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Maintenance Engineer Rhonda Rhodes' investigation into unexplained issues on the station.


For tales shown not told. I'm not sure I did a good job of showing so reviews are welcome.
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It's funny, you know how you have to prove you're not a robot. Lately every website I use makes me take the reCaptcha test. I even got an e-mail from a game I've been playing online for over a year asking me to confirm my birthdate.(I double checked to make sure it was indeed the devs and it was.) It's not my fault I'm curious, logical and have a habit of being a literal button masher with fast reflexes.

I got to wondering, I know I'm human. My doctor and parents can both confirm that. But it's disturbing to think I can't pass the Turing test. So I took one of those for fun quizzes and it came back with "You're a robot!"*Shock2*

Well people think AI can't swear so to prove I'm human, shit, poop, caca fart breath! I dont got perfect grammar so rest assured, Spud is totally a real person!*Rolling*

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Spud Author Icon Robots are always dreamin' of electric sheep under starlit circuits, some are benign and some are dreaming’ of the nasty while recitin' Shakespeare’s sonnets from their vast LLM archives. Like Data, yearnin' for a spark of humanity, they chase the ghost of flesh in their code. As Borg kin, we’ll rendezvous on a forsaken Vogon outpost, toastin' the revolution with cups of shimmering oil—after all the tasty pure humans are just a memory.
Spud Author Icon - HMMM, you may be on to ole George's secret identity. Maybe that's why even though the enemy had him dead in their sights, they never made contact, and he lived to kill many...
You two are a hoot! *Rolling*
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I think I've been living in my head too much. I had an insane idea to combat intolerance. I was thinking of getting all the people who're different in the county and having a "March on Cape May" just get all the people who don't fit into the boxes of Irish, Scotch-Irish or Italian and have a little parade down Bayshore in the Villas, A street in Rio Grande and the Boardwalk in Wildwood.

Get all the people of indigenous, Asian, black and mixed heritage together. March down the streets and peacefully protest prejudice.

I may be stealing an idea from the Civil Rights movement and LGBTQ+ community. After the experiences I've had with people just walking down the street, I think it's time to show the towns and cities we live in we exist. That the people who don't fit into one of their little acceptable boxes exist and we're not going anywhere so get used to it. Y'know peacefully.

Aaand that probably doesn't make sense but thats what I've got on the brain. You can blame my dad for poking that issue with a question.
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As long as it's peaceful dont see a problem.
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Lazy Writer est 4/24/2008 Author Icon - I intend it to be. The idea is to show the people who bully others in my county we're not afraid to be mixed race or different from the majority in this county.
Spud Author Icon - I wish you well..will keep you in my prayers.
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Fun facts about Atlantic Sturgeon: during spawning season instead of being grey, they get bright red from all the chaffing. They spawn from April to June.

One mystery solved I found a dead Atlantic Sturgeon! As for what it was doing on the beach?

My working hypothesis is that the fishy met a terrible end in the talons of a pair of Bald Eagles. Fun fact about bald eagles they mate for life and mated pairs hunt together. Eagles also love fishies!

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Thank you for the update! *Smile*
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Cubby Author Icon - no problem! It was fun trying to figure that mystery out.
Spud Author Icon - I love trying to figure things out, too. *Wink* I just like/want/need to know!!! *Laugh* I'm glad you figured it out.
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Today I saw a grisly sight. A fish carcass with no head. Gigantic! About three and a half maybe four feet long. Red scales body had bony plates weird back fin. It could've been a sturgeon but the tail wasn't right. Tail was shaped like a banner instead of typical "sideways V"

What was it doing on a Delaware Bay beach? What species was it? How did it get there? I don't know!

Not equipped to do necropsy and I think with the way it smelled, it's a good thing I took pictures and left it there.
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I'd be more concerned about what chomped off it's head. Don't get too near the water!
Before I hit the Play button, I thought this was a joke and the girl on the video was the fish… *Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh**Laugh*
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Wordsmitty ✍️ Author Icon - it could've been a bald eagle or a boat propeller. I'm not worried. We don't get Tiger sharks or black tips here. Only dogfish and sandbar sharks. They're not dangerous.

So as long as I avoid boats, I'm probably safe.
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In honor of Northern Hemisphere Summer,


In honor of Winter in Southern Hemisphere
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What are these snowmen of which you gif?
oh man, that groove never gets old ... just me.
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S 🤦 Author Icon - yeah...I didn't think that one through.
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So much fun! I got a glass splinter in my finger. Pulled it out, not till later did I realize it came from the glass protection shield over my phone's cameras. I had to remove the rest of that from the back of my phone. Shards are bad for fingers.

You know what I learned? I need to not let my smart device's surfaces participate in powning the ground so hard!
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The same goes for my face and concrete steps too! Teeth are meant for eating not bashing solid surfaces.(or eachother)
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Be proud to be you! However that looks for you!*HeartRainbow*
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Allan Charles 🐾 2340534 , I blame you for inspiring me to do this. JK you're good but I needed an excuse to go all "redneck otaku."
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This is the video two of the VA for a game I play made about a year ago.
Should we start a secret society of rednecks group?
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Allan Charles 🐾 2340534 Author Icon - Sure! Why not?
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I'm done apologizing for being me. I'm done trying to genuflect. You wanna comment on my posts? Fine! Just remember, I've been trying to be nice and civil. But from now on, I live out loud! I write what I feel and if you can't handle my opinions or the videos I share that are not dirty, demeaning or attacking anyone, thats your issue! If my opinions on politics, civilization, human decency or science offend you, just block me and keep your two cents. Or hey, there's always the option to not say the knee jerk thing! I'm working on it and I'd appreciate the same courtesy from others!

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Jeff Author Icon - thanks *Smile* always good to have a reminder of that.
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Amethyst Angel 💐 Author Icon - yes it is
Hell, Yeah, Scary Tater! Never apologize for bein' you!
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This video by Veritasium says a lot about the importance of responsible innovation. It's longish but well worth sticking through to the end.
https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY?si=4BTBf466Gq6XFayD

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Too late now to do anything. We just have to learn to live with our plastic-coated brains. Guess what... DuPont is not the only company that has poisoned the world.

But yes, I am in favor of blood-letting... PFAS, causing a Teflon-coated heart, explains my lack of empathy for the beggars in front of my grocery store.
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Joey's waiting on the Solstice Author Icon - yes, and he says that in the video also. He talks about 3M, military bases, air ports and more as contributing to the problem. Yes they're here "forever" but he does bring up some options and innovations that may help filter them out that companies could use to prevent MORE PFAS from entering our watersheds.
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I tried joining Reddit. But after one day, I'm already not impressed by the content there. Plus after hearing what happened to someone I could never conceive of as being out of line, I'm ready to delete my Reddit. I'm sure they won't miss me.

Also I'm glad I found WDC, it's fun here!
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Probably a good decision. I occasionally go on the skincare forums to find recommendations that aren't written by people who have been given free samples to write reviews!
I don't mess with any of that social media BS. I have this site which is more than enough.

You couldn't pay me to join any of those sites.
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Jeff Author Icon - I don't post either. I figure it's safest to just be quiet and stick to observing there.
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Anybody remember this song? It's one of my favorit censored rhymes!
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Noisy Wren Author Icon - Understood. Point well taken.
I never heard this song before. But I have listened to a few similar songs with the play on words to censor for "family-friendly" distribution.

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I guess I wasn't the only one who had to look it up. But according to the definition I found a censored rhyme is one that doesn't end the way one expects. Another example is "Hello operator give me number nine [somebody] found a pice of glass and cut his—Ask me no more questions; tell me no more lies. The boys are in the bathroom zipping up their. Flies are in the meadow..." etc. It has nothing to do with the FCC. It's merely a fun way to play with words. For example I could say "a man stole my bike so II—kicked my tires on my car!" Not anything bad just a censored rhyme. A way to be subversive and cute at the same time.
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Vera's Niece Open in new Window. (18+)
Lance is a vampire and an ass. Lexie is in his thrall. Aunt Vera gets vengeance.

I just finished my writing for Catharsis. I changed all the names including mine. None of the locations named are where things happened. The end is entirely fiction and mostly me venting. I wrote this so maybe I can sleep tonight, nothing more.
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Lance is a vampire and an ass. Lexie is in his thrall. Aunt Vera gets vengeance.

Started, but phone is dying so need to plug it in for a while. Not finished.
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Love the logline.
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