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@cremevax@infosec.exchange Success! I had to say, “no, I want only the mFLUSIVA flu shot,” since that wasn’t one of the options the pharmacy person offered, and then the PhP went and looked and lo, it was in the back behind stuff!
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@Fpccraig@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Tech-adjacent. Enjoyer of beautifully assembled words. Infrequent reviewer of media.
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@cremevax@infosec.exchange mFLUSIVA is now showing at products.modernatx.com as available at Seattle CVS locations, but their scheduling doesn’t let you pick your flu vaccine flavor, so I guess I’ll find out in real time.
Had no idea on Purple and still only recognize two of the words. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1043
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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 209
Purple by elimination, but got there after a bit. Was rightly uncertain about Green/Blue and somehow imagined the complete lack of ambiguity in half the words would knock Blue down. Utterly missed the apian dead-end. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1055
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Skill 97/99
Uniqueness 1 in 193
Straight ahead, though “yore” and “your” are homophones only for a small subset of accents. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1054
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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 92
My notion of ambiguity failed for Yellow/Green, but at least I got the Purple/Blue coinflip right (despite seeing Purple first). No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1053
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Skill 98/99
Uniqueness 1 in 211
Ambiguity failed on Yellow/Green, but principles would have worked. Did not get Blue, so was glad I wasn’t just wrong. Notepad, which immediately gave me Purple (and the last Blue, but I still looked at the card mislead, despite “bid” not belonging).
#Connections
Puzzle #1052
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Skill 98/99
Uniqueness 1 in 240
Glad I eventually figured Purple out, as I would not have otherwise put Tarantino in a class with the others. Yellow was extremely weak, and Blue was in no way “tricky”. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1051
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Skill 97/99
Uniqueness 1 in 253
Pleasantly surprised to have matched their color mapping. Ironically failed to clock the observant mislead. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1050
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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 122
Missed “hurly-burly” when double-checking for better Purple choices, not least because I already had it misfiled in Green. Sloppy. Appalled that Blue was Blue. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1049
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Skill 90/99
Uniqueness 1 in 34,483
Green by elimination (but then understood), so tried it second despite Blue (which I think I saw second after Yellow) feeling bluer. No notepad, but it likely would have helped.
#Connections
Puzzle #1048
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Skill 97/99
Uniqueness 1 in 232
Annoyed they didn’t put the mnemonic words in order on the solution screen. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1047
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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 84
Blue by elimination, and danced around the category but never quite got there (“herb” failed to click—and that’s also very US-centric). (Lack of) Ambiguity aside, Yellow could have been Blue on another day. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1046
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Skill 98/99
Uniqueness 1 in 193
Lost the Green/Yellow coinflip, imagining having the same initial letter would mean less “tricky.” No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1045
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Skill 98/99
Uniqueness 1 in 163
Purple by elimination but identified the connection promptly. Classic color mapping. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1044
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Skill 99/99
Uniqueness 1 in 111
Dead common, though less common then the reverse rainbow. Glad I was wrong about Green being Blue, as it is an extremely lazy collection. Immediately saw the comical mislead, but then saw Purple. No notepad.
#Connections
Puzzle #1042
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Skill 97/99
Uniqueness 1 in 27
Replying to
@Xibanya@mastodon.xyz I’m not the first in the replies/quotes to hear “You’re one of the good ones” echoing through history. Chilling and enraging.
@scalzi Gotta love that Ellen Datlow is still out there collecting.
Replying to
@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social A tradition jwz has kept alive (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/04/signal-3/ for recent example).
Moms dot gov will undoubtedly be a perfectly normal and helpful site. No address records yet.
Beautiful goal, and full marks for Nouhou’s recovery run with a sweet takeaway instead of the yellow I was expecting.
#SEAvSTL