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Triss

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Systems geek for DevOps and TTRPGs. Like you do.

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Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 8h

Took me a few minutes to stop being grumpy about it. Tasted okay at the center in tasting, but would definitely _not_ directly substitute for a pumpkin pie even if cooked correctly.

Still trying to decide what to do with this knowledge.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 9h

Realistically I was a game ahead and who knows what would've happened if Crim wasn't also learning the game from near-zero. But it was fun!

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 9h

Played Tend a second time today with my better half, and the pain of learning paid off.

Two players is a lot better than one, and knowing what you're doing makes it move a lot faster, and in my case having a feel for the balance of points let me score more effectively. Maybe.

A final layout of a two player Tend game.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

Unfortunately, I put it in the oven, set the timer, and then started playing Vantage.

2 hours later my brain went 'Hey. where the _hell_ did my timer go'. Clearly I turned it off mindlessly and forgot.

So that attempt is dead as a doornail. I'll try again next week sometime.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

Today was super busy, but also the first opportunity I had to try to test out the 'pumpkin tourte' (cheesecake) from Tasting History, which I'm testing in order to possibly serve at Thanksgiving.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

The real question I have is how often I'll get to play it, and if it'll stick with me.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

I vibe with it - all the pieces feel interconnected well. The only real cross-player interaction is the neighbor cards, which obviously I didn't get the full feel for, but the rewards are _significant_ so I'd expect to see it a fair bit over 12 rounds.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

I'm sure there was more, but messes were made.

I still enjoyed it. Self-teaching took like 2 hours.

This game is huge - solo reached more than halfway down the table lengthwise. I'd need a bingo-hall table layout to fit a large party of players.

It's heavier than Twilight Inscription.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

- You get the reward _after_ finishing the row. Yes, even on the minor projects.
- You get a whole task for completing a row of shipped goods, not a single action.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

Things I know I screwed up:
- Can't ship goods adjacent to the same color goods.
- You may _either_ sell goods or ship them.
- When you set up the cards for each round, you pull two cards from the 'new season' cards and three from the deck. not 'shufflenfuckit' or whatever I was doing.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 1d

I broke out the deluxe flip-and-write Tend by IV Studios today to teach myself the game. I like! But I messed up every single rule at least once.

The flip-and-write boardgame 'Tend', somewhat incorrectly set up and not yet violenced by my sad little brain

This is kinda what an end state would look like if I hadn't tripped on every rule at least once.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 2d

You know, I constantly see people griping about obvious comments in code.

I spend a lot of time writing comments explaining what I _thought_ I was doing, because I keep running into code that does -something-.... but probably not what they intended. I think.

And I can never be _sure_.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5d

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue.

There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 8d

I'mma have to remember to unblock all the USG accounts when they stop sounding like 4chan users.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 9d

Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 8d

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Anne Corwin @feliscorvus.bsky.social · 8d

San Jose SHOWED UP! I could not be prouder of my community. #NoKings

Me (a white person in a grey hat wearing a STOP FASCISM T shirt) holding a sign showing Worf saying “A TYRANT HAS NO HONOR”.

Lots of people protesting in a green and sunny park in San Jose. They are wearing colorful clothing and holding signs with various political slogans on them.

Lots of people protesting in front of a building in San Jose. They are wearing colorful clothing and holding signs with various political slogans on them.

Lots of people protesting in the streets of San Jose. They are wearing colorful clothing and holding signs with various political slogans on them.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8d

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Zohran Mamdani looking uncharacteristically calculating

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 8d

the republicans seeing people in inflatable frog costumes dance to upbeat music:

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

Just Fuckin Quit Then

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 8d

Signs from today's No Kings protest in Manhattan

7/8

A woman in glasses holds a sign that reads “If only Congress were alive to see this.”

A man holds a sign designed to resemble a parking sign. Red letters on white read “No King Any Time. Violators will be removed.”

A woman holds a yellow sign on which is a stylized image of a humanoid frog and the words “Don’t tread on me”.

A crowd of protesters. One man holds a brown cardboard sign that reads “Imagine losing our country to a fat bitch that can’t even blend his makeup.”

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 8d

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

Veteran holds sign

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 14d

I may choose to take this moment to rest and down tools, maybe let the Mouse get closer to the end of act 2, share some energy there.

Triss @dreamlibrarian.com · 15d

Spent a fair bit of today pulling together the requirements to get to Act 3 in Silksong, and I'm stopping before picking up my least favorite fight of the game so far: Groal the Great. Hugely long run to the site, long pre-arena.

Reward for the victory is a nearby bench. ... and the soul I need.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 15d

Holy shit, Fr Dowling.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”