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Next up: . I mean, if I’m going to play only one or two more video games in my life, it would make total sense for them to be B teen horror film simulator and a silly pirate puzzle box.

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I haven’t played a video game in a literal year. The interest just sort of faded away along with the testosterone. This doesn’t seem to be a commonly-reported side effect of HRT— just a me-doing-me thing.

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I had every intention of working today. I woke up at the workday hour, ate a workday breakfast, put on a workday outfit, opened up my workday browser tabs.

Now I’m sitting on the sofa, playing The Quarry, dropping off-brand Jeeps on off-brand werewolves.

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The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.

For Halloween this year, the Pocket web team dressed up as , which was just totally fab.

I’ll stand by the grilled onions: I’m not sure I’ll have them any other way again.

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I just made a hot sandwich with some onions that I grilled in coffee and apple cider vinegar, and a slice of cheddar cheese. Kewpie mayonaise bound it all together.

So much for today’s sodium and carb goals. 🥲 Tomorrow is going to be a make-up Thursday, and it’s going to be brutal.

Just learned what a squirrel drey is. Will never see Firefox icon the same way again.

I understand why I woke up an hour early; I don’t understand why I woke up four hours early. 🫠

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.