Sarah Følina | PCD era | TØP CLT, ATL, BHAM
subtlefire.bsky.social
Sarah Følina | PCD era | TØP CLT, ATL, BHAM
@subtlefire.bsky.social
Manic pixie spinster librarian, recovering academic, Sherlockian, #cliqueaunt ⊬ and general geek (fka subtleyfirey on twt) 💙💛🌻 Prov 31:8-9
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My pecan pie take: there is so much variance between a terrible one (old nuts, or too one-note sugary, or over baked) and an actual good one (pastry made by someone who knows how to, proper texture, good fresh pecans), and lots of people have had terrible pecan pies that they swore off them forever
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
soap is not food! (or medicine!)
youtu.be/vFKQ7GflRkk
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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What’s your score on the apple test?
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
exercise kills! couches not cannibalism!
“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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My killer feature right now is not needing to upgrade ever again for software that doesn’t do anything new, it just does it more and more sluggishly.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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and then here comes another josh dun drum cover to make living a little less morbid
Josh Dun Covers: Turnstile - TLC
YouTube video by Josh Dun
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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wow what a nerd, bet he's in some kind of band that thinks they're clever
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
the precious baby with his curly hair!
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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They're very comforting to me
#peanuts #charliebrown #art #doodle
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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evergreen
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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And potentially also for changing genre and cast of characters halfway through.
138 years ago #OTD November 21, 1887, the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet - was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual. Written in 1886, and rejected by a variety of publishers for being either too long or too short,
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Happy Friday, here’s a little excerpt from this week’s Fix The News for you ♥️
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I for one as a poetry nerd am stoked about the shortsighted propagation of these things to ever customer facing commerce platform.

Imagine rolling up to the taco bell drive through and laying down a series of limericks so powerful that you get 50% off a crunch wrap supreme. Like casting a spell
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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anybody know of any examples of people mapping out where federal funding is flowing in their town/city, and what the impacts are if it is cut off?

I’m talking small scale

I’d like to write up a report like this for my town of a few thousand residents
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Brinks
Chair
Crafts
Draughts
Games
Horse
Marks
Pen
Sales
Sea
Show
Spokes
Sports
States
Swords
One-up
Work

This has been…..

MANSHIP
May 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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everyone say thank you @zambyte.robbyzambito.me for fixing the hourly bots
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
new episode of #cabinpressure just dropped 😂
HONEST AIRLINES
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Overwhelmed? Try Doing Absolutely Nothing!
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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That's so wholesome.
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Don’t just give thanks, buy union-made this Thanksgiving! 🦃
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"what's that poetry degree good for, huh?"

apparently, saving the world from the stupidest robotpocalypse possible
Attacking AI with poetry:

Adversarial poetry prompts "yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%."

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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A storm will bring rain and mountain snow to southern California through Saturday morning There's a Slight risk of excessive rainfall across southern California tonight. Urban flooding, rock and mudslides as well as minor debris flows near burn scars are possible.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM