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(DIR) Post #AS0A7ccO0VXwvOM7g8 by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-25T12:34:59Z
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Writing prompt picture. Tell a story in one post/reply. Any genre.#author #authors #writing #writingcommunity #writingprompt #DigitalArt #digital #art #Promptodon #FlashFiction #ghoststory #nonfiction #MicroFiction #horrorPrompt #sff #fantasy #SciFi
(DIR) Post #AS0AjqaCXE0lEvYqJM by markearnest@mstdn.mystikos.org
2023-01-25T12:41:53Z
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@cattailnu Finally discovering where Airwolf was hidden, Stingfellow Hawk prepares to make his move.
(DIR) Post #AS0LbnxhUjiyI2v7eS by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-25T14:43:41Z
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@markearnest Hopefully a successful maneuver!
(DIR) Post #AS0gvoG8CI2e2bvBpo by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-25T18:42:35Z
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@cattailnu The not so little scorpion saw what he thought would be his dinner. A lizard. Small and tasty. It would be easy. It was alone and scared, but not for long. He was hungry. This drought had been too long. Then, from nowhere, another lizard was over the scorpion. It was fast. He was able to escape, but not without losing his tail. It would grow again. But it scared him. He somehow knew that that lizard was the first of the new rulers of their world…#WritingPrompt
(DIR) Post #AS0hys9uFrzixU2BBw by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-25T18:54:21Z
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@ixtlidekami Poor little scorpion...
(DIR) Post #AS0kGG1qxY9lozgWfI by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-25T19:19:55Z
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@cattailnu He isn't so little. He's a permian scorpion so he must be, at least, 50 cm long…=)
(DIR) Post #AS0pM6OyAJvfTJ6UMK by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T20:16:56Z
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@cattailnu July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m.They called it TrinityPart of the Manhattan projectThey created a small town, populated it with mannequins, furnished it, provisioned it as a slice of small town AmericaThen they detonated the first nuclear weapon & destroyed itThey'd set up sensors & cameras to record in detail everything that happenedBut they didn't check what the radiation did to the flora & faunaThe first of the megacentruroides would reveal that error
(DIR) Post #AS17gUr4ky8MHM7mue by trombalazana@noc.social
2023-01-25T23:42:22Z
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@cattailnu Scorpion: It's hotter than july.Stevie: Already taken.Scorpion: What about some changing of the wind.Stevie: Wind of change?Scorpion: Let's make it plural.Stevie: You and me?Scorpion: No, me and my lobsters, following the Moskva down to Gorky Park.Stevie: Too much sun blinded me and melt your brain.End of scene with Scorpion going west, whistling, while Stevie, a mirage, fades away.
(DIR) Post #AS1ASQ1EEye95Vqu4u by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:13:26Z
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@ixtlidekami Little is relative... you know, compared to Jupiter, he's really pretty small, and poor little Jupiter really is tiny compared to TrES-4b.
(DIR) Post #AS1AW1QRcUJryIMgqG by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:14:07Z
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@staringatclouds we welcome our new megacentruroides overlords.
(DIR) Post #AS1AjWIa94MRUI7jI8 by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-26T00:16:31Z
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@cattailnu And TrES-4b is *LESS* than nothing next to some people's ego…=)
(DIR) Post #AS1CWT0LHW9VPlUnPE by sj_ashcroft2@libranet.de
2023-01-25T22:18:08Z
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Somewhere in the depths of its consciousness, a memory stirred. A memory of impossibly cool days that, somehow, were enjoyable. Of strange, straight, smooth and glistening pillars of... of what? Rock? The only thing it knew with which to compare the image. A memory of lights that blotted out the freezing hell of the desert nights, hiding the stars and the moonIt remembered, somehow, that far of time when the ugly, two legged monsters devoured the earth. Before their doom came.It remembered, somehow, its far off ancestors. The beings it once was, before it became a scorpion type creature, basking in the delicious heat of the ageing sun
(DIR) Post #AS1CWTZ5CLwR9VkXYX by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:36:35Z
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@sj_ashcroft2 I'm seeing a trend of doom with this image... the sun heat is nice!
(DIR) Post #AS1CcQgcoSEBxl7H2e by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:37:39Z
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@trombalazana Someone better get Scorpion a drink...
(DIR) Post #AS1CfZymibcTeY71v6 by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:38:15Z
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@ixtlidekami Like MINE !!!! I AM AWESOME ! MAGNIFICENT !!!!
(DIR) Post #AS1Dapm6fCpH9FU21Q by gnarlygeek@hachyderm.io
2023-01-26T00:48:32Z
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@cattailnu Hek'tanl paused in early dawn light to wait for Chul'flyx, emptying their boot of sand. They were halfway to the mount and the "portal of prophesy". The giant scorpion basking in the dawn light was no danger to them. It was a harbinger. Rumors and legends told of larger beasts but it mattered not. Their quest consumed them."Right, I'm ready.", announced Chul'flyx. Hek'tanl turned, "I'd say we have at least one cycle before we reach the mount." Both turned an stared over the desert.
(DIR) Post #AS1Dp8tuLp6eWIxHpQ by gnarlygeek@hachyderm.io
2023-01-26T00:51:03Z
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@cattailnu I really wanted to write something with a western vibe but it keeps coming out fantasy/scifi - it's a curse! 🤣
(DIR) Post #AS1EGLBamb2mROCDT6 by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:56:06Z
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@gnarlygeek Yeah, who needs to pay attention to harbingers...
(DIR) Post #AS1EJBRdSOS9673VuS by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T00:56:36Z
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@gnarlygeek Muhahahaha!!! The stories will leap out of your head how they want not how you want...
(DIR) Post #AS1Hf3FssysRvog6tc by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-26T01:34:09Z
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@cattailnu I approve it. I wish I could be the same but, alas, the damn mail and file unix server I had to maintain 23 years ago left me without ego, self-esteem, dignity, and the will to live…=)
(DIR) Post #AS1rQN9UDyP9e8zA6C by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T08:14:53Z
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@ixtlidekami tech burnout is real. *hugs*
(DIR) Post #AS21yMqgrCHW5s2hH6 by staringatclouds@mastodon.social
2023-01-26T10:13:04Z
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@cattailnu All hail our eight legged rulers 🦂
(DIR) Post #AS2Esusyh7lXK8qMlc by sj_ashcroft2@libranet.de
2023-01-26T09:49:11Z
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Doom or evolution, @cattailnu ? And is there a difference?
(DIR) Post #AS2EsvJv4xJgfhRslE by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T12:37:44Z
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@sj_ashcroft2 No difference, but might put those into lyrics...
(DIR) Post #AS2QDNNfYk9UzG9q8f by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-26T14:44:42Z
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@cattailnu Thanks…=)Imagine this H0RЯ0R: an HP god_knows_what_model server from 1997, a SCO UNIX from 1996, a defective power supply, and an unstable electrical installation.Working with that server was a punishment. The area manager didn't liked me. His mails were always lost as a "thank you" from me…>=)
(DIR) Post #AS2SiA7t5atilRaFRA by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T15:12:41Z
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@ixtlidekami Sounds super fun... :(
(DIR) Post #AS2kL4yDtIZFHvCpSS by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-26T18:30:12Z
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@cattailnu Deleting his mails? Yes. It was fun. No. It was |=U|\|…>=)Working with that $%&#$&@#!!! server? It was hell. For some reason we (I) had to reinstall everything from scratch 2 times or more every week. It only could work with the factory installed hard drives and there was no $$$ in the budget to replace the power supply, that was the source of every problem that thing had. And we (I) certainly would not pay for it myself…=-|
(DIR) Post #AS2oZuOts36ufQ0iqu by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T19:17:44Z
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@ixtlidekami Yeah - that would be really annoying. Needed a presentation to boss on labor costs vs hardware costs.
(DIR) Post #AS2q0yq7ZfxcCvDQvY by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-26T19:33:47Z
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@cattailnu That boss once said to his bosses that we, the 5 person IT Team (3 which were banned from every other area of the "company", a government entity, to go there so there were really just 2 of us) would do a full rewiring of the entire network (8000 pcs, in buildings spread all around the city) in a week. In a week we weren't unable to rewire the pcs of our floor side (50 pcs) because union laws…=-|Our boss wasn't very brilliant…>=)
(DIR) Post #AS38P9uxpuBogs9yLY by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-26T22:59:52Z
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@ixtlidekami Sounds like a real winner. Sales and marketing, not reality. Sorry you had to deal with that.
(DIR) Post #AS3BJTptAT5eaflmbo by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-26T23:32:27Z
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@cattailnu No. He was a lousy salesman too. He failed to sell his bosses the idea that he was a real engineer and was fired a few months later. But I was stuck with tending that damned server for 2 years more.The secret was knowing the right point to hit it so it would boot again…>=)
(DIR) Post #AS3JBUGySWLFGJ8dPc by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-27T01:00:40Z
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@ixtlidekami Thump!!!!
(DIR) Post #AS3LgCpLZTEe2azWgy by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-27T01:28:38Z
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@cattailnu Caveman IT techniques, we could call that…=)
(DIR) Post #AS3NUgZBNK8Mi145jM by cattailnu@uiuxdev.social
2023-01-27T01:48:57Z
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@ixtlidekami But it works!
(DIR) Post #AS3P5AbnFyIiGJFOWe by ixtlidekami@mstdn.social
2023-01-27T02:06:44Z
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@cattailnu "Never buy a device that can't be fixed without violence" is one of my philosophies…=)