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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Mark @vbloke.com · 02/08/2026

Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981, but was set in 1936 - a difference of 45 years. If they made the film today, the same time difference would mean it would be set in 1981.

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Books are good, I should post more about books. And Our Lady of Blades by Sebastien de Castell was VERY good - twisty revenge, courtly power struggles, more than a bit of trauma. Would work as a standalone, only background-connected to Play of Shadows. Out later this week!

Book cover of Our Lady of Blades by Sebastien de Castell

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Today I want to remind myself that life is okay. There are lots of good things, not just the tough stuff. Perspective can be a choice.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 27/04/2026

New comic is up. Here are my favorite bits. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/cr...

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Please do this. But, no reimbursement for the yachts.

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Andi Ewington @andiewington.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Dropping the price a little for Bones & Betrayals: Silence of the Dead—and The Hero Interviews. If you haven’t picked these up yet, now’s your chance! @ericamarks.bsky.social

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Sinners Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 19/01/2026

What is hope, if not spite persevering?

LOTR, two panels.

Top panel: Frodo, forlorn, slumped against a stone corner asking (in text on screen): What are we holding onto, Sam?

Bottom panel: Sam, facing Frodo (seen from behind), responding: Sheer fucking spite, Mr. Frodo.

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Computational Demonologist.

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

So, so true. Make 2026 a year of enjoying your nice things.

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Jeff Gordon “Gordongrubs “ @gordongrubs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Absolutely worth the read!

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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Rest isn’t a reward for doing enough, it’s a necessity for staying whole. We often glorify hustle, but peace is the ultimate achievement. Taking care of your mind & soul before they reach their limit isn’t weakness; it’s wisdom. You don’t have to earn rest, you deserve it. #Jaye’sMorningLight

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right.

At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This atmospheric, immersive, genre-hopping novella is out on Friday, and I'd recommend it while also asking: can we have some more, please?! littlefrogscribbles.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/t...

Book cover for The Dagger in Vichy by Alastair Reynolds: red with gothic text and illuminated-manuscript type design.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 17/10/2025

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🌲 Don't get lost. 👁️ Pray you're not found. The gloriously foiled paperback of Fiona Barnett's THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES is available now from all good bookshops! “Folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.” - Esquire Buy now geni.us/TheDarkBetwe...

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Neil Slorance @neilslorance.com · 04/10/2025

They all liked his outfit 🎃🐢

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU

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David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Seasonal reminder that if you’re feeling unwell, absolutely nobody actually wants to see you in the damn office. Typing this as I’m sat on a train near to a continually sneezing, unwell looking woman.

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!

art of a wolf girl eating broccoli and brushing her teeth. the dialogue says:
I've been an adult living on my own for a coupleyears now and since I have ADHD and bouts of Sick Brain Disease I can fall into a rut easilyESPECIALLY when it comesto taking care of myselfbut the awesome thing about being an adult is that no one is watching over your shoulder making
sure you're perfect i used to give myself shit that i wouldn't be able to eat healthier or take care of myself in an optimal way here's a cool trick tho: ANYTHINGis is better than nothing. if you can only eat a couple vegetables? buddy thats better than no vegetables. worried about brushing your teeth for like three minutes? do like ten seconds instead want to socialize more often but you're worried you can't do multi-hour events? babe you're an adult now, if you get tired you can just leave lol If you want to improve, fuck yeah, work your way up to more of whatever. starting at all is the hard part - if you can do that then you've got a lot of what you need already anyway ive crunched the numbers and treating yourself a little bit better than yesterday is actually a million times better than trying to Fix Your Life Completely and getting mad when you can't do a 180. be nice and recognize that you can live a lot of your life in first or second drafts; if you're not perfect yet? fuck it, you'll get better later! u can do it!!! woof!!

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Stops Chrome defaulting to the AI search, hurrah!

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Book mail today! Super exciting - and huge thanks to @wsbookclub.bsky.social @andiewington.bsky.social and @ericamarks.bsky.social for my giveaway prize! :) Looking forward to diving in!

Picture of the book, Silence of the Dead, book one of the new Bones and Betrayals fantasy mystery series.

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

According to this, my neighbour hit me with a rock in church. Well, that's two of my dislikes explained...

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Watching #DoctorWho and does anyone else see a Gwyneth 'Goop' Paltrow spitting image in Freddie Fox here?

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

More positivity, yes :)

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Not *really* the meme I wanted to have resonate today! o.O

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'm about a third of the way through @garethlpowell.bsky.social 's upcoming new novel, Future's Edge, and it is SO GOOD!! Been in a bit of a reading slump of late, and this is fixing that a treat - I'm having to slow myself down 'cos I am loving this universe and story too much to rush!

Book cover for Future's Edge by Gareth L Powell

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In totally typical fashion, birds seen during the Big Birdwatch yesterday ~3. Birds out there today: about 4 billion! ;) (including a great view of the illusive little wren, so that was nice).

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I needed a laugh today :)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I wrote this thread last year during one of the worst periods in my life, and it helps me when the urge to worry and doomscroll for hours is particularly powerful

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Brian Edwards @brianftang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

medium.com

MS Word is Using You to Train AI

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I could do with seeing a few more cute, funny, wholesome kind of nice posts. Suggestions?

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Yvris Burke | Button Kin Games @buttonkin.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For the next 48 hours you can get a bundle of all my TTRPG games and content for free on itch.io. I hope that those who need a distraction find one. (new post with a working link 🙃) buttonkin.itch.io/badnewsbundl...

A tiled view of eight releases on itch.io, all marked 100% off. Titles are: Bumling, Psychic Night School, The Tillvayle Committee, Caltrop Kaiju, Drama Llamas, Flora and Llama, Beach Bar-a-Llama, Llama Warrior

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calypte @froglet.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #567,957!

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Unikeko @unikeko.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

This should be terms and conditions to agree every time you engage with a story.

-someone else's fiction cannot cause physical harm
- if someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it
- your empirical well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers
- someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma
- when reading or watching fiction, you always have The power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.
- fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.
- the content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author
- just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.
- don't like? Don't read.

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