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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm looking for room share while at @seattlein2025.org -- all the official hotels room blocks are filled, and even the hostel is booked for Friday and Saturday nights.
I want to volunteer at the convention, too. I'd ask about housing on the con's fan Discord but I still don't have a link for that.

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jul 2

I found these at Berkeley Bowl. They're really yummy, I discovered them on my trip to Glasgow, Scotland, in August 2024.

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jun 23

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." --William Gibson

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jun 14

More #FullQueerWrestling ... Chess queens

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jun 14

At full queer wrestling, pre-Frolic #FullQueerWrestling

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · May 28

(empty string)[B,D,F,G,H,I,M(x2),O,X,Z are all movie titles]
(H)er,(S)aw,(P)i,(N)o,(3)00,(7)Mile,(S)even
The shorter the title, the easier it is to mangle.

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · May 10

Maybe it's supposed to be a Canadian city? 🤣

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Feb 9

We have some fun town names in the US. Pennsylvania has Intercourse, Blue Balls, and Bird in Hand. Intercourse is even close to Blue Balls (~ 13km).

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 19

Web UI for #BlueSky at least isn't terrible, it's not too far removed from the Android app, at least at first use. Time will tell how good it is. I had an Android app on my Chromebook, but can no longer update it. And I won't keep outdated apps on my devices, as they might be security risks.

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 19

Why isn't the #BlueskyApp compatible anymore from the Play Store on my #Chromebook?
#Samsung & #Acer Chromebooks
Suggestions for other clients are welcome.

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 9

It gives a whole new meaning to a "meet cute" 😆

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 9

Word formation in kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole) often uses a "ti-" prefix for younger/smaller, e.g., tifi (fi is woman), and likewise for boy "tigason" (gason is man). But I'm guessing "fi" comes from fille, and gason from garçon.
Similar variations from Euro French might be occurring. 🤷

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 7

Using color for synecdoche is a common pattern, as is using a place for an organization, e.g., Foggy Bottom for the US State Department (reference to the DC neighborhood of its HQ).

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 7

Full fan name is Blackfeather Tanfur. Blackfeather is synecdoche for a raven (whose feathers are VERY black), and Tanfur, synecdoche for a coyote with unusually colored fur (at the time, I thought 'tan' mean a shade of brown, not a bronze-ish color).

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 7

I'm far on the plotter side, with longer stories (esp novel length), for short stories, nearly full pantser.

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 7

I've been to both the general GLAWS conference and Genre-LA when Genre-LA was focused on F&SF genres; other years had different focuses, such as one year was memoirs.

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Lizkay @lizkaysart.bsky.social · Dec 30

MANY THANKS for 180 Followers💕
𝔽ℝ𝔼𝔼𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕥𝕔𝕙𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥
Gryphonizing your characters!
To take part:
✏Be a follower + Like + Repost this post
✏Comment with your OC Ref. + info for Bird+Animal you want to have for the gryphon-version
✏I will pick randomly from the commenters
#giveaway
Info see 1st comment

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 6

😄 Blackfeather Tanfur is already a gryphon, specifically a gryphon-taur (anthro raven upper body with wings, lower body quadrapedal coyote). So, he has 8 limbs. He's an alchemist by trade.

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Jan 6

I definitely like LTUE (February in Provo). And there's the Surrey International Writers' Conference (October in Surrey, BC [Vancouver suburb]). GLAWS had some decent conferences, but their web presence seems to indicate they've gone quiet.

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Oct 30

It's neat to see that a short story by such a well-known author can be rediscovered after 134 years. Bram stoker's story "Gibbet Hill" was published in an Irish newspaper in 1890 and rediscovered just this month. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...

Gibbet Hill (short story) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · Oct 15

🦝🎃

A drawing of three silly raccoons stacked up in a trench coat next to glowing jack o' lanterns. The caption reads, "Your weirdness is the best thing about you."

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Oct 1

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #453,591!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #453,591, tanfur.bsky.social ‪@tanfur.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 2, 2023"

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tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Mar 23

I learned of #cwtch indirectly by learning of the secure, surveillance-resistant IM protocol (think onion-routed direct messages), see more at cwtch.im -- not sure what use I might have for it, but still it's interesting to know it exists.

Cwtch: Decentralized, Surveillance Resistant Infrastructure

Cwtch is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol that can be used to build metadata resistant applications.

cwtch.im

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Mar 23

I just learned a very cool new Welsh word, "cwtch", pronounced like "kutch" (rhyming with "butch"). It means a hug, but not just a hug, but a hug that's an offering of warmth and safety. #cwtch

tanfur.bsky.social @tanfur.bsky.social · Mar 19

Using Obsidian (for the notes) + Syncthing (to keep the content the same across devices) has really helped.

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