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reay

@reay@mastodon.social

Dad. Writer. Amateur photographer. Dabbler in tabletop game design. Fan of books, tabletop/video games, comics, music and movies. Neutral Good. He/him.
Thoughts and opinions are my own.
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APBBlue, to random
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I'm glad this stowaway was found safe! https://wapo.st/3WizSUZ

reay,
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@APBBlue Cats and boxes, I tell ya…

benjancewicz, to random
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Went for my French test today.
My French teacher Marie Berthiaume would not have been proud. 🥲
I was really nervous and stumbled a lot, but I made it through. At least I didn’t bomb.
I’ll see how I did in a weeks.

reay,
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@benjancewicz Bon chance!

reay,
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@benjancewicz Any idea if what you’re learning is Parisian French (as I suspect) vs. Quebecois?

Here in Ontario, we’re beside the biggest French population outside France. And as happens with colonies over very long stretches, they’ve developed their own unique accents.

Yet right next to that population, what we’re taught in schools here is French with a distinctly Parisian accent instead of Quebecois.

Curious which is taught elsewhere.

reay, to random
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Especially with a dog now, I'm finding people leaving dog poop bags (or uncollected dog poop) left around on sidewalks and lawns -- yes, some people take the time to bag their dog poop and then still just leave the knotted bag on the stranger's lawn -- even more maddening.

If you have a dog, you pick up its poop and ditch it in a public garbage in a park or carry that tiny weight back to throw it out at your own place. That's Owning A Dog 101.
Can't do even that little? Then don't have a dog.

That_One_Guy, to animals
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My day off so far has been doing nothing and playing Xbox with the dogs.

reay,
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@That_One_Guy How's their game?

reay, to random
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BREAKING NEWS

The dog has woken and moved from the back of the overstuffed chair to the seat of the overstuffed chair and gone back to sleep.

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES

reay, to random
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I will never not be confused by this kind of nonsense.

Post on Mandy.com for an audiobook editor:

"Must have good knowledge of a DAW, be able to clean and edit sound to a professional level, and ideally enjoy the subject matter. Editors are to go through and do the final editing and clean up, re ..."

Salary: No pay.

With my bit of knowledge, with some time and effort, I could probably do this, and I'm very new to this stuff.
But even me? For NO pay?
Kick rocks.

reay, to random
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Recommendations for instances I should consider migrating to, and why.

GO!

reay, to random
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I don't want to brag, but guess who has Covid again.

reay, to books
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I THINK I know where this chunk of Triptych by Karin Slaughter is going with this seeming huge detour from the main storyline.
Hoping I’m wrong, because if I’m right, it’s way not my thing.


reay, to HashtagGames
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The remaining crew of Firefly pull of a job scoring them a fortune, and all go their separate ways. Long-married Mal and Inara spend their days travelling on the ship to find the planets with the best sunsets.


lovelylovely, to random
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And white women in large numbers will still vote GOP👇

reay,
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@lovelylovely @falcennial Ted Cruz also gave a fellow Senator a fist bump when they both voted against Democratic bids to get veterans better health coverage, as spearheaded by Jon Stewart a few years back. Because Cruz — because it seems the GOP itself — sees it all as a game. They actively block the country from helping its own residents if they can call it one-upping their political opponents.

It’s gross.

reay, to random
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Still weird to me when I zoom into a GPS map to make out street and business names better that everything scales up except the text.

And the colour scheme?
Orange business names on beige building shapes?
Contrast works, people!

reay, to random
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Made it a bit over a week cutting way down on caffeine until getting this cold and needing caffeine just to stay awake and mobile at work.

reay, to random
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I totally get that online services need to sell ads and subscriptions to make money. No problem with that business model.

But on the flipside, it’s particularly irritating when the ads are by the same service you’re currently using, entirely to disrupt your experience, doing a song and dance about how, ‘Hey, if you want to avoid ads for ourself like this, just subscribe!’

reay, to random
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Never not funny to see a guy who’s clearly of the opinion he’s VERY cool walking — nay, strutting — as he passes by.

reay, to random
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Tossing this out again in case it just got buried amid your timeline: I’m considering jumping to another instance.

Is there any way to take follows and posts (and general history) with me? Or is it basically starting from scratch?

reay,
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Thanks for the feedback!

Alice, to random
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What in the ripped babies is going on here?

reay,
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@Alice Bro Baby wants to know if you even lift.

benjancewicz, to random
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The briefly used Dazzle Camouflage was intended to confuse enemy ships

reay,
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@benjancewicz WAR ZEBRAS.

reay, to Birds
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Preeeeetty sure it was a peregrine I saw buzzing around and riling nesting birds. Small raptor, mostly white with a bit of brown on the underside. Came within 20 feet overhead. Gorgeous.


reay, to random
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So tired I just had to answer a crossword question about the name of a Jetsons character by singing the theme song in my head.

And how’s your day going?

reay, to random
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Damn you, Toronto Raptors, for having me need to be more verbose when typing in search criteria for literal birds of prey in Toronto.

bBuck, to random
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Climbing the step ladder, I poked my head over the gutter and mama Robin gave me a nasty stare before flying off in a fury of flapping wings yielding a big surprise. The gutter cleaning project is tabled for now.

reay,
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@bBuck @otterlove We have mourning doves that have been nesting on a pillar of our front porch for the last few years running. There’s nothing like peering up to meet the indignant, beady-eyed stare of a nesting mom who is clearly trying to convey, “Do you MIND?”

reay, to animals
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🎵For I am a
Raaaaaain
Dooooooog
too.🎵

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