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Jeff Nachtigall
@dirklancer.bsky.social
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Endurance performance artist. Poet. Beards. Words. Midlife Crisis. Thinks Edmonton should be know as the city with the most weather. Multiple award winner ADHD Dad Once I was owned by a tiny bakery. "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." - Ernest Hemingway
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · Dec 29
Re-intro time:
Hi! I’m Jeff; an unconventional poet/Dad from the Canadian prairies. I have 2 adult kids, 2 rescue dogs, & have been madly in love w/ the same lowkey juggernaut since the 1900s.
I'm owned by a tiny bakery & I lived w/ ADHD 45yrs before discovering it. I'm probably bad at hide-&-seek.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 6h
The last time I applied for a FT job it was 2016.
The last time I was hired for a FT job it was 2006.
The last time I was unemployed it was 1998.
The last time I had 'nothing to put on a resume' it was 1988.

Just some thoughts as I work on an application for a job I think I really want.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 14h
I solved today's Taproot Mini in 14s! crosshare.org/crosswords/e...

14 SECONDS!
The Taproot Mini - No. 69
Kingsway, e.g.; Birchbark \_\_\_ (Anishinaabe transportation); Many-headed monster; Dog-\_\_\_ (like some Audrey's Books titles); Famous Scottish loch; Like the ancient skies you learn about at a TELU...
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 14h
I solved Thursday's Taproot Mini in 54s! crosshare.org/crosswords/2...
The Taproot Mini - No. 68
Vegreville attraction; Watchdog's warning; Have one's cake and eat \_\_\_; Zones; Ottawa summer hrs.; \_\_\_ nous (just between us French folk); Like some *exclusive* communities; Winding road that in...
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 14h
I solved Wednesday's Taproot Mini in 57s! crosshare.org/crosswords/t...
The Taproot Mini - No. 67
NAIT score; Off-***, as some 2-Downs are; Sandwich specification; Pedaling commuter; Contractor's guess: Abbr.; Blue construction lift brand (they ain't granting you any wishes, though); Green spaces;...
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 14h
I solved Brandon Cathcart's puzzle "Beep Beep!" in 11:08! crosshare.org/crosswords/P...
Beep Beep!
Cul-de-\_\_\_; Genre that includes Future Bass and Liquid DnB; Bro's sib; Pronoun 7-Across might use; \* *Whichever*; Truly hilarious or truly unruly times; Where what's "left on the cutting room floo...
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
You'll want a couple of disagreeable ones, to keep things going.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
Not just the Fun Mayors.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
I also want Brotzel to ask each of them to outline their map of consciousness.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
They're not lonely if you have enough of them.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
I vote for Andy for Fun mayor.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
We all know that every 4 years there are 2 to 5 peeps running for mayor and 5 to ♾️ buddies (gender neutral intended) running for fun mayor. Can we just split the ballot? Fun mayor gets to spout ideas with a decreasing monthly budget that starts small and gets smaller? 6 months to a year, max.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 1d
I'm downtown at the library in overflow seating, watching the Mayoral Candidate Forum, and missing Twitter.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
It's going well so far.
I'm a fan of this kind of October, that's for sure.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
if you know where the fire pit is, you're invited.
(DM me so I know you're coming)
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
yes
yes it is a fire pit night
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
I'm an older person
I don't ride a bike
I don't hate bike lanes

I DO hate @sshole drivers who don't shoulder check or signal to change lanes, every time

@sshole drivers who drive over the speed limit

@sshole drivers who don't obey the rules of the road

Want respect?
Follow the rules of the road
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
yes
yes it is a fire pit night
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
might be a fire pit night
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
I solved today's Taproot Mini in 1:43! crosshare.org/crosswords/V...
The Taproot Mini - No. 66
Where you can get a bookshelf named Billy; Figure out a puzzle in an Escape City room; My favourite order from Nhon Hoa: Vegetarian \_\_\_ Chicken Sub; Home \_\_\_ (1990 movie); I had a "farm" of thes...
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 3d
Just show me where to sign.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d
WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 4d
I solved today's Taproot Mini in 1:37! crosshare.org/crosswords/y...
The Taproot Mini - No. 65
Sword holster at Refuge LARP Edmonton; With 2-Down, a trail undergoing conversion to a freeway; $126,120/year, for our city councillors; YEG \_\_\_ Leagues (Woohoo, bullseye!); Texting format, for sho...
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 6d
such a spicy adventure
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 6d
My phone just autocorrected Galapagos to Jalapeños.
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Jeff Nachtigall @dirklancer.bsky.social · 7d
DCU TV shows are kicking MCU TV shows ass right now.
I'm basing this on the Peacemaker intro alone.
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