Dr Alice Violett

Insecure mixed content. Web editor, erstwhile historian, book blogger, board gamer, short story writer. Own views etc.

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2024-09-19 18:34:41

Me: *clears out a bunch of books I'm unlikely to want to read again*
Friend: I'm selling these board games, does anyone want first dibs?
And then I wonder why, no matter how much stuff I get rid of, there is still more stuff.

2024-09-19 18:09:40

Aww yiss my new t-shirt is here
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2024-09-18 18:15:23

Just mistyped the username 'dralice' as 'fralice', giving myself an unlikely new calling.

2024-09-18 11:41:00

LinkedIn AI training, so anyone can sound like a wanker without the effort.

2024-09-14 12:51:31

Playing Betrayal at the House on the Hill aka Scooby Doo Carcassonne. #BoardGames

2024-09-12 08:36:14

*opens Acrobat to find everything has moved around*
AAAAARGH
*opens menu to find 'disable new Acrobat' option*
Sounds like a rough end to a promising career in the circus, but phew.

2024-09-07 17:52:29

Toby has a smart new box for #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon
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2024-09-05 09:04:57

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I used to have a colleague like that too, just talked at people non-stop 😩

2024-09-05 08:21:33

Dreamt I married a woman. I don't want to get married and am not attracted to women, but sure, not totally ruling them out.
However, she was one of those people who is always cheerful and never, ever stop talking. Deal breaker.

2024-08-31 11:55:57

Why is one of the spines a different colour tho 🥲
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2024-08-28 16:13:30

Heartbreaking: I made evening plans and now I have to follow through with them.

2024-08-28 08:31:27

Really meta dream where I was in a mall where the only way to go down a level was to climb down these hanging pool noodle things, and I thought 'I have to tell my friend about this mall, it's just like my dreams where there are no normal ways to get downstairs!'

2024-08-18 21:54:43

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@npub1aum…5jx0 yup, thinking also of the Mini Eggs in Wingspan and Azul: Cough Sweets of Sintra 😄

2024-08-18 15:38:20

I wish to eat the forbidden boiled sweets #BoardGames #CosmicEncounter
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2024-08-17 10:31:57

Anyone: NSW
My brain: Not safe work

2024-08-15 11:57:19

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@npub1nk4…us2w I hate it when there's an odd number of Weetabix in the box. Feels wrong to end up with a lonely one at the end of the column.

2024-08-12 15:50:35

Just shy of 20 years since I saw Cathedral supporting HIM and was like 'eh?' (they were... a choice for a venue full of baby goths), it appears I like doom now. Well, I like King Woman and Dead Can Dance, at least.
Although I have liked HIM's doom-flavoured album for a while now. Didn't acquire a taste for that until 10 years after it came out though 🤔

2024-08-08 10:19:03

Pretty sure every day is #InternationalCatDay on the fedi, and also in my house.

2024-08-07 09:38:04

Started work half an hour earlier than normal, and why is it now only just gone half ten? I'm hungry.

2024-08-04 17:50:26

What thr actual fuck is wrong with people

2024-08-02 18:30:08

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@npub1kkp…5sfx have you come across lizshipton on Instagram? Her videos about this sort of thing have me in stitches 😆

2024-07-30 12:51:30

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 true 😅

2024-07-30 12:13:24

October 2016-February 2020: Commutes to Ipswich every weekday, thinks nothing of it.
Today: 'Ooh, Miki Berenyi Trio are playing in Ipswich next month. Will I be able to find anyone to go with? I'd have to get back afterwards. I don't know if I can be arsed.'

2024-07-25 13:40:55

My toxic trait is that, whenever I see the word 'tribology', I think 'ah yes, the study of tribbles'.

2024-07-13 10:03:25

Slept straight through to 11, dreamed a whole paranormal romance story. I don't even read/write/particularly like paranormal romance (Carol the yeti feels too unglamorous to fall under that genre).

2024-07-03 14:27:19

Anxiety: something's wrong.
Me: what is it?
Anxiety: I'm not telling you.
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2024-06-26 08:47:25

Over the past few days, a couple of pigeons have been flying in and out of a tree outside my window with twigs to build a nest, and I'm finding this a lot more interesting than anything I'm meant to be doing.

2024-06-24 08:01:20

Time to see what fresh hell has accumulated on my fresh hell machine.

2024-06-22 09:53:28

ACAB, obviously, but if he's a psychic cop, couldn't he have used his 'talent' to ask murdered people who killed them? 🤔😉
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2024-06-20 21:52:11

When someone calls/Teamses me without any/sufficient warning, especially in the morning.
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2024-06-20 08:43:56

Read 'the orange has been removed from Stonehenge' before knowing it had been sprayed orange, and imagined a literal orange placed on top of one of the stones 🍊

2024-06-18 07:20:56

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@npub1xn9…xx39 Inside Out 2, not sure on games but maybe The Isle of Cats, and Sequence 😊

2024-06-18 07:15:45

Today:
- Find some way to fill five hours amid chaos
- Cinema 🍿
- Board games 🎲

2024-06-17 11:46:30

I love how every tradie who comes to the house comments on the photo of Dad on Countdown in the 80s 😅

2024-06-16 07:40:44

#ThrSundayStarter Lucifer - Nothing Left to Lose but My Life
https://song.link/gb/i/1711491406
Because stuck in my head, that's why.

2024-06-15 16:13:05

'Congratulations on your 9th LinkedIn anniversary!' Christ.

2024-06-13 20:09:25

'She fell out of a plane - she meant to, she was skydiving...' - Mum

2024-06-12 16:46:31

Managed to hit myself on the nose with one of my colleague recognition badges, which feels like a metaphor for something.

2024-06-09 20:30:11

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@npub1mqx…xqll Jimmy Eat World - Night Drive. Have to skip it whenever I listen to Futures because it makes me cringe.

2024-06-08 18:33:56

#BoardGames played this afternoon: Mass Transit, Wyrmspan, Scrawl, The Captain is Dead.
Could've stayed at the cafe for a comedy show, but I wanted to catch up on TOTP repeats and read my book more 🤓

2024-06-06 17:52:23

Well, here we are, again...
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2024-06-03 10:41:56

'I submitted a ticket requesting food five minutes ago and haven't had a response yet, so I'm escalating it.' #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-06-02 10:12:53

This adorable bastard woke me up at 5.30 by pushing my glasses, watch, phone and earbuds on the floor. #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-06-01 12:11:54

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 you're experienced 😎

2024-06-01 12:10:00

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I don't know about that, I can't evaluate a film beyond 'could I follow what was going on?' and 'did it hold my attention throughout?' 😄

2024-06-01 12:07:27

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@npub1fgl…4jl4 I can relate. I don't seem to be getting anywhere with my writing (either getting existing stuff out there, or creating more), so I'm defaulting to book reviews all the time.

2024-06-01 11:07:49

Zzzzz #caturday #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-05-31 23:26:46

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.
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2024-05-30 16:28:13

THIS. This is why 'I don't want to put a label on my child' is harmful. If you don't know you're not neurotypical, you end up thinking it's a personal failing that you don't fit in/keep up, and that you're not trying hard enough even though you've been trying hard all your life.
Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They're Taught How Their Brains Work - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neurodivergent-kids-flourish-when-theyre-taught-how-their-brains-work/

2024-05-29 08:22:47

TFW your IT department has done such a thorough job of making everyone suspicious of unsolicited external emails, they have to send an all-staff email swearing the staff survey invite is genuine 🤣

2024-05-25 20:57:19

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@npub19fc…ay3c ok so this is weird... I'd never heard of Zathura before a quiz tonight and now I've just come across its for a second time in your post o_O

2024-05-22 20:22:13

Never quite sure if I finally got the hang of social situations in my mid-20s, or if I just aged out of being stuck in places with people who were too immature/cliquey to make the quiet weirdo feel wanted and included.
Maybe it's just extraordinarily good luck that I've repeatedly found myself among people who 'get' and value me, and avoided assholes over the past decade or so 🤷‍♀️

2024-05-22 10:08:26

Not me having a brain blip trying to remember the name of the album that's literally printed on the t-shirt I'm wearing.

2024-05-19 14:29:54

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@npub1ql3…a0kk 'It's called small talk, and it's painless'. Strange, I find it so painful that I only go to the hairdresser about once a year 😅

2024-05-17 11:09:18

Came across this recently, and reminded of it just now when I had to remind myself I can just say 'sorry for the delay getting to this' without adding 'I had lots of meetings/was swamped/etc'. #trauma #ptsd
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2024-05-15 14:53:53

I have come across the logo of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers in the course of my work, and I am slightly in love with their logo.
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2024-05-11 09:02:20

I wonder where Toby slept last night... I guess we'll never know.
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2024-05-08 15:59:09

Oh yeah, one of those restaurants where you grill stuff at your table is opening soon near me and I don't get it. I go to a restaurant and pay them so I don't have to cook for myself :pikaconfused:

2024-04-15 19:20:53

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@npub1867…mfsf there's a one-player adaptation! Or you could play it digitally through Steam or Board Game Arena instead 😁

2024-04-15 16:26:42

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@npub1867…mfsf stunning photo of a celebrity!
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2023-08-16 06:25:26

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 ugh, that sucks. One time the gym manager (it's a small gym) was like 'you'll feel better for pushing through and coming here!', and I was thinking 'anything other than lying in the dark would have had me throwing up'. Thanks, glad you're feeling better too 😊