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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant)

@commamonger.bsky.social

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Dilettante at 56°N. Writer, copy-editor, proofreader, TV subtitler, molecular biologist, one-time fashion model, two-time star* of STV's Take The High Road. Fiction, history of science and medicine. * corridor nurse, woman on the loch shore

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 26d

We live in cretinous times, and the cretins would appear to be winning. Join the resistance and read a book.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 6h

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 9h

My colleague
who has committed herself
to not getting sick
has noticed I am rarely ill
and so she asked me
what my secret is,
and as I adjusted my mask
I told her
that I have no secret,
and after staring at me
she narrowed her eyes
and said:
I bet you meditate, is that it?

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AnnaMolly @anna-molly.bsky.social · 11h

If Bluesky fails, I will go on tour doing dramatic reads of all your skeets at coffeehouses across the country

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 11h

substitutes for a healthy diet:

Noodles- -Zucchini
Chips - Carrots

Milk- Coconut Milk

Rice - Cauliflower

Butter -Sadness

Sugar - A Broken Heart

Cheese - Nope

Coffee- This is stupid and not doing it.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 9h

They'd better!

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 11h

Time to hold on to something solid and brace for impact.

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University of Stirling Archives @unistirarchives.bsky.social · 12h

Images of the atomic age from our wonderful @edinburghfg.bsky.social photographic collection feature in our new exhibition REMEMBERED: in the archive
archives.stir.ac.uk/2025/10/06/r...
@artatstirling.bsky.social @isstirling.bsky.social #CultureOnStirCampus

Images from the Edinburgh Film Guild photographic collection displayed as part of the exhibition REMEMBERED: in the archive, University of Stirling Library, 6 October to 31 December 2025.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 12h

Fair point – you're good to go then. 🤣

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 13h

You'd have to give the milkman a very generous tip.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 13h

I doubt I could ever muster enough coherent thoughts for a full blog post. Hell, I can barely use 299 characters.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 14h

Happy birthday, Doug!

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 14h

Not everyone can be skilled at balancing on one foot with a bean bag on their head, there's no shame in it.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 14h

You don't know, maaaan! You weren't there!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

#WarRavagedPortland

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 14h

My big sister was the star of the hockey team, the star of the athletics team. On my first day at high school we had PE timetabled, the PE teacher read my surname and said "Another champion on our hands!" as I pulled my Ventolin inhaler out and took a puff. Big nope.

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OldeNaturalist @oldenaturalist.bsky.social · 17h

Exciting stuff. A young male hedgehog now building a nest in the hedgehog house I put out. I've put a lot of hay in there and then put hay around and he's been dragging extra in.

cc @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social

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James 🎃cello 🌉 @jamespirruccello.com · 2d

The implication of this article is that 0.005% of the US's annual CO2 emissions are from inhalers (25 million metric tons cumulatively over 10 years, vs 50 billion/year overall).

Conclusive demonstration that the CO2 release from inhalers is totally inconsequential.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This cross-sectional study estimates greenhouse gas emissions from all inhalers approved for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using aggregated dispensing data across the US outpa...

jamanetwork.com

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 15h

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A black and white photo of an old woman asleep in her armchair, unaware that the balloon bobbing about on the table next to her is about to be popped by a mischievous kitten. There are words applied to each of them - the old woman is "AI COMPANIES", the balloon is "AI" and the mischievous kitten is "REALITY".

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 15h

Tory glory.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

There should be a word for a huge but pointless event, such as a leader making announcements in a conference speech that will never be implemented and which not even the faithful will pay any attention to because the leader will be gone in a matter of months.

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 15h

Stopped using it three months ago and the app icon has been increasingly stalkery every since, including "I'm watching you" messages, and "Why are you ghosting me?"