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Shannon Kay
@shannonkay.com
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Early Millennial from California.
🩷 Mom of 3
📚Books. ☕️Coffee. Tech enthusiast.
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · Mar 8
Reminder: You can verify yourself by using your domain name as your username. You can also use subdomains!

I wrote a guide explaining how to get your Bluesky domain handle that I'm hoping will help some people.
www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/doma...
Bluesky Domain Handles: How do I change my Bluesky username to my domain name?
There are two different ways to get your domain name ready to use as a Bluesky handle. The DNS Panel method requires you to change DNS settings for your domain, so you'll need to have access to your d...
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PSA: Your child's advent calendar might have the numbers 6 and 7 on it. They might even be next to each other. Proceed with caution.
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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dianabutlerbass.bsky.social
My gift giving guide?

Give to the poor, the outcast, and the hungry.

Give presents to your friends and family with thoughtfulness and love. Maybe even make them.

Give yourself to the possibility of "peace on earth" and "goodwill toward all."
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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instantsunrise.bsky.social
For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
November 25, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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I strongly dislike reality TV, but I enjoy sci-fi and dystopian novels with reality TV themes. Perhaps it's because reality TV is already dystopian in nature.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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marklemley.bsky.social
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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katemessner.com
This is my annual gentle suggestion to please stop teaching kids made-up stories about Thanksgiving and share actual (fascinating!) history instead. In case you need ideas... bookshop.org/p/books/hist...
History Smashers: The Mayflower
Check out History Smashers: The Mayflower - <b>Myths! Lies! Secrets! Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth. Perfect for fans of I Survived and Nathan Hale's Ha...
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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perryodontal.bsky.social
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This game was amazing. It was like really walking around the Titanic!

I'm pretty sure I still have the ISOs from my original CD-ROMs of this game.
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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dennisbhooper.bsky.social
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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katemessner.com
Was reminded today that one can no longer say, "I did at least six or seven total rewrites on this book" at a school visit. Tomorrow I'll tell the kids I did somewhere between five and eight revisions. 🤪
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."
www.pbs.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Some of my favorite TLDs are going up in price at every registrar on October 6.
This includes domain extensions like .coffee and .pink and .cafe! If you have a domain name with one of these TLDs, you can renew now for multiple years to get the lower price. #DomainNames

porkbun.com/blog/domain-...
Domain Name Price Increases October 6, 2025 - Porkbun.com
Did you hear about the domain name price increases happening October 6, 2025? This article lists all 233 affected domain extensions.
porkbun.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I recommend The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979
September 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.
The bottom of a white bucket with eight teeny tiny snapping turtles in an inch of water. Each would fit in your palm.
September 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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wicked but capybaras
painting, two capybaras in a flowery field, one wearing a pink dress and crown and holding a wand, and the other green and flying on a broomstick wearing heavy black clothing and a pointed witch's hat
August 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I met Louis Sachar at a signing for his first adult book, The Magician of Tiger Castle. Louis Sachar is also the author of Holes. It was a delight to meet him, and hear him discuss his new book.

blog.shannonkay.com/2025/08-07-L...

#LouisSachar
Louis Sachar discusses his new book and answers questions at an event.
August 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Me: Today has been the birthday of the World Wide Web. 34 years old today!

Kid: The world is 34 years old?!

#WorldWideWeb
August 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Find unique words interserted amongst the common terms.

www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
The Bluesky Dictionary
Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.
www.avibagla.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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My favorite classic literature has a floweriness of prose that I adore.
August 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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My LitJoyCrate edition of The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold by Ally Carter arrived today, and I'm beside myself with excitement. It's so cute. She looks amazing next to her sister book.

#AllyCarter
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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pixelshannon.com
Happy HTML Day!

In honor of #HTMLDay I've got a new URL and printable cheat sheet for Make Your Own Website.

make.yourownwebsite.org

yourownwebsite.org#printables

#HTMLDay2025 #HTML #SmallWeb #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWebsite #WebWeaving #IndieWeb
Make Your Own Website printable cheat sheet thumbnail with a basic HTML page structure example, a table with a reference for a few html tags, and some helpful links at the bottom. Full tutorial at https://make.yourownwebsite.org Make Your Own Website Cheat Sheet Basic HTML Page Structure Example index.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>My Website Title</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> </head> <body> <header><hl1>My Website</hl></header> <main> <p>Welcome to my website!</p> </main> <footer>This website was made by Me</footer> </body> </html> HTML Tag Reference (just a few tags) Paragraph <p> <p>This is my paragraph</p> Link <a> <a href="https://www.mywebsite.tld">My Website</a> Line Break <br> <br> Horizantal Rule <hr> | <hr> Image <img> <img src="catl.gif" alt="Pixel drawing of a black and white cat"> Free Web Hosting Places to write your code https://neocities.org https://vscode.dev https://nekoweb.org https://phcode.io https://pages.github.com https://codepen.io A plain text editor like Notepad Full tutorial at: https: //make.yourownwebsite.org
August 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I was delighted to meet Sarah Beth Durst and Sangu Mandanna at The Ripped Bodice bookstore in LA last night.

I look forward to enjoying their newest books, The Enchanted Greenhouse and A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

blog.shannonkay.com/2025/07-24-S...

#Books #SarahBethDurst #SanguMandanna
Sarah Beth Durst, Me(Shannon), and Sangu Mandanna at The Ripped Bodice in LA. Books Pictured: The Spellshop The Enchanted Greenhouse A Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
July 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM