Matthew Skala @mattskala@mstdn.io

So, which one of you is the serval and which one is the bag?

へびいるよ！

What (not) to say to someone who is alone. Not an easy one to re-post even if it has been public on my Web site for years already, but it's next in the rotation, it's important, and ultimately, it's material I do want to have known. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/186

If I can't turn the synthesizer sales trend around I may have to go into the astrology business.

"May you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend."

On being missed http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/212

Killed six flies in here in the last half hour. Normally, I don't see any at all. I guess something hatched.

The parable of the tricycle http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/184

Dream: a box of cards http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/172

Henry and Eliza http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/163

Maybe an existing tail forks at the end and then the fork moves back toward the body until there are two completely separate tails.

So, these multi-tailed mythological cats, foxes, etc. who get more tails as they grow older and more powerful. Does a new tail just magically appear all at once when they hit the right level? Is that why we never see pictures of one with a partial tail growing in? Or does it start as a little nub and then grow longer? Does it burst through the skin like a new tooth?

Eight knights of the dragon http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/10

How Wikipedia could save itself http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/159

Granted, there'd be those of us who would recommend the same thing for Trudeau. Actually, maybe most national leaders in general.

I'm operating on the assumption that "SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN" means they've confirmed Donald Trump is not allowed to travel anymore because he's too embarrassing to the United States when he does. Please don't burst my bubble on this.

Tools for getting started with #SDIY https://northcoastsynthesis.com/news/tools-for-getting-started-with-sdiy/

So. A few rule changes are needed for technical issues that came up, but I'm not sure where I stand on balance and realism. This outcome is totally different from what really happened, but it actually seems plausible as something that could've happened; maybe should be allowed.

...which left the surviving foreigners in Peking fleeing to Paoting (lower left of map) pursued by the artillery units with the Empress Dowager in personal command. Meanwhile the Allied reinforcements were arriving and things looking bad for the Ch'ing in the Tientsin area. Costly, bloody Allied victory? No... while the Ch'ing and Allies were wearing each other down, both ignored the Boxers, who ended the game by killing the last of the Christians. Under the rules, that's a Boxer victory.

Latest playtest. Seymour took Hsi-ku early, which gave the Ch'ing the political will to attack the Legations much more seriously than they did in real history. Then Seymour just hung out waiting for reinforcements instead of heading for Peking. Tsai-i and Sung each committed honourable suicide after failing to wipe out their respective targets, in Tsai-i's case even with the artillery support that in real life he spent the whole war begging his superiors for and never received.