@dira.bsky.social
Writer, fan, librarian, 4000+ hours in Stardew Valley, 4 million words of fic on Ao3. Writing stories that ease the heart, or at least trying to.
this is the maddest a pope has been since they had armies
29.10.2025 00:53 — 👍 464 🔁 56 💬 12 📌 1Look, you gotta choose a religious or secular passion to understand suffering outside your control, and baseball is basically an atheist Catholicism
28.10.2025 06:42 — 👍 95 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 0
baseball on my TV screen with TWO score graphics on it: one for the first 12 innings and one for the 13th-17th innings
NHK graphics department forced to improvise in order to keep up with this marathon World Series game
28.10.2025 06:32 — 👍 1645 🔁 434 💬 14 📌 21
Post from sports writer Andy McCullough reads: “I requested the great Dieter Ruehle play Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” on the organ, and he obliged. Someone must deliver us from this game, and it might as well be the songwriter Martin Gore.”
28.10.2025 06:52 — 👍 516 🔁 88 💬 1 📌 3I have Issues with the concept of writers block, such that I wrote a post on it. kjcharleswriter.com/2019/11/13/w...
There are a ton of things you can do if you're struggling to write, and none of them require using the theft-based environment-ruining plagiarism machine.
The thing I like particularly about the fact that Isaac Newton invented the catflap is it gives the image of him trying to lay the foundations of classical mechanics but getting distracted by having to let a cat out then in again 40 seconds later and thinking, “Shit, I really need to sort this.”
28.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 322 🔁 82 💬 4 📌 3
Folded piece of paper in front of books on a bookshelf that says "Hi Reddit! AMA on 10/29, 9am ET, r/AskHistorians, on manga history! I'm/u/ahorbinski :)"
I'm doing an AMA in r/AskHistorians on Wednesday, starting at 9am Eastern! If you've got questions on the history of manga or media history, head on over to www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... and ask!
27.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1... Shit. This is an excellent point
27.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I can tell you for sure that Libro.fm does not run ads for ICE. www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...
25.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 68 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3
A pottery owl figurine displayed on a transparent pedestal. The figurine is intricately painted in black, red, and beige, with finely detailed feathers, large round eyes, and a slightly tilted head.
It's time for a timeline cleanse!
A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container.
On display at Antikensammlung München
A lovely Sunday to all of you 🌞
📷 me
A light grey short-sleeve sweater with a reverse colorwork yoke in navy and violet with a pop of spring green. The neckline is approximately 2 feet of 2x2 ribbing. Also there is a tabby cat asleep in the bed next to it.
I’m re-knitting the neck of this sweater. I have always regretted stopping short just because “two feet of ribbing” seemed excessive (It’s probably not quite that much) (maybe).
@dira.bsky.social, the sweater’s name is “My Liege’s Livery Is Dusk”.
Raindrops... wallpaper, link in bio!
24.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 272 🔁 82 💬 0 📌 0Periodic reminder that we live in a bona fide age of wonders and we can save it from all these dumb fucks trying to uproot it.
24.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 600 🔁 166 💬 7 📌 1Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
18.10.2025 17:39 — 👍 3294 🔁 1083 💬 19 📌 27
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
18.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 15633 🔁 4517 💬 15 📌 2Don't forget that tomorrow is a very important day! It's Shut The Fuck Up Saturday!
17.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
If you missed the protest safety, know your rights, and de-escalation training (or you want a reminder before tomorrow’s #NoKings Day), all of the recordings are available here. 👇
17.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 377 🔁 190 💬 8 📌 6
GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
17.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 2686 🔁 1956 💬 53 📌 118do you want to end up getting your whole community targeted for being an edgelord at the dept of agriculture’s social media intern?
starving these accounts of attention on the niche microblog is the best thing you can do.
get loud where it matters. bluesky ain’t it. block.
One time I asked ChatGPT to generate some code. It gave me complete dogshit which didn't even compile, so I paste just the error message and nothing else. It then responded with an entire paragraph praising "my" code, followed by hyping me up telling me how close I am to getting it perfect.
17.10.2025 07:49 — 👍 728 🔁 172 💬 9 📌 4This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social fella is speaking my language over here
16.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 372 🔁 100 💬 1 📌 2I recently attended a queer craft group at a library, and it was amazing. I didn’t even really talk with anyone, but being among others in a supportive environment, while also enjoying hobbies is so healing and important.
16.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 106 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0Truly this is the “hold my beer” level of S-tier P&P retellings — took about three pages to get me from the classic “ugh, that horrible little Collins man” to “I would lay down my life for him”
15.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 64 🔁 10 💬 12 📌 2Using ChatGPT
23.08.2025 07:01 — 👍 12106 🔁 4700 💬 35 📌 18I know a lot of people who qualify for this!
14.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
GEORGIA! Can yall listen to Hank Green for a minit please ma'am? . and say hey to momenem.
youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc?...
5. If you have the spoons, report the non-working generic to the FDA. Maybe in seven years that will do something.
15.10.2025 01:04 — 👍 99 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Can’t wait for people to discover that their ChatGPT girlfriend/boyfriend is secretly from the omegaverse 🤣🤣🤣
15.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Yuletide Signups are open! #Yuletide
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