Shecky

@shecky.bsky.social

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Geek. SF/F copyeditor (500+ works edited, rehomes feral commas, hot-glues dangling participles, etc.). Quantum comma mechanic. He/him. NO "AI." (Avatar by Howard Tayler.) sffcopyediting.com

Black-and-white polydactyl cow cat with both paws covering her face.
Bob Ross at his easel. Text: And we'll put a happy little birthday over here.
Orange cat with head laid on dining table.
All of the above words plus MUSKETRY.
My Outlier score (919), rank (80), rarest find (ADUMBRATES) and words no one else found today (DIABLERIES, ADUMBRATES, VOCALITIES, IMPOLICY, POLITIES, EMBATHED, BRACHETS, OBELI, LAVAGES).
All of the above words plus DUOPOLIES and PUGGLED.
My Outlier score (919), rank (44), words no one else found today (EPHEBI, FUSILE, PUSES, SPLODGILY, FIDIBUS, SOLIDI, HIGGLES, PULLI).
My Outlier finds today (all of the above listed words).
My Outlier score (917), rank (42), rarest find (BRACHETS; I'm the only one ever to find it), words no one else found today (BRACHETS, PHREATIC, LEXEMIC, VOCABLES, VARECHS, PHATIC, MARABOUTS, TAXEMIC, VATICAL, PARSIMONY).
"Mac Tonight," an old ad campaign by McDonald's, featuring the title character with a head shaped like a crescent moon.
My Outlier score (899), rank (111), rarest find (DIACHRONOUS, 95 points), words no one else found today (imprest, promulgated, meniscal, baryonic, poshteen, diachronous, covinous, ablations, ephebi, demasting).
My Outlier finds today (all of the above plus TAXONOMICAL).
My Outlier score (918), rank (35), rarest find (GUICHETS) and words no else found today (GUICHETS, GUIDONS, GRIKES, BREWIS, BRAWEST, OGHAMIC, BREVES, VESTIGIUM, ABLATIVES).
DM: OK, your next adventure will be Bubba Yaga's dancing hut. Players: Don't you mean Baba Yaga? DM: No. No, I do not. Image: trailer home on chicken feet. Subtitle: *cue banjo music and put miniature on table*
My Outlier finds today (all of the above plus VESTIGIAL).
My Outlier score (914), rank (55), words no one else found today (DRACHMS, IMPEARL, TELOS, VACUIST, DIACHRONOUS, OGHAMIC, CHATONS, CHRISOM, DICHROMATS).
My Outlier finds (PULVINARS, PALUDISM, SUNGAR, CHRISMON, SANGLIER, LACHRYMOSE, SYNTAGMIC, EMBOLIES, EMBALE, CALIVER). Of those, LACHRYMOSE was the sole entry found by any other player.
My Outlier score (919), rank (53), rarest find (SYNTAGMIC, which I'm the only player ever to find).
My Outlier finds (same as earlier plus AGAMOUS, ABROGATED and WYVERNS).
My Outlier score (904), rank (78), rarest find (SYNTAGM), 7 finds no one else found (SYNTAGME, GRAPHEMES, BEWEPT, EVERSION, ABHENRIES, DYVOURS, DROUTHY).
My Outlier finds (above list plus ZEUGMA and VOCIFEROUSLY).
My Outlier score (894), rank (152), rarest find (PROFLIGATES, rarity 83, 95 points), 8 finds no one else found (JURIDICAL, EPISTEMIC, COZENERS, DEMOTICS, PROFLIGATES, GLOZED, GLOCHIDIUM, DEMASTING).
My Outlier finds today. List is same words as in previous post plus FEBRILE.
My Outlier score today (888), rank (#66), 9 finds no one else found (REVOCABLE, CHRISMON, COZENER, EVOCATOR, VOCABLES, ECUMENIST, KOROS, VIRTUOSI, CLAVIS).
The cover to Dr. John's album Goin' Back to New Orleans.
My Outlier finds: TUBIFEX, EXIGUOUS, PODESTA, PODEX, DEPILATORY, MAWKISH, EXPIATORS, EXPIATED, ADIPOUS, HARUSPEX).
My Outlier score (889), rank (#74), rarest find (EXIGUOUS—only I have ever found it), 8 finds no one else found (ADIPOUS, EXPIATED, EXPIATORS, MAWKISH, DEPILATORY, PODEX, EXIGUOUS, TUBIFEX).
Aragorn in front of the Black Gates, looking back at his friends before charging, saying "For Jarnathan."
Aragorn in front of the Black Gate, looking back at his friends just before charging, saying "For Jarnathan."
Big black-and-white cow cat snuggled up to resigned orange cat.
Gray-and-white cow cat lounging atop a turned-up decorative pillow, squishing it down for optimal comfort.
Orange cat lying atop cat tree, legs any which way.
My Outlier words today: CHAPES, KHEDIVIL, ESTIVAL, EQUIVOCATOR, FILOSE, NEOPLASM, QUIMPER, PICARESQUE, QUONDAM, QUORN.
My Outlier score (878), daily ranke (#61), rarest find (EQUIVOCATOR: only player ever to find it), 9 finds no one else found (QUORN, QUONDAM, QUIMPER, NEOPLASM, FILOSE, EQUIVOCATOR, ESTIVAL, KHEDIVIL, CHAPES).
Bob Ross at his easel. Text: And we'll put a happy little birthday here.
Small, dirty orange kitten huddled next to a dumpster wheel.
My Outlier words today: AUSPEX, EXCORIATING, PONTIFEX, PILEUS, DIOPTERS, EXPOSITOR, EXPIATIONS, EXUDATIONS, DETOXIFY, HARUSPEX.
My Outlier score (701), rank (#36), with 4 finds no one else found (EXUDATIONS [which I'm the only player ever to find], EXPOSITOR, DIOPTERS, PILEUS).
A bottle of Old Peculier.
My Outlier words: ESTIVAL (epic rarity: 65), JOTUN, DRACHM (super rarity: 83), ZEUGMA (epic rarity: 67), CHRISMON (super rarity: 83), CHEVALIERS (epic rarity: 60), WIZENED, CALAMITOUS, ZEPHYR, WHITSUNDAY.
My Outlier score (861), rank (#37), rarest find (Chrismon; I'm the only player who has ever found it) and 8 finds no one else found (WHITSUNDAY, CALAMITOUS, CHEVALIERS, CHRISMON, ZEUGMA, DRACHM, JOTUN, ESTIVAL).
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer, and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
A GIF of old-style TV static.
Writer: Is it "firsthand" or "first hand"? Editor: Either one is fine. Newspaper headline: Students get first hand job experience.
The words I found in Outlier today: VORACITY, INQUIETUDE, VALEDICTORY, PRUDENTIAL, QUIETUDE, DESCANT, QUAVERING, EQUIVOCATION, INQUEST, QUIESCENT.
My Outlier score (828), rank (#68), the word INQUIETUDE (which I am apparently the only player to have ever found), 4 words no one else has found today (DESCANT, VALEDICTORY, INQUIETUDE, VORACITY).
Lady waving. Text: I'll miss you. Just kidding. Bye, bitch."
Fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Keep fucking off until you get to a gate with a sign saying "You can't fuck off past here." Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream and keep fucking off forever.
Image: the Next Generation Enterprise. Text: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to seek out who the fuck asked you.
The words I found in Outlier: GLOWERED, TUMBRILS, WREAKING, DESPICABLE, DERIVATE, KNAVERY, ESPIONAGE, MATRICIDE, DEMAST, DECRY. 5 were tagged EPIC.
My Outlier score summary: 827 points, with 5 words no one else found (DECRY, DEMAST, DERIVATE, TUMBRILS and GLOWERED), and I was apparently the only player ever to have found TUMBRILS.
Image of Riker leaning his ass against an LCARS panel. Post: "He just sits his ass down on all those buttons that could or could not be firing lasers into space." Response: "If we can't invent a touchscreen that recognizes an ass-dial by the 24th century, we really have no business being space at all."
Post by The Oatmeal over on FB on July 18. Text: "There is no today. There is only Jimothy." Image: blobby cartoon man sits down and opens his laptop, unleashing a deluge of Jimothy images, filling the frame almost instantly.
Dune promo poster but with Jimothy wearing cloak and wielding crysknife. Text: Jimothée Chalamet: RACUNE.
Aragorn about to charge Sauron's army at the Black Gate, but instead of "For Frodo," he says, "For Jarnathan."
Figurine. Top half is Mary, bottom half is octopus tentacles. Text: "Just be yourself!" "Okay, but that means everyone is getting an Ave Calamaria for Christmas."
Tuxedo cat caught in mid "starfish" grooming, wearing a party hat. Text: Happy birthday!
Twiki and the Ambassador from the gloriously shitty Buck Rogers show.
Orange cat lounging weirdly between my wife's legs, his legs every which way.
Gray-and-white cow cat sitting neatly atop a scratching tower, doing weird things with her tongue (this actually caught her mid-meow, and no, I have no idea why her tongue is weirdly deployed like that in a way I just can't describe, sorry).