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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

It's good to see that my mate is still in the latest series of The Witcher.

skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

I'm doing my best Zelazny impression: writing any-old-shit down and hoping it makes sense at the end.

#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Interesting, you have to be younger than 31 to be an air traffic controller. Is that a new thing? Or do you get to still be in ATC if you started before the age of 31 but you are now older?

https://www.faa.gov/atc-hiring

Am I eligible?

Applicants must:

Be a U.S. citizen
Speak English fluently and clearly
Be younger than 31 years old before the closing date of the application period
Have either one year of full-time work experience or one year of higher education, or a combination of both
Be physically and mentally fit and meet standards for vision, hearing, cardiovascular, neurological and psychiatric health

Air Traffic Controller Who Is Older Than 31

Guy with a plug, doesn't look real young, but maybe that's early male pattern baldness

Airplane "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."

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Brian Campbell @unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@ai6yr You have to start before the age of 31, because it requires intensive training and early retirement, so they want to make sure they get enough years out of you before retirement.

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@Unixbigot UGH!

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Freezing the rest of the pumpkin soup. Spinach pumpkin biscuits are going in the fridge

Packaged pumpkin soup and spinach feta pumpkin biscuits

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

On the upside of all this, Kid liked and ate the soup and the biscuits

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever gender a client tells you they are, you refer to them as that. You *do not need* to start *every* case file note by crapping on that "[dead name] shall be referred to as their preferred name from here on in". There's nothing professional about re-deadnaming clients because of bigotry

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@asherwolf.bsky.social challenge bank?

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi @naramoore.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 3d

# #百物語 #hyakumonogatari: 14 Smile 微笑

#fandom #alfredhitchcock #psycho
#drabbletober #spooktober
#sundaylit **(#happy & #sad)** #wss366 #wordweavers 10.5 — Antagonist sadness?

A smile touched his lips, like a frost bloom on iron-hard ground: brittle, cold […]

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Black & White still of a white car sinking into the mud. From Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.

skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Launie people must be so proud Launceston Woolies made it into the latest #dashcamaustralia #instantkarma 🤣

#tassie #launie

skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The colour you get when you sear a duck breast, is that a mallard reaction?

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Sorry, I forgot I was going to keep #sundaylit as one thread

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#sundaylit

Happiness:

I triggered the latch, and carefully pushed against the gnarled, wooden surface. The ancient hinges creaked ominously as the door slowly opened.

I beamed as I gazed about the massive hall beyond. My smile must have been as bright as the room’s gleaming contents, so […]

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#sundaylit Happiness (show, don't tell): share a WIP snippet, short story or poem which shows the feeling of happiness without using the word.

This one's a little tricky, because it's really only in comparison with previous scenes of Leo being Mr Awkward that a […]

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And here came Cole now, carrying a basket and a book, accompanied by his warm smile and a large dog at his heels.

[cut text not relevant to happiness theme]

“Hello, Maximilian,” Leo crooned, rubbing the dog behind the ears. “Good afternoon, Mr Fluffy Face.”

Cole set down his encumbrances and spread wide his arms. “Wounded to the quick,” he announced. “An iota of the same enthusiasm, please.”

Leo obligingly said, “Good afternoon, Mr Fluffy Face,” and congratulated himself on exactly matching it to the way he spoken to Max.

“Better,” Cole said, though Leo noted with amusement that he rubbed his fingers across his impeccably-groomed short beard as he took his seat.

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

If anyone on Bluesky needs help migrating to Mastodon or the rest of the activitypub verse, please drop me a note. I'll do my best to help.

#mastodon #migration #bluesky #bridgy #helpavailable

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I think we should name these Coward Waves - https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115308358834634697

Unofficial ABC News Bot (@[email protected])

Rock fisher swept off rocks by giant wave 'extremely lucky' to be alive https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/carnarvon-tourist-rescued-swept-off-quobba-rocks-fishing/105848502 #AccidentsandEmergencyIncidents #RecreationalFishing

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@ben there's freedom and there's freedom. For instance, my home country, Oz, is rated very free, but my current residence, Singas, is rated partly free. And yet, the chances of being physically attacked by some random cooker in Singas is negligible, whereas in Oz it's just a matter of time […]

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This is fun. By these measures, the country I've lived in with the most freedom is the Netherlands; the country I've lived in with the least is the United States. What about you? https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores

Countries and Territories

Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 208 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or nonstate actors. Click on a country name below to access the full country narrative report.

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

My eldest kid's primary school teacher didn't know how to spell 'yacht'. She taught the class to spell it 'yatch'. More than a decade later, my kid still spells it wrong.

#education #fail

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This week, Amy Remeikis is (correctly) linking the housing crisis facing #australia with the #howard Government, quite susinctly.

I have said before that every major challenge facing Australia goes back to the Howard Government.

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And just like Howard, who was told by the […]

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