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Comment on The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century in ~design
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Comment on The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century in ~design
OneEyeMercy Link ParentThe cathedral is also the origin of the rhyme 'hickory dickory dock'! https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/hickory-dickory-dock-clock-proves-4546022 Here is the wiki on our clock:...The cathedral is also the origin of the rhyme 'hickory dickory dock'!
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/hickory-dickory-dock-clock-proves-4546022Here is the wiki on our clock:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_Cathedral_astronomical_clock(I really need to learn how to imbed links here, it's on my to-do list!)
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Comment on The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century in ~design
OneEyeMercy Link ParentAh, how kind! I've been to 47 states, many repeatedly, so I have seen your dear forests and they are stunning! I can even recall the smell! Come on over and I'll show you around! I am pretty sure...Ah, how kind! I've been to 47 states, many repeatedly, so I have seen your dear forests and they are stunning! I can even recall the smell!
Come on over and I'll show you around! I am pretty sure Exeter is the most perfect (for me anyway) city in the world! Devon in general is just brilliant. We would love to have you! -
Comment on The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century in ~design
OneEyeMercy LinkThis is just down the road from me! We go there all the time and always bring visitors there to show them around. I can give a pretty good tour guide speech at this point. There are lots of...This is just down the road from me! We go there all the time and always bring visitors there to show them around. I can give a pretty good tour guide speech at this point. There are lots of fascinating books about it too. It really is an amazing place!
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Comment on Turning popular video games into great board games is a lot harder than it sounds in ~games.tabletop
OneEyeMercy LinkWe have the Stardew Valley board game. It's fun and well balanced, but it is A LOT. It must have taken ages to work all that out.We have the Stardew Valley board game. It's fun and well balanced, but it is A LOT. It must have taken ages to work all that out.
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Comment on Beer-drunk raccoons terrorize Germany, chaos reigns in ~life.pets
OneEyeMercy LinkCan you imagine the raccoons downing a couple of brews and having a snack and then looking around and being like "GUYS! They have one of those fish holders here too! Yum!" They the their fish! How...Can you imagine the raccoons downing a couple of brews and having a snack and then looking around and being like "GUYS! They have one of those fish holders here too! Yum!"
They the their fish! How horrifying! Unsurprising maybe but kinda sad. -
Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy (edited )Link ParentNot sure how this works here either but here is the link, it's free on Kindle...Not sure how this works here either but here is the link, it's free on Kindle
I know it's my mom and all, but it's very good. Short but gripping. It gives a glimpse into the somewhat darker intrigue and machinations that rural small town life have, while giving credit to the strong feelings and mental fortitude that small communities use to guide and govern themselves. Also lots of interesting women. I think you would like them.
The blurb from the back says:
Life can be filled with secrets, and in the small Appalachian town of Maysville, secrets are best well kept. Welcome to the mysterious lives of ordinary people who dwell each day in a chaos of harmony, religion, laughter, poverty and pain.Names have been changed and personalities merged but I grew up there and I feel like I know them as an absolute architype. Check it out if you want!
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Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy Link ParentMore books I have read or gifted, On The Road, Kerouac also The Art of Motorcycle Maintence, a kind of zen book with which I bamboozled my monk professor into thinking I had learned something. I...More books I have read or gifted, On The Road, Kerouac also The Art of Motorcycle Maintence, a kind of zen book with which I bamboozled my monk professor into thinking I had learned something.
I would not mind mildly promoting my mother's short story/book, it is an experience in rural living. Not sure how that works here.
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Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy Link ParentHi boxer! Love your content here! No one wants to read the stuff I real lol, very boring. Currently on my windowsill/casually reading I have: Of Sirens and Centaurs Cathedral Architecture How to...Hi boxer! Love your content here!
No one wants to read the stuff I real lol, very boring.
Currently on my windowsill/casually reading I have:
Of Sirens and Centaurs
Cathedral Architecture
How to Build a Brain
The Eagle has Flown, and Sea Harrier over the Falkland's (husbands books but I am finding them fascinating)Currently re-reading The Starless Sea, which I read with my daughter. Highly recommend.
Gathering dust are a few books I want to like but cant. Why even IS Stephen Ericson??
Thousands of discworld books, historical fiction, anything medieval architecture, books of weird facts, some light comedy.
I'm very flattered that you asked, but out of all the zany stuff I wrote your sweet little heart picked up on books! You are a treasure!
E: I hope that did not sound condescending. I come across awkward sometimes. 🤒
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Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy Link ParentWow that sounds awesome. I am a theatre kid, so I get it.Wow that sounds awesome. I am a theatre kid, so I get it.
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Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy Link ParentThat sounds lovely! Good luck on your endeavours! What sort of non profits if you dont mind me asking? Is it a physical performance or more like a video based setting? I'm sure you are doing just...That sounds lovely! Good luck on your endeavours!
What sort of non profits if you dont mind me asking? Is it a physical performance or more like a video based setting? I'm sure you are doing just fine and I hope it is as cool and fun and it sounds like!
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Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy Link ParentI immediately thought you were a Stardew Valley player, but it seems you have physical sheds! Good for you! You can fit a lot in a shed.I immediately thought you were a Stardew Valley player, but it seems you have physical sheds! Good for you!
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Comment on Meet Your Tildes Neighbour: August 2023 Edition in ~talk
OneEyeMercy (edited )LinkHiya! I'm OneEyeMercy! Starle was the name I was given while following the Grateful Dead full time for most of a decade. I made A LOT of money doing it. I was very good at it. I've been to 47...Hiya! I'm OneEyeMercy!
Starle was the name I was given while following the Grateful Dead full time for most of a decade. I made A LOT of money doing it. I was very good at it. I've been to 47 states, a lot of them repeatedly. I gave up a promising and probably very successful degree in microbiology to do this. I guarantee that I have stories no one will believe.
also did Phish but that is a whole different thing don't @me lolI fell in love with and married a British man and absolutely fled America to keep my daughters safe and alive from a violent Domestic Situation. They are 18 and 20 now and I moved here when the youngest was just three. Could not be happier.
One is autistic/ADHD (I know there is a word for that but I can't remember and she's asleep lol). She is an artist, mostly hand drawn for now and she specializes in drawing people and faces. She is VERY good. Knows more Anatomy than an anatomy professor and she has flash cards and notebooks to prove it, and she will tell you alllllll about it for hours, with receipts. I have really enjoyed getting to know her grown up self and so glad that she is still here with me after an extremely rough period in her very early teens. I'm using She for now, because that is the last I heard yesterday but I probably should have used they/them.
The other is another autist and she is extremely bookish and into her own journey, her own way. She suffers from a number of health conditions but always perseveres. She is studying to become a radiologist and studies eastern religions, mainly Buddhism. She has a flat but wicked sense of humour and is just an overall treasure. She's such a weird little egg but very much loved!!I have worked in so many different fields, but I always enjoyed detailed factory work, my favourite being making laparoscopic medical instruments. I led the cause to successfully unionize the plant starting on the day I rallied everyone to down tools because WE ALL KNEW we being forced to send defective shit out and that people could, IDK, actually die? And I made a lot of money doing it.
I am also a third generation IBM'er. My grandfather started as a machine maintenance guy and rose to higher management. My mother was pretty much forced to work there straight out of HS as a secretary. With nothing but a basic education, she became one of the senior auditors and retired after 30years. I started after I just had to retire from touring, started small, landed big. I loved that job. I really clicked with the work. But I could not "socially" function well enough to fit in appropriately with IBM's strict corporate culture. Not for me, their loss. Did not make a lot of money doing this lol.
I am really into DnD and dice collecting. I love books and cats. Met my husband, my soul partner, because of a series of books we discussed on MySpace. I have entirely retired from LARPing, I'm too old and pampered to sleep on the ground and be physically abused by choice. I am a PC gamer, I still prefer American candy to British, I love to cook and save up for fine dining experiences which I share with the youngest, who eats food, unlike the oldest.
I have a lot of diagnosed and undiagnosed... um disorders? I dont like that word. I'm just me. A normal topic of conversation in the house is "hey, I had a cool hallucination today? You guys?" My husband is so incredibly normal that it continues to confuse me to this day after decades. He's just...fine. He is the perfect rock to my island.
I have had a Christmas tree in my living room since before the pandemic. Also, I am pretty sure that I am a witch.
OMG, thank you for listening if you have read this! It has been a lot of fun and have enjoyed reading all of your stories too!
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Comment on Squabblr is now a free speech platform in ~tech
OneEyeMercy Link ParentI really enjoyed reading that blog post you linked and even read some of what was linked there! It was a good, thought provoking piece.I really enjoyed reading that blog post you linked and even read some of what was linked there!
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Comment on Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels in ~food
OneEyeMercy Link ParentPoor guy. May it was how he would have wanted to go?? Also a massive loss of cheese, something like 7m in lost cheese. I feel so sorry for his family and everyone involved. The hard cheese market...Poor guy. May it was how he would have wanted to go??
Also a massive loss of cheese, something like 7m in lost cheese.
I feel so sorry for his family and everyone involved. The hard cheese market will be reeling from this!
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
OneEyeMercy Link ParentThis is very interesting to me and I thank you for sharing it. I feel like certainly most people are in favour. It is hard to find thoughtful groups looking to modify or temper the capitalistic...As someone who is pro capitalism it's hard to find groups that agree with this
This is very interesting to me and I thank you for sharing it.
I feel like certainly most people are in favour. It is hard to find thoughtful groups looking to modify or temper the capitalistic society we live in. I'm really surprised that you find the opposite!
So again, thanks for sharing. Following the charitable view we are all on board here with, I wonder at your choice of "pro-capitalism" as a phrase. I'm not sure what that means, but if this were reddit I would assume the worst. Obviously I am not doing that here. If you feel like expanding on that thought, I'm all ears!
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Comment on What "lost" web page would you like to find again? in ~tech
OneEyeMercy Link ParentI was so excited to see this, it looks amazing! Not exactly user friendly though, no idea what to do even on training level!I was so excited to see this, it looks amazing!
Not exactly user friendly though, no idea what to do even on training level!
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Comment on Do you look up words while reading a novel? in ~books
OneEyeMercy Link ParentI read this and thought "I must be stupid, I thought it was a type of rock"chrysoprase was a type of colour
I read this and thought "I must be stupid, I thought it was a type of rock"
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Comment on Why is Elon Musk doing what he is to Twitter? in ~tech
OneEyeMercy Link ParentThat' a bit of a stretch comparing the queen to musk. Does not sound like a good faith argument.That' a bit of a stretch comparing the queen to musk. Does not sound like a good faith argument.
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Comment on Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets in ~life.pets
OneEyeMercy LinkDisclaimer: I live in a rural area in the UK, content warning: cat v mice, pretty mild, hopefully funny I have one cat that is not a good mouser. Well...he's a great mouser. It's just that he...Disclaimer: I live in a rural area in the UK, content warning: cat v mice, pretty mild, hopefully funny
I have one cat that is not a good mouser. Well...he's a great mouser. It's just that he seems to have gotten things a bit backwards. He gets mice, often, but he prefers to bring them IN, rather than take them out.
I mean, he will absolutely murder a mouse/rat. In fact, I believe he thinks of nothing else.
The other cats act like you would expect. Eat, mouse, eat, nap, eat, lay around being cute, receive pets etc.This one though...will often have brought a mouse in before I wake up at 5AM. He's all : Morning mother! I have a mouse in my meaouth. Or possibly: I have trapped it in the boots or just behind the door. I just wanted you the see and glory at this juicy specimen, I, myself, have subdued!
I'm like...great dude. We've discussed this several times. He knows the commands in English and French.
Mouse! OUT! Souris! DEHORS!And then he takes it out etc, but he's such a weird cat! Cats have evolved alongside us with a very specific arc. I will mouse for you, you will provide me with shelter and goods and services. You may even pet me.
I dont know how he's gotten it backwards!? We love him very much anyway!
I hope this was a funny story and I didn't upset anyone with the (hopefully mild) mouse content!
We...don't really do that here if we can help it. if a building is of a certain age, it is protected by a HUGE amount of laws and regulations.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/listed-buildings/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building