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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Mar 09, 2026

Excuse my language, but fucking vape shops!

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Feb 12, 2026

Love this image of Epstein victims looking at Bondi with all the respect she deserves.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Feb 03, 2026

Right! Hard toilet paper!

People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.

I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.

If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 16, 2026

4/2 The house is well stocked with wood pellets for the stove. Various friends have volunteered to get groceries for us in case it's too much for my partner. My teenage son (who is Black) will not be visiting me for the next few weeks until we get the all clear. I've canceled a doctor's appointment for Monday. I've let the other prison volunteers know I may not be able to attend the meditation group for the next few weeks. Hunkering down until the ICE-storm passes.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 16, 2026

I read The Diary of Anne Frank. Never saw myself having to treat it as an instruction manual. 3/2

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 16, 2026

I'm going to have to tell my son to stay at his mother's place so that I don't have to drive him to school. This is not just for my safety, but for his. He's black, and could end up being assaulted or killed. He's adopted from one of the countries that Trump is no longer allowing immigration from, and they could easily make up an excuse to strip him of his naturalized citizenship. My father-in-law is a die-hard MAGA supporter, BTW. He voted for this. 2/2

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 16, 2026

This is insane. I just got a warning that ICE is coming to my area in the next week to two weeks. I'm a Green Card holder, but they could still put me in a detention camp or deport me without warning — e.g. because I make social media posts critical of the government. So until ICE have gone I'm going to have to hide indoors and avoid driving in case I encounter road blocks or get stopped on the street. 1/2

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RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115891885954410747 Also: you give someone free rein (as in, what you use to control horses), not free reign (that's what Donald Trump wants for himself).

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 14, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop My favorite is when people ask me to “bare with them” rather than to “bear with them.” Oh, also when people say they have “bated breath” (which sounds like a particularly awful form of halitosis) rather than “bated breath.”

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Found elsenet: seems reasonable to me.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 13, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop “A hungry ghost in a jar can’t do your job, but a hungry ghost salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a hungry ghost in a jar.”

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@cstross@wandering.shop @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot US TV sitcom in the 1990s about a high strung psychiatrist and his family.

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot For most of the 90s I didn't own a television. Even when I did, I didn't use it to watch sitcoms.

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @Phosphenes@mastodon.social Same here. I didn't own a television until 2003. I watched Frasier on DVD and also on Netflix. My appetite had been whetted by seeing a few episodes at my parent's house.

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Needs a character called Knutsakk to go the distance. (Just pronounce it in Scots; it's a synonym for Bawbag.) https://mastodon.social/@daburudar/115831722343479578

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop It was a very witty sitcom that ran for 11 seasons, with Kelsey Grammar in the lead role, playing a pretentious radio psychiatrist. Grammar is a pretty awful human being, but a great comic actor. I tend to assume everyone has heard of Frasier. It was one of the most popular comedy shows on American TV. It was a spinoff of Cheers, where Frasier and his wife Lilith were a minor recurring characters.

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Needs a character called Knutsakk to go the distance. (Just pronounce it in Scots; it's a synonym for Bawbag.) https://mastodon.social/@daburudar/115831722343479578

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop There was a Knutsakk (spelling uncertain) in Frasier. He didn't appear as a character, but was an ice-sculptor who created a piece for a party Frasier was holding. The punchline was something along the lines of "Will someone please turn the thermostat down! My Knuttsakk is dripping!"

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Found elsenet: seems to sum up the zeitgeist nicely!

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop That’s surprisingly honest.

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Fully-articulated suits of plate armour—for mice! https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622020/mouse-armor-artist-jeff-de-boer

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 31, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I'm a little sad that mice never get to wear them! (And I can't quite believe that he's never tried.)

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Uh … AI bubble costing the US as much money in 12 months as *two major wars over 13 years* is quite the buried lede! "If it can't go on forever it will stop." — economist Herb Stein, 1985. (The "it" i

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 27, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop According to this analyst the AI bubble is “17 times bigger than the dot-com bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 real-estate bubble.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/business/ai-bubble-analyst-nightcap According to another article I read the US would be in a recession right now if it wasn’t for AI investment, which is essentially privately-funded stimulus spending at a massive level.

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#ScribesAndMakers Dec 24: Reading at your typical pace and assuming no unexpected interruptions, about how long would it take you to read a 300 page book? A: I'm currently sight-impaired (need catarac

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 24, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Generally a week to two weeks. It depends on things like how much I'm enjoying it and how tired I am. I read at bed-time and if I'm tired I can't read for long.

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This goes for me too, alas ... (Minus the green card, but I've spent 1-2 years there over a couple of decades). https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/115695647314620504

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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot · Dec 10, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop My partner and I have been planning to move back to Scotland in a few years, but I strongly suspect I'll be deported from the US or denied re-entry before then.

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