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kjhealy.co
A Thousand Scratcheaus
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
CHARLIE BROWN: The deal agreed upon today contains major concessions. Lucy, for example, has agreed to give me two attempts at kicking the football tomorrow. But to me? What matters most is that I can at last continue with my important work on the pitcher's mound
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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zhandlen.bsky.social
as a man whose spent his entire professional life in libraries, i can confirm this. it rules.
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Nov 6
the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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astrokatie.com
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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thebhp.bsky.social
Fun fact about the Rapture….

It wasn’t a thing until 1827, when John Nelson Darby got into a horse riding accident and suddenly he had an idea.

So a bunch of people are really excited about an idea a guy had 198 years ago when he basically got into a fender bender.
September 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
allenshull.bsky.social
My friends, I implore you.

You don’t have to post about everything.
September 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I think society really fell when people started to pretend posting was work instead of what lazy people did
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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coldbloodinc.studio
You’ll grow things. You’ll lose things.
You’ll become something you don’t recognize.
Neverway trailer is out. Wishlist now on Steam
April 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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mmaarrow.bsky.social
Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
allenshull.bsky.social
#Kraftwerk show in #Memphis!!! I could barely sleep last night; never seen them before!
March 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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patmakesrpgs.bsky.social
Chrono Trigger, or as I call it, "Narrative Design: The Game" came out 30 years ago. Whew.

My book on the game was originally published 12.5 years ago. It is my most popular book, by far. People mostly say they use it to help build their D&D campaigns. www.routledge.com/Reverse-Desi...
Reverse Design: Chrono Trigger
The Reverse Design series looks at all of the design decisions that went into classic video games. This is the second installment in the Reverse Design series, looking at Chrono Trigger. Written in a ...
www.routledge.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?

Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
allenshull.bsky.social
I inherited these versions from my dad, and they’re lovely!
bearlylupe.bsky.social Dan Lupe 💚📚 @bearlylupe.bsky.social · Feb 11
I think this is some of the coolest book mail that I've ever gotten. This is the original cover and the 6th printing from 1977. Paid $20 for the lot 💙📚🪐
February 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
allenshull.bsky.social
Of course I get sick after a really productive weekend. Still, ONWARD!
Screenshot from Tally app: Dissertation Introduction: 29 Ch. 1: 17 Ch. 2: 54 Ch. 4: 4 Ch. 5: 2 Ch. 6: 1
February 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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standardebooks.org
NEW RELEASE!

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy -in which a man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up over a century later in a socialist utopia. #satire #ebook #sciencefiction

Find a CC0 copy here:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edward-bellamy/looking-backward
January 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
allenshull.bsky.social
I did a thing: standardebooks.org/ebooks/edwar...
Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy - Free ebook download
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Looking Backward: A man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up over a century later in a socialist utopia.
standardebooks.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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thebhp.bsky.social
This is outstanding and you should all play it.

It’s short, and it is a primer for why being cooperative (not nice, but cooperative) defeats even the most hardened norm violating cheater movements.

We got this. We just have to keep being ourselves.

Now play this link.
The Evolution of Trust
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
ncase.me
January 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM