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skybrina

@skybrina.org

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30s. I like claiming that I'm going to make a website. Current interests: F1, Honkai (3rd/Star Rail), roses, learning languages (🇫🇷🇮🇪🇬🇷), using technology for good. Always reading.

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 19h

Rinoa alone has me interested in it!

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 1d

Blood on her hands... and on her platform sandals

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

“She would show up looking like a forever 21 employee and then murder 15 people.”

This is hysterically funny.

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 1d

The heat alarm here went from nothing to beeping a low battery warning every 40 seconds. We replaced it as close to immediately as possible.

skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

Has anyone ever met someone who’s a regular commenter on The Journal? I’d love if they did an in-depth investigation into one of those little weirdos

skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

Also I'd never in my life heard "keepie-uppies" till this week. I think it's called soloing down the west

skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

The current @thejournal.ie poll was... not tested

Poll "how many keepie-uppies can you do?" includes the options "0", "up to 10", "more than 20" and "20 or more", "so many that I lose count" and an empty option

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

like some of my lack of body awareness is from not doing sport as a child, and some of it is from forgetting the world exists outside of the screen and my own mind

skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

This is a completely correctable lack, but how I have not bought a full-length mirror despite at least 10 years of dabbling in dance? I've repeatedly had the thought "this feels right but I don't know if it looks right" when practicing a move but forgot the very simple fix of buying stuff

skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

Thiel out there writing meta that wouldn't withstand scrutiny untagged on a 7-mutual Tumblr

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 2d

I'm not great at spotting genAI art but there's a fuzzy-smooth grainy texture to a lot of it (including this) that's distinctly different to "normal" texture effects

skybrina @skybrina.org · 3d

Also wanted to add that the gifts included a hairtie and a light sleep robe that we all wore at the night before the wedding staying over with the bride, felt nice to have those little matching accessories to feel like a crew. :)

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 3d

Actually I might delete this comment ^ once you've seen it, my account's pretty anonymous but I feel like I'm putting someone else's business out there!

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 3d

Sure, they’re not wrong that a lot of people will believe their friends/relatives are innocent when they’re not… but that’s still shit and worth being mad about! especially in blatant cases like with Allen

skybrina @skybrina.org · 3d

A wine buzz is the gentlest and softest of buzzes

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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Candybaz @barryodonovan.bsky.social · 4d

Catherine Connolly once told an American tourist that when we want to say, "I love you", we say, "An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas".

#SmearTheBejaysis

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · 4d

OMG!

Catherine Connolly uses the teaspoon in the sugar bowl to stir her tea with and PUTS it back in the bowl, wet!

#SmearTheBejaysis #SmearTheBejaysus
#SmeartheBejaysis

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly skipped parts of Ulysses #Smearthebejaysus #Smearthebejaysis

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4d

His immediate dawning understanding of just exactly how much he could fuck things up made him go "That's a GREAT analogy," heh

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 4d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 4d

Done, and her little sycophant too

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skybrina @skybrina.org · 4d

It still annoys me that I read so much Murakami as a teenage girl and saw this kind of thing as the price of admission to reading literary fiction.

sisi jiang / 姜思琪 @six6jiang.bsky.social · 4d

just checked out murakami’s latest book at the library. read his description of a teenage girl in the first chapter, and then immediately checked the book back in. somehow i thought he would have outgrown this literary trait of his 😭 it’s ok i can read the other books i found

skybrina @skybrina.org · 4d

You've a great bunch of people around you to help you get back to yourself, that's a beautiful thing in itself. Wishing you all the best!

skybrina @skybrina.org · 6d

I'd love to know if Google makes its few still-useful features like Reviews and Maps increasingly impossible to use only to stave off anti-trust cases, or if it's because their web developers like to give users a invigorating challenge by hiding information