Bruce
thornae.bsky.social
Bruce
@thornae.bsky.social
Meandering vaguely towards the widening gyre.
Doing my best to be PTerrish.
He/him.
hey @eizebasa.bsky.social wanna feel several emotions in rapid succession
😭😭😭
This flash is so packed with emotion. A metaphor for what we judge as worthy of saving and what we think should be let go. But every small thing counts and everything adds up. In the end we might end up much lonelier than we thought.

by Will McMahon in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Fragments of a Symbiotic Life - Lightspeed Magazine
I was born normal enough, except that I was four days late, which isn’t so much, and slightly jaundiced, which isn’t unusual, and had a raccoon for an arm, which is admittedly strange. It wasn’t my wh...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
March 10, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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After reading this, my old policy of “probably don’t get in a Tesla” is now a new policy of “never ever get in a Tesla, what the fuck.”
March 9, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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If you're on Boardgamegeek, do have a look at this year's Lesser Lunacy, where folks nominate and vote on obscure (<500 ratings) games, as a contrast to the popularity contest that is the Geek Madness.

Nominations: boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/331...

Round 1: boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/333...
Lesser Lunacy '24 Round #1! [many polls]
Welcome to the first round of the Lesser Lunacy 2024! And we are off to the races! 128 games, chomping at the bit, pawing at the floor, each and every one with a glimmer of hope in their eyes! 128 ga...
boardgamegeek.com
March 8, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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You guys, don't steal from the Plagiarism Guild. It's not cool. They worked hard to steal those artworks.
No. This has to be satire. It HAS to be.
March 8, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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March 4, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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This is a great thing to read on a week when I have to take mandatory time off work to go to the job centre in person so that they can crawl through my bank statements to establish if we will keep receiving child tax credits now that they have been absorbed into Universal Credit.
New Labour mark 2 will be even crueler than the Tories
March 4, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Child 1 wanted me to pick an image to set for my contact in their phone.

No problem.
March 4, 2024 at 10:00 AM
One of the delightful perils of The Other Site before it went bad was diving in to Colin's Rec Thread during a Steam sale, and coming out with at least half a dozen weird unique indie games added to your library.

Highly recommended, can't wait to see what's made the list!
lazy sunday evening reminder that The Rec Thread comes out later this month and you can still get it at the pre-order price of $4.95! (gonna be promoting this for awhile! sorry!)
hey hey! after a whole lot of fits and starts, The Rec Thread - a digital book of 100 of my personal game recommendations, spanning a wide breadth to truly have something for everybody - is opening up for pre-orders! on sale for $5 - it'll be $8 on release! spacetwinks.itch.io/therecthread1
March 4, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Tech-bros will unironically state that a person creating art is functionally equivalent to a worker making a buggy whip, then turn around and complain that unions are impeding their disruptive business.
March 4, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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hired a very special boy for a very special announcement :)

doing it a bit different this time to see if it helps with the stress of comms! send in a response to this google form with your commission details and i'll get back to you! thank you for bearing with me 🐀❤️

forms.gle/xgZfruafjK8i...
March 1, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Drinking wine and installing Linux. It's been a while.

Let's see if I can get as far as a desktop login before the sharks arrive...
February 29, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Sounds my dog makes
February 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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A Southern Weasel Skink wearing a raindrop for a hat.
February 28, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Amegilla asserta, a native Australian bee.
February 27, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Bird
February 27, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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this incredible image is real. this is a Nintendo Switch Lite main logic board that someone reverse engineered by soldering a wire to *every pad* and using the jig on the right to measure the resistance between every possible connection. usoldering.com/switch-lite/
February 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it
February 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Christening this account with the greatest auspol image of all time
February 8, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Yes, really.

That is genuinely written in the actual real official minutes: www.wsfs.org/wp-content/u...
February 20, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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IF BEING HARD ON YOURSELF WORKED... IT WOULD HAVE WORKED BY NOW.

(Qskeeting with ALT text because I love this)
February 12, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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An important reminder from Neil. The Hugos should join other publications and organizations in always naming the translator whenever translated works are nominated or win. #NameTheTranslator
Please don't forget that some of these were eligible because they were translated into English in 2022. Since we give Hugos to the author and translator, that means translators were removed too.
February 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM