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 Wikipedia has a list of known works by Hieronymus Bosch. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Hieronymus_Bosch

KNOWN works.

Bosch has been dead for 508 years, and the hundreds of scholars that study his work are still discovering previously unknown works.

I have zero hope of actually completing the list of stuff I've written (https://mwl.io/book-index). None. Zip. Zilch. #writing 
 A new #60SecondsOfWIP is out! "Skip Off The Heliosphere."

https://mwl.io/archives/23849 
 Halloumi is three years old. That's ancient for #petrats. He gets pain meds twice a day, comes out to play twice a day, and naps much of the rest of the time. He still jumps around like a madman and leaps into his basket, though.

My poor decrepit goober has a bunch of health problems, so we're keeping him comfy. #rats

https://sb-z7t2ukmxv5.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/113/323/598/890/808/760/original/018563c2b5f20288.jpg 
 nostr:npub13n409lc4d9w06xuqurrkkh4mtdzc2afc5m07tkkc26u7p2lcq04qkh3h2h Sigh. I say that the patron... 
 @a5570af3 you have free will. Up to you. 
 Today's #60secondsofWIP is out: "Isolated But Not Alone."

https://mwl.io/archives/23822

There's no way this thing is gonna work but screw it, I'm writing it anyway. 
 New blog post: #Vultr just betrayed us.

https://mwl.io/archives/23498

I've recommended them for years. Will be moving off immediately. #sysadmin  

No, not a joke. 
 hello, Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37678714

Welcome to my little rant about PF in FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

https://mwl.io/archives/23127

Good news is, with the improvements I did to wordpress, my server didn't even notice the thundering herd. :flan_trophy: 
 Fine. @c5e1e443 says I should shill my work, so I'll mention my most obscure novel.

Imagine John Carpenter's "The Thing," but after we lose.

https://mwl.io/fiction/sf#ic1

Why is it obscure? Because, I'm proud to say, it doesn't flinch. 
 :flan_guitar: :flan_drummer: "Ich bin ein Mouselander! Ich bin ein Mouselander! Ich bin ein Mouse-lan-derrrrr!" :flan_bassist: :flan_headbang: 

Doolan has only the one lyric, but he's very fond of it. #rats  #petRats #ratSongs

https://sb-z7t2ukmxv5.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/081/692/626/834/144/original/631902161005e1d3.jpg 
 She Who Must Be Obeyed's employer issued her a managed laptop for work. They make heavy use of fillable PDFs.

Last week, IT disabled filling out fillable PDFs without notice. 
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 @053f521c @9cf27ca4 

I keep saying: this is the greatest time in history to be a creator. If I had access to today's tools twenty or thirty years ago, my life would have been wholly different. 
 Submitted for the approval of all my horror writer friends: @9cf27ca4 's three magnificent tomes, fresh through the mail.

It's enough to make me wish I wrote horror, so I could dream of being included one day. :flan_XD: 

And the library stamps! Great minds think alike, and apparently... so do ours? (cough) https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#networknomicon (cough)

Next goal: get my various friends to sign their stories! You know who you are...

https://sb-z7t2ukmxv5.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/071/714/334/806/181/original/bd05c5df13de3b97.jpeg 
 Me reading something on camera, adds pretty front and end image, adds to youtube, gets 59 views: hey, cool.

Uploading video of pet rats eating and get 33,249 views: hey, what the hell 
 The college where She Who Must Be Obeyed teaches is inching towards a strike.

Our home's going on financial lockdown, aka "yellow alert."

Which means I should probably post something about "here's my book about being a pro creator, and it includes how we're going to weather this headache."

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/biz-craft#c4c 
 Today is the 51st anniversary of the famous essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase It’s Profits.”

To celebrate, I’d like to say: Fuck you, Milton Friedman. Fuck you very much. 
 "I can't feel my face" is either a good hit of cocaine, or a fierce night at the dojo. Take your guess which I had. 
 nostr:npub13n409lc4d9w06xuqurrkkh4mtdzc2afc5m07tkkc26u7p2lcq04qkh3h2h Ahh, okay I figured as much... 
 @053f521c oh, redact doesn't use the API. It clicks for you, walking your account like a bot. 
 nostr:npub13n409lc4d9w06xuqurrkkh4mtdzc2afc5m07tkkc26u7p2lcq04qkh3h2h How was your experience usi... 
 @053f521c It took care of a whole bunch of stuff.

It did leave a few replies to other people's comment, but when I went in manually I wasn't able to delete them either, so not redact's fault. 
 Almost 200 new followers in the last week? Huh.

Let's break the ice. Who are all you newcomers, and what brings you to my account? 
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The fastest way to lose 15 pounds is a week in France, eating like a shopvac. 
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 @32d3aa2a Left right after it got bought.

It's a shock at first, but life is much better without it.

IMHO, they don't deserve rat pictures. But you do you, of course. 
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 @b059a0ff right, I'd heard the unlisted thing before. Hang on, finding the button for that... 
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 @c82221d6 @a5570af3 

:flan_facepalm: 

Some people can't be helped. 
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 @74b235cf Doc says "huh. that's odd." 
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It ended about 30 minutes in, sorry. The discussion was over.

This morning was much more active, I think folks were very tired tonight.