🎄ChristmasCroissant🎄
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They/Them. Content Writer. Tech Gworl.
I love all forms of print and digital media and analyzing them, too.
I love all forms of print and digital media and analyzing them, too.
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Come along with me, friends, as I go on a journey through folk horror reads this 2025.
I'll keep track of my reads and snippet reviews in the thread 🧵 below.
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I'll keep track of my reads and snippet reviews in the thread 🧵 below.
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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Beth and Rip carried that damn show. It’s also why Stack and Mary worked. They are equally yoked in their nonsense and they followed each other into a damned mortality.
One thing I love about Rip from Yellowstone is that not only is he a bad man, he's a bad man with a deep, sincere, genuinely loving attachment to a terrible woman. These characters aren't morally grey, they're just awful people, but I enjoy watching their relationship.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Beth and Rip carried that damn show. It’s also why Stack and Mary worked. They are equally yoked in their nonsense and they followed each other into a damned mortality.
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This also extends to window shopping. No one knows the stores in their town anymore (quick, name a place you can get a belt or an electric mixer from that isn’t a big box store)
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This also extends to window shopping. No one knows the stores in their town anymore (quick, name a place you can get a belt or an electric mixer from that isn’t a big box store)
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
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The holiday bundle is back!
Get WRAPPED + A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS for 25% off!
Sale ends Dec 26! 🎄♥️
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#romancelandia #booksky #blackbooksky
Get WRAPPED + A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS for 25% off!
Sale ends Dec 26! 🎄♥️
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#romancelandia #booksky #blackbooksky
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The holiday bundle is back!
Get WRAPPED + A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS for 25% off!
Sale ends Dec 26! 🎄♥️
payhip.com/BacklistB...
#romancelandia #booksky #blackbooksky
Get WRAPPED + A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS for 25% off!
Sale ends Dec 26! 🎄♥️
payhip.com/BacklistB...
#romancelandia #booksky #blackbooksky
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A YEAR AGO TODAY 🔥 Still one of my favorite edits I’ve done 😂
#kendricklamar #animalcrossing #blacksky #blerdsky #blerds #viral #blackskygamers #tvoff #gnx #mustard
#kendricklamar #animalcrossing #blacksky #blerdsky #blerds #viral #blackskygamers #tvoff #gnx #mustard
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A YEAR AGO TODAY 🔥 Still one of my favorite edits I’ve done 😂
#kendricklamar #animalcrossing #blacksky #blerdsky #blerds #viral #blackskygamers #tvoff #gnx #mustard
#kendricklamar #animalcrossing #blacksky #blerdsky #blerds #viral #blackskygamers #tvoff #gnx #mustard
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Mafia/gang stories exist within the framework of a politically corrupt system. So bad man behavior can often times be restorative street justice. But notice how in those communities if done right, actual abusers are punished. I need yall to read Demon’s Dream which actually nails this.
I genuinely wonder if some of these authors have even watched The Godfather or Casino, listened to a podcast, anything. So many of the mob guys that are still around have YouTube channels lololol
Sometimes I think about how violent, sex negative, and weirdly vanilla dark romance is. I also wish I could explain proper gang/mafia related codes of ethics vs an MMC who is just violent and emotionally abusive. Loving a bad man is different than he’s not bad because I love him.
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Mafia/gang stories exist within the framework of a politically corrupt system. So bad man behavior can often times be restorative street justice. But notice how in those communities if done right, actual abusers are punished. I need yall to read Demon’s Dream which actually nails this.
If anyone asks me why a lotnof dark romances give me the ick, imma point to this thread.
Sometimes I think about how violent, sex negative, and weirdly vanilla dark romance is. I also wish I could explain proper gang/mafia related codes of ethics vs an MMC who is just violent and emotionally abusive. Loving a bad man is different than he’s not bad because I love him.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If anyone asks me why a lotnof dark romances give me the ick, imma point to this thread.
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This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
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1/ There are a few must-shoot targets for every astrophotographer and for the majority of us Andromeda is the first one we cut our teeth on, often following some random tutorial we stumbled across online. In my case it was literally my baptism into deep-sky imaging in 2021...⬇️
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#Astrophotography
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November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
1/ There are a few must-shoot targets for every astrophotographer and for the majority of us Andromeda is the first one we cut our teeth on, often following some random tutorial we stumbled across online. In my case it was literally my baptism into deep-sky imaging in 2021...⬇️
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#Astrophotography
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#Astrophotography
This entire thread is so sobering and just breaks my heart as a former TA and academic.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This entire thread is so sobering and just breaks my heart as a former TA and academic.
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Me listening to this audiobook of The Child Thief by Brom 💙📚
This been popping off from minute 1 and I'm only 2 hours into this nearly 20 hour audiobook.
This been popping off from minute 1 and I'm only 2 hours into this nearly 20 hour audiobook.
a close up of a woman 's face with the words killing eye on the bottom right
Alt: a close up of a woman 's face with the words killing eye on the bottom right, running her hands through her hair and then to cover her face in concern
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November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Me listening to this audiobook of The Child Thief by Brom 💙📚
This been popping off from minute 1 and I'm only 2 hours into this nearly 20 hour audiobook.
This been popping off from minute 1 and I'm only 2 hours into this nearly 20 hour audiobook.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Small town romantic suspense with a BDSM chaser. Check out my Beards & Bondage trilogy today!
😈 print: www.therippedbodice....
😈 e: amzn.to/48lbAfm
😈 audio: www.chirpbooks.com/a...
#booksky #romancelandia #blacksky
😈 print: www.therippedbodice....
😈 e: amzn.to/48lbAfm
😈 audio: www.chirpbooks.com/a...
#booksky #romancelandia #blacksky
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Small town romantic suspense with a BDSM chaser. Check out my Beards & Bondage trilogy today!
😈 print: www.therippedbodice....
😈 e: amzn.to/48lbAfm
😈 audio: www.chirpbooks.com/a...
#booksky #romancelandia #blacksky
😈 print: www.therippedbodice....
😈 e: amzn.to/48lbAfm
😈 audio: www.chirpbooks.com/a...
#booksky #romancelandia #blacksky
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My black friday sale is now live! Now is the time for a big sharky! The secret shop full of enamel pins is also open for a limited time~ Use the code BF2025 for 20% off your order 💃🕺
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
My black friday sale is now live! Now is the time for a big sharky! The secret shop full of enamel pins is also open for a limited time~ Use the code BF2025 for 20% off your order 💃🕺
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Just my yearly reminder friends. Be kind to us retail workers. Sh**ts about to get real and we’re already VERY tired.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Just my yearly reminder friends. Be kind to us retail workers. Sh**ts about to get real and we’re already VERY tired.
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