my house), or—and this is the kick in the groin—I can pay to have Getty&amp;#39;s AI make a picture base...

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    @cstross@wandering.shop IIRC it was just a grab-and-eat type monster. @darkling@mstdn.social