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I've had some long nights in the stir—er, uh, library.

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adiopink.bsky.social
Trying to free up photo space on my phone and ran across this from a few years ago. Never did figure out what they meant.
Screenshot of email, subject line says RE: Policies. Message says “Thanks, [name redacted]! You are fast! Like a marsupial!!!!”
September 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
Read through for the whole bear-with-a-ham-finale.
cryptidchicken.bsky.social Gallus Rostromegalus @cryptidchicken.bsky.social · Aug 6
One of the best things about being in an international server is that if I mention that I live in Bear Country (CO), the Australians all howl about how we need to shut up about Aussie wildlife, because THEIR large carnivores mostly stay in the water, NOT INVITE THEMSELVES INTO THE KITCHEN. (🧵1/?)
August 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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cooperlund.online
It's New Foods at the Minnesota State Fair day, and there's some solid innovations in the Fair Food space here

www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/
Fawaffle Pizza Cheese Curd Tacos Uncrustaburger Chicken Fried Bacon Fries
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
Traveled with family for a wedding recently. Someone else booked the plane tickets, and I now know that I am not wired for Southwest's open seating policy. I need my assigned seating, dammit. (I see SW plans to roll out that option for 2026.)
July 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Finally, Reactor hosts its very own Murderbot short story, originally given to readers who preordered Network Effect! You can read "Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory" by @marthawells.com for free here!

reactormag.com/home-habitat...
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory - Reactor
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha's Murderbot novel, Network Effect. The story is set just after the 4th novella, Exit Strategy.
reactormag.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
So, I’m not brave enough to try any of the meat & beer-flavored Pringles options, but I had zero hesitation in grabbing these Vlasic Pickle Balls (dill pickle corn puffs) to try later. @sarabsutter.bsky.social
Green chip bag labeled “Vlasic Pickle Balls, dill pickle corn puffs,” with a photo of pale green corn puffs, similar to the usual orange-colored cheese puffs.
June 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
You don't realize how dependent you are on a (mostly) free white noise app until it updates in the middle of the night & puts all your curated-but-basic sound mixes behind a stiff monthly subscription fee. If @bettersleep.bsky.social thought that tactic would drive subscriptions, they thought wrong.
June 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries.

Now she's running for state house.

eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
What does India May want to accomplish in the Iowa House? May said she first got involved in Iowa politics earlier this year when she attended a town hall held by the state legislators in her area, including Thomson. In part, May said she went to oppose a bill that would deny state funding to libraries that are members of the American Library Association and Iowa Library Association, and another that would remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that shields libraries and educational institutions. Neither bill ultimately passed. "I’m a nurse and a librarian, and I went to my first town hall this year to advocate for libraries and realized that there were a lot more pieces of legislation that were harmful on the Iowa level that I didn’t even hear about until it was too late," she said.
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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marthawells.com
Hey, the Murderbot soundtrack by Amanda Jones is available now on many different online retailers: amandajonessoundtracks.bandcamp.com/album/murder...
Murderbot: Season 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack), by Amanda Jones
22 track album
amandajonessoundtracks.bandcamp.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
adiopink.bsky.social
Three days later, and I'm still on a thrifting high of finding a mint copy of the 1977 Gnomes book for $4 at a secondhand store. I could have bought a copy online for more money, but I was holding out.
Photo of a large hardcover book titled Gnomes. Written by Wil Huygen and illustrated by Rien Poortvliet. Originally published in Holland in 1976, translated and published in English in 1977. The cover shows a front view and back view of a male gnome in a blue tunic, red pointy hat, brown belt, and gray boots (labeled "deer fur boots"). The figures are notated like a guidebook.
May 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
Beer & meat-flavored Pringles? That’s a no from me.
Red Pringles can showing a Miller Lite beer can overlaid with a spatula and a grilled T-bone steak. Chip flavor is “Beer-Braised Steak” Navy blue Pringles can showing a white Miller Lite beer can overlaid with two grilled brats held on a grilling fork. Chip flavor is “Grilled Beer Brat” White Pringles can showing a white Miller Lite beer can overlaid with a roasted chicken sitting on a grill rack. Chip flavor is “Beer Can Chicken”
May 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times

www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."
www.404media.co
May 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
If I attended this church in rural Iowa, that crooked cross on the steeple would consume my thoughts for the entirety of every service. Somebody needs to fix that.
Photo of a white wooden church at dusk, in front of a fading sunset. The steeple is topped by a cross that is tilting crookedly to the side at about a 75° angle.
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
adiopink.bsky.social
Local CBS affiliate = KGAN, Iowa News Now, Cedar Rapids
creightonote.bsky.social Creighton ⚒️ @creightonote.bsky.social · May 14
Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer
Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"
May 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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marthawells.com
Oh, I also have a book out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Emilie Adventures: Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World
Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World
bookshop.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
adiopink.bsky.social
Must be something going on over at the Catholic church… 😁 Several neighborhood dogs have been howling along for the last 20 minutes.
May 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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poisonivy47.bsky.social
If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
docs.google.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
Murderbot fans: If you have a Wired subscription, you can read Compulsory, a very short story which is #0.5 in the series. It is also available on Kindle, slightly tweaked (1503 words instead of 1045) & with an additional character. I didn't realize it was out there. www.wired.com/story/future...
The Future of Work: Compulsory, by Martha Wells
“My risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.”
www.wired.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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weratedogs.com
We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10
a tiny white dog stands on a tile floor and looks up at you. they’re wearing a big plush yellow star around their teensy noggin, like the world’s most congratulatory lion mane. we really needed to see her today.
March 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
PC Mag article about how to download your purchased eBooks to your PC now (you do not need to connect your Kindle) for this process). www.pcmag.com/how-to/downl...
February 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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raygunsite.com
"I am the lesson that showed your children that we live in a world of gifts- not commodities, that gratitude and reciprocity are the doorway to true abundance, not power, money, or fear."

#nps #nationalparks #raygun

www.raygunsite.com/products/gra...
February 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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robsandia.bsky.social
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February 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
adiopink.bsky.social
Have I mentioned lately that I hate AI? It’s so often so confidently wrong.
Screenshot of a Google search with AI answers at the top of the search results, saying twice that the one ring in Lord of the Rings was not on a chain in the books or the movies
February 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM