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GDwarble @gdwarble.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I discounted self-pub/indie books for a very long time without any real reason beyond a vague sense that they were bad. After taking a chance on one I realized how amazing they could be. Many marginalized stories aren't allowed in trad publishing at all, so amazing authors have to self-publish

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

That’s one hell of a cover…..

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

That halftime show was incredibly timely ❤️

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

For online NaNoWriMo alternatives, I found these as the simplest options for small circles and custom goals: - mywriteclub.com: also has public sprints - writingmonth.org Many rely on in-browser writing for goal tracking, which is not ideal Autocrit/PWA versions = no, because they're AI platforms

mywriteclub.com

myWriteClub

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Doing November writing for my pen names that pay the bills. In absence of #NaNoWriMo, if you're also a data nerd motivated by Number Go Up metrics, you can spin up word count visuals: - Google Sheets/Looker Studio - Nextcloud Analytics - Power BI, for max pain if you hate yourself (own demo work)

A screenshot of a Google Sheet with sample word count data and an accompanied embedded bar chart.

A screenshot of sample word count data using lookerstudio.google.com pulling from the same Google Sheet as first screenshot, showing a bar chart and a progress bar scorecard.

Screenshot in a Nextcloud instance showing the Analytics app, which can ingest or create simple datasets. A bar chart and table with sample word count data shown. UI settings are not particularly friendly. Shown ingesting same Google Sheet

Screenshot of a cursed Power BI report showing two gauge visuals tracking daily and monthly word counts, a bar chart of daily word counts, and a table detailing the same data. Can be built in Power BI desktop (free) or PBI online service

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I find *all* aspects in the rise of news-based prediction markets just as uncomfortable. I've heard it argued this makes people invested in the news once more. In actuality, world events are reduced to simple odds and profit. Stripped of empathy, concern, or compassion. Dissociation via gambling.

A tweet from @buccocapital on X which reads, "There’s something that feels deeply uncomfortable about monetizing human conflict as a spectator sport. Sometimes societal norms take time to catch up to technological progress. Or maybe we’ll just be gambling on the longitudinal lines of bloodshed. I hope not". The attached screenshot shows an ongoing wager on Polymarket (the most prominent online prediction gambling market) about which date Russia will capture Pokrovsk train station by. Choices are October 31st, November 30th, and December 31st, with the last in the lead at 87% odds.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

i don’t normally endorse block lists (i’m on some, weirdly lumped in with people i myself have blocked) but i don’t see how blocking all these accts with one button is bad. most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

my favorite genre of social media video is “Warning: May induce madness”

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just sent! (from my Distracted Hermit email, for verification)

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Wow, that's awesome! I'll pick out a shirt and follow up. Glad I caught this ping randomly (RIP to whatever happened to my mobile notifications)

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Live your life in such a way that an entire social media platform doesn’t spend hours on a Friday night anxiously awaiting news of your possible demise.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My least favorite statement is "[This] is what radicalized young men to the far right" when it usually boils down to criticism or de-centering themselves in a discussion Imagine such inability to handle critical discourse For the rest of us, that's just another Tuesday

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Holy shit, yesterday it was DARK in my head. Today there’s some light, and that’s all we need, right? Wishing you a bit of light today. Text a friend. Call your mom. Listen to some good stuff. Make art. Read (I have some recs!). Listen to the birds. Take care of yourself.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I thought this was satire until I realized it was from 404 Media

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I figured as much! My wallet was quaking just thinking about it

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

These are great action shots. We have a fairly lively eastern cottontail population around our property (New England) and I *wish* I could get pictures like these

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Over the last few months, I'm less scared of AI than I am of the sheer number of people who entirely unscrew their brains, set it on the seat beside them, and enjoy the ride from the backseat after handing AI the keys Then get driven around in AI's special brand of reality Let me off this ride

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just overheard a conversation where someone compared a translation by a professional translator to an AI translation. To quality check it, they then asked yet another AI which one was better. The AI said the AI version was better. Now they're fretting. Zero human feedback. I'm losing my mind

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

vocal fry implies the existence of vocal onion ring and vocal tater tot

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Every time I consider following this feed I recall that even with okay blood pressure, I'd only last 5 minutes

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hesgeth's face is a bit of a tell. "That's today's angle? Alright. Let's hear it."

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It's likely this "100% American participation" could end up supplied by prison labor. *stares in Thirteenth Amendment*

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

As a descriptive linguist, I'm fascinated how the period/full stop is disappearing in casual discourse. Or even how adding one can make a text message or short statement seem more terse. Still, this entire review is like three sentences and my brain is freaking out (alt text limit exceeded)

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Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you. Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This was good, in a quietly going insane type of way

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

From a cursory glance at my timeline, there appear to some Feelings™ about Juneteenth from irrelevant parties. Letting them slide by and returning to my holiday

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Petros Amoiridis @petros.software · 12/06/2025

I want to create a TV reality show, but this time it's going to be programmers trying to land a job. I mean, that'd be the ultimate prize. During the show, they will have to go through various challenges and get eliminated one by one. 🧵

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I spent a decade in Colorado before moving back to the East Coast. The first time I went jogging at sea level, I felt like Superman. Almost floating over the sidewalk I miss the mountains but I'll never miss the altitude

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Folks in LA please be careful and refer to this guide for protest gear from Hong Kong’s 2018 anti-extradition protest, in case you need some helpful, well-tested gear suggestions against heavily armed police that are liberal with tear gas.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The intention was to migrate authors with original Smashwords accounts to use D2D's platform, not to get rid of Smashwords. Early 2024, the ability to open a new Smashwords author account ceased, and people were directed to open a D2D account to publish to Smashwords. The migration is still underway

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Stopped me in my tracks. The body is so strangely out of proportion. The street signs looked hastily touched up from whatever warped, word soup originally generated. The buildings are about to melt. I spent more than 15 hours this week designing covers for my indie romance pen. Speechless.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

On X, it struck me how many users would reply, "@grok, is this true?" instead of their own due diligence College students are relying on AI, but we also need to reckon with more demographics taking its output at face value without understanding AI hallucinations AI illiteracy is true public harm

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

A colleague mentioned they'd asked AI if they should consider a midlife career change. It told them no, so they decided against it This has been living rent-free in my head for weeks. I wouldn't trust AI to give me a trustworthy cookie recipe, let alone assign it high-level abstract decisions

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Some people seem to be unaware that Dr. Bhattacharya, current head of the National Institutes of Health, thinks that providing health insurance to the uninsured causes obesity. So here it is. He literally wrote the book (chapter) on it.

Screenshot of book chapter that says Does Health Insurance
Make You Fat?
Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood
2.1 Introduction
Adult obesity is a thorny problem. Several studies document rising obesity prevalence in the United States (See Mokdad et al. 1999; Mokdad et al.
2003). Economists have argued that the primary cause of increasing obesity prevalence are: (a) a falling relative price of food; (b) a technologically induced shift away from physically demanding work; and (c) a decline in time spent on food production at home (see Lakdawalla and Philipson 2002; Cut-ler, Glaeser, and Shapiro 2003; and Anderson, Butcher, and Levine 2003).' As most view these fundamental changes in the economy as desirable and would not want to undo them, developing public policy to address the root causes of rising obesity prevalence is difficult, if not entirely problematic.

Screen shot of book chapter that says 2.6 Conclusion
Our results indicate that extending insurance coverage to the uninsured will increase body weight. We find that both public and private insurance increase body weight, with somewhat larger effects for public insurance cov-erage. The effect sizes we measure of the effect of both public and private insurance coverage on body weight are large and precisely estimated. By contrast, we find no evidence that increasing the generosity of insurance coverage for the already insured leads to increases in body weight.
There are several reasons why the extensive margin of insurance matters and the intensive margin is less effective in influencing body weight choices.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The administration has abandoned the dog whistle for a foghorn

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I wake up and discover that habemus papam, and OH my that is an interesting (complimentary) choice that I absolutely never would have predicted

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/05/2025

“Trump’s approach to countering China has been so scattershot, so inept, so face-smackingly absurd, that it sometimes seems like a covert policy to destroy America’s reputation,” @dkthomp.bsky.social writes:

bit.ly

The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism

Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

What an infuriating justification. You can still see the struggle on @missakapolly's face. While this is extreme, many red voters have similar existential anxiety. A majority that relies on the disenfranchisement of minorities, because they fear becoming that which they victimize

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Thread. Containing nothing good.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats

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punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Yo, the town of Bellingham WA is considering making the city an official transgender sanctuary and they're having a town hall meeting this Monday at about 6:30-7ish! Would mean a lot to me if folks in the area showed support, id love a city close to my heart to be a sanctuary!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I love the support indie bookstores get. They deserve it. But it saddens me that indie authors don’t get the same support. Indie bookstores largely won’t stock indie books and we’re the most hard hit by the online boycott. It would be nice if indie book stores could return the support we give them.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Thanks for taking the time to bring this over from X.

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Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Important thread by Molson Hart ported over from X. While both China and 47 battle this out, the fallout is already happening, and we won't truly start feeling it until nearly Mid-May in our supply chain.

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

the paradox of america is that anyone who could afford to leave likes the way things work here

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