JJ Celery

Carnivorous Vegetable. Insufferable Know-it-all. One, but Improbably Large Raccoon in a Trenchcoat. Uptime Girl. she/her

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2026-03-31 21:00:30 UTC

Today I realised my Very Big Gnarly Difficult Capital P Problem was actually three very simple problems¹ in a trench coat, so I give you this gem.
(the blue blob is obviously correct)
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¹ already solved 2 out of 3
#GettingThingsDone
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2026-03-11 11:16:31 UTC

Watching the Librarians: The Next Chapter¹ last night and I rolled my eyes at the fact they went out of their way to explain who John Dee was.
Me: seriously, do they think we're dumb. Everyone knows who John Dee was!
Himself: I don't know who John Dee was.
Me: Oh you know! The occultist at the Elizabethan court. Bit like Aleister Crowley, but earlier.
Himself: (blank)
...and then I realised I'm in XKCD #2501
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¹ don't judge me, this is not a recommendation
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2026-02-22 23:07:43 UTC

Real conversation from our household:
Himself: Is the horse¹ unbridled?
Me: But of course.² (sips drink)
Himself: (departs to feed the horse)³
We are so very fancy.⁴
#HyacinthBucket
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¹ the clothes horse, aka air dryer
² I only took down the dry washing from it minutes ago
³ hang new washing
⁴ no we fucking aren't

2026-02-01 21:04:43 UTC

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@nprofile…5c0q boop

2025-07-29 21:57:09 UTC

So here's me again on my sewing nonsense.
Absolute ages ago I bought this fabric from Minerva Crafts that I thought was *great*. It was navy poly with a linen texture that I got for £4 a meter. Cheap fabric that looks like expensive fabric? Winner winner.
I bought it to make Deer and Doe Fumeterre skirt which is lovely all round.
#sewing #DeerAndDoe
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2025-06-06 00:52:33 UTC

My health tracker watch is telling me "low battery" and I'm like which one of us, which one?
#LowBattery

2025-05-09 21:33:40 UTC

In the process of collecting *waves hand* electronics stuff I have also decided to get rid of couple of Very Old hard drives.
(Why on earth did I still have a 2.5 spinny IDE drive?)
When I have to throw out a harddrive I don't trust erasing and formatting one goddamn bit, because I've seen what modern data recovery software can do and that's scary.
So I take them fuckers apart.
Which means YAY I have three new strong magnets. They look like some cyberpunk jewellery.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/114/480/001/914/153/842/original/c3d19d6bd0b16776.jpg

2025-05-09 20:53:56 UTC

*chuckles* 😂
(this is a layer 3 meme, I won't be providing an explanation)
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2025-05-02 21:39:51 UTC

I wrote the instructions manual on getting better at laundry when you suck at laundry, but I continue to suck at laundry
On which subject you should always have vinegar in the house. If you suck at laundry and forget to take wet laundry out to hang it:
- rewash on a long cycle with Vanish if available
- run another cycle from rinse stage again with 150ml of white vinegar
Most of your laundry will be demustified! Dry, smell test, rewash as needed.
#laundry #LifeTips

2025-04-12 19:05:35 UTC

On which subject I felt very good and fashun so I took some photos in the dying light of the day on the balcony. Turns out, I suck at that. But you can't get better without a little cringe, so here we go.
#fashion #sewing #outfit
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2025-04-12 16:34:11 UTC

I love people-watching in Dublin and I doubt there is any better time to see a snapshot of Irish street fashion than between 3 and 5 pm on a Saturday.
I didn't take my camera, and for this a phone is too conspicuous, so what follows is my wordy description of what I saw.
#fashion #DublinCity #JJSpies

2025-04-10 23:24:03 UTC

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@nprofile…d2rl I already did, and I have a suggested topic, and my abstract got approved. But I'd like to use my (good) reputation to get a little hype for my gig outside - is that ok in your book? How does one do that gracefully?

2025-04-10 23:19:01 UTC

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@nprofile…d2rl YAY!
I have to do a talk. I'm contracting for a company I previously worked for. I would love recommendations on walking the line of their best interests and my best interests?

2025-04-06 22:31:41 UTC

True story :ohnobubble:
#sewing
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2025-03-30 01:20:33 UTC

Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.
My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃
https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/remembering-alum-david-mills-who-brought-the-internet-into-perfect-time//
#DST #NTP #FOSS

2025-03-29 22:11:47 UTC

Mam plik tekstowy oryginalnie napisany/zapisany na Windowsie XP w notatniku. Jest po polsku.
Niestety jak go teraz otwieram to mi wyskakują krzaczki gzie powinne być polskie literki, bo nie ten zestaw znaków.
Czy ktoś wie jaki zestaw znaków używał polski Windows XP w notatniku?
#windows #znaki #encoding #pliki

2023-08-04 20:54:03 UTC

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@npub1zes…03qs big "I wish to devour the unborn" vibes
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2023-08-02 21:00:44 UTC

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@npub1fs3…wylg I'll take that as a recommendation!

2023-08-02 20:59:40 UTC

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@npub1fs3…wylg there are some shows I like to "savour"
...or so I say and then I find myself halfway through the second season at 3 o'clock in the morning 😅
(Squints angrily at Bosch)

2023-08-02 20:51:58 UTC

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@npub1fs3…wylg you do know you're allowed to watch them one at a time, right? 😂

2023-08-02 20:44:34 UTC

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@npub1fs3…wylg yes, the second half of the season dropped 27th of July. Binge time 😉🍿

2023-08-02 20:26:10 UTC

People who are mad about season 3 of The Witcher TV show generally seem to share opinion with those who had read the first two tomes of Witcher collected short stories, and then got fierce mad in 1993 at author's notion to write a series of novels.
No, it's not like the first two.
It's better.
#theWitcher #readTheBooks #beenWaiting

2023-07-19 18:36:14 UTC

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@npub1fs3…wylg oh I didn't catch that. Yes, that is extra dumb.

2023-07-19 18:32:59 UTC

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@npub1fs3…wylg fun fact: older Dell laptops (and probably others) have a total number of charge cycles they will accept before they deem it "unusable" despite it still functioning. Afaik this is encoded at firmware level and can't be changed.
This is ostensibly for safety reasons, but something about it screams planned obsolescence to me.