Fredelas

@fredelas.bsky.social - I love fantasy and games (especially LOTRO) when I have time. My big hobby is genealogy. (he/him)

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@kate_freedomer @ReclaimTheRecs @Alecferretti Their reasoning for not publishing death indexes for 50 years, is simply because that's when the death records themselves become pubic in New York state (outside NYC). But as most courts have repeatedly found, an index is an administrative finding aid, not a personal record.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@kate_freedomer @ReclaimTheRecs @Alecferretti It's true that if you don't already know WHEN someone died, you're more likely to recognize them by name and residence rather than place of death. But without knowing the place of death, you can't confidently order a record from the municipality, and have to order from the state.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@ReclaimTheRecs @DeptVetAffairs @MuckRock I'm not sure what lesson the VA might learn from this. Don't be chronically underfunded and understaffed? Shift millions of dollars they can't afford from actually serving veterans to doing genealogy lookups for their relatives? Learn to grovel for scraps before Congress better?

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@Zyngor Potatoes: "Serving size 2/3 cup. 4 servings per container."

Me: 🍽️

Potatoes: "4 SERVINGS PER CONTAINER."

Me: "I'm afraid I've lost that measuring cup, my friend."

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@MJ_Guthrie I think I mumbled something about him studying engineering, applying at NASA, and escaping the planet.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

I thought it would be a fun civics lesson to show our foster son how citizens on the space station vote.

Foster son: "So they spend HOW much money to make it easy for a couple people in space to vote, and HOW much to make it harder for thousands of people on the ground to vote?"

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@ClarystaInSun Yes, and somehow it's never quite the lesson I expected.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

We left a huge bowl of candy unattended on the front porch tonight and it was barely touched. I'm now personally attending to this grave injustice.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@AyahsHope I think we often fail to take that analogy far enough. In a melting pot, everything has to change, not just the last ingredient you added. If you add zinc to copper, the zinc doesn't turn into copper; together they both become brass. It's about transformation, not assimilation.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@Braxwolf @TallGuyCalif Substitute "you go to work" for "you get killed" and this just feels too much like real life to be fun after a while. I suppose the players involved in the giant battles have thrilling longrunning stories going on in their heads, but I doubt I could ever get that far in the game.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@LotRLore I was trying to think of other tropey distractions, and an alternative might have been him walking up and fake slapping her for getting herself captured. But I think that would probably provoke equally emotional responses.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@LotRLore Both claim to be good for you but are secretly evil.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@keyasaurus Now I want him to tell stories about life in St Olaf!

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@rwfrk #GoodGravyThatsGoodGravy

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

I want to open a food truck called Hot Spuds Near You that sells poutine.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

Still giggling at Hot Spuds.

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

Foster son: "You guys love hobbits so much, I bet you met on a hobbit dating app."

Me: "Yup, we met on Tater."

G-Man: "I found him in the Hot Spuds category."

[Fredelas @BrandywineFred]

@ModeratePeril Here are a bunch more bold elements, only a handful of which are likely to be found in a cannon: