Sometimes fey knights so catastrophically fail to uphold an oath their unsettled spirit lingers after death. Unable to rest, the brume is an ethereal creature of fallen leaves and other forest debris. When actively interacting with the world the brume forms itself into a silhouette of its former body. The conglomerate wields a blade made out of necrotic-tainted gorse that mars the wounded with a carpet of blinding thorns.

https://boxofteeth.blogspot.com/2020/05/brume.html

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Today's #dnd craft day includes pouring #resin for the #underDark #terrain and building out some verticality with platforms and stairs

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#MastodonNews Dec 28, 2022

Seems not everybody is willing to sell out to evil billionaires.

Financial Times: Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to protect non-profit status >>>
https://t.co/TXNmtIPV3O

Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley firms... The platform’s non-profit status was “untouchable”... Mastodon will not turn into everything you hate about Twitter.

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A full rotation of the Moon in high resolution created from photos captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200719.html

Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the many machines' fans and motors gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead silence except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L