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Scott "Spooky!" Nickell

@salvius23.bsky.social

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Software testing/QA/tech support, gamer, writer/poet, law school dropout. He/him. Opinions are not those of my employer(s), past, present, or future. They may not even be *mine*.
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@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 8:51 PM

I've got some poetry that might fit, if you're open to that.

@introvertproblems.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:59 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

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@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:28 PM

Long-long ago in the Before Times, I went to law school for a handful of semesters. Even though I didn't graduate, from everything I've observed since then, I feel like I'd have a pretty good shot at passing the bar exam, if I lived in a jurisdiction where they let you take it without a JD.

@spacebeer.netOct 10, 2026, 10:06 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

Why do u always get the same size or bigger when u become a werewolf? what if u got smaller. what if u became a dachshund

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@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:10 AMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

This is literally the climax of my first published short story, co-written with my eventual wife.

@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:10 AM

This is literally the climax of my first published short story, co-written with my eventual wife.

@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:18 AM

Monty Python's Flying Lou Grant

@adventurin2fear.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:33 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

He already had his face used by someone else, he’s not about to do that all over again.

@philplait.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:54 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

OMG

@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:54 PM

My @reelrank.net #LastFiveWatched is really more #LastFourWatched this time, because Hotel Chevalier and The Darjeeling Limited were really intended as one "experience". #FilmSky

My Last 5 Watched from ReelRank (and my ratings):
Shrek 2 (3.5 stars)
Shrek the Third (3.5 stars)
The Counterfeiters (4 stars)
Hotel Chevalier (4 stars)
The Darjeeling Limited (4 stars)
@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:40 PM

For some reason, I had a similar thought recently in connection to an undead apocalypse Fate RPG adventure I ran a couple of weeks ago for my D&D group. In that game system, you'd just give such a creature an aspect like "Only Visible In Mirrors".

@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:17 PM

I haven't seen Digger, but this all reminds me of how I feel about Donny Darko, which I consider an "interesting failure." I don't think it quite accomplishes what it sets out to do, but what it sets out to do is really interesting, and it's worth watching for that.

@stephenkb.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 8:36 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

DDr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:36 AM

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 3:49 AM

Well now the writers are just getting lazy.

@ghostynewt.bsky.socialDec 17, 2025, 2:49 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Screenshot of an email:

Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me

Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.

According to our records,

1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members

Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜

If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!)

—-

Regards,
   ___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5)
   Partner Infra Platform Experiences team

As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™

New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account!

Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a
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@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:49 PM

Now we just need an escalating war between ReelRank and Letterboxd, until one of them eventually gets to "Last Eleven Watched".

@salvius23.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:45 PM

Technically not #LetterboxdFriday or #LastFourWatched, because now that @reelrank.net is displaying my ratings, I'm going with #LastFiveWatched ( #ReelRankFriday?) #FilmSky

I'm up into 2007 now.

My "Last 5 Watched" from ReelRank.net (with my ratings): 
Spider-Man 3 (3.5 stars)
Hot Fuzz (3.5 stars)
Michael Clayton (4 stars)
Ratatouille (4 stars)
Hellboy Animated: Blood & Iron (3.5 stars)
@sheev.calamitousintent.comOct 1, 2026, 5:49 AMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

the plural of netflix is netflices

@sodrock.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:42 AMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

I may have to convert to Catholicism

@faineg.comSep 26, 2026, 9:44 PMReposted by @salvius23.bsky.social

if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed

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