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Skivingwords

@skivingwords.bsky.social
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Reimagining myself in New England, after living so many other places. Containing multitudes. A.I. content is not welcome here.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 12h
I did it, I made it to now
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 18h
Oh I am doing well for someone who fell asleep at 11. Threw a nice lunch together, got everything ready for work that I can, ran a dishwasher even though the pot and pan debt runs heavy and deep and awaits my free time tomorrow.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 23h
I am deeply suspicious of cocomelon
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 23h
If I can help it, the kids at school will not hear AI music from my playlists. I can't protect them at home though
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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 08/10/2026
fuck ai art btw
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are ghosts even real?
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the "adapt or die" people failed to consider the secret third option of forming a neoluddite community where I'm selling my latest video game on usb sticks in a little lemonade stand
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A brilliant map of Nova Scotia’s lighthouses, showing each coastal light flashing in its real-world rhythm and pattern. A beautiful piece of cartography that turns navigational infrastructure into something almost hypnotic. Source: buff.ly/16Ye3IN
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I need to go cut some apple slices for lunch and get dressed and be sad about emails I can't sit down to write until later.
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Pip @philippawarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Giving up on the "To Do" list today and making a "To Did" list of things I actually managed to achieve. It's the sort of day where "getting dressed" is worthy of being on a list.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My roommate made me a quesadilla from leftovers from the Mexican restaurant and I have a real, better lunch than just those leftovers piled in a container. They are fresh and new and no longer sad.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am back at my apartment from visiting the boyfriend this weekend and I don't know how to move in with a person at all but this is very hard when I am so sleepy and so much of my important stuff is at my house.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you know what to do if you feel earthquake shaking? If you live in North America and the ground starts to shake the recommended action is to “drop, cover, and hold on”.
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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 04/10/2026
I am painting every London tube station. Here is number 122. Ealing Common station. darrenhaymanart.com
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All the domestic spaces I live within are giving me the deepest ennui, and I don't want to/absolutely cannot buy things to fix them so I keep watching zero dollar makeovers and not doing anything to make where I live better. I'm conducting psychological warfare on myself.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're playing Mothership again and I'm obsessed with details revealed in tonight's game and how to resolve them.
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Anyway, here's a crocodile my niece drew when she was younger
Drawing of a crocodile that looks like a green hotdog with five elephant legs and a mouth that consists of jaws with no thickness to them around very big teeth sticking sideways out of the hotdog
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have the morning off to do an appointment later so guess what I've been doing for an hour? Cleaning the kitchen at last
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok guess who is hiding from their roommate and by proxy all responsibilities
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Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You have discovered a planet. It is limited and parched. It is quite a conundrum. I expect that there are bisons there.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I may be in my 40s but I am a baby bird every morning rolling about in the most ungainly way
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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io
screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse
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武政 諒 Ryo Takemasa @ryotakemasa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Countryside from Above (2024) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We made dinner late and one of the bowls fell by accident and broke with the food inside it and this in turn broke my roommate. I don't get mad about broken bowls, I'm only glad no one was hurt. Though I did cut myself accidentally when I picked things up.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
First time I had a burnout I couldn't find anyone to tell me what was going on with all the weird symptoms, these days I can just text a friend and we compare, it's both reassuring and frustrating that there's never fewer than two of us knocked down at a time these days
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody wants to be going to work today even if they are going to have a good day once they get there
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the lies I regularly tell myself is that if I go to bed I'll get up early and do all the things I didn't do the night before and this is always untrue. I will never do anything except get ready to go to work in a panic.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We went to Trader Joe's in the rain on a Sunday at 1:30 and have barely escaped with our lives.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Putting fall bedding on the bed, grudgingly, but I can't deny it any longer.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have to buy food again today, because I just looked and there is very little, especially milk, in the fridge. We're trying to eat out less but I am going to the bakery in half an hour to get moon cakes and Boba tea because cereal is not an option.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The boyfriend has had migraines all weekend before this nor'easter that's coming tomorrow and there's been no seeing him as he's busy lying in a dark room unable to even talk on the phone. My knowledge of migraines begins and ends with the aunt in the book Red Badge Of Courage who can't get coffee.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Archeology day has concluded but the archeologist has not finished digging in the hole he's been allowed to dig.
An archeologist in a small rectangular hole, he might never come out.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Going to volunteer at the Ethan Allen Homestead museum today for a special archeology event and I'm very excited about it, because that's how I got involved in the first place.
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VTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“We became marketers and entertainers,” a state apple expert said. “Pumpkin patch runners and corn maze makers.”
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Vermont pick-your-own orchards’ success depends on the weather - VTDigger
“We became marketers and entertainers,” a state apple expert said. “Pumpkin patch runners and corn maze makers.”
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'have you considered writing in a different genre' oh you like the trumpet do you, i bet you'd be good at the oboe. if you love football you'd be great at archery, im going to walk directly into the ocean
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 25/09/2026
Hi everyone, it’s “be nice to yourself o’ clock” which means you have to forgive yourself for something boneheaded you did AND you have to make a plan to do a small nice thing for yourself. That’s the rules. What’s a small nice thing? For me it was driving through my favorite local coffee place.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new washer is to be delivered today and I have had no ability to clean the house for the invasion of workers that will happen after I leave
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have succeeded at breakfast and making lunch. We are having salad with peppers and cucumber and farmers cheese, a ham sandwich, and raspberries, and yogurt. Breakfast was cereal with fruit, toast, and chicken sausages.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.
"Great Western Railway NOTICE. It is forbidden for vagrants, beggars, itinerant musicians and females of doubtful reputation to enter these premises."
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am trying to enter this day but I do not have interest in breaching the gates
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026
the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I told someone at work today my roommate and my boyfriend and I have been friends for 25 years and they were flabbergasted because they have only been alive for 20 years.
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Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate getting a shower after work. I just want to sit and be a grub.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hope you're all alive.
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