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[?]Jesse Skinner [he/him] » 🌐
@JesseSkinner@toot.cafe

Originally published at: codingwithjesse.com/blog/rocks

    [?]Mary Holstege » 🌐
    @mathling@mastodon.social

    The conclusion of Atraxian Blue (books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at
    mathling.com/books/index.html

    In which the crew questions Renny and he reveals a great many uncomfortable truths, et sequelae

      [?]Gokul Das » 🌐
      @goku12@fosstodon.org

      Does anybody else feel like the natural of has been disrupted by the overuse of , and ?

      Perhaps we should let people make some and errors, so that conversations have a bit more , rather than sounding robotic, sterile and monotone.

      If that sounds like a recipe for chaotic , remember that we still have the traditional method of providing a back pressure - .

        Ω 🌍 Gus Posey boosted

        [?]si_irini » 🌐
        @si_irini@mastodon.social

        Dear Fedis,

        I need your help.

        Especially from everyone in English-speaking countries
        and anyone who speaks English well,
        but also anyone who’d enjoy doing this.

        Please come up with a phrase
        or
        a name
        for an EV car company using the acronym RIC.

        So, my friends,
        have fun!

        _________

        R ....
        I ....
        C ....

        What can you come up with?

        And with any luck, it’ll appear in my book

        Thank you all 🙏 ❤️

          [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
          @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

          Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "A".

          Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

          Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

          Use the tag for further subgrouping.

          *and yes we are going to do 26 of these, maybe not every day, it depends on the response rate

            [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
            @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

            Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "B"?

            Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

            Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

            Add the hashtag to it so there's sub-sorting as well.

              [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
              @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

              Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "C"?

              Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favorite.

              Note: Captain/Commander/etc only count if that's a proper name & not just a rank. Captain America/Marvel, Captain N are their proper hero names so they count, but Captain Picard/Kirk do not.

              Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

              Also add the hashtag so we can sub-sort the answers too.

                [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "D"?

                Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

                Similar to the rules on "C", Detective/Doctor/etc don't count unless that's a proper name & not a title. (i.e. Detective Chimp & The Doctor count, Detective Lennie Briscoe & Dr. House do not)

                Add the hashtag to it so there's sub-sorting as well.

                  [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                  @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                  Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "E"?

                  Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                  Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

                  Add the hashtag to it so there's sub-sorting as well.

                  NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A, B, C, or Ds.

                    [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                    @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                    Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "F"?

                    Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                    Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

                    Add the hashtag to it so there's sub-sorting as well.

                    NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A, B, C, Ds or Es.

                      [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                      @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                      Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "G"?

                      Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                      Include the hashtags and to it so we can group the answers.

                      Similar to the rules on "C" and 'D", General or other G titles don't count unless it's a proper name, so Grand Admiral Thrawn doesn't count as G for example.

                      NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too (A to F).

                        [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                        @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                        Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "H"?

                        Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                        Include the hashtag also, so we can easily group the answers.

                        Add the hashtag to it so there's sub-sorting as well.

                        NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A to Gs.

                          [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                          @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                          Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "I"?

                          Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                          Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                          NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A to Hs. Their hashtags are , etc

                            [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                            @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                            Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "J"?

                            Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                            Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                            NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A to Is. Their hashtags are , etc

                              [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                              @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                              Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "K"?

                              Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                              Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                              NOTE: you can always participate in the previous letters too, don't feel like you "missed your chance" to list your A to Js. Their hashtags are , etc

                                [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                                @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                                Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "L"?

                                Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                                (Again, stuff like "Lieutenant" don't count unless it's a proper name & not simply a rank)

                                Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                                NOTE: you can always participate in previous letters too (A-K). Or just do the ones you want. Their hashtags are , etc

                                  [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                                  @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                                  Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "M"?

                                  Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                                  (Again, stuff like "Major" don't count unless it's a proper name & not simply a rank)

                                  Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                                  NOTE: you can always participate in previous letters too (A-L). Or just do the ones you want. Their hashtags are , etc

                                    [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                                    @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                                    Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "N"?

                                    Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                                    Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                                    NOTE: you can always participate in previous letters too (A-M). Or just do the ones you want. Their hashtags are , etc

                                      [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                                      @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                                      Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "O"?

                                      Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                                      Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                                      NOTE: you can always participate in previous letters too (A-N). Or just do the ones you want. Their hashtags are , etc

                                        [?]Ami Angelwings » 🌐
                                        @ami_angelwings@urusai.social

                                        Who is your favourite fictional character from any work whose name (if they only have one) or first name begins with the letter "P"?

                                        Please include the series/work the character is from and why they are your favourite.

                                        Include the hashtag and to it so that we can sort the answers easily.

                                        Prince/Princess are titles & not names unless that is part of like a superhero alias.

                                        NOTE: you can always participate in previous letters too (A-O). Or just do the ones you want. Their hashtags are , etc

                                          Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов boosted

                                          [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                          @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                          It's Sunday morning in Europe! 8UTC Sunday as always since 2022.

                                          toobnix.org/w/pU6zu95YDdyGKqsx live

                                          (recent times) toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?a

                                          @vnikolov 's Quality Without A Name toot

                                          As much as I can remember about the community and Christopher Alexander dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsO alexandria.common-lisp.dev/

                                          My NicCLIM demo and the book I am - loose bibliography and sketch of chapters

                                          The lisp alien and gopher fighting in the unix_surrealism corpofoss war arc. LISPY GOPHER SHOW vintage banner recently unearthed.

                                          Alt...The lisp alien and gopher fighting in the unix_surrealism corpofoss war arc. LISPY GOPHER SHOW vintage banner recently unearthed.

                                            [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                            @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                            Let's talk about 'now'. Between the Institute of Art and Ideas and the likes of others, I'm not finishing my book on notably different subject matter.

                                            👉 philosophics.blog/2026/06/06/t

                                            Time spent on social media doesn't need to be spent on cat videos and acerbic politics to be a distraction. I won't say unproductive because then it might make me feel bad.

                                              [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                                              @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                                              [ 2822 / 24000 ] yesterday I clearly wrote 2822 words (95%+ prose) of my book draft In June. I reached a minor decision point and eventually lost consciousness in its pickling brine.

                                              I decided to peg my check-in-on-how-the-book-is-going at 24000 words. At my current instantaneous velocity, this will take about 10 days. Somewhat to my surprise, the book is extremely, extremely picture heavy, almost coffee-table heavy.

                                                [?]David - Forking Mad » 🌐
                                                @daj@gofer.social

                                                I composed this while staring at the ceiling this morning.

                                                The Silent Sentinel
                                                https://forkingmad.blog/silent-sentinel/

                                                Not so much a #blogpost but a collection of words that formed a bit of a rhythm.

                                                #writing

                                                  [?]Longreads » 🌐
                                                  @longreads@mastodon.world

                                                  "Not all human experiences are subject to progress." —Zadie Smith for The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2026/06/1

                                                    [?]David - Forking Mad » 🌐
                                                    @daj@gofer.social

                                                    Dear people inside my computer,

                                                    Who keeps a Commonplace Book? And for what purpose ?

                                                    I'm intrigued 🤔

                                                    #writing #CommonPlaceBook

                                                      muddle boosted

                                                      [?]Nowhere Girl » 🌐
                                                      @gwynnion@mastodon.social

                                                      Rissa-9 had no idea if Terra Nova was always habitable or terraformed but its present atmosphere was hot, windy, and weakly reducing, dominated by carbon dioxide and methane.

                                                      Humans killed the planet's oxygen producing biosphere. In tens of millions of years, it might evolve a new one. Then again, it might not.

                                                      Humans, Rissa-9 thought.

                                                      Just because she was made by them, made out of them in some respects, didn't mean she had to like them.

                                                      That's what her prime directives were for.

                                                        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                                        @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                        Some of us writers have made our peace with the sadly missed em-dash, after it was decided it was a tell for AI-generated content. Now research suggests words like "delve" and "boast" could also be indicators of AI use. When will it end? :blobcatthinkOwO:

                                                        We've put together a collection of articles (we call them Storyboards) to explain how to know you're reading AI content and how it's influencing the way we write.
                                                        flipboard.com/@tech/the-red-fl

                                                        For more on AI, follow our human-curated Magazines about AI:
                                                        Mastering AI: flipboard.com/@tech/mastering-
                                                        AI for Business: flipboard.com/@tech/ai-for-bus
                                                        The Age of AI: flipboard.com/@tech/the-age-of

                                                          muddle boosted

                                                          [?]Adrianna Tan » 🌐
                                                          @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

                                                          Grants up to 20K for NZ journalists on:

                                                          - Accountability reporting on frontier AI companies
                                                          - AI policy and politics
                                                          - AI explainers and analysis
                                                          - AI in government and militaries
                                                          - AI labor impacts
                                                          - AI developments in China

                                                          tarbellcenter.org/grants

                                                            [?]I Write Like » 🌐
                                                            @iwritelike@mastodon.social

                                                            My site with my stories is up! 🎉 You're all invited to click and read. There are short stories and fairy tales (for the lack of a better term. They differ from usual fairy tales.) They are all free, in more than one meaning: they cost nothing and also they are no longer trapped in offline folders. I hope they'll bring you as much joy as they've been bringing me.

                                                            saraf.iwl.pub/

                                                              Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                                              [?]hotQuill » 🌐
                                                              @AkashVerma@mastodon.social

                                                              I've been using CipherWrite for my diary, personal notes, and book drafts.

                                                              The privacy focus is what got me interested, but the writing guides and tools are what made me stay.

                                                              Genuinely enjoying it, so I thought I'd share. They currently have a sale running until June 11.

                                                                [?]Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏 [they/them/he/yo: Gender is a spectrum.] » 🌐
                                                                @alan@mindly.social

                                                                My Editorial Assistant is NOT HELPING!

                                                                An attention-seeking black cat is lying across a printout of my manuscript, covering almost all of the text.

                                                                Alt...An attention-seeking black cat is lying across a printout of my manuscript, covering almost all of the text.

                                                                  [?]Mary Holstege » 🌐
                                                                  @mathling@mastodon.social

                                                                  Chapter 52 of Atraxian Blue (books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at
                                                                  mathling.com/books/index.html

                                                                  Kintsugi

                                                                  In which Renny steels himself to go, and Lila makes a surprising offer

                                                                    [?]JulesJones » 🌐
                                                                    @JulesJones@mendeddrum.org

                                                                    Well, I can say that the converter that comes with a Jinhao 20 with F nib will write at least 14 sides of A5, because this afternoon I filled a brand new pen with a matching colour of ink for today's writing stint, and have covered 12 of the pages with the WiP and another 2 with notes for it. I am pleased to report that neither the pen nor I have run dry yet. However, it is time to stop and make the dinner.

                                                                      AA boosted

                                                                      [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
                                                                      @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

                                                                      What is the best way to monetize a blog, from a contributor/reader point of view?

                                                                      What makes you, as a reader, happy to give money to a blog, and in which form do you prefer it?

                                                                        [?]Profoundly Nerdy » 🌐
                                                                        @profoundlynerdy@bitbang.social

                                                                        Are there any good books on why factions form? I mean everything from political factions as we think of them to the formation of rival gangs and religious splinter groups.

                                                                        For context: I'm starting a new TTRPG soon and factions are something I historically suck at. I'm too logical and systematic. Factions often run on social strata and sense of identity. I don't have an inherent gasp of them.

                                                                        Audio books preferred.

                                                                          [?]Longreads » 🌐
                                                                          @longreads@mastodon.world

                                                                          "Twenty-two tons of artisanal British cheese, some of the most expensive cheese made in the UK. A huge order for Neal’s Yard. It seemed too good to be true."

                                                                          Want to learn about cheese heists? Of course you do! Our latest offering is ready to be served:

                                                                          longreads.com/2026/05/28/the-c

                                                                            [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                            @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                                                            Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):

                                                                            1) A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person.

                                                                            2) An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mai

                                                                            3) A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing

                                                                            4) A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.p

                                                                            5) Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde

                                                                            6) Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens

                                                                            7) Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure

                                                                            8) Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6

                                                                            9) You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets mapeditor.org

                                                                            10) the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post.

                                                                            A pink, purple and soft blue collage created with paper and stickers I had lying around my room: a little robot mascot from Ace Attorney is advising “You don’t need to be ‘a good artist’ to create a unique and interesting image for your blog.”

                                                                            Alt...A pink, purple and soft blue collage created with paper and stickers I had lying around my room: a little robot mascot from Ace Attorney is advising “You don’t need to be ‘a good artist’ to create a unique and interesting image for your blog.”

                                                                              [?]Void of Tranquillity 🔞 [it/its, they/them, he/him, void] » 🌐
                                                                              @void@social.voidkvlt.eu

                                                                              This needs naming, a bit of extra consideration regarding line breaks, and maybe some kind of annotation to virtue signal the fact that I'm clean and haunted, rather than enhanced and attempting to gain followers for the church of dope.

                                                                              I was really delighted at how this poem, written in my Signal notes to to self in the middle of the night, dragged itself through my mind with the fully-fledged vision of its world, real and solid and tactile, a peopled and historied place.

                                                                              This is one of my favourite kinds of flow state while writing, in which the words beneath my fingers must simply describe things that - to some degree - are. These things exist, here and now.

                                                                              [internally if nowhere else, like the endless city of towers and stairwells and back gardens stacked on tower blocks stacked on river-washed factories]

                                                                              It's worth losing sleep to pursue that when it imposes itself so dramatically.

                                                                              #WritingProcess #WritingPoetry #Writing

                                                                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis argues that legal systems falsely treat words as precise instruments despite the inherent instability of language. Responding to a video (in comments), I critique how courts rely on dictionaries, punctuation rules, and corpus linguistics to manufacture definitive meanings where none naturally exist.
                                                                                👉 philosophics.blog/2026/05/28/i

                                                                                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                  If every metaphysics is a story, The Architecture of Encounter asks what makes some stories hold under pressure while others merely decorate our prejudices. Not a view from nowhere, but an anatomy of how any view becomes possible, a sort of meta-metaphysics. Perhaps I'll share some interior content presently.
                                                                                  📕👉 a.co/d/0dGLZZBV

                                                                                    [?]Longreads » 🌐
                                                                                    @longreads@mastodon.world

                                                                                    "Students constantly ask, so what do you do about writer’s block? You keep writing, you find a specific and small entry point and you continue on." —Ramona Ausubel

                                                                                    longreads.com/2026/05/26/cnf-p

                                                                                      [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                      @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                      I've shared the opening chapters of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis on PhilPapers.

                                                                                      📕👉 philpapers.org/rec/WILALI-3

                                                                                      I examine the structural limits of human language as a medium for conveying meaning. This counters the widespread assumption that clearer definitions.

                                                                                      👉 philosophics.blog/2026/05/25/a

                                                                                        [?]David - Forking Mad » 🌐
                                                                                        @daj@gofer.social

                                                                                        I've been in the garden most of the day, sometimes day dreaming, othertimes with my laptop in the shade. I wrote a short piece about my encounter with a bumblebee earlier today.

                                                                                        Flight of the Bumblebee

                                                                                        https://david.shortfiction.online/flight-of-the-bumblebee
                                                                                        553 words.  3 minute read

                                                                                        I love bumblebees. They make me happy.   🐝

                                                                                        #blogpost #writing #bumblebee  #bee

                                                                                          [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                          @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                          I've got mixed emotions about Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks on anti-Enlightenment grounds.

                                                                                          philosophics.blog/2026/05/23/b

                                                                                            [?]Mary Holstege » 🌐
                                                                                            @mathling@mastodon.social

                                                                                            Chapter 51 of Atraxian Blue (books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at
                                                                                            mathling.com/books/index.html

                                                                                            Hello, Sia

                                                                                            In which Renny calls his family and tells them what he had done

                                                                                              [?]Longreads » 🌐
                                                                                              @longreads@mastodon.world

                                                                                              In this week's :

                                                                                              —After the flood (Texas Monthly )
                                                                                              —Twisted roles (The San Francisco Chronicle)
                                                                                              —Drawn to the emptiness (The Offing)
                                                                                              —When the rice fails (The New Yorker )
                                                                                              —Many, many miles (Texas Highways)

                                                                                              longreads.com/2026/05/22/the-t

                                                                                                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                                In defence of Sabine Hossenfelder, I posit that particles are not real or fundamental in any meaningful way. They are heuristic placeholders at best.

                                                                                                📕👉 amazon.com/Architecture-Encoun

                                                                                                There is an underlying 'reality', but it is not material in any conventional manner. My thesis operates on scale-dependent mediation. Seeking peer reviews.

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