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jaqfrog

@jaqfrog.bsky.social
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you'll find me on the dancefloor. or at a gig. or among some trees. or drinking coffee. or in the kitchen. occasionally reading (when the concentration levels allow). Profile wuffit = Timmy, who was a year older than me.

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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I am happy to be in a cul-de-sac that doesn't have anyone, especially politicians, posting video!
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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A NYC pop-up just opened displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation featuring 3.5 million pages of released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
today I panicked about getting to the dentist on time so caught a taxi. not necessary, appt was 15:45 not 10:45. *sigh*. lounged in town drinking coffee, dossed in the library & finished reading 'Adjustment Day' by @chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
evicting a wasp from under my pillow before sleeping was not on my to do list at 4am today.
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 20/04/2026
Horror anthologies have a rich history. Black Crow Books just joined it. 13 original stories. Tuttle, Tchaikovsky, Blake, Lebbon, Campbell, 8 more. We’re giving one away. For a chance to win simply check out the details in the article below @blackcrowpr.bsky.social
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The Black Crow Book Of Best New Horror Vol 1 Is Heading Your Way – Exclusive Giveaway From Ginger Nuts Of Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Win The Black Crow Book of Best New Horror Vol 1. 13 original stories from Tuttle, Tchaikovsky, Blake, Lebbon, Campbell & more. Enter at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In the back half of 2026 we've got the Best New Weird Horror of the Year; a cyberpunk noir by @beardedbetts.bsky.social; Trans & GNC Cosmic Horror; and grimy urban horror-lit-comedy by @allisonmick.bsky.social with a cover reveal coming next week🖤☠️
BRAVE NEW WEIRD cover art by Matt BlairstoneMIDWESTERN CHROME art by AriBoYOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM cover art by Mx Morgan G Robles
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS
terribleminds.com
Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
today's a cold leftover curry for lunch day, video chat with my sister, and old war films - Where Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone.
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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This piece of brilliance from @vizcomic.bsky.social is the story of my life
A cartoon from Viz called Terror in NYC
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
flagging this for @bobbyllew.bsky.social to read, as said in recent email about not using American things - We Transfer is from Amsterdam therefore he could use it. I've made my fb post public - but short version is their new t&c say they can use your content to feed their AI. shorturl.at/A07yc
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Jackie Clewlow
WeTransfer sneak in some new t&c indicating they can now own the info you're transferring and feed it to their 'machine learning systems'.
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Caveat Frogs @caveatfrogs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Now a perfect Valentine's Day Card
jaunty.art
Our Love Is Endless* Caveat Frog Card
Say what you really mean with this Caveat Frog Card. An illustration of two frogs making a love heart with their arms. Text reads: Our Love Is Endless* * until one or both of us dies Jaunty Art 26
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
flagging this to remind myself to buy the pattern.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
looks fun
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Here is a poem Renee Good, under her earlier name Renee Macklin, wrote, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." It won a prize. It's really good. "it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge." poets.org/2020-on-lear...
poets.org
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version.
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
This was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents—Claudius and its overseeing “CEO” bot, Seymour Cash—became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted this software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
still reading 'Black Mirror' short stories (I've forgotten its original title, dammit) by Joe Hill.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
not me, procrastinating with a coffee, trying to figure out what 'fancy' stuff I can wear tomorrow for a wake ... but alas, no croissant.
a coffee in a white cup and saucer, with a croissant to its side and some cinammon in a glass in the background.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
deathgrowling vox ftw!
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
science.org
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
no pics as I am on laptop and cba to sort out how to post here from google drive where I think my samsung saves pics to. but I have had buttered crumpet &coffee with gulls screeching in the background, in a half-empty house in Whitby where I've seen some great bands this week, more stuff on later
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"The people in the Capitol who are obsessed with which bathrooms we use, what we do in our own homes, and what kind of art we make? The feds who want to strip away retirement benefits from trans Air Force veterans being forcibly removed from their positions? Those are the weirdos."
thebarbedwire.com
Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too.
There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Computers that want things www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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James Meek · Computers that want things
For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
B&W photo of a building facaceRelief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
current book: 'Unforgiveable Stories' by Kim Newman. Short stories, so far about Dracula (no surprise!), Jekyll and Hyde, Edgar A Poe. Got into it properly during Silent Reading book club
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
would happily avoid the sun and explore this place
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 18/08/2025
Another little giveaway to celebrate 33k followers, this is UK only Follow, like, and repost to be in with a chance to get this ends midnight BST 21st August The Modern Goth Tarot #WitchSky #TarotSky
The Wheel of Fortune card from The Modern Goth TarotFront of the box for The Modern Goth TarotBack of the box of The Modern Goth TarotThe Hierophant card from The Modern Goth Tarot
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Holidayed for a long weekend. Knackered now. First time at Infest because it wasn't on Bank Hol weekend, when D goes larping. Moved as Bradford was City of Culture. Good news is the crew and bands and everyone thought it was fab at the new place and is running there again next year!
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
not accepting DMs right now, due to the faff of confirming I'm an adult. bah.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
wore my new Christmas pressie dungas out today. Cheers to Run & Fly for making clothing to make me smile.
close-up of the front panel with pocket of a pair of grey rainbow leopard stretch twill dungarees. a patch with rainbow edging reads 'Run & Fly'.
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
good to hear!
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
turns out I had a bluesky account for a year and didn't get round to use it. ah well, am here now! better than tumblr. still haven't used that one in <checks> 13 yrs...
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jaqfrog @jaqfrog.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A sign I thought suited me. Found in the basement of an unused travel shop that the arts organisation I volunteer for, Appetite, moved into for a year until the project closed recently.
A horizontal cardboard sign with slight stains on it.  The word 'alternative' is handwritten in block capitals in black ink.
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