#magpiebridge

[babylove007]

Something Has Happened 4:44pm March 13th, 2025

Hawks Circle Crane Infrastructure Behind Kingston Centre Loblaws Kingston, Ontario

The hawks (9 of them) move to hover over the bus, top left of the lights near to me

Stopped at a red light at 1255 Princess Street, Kingston

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mouse Nest Bubble Bursting Under Crane Infrastructure Snakes On The Ground Advance Towards Us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hawks, God's creatures Found me first when I was impaled to a wall at Grenfell Street

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4:55pm On Bus In Front of Centennial Tim Hortons Memory of the hawks, When I Was Taken from Grenfell via Ambulance

Pivot Back Left Behind Me For Emergency Handle Foggy Window Grows Over My Left Eye From Bottom Left Eye Corner

Ticks Nudge Top of Bottom Hood Piece Into Top of The Large Intestine Cave (Multiple 12 star emblem. 13?)

Oh god its 12-13, or a big one with 12-13 teeth.

I'm a the mall. 5:13pm March 13, 2025 *bus # 1810*

[gagahi20]

What gifts have you got yesterday? #gagahi #QiXifestival activity is in full swing.

[docbe]

strider-manpain replied to your post “So ok…whats the deal w discord, what’re the pros/cons”

Generally the only con is that there's no video chat. It's very frequently updated so usually if there are a issues they're resolved quickly. Gifs and YouTube videos can be viewed inside of the chat client. There are separate channels for group chats, in case you want to keep topics separate or something, same thing with voice channels. Full emoji keyboard plus commands for emoji such as :eyes:, and custom emojis.

strider-manpain replied to your post “So ok…whats the deal w discord, what’re the pros/cons”

Not sure how good the blocking system is. Custom username colors in-chat, ability to set roles and nicknames, bots that do stuff like play music in specific voice channels, text to speech using /tts command

magpiebridge replied to your post “So ok…whats the deal w discord, what’re the pros/cons”

I find it pretty useful for group chats--I can mute channels, entire servers, specific parts of servers, mute anything that isn't an @me, or mute everything, which keeps me sane, since skype kept blowing up my phone every time someone spammed a reaction gif. it also has a nice dark theme so it's not an eyestrain. I don't have a lot of people I hit up individually but for those I do, it also works fine for one-on-one chatting.

Hmmmmmm okay :o that seems like a lot of pros, esp compared to skype...I’ll have to consider setting up an account sometime, maybe even attempt to do the chat thing again someday..

[mtjester]

magpiebridge replied to your post “Man, you know, I wish I wasn’t so preoccupied and low key overwhelmed...”

switch to Discord instead! it's got all the functionality of Skype, but it's not jammed full of ads and broken features.

I’ve heard some good stuff about Discord lately, so I might check it out. I’ll keep skype around for my current skype peeps, but maybe it’s time to Upgrade

[hunkadorusrex]

@magpiebridge  THIS IS HOW I VEGETABLE YES??

[istannflying]

[Trans] Hello it's NFlying Kwangjin!! There's only a few days left to solo concert on 7th July~~!! #NF #NFlying #KwonKwangjin #Kwangjin #Kwangjinie #Kwangstagram #Kwangkwangie #SirKwang #NFia #7july #concert #TheWeaverandtheCowHerdsman #Magpiebridge #Magpienest #summer_feeling

@hyo_miii

[jffc-in-blog]

China launches relay satellite to explore Moon’s far side

https://jffc.in/2018/05/21/china-launches-relay-satellite-to-explore-moons-far-side-2/ #China, #CommunicationSatellite, #EarthMoonSurface, #ExploringMoon, #LunarExploration, #MagpieBridge, #Moon, #Queqiao, #Satellite, #XichangSatelliteLaunchCenter

[mctempie-blog]

not yet, junior!

[bluebirdofgrumpiness]

magpiebridge replied to your post “Dysfunctional Family Xmas BINGO”

I am so sorry you had one of these too. I assume there's a cave somewhere that they shamble out of, fully formed, ready to make someone's life more difficult.

The mental image of finding this cave and bricking up the entrance is going to carry me through the weekend.

[feral-engineer]

you can absolutely freeze tofu, but note that if you freeze it in water, it will come out with a crumbly, bread-like texture in the end. on the bright side, you can marinate it afterward! if you drain it first and slice it and freeze it in freezer bags or some other freezer-safe container, it shouldn't change the texture as much, and should last for months, barring repeated thawing and re-freezing.

that’s what I figured, I don’t really care about texture and flavor if I’m eating something that’s been in my freezer, I just want to know it’s not gonna kill me, which I figure it probably won’t. 

[docbe]

magpiebridge replied to your post: Yknow every once and a while I see one of those...

messages like that rile me up on two levels… one, that they assume it is somehow empowering to depict a woman performing ‘femininity’ in an unsafe setting, as if her natural state of being must be to desire the makeup and the bangles and the affectation, and secondly, that they have obviously never listened to anyone in my position–that of NOT performing 'femininity’ adequately in a professional setting and getting a lot of backblow for not meeting those expectations.

Sigh yeah I think it’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation with the latter...it seems like there’s a v narrow path between too-feminine and not-feminine-enough that’s considered “professional” (and even smaller for the “competent and masterful” zone). I can understand frustration on both ends, but at this point we don’t need to rewrite femininity, but attitudes about it (eg it’s obviously not women that are the problem--we need to broaden that zone, not try to reframe either side of it). There’s way too much emphasis on how femininity “should” be represented and not nearly enough about how there should be enough representation to accommodate a variety of different professions and uniforms and expressions of femininity (or lack thereof! Women in their own skin are still women!) 

So like, the "let women wear their hair down” message is a worthy one, but I think overwriting Rosie the Riveter, an engineering/mechanic/factory-worker powerhouse, is not the way to do it, and I think trying to do that does kind of gloss over the many women working in those fields (and elsewhere). There’s something to be said about making room for new icons...and personally, I would love femininity in professional settings to be explored to include the fashionably stylish AS WELL AS older women and larger women and women of color and women with disabilities and women with quirks. Basically “femininity in the workplace” seems to be code for pin-ups and sexy halloween costumes and we need to kind of branch out into a wider range of representation that includes both soft/performative femininity AND the many OTHER varieties of femininity while respecting professionalism and its related areas competency, mastery, proficiency, and respectability for whatever field represented

[mtjester]

magpiebridge answered your question “Does anyone know any text adventure, point and click, or otherwise...”

not personally but this is a thing I've looked for and http://www.gameenglish.com/ brought up some simple possibilities! This is something I'm interested to know as an EFL/ESL teacher, too.

This is helpful!  I’ll try out some of the games.  If I find anything else that seems useful or promising, I can post about those too, in case you’re interested!

[jffc-in-blog]

China launches relay satellite to explore Moon's far side

https://jffc.in/2018/05/21/china-launches-relay-satellite-to-explore-moons-far-side/ #ChinaSatellite, #ChineseLunarExplorationMission, #MagpieBridge, #Moon039SFarSide, #Queqiao