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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Twilight skiing is the best skiing. ⛷️ #sims4 #showusyoursims

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meet the Siberian long tailed tit, a tiny adorable fluffball with double eyelids. Original post

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Paralives @paralives.com · 30/09/2026

our artists have been working on expanding Paras’ wardrobe and hairstyles, here’s a sneak peek of new items coming later this year in our first major update ⋆. 𐙚 ˚

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My fearless adventurers have arrived in Mt. Komorebi! We're going to sightsee and team-build and sleep off our jet lag for a couple days before we attempt that mountain summit! Surely it will all be safe and well, because this is TS4 and nothing bad ever happens here, lol!

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Um. I think reading this book might be kind of like gawking at a gruesome traffic wreck. Like: I shouldn’t, I’m certainly not enjoying it, but I’m gonna keep staring at it for a bit longer before I try to wash it out of my brain. 🫠 I liked her memoir though.

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Half His Age

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Gl…

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've been trying to psych myself up to finish another novel WIP and get back into the publishing waters, but then I take a peek at some writer/author circles... You guys, it's rough out there with AI books taking over the lists and everything. Every day I see authors saying they're giving up. 😭

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I must be the last one to discover this game has an optional day/night cycle. 🙃 It is very pretty! #ManorLords

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last swim of the year. The water is already getting chilly, and no chance of it getting any warmer after next week. The official last day of summer is tomorrow and Tuesday brings actual sweater weather temperatures. So NOW we can have pumpkin spice everything and bonfires. Happy fall! 🎃🔥🍂

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy bee at Home Depot. 🐝

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nice! I was using mods for this, but this will be a very necessary fix for rotational players!

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From a raptors program NPS put on at a local park this weekend. It was so fun seeing them up close! Such pretty birds! 🤩 #wildlife #owls

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#ManorLords is so pretty! 😍 Just playing peaceful, farming my farms and trying to keep all these people fed.

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A+ camouflage, my chonky friend!

A chonky toad blends in with the dirt and pavement.

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My cherry tomatoes took forever to ripen, but when they finally did, they did all at the same time! 🤣

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This game is so beautiful and chill and relaxing! I can literally lose track of hours! #ManorLords

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Started a new story this week! "the best thing you never hoped for" is about Selena and Summer, two twenty-something roomies, one incredibly charming pup, and their problematic crush on the same guy. Can their friendship survive it? 😬 Start reading here: pixeldistractions.tumblr.com/post/8253229...

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And yet he’s still alive. Fuck.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She was such an incredible woman and model human being on this Earth. RIP Dolly. 😭

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Kiddo goes back to school tomorrow! I can't wait for the peace and quiet, you guys! I'm gonna think and plan and write SO MUCH! I'm gonna weed my yard and work on house projects and get so much done! You know, until the usual fall sickness comes around... 😏

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I need to play this city more often. It's so funny! This sim is a 4-star celebrity DJ with plenty of money, and he's here barefoot digging in the trash! 😂🤣😂 #sims4 #showusyoursims #sanmyshuno

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lucy's littlest one is a toddler like her big sissy now! #sims4

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Behold! My bountiful harvest. 😂🤣😂 So I totally did not give these plants the space they needed to thrive. 2 of 5 stalks did not produce at all, and one more ear was sad, so I composted it. But hey, still gonna eat some corn! Like, enough for a snack or something? 😆

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's a wedding! Photo mode goes a long way to making it look like your friends are watching the vows and actually care, lol! And one of my favorite things about this game is that high heels actually make your para noticeably taller, so you can tower over your man on your wedding day! 😂 #Paralives

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now that is a cute baby! ❤️ (I guess I could give her some hair, but none of my RL babies ever had any hair until they were a year old, so I'm kind of partial to baldy babies, lol!) #Paralives

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Found in Winchester, VA. Inside a silo! Also, only just noticed the artist is my age and has a death year. 😭 (Museum of the Shenandoah Valley)

Art installation inside a silo, ironwork birds and clouds turn on wind power.

Silo Skyline, 2020
Ironwork and fabrication by Andrew White (American, 1981-2023) with Jack McAllister (American, b. 1938)
Engineering and mechanical construction by Brett Phillips, Crider & Phillips, LLC
Iron, aluminum, aluminum mesh, steel, paint
Conceived and commissioned by Dr. Jack McAllister; funded by Jack and Jane McAllister

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Awesome! This was on my wishlist!

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Good camouflage, my little friend!

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The dates I booked for a camping trip. 😭😭😭 Yeah, I think we might sit this one out. I don't even hate the rain, honestly. If it was just me and hubby, it would be a whole different story. But stuck in a camper with bored kids for a week? All that mud. All that damp. No thanks.

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This! The em dashes were ours first!!!

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Paralives @paralives.com · 28/07/2026

we heard you loud and clear… the babies needed some work! here’s a sneak peek of their updated look, coming soon in our next patch on August 10th (๑ > ᴗ < ๑)

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ah, I love how easy it is to do custom family photos on the wall in this game! 🤩 #Paralives

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Childhood in the summertime when your dads are best friends and you live next door to each other. 🥰 #Paralives *fireflies not included (I drew them on, lol!)

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Also, I fixed Jason & Sofia's bedroom life in my game! #Paralives It was kind of as I expected, that they had never rolled the "get intimate for the first time" card. But I could never get that card to come up for them until the storyteller gave me a "romantic interest" card one night.

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What I'm wishing for in #Paralives more than anything else in this early access period is for them to be able to multi-task a little during conversations. To talk in situations other than just standing face-to-face. (I know the together bar will keep running, but you don't see them talking.)

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Spring came for my pixel babies, but warmth in Brindleton Bay will take a few weeks longer. #sims4 #showusyoursims

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An actual writer or artist or programmer etc can dust off something they made a decade ago and go "let's see what a decade of learning does to this" Someone who outsourced their learning to the gacha machine made of plagiarism and CSAM, *have nothing to revisit* and *no skills learned since*

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Sofia and Jason's girls aged up to childhood in my game, and they are showing a very nice blend of facial genetics between them. One has mom's eyes and dad's nose, while the other has dad's eyes and mom's nose. Before now, I assumed this game only made clones of one parent or the other. #Paralives

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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ghoul dente, convenience BASTARD 🍝 @katbridges.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

gang, the trail cam is a treasure trove 🐻 🥰

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The smell is unexpected. I guess I expected it to smell more like campfire or burning wood, but it smells more toxic like chemicals or burning plastic. 🤢 We are definitely shut up inside with the air purifier today!

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PrOwOfligate's Alt to Spam Pure Shite @prowoflihate.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I game is so ugly I love it so much.

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Real life “level terrain to height” tools. Next up: real life “build pool” tools. 😎 #nonsims But it would be so much easier in sims!!! Like, one click easier, lol!

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Laura @lakesidelaura.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Currently reading: Yesteryear I saw they were making a movie of this (with Anne Hathaway, whom I love!), and it just happened to be at the library on the new release/popular shelf, so I grabbed it. Sucked me right in! I can see why this one is popular!

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Yesteryear

A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, …

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Pirate Artisans 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @ STL Ren Fest @pirateartisans.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Gotta admit, pretending to be alive for a month to manipulate the legal process to the advantage of his party is exactly how Mitch McConnell would want to die.

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 07/07/2026

don’t be embarrassed about making art are you kidding me ????? there’s people proud to say they “made art” by using ai and you’re embarrassed to make art with your human brain ???? come on now

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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