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Mau tanya karakter favorit
...uh, you want to know my favorites? here you go.. i guess??
#i dont have 7 of them </3#dunno why caelus got rated lower than stelle tbh#non-related sorter asks#asks
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hello ! im making a sorter (not kpop related) and i wanted to know if i can change the “created by biasorter” to “code by biasorter” instead ? since i saw that you’re having some trouble with people asking you about non-kpop sorters that you didn’t make. also, do you mind if i customise some things like adding pictures, colours, fonts and descriptions ?
that’s fine, and customizing sorters is okay as long as you credit me for the original code :)
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Can you make more of the rating things??? Like Louis Tomlinson. Tv shows etc
someone recently requested a louis one but they haven’t clarified if they want just the walls album or all the songs he’s released so far 😭 so if u have a preference lmk!!! and sure…idk what type of tv show sorter you want (i’ve made one for the songs used in heartstopper) but if you want one non-music related (like characters from a show or something else idk) i can try and make you one!!! just send me another ask with the specifics!
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5 Sustainable Living Hacks – Be the change
So as you know, I am a super thrifty person. I super enjoy saving money, and also, I am working very hard to minimize my footprint. Now I am by no means an extreme minimalist or a zero-waste person, but I think it’s great that we can all aspire towards that. Today I also had the opportunity to work with a fantastic app called Bunz.
A friend of mine was getting rid of all of her craft supplies, and she passed on a lot to me. She told me about this app where you could swap for things. You could trade for things that you don’t want for things you need instead of selling it online where many things don’t have monetary value anymore, but they still can have value for somebody who wants it. So ever since then, I have been like non-stop trading. It’s just a great system to keep things out of a landfill and find new treasures that you would have never seen anywhere else.
So let’s get started with our first hack. This first hack has been a real money saver for me. I bought these foam soap dispensers from the home goods store because I saw all these Bath & Bodyworks bottles of foam soap and realized this is just soap mixed with water and charge so much for it. I can do this myself. I buy bulk body or hand soap, mix one-part soap to five parts water, and it lasts me forever. It works just as well as concentrated soap, if not better, because it’s already lathered for you.
Buying natural liquid soap and using fewer quantity chemicals is just a small way to reduce consumption and waste. I do the same thing with my detergent. My parents have a huge jug of detergent we share, not that they know that we share, which is technically stealing but yeah, we kind of share. I’ve had this bottle of concentrate for a year now, and it’s still going strong. Reusable straws are trendy now, and my favorites are the stainless-steel kind. It doesn’t affect the taste of anything I drink, including water, and I even have these bubble tea sized straws for my extreme tapioca consumption.
Related: Build your own shipping container home today
On my most recent trip, the beaches were completely littered with straws. Small plastics on the beach wash into the ocean and injure animals. I love straws. I drink everything through a straw, but recycling facilities have a hard time catching small plastics through their filters, and too much of it ends up where it doesn’t belong.
While you’re at it, reusable cups are also a must-have. Majority of drink cups are not recyclable because it’s lined with plastic so although most cups advertise made from recycled material, the cup itself will still end up in a landfill. Starbucks is super friendly and will take any vessel, while some places require you only to use their reusable cups. Just make sure to ask your favorite beverage place what they accept. Find out more about what you can and can’t recycle; find your city’s recycling chart for guidance. Toronto is not very advanced with their recycling program. As you can see, drink cups, foil wrappers, and even many plastics are not recyclable. What’s messed up is that black plastic can’t be recycled. The reason being the optical sorter cannot distinguish between the black plastic and the black conveyer belt. What is surprising is that styrofoam is recyclable. Still, there’s the taboo of it being nonenvironmentally friendly in the past, which is why styrofoam is not as standard nowadays, even though technology has caught up to meet those needs.
Wax-coated clothes have become my better alternative to foil and saran wrap. It works better at clinging and preserving than plastic wrap. Now, this can be a pricey item, which is why I Bunz for it. I ended up using BTZ I collected to trade for the food wrap, which means I acquired this for free. Now that’s a smart deal. When you’re done with your food, and this is a trick that my dad taught me, you compost it! It is not just compost, though, as I used to keep it under my sink, and it still gets smelly, and I don’t have counter space for a table composter, which is also very pricey to freeze your compost.
I got a little bin from Ikea, especially in the summer; this completely eradicates our fruit fly and smell issue. This is a cheat, but I wanted to shout out my recent video about repurposing old t-shirts. I made reusable cotton rounds out of an old tee that I throw in the wash to use, and I made a reusable grocery bag that doubles as a cute tote. This is to round up the number because 13 hacks don’t sound as good as 15.
Dryer sheets are single-use items that quickly fill up garbages. You can reuse them in various ways, but for fluffy clothes, an alternative is dryer balls. I have these cute hedgehog ones that lost their noses, and because they can be a bit pricey, I’m going to trade for wool balls and essential oils on Bunz as an upgrade. In my laundry cupboard, I also have a massive stash of rags. I have old torn bedsheets and ripped clothing like the t-shirt DIY scraps to use as a paper towel alternative. The key is to think about single-use throwaway products and finding alternatives for them, like Swiffer sheets and duster refills. It’s not any less convenient to have a washable version of disposable products.
For the home as well, we rarely turn on the heat or a/c. You can call us cheap because we are, but this doubles as emission saving for the environment. There are duvets for every type of climate and sleeper. We’ll throw a fleece blanket underneath for colder weather and have a cooling comforter for the summer, made of breathable material like wool, cotton, or even some that are mesh down alternatives that wick moisture. I went to that drapery section at the thrift store and picked up some white mesh curtains, which I guarantee will be in abundance at every thrift store. Folding mine at the top in three, I cut out a few 12 by 16-inch rectangles. Zig-zag stitch all sides but the top fold, leaving a slight gap to thread your drawstring through. Now my drawstring is old shoelaces. Thread it through what used to be the pocket for the curtain rod, and you have reusable produce bags. These will keep your produce longer with its breathable material since plastic keeps the moisture in and rots your fruits and veggies quicker.
So what about when you leave the house, how do you bring all this with you? I take a go-bag whenever I go in the car: one large reusable tote to throw everything in, extra totes, thermos or tumbler metal straws, and the produce bags. Most days, I don’t have a car, so I just carry straws in this super cute strawberry reusable bag on me. When I go grocery shopping, I try to avoid over-packaged items, and we’ll share industrial-sized items with my family. We buy in bulk, usually industrial-sized non-perishables, and freeze many groceries that are bought in large batches. About thirty to forty percent of my house is Bunz items, so Opalma is a Bunz trade.
This bed table we traded for an armchair. So I mostly trade for plants, toilet paper, and scented candles. My latest acquisition is a set of buns, so these mannequin butts are the newest thing to my home. They are like, where else would you find a pair of mannequin butts? I got a snowboard, boots, bindings, goggles, helmet, and bag for a $50 gift card like that’s less than rental for the day. That’s insane. I don’t even know; sometimes people want to get rid of stuff, and then in this uncertain phase, this is the best time to trade. They have this new currency called BTZ where if you can earn BTZ by referring your friends and answering their daily survey. You get a little bit of BTZ, and you use those BTZ in exchange to buy things at your local stores, so local cafes and small stores will take BTZ as currency. And if you sign up and say that I referred you, I get BTZ; you get BTZ. I can’t speak highly enough of this app. I find so much more value in the things that I’ve traded for because there’s so much story behind it then you appreciate things more. You tend not to throw away or want to buy new things to replace them anyway, and that’s why I very much support the Bunz app and the Bunz community, and I hope you guys can take a look at what they have.
I know it isn’t easy to be sustainable, especially in makeup and fashion, and I think that there’s a great movement right now on moving towards that. I’m not perfect, but I know I’m doing my best to minimize my footprint, do what I can, even outside of just fashion in terms of home and food, minimize my waste, and make that footprint smaller. Thank you, guys for reading. Please share this post if it inspired you!
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5 Sustainable Living Hacks – Be the change
So as you know, I am a super thrifty person. I super enjoy saving money, and also, I am working very hard to minimize my footprint. Now I am by no means an extreme minimalist or a zero-waste person, but I think it’s great that we can all aspire towards that. Today I also had the opportunity to work with a fantastic app called Bunz.
A friend of mine was getting rid of all of her craft supplies, and she passed on a lot to me. She told me about this app where you could swap for things. You could trade for things that you don’t want for things you need instead of selling it online where many things don’t have monetary value anymore, but they still can have value for somebody who wants it. So ever since then, I have been like non-stop trading. It’s just a great system to keep things out of a landfill and find new treasures that you would have never seen anywhere else.
So let’s get started with our first hack. This first hack has been a real money saver for me. I bought these foam soap dispensers from the home goods store because I saw all these Bath & Bodyworks bottles of foam soap and realized this is just soap mixed with water and charge so much for it. I can do this myself. I buy bulk body or hand soap, mix one-part soap to five parts water, and it lasts me forever. It works just as well as concentrated soap, if not better, because it’s already lathered for you.
Buying natural liquid soap and using fewer quantity chemicals is just a small way to reduce consumption and waste. I do the same thing with my detergent. My parents have a huge jug of detergent we share, not that they know that we share, which is technically stealing but yeah, we kind of share. I’ve had this bottle of concentrate for a year now, and it’s still going strong. Reusable straws are trendy now, and my favorites are the stainless-steel kind. It doesn’t affect the taste of anything I drink, including water, and I even have these bubble tea sized straws for my extreme tapioca consumption.
Related: Build your own shipping container home today
On my most recent trip, the beaches were completely littered with straws. Small plastics on the beach wash into the ocean and injure animals. I love straws. I drink everything through a straw, but recycling facilities have a hard time catching small plastics through their filters, and too much of it ends up where it doesn’t belong.
While you’re at it, reusable cups are also a must-have. Majority of drink cups are not recyclable because it’s lined with plastic so although most cups advertise made from recycled material, the cup itself will still end up in a landfill. Starbucks is super friendly and will take any vessel, while some places require you only to use their reusable cups. Just make sure to ask your favorite beverage place what they accept. Find out more about what you can and can’t recycle; find your city’s recycling chart for guidance. Toronto is not very advanced with their recycling program. As you can see, drink cups, foil wrappers, and even many plastics are not recyclable. What’s messed up is that black plastic can’t be recycled. The reason being the optical sorter cannot distinguish between the black plastic and the black conveyer belt. What is surprising is that styrofoam is recyclable. Still, there’s the taboo of it being nonenvironmentally friendly in the past, which is why styrofoam is not as standard nowadays, even though technology has caught up to meet those needs.
Wax-coated clothes have become my better alternative to foil and saran wrap. It works better at clinging and preserving than plastic wrap. Now, this can be a pricey item, which is why I Bunz for it. I ended up using BTZ I collected to trade for the food wrap, which means I acquired this for free. Now that’s a smart deal. When you’re done with your food, and this is a trick that my dad taught me, you compost it! It is not just compost, though, as I used to keep it under my sink, and it still gets smelly, and I don’t have counter space for a table composter, which is also very pricey to freeze your compost.
I got a little bin from Ikea, especially in the summer; this completely eradicates our fruit fly and smell issue. This is a cheat, but I wanted to shout out my recent video about repurposing old t-shirts. I made reusable cotton rounds out of an old tee that I throw in the wash to use, and I made a reusable grocery bag that doubles as a cute tote. This is to round up the number because 13 hacks don’t sound as good as 15.
Dryer sheets are single-use items that quickly fill up garbages. You can reuse them in various ways, but for fluffy clothes, an alternative is dryer balls. I have these cute hedgehog ones that lost their noses, and because they can be a bit pricey, I’m going to trade for wool balls and essential oils on Bunz as an upgrade. In my laundry cupboard, I also have a massive stash of rags. I have old torn bedsheets and ripped clothing like the t-shirt DIY scraps to use as a paper towel alternative. The key is to think about single-use throwaway products and finding alternatives for them, like Swiffer sheets and duster refills. It’s not any less convenient to have a washable version of disposable products.
For the home as well, we rarely turn on the heat or a/c. You can call us cheap because we are, but this doubles as emission saving for the environment. There are duvets for every type of climate and sleeper. We’ll throw a fleece blanket underneath for colder weather and have a cooling comforter for the summer, made of breathable material like wool, cotton, or even some that are mesh down alternatives that wick moisture. I went to that drapery section at the thrift store and picked up some white mesh curtains, which I guarantee will be in abundance at every thrift store. Folding mine at the top in three, I cut out a few 12 by 16-inch rectangles. Zig-zag stitch all sides but the top fold, leaving a slight gap to thread your drawstring through. Now my drawstring is old shoelaces. Thread it through what used to be the pocket for the curtain rod, and you have reusable produce bags. These will keep your produce longer with its breathable material since plastic keeps the moisture in and rots your fruits and veggies quicker.
So what about when you leave the house, how do you bring all this with you? I take a go-bag whenever I go in the car: one large reusable tote to throw everything in, extra totes, thermos or tumbler metal straws, and the produce bags. Most days, I don’t have a car, so I just carry straws in this super cute strawberry reusable bag on me. When I go grocery shopping, I try to avoid over-packaged items, and we’ll share industrial-sized items with my family. We buy in bulk, usually industrial-sized non-perishables, and freeze many groceries that are bought in large batches. About thirty to forty percent of my house is Bunz items, so Opalma is a Bunz trade.
This bed table we traded for an armchair. So I mostly trade for plants, toilet paper, and scented candles. My latest acquisition is a set of buns, so these mannequin butts are the newest thing to my home. They are like, where else would you find a pair of mannequin butts? I got a snowboard, boots, bindings, goggles, helmet, and bag for a $50 gift card like that’s less than rental for the day. That’s insane. I don’t even know; sometimes people want to get rid of stuff, and then in this uncertain phase, this is the best time to trade. They have this new currency called BTZ where if you can earn BTZ by referring your friends and answering their daily survey. You get a little bit of BTZ, and you use those BTZ in exchange to buy things at your local stores, so local cafes and small stores will take BTZ as currency. And if you sign up and say that I referred you, I get BTZ; you get BTZ. I can’t speak highly enough of this app. I find so much more value in the things that I’ve traded for because there’s so much story behind it then you appreciate things more. You tend not to throw away or want to buy new things to replace them anyway, and that’s why I very much support the Bunz app and the Bunz community, and I hope you guys can take a look at what they have.
I know it isn’t easy to be sustainable, especially in makeup and fashion, and I think that there’s a great movement right now on moving towards that. I’m not perfect, but I know I’m doing my best to minimize my footprint, do what I can, even outside of just fashion in terms of home and food, minimize my waste, and make that footprint smaller. Thank you, guys for reading. Please share this post if it inspired you!
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5 Sustainable Living Hacks – Be the change
So as you know, I am a super thrifty person. I super enjoy saving money, and also, I am working very hard to minimize my footprint. Now I am by no means an extreme minimalist or a zero-waste person, but I think it’s great that we can all aspire towards that. Today I also had the opportunity to work with a fantastic app called Bunz.
A friend of mine was getting rid of all of her craft supplies, and she passed on a lot to me. She told me about this app where you could swap for things. You could trade for things that you don’t want for things you need instead of selling it online where many things don’t have monetary value anymore, but they still can have value for somebody who wants it. So ever since then, I have been like non-stop trading. It’s just a great system to keep things out of a landfill and find new treasures that you would have never seen anywhere else.
So let’s get started with our first hack. This first hack has been a real money saver for me. I bought these foam soap dispensers from the home goods store because I saw all these Bath & Bodyworks bottles of foam soap and realized this is just soap mixed with water and charge so much for it. I can do this myself. I buy bulk body or hand soap, mix one-part soap to five parts water, and it lasts me forever. It works just as well as concentrated soap, if not better, because it’s already lathered for you.
Buying natural liquid soap and using fewer quantity chemicals is just a small way to reduce consumption and waste. I do the same thing with my detergent. My parents have a huge jug of detergent we share, not that they know that we share, which is technically stealing but yeah, we kind of share. I’ve had this bottle of concentrate for a year now, and it’s still going strong. Reusable straws are trendy now, and my favorites are the stainless-steel kind. It doesn’t affect the taste of anything I drink, including water, and I even have these bubble tea sized straws for my extreme tapioca consumption.
Related: Build your own shipping container home today
On my most recent trip, the beaches were completely littered with straws. Small plastics on the beach wash into the ocean and injure animals. I love straws. I drink everything through a straw, but recycling facilities have a hard time catching small plastics through their filters, and too much of it ends up where it doesn’t belong.
While you’re at it, reusable cups are also a must-have. Majority of drink cups are not recyclable because it’s lined with plastic so although most cups advertise made from recycled material, the cup itself will still end up in a landfill. Starbucks is super friendly and will take any vessel, while some places require you only to use their reusable cups. Just make sure to ask your favorite beverage place what they accept. Find out more about what you can and can’t recycle; find your city’s recycling chart for guidance. Toronto is not very advanced with their recycling program. As you can see, drink cups, foil wrappers, and even many plastics are not recyclable. What’s messed up is that black plastic can’t be recycled. The reason being the optical sorter cannot distinguish between the black plastic and the black conveyer belt. What is surprising is that styrofoam is recyclable. Still, there’s the taboo of it being nonenvironmentally friendly in the past, which is why styrofoam is not as standard nowadays, even though technology has caught up to meet those needs.
Wax-coated clothes have become my better alternative to foil and saran wrap. It works better at clinging and preserving than plastic wrap. Now, this can be a pricey item, which is why I Bunz for it. I ended up using BTZ I collected to trade for the food wrap, which means I acquired this for free. Now that’s a smart deal. When you’re done with your food, and this is a trick that my dad taught me, you compost it! It is not just compost, though, as I used to keep it under my sink, and it still gets smelly, and I don’t have counter space for a table composter, which is also very pricey to freeze your compost.
I got a little bin from Ikea, especially in the summer; this completely eradicates our fruit fly and smell issue. This is a cheat, but I wanted to shout out my recent video about repurposing old t-shirts. I made reusable cotton rounds out of an old tee that I throw in the wash to use, and I made a reusable grocery bag that doubles as a cute tote. This is to round up the number because 13 hacks don’t sound as good as 15.
Dryer sheets are single-use items that quickly fill up garbages. You can reuse them in various ways, but for fluffy clothes, an alternative is dryer balls. I have these cute hedgehog ones that lost their noses, and because they can be a bit pricey, I’m going to trade for wool balls and essential oils on Bunz as an upgrade. In my laundry cupboard, I also have a massive stash of rags. I have old torn bedsheets and ripped clothing like the t-shirt DIY scraps to use as a paper towel alternative. The key is to think about single-use throwaway products and finding alternatives for them, like Swiffer sheets and duster refills. It’s not any less convenient to have a washable version of disposable products.
For the home as well, we rarely turn on the heat or a/c. You can call us cheap because we are, but this doubles as emission saving for the environment. There are duvets for every type of climate and sleeper. We’ll throw a fleece blanket underneath for colder weather and have a cooling comforter for the summer, made of breathable material like wool, cotton, or even some that are mesh down alternatives that wick moisture. I went to that drapery section at the thrift store and picked up some white mesh curtains, which I guarantee will be in abundance at every thrift store. Folding mine at the top in three, I cut out a few 12 by 16-inch rectangles. Zig-zag stitch all sides but the top fold, leaving a slight gap to thread your drawstring through. Now my drawstring is old shoelaces. Thread it through what used to be the pocket for the curtain rod, and you have reusable produce bags. These will keep your produce longer with its breathable material since plastic keeps the moisture in and rots your fruits and veggies quicker.
So what about when you leave the house, how do you bring all this with you? I take a go-bag whenever I go in the car: one large reusable tote to throw everything in, extra totes, thermos or tumbler metal straws, and the produce bags. Most days, I don’t have a car, so I just carry straws in this super cute strawberry reusable bag on me. When I go grocery shopping, I try to avoid over-packaged items, and we’ll share industrial-sized items with my family. We buy in bulk, usually industrial-sized non-perishables, and freeze many groceries that are bought in large batches. About thirty to forty percent of my house is Bunz items, so Opalma is a Bunz trade.
This bed table we traded for an armchair. So I mostly trade for plants, toilet paper, and scented candles. My latest acquisition is a set of buns, so these mannequin butts are the newest thing to my home. They are like, where else would you find a pair of mannequin butts? I got a snowboard, boots, bindings, goggles, helmet, and bag for a $50 gift card like that’s less than rental for the day. That’s insane. I don’t even know; sometimes people want to get rid of stuff, and then in this uncertain phase, this is the best time to trade. They have this new currency called BTZ where if you can earn BTZ by referring your friends and answering their daily survey. You get a little bit of BTZ, and you use those BTZ in exchange to buy things at your local stores, so local cafes and small stores will take BTZ as currency. And if you sign up and say that I referred you, I get BTZ; you get BTZ. I can’t speak highly enough of this app. I find so much more value in the things that I’ve traded for because there’s so much story behind it then you appreciate things more. You tend not to throw away or want to buy new things to replace them anyway, and that’s why I very much support the Bunz app and the Bunz community, and I hope you guys can take a look at what they have.
I know it isn’t easy to be sustainable, especially in makeup and fashion, and I think that there’s a great movement right now on moving towards that. I’m not perfect, but I know I’m doing my best to minimize my footprint, do what I can, even outside of just fashion in terms of home and food, minimize my waste, and make that footprint smaller. Thank you, guys for reading. Please share this post if it inspired you!
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Tales From the Geeks
About a week ago, I had the pleasure of riding with an Uber driver who has been working with computers for about as long as I have. He was overjoyed that he had a “geeky” passenger. We spent the drive home sharing stories about our early computer experiences.
I recalled my first computer job, working with a Univac 70/6 computer, which filled a fairly large room with its components, including several towers of processing units, a punch-card reader, a machine that automatically punched cards, two line printers, four tape drives, and six disk drives. When the disk drives were sorting the data on the stack of 12-inch-diameter disks, they shook like a washing machine on the spin cycle. The computer room had to be kept at a constant temperature of around 50 degrees in order to counteract the heat generated by the multitude of vacuum tubes that filled the processors. The floor was raised about two feet so cool air could be circulated through the components to cool them from below.
Keeping that room cool required a massive air conditioner and multiple ducts and outlet vents. Ribbons were attached to the vents to provide a visible clue that the air was circulating properly – or not. If the ribbons were fluttering gently, all was well. If they hung limply or stood straight out from the vents, something was amiss, and rapid action was needed. One night, as I worked the graveyard shift (midnight to 8:00), I noticed the room was becoming warm enough to take off the outer layer of clothing I was wearing. I looked up at the vents, and the ribbons were not moving. I immediately began the process of shutting down the computer and all its peripheral devices. By the time I had safely brought everything to a standstill, about ten minutes later, the temperature had risen to 80 degrees. We called our manager, who drove into Boston from his suburban home and called the air conditioner maintenance folks and the service crew for the computer to be sure there was no damage. It took several hours to repair the A/C unit and get everything going again.
When I began working in that computer room, it was located in a basement under a bank. A year or so later, the bank moved, and a Chinese restaurant moved in. Now, being in a basement, below a restaurant that used very hot fires to cook, and having only one exit – we were understandably very concerned when one night the two of us on the night shift smelled smoke. We didn’t hear alarms, and no sprinklers began spraying everything with water or foam, but the smell was very strong. We took turns going out of the computer room to see where the smoke was. After about ten to twelve minutes, my fellow operator came back in to the computer room and said he’d found the source of the smell. Down the hall from the computer room, outside one of the manager’s office, a fluorescent ceiling light was dripping a brown sticky substance that looked and smelled like what I imagine brimstone to be like. We found the switch to turn out all the lights on that circuit (fortunately not including the computer room) and turned it off. In the morning, we learned that the ballast on that light had gone bad, and the sticky substance was melted porcelain. We were commended for our action in turning off the circuit, and for being wise enough not to touch the goo.
The Uber driver related a story of a friend who had a PC unit that he said had random power issues. Since Larry (the driver) believes that nothing happens at random in a computer (he hasn’t met mine), he asked the man to leave the computer with him so he could look into it. Larry began to take the cover off the computer, and something suddenly JUMPED out at him. It was a little blue lizard that had somehow found its way into the warmth of the computer and was moving about at random. When Larry told his friend what the problem was, the friend said, “Oh, so that’s where my daughter’s lizard went!”
Larry added a postscript to his story: “Nothing should ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER, EVER, EVER jump out of a computer at you!”
I then related the story of the Photographer and the Tape Drives. After several years in the basement under the Chinese Restaurant, the MIS Department moved to new quarters in the church’s Administration Building. The old Univac was decommissioned, and we began working with a brand new Digital Equipment Corporation computer. This was DEC’s first installation of a major business computer system, and they were just as proud of it as the church’s executives were.
On the day that we officially were totally moved over to the new system, a tour was arranged with the executives, several bigwigs from DEC, a couple of politicians, and a reporter and photographer from The Christian Science Monitor. Programmers had written a program that utilized every single peripheral device to great visual effect. The tape drives were merrily spinning spools of computer tape, the printers were spewing forth reams of printed paper, the disk drives were busily shaking as they performed sort after sort, and lights on the front of the processing units flashed in a display worthy of a Christmas tree. All the members of the tour group were suitably impressed, and the photographer was snapping shots happily. Then he spotted the tape drives. For some reason, at least at that time, to most non-computer people, the tape drives were the computer. He gleefully took a flash photo of the tape drives.
Now, in those days, a reel of computer tape had a reflective metal strip attached at the end of the tape so that the computer would sense when to stop, rewind, and politely ask for a new tape. This was usually built into the program. However, when the flash of the camera reached the tape drives, they all sensed end-of-tape at an inconvenient place in the program, and the entire system crashed. The sudden silence stunned everyone. We cleared the system and decided we didn’t need to restart that program again.
Modern computers are capable of performing many functions at once, but back in the 1970s, certain programs used up a high percentage of the operating system, especially when they were accessing information in certain areas, such as financial. One night I arrived at work to find two very glum evening shift operators. I asked them what was wrong, and the lead operator glared at the junior operator and said through clenched teeth, “SOMEONE decided it would be a timesaver to run both Payroll and Accounts Payable at the same time.” As he spoke, one printer came to life and printed one check. We all waited several minutes while the system unloaded all the Payroll system and loaded up the AP system, and then the other printer printed one AP check. The lead operator was mad because since he was the lead when the programs started, he had to stay until both programs were successfully completed, which took several more hours. Of course, during those hours, we night shift operators could not run the programs which had been carefully scheduled for our eight-hour shift. All in all, not a happy group that greeted the day shift when they arrived.
One last tale. The boxes which held the punched cards were about 18 inches long, by six inches wide by three inches high. The lids opened in such a way that the sides of the box opened out in the back for ease in removing the cards. One night, my fellow operator, in a moment of boredom, set an open box of cards on a chair seat and then for some reason set the chair spinning. There was a beautiful spray of cards in a lovely spiral. The operator grabbed the chair to stop it, but the damage had been done. I innocently asked, “Those cards were sorted, weren’t they?” He sadly nodded, gathered up the wayward cards, and took them to the card sorter. Fortunately, none of the cards slid under any of the equipment. That could have been a real disaster!
I learned a lot during my time as a computer operator, but I’m really glad that I only have to deal with my desktop or notebook computer any more.
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Across, then crossed -- appetite of streaming zero-time., pass through the wells that sunk deep into the passing vale; chipped and down thrust the passage of the Sails. [Being begin]
Chosen are the trails that react like simmying in pathway drent. Covered copse in the ulder rent -- taut like bassage of unenvying pride,; debugged in acrid news.paper olden coordinate told. Corse in the tubeing; the alliance caught longing in the drifting sunbeam bedlam joint. Up in the elevated levels of the sky are the bashèd belongings of the underkeeper, the dread novel that rotates in skyward shallow knell. Collapsing benities of the core kept deft in paralysed left -- truthfuls of the actual kel: purposeful in the crown drept pally prow.
Cud like brow in upended city of bells. Beckoning brown in restive reflex found. Bound brother to the action of the deepening sound. Drawn out and up in clamour of reeds refrownd. Now is the telling and listen do the ears that send with impulses static silence: caused to flight and then dirge rite,; listen to the doctors evacuate our worth with analysed nascence drowned.
Dark are the years that lay behind -- once peace intrigued and the discovery of who they are, then struggle for breath and absence of fear’s leash holder. The queen who every tree does now bare; borne out in windfall neutrality like company cold creep, the young dazzled like birds on a ceiling. Death of the believing.
Bleach concealing drawn like ice in a pulling of raw ripe reasoning. Cast in the shadow of the empty, loss like a trigger; posit in exempt pushed into backward season -- brain retold every story recalled. Something left within for you to find to understand the years before -- times of life that vapour in images seen dreamt, caller of death, then diving while sat; writing uncapped, pulped at the underside of the dealing dunes. Sea waves show moons.
Caught light in fire holes trial torn in moisture vacuum. Compassed in prefecture profound; possibilities pre-rendered in pull of the pacified. Prolong the passing, recreate in shadows of returning.
Exacting resonance in the penning of the possible -- back drafts unreasoned in the ripping of the path. Roots torn from earth like the world is ending with the displaced positioning -- up and on, the gravity tuned in switchbox confusion. Instant falling from on high, or the dreadful imploding: a skillset of the undone.
Questions in the mouths of millions.
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Taciturn old flocks that have swum the distance of age long aching. The esoteric in the greening. The Sails cut through and continue the endless migration but for the stations. Trains of Sails,; trails unconscious. Anti-pulse at the elision, the speedways fast bought in the privatized passing. The Sails wrap around, and blind the man who would steal their science.
Angry in the approach of the under reactive motor processes -- cause to glance in indirection,; the purpose of the apparel reed. Smoking in the reeds, unprepared for the extent storm, colourless and invoking somatic senses,- the bodies’ lost grace gravity repents.
Look to the undisclosed retort -- the action in the photographic vial, flipped and respun. Known in the upturned howling song, known to glimpse. The apparition of the never closed instinct. The Sails close in: the rod, close curve. The smells of the drenched, End of day.
Underscape in movement. It is aged in its context, like crushed rock in endless rotation,; every grain the laying stones of a house, cartridge plucked in deep dream preamble. Apparent in the strength of nascence re-greened. Uktive uponed in the visual trapset, let the forlorn re-turn/. spun in the captive eight to restore rehabilitated in darkness ghastly. Filled black with the ghosts of materialist things. Dying in the retort. The passage is now flooded.
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Reproached by the silence of the latent guard, the nakedness dyed in excellent causality.. the tremble of the context.. the complexity of the object. Simulacra’d misowned. Serenjectivity like an infinite rainbow,-- bound to the rumours of the deep. With no measurement of the depth, the sinking of the swimmer takes up the ease of the smoothest chutes,:sunken in places of appropriation.
Under the rule of challenging hues, the dark of the sunlit night pulls at the threads of the ending of the call,; the motion the retort in the accusation of the double’; and the triple. Cast over and over in gestures wide of nuance.
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You like the dust feathers; the version relation that extrapolates the effervescence uncoiled in the calling of the greatest, the strongest! Wise in its swiftness. The lesser known, in a town of gold disintegration [disintegration] - the pull of the musical,. knwn in the twypes that wallwalk in streets paved with passages rent. Cast are the types that revert in recoiled rememberance. The xtide of the somnvoyant,;: body watchers whose eyes feel rather than see.
You are the watcher -- but overlooked are the dances that seeth in the structured recorse that permeates the messages. Like calculated void. Her body was like the sun in its blinding.
Exvert belongings that replicate in bags that magic had. In the swelling of the tubules in the deepest parts of the forest of rain -- new lords take up the call of everant synapse collision. In the program of the nation,. the maxi hard like nubling charge. The unuttered trail; the loose and captive fail . Like nuances in a stream of cards. Knights with enchanted swords, the ego in the night. Collate the opening, like pretence of cold shine. The parabola ignited. The chance rings taught hard against the driving snow. Lox in tremble fierce; the parents of the sorter drift, like dancing revolves so multiples retold. The bringings that suffocate intention like the slither of captive tongues. Disguise the sound, let it be experienced but hardly ever heard.
In problems like wyrm, collapsing realms that have old been heard -- the maxims of the troubadour, trying at the edges of the perceptive girl; the dread test dead. Gods in wrest like true hoards scavence blessed. Gods in outer sphere, the quandaries of the apparent worn. Known is thy caste, the bell seller weaves. The progaps sendarie eleven place to heal.
Courtizans in the extraperfective crossiron wood foray. In the stream of the anointed tumble -- capture the expert indistinct. Akin to washing away, in light of sea -- the turning of the casual wheel. Puzzle in moonlight contained. Upward shift like molten ring rain. Episode in hyperlight,; true in version modification. Uttering fleeting moments like the turmoil of the under court,, the deep dragging of the explosive slowed -- trying at the edges of frayed contraption. Killing the dust that rushes inward,: into mouth and into lungs,. death in the extremities of sleep’s fashion. Death in the uttering. Drawn in the writing of the adjacent member -- followers of the stillness motioned to road,; deft in her worship. Kill the cleansing for in the mention of the direction is the vocality of the marauder.
In motions like great washes, sea sound overdubbed in crevice of mind/conscious of the gap between the land and the distance of the station. Water where rails once were -- jet-skis the major mode of transport. Once there were gondolas, but now the induction propulsion of the jet-ski: minute in the memory of that which has no faculty. A planet not a populous.
Gravity reigns in the astrological significance. Established! Cast in greens and blues and yellows; true depth like that once written. Death in the creating.
Under casual lift, the wind raises the crew. They wear nothing but their robes that signify the heaviness of their religion. Health.
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Cooperative in its flavour, the crossing of the true knight passive, untold response in the colours of the deep. Counteract like fire, the possible in the context with all that is conflict in its presence. Love in an outer location; the lakes of the pressing the untu of complete existence. Anywhere and whenever -- the cost of fulfilment, life in its absolute state. Carry the waves in water of nascence,; the calculus of the end. The trembling like dice in a cube of plastic glass -- we saw the new in the eyes and breath of the most high. A containment that is resonant in the expulsion of pure wave. Niceties in collaboration of the forward, apace with the space of the unfinished. Rules of ether, message of time,; temporal tests in arcing experiments. Bring them to a coordinate of deep reason. Let them know what they are, and what words are within them.
Love is the pathway, the course of second or third least resistance. Parameters that increase freedom -- interpretive reaction as open as heaven is possible.
Caught in the catalyst,: the feasible a profit in its agrarian state. Upended columns pull us to the walls, ring rocked in resurgence; caste assuaged in danger of swaying rhythm -- rip-tied in the tolerance of problematic extremes. Danger in the leaving;, danger made clean.
Rolling of hills long sunk. Running on waters of gravity. Resemblance of pinions in the caves of the sky. Realizations of exit -- pull of the subordinate call. Canny response to the messages’ bombardment. Death in breath, breathing of deceiving. The brevity that extends to valence. Control of kingdoms questioning in the cards of remaining. [Terminate terminal.]
In the brave presence of tendrilling concrete. Expressive to the non-night like capillaries that have left the bodies irrespectful of their owners. Conquering the ignominy of a sort of presidential buoyance. Asking the questions that invoke repetitious response. Again the mark cuts down on the focus of the abilities locked inside. Consider resignation in the face of misconduct. Then consider the rawness that energy exacts against the gravity that pulls us ever down, but in the light of plight:, know the zenvy that conducts and channels the messages of the heart. Purpose is found in the trembling winds that carries the spors in the darkest years of the world. Discard.
Errant discord in the longing of the underscore. Cut down are the branches that once held the delicacy of infinite memory, now an extreme displeasure. Artifice in moulds of the oceanic.
Survey of streams in a personage that recollects the flow as a juxtaposition. A rolling of thought that resurfaces at the times where there is only an experience of one. One and around the company that all feel the passage. Ghouls of the terminal.
Corneas at absolute dilation -- the quandary in the rising of the sun. Supreme knowledge like a vestige to a deity. Camped in cameras,; callouses of the callous -- contruda in a movement of the actual dissident. Continue in the attention paid to the edges of the shape. A simple square. The profillment rotates in dances of emptiness filled, the collecting of energies that once belonged to ancient ancestors. In the filling of the temple, the wave is reset.
Filament of tangled possible tetrian inclusion. Confinement a song stung in gravities of new true makeup cast. Comma transpiration. Young in its flow, rules bent in shimmering collusion, now in the sticking place of eternity entire.
Grass grown in the awareness of the trundle erasure. Unique in its passage, movements like the untamed spiral. Cue entry past the wavering rude. Hoods up, spells cast,; removal of the goddess worshiped. Meet her in her palace of fog.
Night broadcast to the infinities of a culture. Built up and on, over and over in ringing coherence that respects its boundaries. Sound itself ricocheting in a galaxy whose astrological significance is the afore-mentioned.
Grabbing ritual in an event that will turn the tide of opinion. Decisions presented and selected. Choice a challenger but never a tyrant.
Goodness reveals the fountain of circles. Diving into the vast wells of the ruined city. She divulges much; but to hear it? it would remove the hopes of the appointed. Prudence prescriptions of lifestyle hidden in the royalty of sunlit clouds. Clod of rod -- pressing in on the downward, college of the inclement. Enclosure in a wordplay that reorganizes the deft roar, rules of contention in the children’s’ shore. Upward retort in realist reaction. Unknown in defta incleptron vanished. Gyzed in borrowed extentions. Graft in over errality.
Because the hills shear at the unpoint view of the artist locale, the heading is a morali -- a mountain near clarity’s basecamp.
In the truth of capsized clump, thicket and clutch,, the wrongs of return ensue to room that which is within the energetic loom.
Grown in a stasis of the viewtiful, closing in are the chapters that would respin the governing of penance, guideguard compulled in steady farslight. The worklings fall at the speed of the overseers -- seers in the fabric, sight contained in the millions.
Arc of threads crossed in. The crew contails the enevering of gilded capsules. Gas in a tube that has seen many roads but will never burn.
This is the set of the Sails.
Sails that weave and contort in the energy interlay. The crossing that remains like a person in trembling coil. Cool in its overlap, the types that know and row in lines that might never be perceived. Collapse in process, new in the living is the profession that quanta recedes -- of the alapin is the greatness that endures the show of ignominious raft. Rasp in rude coverage. Tents like offices of the dramatic straight-downed.
Seeding of the dark grey sunpushed meadows, the tailors knew the goods were washed, in merry ecumen she received this post. Parasailed in perfect light. The bony pointary of the climate’s southern rush. Ruin in the possive pole of flight and aggregate colour. Crushed are the dancing sellers -- magic in their unbevelled depth the undoing of a vast year’s push.
Cattle moving in the streams of the regulatory dismissive. The pour of the control -- cardwright in realms of agora. Paths of the rise. Passage of profane integrity.
Under the call of the newly lit program. Pause in the feeling of valour,; intra versed in paradise gleam. Came did the destroyed in humble movement of voice and in their stead the beacon breathes in ever empty anti-streams.
Before the fall of the straight walled;,the pull of the undone, wrecked in havens of poverty Sails. In the interest of the people as a whole, the grandeur of the treasured wall. The writing that creates the trule. Action in electric taste. The powder that cascades in granary agrown. Clear are the choosings of the mighty spun -- now the algorythms of the central dust like fire in a waterlogged tower, from basement to canopy, the reasons of the flock divulge in parameters of eager newing. Never endings predicted past scope.
Caused to set Sails to flight; the nebula is the travelling, like huge upturned mountainous realms, of the clouds from above & the strongness of the kite.
The exposive,; intergrated in magnatized infinitum. Provess ripped and procured like the institute that assembles concrete plates -- intraversital compassion, integrative nuance, depth in poverty like xion beings; Sails learn of the treachery of the undergrown.
Transfixed in indigo clad moments -- positron row, reading wronged in positions of inclement causality. Now in the tow of a deep rowan redoubt, casting shade in repixelated reminiscing. Drowned in reactor water -- coolant coursing, running;, streams of incredible consort,, clever colours that rotate under the black light of the macroscope. dream-dread.
In its activity, the nuance of the extreme allows for little levels: buoyant in the measure; passage of the indisputable,; drawn in lines of blue, yellow fixation rounding on the unparalleled perplexed. Gasp in the quarter that gives way to the deep pipe-filled trench, on for miles and miles…deeper and deeper, while the xion grows. Sails pass through like shadows cats. Falling between ceilings and floors. Double destiny,.
Collapsing in gravity’s ruin. Roar in ten. Meet oxygen.
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Clever in their absolve, solve, dissolve -- revolved. Under the pen of the dialectic -- linguist in charged zone. wi-pow predicted. Knowing the passing of the breathing, the sending to a beyond where voices might be heard, but faces rarely seen. Cast our nets in seas of the holographic, register once more the appropriation of the traveller’s time -- eyes at once in register with what their host’s most like. Drop and retort. The opening of the highest windows in the most elaborate palaces. Dreams of design. Wells within adobe.
Cause of extremity, illness in the whirling tubers,; cast in sirical sight -- grand operation in the rollings of enmity, castles caught in propellers, the crossing of the seas of jade.
In the indeseminate profields, eyes are distracted. And levels recalled, retreating in gaseous water walls. Untrue in the incredulity of enemy volumes, increasing in travesty;: topiary that convalesces in gardens grown to treat the sick and saddened of the floral kingdom.
Ghast in grip. Tolia drinks in the edifice of manifest root,; every soil a staging point for egress ripple..
Drown in the school, the questions smothered in radial throw. Deafened in the opulence of endings. Draught like the ink in the bath -- filled brim a coast in the territorial furrows, ilk of nebidead,: hailing the arrangers of the extortion. Draw a wheel of tumbling tales -- art of a zealot, inches of gunge as nominal as in an equation of love.
Reparations long for the time that is forward in its associative capture. The rapture of the extreme eaity the feed, forward flask in extreme. B’lean.
Reels of the unreal.
Deeds set in cast plastic integration of the blown -- flown in extraversion extorts in breaths of brimming flow. Blasted in its seas of shoe sown wandering, like the eaves of dark vessels in the cloves of crownèd kings.
Browned in the absolute -- calculations of the depth, deep in the fast play restocking. Calls of the wild in mews of defference, like positions in a galaxy. spun in seals of treen. Creeping in extraversion,; pull of the minute, gravity a form of power. The planets spin - travellers that mock the moon. Creeds of negative green. R plus seven recalls the goodness, and the rest renew their clad.
Heavenly waves burn the skin, and are put down by Sol, our dearest, oldest friend.
Caught in the grip of the variety, ayes of the trouble that engage that which has been seen,. anew are the friendships that have always been. One day I will know you again. Sinking in manifest…Oh, there is nothing there to block the way. Calling your name, sure in the passages of the parenthesis that was our last existence. Sat among those who have always been known -- thrown the page like sculptures throw clay. Little illustrations and tiny mentions that explicate the endlessness of love.
The only ways I can tell what is happening to me. Returning home too..
Recking ships in pens that contain the sea, our stream flinches;:wasted rounded in vestibules of ever increasing margin limit. Reoil’d describing in blood.
Constant stone remade.
Taper in hypervision of para-recollection. Huge entireties that differ in maximal dissatisfaction . Cause for the latter -- extremes in scarce.
Enter the revel, patrons of the never ending. Sails on the mending.
Under weaving, waves retort in lashing causality. Karma rips in sevens. Wreathed in the acute.
Removal of focus, captivated in biochem -- halls of reflection collapse in heated exchange; guides of the strange and re-estranged.
Escalation and repensation -- key cards to the underpassages and vaults containing the most modern of magi-technology. Crews pass unseen and in vacuums clean instigated parameters that mean in modes of infinite green.
Clear are the opposites, ended in attempts at the furthering of life as human glass creates in its endless foray the purposes of gravity in plastic obtained. Gone are the measurements and in their certain turmoil, winds of rushing grasp up the foothills, fall of debris in instants of bitter relief.
Clear the halls! The repshord shouts, pieces of trap replacing the gallery at the moment of prime numbers. Gushes of off-white ignite the reem,, classes intake a shower of credible dream.
In the ignorance of the passing flower, a new turbulence ensued in porthole teeming, the gleaning of the precious sunlight treasures of the dead. In the exiting., a verse retained in mode of perplexed pour -- core of silence, the pattern of never-ending dominion. Ghost in the tracks -- sea of roaring air react,;gulp of potions ending fear, purpose of the push in the program of the night. Gush of credit in composition capsule; perfect signs in the lowest sky.
Tremendous captured in the ink of syphony, grand reactor the memory; and a hold on economic masts -- radio narrowcast, in clear due water of the virtual finding fixing aching mask.
Entailed in the westward wind, the flow of the streaming heart,; the innocence of the trailing path. Paths pulsate in maximum moon. Mark of greatness on the region’s tomb. Pockmarked management like motivation severedflent gall of promises never found, the arches of the makeup moving down. Cast like fingers at the eyes of norm, the truth is bent as light in the morn.
Harps in the streams, the water sound clean. Rapture of music that mentioned in the prophesies of gods would reclaim the creation of incidental chords that chimed in mists and equal climes of the magnificence in the enty of the untold.
of edgeward measure the pulling in black sand sinking.
Rumas reunion -- post-perfect presence in a theodyte that shifts in rotative relapse. Cast by shadows infinite and cracked.
Concrete in its pertinences, yet fluxuating at the sign of our rap. Grasp at the threads that windworm their way into the future, depth of sound hacked and reclad like buildings in cities of cerebral crap.
Ask in the future -- futures of prevalence in organisms of reaction, reinterplay and superrisk.
Reasonable in its containment, truth chewed in its collective connectedness
collapse.
Inimitable flow, paralyzed in progression. The endings of the road. Increase in funds to the enterprize interpreted a lifetime ago. Secret accounts with £££. Engage in the enablement of the post-established,; intro regress like the further polished, egret in semblance. Accords restructured, the possibilities involved, dialectic in their draining,, dreams drowned in the ethernet, ambience revolves. Kites in flight in streams in the sky; skyrivers z. pull pushed in the patterns of neversaul -- phones in water, casting messages sent throughout the carriages of the intervention. introversion torn ,rightrubbed. Rings of frictional removal; passed in passages pitch darkened. Posit polite in the marks of redoubt, gum like comely,;bone balanced in the pages of extreme retraction,memories renewed through process chemical, like the dark roomand tomb.
Gravity is clearer, collapsed in the rhythms of the vertical past, eyes of birds the reachers into the measure of the year, the moment; the infinite concealed.
Call us now, the Sails that have sunk -- flown in bounty of elision re-fummed.
April ‘17
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Thank you for the sorter!! Can I ask for your favorite hoyo characters if you play other hoyo games besides hsr? Feel free to not respond :)
oh! no prob anon i'm glad you enjoyed the sorter :>
i'll list my top two faves from each series
HSR: Firefly (main. i liked her before she was cool.. and by that i mean when she was shown in that one livestream that teased penacony with the chibi sunday) / Stelle (funny lil racoon)
Hi3: Elysia (main. yanning my beloved) / Durandal (reason why i started playing! love u miao jiang) ; probably the second least i play out of all of them but i love the cast dearly
Genshin: Xiao (main, he's c6 and on the first page on a few of the akasha leaderboard for him. yes i am Normal) / Furina (a very close second! i love fufu sm 🥹 furina de fontaine regina of all waters, kindreds, peoples, and law the androgynous queen you are)
ZZZ: I recently started playing ZZZ again lately but I still don't have a particular top fave at the moment!
dont talk to me about the hi3/hsr collab im still recovering seeing elysia and firefly in the same frame 🛐
#non-related sorter asks#asks#dont ask for my ships tho i might get bood off the stage. theyre not problematic or anything dw the loud ppl who ship them are just weirdge#but that can be said about basically all ships so lmao#between all of these i actually talk about gnsn the most on my personal accs (pensive) (im so sorry </3)
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hello!! i just wanna say thank you for making the sorter <3 you've put a lot of work into it and i really admire that🫶
oh!! thank you anon for the kind words ;w;
i hope you have good gacha luck
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favorite character
If you're wondering what your favorite characters are, do the neat sorter I made. Sending messages to the account isn't a secret password to access it (lol).
Now, if you're asking about my favorite characters.. well I did already answer that, but it changed since the last time I did it so here you go ✌️
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Favorite character
If you're asking about my favorite characters, I've already answered this and it hasn't changed since (lol).
If you're wondering what your favorite characters are, do the neat sorter I made (need to be in desktop view if you're on mobile). Sending messages to the account isn't a secret password to access it (lol).
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hi
hello 👋
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Hola
I do not know spanish but hello!
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Favorite character?
I've already answered this my guy.
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