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Horse loves butt scratches

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My uncle got a notification that someone was ringing his doorbell. This was the culprit. 

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The four stages of becoming a birder:

🪹Nestling Phase: You start with a casual interest, peeking out of your cozy comfort zone to notice the birds around you.

🐤Fledgling Feats: You spread your wings, equipped with binoculars and guidebooks, ready to explore new habitats and spot diverse species.

🐦‍⬛Perching Proficiency: Your skills sharpen as you learn to identify birds by their calls, habits, and plumage, and feel a sense of accomplishment with each new sighting.

🦅Masterful Migration: Finally, you soar confidently, traversing landscapes near and far, sharing your passion with others. In the end, the true joy of birding lies in the journey itself—every chirp, flutter, and waddle along the way.

Happy National Go Birding Day!

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This 1923 house belongs to a member of a home group I belong to. She says that she is a designer and designed every detail of the remodel herself, in 2022. It's in Hartselle, AL, has 3bds, 4ba, on .34 acre. Price just reduced $21K to $529K.

Um, I hate to say anything right from the beginning, but from this angle, the hall looks spooky.

The original stairs have been painted and lightly antiqued. Floor looks original.

Interesting. So, the sitting room was given a rustic flavor. The ceiling was opened to expose the beams, I don't think that's the original doorway molding, and the walls were covered in new shiplap, that looks like outdoor paneling to me, but what do I know, I'm not a designer.

Brick fireplace looks redone.

Now, in the kitchen there's an AGA stove. They're super expensive and the buyer can have it if they pay for it with "an appropriate sale price." If it's new, which she said it is, they go for about $23K (I said they were expensive.) So, what was the purpose of reducing the price of the house by $21K if the stove is worth about that much?

I'm not lovin' the uneven shiplap backsplash. It's a grime collector.

Pretty faucet. Not sure if it goes with a rustic kitchen, it's so elegant.

This is gonna sound nitpicky, but I like the wallpaper up close, but not from a distance. Does the closeup mean that the antique phone conveys?

The primary bedroom is on the 1st fl. I don't know if that's a chimney or a blocked fireplace. The room is a little dark.

Completely remodeled bath.

The children's rooms are upstairs. There's that chimney or fireplace again. Cute wallpaper.

And, this room is a nursery with shiplap walls.

Newly tiled bath.

I think that this is an upstairs family room in a finished attic. I like the little door in the wall on the left. So cute.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/808-Sparkman-St-SW-Hartselle-AL-35640/109628608_zpid/?

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i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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Skills

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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WTH? When I looked at this home, I thought, what is that? A bank? 1961 build in Traverse City, MI w/3bds, 4ba, listed for $795K.

Yep, it's a bank. And, guess what? You get the drive-thru, too. But, they removed the hydraulic system. WTF? You do still have 3 lanes, the open/closed lights and the service window. But, that's not all. Actually, it's a floppy flip- they left a lot of stuff undone.

You also get this weird building next to it, where they must've done other banking stuff. But, whatever flipper did this, removed the vault, and that's the best part!

I mean, really. It's still got all the glass bank doors.

You basically enter the kitchen. Follow the plastic blue road to Munchkin Land.

Hey...a new house and I gotta buy my own appliances? I never saw anything like this. Come on, now. Deal breaker.

The living room or dining room, who knows, wraps around to the bank's former side doors by the drive-in.

A lot of banks have this rounded column feature and they left it.

All bedrooms are like this- featureless, with a closet, sliding doors to an en-suite and industrial ceilings with pipes and things.

Small 3 pc. with plastic bath insert, no tile.

The primary bedroom has a walk-in closet and a big bank window.

And, fancier tile in the shower.

I think that this may be the drive-thru window room.

Spiral stairs to the basement.

Cinderblock half bath. Looks like the original door.

Large finished basement, no washer dryer, just a laundry room. Guess this flip was running way over budget.

There's really no yard to speak of on the 6,969 sq ft lot, but there's plenty of parking.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1028-E-8th-St-Traverse-City-MI-49686/339600007_zpid/

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#wut

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#my ex FIL worked for lookheed martin #the whole family was constantly watched

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Years and years ago, I read a book on cryptography that I picked up because it looked interesting--and it was!

But there was a side anecdote in there that stayed with me for more general purposes.

The author was describing a cryptography class that they had taken back in college where the professor was demonstrating the process of "reversibility", which is a principle that most codes depend on. Specifically, it should be easy to encode, and very hard to decode without the key--it is hard to reverse the process.

So he had an example code that he used for his class to demonstrate this, a variation on the Book Code, where the encoded text would be a series of phone numbers.

The key to the code was that phone books are sorted alphabetically, so you could encode the text easily--picking phone numbers from the appropriate alphabetical sections to use ahead of time would be easy. But since phone books were sorted alphabetically, not numerically, it would be nearly impossible to reverse the code without exhaustively searching the phone book for each string of numbers and seeing what name it was tied to.

Nowadays, defeating this would be child's play, given computerized databases, but back in the 80s and 90s, this would have been a good code... at least, until one of the students raised their hand and asked, "Why not just call the phone numbers and ask who lives there?"

The professor apparently was dumbfounded.

He had never considered that question. As a result, his cipher, which seemed to be nearly unbreakable to him, had such an obvious flaw, because he was the sort of person who could never coldcall someone to ask that sort of thing!

In the crypto book, the author went on to use this story as an example of why security systems should not be tested by the designer (because of course the security system is ready for everything they thought of, by definition), but for me, as a writer, it stuck with me for a different reason.

It's worth talking out your story plot with other people just to see if there's a "Why not just call the phone numbers?" obvious plot hole that you've missed, because of your singular perspective as a person. Especially if you're writing the sort of plot where you have people trying to outsmart each other.

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They interrupted a beautiful dream but with joy...

#this is so cute

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i dont know who needs to hear this but as a general PSA for those who pay people online for goods and services: KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE BUYING. While it might seem funny to write a clever note along with your transaction, any sort of hint that you're buying something nsfw or even mildly suggestive poses a huge risk that the person you're paying is getting their method of payment shut down permanently. transaction services are stricter than ever. "thanks for the boobs" is a pipe bomb that only needs one pair of eyes to be noticed. loose lips sink ships

#i guess i should stop writing 'for taco supplies' just in case

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Happy goofy boy

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I’m way behind on Tumblr. Barely keeping up on tiktok with Butch positivity.

#yep hot flash

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save for yourself and for future generations