marie connelly
@eyemadequiet.bsky.social
enjoying the woods in Maine. fond of handclaps, dahlias, whales, making ice cream, and oxford commas. product manager. regrettably full of opinions about content management systems.
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
Anker dock has hub
Today in Google is experimentally replacing our headlines with AI nonsense:
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Anker dock has hub
see this is what I’m saying. honestly might be listening to it on repeat through the end of the year at this point.
Don’t need an app to tell me it was the kind of year where I listened to “O-o-h Child” by the Five Stairsteps, conservatively, 125 times
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
see this is what I’m saying. honestly might be listening to it on repeat through the end of the year at this point.
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Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.
My sister is looking for tools to help with world building, organizing ideas, and keeping track of story threads for D&D and writing generally. I know nothing about this, but maybe some of y’all will? Do folks have preferences on any of the following: World Anvil, Scabard, Campfire, or Legendkeeper?
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My sister is looking for tools to help with world building, organizing ideas, and keeping track of story threads for D&D and writing generally. I know nothing about this, but maybe some of y’all will? Do folks have preferences on any of the following: World Anvil, Scabard, Campfire, or Legendkeeper?
friends, I could use some help making a playlist: give me your best songs for getting through hard times?
So far I’ve been thinking about songs like O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps and This Year by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, but my brain is stalling out trying to think of more.
So far I’ve been thinking about songs like O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps and This Year by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, but my brain is stalling out trying to think of more.
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
friends, I could use some help making a playlist: give me your best songs for getting through hard times?
So far I’ve been thinking about songs like O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps and This Year by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, but my brain is stalling out trying to think of more.
So far I’ve been thinking about songs like O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps and This Year by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, but my brain is stalling out trying to think of more.
Woke up to a sunny day, so I took the dog to the beach. We had to take a little rest in the parking lot, but in the end we both got to see the ocean.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Woke up to a sunny day, so I took the dog to the beach. We had to take a little rest in the parking lot, but in the end we both got to see the ocean.
I put a 90s playlist on in the car yesterday and man, “She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly” is a wild chorus to put in a song about your high school girlfriend getting an abortion. Sang it all the time, at the top of my lungs.
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I put a 90s playlist on in the car yesterday and man, “She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly” is a wild chorus to put in a song about your high school girlfriend getting an abortion. Sang it all the time, at the top of my lungs.
wait sorry, somehow I just learned the London Calling album cover was riffing on this Elvis album cover? sharing in case anyone else is in today’s lucky 10,000 on this.
The best version of a classic tune, hands down
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
YouTube video by MusicPresleyElvis
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November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
wait sorry, somehow I just learned the London Calling album cover was riffing on this Elvis album cover? sharing in case anyone else is in today’s lucky 10,000 on this.
In the span of four days, my dog has gone from not knowing that donut holes exist, to wondering how I could dare to offer her anything other than glazed blueberry.
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In the span of four days, my dog has gone from not knowing that donut holes exist, to wondering how I could dare to offer her anything other than glazed blueberry.
Abruptly the light has now stopped working at night 🙃
In what I think is a new development, the light in my mudroom simply will not go on during the daytime? After dark, lights up fine (but only when I flip the switch, not automatically), but will not go on during the daytime, regardless of switch flipping.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Abruptly the light has now stopped working at night 🙃
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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recipient and subject line fields should be below the body of the email, why is it not like this???
pro tip: when working on email drafts, just leave the subject blank - you’ll probably get an alert if you try to send it with no subject, but you won’t get an alert if you have placeholder words like “DRAFT:”
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
recipient and subject line fields should be below the body of the email, why is it not like this???
whole lotta people out here makin choices, I see.
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
whole lotta people out here makin choices, I see.
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I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
In what I think is a new development, the light in my mudroom simply will not go on during the daytime? After dark, lights up fine (but only when I flip the switch, not automatically), but will not go on during the daytime, regardless of switch flipping.
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
In what I think is a new development, the light in my mudroom simply will not go on during the daytime? After dark, lights up fine (but only when I flip the switch, not automatically), but will not go on during the daytime, regardless of switch flipping.
everything continues to happen so much, but here is a very good pup getting her saturday skritches
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
everything continues to happen so much, but here is a very good pup getting her saturday skritches
Years ago I was listening to a podcast and the guest said he thought that our grandchildren would be shocked that we slept and ate food, because they would simply take a pill for both. He was happy about this! To not “waste the time,” I guess?
Never related to a person less.
Never related to a person less.
I know culturally we like to brag about how little sleep we've had.
I've reached the age where I openly will text friends shit like "Slept 9 hours last night and slept so hard I didn't even get up to pee" like it's a crowning achievement, which it is.
I've reached the age where I openly will text friends shit like "Slept 9 hours last night and slept so hard I didn't even get up to pee" like it's a crowning achievement, which it is.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Years ago I was listening to a podcast and the guest said he thought that our grandchildren would be shocked that we slept and ate food, because they would simply take a pill for both. He was happy about this! To not “waste the time,” I guess?
Never related to a person less.
Never related to a person less.
once again having the intrusive thought that perhaps I should start a newsletter
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
once again having the intrusive thought that perhaps I should start a newsletter
An extra fun thing about my dog having cancer is that the guy I was seeing lives basically across the street from her vet, and now when I take her in for her miracle science clinical trial treatments, I get to think about how he broke up with me via text the week she had her leg amputated!
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
An extra fun thing about my dog having cancer is that the guy I was seeing lives basically across the street from her vet, and now when I take her in for her miracle science clinical trial treatments, I get to think about how he broke up with me via text the week she had her leg amputated!
I really cannot stress enough how unpleasant this is. Like having toddler jam hands but it’s a mix of peanut butter and wet dog food and kibble. But at least she finally ate all the kibble! Sitting on the couch like royalty being fed grapes.
My dog’s fun new post-amputation behavior is that while she is absolutely capable of eating from her bowl, she has also learned that if she holds out long enough, I will hand feed her out of desperation, and this, for some reason, is preferable.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I really cannot stress enough how unpleasant this is. Like having toddler jam hands but it’s a mix of peanut butter and wet dog food and kibble. But at least she finally ate all the kibble! Sitting on the couch like royalty being fed grapes.
My dog’s fun new post-amputation behavior is that while she is absolutely capable of eating from her bowl, she has also learned that if she holds out long enough, I will hand feed her out of desperation, and this, for some reason, is preferable.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My dog’s fun new post-amputation behavior is that while she is absolutely capable of eating from her bowl, she has also learned that if she holds out long enough, I will hand feed her out of desperation, and this, for some reason, is preferable.
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hello i wrote a blog post about getting laid off last halloween, four days before i was supposed to return to work from maternity leave
I lived bitch: A year in review
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October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
hello i wrote a blog post about getting laid off last halloween, four days before i was supposed to return to work from maternity leave
my dog got into a clinical trial where they’re going to make a vaccine out of her bone tumor so her body hopefully learns how to fight her cancer???
What’s the highlight of your week so far?
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
my dog got into a clinical trial where they’re going to make a vaccine out of her bone tumor so her body hopefully learns how to fight her cancer???