I have been herdivineshadow online for at least 7 years longer than I’ve had any accounts with my legal first and last names.

While I was secretary of the sci-fi & fantasy society for one year, more importantly I think I came second (out of 4 candidates) in the election for that other official committee position of Drunken Master.

I did well, considering I’ve always been tee-total.

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Maybe I should have cooked 4 sausages instead of 3

Also reminding myself that I don’t need to host my own bookwyrm instance, I can just migrate to a new one if the current one comes back online.

(I would love for them to have a status page or actually communicate on their mastodon account, but they don’t 🙁 )

The whole process is extraordinarily satisfying to watch

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Every so often someone will call the charity I work for thinking that we will want to clear their deceased relative’s house for them for free or take whatever furniture they are trying to get rid of from their own home.

We don’t even have charity shops.

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It’s taken me until now to realise the X in arXiv is chi and not x which isn’t great considering I did study ancient Greek for fun that time

Interesting to read about things from the newsletter writer side. On my part, I unsubscribed from all the newsletters on Substack I had been following some time ago.

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