🐾 Amy Shackles 🐾

Sr Software Engineer, cat lover, information addict, calligrapher. @AmyShackles on Smule (and Reddit/GitHub/DevRant)

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Stop scrolling, drink some water. Stretch a little. Take a shower. Put on comfortable clothes. Learn that thing you’ve always wanted to learn to do. Resist the urge to be scared of failure... or of change. Try to be kind.

Above all else, know that you’re enough, just as you are.

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@callanable Harsh, but fair.

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@eigenrobot I had the cooler name.

And we both ended up changing our last name later because he decided to take the last name his father had been born with and I thought it’d be cool if we both made the switch.

That said, I wish they made name changes easier. So many things to update.

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@charlieboardman @selentelechia Or be renegades and do what we did — cut the baseboards to fit the bookshelf.

Depends on how in love you are with the baseboards and how committed you are to the bookshelf placement, of course.

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@OneEyedAlpaca Happy birthday, E4, who is 5!

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@callanable You’re extremely photogenic, friend. It does no justice to your actual beauty but that’s just because photos can’t capture the soul.

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@Austen I painted the dials on our stove so that it’s easy to tell from across the room what setting they’re on because I was tired of not being able to tell.

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Today I learned that apparently not everyone sometimes gets the sensation where it feels like your face is burning up from the inside and your eyes are hot even though your face is cool to the touch. Good for y’all, I guess. 😂

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@callanable He’s such a little lovebug! Thanks again for coming out and making sure we didn’t accidentally hit the little fella!

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I may have gone a little overboard with my warp grass.

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@phillippepayant @peterrhague He’s *everywhere*

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@202accepted Gun to my head, I would have trouble thinking of names of guns, I think. I’d be too busy wondering how in the hell I let someone get that close.

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Apparently, I’m the only one at my local Starbucks ordering Yuzu Citrus Blossom and they’re going to be discontinued in June. Womp womp.

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I have said that I’m close to being finished painting my Thousand Sons for weeks. Every night, I think I’m close. I am not close. Last 20% really does take like 80% of the time.

And I haven’t even gotten into highlighting yet. 😭

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@nunboi I never used foil. I was a “Coat the baking sheet with a thin layer of butter” kind of baker 😅

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I baked cookies using parchment paper for the first time in my life and omg why did no one tell me it makes it so much easier? 😭

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@phillippepayant @callanable It’s a blessing and a curse.

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@callanable Happy belated birthday, lil fella

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@GeneralAntilles Ugh, I did.

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@callanable @powerbottomdad1 Not all emoji reactions in a message are directed at the recipient, to be fair — they can be reactions to the conversation you’re having about a situation. And maybe they do the multiple instance of emoji at a time thing, which is going to inflate the numbers.