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scarewolf 🔜 DE ATL @wherewolf.bsky.social · 17h

Hey everybody, I hate to ask, but I’m putting out my hat if anyone can help. I haven’t talked about it because I didn’t want to make it a big deal but two weeks ago I had to make an emergency room visit. With the big unexpected expense, start of the month payments I’ve hit a negative balance hard

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 1d

Ughhhhhhh.

Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 2d

Looking up recipes for liquore al basilico (basil liqueur) so I can mash them lovingly together with this recipe for limoncello

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes a house just sucks! I'm Shirley Jackson and you're watching Hill House Haunters

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 2d

Taking a break from work to drink more Make-Me-Anxious Juice, aka coffee

Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 3d

This is the way.

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 3d

I have made the truly horrifying discovery that limoncello tastes amazing mixed with gin (in this case, Empress 1908 Indigo Gin).

A Glencairn glass half filled with a translucent purple liquid and ice cubes.

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 3d

My perverted comfort food is Spicy Nacho Doritos dipped in sour cream. I can’t eat that all the time, but sometimes it’s the only thing that will do

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 5d

This article is interesting too:
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

softwarecrisis.dev

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 6d

McKillip is up there for me definitely!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 6d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 6d

I am still on a KPop Demon Hunters jag. This is pretty intense, moreso than my Encanto jag and much moreso than my brief Hamilton jag. It’s gotten to the point where I, a 55-year-old man, have a favorite KPop Dance Cover troupe. youtu.be/Rwo36UIFM-w?...

[DANCE IN PUBLIC] SAJA BOYS 사자 보이즈 - SODA POP Cover by Saycrew Indonesia

YouTube video by SAYCREW DC

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks!

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 6d

I’m going to have to do something like that, I think, yeah

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 6d

It’s really, really good!

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 6d

Sadly I made wayyyyy too much of it. I guess we’re never buying limoncello again, ever

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 6d

Six weeks later and I just decanted the limoncello! It’s smooth, sweet, and bursting with lemon flavor—and with nary a hint of bitterness, thanks to the amazing serrated peeler I used to remove the zest from the lemons cleanly.

A Glencairn glass with about a finger of translucent yellow liquid in it stands next to a tall bottle with a darker yellow liquid in it.

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 6d

The ex-paladin comes by with chicken and poblano empanadas from the baker for lunch. They eat them in the garden. The wizard gets crumbs on his cheeks and the ex-paladin gently brushes them off.

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 8d

Made Lacey Ostermann’s tear and share apple fritter focaccia tonight and it was the bomb. The recipe’s not in Lacey’s cookbook but I still blame @mostlybree.kitrocha.com for this somehow

A rectangular focaccia covered in apple bits and icing.

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 8d

Made Lacey Ostermann’s tear and share apple fritter focaccia tonight and it was the bomb. The recipe’s not in Lacey’s cookbook but I still blame @mostlybree.kitrocha.com for this somehow

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 9d

And now we’re eating perfectly salted chicken Parmesan and watching Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers.

Fin.

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 9d

Naturally, it turned out in the end that I had (very understandably) put the salt cellar in the drawer with all the measuring cups and spoons. The emergency over, I was finally able to salt and bread the chicken and get it ready for frying.

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 9d

We continued searching for an additional fifteen or twenty minutes. We looked in the oven. We looked in the fridge. In the freezer. In the dishwasher. The cupboards. The bar. The bathroom. The bedroom. The loft. The trash can! The recycling bin! The oven (again)!!!

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Librarian Soul @librariansoul.bsky.social · 9d

I tore the kitchen apart, and finally called my husband to help. I felt ridiculous, but it really was nowhere to be found. “My love,” I said. “I am not blaming you, but I cannot find the salt. Anywhere.”

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