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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 14h

FWIW - I've been transitioning from Scrivener to a newer application Deckle. It has writing, notes, places to hold research, but is much, much, simpler than Scrivener. It's new and still rough, but I haven't found anything disqualifying. It costs. Includes formatting. No AI so far. deckle.studio

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Deckle: write, format, and publish your novel in one app

Scrivener + Vellum costs $300 or more. Deckle writes, formats, and publishes your novel for $197: one app, on Windows, Mac and Linux, every update included.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

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reminder that I have a podcast! it'd be cool if you listened or shared it. each week, I talk with a great guest(s) about the amazing new things we know about the medieval world, with a special eye for how the Middle Ages are understood here in the Americas. #medievalsky art19.com/shows/americ...

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American Medieval

American Medieval is a podcast about the history of the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. Each week, host Prof. Matthew Gabriele is joined by expert guests to explore not medieval history, but ...

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 16h

Some days, I think I'm very creative. Other days, Wendy's just slams my ego into the concrete.

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Billy the Kid for Tax Purposes

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Luck. Sushi heavy on the wasabi works for me.

Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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Hey....WHY I LOVE HORROR is only $1.99 on Amazon and it is back to having an orange banner. @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @laneheymont.bsky.social Buy your own copy wherever books are sold. Preferably your local independent bookstore.

A screen shot from 10/15/26 with WHY I LOVE HORROR by Becky Siegel Spratford and it's "Best Seller" organe banner on Amazon.

Book Cover-- a mottled gray and white background with a tall and long black figure with claw like hands. It is black and ominous with a tiny head, Not too scary, just ominous. on its left, it is holding the hand of a small black human figure who is leading it confidently. Overlaid is the title- WHY I LOVE HORROR (1 word per row). The letters are in a dark gray but the letters that overlap with the monster are in red. In the top right corner it says "Edited by Becky Siegel Spratford" And down in the bottom right in the space just above where the monster and figure are holding hands it says "Essays on Horror Literature."

There is also a seal next to the human figure that denotes it won the Bram Stoker Award.

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Take the register that long to calculate which 50,000 ads are for you!

Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Enjoy my series: Book Marketing Sucks. I'm Going To Get Stupid With It. A series where I insert my book, Lost Infernal, into random photos because I decided this was a good idea while whacked out on cough syrup. I honour past me and her weird decisions. Lost Infernal: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBLTY4TJ

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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Read a book. Leave a review. Make an author happy. Raise a book's visibility. Help a potential reader find a new book. It's a win-win.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Listen: if you care about History, especially history written for broad audiences, we need review sites. It’s basically impossible for me to sell book reviews the mainstream media applications now. So I’m asking you to subscribe to this one.

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you see this, post a witch!

Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler, and Kathy Najimy as a coven of witches in 1993 movie "Hocus Pocus"

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Something a bit more recent and *way* more on the pop side of the equation: youtu.be/-gY47jh7q8I

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The Interrupters - "She Got Arrested" (Live)

YouTube video by The Interrupters

Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Jefferies is the Collins of the Dems? Deeply concerned, but doing nothing.

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Do you know the measles man, The measles man, the measles man? Do you know the measles man, Who swims in raw sewage?

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If these tickle your fancy, you might try Maverick. Maverick (TV series) - Wikipedia share.google/uYGs53NWlm3T... An anti hero comedy with James Garner in the lead. Robert Altman directs season 4, but by then Roger Moore had been installed as the lead.

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Maverick (TV series) - Wikipedia

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I think you mean Gail Shamwow!

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The AcePro2 worked well for videos, but it's an action camera. Not so good for photographing children. I'll sub in a point-and-shoot soon. Kids too young to deal with the Cybershot. Hoping the Charmera - look through range finder and push the button - will interest them.

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So far, so good. Stuff I learned: Leave the equipment you're not going to use on location in the hotel: printer, microphone batteries, Sharpies don't work for headers, the ink bleed through Don't carry a highlighter or a crayon in your pocket in the AZ heat

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Hollyland Lark Max 2 microphones for videos. Bought these for doing interviews in the library. The sound is way better than the phone mics. I like these because they are flexible: mics have 32bit float recorders that can handle kids squealing and adapters for phone and cameras.

Hollyland Lark Max 2 microphone kit in it's holder.

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Stuff from the back pocket of the bag: Passes for assorted favorite places to visit A forgotten sticker from the aquarium. You can paste a souvenir sticker straight into the notebook to remember where you've been. Some lens cloths.

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The picture taking stuff we use: GoPro Ace 2 in Xplorer grip - didn't work out as well as I'd hoped Sony Cybershot - nicely compact Kodak Charmera - hoping I can interest the kids in using GoPro pocket printer w/ extra cartridges. We double sided tape the prints into the notebook. GoPro drop tripod

Equipment used to make memories of photos:
Go Pro Ace Pro in explorer cage
Sony Cybershot W830
GoPro Pocket printer
Go Pro drop tripod

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We use notebooks for memories. We 3D printed a stamp for the cover. Needs work. 5.6mm lead holder with color leads for headers 3x5 index cards in gray and parchment for kids drawing taped into the notebook Altoids tin of kid's wide colored pencils Notebook cover 2mm lead holder for highlighting

Equipment used to record memories: notebook, leads, pen, colored pencils, and index cards.

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The cat doesn't get packed, but she's very suspicious that she's gonna be spending time with the cat sitter. #Caturday

Contents of travel sack. A tabby cat is sitting next to the contents, suspiciously.

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My bag is a 4L Flow Satchel. The essence of choosing a bag is knowing what you want it to do for you. In my case, I want it to do two things: travel to see the grandkids, and while there carry the stuff we use to collect memories. #Alpaka

Alpaka 4L Flow satchel bag packed to travel. There is a 20oz water bottle outside of it's pocket to make it easier to see the bag.

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10th Anniversary Sweepstakes

Alpaka is running a contest. Show your bag loaded and get a chance to win a bag and a gift certificate. Since I had to take pictures anyway, I thought I'd share on here. alpakagear.com/pages/10th-a...

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ALPAKA'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY SWEEPSTAKES

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To the tune of O Canada O Tottenham! Our favored punching bag! True failing pity from all of us command. With glowing grins we see thee fall, The football club of failed dreams!

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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I talked to someone who had studied the philosophy of psychology. She said there was a big debate in those circles as to whether or not a “person” is defined as a collection of stories. And I thought it was crazy and wrong but after 10 seconds, I was like, yes of course. We are anthologies.

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In my best Christian Bale voice: I am BaiNE

Image from graphic novel "City of Batman" showing villain Bane in the center surround by other villains from the series.

Worth remembering Elon is an illegal immigrant who lied to get into the country.

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My nephew will love it. My brother...eh.

Pisses me off deep in my librarian soul. The reason reading to your child accelerates their development is your love and presence. Subbing in incomplete reproduction ain't gonna cut it.

Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hello. Librarian at title 1 Middle School. Check firstbook.org. They offer steep discounts on toys and things that make good takeaways. Pokeman toys and cards, legos, etc. For the classroom the sell a shoebox full of used LEGO bricks for cheap. Luck

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For those about to squat WE SALUTE YOU!

Bones They betrayed their lead character in fan service of a relationship with Booth. All they had to do was completely change her core beliefs.

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"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ..."

Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The hardest I've laughed in a while. The contest being American cookies, they came up with: Strawberries and Cream, Centre Court Dreams Bakewells And Tiramasu Kind of puts Dick van Dyke's accent in a whole new light.

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Dude. Typists on a Train was right there.

Scene from Hitchcock film "Strangers on a Train" [1951].
Pictures shows Fairly Granger and Robert Walker seated at a dining table on a train moving through the landscape. The film concerns a psychopath trying to convince another person to "exchange" murders so the primary suspect would have an alibi.

Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No expert, just a curious old man. US chocolate uses lipolysis to process the milk which produces butyric acid. Even UK brands owned by Mars use it in the US. The other thing you might check for in ingredients: sunflower oil or lecithin. My grandson reacts (FPIES) and it is in everything here.

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Dooley @mwdooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Slop bucket Hope chest Reliquary Goblet Stewpot Luck