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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
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/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. #nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Mods are no longer asleep; post insomnia jokes.
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Happy √10 Approximation Day!
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
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/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 28, 2026
Anyone got a specific brand of battery-powered lawn mower and love it? My twenty-year-old Enviromower is losing its strength and it might be time to replace it; spare parts are unobtainium. Battery power is non-negotiable.
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 21, 2026
I feel like we’ve been talking about Hammerbarn since forever, but it’s only been a coinage since S02E02 of Bluey, which was (looks it up) March 2020 … oh my god …
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 20, 2026
I know we’ve got a shitton of corporations naming themselves after the dystopian things in Lord of the Rings, but has anyone cut right to the chase and called their product “Omelas” yet?
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 18, 2026
Today’s fun English suffix is “-age”, a very flexible nounifier.
“-age” can be stuck on a verb to mean “the thing that is verbed”. Luggage, coverage, appendage, wreckage.
It can be stuck on a verb to mean “the place where verb happens”. Storage, carriage, anchorage.
It can be stuck on an adjective or even another noun to abstract the word’s core concept. Shortage, postage, percentage, roughage, leverage.
It can go on a concrete noun to refer to the noun’s quality collectively. Peerage, sewerage (all the pipes), footage (length of film), mileage.
Then there are words which look like they might have an “-age” suffix but it’s just a coincidence. Sausage, message, advantage.
#etymology #english #language
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 17, 2026
Now we just have to draw the rest of the year of the horse.
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 15, 2026
New song release!
I'm proud to announce the fourth track of Futzle: The Musical, "Don't Make Me Choose a Side". A belting Disney-princess showtune about rebelling against the world's with-us-or-against-us narrative.
Available for free streaming or download now on Faircamp: https://music.futzle.com/futzle-the-musical/ and Bandcamp: https://futzle.bandcamp.com/track/dont-make-me-choose-a-side and Bandwagon: https://bandwagon.fm/699137f7d5e340201df4b7ef
(CW lyrics: school sports; divorce; politics) (CW music: showtune; ridiculous sax solo; pizzicato strings; eight-second final note)
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Feb 01, 2026
My Mastodon filter for “US Pol” retains the chronological order that I add terms in. Reading the terms out loud sounds like new verses for “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Dec 14, 2025
✨ Your Social Anxiety Wrapped, 2025 Edition ✨
You avoided people 397 times this year (but to be fair December isn't over yet).
You relived an embarrassing moment from 30 years ago 6 times.
You forgot 13 people's names, or maybe 14, who knows?
You attended 1 parties this year, and left early for 1 of them.
It's been 76 seconds since you checked your phone.
15 people are looking at you RIGHT NOW.
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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Deborah Pickett
@futzle@old.mermaid.town
/ˈfʌtsl̩/, she/her. Rated PG [some adult themes]. Wurundjeri land aka Melbourne, Australia. Singer-songwriter; sysadmin; quilt tragic; cartography geek; synth nerd; queer elder. Once programmed a time zone library in Forth and an XSLT processor in XSLT. On Fediverse since 2018. BDFL of old.mermaid.town. # nobot
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