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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My mother's version of this was, "if you want to know what happens next, you'll have to read it yourself." *shrug* it worked!

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All three of these are FABULOUS books!!!!

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 07/10/2026

“But my taxes will go up” Yes. And then health care costs will drop so sharply you can finally afford to live.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like maybe Amazon is getting *too* specific to be useful here:

A screenshot from Amazon's about you page that says "Home & Family Has a cat that sneezes frequently"

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lol mine says "Cannot stand artificial sweeteners; finds them horribly bitter" and "Hates trying to set things on tiny watch screens." I mean, I can't deny. otoh it thinks I still have a husband and it's been 9 years since the divorce!

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the mid-90s I was typesetting theoretical physics journal articles in TeX and LaTeX at MIT and getting called/paid as a secretary. I'm still bitter. TBF, part of the time I *was* a secretary.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In other news, I spent a couple hours learning about the math involved in large language models and I AM SO MAD! IT IS LITERALLY JUST SPICY AUTOFILL IDKY I THOUGHT THE DIP$h!+s IN MY OLD PROGRAMMING CLASSES WOULD BE SMARTER THAN THEY ARE THEY ARE LITERALLY JUST WORSHIPPING A REFLECTION OF HUMANITY

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dr. Who, that episode where a spider takes over Romana (first piece of media that terrified you as a child)

A woman with prominent veins on her face and a spider and an alien face in the background

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The hospital I work for gives you *two* gowns and has one open in the front and the other open in the back so you're covered and warmer. I don't know if other places would do it if you asked. They should but then how often do healthcare facilities do things the way they should?

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm having serious flashbacks to work (I code emergent cholecystectomies frequently). I'm so glad you were able to get this done in time and so very sorry the process was so fraught! If it would make you feel any better, leave reviews for the asshole doctors. My Dax wishes you well:

A Snowshoe cat curled up asleep on a gray blanket.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's me when I'm doing coding for the emergency department and I see "patient is dizzy but not light-headed." They're literally the same code.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TPUSA employee goes into private property with dozens of fascist thugs that have no warrant who then make sweeping arrests and bulldoze an ancient tree… complains their pervert spy glasses broke in the process

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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MOTH👑MONARCH 🤖🔪 Robot Knife Fight Recovery Zone @mothmonarch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

QRP with your most popular piece on bsky - Mine is "Starchild" from earlier this year. 💫 bsky.app/profile/hamp...

Digital artwork of a dragon head caterpillar (Polyura schreiber) with the many dots on its horned head and chubby body rendered to resemble little stars, a few actually being tiny four-pointed stars. Above its head a partially eclipsed moon is framed between its inner horns, and large four-pointed stars rest on the center of its upper head and hang on either side of its head between its outer horns. More stylized rays and stars radiate out into the edges of the image, rich textured gold against a dark blue framing the green bug's body. The caterpillar is outlined in metallic gold and has fairly realistic face details and feet. Art by Moth Monarch.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jack makes awesome stuff! I have a pendant and a fidget pendant that I love very much!

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Earlier, a guy dmed me to ask how blind painting works. And I would have been happy to explain that on main, if he hadn't called me "dear" while he was at it. So i think imma go feed the kittens, and talk about art while I do it.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yep. We have a lot of stupid shit going on.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yep, you hit the nail on the head--it's about supply and demand. That, and the amount of power that landlords have here.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I actually believed I was being a hypochondriac and imagining the whole thing. But uh, yeah, apparently not! Also, I've been reading medical documentation for work for 3-4 years and yet I've never heard of an idioventricular rhythm before now?! 🤔

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cars put me to sleep in the same way. Planes make me happy, and I prefer the smaller ones where you can really feel them move. But the idea of trying to navigate security practically gives me the vapors.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I actually LOVE the part of flying that is being in an airplane god knows how far off of the ground. But I have security theater anxiety SO BAD that I won't fly.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

which one are you?

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Got my Zio monitor results back. The bad news: I wasn't imagining oddities in my heartbeat. The good news: it's two arrhythmias that tend to cause very few problems and rarely need treating. (An idioventricular rhythm, and SVT, which seems like an odd combination.)

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apparently if you spend enough time reading emergency dept documentation, you start fall-proofing your home. Pardon me while I go put down this nice new bathmat with its non-slip underside.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

spooky season is coming… what about being very spooky for only $13? www.threadless.com/shop/@poorly...

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My weird girl lit novel got a STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly! 🤩 "Using aliens to explore alienation, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself.“ out October 27 from Saga! 🛸 www.publishersweekly.com/9781668077122

She Isn’t Herself Tonight
Hailey Piper. Saga, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7712-2
The latest foray into supernatural horror from Bram Stoker award winner Piper (A Game in Yellow) offers an enthralling twist on the classic alien abduction plot. At age 30, Rabbit (a reclaimed childhood nickname) is eagerly awaiting the return of the aliens, or “Guests,” as she refers to them, that first came for her at age 10 and then again at age 20. She has never felt truly understood, not by her mother, who paraded her around local churches as a child to tell the story of her first abduction—substituting the aliens for angels—nor her recent ex-boyfriend, Leo, who accused her of being “too much work.” As she reels from the breakup, she takes comfort in knowing that the “Guests,” the only ones who have ever made her feel safe and cared for, will be returning soon. Piper mines a lot of tension from Rabbit’s yearning for her abductors, making readers just as anxious for their arrival as Rabbit herself, even as, in the meantime, Rabbit’s body undergoes a mysterious, possibly extraterrestrial transformation. Using aliens to explore alienation, this brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself. Agent: Lane Heymont, Tobias Literary. (Oct.)

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hi, Womble! I read J.D. Robb's latest "Fury in Death," and it's definitely one of her better ones. I hope you feel better soon!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does this guy just not understand that some people don't listen to the radio or its equivalent? It's pretty easy to miss this kind of thing when you're someone like me.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anybody else remember this movie? Some friends and I watched it a bunch of times in high school in the late 80s! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleamin...

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Gleaming the Cube - Wikipedia

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, so many of these devs are like "but we quality-checked all of it!" and that's... not the point. I don't want all of the living creatives to lose their jobs to AI, and the only way to possibly influence that is to push games that don't use AI. And like you said, so much public domain!

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, but... AI. I'm sticking to sharing non-AI games.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you! I haven't mentioned that one and I meant to!

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are a few others I plan to try (and might come back to add) and I hope some of y'all will add a few to this list for me to try out. If I missed an AI content statement on a game feel free to point that out, but again, no witch-hunts.

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Heather, Dice Goblin @errantdreams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not sure how I feel about DinoBones yet. It's really neat, but on the other hand, checking one tiny bone after another against each skeleton to see if it's a match gets tedious. We'll see. store.steampowered.com/app/5064340/...

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Save 10% on DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum on Steam

DinoBones: Tidy Up the Museum! is a cozy skeleton restoration sim. Identify, collect, and piece together around 2,000 scattered dinosaur bones. Feel chaos turn into order, and with every skeleton you ...

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