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jappel

@jappel@wandering.shop

SFF author and a bunch of other stuff. Former Airborne cav scout. Supporter of LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled, and neurodiverse folks. He/him. Rep'd by Hannah Bowman.

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jappel, to random
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Dear Don @DonP, I came across this and I think you will enjoy it: (video of "Low Darts College Yacht Rock" show)
https://youtu.be/S1MplMYvUI8?si=q7fE4tN8itVlG1uI

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Anyone who thinks "cancel culture" is some newfangled thing has never read one (1) Regency novel.

Social consequences for certain actions, up to and including complete "ruination," are nothing new.

jappel,
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@mishellbaker Socrates would also like a word. 😆

jappel, to random
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It finally occurs to me, on the 6th or 7th gray and rainy day out of the last 9 days, that maybe I should use my happy light...

annaleen, (edited ) to random
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Guess what? I'm on book tour this summer. Come see me discussing the history of psyops and the future of peace with these astonishing conversation partners! Be sure to say hi!

jappel,
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@annaleen @Annalee I will plan to come take a picture for proof of you both in one place. :)

mishellbaker, to random
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My plants survived the night!!!

jappel,
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@mishellbaker Woot!

mishellbaker, (edited ) to random
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Hello, I need a little jump start.
Please tell me something about your life today that is good, exciting, heartwarming, or funny.

jappel,
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@mishellbaker My son’s girlfriend got a post-law school job! After graduation, she’ll be clerking for a county district court judge here in MD.

AlasdairStuart, to random
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Hey folks! What are your favourite examples of rescue fiction? Thunderbirds, The Guardian, Daylight, that sort of thing?

jappel,
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@AlasdairStuart Bujold’s The Borders of Infinity is top-notch, as is her Mirror Game, both of which are very rescue-oriented.

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Shingles jab report, N+25: feeling about as expected, i.e. like five miles of bad road. Catching up on some movies I've wanted to watch and otherwise being a potato.

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I subscribe to Karl Schroeder's newsletter, and in today's he says "Progress is not our younger generations’ lived experience," and holy smokes does that crystalize and make clear a lot of things. It's dead-on.

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I'm not sure what the most common last words are but "If we split up, we'll cover more ground" has to be up there.

jappel,
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@mishellbaker Way back when, Omni Magazine printed this factoid: in 24 out of 25 cockpit voice recorders, the last intelligible words before a crash were “Oh shit!” In the last one, it was “Jesus Christ.”

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Calling for more recommendations for multi-season (4+) TV shows - this time looking for great slow-burn romance arcs.

Can be any genre of show that has at least some grounding in psychological reality (sf/fantasy is fine if it has a lived-in feel and the people behave like real people). The romance(s) can be straight or queer, so long as they are complex and satisfying, with killer chemistry! Ideas?

jappel,
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@mishellbaker One from my youth that was famous for this is Moonlighting, though I don’t know how well a show from the mid-80s holds up. A newer one that I loved is Chuck, in which a nerdy guy gets a huge amount of secret intelligence dumped into his brain, and winds up with two intel agency handlers. Unfortunately Zach Levi and Adam Baldwin have since proven to be problematic. But the show is a lot of fun.

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It still looks like I'm on track to pass my final exams next month??

How??? 😂

jappel,
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@mishellbaker Kick ass!

mishellbaker, to random
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Besides bloomscrolling and catstodon, what are some hashtags that are full of uplifting, funny, creative, cool, or inspiring things?

⚠️ Request to those replying: please do not put the # in front of the hashtag name, to reduce hashtag pollution for those following the tags!

For example you can just say bloomscrolling or "bloomscrolling" or hashtag bloomscrolling.

jappel,
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@mishellbaker This a little out there, but here me out: woodworking. It’s people making stuff. Sometimes beautiful stuff, sometimes functional stuff, sometimes stuff that is both at once, sometimes stuff that is butt-ugly “get me to the next stage” stuff. People restoring old tools, old furniture, somtimes far older than themselves.

mishellbaker, to random
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Recommendations for well-written, multi-season non-anime TV series with healing, uplifting vibes? From any era - just let me know where it can be streamed.

(Animated potentially okay if it doesn't have the 'anime look,' which for whatever reason I'm allergic to. Disney and first season Dragon Prince are good examples of animated things my eyeballs like.)

jappel,
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@mishellbaker Have you checked out Sense8 (two seasons plus two movies) on Netflix?

Princejvstin, to books
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I am back at File 770 today with a review of the second Zelazny collections, POWER AND LIGHT.

https://file770.com/paul-weimer-review-roger-zelaznys-the-collected-stories-of-roger-zelazny-volume-two-power-light/

@bookstodon

jappel,
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@bookstodon @Princejvstin Ooooooo

jappel, to random
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Daughter has gall stones which have brought us to the ER, she could use some good vibes.

mishellbaker, to random
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TIL that female bears are called sows and male bears are called... boars.

I... what?

jappel,
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@mishellbaker I concur, that's just wrong.

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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepfake-scammer-walks-off-with-25-million-in-first-of-its-kind-ai-heist/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jappel,
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@arstechnica And so the corporate world will rediscover the "Something you know" leg of the authentication tripod.

annaleen, to SanFrancisco
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It's the kind of day where I'm riveted by weather radar maps and micro-news about trees falling near my house.

jappel,
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@annaleen Yikes! Hope your house and trees are spared.

mishellbaker, to random
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Had the worst possible nightmare last night: that someone at a gathering started playing and singing "Closer to Fine" and I'd forgotten both the words and the harmony.

jappel,
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@mishellbaker OMG, that would be like me forgetting the words to "More Than a Feeling." 😱

18+ mishellbaker, to random
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As if the homestretch to my big surgery on the 24th was not stressful enough, I am now in isolation in the in-law apartment because my daughter got Covid at school. Mild case, Matt and the other girl are not sick (yet), but we could not risk me getting it, so I will likely not touch any of my loved ones until I am in the hospital--if then, depending on recovery times.

jappel,
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@mishellbaker Good vibes to you, pal!

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I just described cork-rubber vise lining material as "grips tighter than Scrooge's hand on a shilling" and I don't think I'll top that writing-wise for a bit.

jappel, to random
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How much rain are we getting? I just saw an old guy and his three sons arguing about how long a cubit is.

AlasdairStuart, to random
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The Full Lid - 31st December 2023 - Welcome back! We've got a reminder about the @audioverseawards, some amazing news about where we'll be soon and songs galore! https://mailchi.mp/4cf73c233ce5/the-full-lid-1st-january-2024

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The Re: Dracula logo, showing a blood stained postcard with the words RE: DRACULA on it
The Supersuits logo. The U in Super is wearing a superhero cape and the U in Suits is wearing a shirt and tie.

jappel, (edited )
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@AlasdairStuart Congrats on the house! If one were to send a housewarming gift, how should one do so? Asking for your favorite woodworker from Maryland. (Customs pre-paid, of course.)

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