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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ha! I like CS Lewis’s SF trilogy where the main character travels from earth, has confusing encounters with extraterrestrials, and realizes with some embarrassment that only earthlings fell from grace at all…

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Kind of a new genre. Deals with protagonists getting stuck in various RPG worlds where they get real skills and level up. Humorous and fast paced. I liked Dean Henegar’s Limitless Lands series. Dungeon Crawler Carl is very popular, as is The Wandering Inn. Mostly self pub and cheap on Amazon.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just learned that in Isan, Thailand, Western foreigners are called “mangoes” and I can’t say I really mind that.

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Reid Southen @rahll.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A gentle breeze rocks the house of cards.

Article screenshot: Adobe's stock drop highlights a fundamental disconnect over AI. Adobe's management team is bullish on the AI opportunity in creative services, but Wall Street is growing impatient on the revenue Runway.

A chart shows Adobe is down 16% the past five days, a sharp decline and loss of $87 a share.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Sun Fragments

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Yeah, I can’t think of any fallacy like that. It’s just straight up lying

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Whenever I see this come up, it reminds me of Twitter on Jan 6. There was the expected shock and outrage and a few jokes, and one little corner of LawyerTwitter going “Oh no you morons, stop incriminating yourselves!!!”

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you're ever told to be outraged about anything having to do with health insurance and the sole source of the outraged framing is the American Society of Anesthesiologists, just move on because you're being played like a fiddle by the major cause of out-of-network balance billing

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I remember seeing Sweet at on a convention panel once, and there was a lot of talk about inspiration and what kinds of work artists like to do, but he was all "Nope, don't care what it is. You pay me, I'll paint it."

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It’s gorgeous! Sorry about your poor fingers

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I will never, ever get over this.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

(But… you could probably just ask for a copy too….)

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We are ready to take your order. 😃

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens, below a picture of a police car outside a school, cordoned off with yellow tape.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There are a lot of different theories! But Catholics always believed he was buried in Rome, and a mausoleum and bones that seem very plausible were accidentally discovered during construction under St. Peters around 1950. I can't guess who is really buried in Lebanon.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Catholics believe St. Peter was martyred and buried in Rome, at St. Peter's, in what is now the Vatican. This is a Muslim site. That said, nobody should be happy about it.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In a rare alignment, the First Sunday of Advent *is* the first of December, so the “Advent” calendars are actually accurate this year. One less thing for me to annoyed about. Until next year.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

If I heard this music without the video, I would never have guessed that the instrument looked like that.

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Brian C. E. Buhl @briancebuhl.com · 27/11/2024

I love me some good memes.

A full size truck hauling an extremely large yellow Lego. The text at the top: The final weapon of mankind. To deal with Godzilla.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thank you! I will try. Otherwise, I promise some good memes.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Here at Bluesky I’ve collected a bunch of lovely SF/F folks who generally don’t like religion, a bunch of Catholics, and a bunch of random strangers that seemed interesting. I will now feel awkward about posting absolutely anything.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yeah, I perpetually underestimate this, because I made connections right away when I got interested in writing, but it didn’t help my career because I wasn’t a good enough writer yet. Have to suppress my “it doesn’t matter!” instinct and try to help people make inroads.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Oh no, sorry to hear it! Hope you’re all better soon.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Feel free to read their Privacy Policy. Google collects everything you give them (docs, mail, spreadsheets, etc) in order to do targeted advertising and sell “aggregated” data to third parties. That is their actual business model. If it’s free, you’re the product.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Oh no, sympathies. I hate to say that I can actually relate to this one. It’s amazing the horrifying stuff bodies can get up to. Hope it resolves easily and well.

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TiredLiam @tiredliam.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Every year I am politely puzzled by this American holiday which appears to just involve… eating dinner?

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Was probably about 10 years ago, so yeah, I’d imagine things have improved! Thanks for mentioning.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That’s disappointing. Guess I’ll stick with my Apple products where at least so far I’ll be able to turn it off/opt out.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Am I going to have to go back to using Linux again? Sure, there were some good times but it was a lot of hassle too. But all this AI garbage…

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The whole point of Google Docs from the beginning was to scrape your data. Training “AI” now is just a new variation.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That’s a skill I sure wish I had.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh yeah, I scrolled through some blocklists because I was curious about what kind of people were on them, and the account names and replies were hilarious. So desperate. “Pay attention to me!!!!”

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh, that’s a good one. I’m fond of “lenticular.”

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

(avoiding timeline suppression on other social media) are you a friend of... you know... the cerulean stratosphere

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yeah, read this recently. Sympathetically written but tragic outcomes.

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Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As a teen lots of my friends enthusiastically recommended Doctor Who to me. They… forgot to mention that it was dumb. For years I wondered what was wrong with my friends. Then I marred a big time fan, and learned that the dumb parts were deliberate 😂

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