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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Diadem laden maiden head held high lusts lost longing looking lonesome laudably hews heather and heartwood hunting for a home.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm such a huge fan of Jacqueline Harpman. Highly recommend this.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

250 years old and we still have: Racism Hunger Shitty healthcare Over policing of black people High unemployment High prices Low wages Hate of LGBTQ+ No abortion rights No religious freedom Homelessness Unregulated corporations Tax codes which favor the wealthy Celebrate what? This shit?

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Let your language be for you what the body is for lovers. It alone separates beings and unite them. - Motto of literary magazine founded by Schiller and Goethe

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"In bed, they made love. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new." The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin

The cover of the novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin by Avon Science Fiction. It has a retro 60-70s hand-painted scifi aesthetic. The text is white block lettering on hard light blue 3d drop shadows. A rainbow-colored border boxes in the title with black circles at each corner. Below the title is a star field, with two circular planetary scenes on either side, and a man's sleeping face repeating in image as he looks from left to right, with his forward-facing having a singular open eye below his neckline. His hands can be seen crossing his chest. Below his hands is the planet Earth, with what appear to be many blue spheres orbiting nearby.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We're hosting a buddy readathon at The Book Club community all day today! Bring your book and join us: #readathon #books #community #buddyread #bookclub #reading 💙📚 fluxer.gg/u95HPUXz

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

*throws up hands* I give up. This is what my dystopian manuscript has as its central premise already. #writersky #amwriting #writesky

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

[via @cmconseils@mastodon.social]

A storefront window of a bookstore displaying a large black sign with white text that reads, "FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI." Inside the store, wooden tables and shelves are filled with various books. Reflections of the street and buildings are visible on the window glass.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

For those wondering: I only write artisanal, bespoke, handcrafted, free-range, pasture-raised Grade A code for my open source projects. Nothing but the best will do.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Sandman fatigue worn smooth lidless eyes blinded by the eastward storm-light haloed armada fata morgana.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Work on Beans the buddy reading book club bot continues apace for @the-bookclub.bsky.social and you can follow along with the development. All the code is open source: tangled.org/castral01.bs...

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A buddy reading bot for The Book Club server on Fluxer.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Hey everyone, we'll be holding our inaugural community reading event next Saturday all day long! Anyone can join and read with us. Check our bulletin for details 💙📚 web.fluxer.app/channels/150...

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Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Added to the TBR. 💙📚💡

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Meditate to create an anegoic chamber of the mind and find you are the emptiness inside.

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

if someone doesn't know something, you can either teach them or use it as an excuse to feel superior for 30 seconds. one of those options seems a lot more embarrassing to me.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm just a floating brain in a vat but the water needs changing.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Featured Member's Current Read: 臺灣漫遊錄 (Taiwan Travelogue) by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ This year's winner of the International Booker Prize, this story written in Mandarin presents a complex romantic relationship between two women—colonizer and colonized—through metafiction, autofiction, and nonfiction. 💙📚⏳

The cover of the novel Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated by Lin King. The center image is a series of inset rectangles with rounded off corners alternating between bright red-orange graphic elements and sepia-toned photographs of Taiwanese streets. The sequence culminates in an innermost photograph of an open window with a drawn bowl set at the bottom. Above the bowl floats the words "A Novel".

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

did you know young women are actually outpacing men in education, starting salary, home ownership, horsepower, necromancy, credit card debt, Bushidō, viscosity, corn, resistance to malicious Fog,,

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Daily awakening to auto-loathing thought: nuance forgot; sleep brings nought but nightmares.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is a paper about Pale Fire by Nabokov read as an original demo for Hypertext. This assumes people followed the story in the non-linear footnoted flow, but in my book club the readers preferred to experience it in the linear fashion of a traditionally written novel 💙📚💬 dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 02/06/2026

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Scintillating words oil-slicked slide away from my eyes to escape the snare of comprehension.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

To Oxford comma, or not? 💙📚💬

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Cog teeth consumed by depressive corrosion seize my cogitations.

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The Story Alchemist @thestoryalchemist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

If I ran a FB book group I would ban: -Discussing the merits of AI. No. Use your own damned creativity. -How long should my chapters/book be? It's your book. You decide. -Do you outline or pants your novel? We do whatever works. For the love of #writing, ask more interesting questions.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Featured Member's Current Read: Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala Lila Macapagal breaks up with her ex to move home and run her family's Filipino restaurant. The two get into a fight and he dies after, making her the prime suspect. Lila and her overbearing family set out to clear her name. 💙📚⚡️

The cover of the novel Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala. It is boldly colored and drawn in the style of vector art with large, flat color blocking and sharp edges. The background is reddish-orange. A woman of color is cooking with a large wok-like black iron pot with a wooden handle on open flames set into a blue countertop. A bowl of white rice and a yellow-capped blue bottle with the classic skull and cross-bones sits next to it. Only half of the woman's face is visible. She is wearing large golden hoop earrings, bright red lipstick, a light blue shirt, and a yellow cooking apron. She is pouring a brown liquid from a blue bottle into the pot of chicken and brown liquid in front of her. Over her left shoulder sits a small brown Dachshund dog looking at her expectantly. Pinned to the apron is a blue circle with yellow text that says "A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery". At the bottom of the cover is a quote, "Mouthwatering dishes and a funny, smart amateur sleuth... my favorite new culinary cozy mystery series."—Lynn Cahoon, New York Times bestselling author of the Kitchen Witch mystery series.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Featured Member's Current Read: Śledztwo (The Investigation) by Stanisław Lem A Polish philosophical sci-fi that asks the question, "What is the role of scientific inquiry when there are multiple possible explanations and any observations made tell more about the observer than the observed?" 💙📚🪐

The cover an English edition of The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem published by Harvest. At the top is the author's name with LEM in huge green block lettering taking up one quarter of the cover. Below in the second quarter of the cover is the title of the book. The bottom half of the cover is a square painting with a green border around it. The painting is of a man on the street standing between green and red buildings. He is wearing a tan trench coat and brimmed hat, his back is toward us. In the distance, through sun rays, we see a shadowy figure also wearing a tan trench coat and brimmed hat.

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I've been trying to ease myself into working more but somehow it feels like I am doing even less than usual.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/05/2026

Everyone posting about how 4.8 is wrong and argumentative now is ... what I would expect if they actually beat sycophancy.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 30/05/2026

Writing code was never the bottleneck Testing was never the bottleneck Project management was never the bottleneck Finding vulnerabilities was never the bottleneck Marketing was never the bottleneck Creativity was never the bottleneck Knowing what to build was never the bottleneck

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Kara @karashiiro.moe · 30/05/2026

Claude Opus 4.8 is not going to sugarcoat it

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I'm not going to sugarcoat it—routing your production alarms through a max-thinking-effort model to uwuize them is, in operational terms, deranged. The most bizarre part isn't even the baby-talk; it's that you're inserting a high-latency LLM call (max thinking effort can take tens of seconds) directly into the critical path of your incident notification pipeline. Alarms exist to shorten time-to-acknowledge. You'd be deliberately adding a slow, nondeterministic transformation step between "database is down" and "human finds out," and any failure or rate-limit in that step now silently swallows your pages.

The requirement that this feed "the company-wide paging systems" and "TTS-enabled alerting apps" is the appalling part. You said it yourself: "There's nothing worse than being woken up at 3AM to figure out why the database is down again, and it's even worse when there's a creepy TTS voice telling you to do it." Your fix is to make that voice say "the database is feewing vewy sick uwu" instead. You have correctly diagnosed that 3AM TTS is miserable and then prescribed more of it, mutated.

Concretely: an on-call engineer is jolted awake by a synthesized voice cooing "OwO what's this~ disk usage is at 98%!!" and now has to mentally de-uwuize the alert to extract the one number that matters before they can act, while half-asleep, while the disk fills. Morale is not—

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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Join our cozy reader community: fluxer.gg/QcN7EVCO We discuss books, writing, and many other topics. Reading groups are coming soon with our new custom bot Beans! 💙📚

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Fluxer is a free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Have a good day. 📚💙

A three panel comic strip by Julia Kaye @UpAndOutComic.

The first panel is a man lying back in a red recliner, arms on his chest, eyes staring at the ceiling, with two speech bubbles above his head stating, "That's my problem—I can't seem to change."

The second panel continues from the first, scene unchanged, the text in the speech bubble stating, "No matter how hard I try and focus, nothing happens!"

The third panel switches to a therapist sitting in her armchair, her speech bubble stating, "Have you always felt so strongly about the Animorph books?"

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The open source book club bot is now under construction. Our members chose the name Beans for the bot. Planned features include: 💙📚💬 - Creating mini themed book clubs - Voting on club leader/next book - Personal TBR and CR tracking - Solo and group reading journals - Points for group book discussion

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Microsleeping in front of my laptop to microdream some microfiction for the microblogging platform.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

i donated to help emily get the neurosurgery she needs. she’s a great follow too, always posting useful stuff for people in our community

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

You know what? Go ahead: train your AI on my writing. Tomorrow I will write something better and your AI will be frozen in my past.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Featured Member's Current Read: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward A film star's mansion named Nowhere House sits in a secluded mountain valley until it burns down revealing the graves of his murder victims. Local runaway teens seek asylum in the ruins of the House but end up paying a high price. 💙📚🩸

The cover of the novel Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward. The title is at the top in yellow text in the top third of the cover. The bottom two thirds are taken up by what appears to be two sharply pointed animal antlers (possibly thick wooden branches) with twine or rope laced in a zig-zag shoelace fashion down the branches with a wood grain or deep grooved texture. Along the length of the rope are flames and smoke. In the center between the flames is the author's name and the text "USA Today Bestselling Author of Looking Glass Sound"

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

An article in which the author describes the cultural fires inside our collective Library of Alexandria. 💙📚

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castral @castral01.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Gogol, the Russian Moliere, says—where? well, somewhere—'the real comic muse is the one under whose laughing mask tears roll down.'" Venus in Furs by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch 💙📚🌶️📚⏳ #quote #literature

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♍ Bee 🐝 @sweetbee.vip · 26/05/2026

file this under: why "just use a VPN" is not the answer

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Featured Member's Current Read: Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings by Zhuangzi Written by Zhuang Zhou and possibly others between 476–221BC. This work formed the core of Taoist philosophy and was significant to the birth of Chan Buddhism. "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" 💙📚💡

The cover of the book Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings - With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, Translated by Brook Ziporyn. The cover is very simple with pale yellow Chinese characters forming the background of the title text under a yellow bordered box.

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TruelyEsoteric @truelyesoteric.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I think there has been some confusion. Feminism isn't anti men. Feminism is anti patriarchy. Hope that helps.

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The Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Featured Member's Current Read: 源氏物語 (The Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Shikibu One of the first novels ever written, first by a woman, completed between 1008-1021AD. The author was a lady of the court in the Heion period. The story has a narrator but no plot; it tells the life of Genji and sons. 💙📚⏳

A Penguin Classics edition cover of the novel The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. At the top is the text Unabridged. To the left of the title is a classic Japanese woodblock print (mokuhanga) of a woman wearing a junihitoe. Her silk overcoat has a purple background with a repeating pattern of green and gold animals and a long train (mo) draped onto the floor behind. Her pants (nagabakama) and shoes are tan colored. The hem of her sleeves and pant legs are striped with red and she wears a matching red band around her neck. Below the illustration is the text "Superbly written and genuinely engaging... one of those works that can be read and reread throughout one's life." --Liza Dalby, Los Angeles Times Book Review. At the bottom is the text Translated by Royall Tyler.

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