Laskald
@laskald.bsky.social
Writer, reader, blogger, amateur gamedev and occasional artist. No minors please.
Another year down, another collection of books read. Here's my rambling thoughts on what I liked and what I didn't.
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2025 Reading in Review
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January 19, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Another year down, another collection of books read. Here's my rambling thoughts on what I liked and what I didn't.
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
Am I just a perverted freak or does this have porn thumbnail energy?
This is the first time they made me slap a content warning on a video. Merry Christmas! nebula.tv/videos/linds...
Lindsay Ellis — The Macabre World of Bodycam YouTube
The American proliferation of body cams hasn’t netted us improved relations with the police, but at least it gave us a whole lot of content.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Am I just a perverted freak or does this have porn thumbnail energy?
Finally beat Lost Lace after only 2 hours somehow???
#Silksong 100% complete, I can rest at last.
Hilariously it was a poison cogfly that dealt the killing blow.
#Silksong 100% complete, I can rest at last.
Hilariously it was a poison cogfly that dealt the killing blow.
October 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Finally beat Lost Lace after only 2 hours somehow???
#Silksong 100% complete, I can rest at last.
Hilariously it was a poison cogfly that dealt the killing blow.
#Silksong 100% complete, I can rest at last.
Hilariously it was a poison cogfly that dealt the killing blow.
Time is a flat circle, welcome back Aki Ross.
October 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Time is a flat circle, welcome back Aki Ross.
New story on #Literotica!!
An angel leads his young friend on a forbidden mission to attempt to save one of the demons they are tasked with destroying. Only by the power of their love for each other can they hope to succeed in their task.
www.literotica.com/s/salvation-14
An angel leads his young friend on a forbidden mission to attempt to save one of the demons they are tasked with destroying. Only by the power of their love for each other can they hope to succeed in their task.
www.literotica.com/s/salvation-14
Salvation - Sci-Fi & Fantasy - Literotica.com
An angel leads his young friend in attempt to save a demon.
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September 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
New story on #Literotica!!
An angel leads his young friend on a forbidden mission to attempt to save one of the demons they are tasked with destroying. Only by the power of their love for each other can they hope to succeed in their task.
www.literotica.com/s/salvation-14
An angel leads his young friend on a forbidden mission to attempt to save one of the demons they are tasked with destroying. Only by the power of their love for each other can they hope to succeed in their task.
www.literotica.com/s/salvation-14
Big shout out to everyone who keeps choosing to follow me on #Literotica even though I haven't published anything in almost five years.
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Big shout out to everyone who keeps choosing to follow me on #Literotica even though I haven't published anything in almost five years.
New smut coming soon
September 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
New smut coming soon
I spent more time on Savage Beastfly than I did on the final boss. I also had way more fun with the final boss?? Crazy the difference a short walkup and no minions makes.
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I spent more time on Savage Beastfly than I did on the final boss. I also had way more fun with the final boss?? Crazy the difference a short walkup and no minions makes.
Silksong is good but I do wish it told you midair healing is an option.
I was 15 hours in and had beaten Widow before I found out from someone else that it was a thing.
Thinking of the very easy healing window I could have had in that fight if I'd known it was possible and fuming.
I was 15 hours in and had beaten Widow before I found out from someone else that it was a thing.
Thinking of the very easy healing window I could have had in that fight if I'd known it was possible and fuming.
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Silksong is good but I do wish it told you midair healing is an option.
I was 15 hours in and had beaten Widow before I found out from someone else that it was a thing.
Thinking of the very easy healing window I could have had in that fight if I'd known it was possible and fuming.
I was 15 hours in and had beaten Widow before I found out from someone else that it was a thing.
Thinking of the very easy healing window I could have had in that fight if I'd known it was possible and fuming.
This is a good piece on a thing that genuinely sucks, but also it's easily solved by doing what I do: get all your podcast recommendations from mentally ill trans women.
Of this entire 100+ show list I've heard of 7 of them and listened to 3. None of those are the top 3 mentioned here.
Of this entire 100+ show list I've heard of 7 of them and listened to 3. None of those are the top 3 mentioned here.
There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.
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The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector
This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This is a good piece on a thing that genuinely sucks, but also it's easily solved by doing what I do: get all your podcast recommendations from mentally ill trans women.
Of this entire 100+ show list I've heard of 7 of them and listened to 3. None of those are the top 3 mentioned here.
Of this entire 100+ show list I've heard of 7 of them and listened to 3. None of those are the top 3 mentioned here.
Okay another strike against A Murderous Yarn, despite containing a flood of Stanley Steamer Fun FactsTM, it completely fails to mention that Francis Edgar Stanley, one of the two brothers who invented it, was killed in a Stanley Steamer crash.
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An Autopsy of A Murderous Yarn
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August 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Okay another strike against A Murderous Yarn, despite containing a flood of Stanley Steamer Fun FactsTM, it completely fails to mention that Francis Edgar Stanley, one of the two brothers who invented it, was killed in a Stanley Steamer crash.
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The process was indeed easy, go do this if you can.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. This is our moment, let's get these people shut down.
Action for Australian folks:
register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website
Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...
Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website
Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...
Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
July 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The process was indeed easy, go do this if you can.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. This is our moment, let's get these people shut down.
Action for Australian folks:
register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website
Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...
Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website
Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...
Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
July 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. This is our moment, let's get these people shut down.
I encourage everyone to just go block this dipshit immediately, let him starve to death in a dark corner and he'll be forced to fuck off with nothing to show for it.
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I encourage everyone to just go block this dipshit immediately, let him starve to death in a dark corner and he'll be forced to fuck off with nothing to show for it.
TIL that "author" James Frey exists and is distinct from author James N. Frey. I've covered one of James N. Frey's books before (see below) and I can't express how upset I was for the couple of minutes I thought he'd pivoted to AI garbage.
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June 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
TIL that "author" James Frey exists and is distinct from author James N. Frey. I've covered one of James N. Frey's books before (see below) and I can't express how upset I was for the couple of minutes I thought he'd pivoted to AI garbage.
laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/The-Ar...
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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April 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If you have a minute to spare today ⬇️
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Entire podcasts were dedicated to the question of what JK Rowling has ever done that’s transphobic. She has openly been working toward this outcome for years.
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Entire podcasts were dedicated to the question of what JK Rowling has ever done that’s transphobic. She has openly been working toward this outcome for years.
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the labor of art is mostly invisible. what you don't see in a finished piece is all the hours of thought it required, all the little discoveries and surprises and tragedies of production. art IS the process. if you aren't interested in the process, then i don't really know why you want to be artist
April 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
the labor of art is mostly invisible. what you don't see in a finished piece is all the hours of thought it required, all the little discoveries and surprises and tragedies of production. art IS the process. if you aren't interested in the process, then i don't really know why you want to be artist
I want to give a big shout out to quotation marks, hugely underrated piece of punctuation.
Currently reading The Castle of Otranto and not appreciating that all the dialogue is just inline with the rest of the text with zero differentiation.
Currently reading The Castle of Otranto and not appreciating that all the dialogue is just inline with the rest of the text with zero differentiation.
March 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I want to give a big shout out to quotation marks, hugely underrated piece of punctuation.
Currently reading The Castle of Otranto and not appreciating that all the dialogue is just inline with the rest of the text with zero differentiation.
Currently reading The Castle of Otranto and not appreciating that all the dialogue is just inline with the rest of the text with zero differentiation.
As is tradition for this #blog, it's time for me to look back at what I've read and pick out my favourite #books of last year.
And also rip into a book I hated.
Check it out: laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/2024-R...
And also rip into a book I hated.
Check it out: laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/2024-R...
2024 Reading in Review
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January 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
As is tradition for this #blog, it's time for me to look back at what I've read and pick out my favourite #books of last year.
And also rip into a book I hated.
Check it out: laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/2024-R...
And also rip into a book I hated.
Check it out: laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/2024-R...
I am still thinking about Mr. The Plague skateboarding alongside a car in his fur coat because he is incapable of riding inside like a normal person.
Hackers is the perfect movie 10/10 no notes.
January 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I am still thinking about Mr. The Plague skateboarding alongside a car in his fur coat because he is incapable of riding inside like a normal person.
Hackers is the perfect movie 10/10 no notes.
January 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Hackers is the perfect movie 10/10 no notes.
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This book was so bad I had to do an investigation into it and the mystery genre in general to figure out how it could possibly suck so much. For your enjoyment, here are the results:
laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/An-Aut...
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An Autopsy of A Murderous Yarn
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November 17, 2024 at 12:59 AM
This book was so bad I had to do an investigation into it and the mystery genre in general to figure out how it could possibly suck so much. For your enjoyment, here are the results:
laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/An-Aut...
laskaldslibrary.neocities.org/posts/An-Aut...