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Money moral dilemma: Should I ask my friend to pay me exactly what she owes? I've a new friend that I go to concerts with. I usually book the tickets, then send her the booking confirmation with the cost. But when she pays me back, she rounds down the amount - so if her ticket cost £53, she'll transfer me £50. While individually they're small amounts, it's starting to add up. Should I mention it - I don't want to jeopardise this friendship, as I rely on her as my concert companion?"

My response: Well this is just a new brand of financial fuckery to me and I would abso-bloody-lutely not stand for it.

- Conversations: "She only likes - literally - Six people and none of them are You."

-This was so funny in context, that I laughed until I was crying. This was so funny in context, that I laughed until I was crying.

- Prefer Phony Stark to Space Karen even though it took me ages to remember it and I probably will forget it unless I tweet it now...

- Seems Phony Stark is already defaulting on some bills/payments due. ".. The company’s philanthropic division, Twitter for Good, has lost many employees and checks promised to some nonprofit groups have not been received, two people said." - NYT article

- Apparently, since D Trump's official Twitter account has been reactivated a lot of accounts have been auto set to Follow his account without the account users knowing or being notified. Best check eh? Then Block just to be safe.

- A 74 long tweet thread? With images in every tweet? WRITE A GODDAM BLOG! ::sheesh:: ::grump::

Mental:

tired

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- As every tweet could be my last one here, I just want it on record that Boyf IS A FREAKING WIZARD AND I LOVE HIM.
W I Z A R D.

- In response to someone asking ' Everyone Post your most salient line of code:
C/C++ = ' // This is a single line comment ' CSS = ' /* This is a single line comment in CSS */ Python & Perl = ' # This is a single line comment ' Java & JavaScript & PHP = ' // This is a single line comment in Java ' HTML = '  '

- Have offered to make an article of clothing for Boyf and he has accepted and seems excited about prospect. I too am excite! [It's not a sweater, I've recently learnt about knitters sweater curse I ain't messin with such powerful mojo]

- Why have I never considered that any DIY sewing table should incorporate a slide out / snap out ironing board before? Why brain. WHY? If I ever do get a dedicated sewing space I'mma have the BEST - FRANKENSTEIN's MONSTER - TABLE EVAH!

- Someone who is now cast to play a role in Doctor Who (actor in mid 20's) said in an interview that they were first introduced to, and grew up watching David Tennant as Doctor Who and I just.. ::crumbles to dust::

- Welp, the start of the world Cup in Qatar *did not seem* to hobble Twitter, so maybe it can keep shambling forward a in zombified manner...?

Mental:

busy

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- Finished another book!
Book ?? Of 2022 Graphic novel Gender Queer. Memoir by Maia Kobabe.
Took me about 40 min to read? 150 ish pages as an ebook. Powerful stuff.

- Things continue to not go well at Twitter; @Kylie Robison states:
"What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email. Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems."

To which I state: Great google moogly. This will be in business textbooks for decades to come..!

- There are still people who seem to sincerely believe Mu$K is a genius and I just.. ::Firefly confused gif::

-Unprecedented. Never before in Recorded History. Remarkable. Extra-Ordinary.
Yup.
#Twitter
#TwitterImplosion

- If you follow an Artist / Writer / Creator / Twitter / Maker on Twitter, then while Twitter still exists take a minute to tell them. Show your appreciation while you still can.

- Furiously hugs everyone who wants hugs!! I'mma miss y'all! [I am not going anywhere but the Space around me might]

- Look, it's hard to take any kind of praise, and also am always worried I'll give praise incorrectly. It's hard to be liked and also very hard to tell people you like them! Feel like a inarticulate five year old :C [Made even funnier by the fact irl had a large vocab at age 3]

- No *you're* browsing books on ebay to try and mitigate being upset about the world changing in ways you don't like and can't actually affect. *YOU ARE*

- Boyf recently reasoned that buying second hand books is a good thing to do for the planet. Yesh but I LOVE BEING THE FIRST PERSON TO OWN A BOOK! I'm a terrible, book addicted person. [Ever buy an ex-library book and it turns out, it was never once checked out?] [Hits da spot]

-Hate to be Cassandra but calling it now. Anything International news worthy happens this weekend then this site is dead, done - *flatline* Presuming they *had* some form of Disaster Recovery response in place, most of the People needed to actually act on it - have already left

-Again THIS! Mu$k is systematically destroying a thing he (no one individual) should never have been able to own in it's entirety.

-Is Twitter still defaulting on the loans on it's Interest Payments? Does the HR and/or Accounting part of the company that ensures People/Services/Third parties still get paid - even still exist? Things will go pear shaped real quick if bills don't get paid on time ..

-Just watched the Anime Blame! On Netflix. Lots of style over substance but what a LOT of style. Apparently the original Manga which ran from 1997 to 2004(?) Was *very much* truncated in the 1 hour 20+ min Anime.. Lots of unanswered questions. ..

Mental:

busy

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- And so it begins.. the number of people leaving (or just stopping posting on) twitter and going to services I cannot (or will not) go to, has upped from a drip to a trickle..

- Etsy.. classic case of harming customers and employees in endless search for 'line go up' unsustainable growth. Etsy recently removed everyones ability to search for items in favour of 'algorithmic' recommendations, meaning you can't exclude keywords for specific searches FFS.
[someone asked me how is anyone supposed to search for anything?]
- You either scroll through everything - or buy one of the recommended items which consist of most of the first few pages of every search. OR Search via Google t

- This might not seem like a big deal, but here's an example for you. Want to buy - let's say - an Adult Bucket hat pdf sewing pattern Except you can't search for that *without also seeing every* child/doll/knitting/crotchet/paper/origami/poster/bucket *also on the site*.

Then go to Etsy from one of thier 'offsite' ads - Wich cost the creators extra money but not Etsy.

- So, it would seem that one *particular* Courier, from that one *Particular* Courier company likes to place deliveries to my house specifically into any Puddles outside. Great. Greeaat.

Mental:

busy

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- Attempting to download twitter archive as I type.. ::fingers crossed::

- I think, I think, I've successfully downloaded the archive ! yay me !

Mental:

busy

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- Spotted a Baby faced Chris Pine in an old episode of CSI Miami.

- Still mad that Netflix cancelled Sense8 in 2017

- Amused ( and perplexed) that Amazon is resurrecting the recently canceled Australian Soap Opera Neighbors

-According to Wikipedia, Neighbors (the Soap Opera) ran for 30 seasons and a staggering 8,903 Episodes. That's very close to *Nine Thousand Episodes* (unless my math is very wrong). Perhaps it would be better to just *let it die*

Mental:

amused

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- It's been over 24 hours and my requested Twitter archive file is still not available. fucksticks
(several people assume me that they did manage to get their archive btu it too much longer than the stated 24-48 hours)

Zoe Schiffer Journalist again reported:
"Elon Musk asked Twitter employees who agreed to click “yes” on a form in the email. Those who don’t by 5PM Thursday will be let go with 3 months severance."

My retort:
I AM NOT A LAWYER! - *BUT* Asking individuals to accept sweeping changes to their employment contracts in a yes/no button over email seems.. *SUSPICIOUS at best*

Retweeting and quoteing myself:

Faintdreams @faintdreams

Nov 18, 2021

And lo we are approaching the season I like to call "Schrodinger's Wishlist" *Especially for books* because books make excellant gifts and so none can be purchased (untill after Christmas) for fear of ending up with a duplicate!

- Once again we have entered the"Schrodinger's Wishlist" time zone...

- Reading Starfinder for the first time and it has interesting Lore. Can't figure out if idea of 'The Gap' (resetting all non Personal knowledge back to only starting 300 years ago) is intriguing or just the publishers trying to get out from a potentially difficult Canon snarl..

- White Wolf / World of Darkness tried a similar thing by Nuking Thier setting due to very convaluted and contradictory Canon and Back Lore.. but I don't think it was a positive move with (then) playerbase.

Finished watching Dead End Paranormal Park Season 2 on Netflix:

- Dear Netflix, Please to be giving me Dead End Paranormal season 3 asap. KTHNXBYE!
#Netflix
#DeadEndParanormalPark
#Deadlandia

- Long Live Captain Angel! (watching Season 1 Start Trek SNW with Boyf)
#StarTrek
#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
#starTrekSNW

-fuxsticks. Ordered a bunch of stuff from a (highstreet retail) company I've not ordered from before, aaaaaand just received a tracking notice from Evri-we-used-to-be-Hermes, letting me know it's on it's way. fuckstix.

Mental:

busy

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- #Dreamspace She was wearing a dress made of Moonlight and crying a river of Stars. [Writing in my dreams again :/ ]

- Also discovered that there is a UK company whose entire purpose is making replacement covers for IKEA couches.!

- Genevieve Cogman unveiled the Tor UK Cover for new Book Scarlet - scarlet Pimpernel + Vampires.

- Brushed against a large, open,hardback book and managed to give myself the *deepest* paper-cut across one of my index knuckles and ow, ow ow OW. I like BIG Books and I cannot Lie - but I have fallen in the reading wars ::sob::

Mentalfloss - Why Do papercuts Hurt so much ?

- Zoe Schiffer reorter states:
"NEW: Twitter is getting ready to announce a massive reorg. The situation is fluid but here’s what we know so far: engineering will be divided into 3 orgs: product, infrastructure, & support. Bluebird & Goldbird are becoming one product org. No more bird names - those are changing"

To which I state:
Something, something, arranging the deckchairs, something something.. Titanic.. ?

- I share the image of a New York Public Library Plush called 'Amusable Sandwich' It is furry and a thing of Nightmare Fuel.

- Welp, humanity has reached 8 billion people alive at one time and I guess that's peak humanity so it was fun while it lasted y'all. Apparrently Russia has dropped bombs on Poland and killed civilians so.. yeah.

Mental:

amused

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- Requested a full data archive download. (was unable to do so before now) Fingers crossed that utility still works..

- Got a Dreamwidth account ? Then please let me know what your handle is so I can follow you there ! It's my only Lifeboat from Twitter at the moment..

- Note to self: blog about Star trek Strange New Worlds and how watching all episodes again - but alongside Boyf going.

- Does anyone know if there is an easy (preferably not ifttt way but it'll do in a pinch) to post From Twitter to my Dreamwidth account? There used to be a digest app but it lost connectivity years ago. Seems like posting TO twitter is well supported but not From it ::sigh::

Mental:

tired

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Since Mu$k waltzed into the Head office carry a sink, every time I go to twitter.com I expect it to be broken or a complete 404. Do not pass fail whale go straight to 404 then complete erasure :( This is horrid.

Mental:

aggravated

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Just finished watching the Nord VPN Critical Role Oneshot and the end was so hilarious I laughed a until I got a muscle spasm in my shoulder! Superb.
# CriticalRole
# CriticalRoleOneShot
# CriticalRoleNordVPN

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Mental:

amused

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