Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

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  • There are reflecting pools/fountains near me that are this unnatural blue.

    Usually at the entrance to dive motels. They look like toilet water. Gross.

    That’s not how you want high-end water features to look. It’s how you hide w nasty shit goes on in there after hours (like at Mar a Lago), and the blue is meant to (badly) disguise it.
    I had a private pool, And I’ve maintained public water features (pools, Fountains, Ponds, Reflecting pools, Etc)

    You can smell this shade of blue – heavily over chlorinated and dirty. It tells you do not touch. It’s gross, and you’ll definitely catch something.











  • There are no ethical billionaires.

    Can’t remember his name (which was his point), but there was one who donated all but 1 million to causes, and left in his will that everything should be donated. All anonymously. He said nobody needs more than a million, and didn’t want to be named in things.

    He was the only one who seemed to get it, and I can’t remember his name, which seemed to be what he wanted. All the rest are snakes.





  • GLaDOS is mine, too.

    (spoilers ahead, play it if you haven’t)

    In my first playthrough, I didn’t see it coming, and I felt like she was my friend. That was a relationship twist I’ve never had in a game, and I really appreciated what they did there.

    e: if you’re looking for other game recs that fuck with you, I’d say What Remains of Edith Finch.





  • The abbreviation ‘lbs’ for ‘pounds’ comes from the Roman ‘libre pondo’ meaning ‘a pound by weight’.

    This is also the reason the symbol for Libra in the zodiac is scales (Libra is the only sign represented by an inanimate object).

    I just learnt this today, and I can’t believe I never noticed before now that ‘lbs’ for ‘pounds’ is weird. I always just mentally glossed over it.


  • Yeah, a whole lot of violent racists applied for ICE jobs that were notoriously lax on hiring criteria.

    I wonder if there’s any link between those factors that may also correlate some violent racists being legally allowed to beat and shoot people they don’t like, so they can fill their urges without ‘doing crime’ now.

    I’d bet money that we soon hear about serial killer whi worked at ICE, and I’ll bet at least one is active right now. If I had this idea, a real killer will certainly thought of it…