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Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you! :) And yes, the whole stretching-down-the-years thing is getting a bit overwhelming these days. But it's nice to have old friends... err, long-time friends. Not accusing anyone (other than myself, today) of being old. 😅

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But creepy giggling is a totally context-appropriate type of giggling, especially by sewer-dwelling assassins -- or are you saying it wasn't intentional (on the author's part)? That's just bad. Now I need to lie down and not see the word 'giggle' again for a few days.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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This whole thread is too real. It's been 5 years almost to the day for me, and I still gnaw at the decision almost every day. It wasn't made lightly and it is still not light, nor ever will be. I am sad about it but I do, still, know it was the right decision.

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Argh now I feel I have to do more explaining. There's a lot of context and nuance, obvs, which you're already aware of. It's not always bad. The Tilly character in ST:Discovery did a lot of giggling, but that was fine because it was a nervous/social anxiety thing and it worked in that context.

Sounds like it, and the 'substitute he' suggestion above was really good. This is going to sound mean, but I lose respect for characters who giggle a lot when the author clearly could have used another word. To me (again, possibly mean) it implies a certain immaturity. Which may be unfair, I dunno.

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I mean, I feel like it's kind of an obligation when starting LOTRO (which I assume is what you're referencing?). I did the same way back when, possibly also with a hobbit (coulda been an elf -- actually probably was, I'm an elf-ho), and came to the same end. Good times. 😆

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100% this. I cringe every time I see a woman giggling when a laugh, snort, chuckle, grin, guffaw, or whatever would do much better. I am not the giggling type (I think my voice is too deep and my laugh is just generally too laugh-y), and excessive giggling in books gives me the ick as well.

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Heavy god-ray action on my RDR2 desktop wallpaper today. It may be a trend that some of my favourite games are also the ones that gave the best screenshots. This one actually features some NPCs, which is rare for me (in games as in life, I'm more of a landscape person).

A screenshot from the game Red Dead Redemption 2, showing NPCs at a campsite with the rising sun lighting up the morning mist.

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Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today in Get Off My Lawn: YouTubers, "ph" makes an F sound. It's am amfffffffi-theatre, not an am-pee-theatre. You don't call them elePANTs, either. Or peromones. Or potograps. Grrr.

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Homer Simpson: Where's My Coffee?

Alt: Homer Simpson's dad yelling out of a window

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Coco (our Basenji rescue) is the same. I think she grew up in a crate, and even now she's still half-convinced that the beautiful outside is for everything but doing her business. Which is why we can't have rugs, but so it goes. She also anxious chews all my tshirts she can reach. Trauma is trauma.

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Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It looks like it might be a UK fireplace surround -- the old urban coal fireplaces were quite small compared to wood-burning ones.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026

As with spoilers, I just generally oppose telling people they're having fun wrong. If someone wants to reload to get the narrative they wanted: let them! Who cares? What does that do, invalidate someone else's gold medal in Having Fun Right? It does not actually matter. Let people enjoy things.

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Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quirk, waggle, slant ... trying to remember other ones I've read over the years.

Sorry. That was a very 'tirée par les cheveux' reference and metaphor, lol.

WTF? Consoles killed the video game star, I guess.

She looks scared but hopeful. I'm probably just anthropomorphising.

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That little face though 😍😍😍

Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fuck no. No no no no nope hell no. I will not collude in my own 24/7 surveillance. Phones are bad enough.

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 26/09/2026

We're trying to find a home for, and I quote, "the Pissfingers of cats." Any takers? ❤️

Three screenshots of our facebook post about Jaffa Cake the unlucky mog

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Ysharros @ysharros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel you and agree with basically all of that. She looks very sweet. Love you for caring where so many don't.