Frankles
@franklesconina.bsky.social
She/her, reader of books, player of games (PC and tabletop), singer of songs, erstwhile scientist.
I'm mainly here to follow authors and find new books and to learn random things from interesting people.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally, visibly disabled
I'm mainly here to follow authors and find new books and to learn random things from interesting people.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally, visibly disabled
I bought them all... Mwah ha ha ha!
🌸beep boop 🌸
For no reason at all
50% off all my books on itch
Or $20 for everything
Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9
Go nuts!
itch.io/s/167176/hal...
For no reason at all
50% off all my books on itch
Or $20 for everything
Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9
Go nuts!
itch.io/s/167176/hal...
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I bought them all... Mwah ha ha ha!
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Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.
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Your daily fortune:
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Your daily fortune:
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
Not every problem can be solved with logic, coins, or daggers. Some can only be solved with potatoes. Lots of potatoes.
Celebrating properly being middle-aged by ordering £200 of plants. The garden will look nice this year, I swear it!
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Celebrating properly being middle-aged by ordering £200 of plants. The garden will look nice this year, I swear it!
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In the Dune books Earth was destroyed during the Butlerian Jihad when humans set off nukes to destroy the AI that was based on earth.
Frankly, fair enough.
Frankly, fair enough.
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In the Dune books Earth was destroyed during the Butlerian Jihad when humans set off nukes to destroy the AI that was based on earth.
Frankly, fair enough.
Frankly, fair enough.
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Bring new things into the world.
Sing pretty paintings.
Paint beautiful songs.
Craft a golem of antlers and spite, animate it with dark magic, and send it to work in your place instead.
Sing pretty paintings.
Paint beautiful songs.
Craft a golem of antlers and spite, animate it with dark magic, and send it to work in your place instead.
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Bring new things into the world.
Sing pretty paintings.
Paint beautiful songs.
Craft a golem of antlers and spite, animate it with dark magic, and send it to work in your place instead.
Sing pretty paintings.
Paint beautiful songs.
Craft a golem of antlers and spite, animate it with dark magic, and send it to work in your place instead.
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Feel like pure shit man just want her* back
*the leisure time to address my TBR pile.
*the leisure time to address my TBR pile.
Thinking about her*
*all the books I haven’t read.
*all the books I haven’t read.
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Feel like pure shit man just want her* back
*the leisure time to address my TBR pile.
*the leisure time to address my TBR pile.
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The clocks went back, and we're going back too! One stop off in the year 2000, then back 66 million years to start a fresh game on Dino Crisis 2.
Come along for incredible #RetroGaming on original hardware, #DinoCrisis and a dinosaur (me) having a crisis
twitch.tv/pixelbandits
Come along for incredible #RetroGaming on original hardware, #DinoCrisis and a dinosaur (me) having a crisis
twitch.tv/pixelbandits
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The clocks went back, and we're going back too! One stop off in the year 2000, then back 66 million years to start a fresh game on Dino Crisis 2.
Come along for incredible #RetroGaming on original hardware, #DinoCrisis and a dinosaur (me) having a crisis
twitch.tv/pixelbandits
Come along for incredible #RetroGaming on original hardware, #DinoCrisis and a dinosaur (me) having a crisis
twitch.tv/pixelbandits
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I'll occasionally see ppl do a post like "tried to get ChatGPT to do X and it was totally wrong, what a joke tech." But, like, you don't even have to try it out to begin with? You can just not? And make it a critical and ethical stance to simply not try it out on anything at all, ever. Be a human!
October 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'll occasionally see ppl do a post like "tried to get ChatGPT to do X and it was totally wrong, what a joke tech." But, like, you don't even have to try it out to begin with? You can just not? And make it a critical and ethical stance to simply not try it out on anything at all, ever. Be a human!
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I need to talk to someone who knows about overland lithium ore transportation safety (or, in general, hazardous ore transportation). The heist I need this information for IS fictional, your honor
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I need to talk to someone who knows about overland lithium ore transportation safety (or, in general, hazardous ore transportation). The heist I need this information for IS fictional, your honor
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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A couple of you got this right but not many! Our guess the Game from last week was the incredible MediEvil
#gaming #retrogames #videogames
#gaming #retrogames #videogames
October 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A couple of you got this right but not many! Our guess the Game from last week was the incredible MediEvil
#gaming #retrogames #videogames
#gaming #retrogames #videogames
I have pre-ordered this. You should too. It's brilliant!
Please preorder our book.
We have been unsupervised and made some HUGE plans for the sequel, but the first book HAS to make some good sales for it to happen!
We have been unsupervised and made some HUGE plans for the sequel, but the first book HAS to make some good sales for it to happen!
There are more locations to preorder SIDEQUESTED, the dead trees version of our webcomic!
Dodo-vultures, chonky elder dragons, a super-strong princess, a complete dip of a bard, and the brilliant young librarian who brings them all together!
Free to read here:
sidequested.com
Dodo-vultures, chonky elder dragons, a super-strong princess, a complete dip of a bard, and the brilliant young librarian who brings them all together!
Free to read here:
sidequested.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I have pre-ordered this. You should too. It's brilliant!
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"There's an eligibility waiver..."
"There's an eligibility waiver..."
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“We’re changing the scope”
“We’re changing the scope”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"Transcribed 100% verbatim"
"Transcribed 100% verbatim"
October 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"There's an eligibility waiver..."
"There's an eligibility waiver..."
I just went into the garden for a few minutes of fresh air (and to see if neighbour void was about, he was and came to demand fuss) and heard an unusual to me bird call and then I saw a pair of long tailed tits on the tree! It's made my day! They are so very birb.
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I just went into the garden for a few minutes of fresh air (and to see if neighbour void was about, he was and came to demand fuss) and heard an unusual to me bird call and then I saw a pair of long tailed tits on the tree! It's made my day! They are so very birb.
Wrote the majority of my PhD thesis in three weeks*, the last of which was a haze of caffeine, valium, and chocolate milk. Passed my viva with minor corrections. My Supervisor and I were astounded. Can't say I recommend this, but eh.
*I had done 4 years of lab work, I just hadn't written it up...
*I had done 4 years of lab work, I just hadn't written it up...
if youre a student and you havent destroyed your sleep schedule at least once with caffeine or drugs or a seething hatred for your professor and pulled out a B or above, have you truly lived.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Wrote the majority of my PhD thesis in three weeks*, the last of which was a haze of caffeine, valium, and chocolate milk. Passed my viva with minor corrections. My Supervisor and I were astounded. Can't say I recommend this, but eh.
*I had done 4 years of lab work, I just hadn't written it up...
*I had done 4 years of lab work, I just hadn't written it up...
Going to have to go low fodmap for diet. This is annoying. Not as annoying as the current state of things however, where I'm almost low fodmap because I'm listening to my body but my gut is still angry. I now have to cut out wheat, doable. But I refuse to relinquish garlic.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Going to have to go low fodmap for diet. This is annoying. Not as annoying as the current state of things however, where I'm almost low fodmap because I'm listening to my body but my gut is still angry. I now have to cut out wheat, doable. But I refuse to relinquish garlic.
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all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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Two years of USrael genocide, while the vast majority of humans are begging for it to stop, and the vast majority of the world’s leaders do nothing.
Free Palestine, now and forever. 🇵🇸
Free Palestine, now and forever. 🇵🇸
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Two years of USrael genocide, while the vast majority of humans are begging for it to stop, and the vast majority of the world’s leaders do nothing.
Free Palestine, now and forever. 🇵🇸
Free Palestine, now and forever. 🇵🇸
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
I am once again re-watching Supernatural. As a treat.
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I am once again re-watching Supernatural. As a treat.
What I want to do is stay up and finish reading an earlier @poopraven.bsky.social novel, but I'm going to be sensible and attempt to go to sleep to am audio book in the same genre instead. Reading keeps me awake, listening means I can nod off. Most of the time. But tomorrow? Tomorrow reading.
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What I want to do is stay up and finish reading an earlier @poopraven.bsky.social novel, but I'm going to be sensible and attempt to go to sleep to am audio book in the same genre instead. Reading keeps me awake, listening means I can nod off. Most of the time. But tomorrow? Tomorrow reading.
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And so, it's done. I walked out of the office for the last time today, due to my layoff.
I'm a little less scared than I would have been thanks to all of y'all who enjoy my work. If you'd like to support me, please buy a copy of my trans magical girl work, and get ready for the incoming sequel.
I'm a little less scared than I would have been thanks to all of y'all who enjoy my work. If you'd like to support me, please buy a copy of my trans magical girl work, and get ready for the incoming sequel.
Buy Books - Magica Riot - The Official Site
A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.
magicariot.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And so, it's done. I walked out of the office for the last time today, due to my layoff.
I'm a little less scared than I would have been thanks to all of y'all who enjoy my work. If you'd like to support me, please buy a copy of my trans magical girl work, and get ready for the incoming sequel.
I'm a little less scared than I would have been thanks to all of y'all who enjoy my work. If you'd like to support me, please buy a copy of my trans magical girl work, and get ready for the incoming sequel.
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If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation.
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
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I feel like I should have acquired enough experience points to be able to double jump by now
September 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I feel like I should have acquired enough experience points to be able to double jump by now