Posts by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
(DIR) Post #B0YGRgRvOUmpVs89SK by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-11-23T22:57:25Z
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@futurebird Ma'am, you still can't bring them on the plane.
(DIR) Post #B0qkx1fWKnNVrVVWzY by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-02T21:04:01Z
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@futurebird You'd use them in time calculations (multiplying fpart of hours by 60 to get minutes, etc.); could they be there primarily for that?
(DIR) Post #B117Ky8VGEQOQcU9NQ by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-07T21:01:58Z
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@futurebird You contain multitudes!
(DIR) Post #B1DbNAsmAbIX3rcFRw by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-13T21:35:04Z
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@futurebird Siblingdom may easily contribute to this. My younger sister used to count presents on Xmas morning.When my husband was working from home while I walked 2.5 miles each way, he had to step in to stop me serving him as much dinner as I served myself. It just feels wrong to take more, somehow.
(DIR) Post #B1E6Q2iu3kKRCgqUsq by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-14T03:22:57Z
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@futurebird Oooooooooof.
(DIR) Post #B1Y5XW3TSM91sRQ8fI by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-23T18:47:14Z
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@futurebird The story in my head is that there was a "everybody has to return briefly to their hometown for tax purposes" decree, so the inn was booked up because everyone was traveling.
(DIR) Post #B1aPtxSAeooQcbs2q0 by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-24T21:44:53Z
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@futurebird We had a demo of a lab robot from a company called Andrew Alliance and the salesguy would not stop calling it "he" and I kept ostentatiously using "it" but he had his sales pitch and he was gonna stick with it so help him no matter how obviously it was annoying us. P.s.: the robot was shit and we stopped using it for anything.
(DIR) Post #B1aQZ3Eo3W6CR1DLl2 by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-24T21:52:17Z
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@futurebird The one I want is where he realizes, hey, the Big City I've been demonizing in my head is clearly exciting and desirable to this wonderful person, maybe I should give it a chance, and he finds a sublet so they can keep seeing if this relationship has legs and the next year he has a great job there and a burgeoning list of favorite restaurants and they get a one-bedroom together.
(DIR) Post #B1enwitOQTOxrYIKjQ by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-27T00:33:08Z
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@futurebird So many choices for each that I just have to go with the first one that pops into my head:1. I legit love "Fairytale of New York."2. I feel like Boston local stalwarts Hallelujah the Hills could be HUGE but somehow aren't, 20 years into their time as a band, so I'll name "Rebuilding Year" from their 2025 quadruple album Deck.3. Tristan da Cunha were a hard sell and "Strong Candidate/New Regime" is a sprawling math rock epic that I adore but get why it's not more widely known.
(DIR) Post #B1jIKxkebety9dWNaS by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-28T22:54:23Z
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Bizarrely, it is time to bake again.
(DIR) Post #B1jIKywkACANrQBY4O by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-29T04:17:46Z
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Ooh, it came out pretty!
(DIR) Post #B1mR3LjOC6MUNJUAnQ by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2025-12-30T16:54:19Z
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@futurebird 4: Glance at it, look away, waste time on the internet, try again, do LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE, look at it, realize I've been staring for 5 minutes and not absorbing anything, waste time on the internet, try again, become randomly hyperfocused on the task and discover when I next stand up that I've needed to pee for like 4 hours.
(DIR) Post #B1rBUVk2SMWFlSWDoG by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-01T23:53:28Z
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@futurebird My food culture of origin has none of this—we didn't have any "lucky" foods for New Year's, never mind unlucky ones—but I have leftover coleslaw in the fridge so why not?My husband is from the US South and you *must* have black-eyed peas with some sort of pork product, so mine are in the oven now.
(DIR) Post #B1rNk9i3KzjpW5ofYW by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-02T02:10:41Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies Laurie Anderson, in one of her recorded pieces, talks about going through airports with huge amounts of complicated, sometimes jury-rigged electronic equipment, and being asked to explain and even demonstrate them, concluding with, "So I've given a lot of these impromptu, improvised new music performances for small audiences of airport security personnel."
(DIR) Post #B1v2fe5pckuLtdmpKC by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-03T20:33:31Z
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@futurebird @ergo@akkoma.neoeden.org Oh nice! "Account suspended."
(DIR) Post #B21X8EbqIB4BstNp68 by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-06T23:43:06Z
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@futurebird @catmisgivings @AnachronistJohn There's a chapter of Ulysses that does this! I had to skim until I'd gotten about 2/3 of the way through. I've read a lot of Shakespeare, but not (untranslated) Chaucer.
(DIR) Post #B250z73yYlN1yNzMSO by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-08T16:01:44Z
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@futurebird The IPA pages on wikipedia are pretty good and have clickable links to hear the sounds.Seconded that it helps to know the names of the parts of the mouth so that things like "alveolar affricate" will make sense.
(DIR) Post #B255HREWhox3YhuwLI by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-08T16:49:53Z
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@futurebird The excellent last two sentences there remind me of my favorite accent story, which is long but I'm going to tell it.I went to a talk once by a scientist who, like me, worked in the extremely specialized field of fruit fly muscle development. Being in same sub-sub-field, I could kinda zone out during the introduction, which was good because I was completely distracted by what the hell was going on with her accent??? (…)
(DIR) Post #B2GtR9X0VauG03wkC0 by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-14T04:21:15Z
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@lardmotel Shouldn’t it have been EXSE anyway?
(DIR) Post #B2eo4cb1smSiYiOoQi by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-25T22:26:40Z
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@futurebird https://theonion.com/katy-perrys-friends-skeptical-of-alleged-powerful-boyfriend-who-lives-in-canada/