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AdorkableSmile
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Moth. He/They.
PROJECTS: Fallen Star; The Winter Spirit
WIPs at https://adorkablesmile.neocities.org/
RPGs at https://adorkablesmile.itch.io/
Tags: #OneSkeetStory; #OneSkeetRPG
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AdorkableSmile @adorkablesmile.bsky.social · Jan 1
Hi. You can call me Moth. Writer of working fantasy and sci-fi with a day job. I'm learning how to make RPGs, you can find some of my early projects at the link in my bio. Pronouns are He/They, my brain works weird, I work in civil service.
🧵 Let's talk rules:
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brynleyheaven.bsky.social
Flood defences installed just five years ago already overtopped, Private flood defences have much higher failure rate
Thousands of flood defences below standard as Storm Bram hits
A BBC study lays bare the scale of flood defences in England that are in need of maintenance.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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seamus.bsky.social
This is personally heartbreaking for me, to see my beautiful, beloved, brave baby effectively sacrificed on the altar of Copilot.
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Me, in The Guardian today:

"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for what is right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand."
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social
I need to talk about Mick, a character you've never met, gender, and things I've figured out so far. It's going to be a long thread, so word of warning there. Not going to bother with post count, so when I'm done, just look for the /THREAD bit.

Anyway! 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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rowanauthor.bsky.social
Gentle reminder that you don't have to "deserve" rest.🌱

You need rest to function. It's not a treat you get for functioning.
December 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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tendermiasma.com
Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would
wweek.com Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d
Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.
Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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drbeth.bsky.social
Well it's a good job I don't want to go at the moment anyway!
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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smoking-gnu.bsky.social
G'morning #WIPSnips! This daily prompt is (probably) designed to challenge our continued writing skills, but Jennifer runs into an entirely different Design Choice over in TLC today... or did three weeks ago.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
I tap the accept button on the bracelet and rest my arm at face height on the glass in front of me, then speak before Driona has a chance to. “Good morning Driona! How’s your day going? What time is it where you are at the moment?” I ask brightly and cheerfully. “Uh… it’s morning here,” she answers, and it’s obvious that I’ve caught her off guard. “You too? Well that sounds positively serendipitous, don’t you think?” “...something like that. Listen, Jennifer-“ “How are those two cruisers doing that you found at that scrap station? Has Rondu given them a good once-over with his robot minions?” I ask, the topic suddenly coming to mind. Driona had found the two Antarian Bulwark Cruisers three weeks ago, heavily armoured and protected ships (as Rondu explained it) designed to serve as the unbreakable spine of an armada… two hundred years ago. Old, yes, but from what Rondu had said back then, they could still be usable if all the innards checked out.
December 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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saranadosfiction.com
#WIPSnips | design

Blood on the Snow again, and Sabbat in the middle of making a mistake that's very much going to come back and haunt him

( saranadosfiction.com/2020/09/02/b... )
The looping lines of silver were almost uncannily smooth under his fingertips, still blood-warm from his bodyheat even in the freezing night air, and, as his fingers traced the design over and around the base and sides of the box, he found the pain in his hand, his spine, his head fading away into the snow and fog, subsumed by the slow, sinuous curves and shapes of the strange, repeating pattern. *I don’t- Something’s not-* It felt… good: warm, and comfortable, and oddly familiar, like the buzz from a half-flask of gin, or a good hit of Smoke on a day when the pain would’ve otherwise left him sick and sweating. Something he could lose himself in, if he wanted to. And fuck, but he wanted to right now. *Just… let the whole fucking world go hang for a bit. Take the Smoke, knock yourself out, go watch the seaserpents swimming across the ceiling until Archer comes knocking on the door to ask where the hells you’ve been for the last-* *Shit. Archer!* His hand slipped, the metal edging of the corner of the box biting into his wounded palm and sending a spike of pain shooting up his arm – he swore, dropped the box, and fell to his knees, cradling his hand against his chest as hot blood dripped down his wrist and splattered onto the snow. “Fuck!”
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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zprospero.bsky.social
#WIPSnips

Well, someone had to design Hell's automated phone system.

Despite human belief, demons don’t have much imagination when it comes to cruelty. Violent retribution is a human invention.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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professoremily.bsky.social
#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

While walking home, Mem & Light get on the subject of their dead parents, and Mem suddenly feels compelled to get something off her chest... 👀

From #Charagma, my SFF dystopia where all people are marked saved or damned from birth.
“I know she wasn’t well,” Mem went on, stumbling to get the words out. “I know it’s not fair for me to feel like that. But I feel it all the same. It was like she ripped out all of our hearts because she just couldn’t wait to get to her eternal bliss. Like we weren’t—we weren’t good enough to keep her here.” Tears stung her eyes at that last sentence, and she hastily turned her head and brushed them away, embarrassed to lose control like this in front of Light. But it was such a relief to finally say what she’d been feeling for ten years, without having to worry about her father or Clara, well meaning though they might be, ordering her not to feel it. “My father’s death was... not his choice,” Light said carefully, “so I can’t feel angry at him, though I’m angry it happened. But I can completely understand why you’d feel that way.” “I know I shouldn’t,” she released a trembling sigh. “I feel terrible that I do. But I can’t help it.” “You shouldn’t feel terrible. I think it makes sense for you to feel like that.” He paused, as if unsure he should continue his thoughts. “Sometimes I question why El made us this way, marking the people who are destined for paradise. I think knowing what happens after we die can make some people far too focused on the future, and not enough on the present. It leads so often to grief and cruelty. I think we’ve all been hurt by it, one way or another.” Mem gaped at him. It was a blasphemy, to question El’s perfect design. She wanted to be offended by the statement, but... “Before she—killed herself,” she whispered, “my mother told me something. I’ve never known whether I believe it or not.” “What?”
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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sayaashrah.bsky.social
#WIPSnips 9. "Design"

On the technicalities of building a multispecies retreat (when you don't really want to bother to) and a girl who's most definitely not jealous.

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #BattlemageAskaly #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
A windy path eventually brought them back to the line of cottages. Xiuying went for the Outworld cabins, which had the exact same design as Earthrealm’s except for a purple door instead of a blue one. Apart from a colder ambient temperature, Xiuying’s room was also identical. Her backpack rested beside the bed, with the twinblade guarding over her belongings, and taking a discreet peek inside, Askaly found a change of clothes and a book whose cover she couldn’t see. “So…” she started. “What’s it like to sleep under the same roof as the big lizards?” “They don’t sleep inside.” “No? Why does Mïn bother building all this if most of his own realm’s species don’t even use it?” Xiuying removed her headphone and stowed it inside the backpack, which she then zipped closed. “It takes more mental energy to sculpt different models than similar ones. At least that’s what Ayodele said.” Askaly hummed, assuming she referred to another of the Lin Kuei warriors, but she didn’t want to pry and give the impression she was jealous or something. Which she wasn’t. That would be ridiculous.
December 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com
Okay this snippet is one of my favorite in Rivals-- massive "Sia isn't *a* bitch, Sia is *the* bitch and has been in control the whole time" energy. Even though it's at the end of Rivals, it's actually one of the first ch's I wrote for the book

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Nimaka wanted to play with her food, and she should’ve at least had the decency to do it correctly instead of missing half the facts. My vision doubled, seeing from Kylie’s eyes and my own concurrently. But my vision wasn’t from my actual body in the future. It was in this time but separate from Kylie, this new line of sight steadying more as Kylie’s vision disconnected. A fake body, unable to cast magic. Nimaka hadn’t realized Rota and I couldn’t take control of Kylie and Jordan’s bodies any longer, and Sai was by far the least threatening out of us three. We were at our weakest as we’d been, locked away. If either Rota or I could act, we could easily kill them. She didn’t know that part, but then… That had been by my design, after all.
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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eliwoodsgheist.com
Happy WIPSnips 9 - Design

From BLUDEYE BEACH. Okay I promise there's also monsters in this book, despite the last few snips I've posted
“So you designed your entire life around how it would sound when your mom told people about you?” Milo asked. Alexandra stared at Edie as well, her expression unreadable.  “I genuinely never put the thought together like that, but … yeah.” Edie rested her face on her hand. “She was a single mom, and always tried really hard to be the only parent I needed, especially after my Grandma died. I guess I just wanted her to feel like it was all worthwhile, you know? That she could be proud. That she could tell her coworkers about me.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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olinj.bsky.social
#WIPSnips
She stared up at the ceiling for a long moment, long enough that David was starting to feel uncomfortable, but then Meg looked him in the eye again. “Can we call it a leave of absence? I won’t insult you by asking you to try to work it out with my idiot daughter, but I want to give you room to think about it.” David took in a breath, preparing to tell her no, but then she continued. “When I found out Kirsten’s father was being unfaithful, I left, too. I did some stupid reactive things.” She gave him a rueful smile. “There’s a reason I wear a one-piece suit. You don’t want to see the embarrassing tattoo I got. I keep thinking about hiring someone to design a coverup tattoo, but never seem to get around to it.” I returned her smile. “But you are a good man, and you’re good at this job. I won’t let you burn this bridge, even if you want to.” He studied her for a moment then nodded. “Okay. A leave of absence.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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abdicatedblood.bsky.social
#WIPSnips
Maria and Mirideth grapple with their new, shared reality...
(Excerpt from FHSD Book 2: Sink Deep, Rise Higher)
Maria sat silently for several minutes, then said, “Do you expect me to feel sorry for you? After all you’ve done?” Another long silence. “No.” They simply sat there for a long while after that. Listening to the silence. “What in the Void have you done to me, Mirideth?” Maria asked. “Your body is gone. Your brain is all that remains, located in the head of this cybernetic platform. It was designed to my specifications, and it isn’t fully finished. You’ve been… not unconscious, exactly, but non-functional for the past seventeen hours. I’ve had a lot of time to myself, to think.” “Think about what?” “My life, my choices. Everything that led me here, to this moment, to being locked inside a robotic body I cannot control. I’ve… thought about Myrrhdta. My relationship with her, who she was to me. It-”
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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mcburnellauthor.bsky.social
#WIPSnips 'design'
He turned, following the line of the mage’s eyes onto the Feinzadi contingent. When the [villain] bred a crop of mages on his soil, he had given them uniforms that were simple and serviceable. Identical to those of the Un- army aside from the absence of armor and the presence of a saber at the hip. All of it carefully designed to say: ‘This isn’t such a big deal. See? They’re citizens like the rest of you.’ When he put the Mage Corps together, Ivantreste had gone in the complete opposite direction. Their uniforms of white and black and scarlet drew the eye. They were fashioned from expensive materials, and because they were shaped like trainers, clothing the Un- didn’t wear, this had the effect of pointing up their wearers’ differentness. He could see the thought process; Ivantreste hadn’t needed to jolly anyone along on his coup’s morality. Everyone whose opinion mattered had wanted to stick it to the Complex, and what he had needed to prove was that he was capable of pulling it off. When you looked at it like that, it made sense to make the mages gorgeously flamboyant: it was a statement of confidence.
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
adorkablesmile.bsky.social
#WIPSnips quick lil parting gift before I go to sleep.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
"DESIGN "Everything that has happened, has occurred according to my design." This was the sentence on the grainy tape recorder that the papers set in print for days, little seeming to notice that it was followed by several gunshots, and the unmistakable thud of a body falling to the floor. But even so, I couldn't help but wonder: had he meant to die then? Was this last note in his great unfinished symphony another of his cruel jokes? If so, to what end?"
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
adorkablesmile.bsky.social
A brown tabby cat loafing next to a sign that reads: "IT'S YOUR I.D. Don't use it to buy tobacco for minors."
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
adorkablesmile.bsky.social
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Alternatively (if possible) The Laws & Ordinances of the City of Ankh-Morpork
blurry-line.bsky.social to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 18h
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.

If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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themckenziest.gay
One of the wildest parts of the Luigi story is that he didn’t actually do it lol

We’ve been saying that since day one
@LuigiCaseFiles X.com BREAKING: During Karen Friedman's cross-examination, Officer Wasser testified that she and Officer Fox pulled over on the way to the precinct so he could transfer the McDonald's bag containing evidence into her car while both of their body-worn cameras were off. She also testified she didn't turn her camera on until she arrived at the precinct, where she opened the backpack and found the firearm.
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
Do you like disaster lesbians and accidental polycules? Do you like romance and open door spice? How about scandal and drama? Then you'll love Daughters of the Digital Empire!

It's free on my patreon with no sign up required (but all sign ups deeply appreciated).

www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...
D.D. Ward is Writing | Patreon
Various salacious fiction
www.patreon.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Last month, Denny's was bought out by private equity in a $620 million deal.

Now the company is closing 150 locations.

It's the latest chain to be swallowed by private equity and see numerous workers lose their jobs.
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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colinsmith.bsky.social
“Moominmamma cooks a real magic potion following Grandmother’s infallible recipe”, by Tove Jansson, as used on the cover of 1989’s exhibition catalogue of Jansson’s work as shown at Finland’s Tampere Art Museum.
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM