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SpecsChic: show me your cats!
@specschic.bsky.social
Specs & cats fan. Swears a lot. Typos - nearly always. Puns likely. In Ōtautahi/Christchurch, AoNZ. Turns out I'm neuro-spicy. Woke as. Views my own, not representative of my employer.
She/her.
TERFS, racists, ableists, & misogynists can fuck right off!
Pinned
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.

Hi I'm Plug-in Air Freshener Induced Asthma attack, later known as
Influenza Induced Asthma attack, and most recently I've been known as Thyroid Storm.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you.

Let me introduce you to Africa.

Fell off multiple bridges.
Unknown illness while crossing the Sahara, lost 10kg.
Icy downhill roads in Turkey.
Bad dose of malaria.
Avoided being shot in Angola, Niger and Uganda.
etc, etc.
Introduce myself with what almost killed you...

Fuck, where do I start. Car crashes? Asthma attacks? Drug overdoses? Smashing my head open on 1970s playground equipment?

I think "playing silly buggers on a tractor-trailer piled with hay as it crossed a train-track on a gravel road" might be it.
January 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM
There's a fucking goat in the year!
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Puzzle #936
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“Home is where the hearth is”
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January 1, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Playing solitaire just to deal something.
Making gravy just to congeal something
Getting into late 90s sitcoms about wistfully optimistic young lawyers in Boston just to Ally McBeal something
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Wordle 1,657 3/6
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Puzzle #935
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“Not your average joe”
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December 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Puzzle #934
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Strands #668
“One good turn deserves another”
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December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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NOW free to read in full: 31 Notes I Had Made In My Notebooks About My Dad.
www.tom-cox.com/31-notes-i-h...
31 NOTES I HAVE MADE ABOUT MY DAD IN MY NOTEBOOK
Today's post is free but on the off chance you'd like to support my writing you can do so here, at a price of your choice from £20 per year (this will also give you access to everything new I post, an...
www.tom-cox.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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These teddies have seen your Incognito browser.
And they are DISGUSTED.

Simpson's Catalogue, Fall and Winter 1918-19.
Toronto Public Library, ref ARCTC 658.871 S38.
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Every now and then I pop over to the Kikorangi feed, on case I've missed something from AoNZ posts but soon find a load of weird news scrapers and ads selling crap like fruity vape solutions.
At least I can block, block, blockity block.
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Strands #667
“2025 Top Twenty”
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December 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is a cogent, detailed and passionate demolition of generative and LLM AI in writing and publishing. It applies to other creative endeavours and industries, like design.
I urge you to share it and start real conversations about AI, instead of blindly using it “because everyone else is.”
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.

Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
terribleminds.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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If you have ever posted, or liked, anything objecting to AI slop or supporting the idea that misinformation is bad, please don't spread the coat story.
And if you do want to donate to a school for its students, I suggest talking to the school, not abandoning goods of unknown provenance nearby.
oldest version I've found so far. This facebook page is NOTHING but AI-written stories with AI images
December 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Puzzle #932
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Strands #666
“Are you putting me on?”
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December 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The aptly named Dubh Loch - Black Loch - hidden up in the Fisherfield mountains in Wester Ross, a long walk in to visit, north west Highlands of Scotland
#fisherfield #highlands #scotland #northwest #remote #lochs #mountains #landscapes #photography
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I want to do something positive to end what’s been a shit year. Change up the vibe etc.

*lucky dip artwork*

For $25 incl p&p I’ll send you a piece of art, many matted, no bigger than A4. Mixed media, mainly semi abstract landscape, signed. NZ only.

DM me to order.
Reposts appreciated.
December 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
For some no brain required telly we watch Escape to the Country while having lunch on the weekends. When a particular wooden floor style is shown, I can't help but say "Ooh look Sandy, a parquet floor".* Finally shared origin with SpecsChap 😁

youtu.be/-xKYNvI_LbY?...

*often repeated in our family
JULIAN & SANDY - Rentachap
YouTube video by twinnedwitherlangen
youtu.be
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Puzzle #931
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Strands #665
“Load up on tissues”
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December 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Strands #664
“If you ask me ...”
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December 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Rewatching Shrek for the umpteenth time. How come we never ever, in any previous viewing, noticed that Donkey puts out the campfire by pissing on it?!
WTF!
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Make a Bond movie casual

Bingo Hall Royale
Make a Bond movie casual

The guy who loved me
Make a Bond movie casual

Topaz Are Kind of Durable
December 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Puzzle #929
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Strands #663
“Please hold”
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December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Public Info Announcement:
Wham! Last Christmas Unwrapped doco is on TVNZ+
#Whamageddon is over, safe to watch.
December 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Explain your username

I have worn specs since before I started school. They are part of my life, and nowadays I can afford fancier, more chic, frames. So chic in style, but also can be said as Specs Chick.
I might add, that I am in general unfashionable but do love interesting, fun and pretty specs
December 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Lunch today served with a variety of crackers, and some fruit for afters, was baked brie en croûte. First time trying to make it, so the top was not too tidy, but it worked as desired.
December 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Strands #662
“Caroler's count”
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December 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM