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✨hauntedtoasters✨

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · Nov 13

There are many reasons to hate on generative AI and large language models but my personal #1 reason is gen AI marketing appropriating the sparkle emoji.

It's blatant erasure of sarcastic bitch culture and I won't stand for it.

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 8h

Haywain - Open

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 13h

"Thur's a goose loose about this hoose" certainly sounds more ominous than the standard way this expression goes

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

me too, Charlie, me too

A very close crop of panel 2 of today's page of Side Quested, showing Charlie with a very surprised / shocked / "wtf is happening" kind of expression, but super pixellated cause it's a tiny detail

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie's evolution of o.o faces through each panel in the page is just amazing
panel 1: o.o
panel 2: O_O
panel 3: O3O
panel 4: OoO

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Also, more lightheartedly, I decided to use the opportunity to continue (maybe finish) BG3, and the clingy cat wanted to be included so I made her a spot to sleep on next to the computer and she was very smug about it

A siamese cat on a folded up blanket next to a desk. She is looking very attentively at the screen, where you can see some of the Baldur's Gate 3 UI. (My character doesn't have a lot of hit points left.)

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

I am off work for three weeks!

It's because I was mega burned out, which is bad, but having made myself go through the paperwork and actually taking time off to recover is VERY VERY GOOD for me

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, oh no, that's so unfortunate hahaaa

But yeah Mont St Michel is such a unique place. I'd love to go again. Aaa.

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

(but also, they literally work in minority language related stuff so I'm not too concerned, haha)

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Lemme ask them!!

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Man I haven't been back for over a decade and now I have the powerful need to go to Carnac and Quimper and Saint-Malo and I guess while I'm there I could push to Brest and from there Mont St Michel isn't that far and uhhhhh okay maybe I am a leeetle homesick.

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately no, that's not where my family is from originally. I know a couple words but that's it... I do know a Breton speaker here on bsky though?

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Carnac!!! I've been there! I grew up visiting Morbihan on a very regular basis and love it very much still, though I've not been for a very very long time.

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

not to be all like ooo torment nexus salient sociopolitical commentary etc etc but uh

a lot of things these days in the uk sound like they're from v for vendetta

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Scott Fright @scw.bsky.social · 1d

Celebrity Traitors sounds like a TV show from V from Vendetta

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read:

I just
FED YOU
Stop yelling at me...

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, it's just a case of me thinking that "varech" / "goémon" is a specific species of seaweed, when actually it's "any ol' large seaweed that washes up on the shore".

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

There's speculation that DHL may have stolen the plot of Maurice and made it straight in Lady Chatterley, so, honestly, based on that alone, fuck him

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

(meanwhile, this other website also calls those kilns. Personally I would go for "kelp kiln" or "kelp-burning pit" or "kelp pit" but not oven, which in my mind suggests a food rather than "industrial" application...)

the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2017/08/of-c...

Of Crofters, Kelp and Iodine by Susan Price

A Highland croft - wikimedia Crofters in the Highlands and islands of Scotland have always had a hard life. Even now, although crof...

the-history-girls.blogspot.com

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

This website on the equivalent process in Scotland just calls those "pits", though I do wonder if there's a more technical term!

www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/th...

The history of Scotland's kelp industry

www.snapdragonlife.com

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

So, you know. Makes even native speakers go "what" ;p

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1d

I had to look up what goémon was because I'd call it varech (though I'd use the word specifically for what Wikipedia tells me is called "knotted wrack")

Goémon sounds like something you'd find in an occult treatise from the 17th century, heh

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✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 2d

And yes most felt tip pens have water based ink, vs markers which typically have alcohol based ink, hence why they smell so strong.

✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 2d

Yup! Alcohol based markers do the kind of blending magic thing where the colour just lays really evenly. No idea how it works but it works!

(My personal fave for colouring in is watercolour and one of those paint brushes that have water in the handle, but now I really wanna try sharpies!)

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 2d

please dont let him have the martini

a cat on a table full of bottles and martinis. His reflection is distorted behind some glass

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