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Frac
@fraconceagain.bsky.social
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The Fractured Empiricist. Queer, Disabled multimedia nerd. Cat widow. Housewench. Prophet of Doom.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Oct 27
The Declaration Of Principles Of The Interstellar Alliance: The universe speaks in many languages but only one voice. The language is not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari It speaks in the language of hope It speaks in the language of trust It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us And the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. It is the small still voice that says We are one. No matter the blood, No matter the skin, No matter the world, No matter the star: We are one. No matter the pain, No matter the darkness, No matter the loss, No matter the fear: We are one. Here, gathered together in common cause, we agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule: That we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the Universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are one.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 15
This whole social media thing is not terribly social for me.
As far as I can tell only 5 of my followers are real people & I don't think most of what I post is seen by anyone.
It's long past time for me to accept that I have no place here.
Be well.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 14
Won't be playing any of the new Two Point games. Cos when you're making the "spiritual successor" to one of the most endlessly replayable single player experiences of the 90s, fucking all replayability to tack on zynga-style multiplayer *and* never fixing game-breaking day one bugs is a no from me.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 14
In an act of extreme violence against my sanity I woke up today to my internal jukebox playing Give It To You by Jordan Knight.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 14
I probably shouldn't have read that article today, especially given now I get to sit awake, alone & in silence all night.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 13
If you, like me, gave up on the MI films cos 2 was a mid edgelord wank fest & 3 was perfect proof that JJ is a talentless nepo baby then you're cheating yourself out of some fun spy/heist movies with only minimal epic scale creep that came after.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 12
Oh good. My gas meter & boiler have developed faults.
It only took the council a actual entire decade to repair the boiler last time.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
It's not an official anniversary. I couldn't tell you the date it started. But my parents first started noticing I just wasn't sleeping when I was 2. Some brains don't switch modes so easily. We walled off a bit of our lounge for an extra bedroom so I wouldn't keep my 12 y-o sister up.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
Hey, just saw that cute "can't sleep? have you tried going to bed?" meme again &, sure, for a lot of people that will work. Our brains are all about modes & you can brute-force them.
However, don't *ever* use it to respond to someone discussing insomnia.
I have been failing at sleeping for 40 years.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
You cannot imagine how Cassandra I felt trying to explain to people how good John Cho is when all they'd seen was his more gross-out comedies. His episode of Charmed is legit one of 90s TV's best short stories.
fraconceagain.bsky.social Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
The fact that all of Off Centre is on YT makes me feel something is right with the world.
That 00s tail-end of the 90s sitcom boom birthed so many underappreciated gems that were only shown over here in the 3-5am slot on itv & ch4, & now anyone can watch them.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
The fact that all of Off Centre is on YT makes me feel something is right with the world.
That 00s tail-end of the 90s sitcom boom birthed so many underappreciated gems that were only shown over here in the 3-5am slot on itv & ch4, & now anyone can watch them.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
I wish I wasn't awake & alone while my body is doing this.
Not that I'd be the most scintillating host. I mostly need someone to make all decisions for me for a few hours while my body rights itself as I writhe & occasionally groan.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
You see because it was in emergency measures to cool me. Sweating doesn't happen cos my body thinks I'm cold. And of course the hotter it makes me, the colder it reads me, so it continues to stoke those fires. This is the first time it's triggered my lungs' emergency thermostat.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 11
Oh that's a fun new wrinkle. Those little freakouts my body has if a particular internal thermostat breaks where it reads the air being colder than my skin as me being colder than the air are now tipping it so far I get hot enough my body takes away the capacity to breathe through my nose.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 10
I made bolognese & ate so much spaghetti.
This is still less continental than when I chainsmoke & chaincoffee.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
I'd never make it to being a billionaire cos I'd keep using the money my money would somehow continue to make to try & actually help people. Cos what's the fucking point of any of it otherwise. All the things I actually need/want for myself cost at best a few grand altogether.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
I do not understand how bad rich people are at being rich.
If I were a millionaire I'd probably spend my time burying my face in the mane of one of the Aslan puppets from the 80s BBC Narnia & leaving rave reviews for every service/business I interact with that deserves it.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
Trying to convince my brain that despite its insistence it does not in fact want to start a game of Alpha Centauri cos if I do I won't move for the next 30 hours or so.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
*over And at a fresh, active accident scene too.
I just couldn't. The going to the bottom of the deep ocean in a glass bathysphere in season 1 was bad enough. It's fair enough that protagonists don't have to be directly likable but they shouldn't be actual irredeemable monsters.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
And tbf to Departure "it's not as good once Christopher Plummer leaves" is practically a tautology but that's also not what went wrong with that show.
I don't know if they recaptured earlier heights of intrigue cos they lost me at their investigation taking precedence of life-saving efforts.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
Tbf to it, I'm not sure the first season got the best shot at me given how close I watched it to Rig 45 which arguably does substantially more with less. Like seeing Departure too close to Vigil.
fraconceagain.bsky.social Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
Ok so season 2 of The Rig was fine.
I don't know if there's been a series with this level of performance & character that has been this let down by the overall structure of its narrative.
Everyone is doing such good work but something is just off.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
Ok so season 2 of The Rig was fine.
I don't know if there's been a series with this level of performance & character that has been this let down by the overall structure of its narrative.
Everyone is doing such good work but something is just off.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
Like what even of value is there to contribute to these two strangers beyond they seem to make each other happy & I hope it works out for them?
She's a catch he landed? What's he gonna do? Lay her in ice til he gets back to port?
Some idioms really aren't worth keeping.
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
It remains fascinating to me that when two people decide to get together & to give forever a go, everyone is still using hunting & fishing language to describe it like that's a normal & ok thing.
Have you considered just being happy for people?
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 9
I kinda wish it were a trick question & the answer was both cos at least then she'd be paying you a wage. [Big hugs!]
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Frac @fraconceagain.bsky.social · Jan 8
This business survived The Depression, a World War & everything that came after but Troy & Alasdair wanted it for their portfolios or some shit & thousands of people lose their livelihoods, not to mention the best Afternoon Tea on most highstreets.