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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 1d

Yes just a bit sore

Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 2d

“Am I too old to go to a rave?” I asked myself, 20 minutes before tripping and face-planting on concrete outside the fish and chip shop, ultimately answering my own question

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 2d

I just discovered Racing Mount Pleasant and honestly this is closer to what I had hoped Black Country New Road would be

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 2d

Saxophone is really having a moment in music lately

a man is playing a saxophone in front of a fire while a woman plays drums in the background .

Alt: The lost boys saxophone guy playing a saxophone in front of a fire while a woman plays drums in the background

media.tenor.com

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody ever says "I wish I'd played more video games" when they die. Video games haven't been around long enough. I may be the first to say it.

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 3d

He is still not very cool though

A grey making the goofiest face possible as I try to get the cape off him

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 3d

I made Dominic a cape for his cool alter-ego, Nighthawk

A grey cockatiel wearing a little black cape with the word nighthawk on it

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t help but notice when people don’t like a woman’s latest book/album/film/etc no ever just says “I didn’t like it.” They always have to say “I didn’t like it… and actually I’ve always thought she was a bitch too.”

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 5d

Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy should be as much a part of the cultural zeitgeist as Lord of the Rings

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not exaggerating when I say remote work becoming a more available option after covid saved my life

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 5d

“Almost a year of working from home had given me a really clear sense, for the first time, of what it actually was that I found so challenging and exhausting about my job (and it wasn’t the work). It was the ongoing sensory challenges.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #autism #neurodiversity

After 40 years as an autistic person in the workplace, I realised it was OK to ask for changes | Sandra Thom-Jones

Many autistic people face barriers due to stereotypes and ableist assumptions, including the belief that the neurotypical way of working is the only right way

www.theguardian.com

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 9d

He sure does

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 9d

Warmer weather means no more socks which means this little creep keeps trying to lick my toes

A goofy looking old cockatiel who has a foot fetish

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 13d

I have been hyperfixated on Silent Hill F for the past four days and being fully immersed in its horrors has been less horrifying than everything else going on

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 14d

I’m really loving Silent Hill F but god damn am I tried of fighting so many monsters on “easy” mode

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 15d

I hate this trend where people criticise a piece of media for being “unsubtle” just because they recognised the themes it was meant to convey.

That’s how themes work ya dingus

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 17d

[Werner Herzog voice] Charlie Brown seems surprised when Lucy pulls away the football, and yet he knows that failure is his destiny

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 18d

Krista Shure, 22, is plagued by constant fear and dread, much like a plucky literary heroine being forced to fight to the death in a public arena.

Autistic woman has baseline anxiety level of Hunger Games contestant

An autistic woman’s baseline anxiety level is identical to that of a contestant in The Hunger Games, according to sources. Krista Shure, 22, is plagued by constant fear and dread, much like a plucky…

thedailytism.com

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Bird (he/him) @birdobserver.bsky.social · Nov 20

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following:

"I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two --
And see what worms are eating
At the rind."

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𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖑𝖊𝖊 瀬川 🔜 Armageddon NZ @crowlees.bsky.social · 19d

bush stone-curlew ✨ they are nocturnal ground-dwelling birds that I often see hanging out in car parks at night

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 19d

Perfect. 100%. No notes.

Screengrab from Insta of Radical Graffiti - poster with Gramsci’s “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of Monsters” with Elmo’s smiling face beneath

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Larry Nemecek — Dr. Trek! @larrynemecek.bsky.social · 19d

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 20d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 20d

Reporters and healthcare professionals worldwide are scrambling to repair the damage wrought by Trump and his band of bad faith businessmen, writes Grace Tame.

Grace Tame on the grifters swarming around Trump's autism announcement

www.crikey.com.au

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 20d

I’m not usually a celebrity relationship gossip kind of person so I might just be bad at this

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Annika @annihowls.bsky.social · 20d

Was it?

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