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froglet.bsky.social
"Trick or Yeet!" I shout to the children when I open the door. "Yeet?" one says confusidly. I shrug. "Yeeet it is." I throw the child. (source: insane-tomato)
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:
At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right. At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
froglet.bsky.social
This atmospheric, immersive, genre-hopping novella is out on Friday, and I'd recommend it while also asking: can we have some more, please?!

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Book cover for The Dagger in Vichy by Alastair Reynolds: red with gothic text and illuminated-manuscript type design.
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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radiodeadair.com
BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.
Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
🌲 Don't get lost.
👁️ Pray you're not found.

The gloriously foiled paperback of Fiona Barnett's THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES is available now from all good bookshops!

“Folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.”
- Esquire

Buy now geni.us/TheDarkBetwe...
A paperback copy of THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Barnett held over a pile of Autumn Reads. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.
October 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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neilslorance.com
They all liked his outfit 🎃🐢
October 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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therealhanamaru.bsky.social
Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge
SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU
September 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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zombiekudos.bsky.social
Happy Raptor day to all who celebrate it.
a dinosaur is standing in the water next to a pile of bones and a spider .
Alt: A velociraptor runs towards the viewer with it's mouth wide open and it's grabby claws outstretched. Raaaaaaah!
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September 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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23daves.bsky.social
Seasonal reminder that if you’re feeling unwell, absolutely nobody actually wants to see you in the damn office. Typing this as I’m sat on a train near to a continually sneezing, unwell looking woman.
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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leiracal.bsky.social
This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by. I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say. 'What are you struggling with?' he asked. I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.' Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?' I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial. Something more profound. But I didn't. So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.' I felt like an idiot even saying it. What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes? But he nodded in understanding and then said: 'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.' I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me. 'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.' It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express. That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times. I felt like I had conquered a dragon. The next day, I took a shower lying down. A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit. There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again. Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry. But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson: THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"
August 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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punkitt.bsky.social
mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!
art of a wolf girl eating broccoli and brushing her teeth. the dialogue says: I've been an adult living on my own for a coupleyears now and since I have ADHD and bouts of Sick Brain Disease I can fall into a rut easilyESPECIALLY when it comesto taking care of myselfbut the awesome thing about being an adult is that no one is watching over your shoulder making sure you're perfect i used to give myself shit that i wouldn't be able to eat healthier or take care of myself in an optimal way here's a cool trick tho: ANYTHINGis is better than nothing. if you can only eat a couple vegetables? buddy thats better than no vegetables. worried about brushing your teeth for like three minutes? do like ten seconds instead want to socialize more often but you're worried you can't do multi-hour events? babe you're an adult now, if you get tired you can just leave lol If you want to improve, fuck yeah, work your way up to more of whatever. starting at all is the hard part - if you can do that then you've got a lot of what you need already anyway ive crunched the numbers and treating yourself a little bit better than yesterday is actually a million times better than trying to Fix Your Life Completely and getting mad when you can't do a 180. be nice and recognize that you can live a lot of your life in first or second drafts; if you're not perfect yet? fuck it, you'll get better later! u can do it!!! woof!!
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
froglet.bsky.social
Stops Chrome defaulting to the AI search, hurrah!
August 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
froglet.bsky.social
Fingers crossed.
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 11
AI industry groups have warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training threatens to "financially ruin" the entire industry.
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
arstechnica.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
froglet.bsky.social
Book mail today! Super exciting - and huge thanks to @wsbookclub.bsky.social @andiewington.bsky.social and @ericamarks.bsky.social for my giveaway prize! :) Looking forward to diving in!
Picture of the book, Silence of the Dead, book one of the new Bones and Betrayals fantasy mystery series.
August 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
froglet.bsky.social
According to this, my neighbour hit me with a rock in church. Well, that's two of my dislikes explained...
August 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
froglet.bsky.social
Watching #DoctorWho and does anyone else see a Gwyneth 'Goop' Paltrow spitting image in Freddie Fox here?
May 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
froglet.bsky.social
More positivity, yes :)
ostrichson.bsky.social Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · Apr 15
Recently saw someone asking for a "White Mirror" show that would celebrate all the good things that technological advancement can give humanity and, my brother in Kahless, there are ELEVEN Star Trek series and THIRTEEN movies. We're good. We're beyond good. Though I could use more #LowerDecks.
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
froglet.bsky.social
Happy publication day for @garethlpowell.bsky.social 's Future's Edge! Well worth the read, it was loads of fun: littlefrogscribbles.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/f...
Future’s Edge – Gareth Powell
“‘Guv?’ My barman was a mechanical, multi-limbed lifeform from a system in the vicinity of Arcturus.” After discovering interstellar travel – via a phenomenon dubbed &…
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February 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.
February 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
froglet.bsky.social
Not *really* the meme I wanted to have resonate today! o.O
February 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
froglet.bsky.social
I'm about a third of the way through @garethlpowell.bsky.social 's upcoming new novel, Future's Edge, and it is SO GOOD!! Been in a bit of a reading slump of late, and this is fixing that a treat - I'm having to slow myself down 'cos I am loving this universe and story too much to rush!
Book cover for Future's Edge by Gareth L Powell
February 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
froglet.bsky.social
In totally typical fashion, birds seen during the Big Birdwatch yesterday ~3. Birds out there today: about 4 billion! ;) (including a great view of the illusive little wren, so that was nice).
January 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
froglet.bsky.social
I needed a laugh today :)
January 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
I wrote this thread last year during one of the worst periods in my life, and it helps me when the urge to worry and doomscroll for hours is particularly powerful
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Jul 14
When things feel extra chaotic and overwhelming, here's what helps me:
-doing less
-resting more
-spending more on outsourcing tasks
-aggressive hydration
-high-protein meals
-weekly therapy
-scheduling offline activities like museums and long dog walks on weekends
-focusing on things in my control
January 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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brianftang.bsky.social
How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...
MS Word is Using You to Train AI
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
medium.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:27 PM