Polly Summers

I like math and I knit my own socks.

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@mattjelly And everything’s gone tits-up.

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QWERTYUIOP; we hardly knUIOP.

Is that anything?

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@antoine_fabri purrr::pluck_exists() ?

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@eve_ettinger You could try something like Would I Lie to You (British panel show, watchable on YouTube). It doesn’t require much visual attention, occasional glancing is sufficient. And it doesn’t matter if you tune out & miss stuff. Easier than trying to watch something with plot/characters.

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I wish chicken wasn’t made of chickens.

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Frustrated when a novel ends with a glossary (with, like, political factions and fictional historical context and stuff). Like, this is placed at exactly the point where it is has stopped being of any use or interest to me. They should insert it in the middle as an intermission.

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Love when a novel starts with a map; hate when a novel starts with a list of all the characters; mixed feelings when a novel starts with a family-tree/diagram of the characters.

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Reminder: customer service review/survey thingies are deliberately phrased weirdly so that workers don’t score high enough for raises. So, unless it was actually *bad*, just check all the boxes and rate everything at 10. Friendly greeting, above and beyond, whatever, sure, yes.

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For the past few weeks one of the “songs” stuck in my head has been “using the golden mushroom as Toad in Mario Kart 64”.

Just an endless “here we, here we, here we, here we…”

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Why can’t I ever interpret “ICYMI” properly on the first try? Somehow I always land on “I see what you mean.”

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I see the AI now assumes that we want things in the style of Wes Anderson unless otherwise specified.

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"the most stereotypical person in France"

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We’re wagging our tails.

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I’m trying chess puzzles (a setup of a few pieces with goal “checkmate in 2”). My findings:
1. If the app didn’t tell me when I’d solved it, I would not know that I’d solved it.
2. I *must* refer to the horsey as “the horsey”. There is no other context in which I use that word.

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@QtheWhatever Your desk boy’s a real trouper.

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I was pouring cereal and I think I lost track of time?

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@QtheWhatever @OhHeyMonsterBoy I think “not informed enough” is imposter syndrome… Like, you’re not less informed than the other uninformed voters who are just going off vibes. Wouldn’t you rather we go off your vibes than theirs?

(Or call the hint line: ask your sister’s husband who to vote for, like I did)

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@QtheWhatever Pretend they’re saying your name, trying to get your attention, then maybe you’ll tune it out. It’s a stretch with your legal name, but: The staccato “pup pup pup” ones are easy. And the high whistley ones could easily be saying “Khyoooo!” (1 syllable; unsure how spell the sound)

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Or… have I *always* pressed the button to turn it back on, and somehow wiped that from my memory a few weeks ago? Surely not.

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Step 6: I pressed the button and turned it back on. The clock still knew the time. It… had never died…

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A story:

My bedside light/clock broke a few weeks ago. It has a cord like a phone charger, which doesn’t fit right, like it only works at some angles. When it falls out, it runs on battery for a bit and then dies. One day, I couldn’t get the angle right to make come back on.

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Step 5: Brian asked if it was definitely turned on. I said, “What?” He pointed to the power button on the bottom.

I am *sure* I have *never* used that button. It always just comes back on when you plug it in. I don’t even know what that button is for.