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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   #writever Square

   "You must reduce your magic spendings by one fifth."

   "We could switch from pentagrams to squares for demon invocations."

   "Does that work?"

   "Try it, you'll see."

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   "Does the auditor still want us to reduce our spendings?"

   "… Nope."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Musketeers

     "Based on when in the Book d'Artagnan becomes one," said R42, "I have come to the conclusion that it is in fact “The 3.001 Muketeers rounded to the closest thousandths” and that you humans are very imprecise as far as counting goes."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2024 23:39:58 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     You too can check how far exactly in Dumas' Three Musketeers d'Artagnan gets to join! It's in the public domain after all: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Tetrapod

     "Yes, Lord, this is what You asked us to create. A tetrapod. From tetra, which means four, and pod, which means foot. The rest of the body? Er… what rest of the body, Lord? Er… no, Lord, only… four feet."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 15:00:17 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Fantastic

     You call werewolves, vampires, ghouls, banshees, golems, mermaids... fantastic creatures. But we owe little to the imagination, and much less to yours. We are quite real. You are about to find that out.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Quartet

     - The way they handle things, they'll manage without us.
     - but what are we going to do if we're not riding out?
     - I thought we could become a quartet!
     - I CAN SEE WHERE THE THREE OF YOU ARE GETTING. AND NO, I WILL NOT PLAY THE XYLOPHONE.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Chaos

     The Universe was born from such chaos that neither time or space had any meaning.

     The Universe will die from such a perfect uniformity that neither time nor space will be any use any more.

     But at least chaos gave birth to something.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Blood

     You have no idea how complicated it is to determine a victim's blood group before biting them. But it's either that or one week of chelation! That lowlife Vlad may be AB+ but *I* am O negative, thank you very much!

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Henri

     "A human once tried to remove our number plates and give us names", explained R42. "The problem was, our plates were the only différence he could see, so he always called us all “Henri“. The other humans didn't follow him.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Dalton

     The Dalton were an genetic experience, each of them carried an altered form of Lucky Luke's DNA. The stripes were intended to track the lienage in potential offsprings. The O'Timmins and the O'Hara were the work of a trainee.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Seasons

     You use different spells for different seasons! Summer lends itself to fireballs; autumn, to shapeshifting; winter, to petrification; and spring, of course, to glamour.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Telluric

     "Humans," sighed the Devil, "do not realize that what they call telluric tremors are the result of Hell expanding beneath their feet, ever faster as more and more souls pour in."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Evangelists

     The radio astronomer who discovered the signals coming from four different directions had nicknamed them the Evangelists.

     Eventually they were decyphered together and we realized he'd chosen the right book but not the right part.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Riders

     Once the nature of the radio signals was established, we computed how fast their sources were closing in.

     Then we relaxed: the Riders (nés Evangelists) would not arrive before the Sun would expand and destroy the Earth.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Quadriplegic

     As a quadriplegic *and* a psychokinetic, I could manage to pass as valid by moving my limbs using sheer willpower. But that would eat my energy away and I would have nothing left for sculpting.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Tetrahedron

     If you group the stars of our galaxy four by four, each tetrahedron forms one letter of a very long message, but unfortunately no molecular being can understand its meaning.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Silk

     The morphing spiders are unique among arachnids in that they wrap animals with their silk in order, not to eat them, but to induce them into metamorphosis.

     No case of a morphing spider wrapping a human has been recorded.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Beryllium

     "Earthers build their spaceship hulls with beryllium. It withstands high temperatures, ils lightweight, not too deformable, is ductile, eliminates heat fast, is amagnetic and acid-proof."

     "But ?"

     "Poisonous. Why “but”?"

     "Earthers."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Four

     Spacers count in base two. Arans, in base eight. Terrans in base ten, mostly; but we all share the concept of "one".

     And then come the Shabasch, whose *unit* translates as "four". I'm told that's because they are transdimensional.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Tetris

     In space travel, mass does not cost nearly as much as distance does. So you fill up the ships' holds to the brim. So much so that one of the tests for the space pilot license is a game of Tetris. I kid you not.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Dimensions

     A spell's dimensions follow from those of the voice which expresses it: power, height, clarity, mélody, tunefulness, timbre, rhythm can hugely amplify its effects.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever States

     According to the schabasch, the four states of matter are "serene", "amicable", "hostile" and "whimsical".

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 17:09:48 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Ing. Sand

     @Galamadryade

     "Friendly" était mon choix initial puis j'ai trouvé qu'il faisait trop banal par rapport aux autres, et que "amicable" collait mieux.

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     Ing. Sand (galamadryade@piaille.fr)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 17:09:49 JST Ing. Sand

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     @aaribaud "friendly", plutôt, non ?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Lozenge

     Only one space pilot claims to have seen Schabasch, those transdimensional entities which we suspect are able to move through space and time. He says they... look like a lozenge.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 15:00:17 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Elements

     When Mendeleiev published his periodic table, some though the existence of elementals disproved once and for all; in fact, it just multiplied their numbers, and frankly, you do not want to wrestle an arsenic elemental.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Clover

     Note for release 2125 of the Voight-Kampff test: the decisive question consists in asking the subject to draw a bunch of clovers. A human will draw them with four leaves as they imagine them wrongly; the replicant, with three, as they are.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Cardinal

     “Our modern laws are inspired by your cardinal virtues,” R42 explained. “Prudence: knowing what is right; Temperance: doing nothing that is not right; Strength: always doing what is right; Justice: doing for all as for oneself.”

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Nucleobases

     "Every byte in a program," said R42, "can be expressed as four of your nucleobases and vice versa. On this conversion basis, your DNA is several orders of magnitude smaller than my program. No offence meant."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Turtles

     "We will start with the turtles soup," said the Terran ambassador.

     The Chelonian stiffened.

     "Soup of turtles?"

     The ambassador went blank, then turned pale.

     "Oh! No! *for* turtles ! Forgive my faulty Chelonian."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Interactions

     According to Wizards, predicting interactions between spells, be it in their effects or their intensity, is impossible. According to Elena the Curious, it is simple. However no Wizard understands her explanations.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Eras

     Humans count their lives in years.
     Tortoises, in decades.
     Pines, in centuries.
     Basalts, in millenia.
     Planets, in eras.
     But how many eras can a planet live?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Superstition

     "There is a curious superstition among humans about me," commented R42, "according to which I would be able to predict their thoughts from based on their past actions. This is, of course, false. I can only predict their next actions."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #Writever Beatles

     If you listen in one go to every version of every song ever played by the Beatles, ordered by increasing publication date and, for albums, by increasing track number, then you'll miss the New Year. The choice is yours.

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