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Emmaly
@emma.ly
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she/her • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ • Magic is just competence with empathy.
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I was looking for the answer to a question I had about a programming thing, so I Googled it.

The answer I needed turned out to be in a post I wrote nearly 20 years ago. (This happens a lot, actually...)

And it turns out I made my account on that platform *exactly* 20 years ago today. Wild.
[Account disabled] User since: Jan 03, 2006 at 21:32 UTC (20 years ago)
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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ICE says it isn't going to break the law to imprison a man that embarrassed them (this time) until a court order banning it is lifted.
ABC News ICE doesn't plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as judge's order banning it stands Immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands
January 2, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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I got to play Words On Stream with some smarties. We beat my previous best of 27 by 10 extra levels!
GAME OVER YOU LOST AT LEVEL 37
December 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Me too, Gemini. Me too.
Processing Complex Emotions (progress spinner)
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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🙄 GitHub is going to charge per-minute fees for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. Which also means they are charging you per minute if you use another company to host your runners.

Microsoft slowly ruins everything they acquire. Do you remember pre-acquisition GitHub? I miss it.
On March 1, 2026, we are introducing a new $0.002 per-minute GitHub Actions cloud platform charge that will apply to self-hosted runner usage. Any usage subject to this charge will count toward the minutes included in your plan.
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Yes, this is obviously a priority issue. I couldn't imagine anything more important to address right now.
NPR headline: Testosterone levels have declined in men. Here's what the FDA wants to do about it
December 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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62.3% amirite
> dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth [===========================62.3%==== ]
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."
A Tumblr-style post from user “redheadhatchet” with the username partially blurred out. The post reads: “One of my college professors used to say ‘anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.’ I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly. But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting. Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible. Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible. Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.” At the bottom is the source “bananonbinary” and a note count of 189,669.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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#MakeAmericaOverthrowDictatorsAgain #SquadGoals
Carly Chaikin @carlychaikin Nov 7, 2020 This is how people react to a dictator being overthrown - not a new president elect
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
You're an essential worker if you can find an animal doing your job in a Richard Scarry book. Excellent. I am as essential as I can be! beautiful screaming lady (picture of cat person seeming to scream out the window of a house)
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Dead of Winter
Gloomhaven
Coup
Fluxx
Dead of Winter game box on a conference table
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I knew they had a pattern and a purpose, but it never clicked. I'm sure I already learned this as a kid, but I didn't remember it.

I was playing Luck Be A Landlord and (currently) have a score of 274,730,108,038,108,151,808 and wanted to know how to say it. Rounded, it's 275 quintillion. 😲
A screenshot of Luck Be A Landlord, as played by Emmaly. The top-left corner displays a total coin score of 214,655,598,406,580,699,136. Immediately below it, the score gained from the last spin is shown as 60,074,509,631,527,452,672. This results in a new total score of 274,730,108,038,108,151,808. The screen also shows an inventory, a 4x5 grid of game symbols consisting primarily of very-high-multiplier cat symbols, and a large "SPIN" button at the bottom.
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I soloed RV There Yet. It was worth it.

It was my first run; I've never played multiplayer, yet.
Screenshot of late game, but from an early game location.
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Prop. 50 - California Approves New House Maps in a Major Win For Democrats and Newsom Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"Very expensive enterprise software is the best software in the world" said by literally nobody (that wasn't trying to sell it).
Screenshot of an error box: Error [object Object]
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The project is at www.home-assistant.io and it's a *beautiful* and easy to use website. Heck, try out their little demo right there on their home page (no really, try it!)

Official project Bluesky account is @home-assistant.io

/cont'd
Home Assistant home page screenshot, including a real user interface experience demo on the right side of the screen, in the format of a standard smartphone. The demo is showing a line graph of a sensor called "outdoor_humidity" with values ranging from ~35% to ~105%, current value at 70.4%. Other text in the screenshot as follows: "Awaken your home" "Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts." "View live demos" "Browse 3300+ integrations"
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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If you think that's a lot of devices for a single Raspberry Pi to handle, it's handling 5,123 separate entities, which many are constantly updating their status. The amount of data this system can process concurrently is impressive, and the data in my house is intense, and it goes unnoticed /cont'd
"Entities" section in Home Assistant for Emmaly's house showing 5,123 enabled entities. Shown in the list are for the SmartThinQ LGE Dryer device are Child lock, Countdown time, Course selection, Current course, Door lock, Dry level, and Dryer sensor. The filter is set to show only Enabled entities (without this filter, it goes up to over 7,000 entities)
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I know that I'm a special case (I really like to use my tools), but right now my Home Assistant running on a little Raspberry Pi 5 is managing 1,312 devices on my house network, via WiFi, Zigbee, and Z-Wave, as well as interfacing with cloud services, such as LG and Samsung. /cont'd
Cropped screenshot of Home Assistant devices list for Emmaly's home, showing 1,312 devices and the first entry is an LG webOS TV.
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Oh, and that van? Check out this graph showing how much fuel is in it, as a line graph. You can clearly see when it was refueled as a historical record. You can go back to review any data points easily. You cannot optimize what you cannot measure, and this system measures SO MUCH. /cont'd
Line graph from Home Assistant of "Odyssey Car Fuel" showing just less than 20% fuel level from 8:00 PM Nov 1 through just before 4:00 PM Nov 2, which then shows an increase in fuel to just under 100%, and an end result of 92% fuel.
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Are you a data nerd, or you want to automate things when you arrive at home, with your Bouncie-connected vehicle? (it reports vehicle health, mileage, location, speed, etc) Home Assistant can use that Bouncie data to turn on lights when you enter the neighborhood, perhaps start the kettle... /cont'd
Home Assistant dashboard titled "Van" showing a fuel gauge at 92%, speed at 0 mile per hour, the current location (as a map and as a redacted street address), battery level at "normal", the odometer value (redacted), and when the data was last updated.
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I don't appreciate being reminded about the rapid passing of time...

This screenshot (from the YouTube live stream of Home Assistant 2025.5 Release Party) feels applicable today.

Pictured are Missy @adorablecyb.org, Paulus @paulusschoutsen.nl, and Frenck @frenck.social (role details in alt text)
Screenshot of video live stream of Home Assistant 2025.5 Release Party. Three faces are visible: Missy Quarry (Community & Social Media Manager at Open Home Foundation), Paulus Schoutsen (Founder of Home Assistant; CEO of Nabu Casa; President of Open Home Foundation), and Franck Nijhof (Leader of Home Assistant project). Bottom of screen displays a message from Sorceress Emmaly saying: "I don't appreciate being reminded about the rapid passing of time."
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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"Well, _I_ won't stop you!"
A photo of a room with blood on the walls and a caption that says “caption this with the second to last text you sent”
October 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I want it to be real, but sadly Gemini's mark in the corner says otherwise.
The mark of AI imagery generated by Gemini.
October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Top Text: Me trying to avoid the grippy socks Overlayed Audio Caption: I'm definitely not thinking about [news] anymore. Photo of Barbie (played by Margot Robbie) from the Barbie movie, laying on a bed. The original quote was "I'm definitely not thinking about death anymore" with "death" visually replaced with "news".
October 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Photo of a label maker labeled "LABELMAKER" with a label from the label maker labeled "LABELMAKER", taken in 2021 by me, labeled by me. 😊
Photo of a label maker labeled "LABELMAKER" with a label from the label maker labeled "LABELMAKER", taken in 2021 by Emmaly.
October 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM