James 🌈💜 / is on Nostr

Author | Aussie | Written all kinds of tales over the years - romance, murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy and more.
Warning: Short term memory loss.

Pronouns: he/him
Website: https://jamesmilne.org
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/jimilne
Indie Books: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/shakna

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2024-07-10 02:58:59

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Bubbles tend to be nitrogen/oxygen. If there's too much nitrogen it can be bad, and an indication the pipes took some damage.
Easiest is just a pH test, to be honest.
But if you can't do that, boil the water and let it sit. If the bubbles are the same, it might be a bad indication.

2024-07-09 08:09:41

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Ow... Did you get hit by more than one car...?

2024-07-04 01:47:59

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Back when we treated everything by using cocaine, or morphine, it really did.

2024-07-01 03:55:41

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Wait... Beards not allowed!? Point to any of the apostles who didn't have one!

2024-06-15 15:37:59

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Animorphs starts out as just another teen drama, to be honest. You might not have even wanted to read it. It's just it ends with people being killed for being violent monsters, people wanting to kill themselves from PTSD, and so much more. It's a steep incline.

2024-06-15 13:59:05

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"Teenage inappropriate" books I read, and adored, as a kid:
* Wheel of Time. Sex, violence, magic, and crazy theology. Losing Robert Jordan sucked so much.
* Tomorrow When the War Began. The main character was my age as I read each one. They discovered sex a bit slower than me, but I loved every moment of the books.
* Animorphs. War, theology, philosophy, torture, sex, and Rachel. Oh wow, Rachel was... Something. I loved it.
* Weird Tales. Especially Conan the Barbarian.

2024-06-15 13:38:46

#WritersCoffeeClub 15 June: Is your work child/teen-friendly?
As teen friendly as KA Applegate. Or John Marsden.
Less snarkily: Sure, I've written some kids books, like "Sunni Snowstorm". But teens read whatever, and that's fine. I was reading about Cú Chulainn and his women as a kid. And Heracles. And the screwed up mess of getting stuck as a bird in Animorphs, during torture. Or the sex in Tomorrow When the War Began.
I reckon a teen might wanna start with my Wands of Wizeria.

2024-06-06 10:55:42

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42.

2024-05-04 04:46:29

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Two things cause Nautilus to slow down massively, especially compared to other file managers.
First, the preview tech does a ton of stat calls, to work out what to show you. Disable it, and things get about 20% faster. They know about it, but no one has done a patch to fix it in over a decade, so I wouldn't be hopeful.
Secondly, the more bookmarks you have, the slower things get. Every time you open a folder it pings every single bookmark for some reason.