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grannygoatfish

@grannygoatfish.bsky.social

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I am at least one million internet years old. Lefty leftist. Art, math, preferably both at once. Always knitting, usually socks. Western Canadian in Ottawa. I don't know how everyone else sounds interesting in these things. She/they.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 7m

good fucking god I missed all y'all.

If you can read this, yes, I mean you too. Yes, seriously. No dodging allowed.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 8m

Brave and bold and about to reap delicious multigrain bagel rewards.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 10m

Yeah, trying to figure out a dough with four different grains that all handle moisture differently would be... well, something I'm happy to watch someone else do, rather than attempt myself. :D

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 14m

Fabulous. The multigrain mix you're using has me desperately covetous, too. I would've thought chia seeds would mess with the dough consistency!

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 29m

Hey, you wanna know how to make an apron?

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 38m

Physics Insight

xkcd.com/3154/

Comic. PERSON: Sure, when *Einstein* suggests using the Lorentz transform to explain the connection between velocity and time, people call him a genius. But when *I* suggest it, it’s “basic physics” and “undergraduate stuff.” PERSON 2 with white hat: Such a double standard!

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 22h

oh, nice! maybe the inflight positioning was lying to us and we were further afield than it claimed. It made me think of all the childhood hallowe'ens where we were all out trick-or-treating in our damn parkas. :D

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 22h

looked pretty snowy down there already. :(

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 23h

(also, hi-i-i honeys, we're ho-o-ome.)

((also also, we waved at you today, @ingridblythe.bsky.social , but we were 30,000 feet up so you might have missed it.))

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 23h

So what I'm hearing here is you want my grandmother's cucumber mold recipe.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 1d

Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

"Ayn Rand

Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars

1st Argentinian Edition"

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 23h

"What if Iceland, but also Giant Irish Elk?"

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 2d

"It shouldn't take long."

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Need a bigger boat.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes you just have to say it out loud and hope against hope that it reaches one person who needs to hear it.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 6d

Nebula

One of my favorite things to paint has always been a Nebula Teapot 🌌

#SpacetoberChallenge
#SciArt

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7d

😂

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 6d

there's not enough Prosecco on this plane to make up for landing in Alberta, but so it goes. we're off to Edmonton for a week to eat our weights in cabbage rolls and perogies.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 6d

allo, lovelies. D. and I are currently here, sipping wine and pretending we're first-class sorts. (I splurged on business class seats.) soon we will have chicken souvlaki with 'seasonal Canadian cake' for dessert, whatever that is.

a photograph shot out of an airplane window, looking down at the clouds, lit by golden afternoon light.

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 7d

Quebec has one (1) English-speaking person, and they are about to meet them! It took years to get the time off, he's always proving they exist everywhere else.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 7d

I do not want to throw the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine any bones, but for those who take a very binary all-or-nothing stance, it's important to understand some of what you oversimplify includes tools that keep people from staring Clockwork-Orange-like at the worst of the internet for a living.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 7d

As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 8d

You know what your day needs? Your day needs some gloriously rumpled geese with what may be the last living existence of added music that fits the video.

The Fiber Farm @jjco.bsky.social · 8d

Crowded pool day

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grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 8d

I wasn't sure I would ever be able to say this to anyone ever again, but this music fits so well with this video. :D

Thanks for sharing it. It was quite a treat to watch while I had my morning coffee.

grannygoatfish @grannygoatfish.bsky.social · 8d

pistachio latte sounds amazing. glad you're on the mend!