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   :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:09 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

   Good morning folks

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:04 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Roger BW 😷

     @RogerBW @DarkestKale holy fucking shit. I just found out via Wikipedia that they beat and tortured their kid enough to get locked up in the 60s (when physical violence against children - at least seems from here - seems to have been more normalised).

     I went off their work in my late teens/early twenties due to fantasy racism, preachiness and writing that no longer worked for me in more recent books, but I still thought somewhat fondly of their early works I'd have similarly had no idea until you mentioned it.

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     Roger BW 😷 (rogerbw@discordian.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:05 JST Roger BW 😷

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     @DarkestKale Chances are they simply don't know. Here is a book I liked as a kid / my kid likes, I'll put it in the child's bedroom.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:06 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     And that's it for the work week. Time for my allowance of 60 hrs to reset enough that I don't walk in utterly enraged by blinding incompetency and negligence on Monday.

     A+

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:06 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     #Ikea displaying a book by David and Leigh Eddings in a staged children's bedroom is a HELL of a thing to notice.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:07 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Trying to decide if 'asking me to ensure that I clock off every day is insulting considering you and I have discussed - at length, multiple times - how the app is a rampant piece of dogshit that doesn't record properly, and the fact you are saying this to me is incredibly conclusive proof that you pay as little attention as possible, per the suspicion of your coworkers' is heavy enough.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:07 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     'One cannot conclude whether your actions are due to negligence, incompetence or laziness, or perhaps a combination of these factors'

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:07 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     The rage dissipates. Nothing changes other than a loss of social currency in the workplace.

     I just can't bring myself to care, though.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:08 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Despite how angry work made me yesterday, I am, once again present.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:08 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Let's see what kind of dipshit holes these fuckfaces dig for themselves today.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:08 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Waiting for the revelation to dawn on them that selling an item acquired for $450 to a customer at $350 might be a really bad call.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 18:59:08 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     https://x.ai/news/grok-build-open-source

     Gee, I wonder what motivated this?

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 23:21:19 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Trying a new game (#NovaLands), and it blasted sound on startup, then seems to have ignored the volume settings I set.

     We're off to a good start.

     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat repeated this.
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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 23:21:19 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     Oh. Good. moving cloud shadows over the game.

     That's... not good for motion sickness.

     It's 2026, I'm begging #gamedev folks to please realise that motion sickness is a thing you can acquire as you get old, and screen shake, moving backgrounds, etc are going to make you unable to play your own games. Give us options to turn them off.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 23:23:50 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     • Roger BW 😷

     @RogerBW @HauntedOwlbear Back on Eddings, though, it's fucked up that the first paragraph of his wikipedia page is 'Ohhhh author, ohhhhh' and no mention of 'and btw, he beat kids'

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 23:23:50 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Roger BW 😷

     @DarkestKale @RogerBW it's just slid in under "personal life", not even under a dedicated controversies section, ffs

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 23:23:51 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     • Roger BW 😷

     @RogerBW @HauntedOwlbear I mean, Coco Chanel was a fucking nazi collaborator and people claim they know nothing about it.

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     Roger BW 😷 (rogerbw@discordian.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 23:23:52 JST Roger BW 😷

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear @DarkestKale Yeah they buried it very effectively until someone found it in a local newspaper report many years later. And even now it's not widely known.