Azure Jane Lunatic
@azurelunatic.bsky.social
Azz for short. Multi-field dilettante, writer, crocheter, hobbyist, chatterbox. Former professional squeaky wheel. I bump into things and find bugs. Alaska-grown, previously of Greater SF Bay Area, PNW-er. They/them.
"It’s a grand night for singing,
The moon is flying high,
And somewhere a bird
Who is bound he’ll be heard,
Is throwing his heart at the sky."
^^^^^ This section of lyrics from State Fair always makes me think that the bird is a particularly persistent rooster in the poultry pavilion
The moon is flying high,
And somewhere a bird
Who is bound he’ll be heard,
Is throwing his heart at the sky."
^^^^^ This section of lyrics from State Fair always makes me think that the bird is a particularly persistent rooster in the poultry pavilion
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"It’s a grand night for singing,
The moon is flying high,
And somewhere a bird
Who is bound he’ll be heard,
Is throwing his heart at the sky."
^^^^^ This section of lyrics from State Fair always makes me think that the bird is a particularly persistent rooster in the poultry pavilion
The moon is flying high,
And somewhere a bird
Who is bound he’ll be heard,
Is throwing his heart at the sky."
^^^^^ This section of lyrics from State Fair always makes me think that the bird is a particularly persistent rooster in the poultry pavilion
We're at the point of doing a Wednesday shopping trip during Thanksgiving week.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
We're at the point of doing a Wednesday shopping trip during Thanksgiving week.
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Cooking the turkey? This is your reminder to check if the turkey fits in the roasting pan.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Cooking the turkey? This is your reminder to check if the turkey fits in the roasting pan.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.
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You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
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It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
Because people keep asking, the Story of The Lizard In That Dude's Leg. Some caveats:
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
1. This happened more than twenty years ago. There are no pictures. There was a small article in a local paper with, again, no pictures (I'm assuming that's what the producers of 9-1-1: LONE STAR found).
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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My dad was hosting and asked for any dish requests. I mentioned canned cranberry sauce, and he said nope, he's doing a home-made version, that canned stuff isn't touching his table. So I showed up with my own can, complete with googly eyes, and sat it next to my plate as my plus one.
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My dad was hosting and asked for any dish requests. I mentioned canned cranberry sauce, and he said nope, he's doing a home-made version, that canned stuff isn't touching his table. So I showed up with my own can, complete with googly eyes, and sat it next to my plate as my plus one.
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@madameclorinda.bsky.social wishes to convey the intelligence that there will be a little Christmas treat this year: on 24th December Times Changing Belowstairs - The Cathcart Apocrypha Volume 6 - will be downloadable from the website
www.clorinda.org/books/times-...
www.clorinda.org/books/times-...
Times Changing Belowstairs | The Comfortable Courtesan Being Memoirs by Clorinda Cathcart and Clorinda Cathcart’s Circle
Clorinda Cathcart, now the widowed Marchioness of Bexbury, has undergone a radical change of circumstances. These changes have not left her household unaffected; nor have events in their lives stood …
www.clorinda.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@madameclorinda.bsky.social wishes to convey the intelligence that there will be a little Christmas treat this year: on 24th December Times Changing Belowstairs - The Cathcart Apocrypha Volume 6 - will be downloadable from the website
www.clorinda.org/books/times-...
www.clorinda.org/books/times-...
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I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.
*snickering*
(Meanwhile back at Tesla HQ)
Oates: (stuck in the vents)
Oates: dammit how does Diane make this seem so easy?
Oates: (stuck in the vents)
Oates: dammit how does Diane make this seem so easy?
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
*snickering*
Related: on Saturday, Belovedest solved the mystery of the random fridge butterings, and it turns out we a) need a new can; b) must not lose that can's lid
NEVER FORGET: If you keep a can of reddiwhip (or whatever equiv you like) in your fridge you can just grab it and have a quick bit of whipped cream whenever you like. It's just a thing you can do.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Related: on Saturday, Belovedest solved the mystery of the random fridge butterings, and it turns out we a) need a new can; b) must not lose that can's lid
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Beware of the scammers! 😡
I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Beware of the scammers! 😡
The door open buttons in my cancer center patient safety bathrooms are Big Red Buttons
It's the ones on the infusion floors, there's clearly an override at the nurse station so they don't have to break down the door every time a patient needs help and can't get up
[My cancer is under control now]
It's the ones on the infusion floors, there's clearly an override at the nurse station so they don't have to break down the door every time a patient needs help and can't get up
[My cancer is under control now]
Back in the day, the datacenter LiveJournal was hosted in had the requisite emergency power off button in the event of fire suppression systems becoming necessary. It was placed on the wall right next to the exit door ... where it looked precisely like a button to open an automatic door.
This is where @oggie.bsky.social and @kingfox.bsky.social gather in a dark corner of a virtual bar and reminisce about the time a guy unplugged the wrong thing to plug in a vacuum cleaner.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The door open buttons in my cancer center patient safety bathrooms are Big Red Buttons
It's the ones on the infusion floors, there's clearly an override at the nurse station so they don't have to break down the door every time a patient needs help and can't get up
[My cancer is under control now]
It's the ones on the infusion floors, there's clearly an override at the nurse station so they don't have to break down the door every time a patient needs help and can't get up
[My cancer is under control now]
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This is what it sounds like, when spuds fry…
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is what it sounds like, when spuds fry…
Turns out healthcare is expensive and it sucks to work when your body doesn't function properly.
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Turns out healthcare is expensive and it sucks to work when your body doesn't function properly.
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I am amazingly proud to have inspired this
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I am amazingly proud to have inspired this
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.
(divine.video)
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
Things would have been very different if Christine had been tutored by the Angel of Muzak.
#PhantomOfTheOpera
#PhantomOfTheOpera
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Things would have been very different if Christine had been tutored by the Angel of Muzak.
#PhantomOfTheOpera
#PhantomOfTheOpera
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A very merry Big Boat Stuck-mas to all those who celebrate
#Canadian ship bound for Quebec City stuck in the Detroit River
More information about why the boat was stuck was not immediately available Friday evening
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More information about why the boat was stuck was not immediately available Friday evening
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canadian ship bound for Quebec City stuck in the Detroit River | CBC News
A Canadian ship is stuck in the Detroit River right between downtown Detroit and downtown Windsor.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A very merry Big Boat Stuck-mas to all those who celebrate
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Some good doggos available for adoption in the Bay Area!
To everyone who has been following our puppy fostering adventure, these puppies are now officially up for adoption! If you live in the Bay Area and want to adopt some of the cutest, friendliest, lovely dogs around, now's your chance. Links in the thread 🧵 below to each pup's page!
More pupdates:
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Some good doggos available for adoption in the Bay Area!
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I’m putting phishing training in my Halloween candy this year.
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I’m putting phishing training in my Halloween candy this year.