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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 26d
As we count down to Christmas, here's a #GiveAway

I will write a custom micro fiction, for the winner (with them as the main character in it)

How to go about it? Just make sure you follow me and repost this post

Winner will be drawn on the 26/12/2025

#WriterSky #BookSky #ReaderSky #AmWriting
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shazzoir.bsky.social
I swear you can't make this shit up.

Read the thread, it's solid gold.
www.reddit.com/r/AusLegal/c...
December 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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calligator.bsky.social
In my extremely humble - but elaborately reasoned, extensively researched, and exhaustively fact-checked! - opinion, people who *have* money should offer to *give me* some of that money.

Humbly suggested and demurely requested, of course.
December 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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kaurifish.bsky.social
If you haven't yet read Kipling's paean to Jane Austen, please do.
Makes me cry, every time.
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_j...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social
Welcome to #QueerWritersChat!

To start things off, introduce yourself and tell us what you're working on! Feel free to mention how the prose is going! No links, please!

Next question at :10!

@amaralynn.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers #prose
#QueerWritersChat Question One: Introduce yourself and your current project Hosts: @amaralynn and @theodoresnapdragon Every Friday 8pm EST All LGBTQIAP writers and allies welcome Background: gray wood with multicolor art supplies around the border.
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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janelleshane.com
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
daviddlevine.com David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
lucidillusions.in
Came across this while on my way home, and only had the phone to shoot with, I think it's a spider having a meal, but not detailed enough for me to try and find the genus/species.

#InverteFest #Spood
A brown bodied spider on a white wall, and it appears to be latched on to something else under its head.
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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stonestories.bsky.social
QUESTION: There seems to be a LOT of debate on Reddit about which website platform is best for author profiles and self-publishing. Shopfiy vs Squarespace vs Wordpress etc etc. Which platform do you use and why?

#AmWritingMemoir #BookSky #WritingCommunity
December 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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bossett.social
they conspirin'
two juvenile black swans, it appears as though one is listening as the other whispers to it
December 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
Reminder that if you’re looking for indie books to check out, I’ve got a handy masterlist of my book reviews with genres included!

Indie book reviews: rebeccacrunden.com/indie-book-r...

All blog reviews: rebeccacrunden.com/book-reviews/

📚💙
Book Reviews
Below is a list of the book reviews I’ve posted to this blog, broken up by the year the book was published, rather than by the year I published my review (and then further broken up alphabeti…
rebeccacrunden.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
Happy Boxing Day!

Hope you had a great Christmas if you’re celebrating and are enjoying your vacation otherwise. This is a little sneak peek of a new print I made recently of an alfalfa leaf cutter in the act of cutting its telltale half-moon cut in a leaf. 🧪🧵 #Invertefest I made a collection of 🧵
My linocut print shows a section of leaf with an alfalfa leaf cutter bee in the act of cutting its telltale half-moon shape. The leaf is a pale green with dark green veins and patterns and much paler obverse site. The bee is black and pale yellow. My print is on cream coloured Japanese paper.
December 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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bossett.social
this is the ugliest duckling I've ever seen
a baby black swan climbing a bank out of the water
December 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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lucidillusions.in
Last week has been crazy busy, so this week's #FlashFictionFriday is down to the length of a drabble.

www.patreon.com/posts/cattyw...

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky #ReaderSky
Cattywampus (a drabble) | Lucid Illusions
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December 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
lucidillusions.in
not sure if it's funny or sad, but (decently big) production houses outsource a lot of their social media content creation for say reels to someone who will do it cheaply, but they don't want to announce that they are not creating these things in house.

(i know why it makes sense)
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
'Merry Christmas.Today I'm making an urgent appeal for my kids. They have no shelter; the rain and wind have torn down our tent. I'm pleading with you for $150 before it's too late. They are freezing and getting sick.
Please help us urgently
Vetted
@mommunism.bsky.social'
December 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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avani.bsky.social
Make a Bond movie academic:

Dr. No: Reviewer #2
alexsaysstuff.bsky.social Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13h
Make a Bond movie academic

Quantitative Methods of Solace
eve.gd Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 21h
Make a Bond movie academic

Live and Let Cite
December 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
lucidillusions.in
There's a site-wide discount on @inprnt.com #store, and you can pick some of my art prints/stickers at a discounted rate (25%)

www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci...

#BSNM #Deal #Prints #SciArt #Birds #DigitalArt #Spider #nudibranch #Invertebrate #ShamelessSelfpromo
Screen grab of my inprnt store, you can see a 3x3 grid of different artworks, and a bird photograph... mostly digital work visible in the screenshot. The left column shows different products available: Art Prints Photographic Prints Posters Mini Prints Framed Prints Canvas Prints Acrylic Prints Metal Prints Card Packs Stickers Art Cards
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
lucidillusions.in
Last few days of the Smashwords End of Year Sale. (link in quoted post)

if you like using @itch.io, there's a sale on there as well: lucidillusions.itch.io/forgotten-al...

and if you have #KoboPlus: you can read it for free: www.kobo.com/in/en/ebook/...

#BookSky #BSNM #Sale
December 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
Boxing Day sale- These are normally $450(Cdn) each- on sale this weekend for $300(Cdn) each (+shipping). Titles & descriptions in alt-text. DM if interested. #art #sciart #invertebrates
"Alit (Rocky Mountain High)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025- $450 (Cdn). A map of the Rocky Mountains along the border of BC & Alberta, Canada covered with 5 painted butterflies & 5 caterpillars. One butterfly, an orange, brown, black & white Painted Lady, sits in the top left corner, beside it is a grey, black & orange Rocky Mountain Parnassian, lower to the right is an orange & black Monarch & the Mourning Cloak, purple & brown with blue spots & a white fringe. At the bottom facing down is a buttery yellow & black Western Tiger Swallowtail. "Plague (Beginning of the End)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025 - $450 (Cdn). A map of the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border on which is a painting of 9 grasshoppers walking up from the bottom of the map. There are a number of different types ranging in colours of green to browns & oranges.
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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brainchain.ca
This is one of the other Christmas presents I’m really enjoying.
A hand holding the journals of Sylvia +1950 to 1962. Edited by karen V. Kukil. The front shows Sylvia Plath in a dress and a bandana writing in a notebook on a stone fence. The photo is black and white behind the book their presence and pillows and a paw of a bluetick coonhound.
December 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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aba.org
As the 2026 Bird of the Year reveal approaches, let's not forget to celebrate the 2025 Bird of the Year, the Common Loon!

Did you encounter a Common Loon this year?
Common Loon, by BN Singh
December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu
Luckily ram is very cheap these days ... oh wait
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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aimeecozza.com
I know that usually if you hang around long enough you "get it" eventually, but here's some quick explainers about different types of posts going around for art. A lot of new people reply to art trains or halt the train by not copying text, so here's the difference!
Art train vs art share for now Bluesky users with visual aids. The left has an "art train" post that says "You are “putting a train car” on the train. Do not reply. Instead, use the quote repost to keep the train moving! Copy the last person’s text." The center reads "You are “putting a train car” on the train. Do not reply. Instead, use the quote repost to keep the train moving! Copy the last person’s text. TAG SOMEONE if the train calls for it or else you will end the train! “Tag yourself if you want” won’t cut it." the last reads "You are sharing your art. Following the rules of the art share (read them all!), reply with your art and comment/repost other’s art." It gives notes in the posts as well such as noting similar text for the art train, and then the specific set of rules for an art train with tags and art share.
January 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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jeffzwarren.bsky.social
Why did we stop at "spaghetti westerns?" Why not hamburger ninja, curry romance, or feijoada noir?
Horrorchata movies are my favorite! They always cast the most beautiful women!! 😍
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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conorvoice.com
TBF I think Hamburger Ninja was absolutely a thing, starring Dudikoff, Harrison etc
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ambaazaad.bsky.social
I do think Jainism is the PETA of religions.
Brahminnical bullshittery owes more to aping rich Jains than Buddhists.
scroll.in Scroll @scroll.in · 17h
#Backstory2025 | While covering the story, I noticed an odd world of human behaviour. Near these kabutarkhanas, many beggars squatted, some in desperate need of food and clothes. But they were ignored by the pigeon feeders. scroll.in/article/1089...

Tabassum Barnagarwala writes
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM