Reposted by SkivingwordsDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lookit. 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. 611602345
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 18hOh 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. 100
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 23hIf I can help it, the kids at school will not hear AI music from my playlists. I can't protect them at home though 000
Reposted by SkivingwordsPoorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Are ghosts even real? 144064
Reposted by SkivingwordsFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the "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 472311307
Reposted by SkivingwordsSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A 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 615646
Reposted by SkivingwordsSteve 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!forbes.comKnobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of ManyAuto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back. 21691591677
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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. 100
Reposted by SkivingwordsPip @philippawarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Giving 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. 1211
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My 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. 000
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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. 100
Reposted by SkivingwordsDr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Do 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”. 510643
Reposted by SkivingwordsDarren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 04/10/2026I am painting every London tube station. Here is number 122. Ealing Common station. darrenhaymanart.com 0111
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026All 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. 000
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We're playing Mothership again and I'm obsessed with details revealed in tonight's game and how to resolve them. 000
Reposted by Skivingwordsdonoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains 252833549
Reposted by SkivingwordsSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Anyway, here's a crocodile my niece drew when she was younger 2206
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have the morning off to do an appointment later so guess what I've been doing for an hour? Cleaning the kitchen at last 100
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ok guess who is hiding from their roommate and by proxy all responsibilities 100
Reposted by SkivingwordsNewfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You have discovered a planet. It is limited and parched. It is quite a conundrum. I expect that there are bisons there. 011
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I may be in my 40s but I am a baby bird every morning rolling about in the most ungainly way 010
Reposted by SkivingwordsMakkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'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 5426851008
Reposted by Skivingwords武政 諒 Ryo Takemasa @ryotakemasa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Countryside from Above (2024) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot... 024352
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We 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. 100
Reposted by SkivingwordsCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons 252248815816
Reposted by SkivingwordsViv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026First 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 082
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nobody wants to be going to work today even if they are going to have a good day once they get there 000
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One 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. 100
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We went to Trader Joe's in the rain on a Sunday at 1:30 and have barely escaped with our lives. 010
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Putting fall bedding on the bed, grudgingly, but I can't deny it any longer. 000
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I 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. 100
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The 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. 000
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Archeology day has concluded but the archeologist has not finished digging in the hole he's been allowed to dig. 211
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Going 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. 000
Reposted by SkivingwordsVTDigger @vtdigger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“We became marketers and entertainers,” a state apple expert said. “Pumpkin patch runners and corn maze makers.”vtdigger.orgVermont 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.” 161
Reposted by SkivingwordsOliver 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 117622
Reposted by SkivingwordsCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does 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. 5843441194
Reposted by SkivingwordsLilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 25/09/2026Hi 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. 625862
Reposted by SkivingwordsOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 385113523087
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 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 100
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I 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. 000
Reposted by SkivingwordsTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you. 26450101
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am trying to enter this day but I do not have interest in breaching the gates 000
Reposted by Skivingwordsabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026the 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 1297119
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I 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. 100
Skivingwords @skivingwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I hate getting a shower after work. I just want to sit and be a grub. 100
Reposted by SkivingwordsPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I hope you're all alive. 1034253