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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 2h

Pretend it's in the Bunny Bowl of New Arrivals:

MAC lipsticks in Red Rock, Keep Dreaming, Flamingo, and Forever Curious.

They smell nice.

It's too late and I am too tired to experiment.

Lipsticks in pinky red, darker red, flamingo pink, and light red.

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 2h

CHARLOTTE! Anne
I do understand

Dano Loves Music @danolovesmusic.bsky.social · 3h

“Charlotte Anne” by Julian Cope was a UK #1 rock hit in 1989. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #vinylcommunity #juliancope #EveryHitSongEver

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h

A young relative from Georgia pronounced it "pull y'all up."

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 5h

Puyallup.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 7h

Syllables are hard.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 7h

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you!

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 9h

After zonking out for a two-hour nap, I feel mostly human.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! I got back in touch with some dear Clarionites, and also met new folks.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you!

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 11h

This is so great!

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 12h

hey man, cool book, mind if I steal it to generate a shittier book by yelling prompts at my phone?

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 13h

Oh hay

If you've been hankering for a hard copy of Damned Pretty Things, bookshop org has got it a buck and a half off, and with free shipping. Who could ask for anything more? Perhaps that bookshop donates to small indie bookshops.

Damned Pretty Things

Check out Damned Pretty Things - <p>Fortune is an itinerant musician without a past who braids memories into her hair. Maud is a sheltered small-town girl and an unwitting heir to the notorious McBrid...

bookshop.org

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 14h

Literally Bob Ross’s ENTIRE DEAL was “don’t worry if you don’t think you’re good enough to do art, just find the joy in doing something yourself” which is the antithesis of the plagiarism evangelists, who insist that if they aren’t immediately good at something they should give up and use “ai”

ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 14h

Bob Ross, a man who taught people how to find joy in creativity and who swore to himself after leaving the army to never raise his voice at another person, in an AI generated video where he screams at the camera over not being allowed to steal the work of artists.

It's really something.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 15h

someone got yellllled aaaat, and now the guardrails are so strict they're overcompensating and blocking prompts for all sorts of stuff, including public domain characters. no one on the app is taking it well

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 14h

Pretty annoying.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 14h

My side effects seem to be lingering more than in the past. Restless night, weird dreams. Also, my ever-endearing esophagus is being annoying.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 14h

Literally the only thing I buy from Amazon is bulk coffee filters. I should get unlazy and find an alternative source.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 14h

Millennium Actress, also by Satoshi Kon, is one of my favorite movies.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 1d

Who is an alien? What kind of minds are we meeting? What makes us Other? What makes us the same? @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social and I discuss these matters and his new Cherokee rez-set first contact novel Hole in the Sky on 10/16: www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i... Streaming or face to face and FREE

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl

Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

www.clarionwest.org

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Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social · 15h

So... I have no idea what this means for CamCat Books (publisher of my YA horror novel A Misfortune of Lake Monsters), which was bought by Baker & Taylor sometime in the last 12 months. So maybe buy a copy of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters while you can? I dunno.

Baker & Taylor Prepares to Shut Down

Baker & Taylor, “the largest supplier of library content, software and services to public and academic libraries in the U.S.,” has announced plans to shut down their business. The c…

locusmag.com

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 15h

I'm flat out amazed that a person can be so prolific!

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

How many different ways did I ingest barium today? Straight up in little paper shot glasses, powdered and sprinkled over saltine crackers, and "pudding" squeezed from a tube. I'm thankful for the technology, but man, that stuff is unfun to eat.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite is Empress of India, a name that has not aged well. The leaf cups are a deep bluish green and the blooms are a dark red.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

They also lure aphids away from other crops, but then the poor things look like hell.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

Note to self: do not schedule a radiology appointment for 8:30 in the morning the day after getting COVID and flu shots.

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 1d

For later reading

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 2d

Having a purpose in life could help reduce the chance of developing dementia.
www.sciencealert.com/your-lifes-p...

Your Life's Purpose Could Be Keeping Dementia at Bay, Study Finds

Having a purpose in life could help reduce the chance of developing dementia, according to a recent study by researchers from the University of California, Davis.

www.sciencealert.com

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