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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 5h

If she uses the machine as a basket, when is it ever free for him to do a wash, but turning the machine into a *shared* laundry basket, when he doesn’t do laundry as often as she’d like, won’t make him do his laundry more often - it’ll make *her* do *his* laundry more often.

She’s not very bright.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 6h

This might be my most boring post of the year, you’re welcome.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 6h

Not to “well actually” but the weave of wicker baskets allows dry air to move around in a way that a washer drum doesn’t - clothes do get musty if left there, but it takes much longer to reach the same level of funk than if you leave them in somewhere that’s usually at best a little damp and cold.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 22h

We need a word for the primal panic you feel when the front of your top teeth accidentally touches the back of your bottom teeth.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

The speed with which I would turn that toilet into a kitschy flowerpot to the great shame of the entire street would create a sonic boom loud enough to smash the toilet and the windows of the entire street.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

How many of my stories are just misremembered Larson cartoons, impossible to tell.

Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

‘Asterion’, One Man’s Trash, Ryan Vance [pub Lethe Press, 2021]

THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d

“Now relax. … Just like last week, I’m going to hold the red cape up for the count of 10. … When you start getting angry, I’ll put it down.”

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

The IDF's wholesale theft of someone's fictional 3D environment renders to bolster their genocide propaganda does make you wonder how many bogus reports, target assessments and conflict correspondences have been written by feckless warlords using large language models trained on written works, eh?

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing more relaxing than breakfast in bed, study, shower, living room and storage cupboard simultaneously.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

The gnarled dead tree wood I added in last night for spooky Halloween effect now just looks like garbage.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

I mean they *are* weeds so they’ll be fine but that’s not the point.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Perils of growing a wildflower garden: your neighbour’s builders assume it’s all weeds and dump their construction detritus on it. RIP lupin, sayonara lesser celandine, adios cranesbill.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

on consideration, nightly cocktails probably also helped, oh no

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Post-holiday thoughts: sure was a lot easier not to have insomnia when I ate well, after walking long distances, through constantly new and enriching experiences, without the burden of unfulfilling work clouding my mind, and a somewhat deluded approach to spending, in an almost-always sunny climate.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline cleanse.

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Watch This Caterpillar Turn Into A Puss Moth | The Dodo

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

“The government doesn’t value the gaming industry,” I dunno, we’re living inside their massively multiplayer alternate reality game with loot boxes built into character creation and mods coming out every week to address admin bugs flagged in crunch but never fixed, I think they value it fine.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

They want the product of wishing into existence something that didn’t exist beforehand, without the side effects: observation, analysis, understanding, empathy, problem-solving. Because the cumulative effect of all those qualities is a desire for justice.

Art is a means of shaping the world better.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

On creative work being necessary for industry but the *study* of creativity being unserious: they want the genie without the bottle, the wish without the curse, the hocus (as @hrfmichael.bsky.social is fond of saying) without the pocus.

Anyone familiar with the art knows that’s not how it works.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

Goofy Integers

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

You’d think Tories would be into Mickey Mouse degrees, they love multimillion media monopolies built on aggressive lawsuits and worker abuse.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

Mister, I am the freaks.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

They want someone vulnerable enough to be confused about what they’re asking. Understand it’s a scam: hang up. Misunderstand it’s a scam but understand the question: hang up. Get confused by the whole situation and want someone to make it make sense: bank details please!

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

Further to this, my favourite joke in all of Discworld is when Granny Weatherwax is trying to remember an “M-word” for understanding others, and Verence has to work backwards from how Weatherwax thinks, to arrive at Em-pathy.

Reading teaches the nuances of being human. Curbing reading does not.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever I get ones that ask if I’ve been in a car accident, I take a beat then tremulously tell them about how a trucker asleep at the wheel killed my darling wife. Somehow they never have a script for when they actually come across someone who has experienced the exact trauma they’re preying on.

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