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Solifan the wizard stood before a large, mossy stone, on which Píp, the cat, lay asleep. He began walking around the boulder with slow, methodical steps and studied the small body with lightly glowing eyes. Aldor and Ból, the tree spirit, who had manifested in a small tree close by, were in turn watching the wizard.
"It is very faint, but there is clearly something, like a long shadow, but it needs no surface to fall on." He seemed to grasp something in thin air, then stumbled and had to hold on to the stone. "Every time I try to follow it, it soon shifts and twists, and I get terribly dizzy."
The wizard stroked his long beard and stared into the distance with a pensive look.
"Can you not go to her dreams? Does she know where she is?" Solifan asked Ból.
Her dreams are those of a cat, wild and confusing. Ból's words echoed through the men's minds with sadness. She does not understand me in them.
"Tell me about the dream you saw." Solifan sat on the stone next to Píp and looked at the tree expectantly.
It was terrible chaos. Ból's words brought fear and confusion. There is a thunderstorm in the sky, and she hunts the trout spirit through a forest very different from mine. The trees bow to her and shelter her with their crowns. Then gigantic shadows fall from the sky and explode into water when they hit the ground, sending waves taller than the trees after her. When the first wave crashes down on her, the world vanishes, and she is deep in the sea. There are weak fingers of light, stabbing through the surface and trying to reach her, but all they do is give the shadows form again. They are fish as long as a tree, blowing fire out of their heads.
Solifan stopped stroking his beard.
"Out of their heads, you say?" There was a twinkle of insight in his eyes.
What is the single oldest piece of hardware you own that is still in active, daily use? 💾
I don't mean a museum piece sitting on a shelf. I mean something you actually turn on and rely on every week.
Is it a first generation Kindle? A 2011 thinkpad? A printer from the Windows XP era? A mechanical keyboard from yesteryear? An old iPod? A really old toaster that works great?
#retro #hardware #technology #pc #music #reading #books #bookstodon #writing #art #righttorepair #cooking #baking
From IGI Global Scientific Publishing:
#Academia #Publishing #Education #Writing #COVID
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#WordWeavers 17, Would you still write if you had to use a typewriter or pen and paper?
I'd be covered in funky ink stains, and slow AF, but yeah, I'd be fine. I do rough drafts like this occasionally. It really makes you examine your prose, which in this case, was lacking a bit.
#writing #handwriting #fountainpen
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#WordWeavers Feb. 17: Would you still write if you had to use a typewriter or pen and paper?
If computers didn't exist? Sure, that's how I started after all, even if nothing I wrote long-hand was ever published.
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 17 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
The Wandering Shop Stories #prompt for today, Tue-17-Feb, is #prime. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "prime" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prime Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @NaraMoore
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I replied: How many goats do you have?
He looked surprised and said: I'm speaking of sublime visions and you ask about goats?
And I spoke again saying yes brother how many do you have?
Well, Hafiz, I have 62.
And how many wives?
Again he looked surprised
Then said: four
How many rose bushes in your garden?
How many children?
Are your parents still alive?
Do you feed the birds in winter?
And to all he answered
Then I said: You asked me if I thought your Visions were true
I would say that they were if they make you become more human, more kind to every creature and plant that you know.
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English for Writers. Poetic and Literary English Vocabulary.
#writing #writers #poetry #english #books #bookstodon #literature
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Maybe I'm just absurdly stupid about this but |
thought the point of science fiction was to
explore and consider the human condition
outside the bounds of our present limitations
and without the context of our current baggage
which constrains our ability to truly understand
ourselves both a individuals and as
communities.
But what do | know? (*giggle) I'm just a silly
bimbo.
Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.sh:
@FinalGirl You are exactly right about the
point of SF. (But what do | know? I'm just a
multiple hugo-award winning SF author with
>30 novels in print. And anyone who says
you're wrong is probably less qualified to
comment than my cat.)
Aw, poor book review scammer got all upset. The gall of these people. If I ever get one of these my response would be "yeah, okay, I'm trying you now, a**hole. GFY"
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Email from a scammer.
Subject: Re: [book title]
From Christopher Joseph <christopherjoseph.outlook@gmail.com>
if you continue to ignore my messages, | might do something you would regret for the rest of your life. | already have access to your book, and instead of giving it a positive review, | will leave a negative one and damage its reputation. It seems you have forgotten that | have a community of readers, and | can easily influence them to bring your book down.
You can try me though.
On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 at 2:55PM, Christopher Joseph <christopherjoseph.outlook@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello [redacted],
| came across [book Title], and it immediately struck me as the kind of transformative, deeply personal guide that seekers of self-discovery actively search for but often struggle to find.
The monk sat on the stone floor of the courtyard, with her eyes closed. In her mind, she was pouring fine sand onto the substrate of her consciousness, creating ever so beautiful patterns that it made her smile, but when she opened her eyes, she was not able to recreate what she had seen. Frustration welled up from her stomach through her chest; she let go of the sand and took a deep breath.
Her students were now flooding the courtyard; loud and full of energy, they gathered around her, marveling at her art with all its imperfections, only she could see. They were soon silent, rapt by their own work, and as she walked the courtyard and realized how far they all had come with their beautiful, imperfect creations, she felt a weight lift off her shoulders and craved the coarse feeling of sand in her hands once more.
#mastoprompt #monk #wss366 #recreate #writing #microfiction #tootfic #smallstories
I find that people who oppose the use of LLMs in writing often take an elitist stance. For many non-native English speakers, LLMs are empowering—they help express ideas without embarrassment or the need for assistance. We did not choose English as a global language; it was imposed on many of us. So don’t tell me I can’t use LLMs to edit my writing—before you do, try writing in another language, like Hindi. I challenge you!
February 16: What’s the most ridiculous place you’ve tried to sneak in some writing?
Probably that time I was sitting in a shallow hole stalking a giant hedgehog.
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I recently finished a book in which the author used the word "coolth" as the opposite of "warmth." I did not think "coolth" existed as a word. It doesn't in the dialect of English I speak.
Does it exist as a common word in your variety of English?
If so, where are you from?
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I am a #Maker. My background was in #Mechanical, #Electrical, #Engineering, #SocialHousing, #FurnitureMaking, and #Teaching.
I do #Volunteering, #RepairCafe, #MakersHour, and #Carer for an elderly Mum.
Semi retired maker of things from garden planters to #Museum installations.
I am currently part time employed as a caretaker, cleaner, and maintenance person.
Currently building a #Community #Workshop in Salford.
I also run the @MakersHour account.
I am #Writing and #Miniaturing about @HarrietMaker and Daisy in the fictional market town of Theraton.
#HarrietAndDaisy
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The scene inside a 1:12 scale workshop. In the background are two blue doors, a Health and Safety at work act poster, a folded Brompton bicycle, a red dog lead hanging up, and an openroller shutter showing an enclosed yard outside the workshop.
There is also narrow gauge tram tracks set into the workshop floor.
The view outside is a work in progress.
Inside the workshop there are two Caucasian women doll figures. Harriet has dark hair, glasses, and is wearing a red tee shirt and blue jeans, Daisy has fair air and is wearing a grubby high viz coat. They are shaking hands.
In front of them is a large Wadkin AGS10 table saw painted green. It is on a wooden pallet and tied down with rope. The pallet is on an orange pallet truck having just been brought into the workshop through the roller shutter.
Outside in the yard is a grey and black needle felted mongrel dog called Monty Dog, and he is trying to pick up a black recycling collection box.
In the bottom right hand corner of the image is a watermark showing the Maker of Things logo consisting of an outline of a circular saw blade surrounded by a spanner, a hand saw, a ruler, a screwdriver, a cable and plug, and a pencil forming a hexagon. Inside the tools are the words Maker of Things.
It's not shaming him. The grumpy old dude is dead, and has been for 350 years.
It's merely accepting that history isn't complete, and sometimes new things are found about historical figures, and that sometimes your beloved historical "free speech" is pretty abhorrent when you frame it in modern terms.
It's not rewriting history; it's looking at it with the benefit of a few centuries of learning and medical advances in treating bladder stones. All of which I accept that Andrew Doyle is desperate to roll back and erase as quickly as possible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/08/samuel-pepys-censorship-cancel-culture/
#History #London #Pepys #Opinion #Bezos #WashingtonPost #FreeSpeech #Writing #Shitty #Journalism #News
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The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Opinion
Another ludicrous canceling of a name from the past
Shaming the dead is an asinine culture warriors’ pastime. Now it’s the great diarist Samuel Pepys’s turn.
February 8, 2026
(Illustration by Washington Post staff; iStock)
5 min
By Andrew Doyle
Andrew Doyle is the author of “Free Speech and Why It Matters” and “The New Puritans.”
Samuel Pepys was, famously, an extraordinary diarist, offering a vivid first-hand account of life in Restoration England from 1660 to 1669. He was an eyewitness to the Great Fire of London in 1666 and recorded fascinating details of the ravages of the bubonic plague. His diaries were also intensely personal, with entries that echo familiarly across the centuries, whether recounting his rivalries and triumphs in his job as a naval administrator, his frustrations (can’t find a coach in the rain!), his delight in friends or boredom with dull sermons.
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 15 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
What's the community's opinion of doing trailers for your novels? See a lot of them about but no data on effectiveness.
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Omfg im going to lose my mind
Book YouTuber makes video about “AI authors”, it’s a 1.5 hour thing discussing the idiocy of the notion that “authors need to embrace AI because if I can churn out a hundred books until you finish one, you don’t have a chance”.
A commenter says “the real problem is when the AI interfaces become so user friendly that any reader can ask it for their own story and bypass the author altogether”, to which our genius YouTuber replies “holy shit I hadn’t even thought of that!”
JFC people! How do you not think of the most obvious, absolutely straightforward end point of the whole issue that’s threatening your very livelihood? HOW?!
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"The hottest job in tech: Writing words
The rise of slopaganda is fueling a surprising tech hiring boom."
It's all very fine and well, but you do need some time to research, think, structure your thought and, essentially, tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I find it very difficult in this media and work environment, where AI has accelerated absolutely everything, that this trend will persist more than one year or two...
"As the job changes and demand for narrative communications and storytellers rises, the number of communications experts able to work under rapidly evolving conditions and with a wide remit may be small, comms experts tell me, leading companies to offer hefty compensation packages in war for the best talent. A similar trend is unfolding among the few people who are AI experts, driving tech companies to offer astounding salaries to poach top talent from rival firms. While not of the same nine-figure caliber, in their own right, creatives are becoming "the high value person in tech now," Birch says.
For much of the tech boom, that high-value person was a software developer. Universities and coding bootcamps rushed to fill employment gaps and train up the next generation of tech workers. Young people were told coding would be a path to a lucrative, stable career. As of 2023, the most recent year the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released data for, computer science recent graduates faced an unemployment rate of 6.1%, while communications majors' unemployment rate sat at 4.5%. The number of open job posts for software engineers dropped by more than 60,000 between 2023 and late 2025, according to data from CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the US IT industry. The best defense against automation, some argue, will be a liberal arts degree.
Words might be easy to generate with AI, but good writing isn't ready for automation."
https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2
There's a whole sub-genre of indie novels that is: urban fantasy set in the city the author lives in. They're not all great, but I love it as a niche. I am so very tired of reading about New York, LA, and London. This is not a slight on those cities! What I mean is, please can I learn about a different setting!?
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
Just a reminder that the world's greatest book ever written in all of history is available for you to purchase from Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/water-dogs-eric-gordon/1147799755?ean=9798988816157
#ya #scifi #sciencefiction #writing #author #books #fantasy #adventiure #youngadult #humor #aliens #unicorns #specfic #speculativefiction #Ramones #punkrock #1970s
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The cover of a book, called Water Dogs, featuring an illustration of an underwater dog with shadowy forms of aliens and unicorns and other creatures in the background.
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go on #pilgrimage
to visit the holy place
get indulgences
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are you penitent?
If anyone would like a bit of body horror with their ecofiction, the latest from The Rotting Leaf delivers.
"The Find", by K.M. Greyburn 👇
https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf/the-find
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The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 14 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #polarity #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
#ThursThreads Week 694 Winners blog is up. Congrats to FORTY-ONE TIME WINNER Bill Engleson and Honorable Mention Sheilagh Lee. Great thanks to Eric Martell for judging this week. Check out the winning tale. #FlashFiction #Writing #WritingChallenge #WritingCommunity https://siobhanmuir.com/thursthreads-week-694-winners/
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#ThursThreads Tying Tales Together Year 13
Weekly flash fiction writing challenge
Sanderson on AI:
"[Using AI to write books] absolutely misses the point.
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One of the most transcendent moments of my life was looking at that manuscript and thinking, I did it. *I* did it."
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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #polarity #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
#esittely #introduction (Scroll down for English)
Olen kirjoittaja, tutkija, opettaja, feministi, intohimoinen laulaja, wannabe-muusikko, runotyttö ja kissojen ystävä (she/they). Kirjoitan erityisesti runoutta, spekulatiivista fiktiota ja kokeellisia tutkimustekstejä. Tutkin tällä hetkellä kanssakirjoittamisen taiteilijapedagogiikkaa feministisessä ja posthumanistisessa kehyksessä. Tuuttailen kirjoittajan elämästä, tutkimuksesta ja taiteesta.
I am a writer, teacher, researcher, feminist, aspiring singer and wannabe musician, poetess, and cat-lady (she/they). I write mostly poetry, speculative fiction, and experimental research. Currently, I study writing-with as artist pedagogy in a feminist and posthumanist framework. I toot about writing and living a writer's life, research and art.
#runoilija #poet #taiteilijatutkija #artistresearcher #taiteellinentutkimus #artisticresearch #spekulatiivinenfiktio #speculativefiction #writing #writinglife #creativewriting #FeministPosthumanism
Hundreds of birds were perched on one of the highest trees in the forests of Dimkarat, making its branches bend precariously. They chattered, and sang, and pushed each other around until a face emerged from the the bark of the tree.
Have you seen this cat? Ból, the tree spirit asked, and a long branch curved up, presenting a large bird's nest cradling a small, sleeping cat.
A cacophony of bird sounds erupted.
Not THIS this cat. One that looks very much like it, only more... glowy. Ból sighed.
The chirping stopped. After a while, a large heron squawked.
Yes, I will make it worth your while, and yes, you should keep your distance when you see her.
Squawk?
Sure, safe nesting for five generations, and I will grow food, even in the winter, if necessary.
Squawk.
A small woodpecker hopped closer to Ból's face, pushing larger birds out of the way, and started cawing a long string of calls.
No, you're not crazy. Ból reassured the bird. So she vanished into thin air above the evergreen grove while chasing a flying trout?
More cawing.
I think that's all you can do for now. Keep an eye out.
Caw?
Yes, you earned it. Just pick a tree.
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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #polarity #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 13 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.
Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.
This essay argues for something else.
Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft
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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #polarity #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
Confronting a character with their bad behaviour backfires spectacularly.
#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #DogsOfMastodon
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Very cute puppy with sign around its neck saying, "I bite everything."
Puppy bites sign.
Aargh. Missed this yesterday, apologies.
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 11 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
Píp, the spirit cat, was just about to pounce on the biggest and shiniest trout she had ever seen, when a wave of emotion hit her. Gratitude and the somberness of a final goodbye caught her off-guard and made her legs buckle, for just a second, before she caught herself and jumped.
She had never given much thought to loss and death in her short life. Death had only ever happened to others, to prey, and even when she herself had stood on its doorstep, she had always accepted it as a simple and inextricable part of existence. It dawned on her that cats might not be the most empathetic beings.
She landed among the pod of regular and spirit trout, missing her prize by a tiny fraction, which made all the fish scatter. Píp did not think or plan anything of what followed. Her eyes, ears, and intent had a singular focus, and that focus was hightailing it through the trees, so she followed.
She hunted the trout spirit through the forest and into the skies, where it tried to lose Píp by turning an impossible corner and vanishing from this reality, but Píp was far too focused and, without hesitation, chased after it and vanished as well.
There's some silly complaints I heard about Starfleet Academy before it started airing. I still haven't seen the show myself but I feel the need to say a little about one especially silly complaint. Please enjoy
#reading ...
#writing ...
Lowers #dementia risk
Keep at it!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/11/reading-writing-lower-dementia-risk-study-finds
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-12]: If git commands were magic spells, what would `git push --force` do?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-12/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
Solifan the wizard and Aldor stood on the beach of a lake in the middle of the forests of Dimkarat and watched the 'Shooting Star' sail away. The setting sun was drawing long shadows over the smooth surface. Captain Jokham gave them a last wave, then thousands of runes on the hull flared up, and the boat was swallowed by the waters.
"How will we get back?" Solifan shouldered his backpack.
Aldor was studying a map and searching the view over the lake for landmarks.
"The long way, I'm afraid." He folded the map and looked at Solifan expectantly. "I know where we are and how to get home; now you just have to find your cat."
"Let us look for a place to stay for the night." Solifan gave the lake a disapproving look. "I have had enough water for today."
Half an hour later they had spread their bedrolls in a moderately dry cave, and Aldor was making a small pile of firewood in front of the entrance.
"It's not dry enough." He took a step back, and Solifan lifted a hand towards the pile. His eyes began to glow, and within seconds the logs started to fizz and steam until only dry, cracked wood remained.
"Oh how I missed that." Aldor sighed. "SO convenient." He stacked some branches and logs and produced a metal kettle from his backpack. Solifan's eyes flared for a second, and the branches began to burn.
"I will now try to find Ból." Solifan sat down at the fire and closed his eyes.
Even my #coffee is nerdy.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Accidental-Raktajino-Qapla-H2H21U1PD0
(Like, #support, share!)
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Come April, I'll be out of freelance work. Anyone need a freelance writer? I only talk about my erotica here but I am a biologist with a uni diploma and I have a background in biotech and pharma.
So I'll write something sexy or something educational or both, I'm your ho.
#Fedihire me?
#jobsearch #biology #pharma #biotech #writing #erotica #NoAI
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Photo of a woman holding a cardboard sign that reads "Will write for money".
They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.
This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.
Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.
We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841
#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology
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screenshot from the CVE page
/* Then */
I have breathed in the dust of antiquity
Footsteps stirring its powdered remains
Ghosts of the ghosts of thier memory
Whispering long forgotten secrets in my ear
Hearing, but not yet understanding
A melancholy I cannot explain
https://tiefling.bardicperspiration.com/index.php/2026/02/11/then/
A story about a person who does very little in a band. They occasionally beat a drum or shake a tambourine or sing a mediocre backup vocal. They aren't amazing at promoting, marketing, finances, or anything else. They're not the significant other of anyone in the band, aren't sleeping with anyone, aren't visually appealing enough to be put out front in concerts, and don't contribute much of value in songwriting or instrumentation... but the band has learned that it all falls apart without them. So they stay in the band.
Someone has probably written this #story. If not, they should.
PSA for job seekers, freelancers and artists across fediverse, you can subscribe to hiring related hashtags to have those show up on your feed daily.
Or you can bookmark this to monitor most posts directly!
💡 https://fedi.thatshubham.com
Earlier today, I made a couple of UX improvements and how posts are filtered. Added more tags in monitoring list. Good luck!
#jobs #jobs #hiring #hired #remotework #freelance #commission #writing #getfedihired #opensource #commissionsOpen #commission
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The Wandering Shop Stories #prompt for today, Tue-10-Feb, is #aline/align. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "aline/align" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aline/align Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @NaraMoore
Our bi-weekly Writing Progress Review #10 is up. This podcast started as a simple way to be more accountable to our writing goals, but while our goals play a central role, our chats have expanded to a dive into our writing processes. In this episode, much of the discussion centres around editing. Also Michael has some major news to relate.
New blog post up. Been working on this one for a while.
Punching Nazis: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/punching-nazis
#blogs #blogging #writing #DeadNazis #history #music #film #punk #PunkRock #NaziPunksFuckOff
I was introduced to John McPhee in grad school. “Encounters With the Archdruid” was assigned reading in an enviro policy class, which approached the topic from the perspective of motivating factors that underlie policy.
McPhee’s writing hooked me; I read a dozen or so of his books in the ‘90s.
Just discovered & read “The Founding Fish.”
I recommend it highly.
McPhee’s writing style is superb, as discussed here https://theelementsofwriting.com/mcphee/
#books #BookClub #writing #fish #shad #fishing #history
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Back jacket of a book by John McPhee. Text: "The Founding Fish is ... far more than a fishing book. It is a mini- encyclopedia, a highly informative and entertaining amalgam of natural and personal history, a work in a class by itself" -ROBERT H. BOYLE, The New York Times Book Review Cruded as "a fishing classic" (The Economist) upon its publication in hardcover John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal his- tory, satural history, and American history, in descending order of volcane spring, American shad—Alosa sapidissimaleave the ocean in saw bede of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. MrPhee a shad fisherman himself—recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with famous ichthyologists and visits their laboratories; he takes instruc- sion in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and in- tensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's afterits his- tory, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing expert and ardent-at which he has no equal. "A blue-chip tour of the American shad." - Kirkus Reviews "Under McPhee's close eye, everything about this fish is fascinating." etc.
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JOHN McPHEE, The Founding Fish
Cold days should be the perfect writing days. Except they're cold and make everything feel slow. It really is hard to get that perfect temperature of not too hot nor too cold to write. #amwriting #writing #writinglife #writingcommunity
This semester, I'm taking a course about specifically #writing #news for print and digital media. We had a lively discussion about which of these two headlines would get the most clicks. As an Old, I was surprised by some of the other students' talking points.
- Widow challenges husband’s will granting $250,000 to charity
- Widow challenges husband’s will granting $100,000 to exotic dancer.
Would it matter if the charity was named? If it's a charity the late millionaire had founded? What if the charity were sus? What if the charity were obviously and non-controversially good (I'm thinking Habitat for Humanity, for example). What if the nightclub dancer is male? What if the dancer had name recognition due to an unrelated scandal?
So what would make you click either of them? Select the one you'd pick, and any reasons you'd change your mind.
| The charity: | 0 |
| The nightclub dancer: | 0 |
| Neither: | 0 |
| Charity was founded by millionaire: | 0 |
| Charity was in the news for fraud/scam allegations: | 0 |
| Charity has excellect reputation: | 0 |
| Exotic dancer is male: | 0 |
| Exotic dancer in news for unrelated scandal: | 0 |
| Exotic dancer has punny stage name: | 0 |
| Exotic dancer is a drag queen: | 0 |
Your hand was soft,
Your moustache were coarse.
Your kiss was sweet,
Your embrace were coerce.
I actually like a good infodump if done by a character or narrator for which that fits. I know it's frowned upon in writing, but I have many characters for which that is actually just charming.
Chuck a double espresso in Freya, and she can't help but tell the people she loves all about the history of botany and herbology, and why that is important for all alchemists to comprehend.
This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-of-belonging
#Scotland #UK #Books #Book #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Women #Land #Nature #Life
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La normalisation des rustines logicielles mine la qualité, la sécurité et la productivité à long terme.
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How a universal software engineering practice reveals systemic organizational and technical debt.
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Wie temporäre Code-Korrekturen zu dauerhaften Systemrisiken werden
Why do they paint hallways that colour?
What would you even call that colour?
#travelling #hotels #WritersLife #writing
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I think they're calling the colour of this hotel corridor, 'Evening Grey'.
When I awoke, the notifications were already queuing up in my inbox, so frequent and annoying that they stood out even against the torrent of spam. 'Dynamic price adjustments' is what they called it. Since the Supreme™ Court had ruled all necessary¹ price adaptations legal without consumer consent, adjustments happened very frequently.
The last few weeks had been tough, but this would bankrupt me in 25 hours and 13 minutes. I checked if I could reduce my living space any further and auctioned off another foot. I'd have to sleep in a fetal position from now on. 47 hours and 5 minutes.
I tried to sell some ad space, more in the center of my field of vision, but my consumer score was too low; only low bids. I'd have to live with ads for bankruptcy lawyers and payday loans for the foreseeable future. 62 hours and 47 minutes.
Fuck it. I logged onto 'rent-a-brain'. The benchmark put me in performance category 'D'. Fuck. The interactive package would be nice, but that would pay less. Numbness crept into my limbs as the service started partitioning off my brain for the workloads and left just enough capacity to consume a feed of ever-changing dopamine-optimized micro-experiences.
I snapped back 8 hours and 16 minutes later with a massive headache. Sixteen minutes of warmup time, my ass. Fuckers. 112 hours and 33 minutes. If I stopped eating.
¹required to protect shareholder profits
I just saw an author proudly post a link to a TikTok clip promoting his new novel. The clip was a static image of a letterbox ad, no audio, no movement. A tiny little thing in the middle of the frame, the text was unreadable.
My takeaway was that the author doesn't give a damn about the quality of the work they present, and that this probably also applies to their writing.
I know this stuff can be hard, but FFS if you aren't willing to do it right, don't do it at all.
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-08]: If you had to write code on a whiteboard right now, would it compile?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-08/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-05]: What was your 'I deleted the database' moment (or close call)?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-05/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-03]: What is the most over-engineered solution you have ever built for a simple problem?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-03/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-06]: Which programming language feels the most like a distinct personality type?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-06/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-07]: What is a technology prediction you made that turned out to be completely wrong?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-07/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-04]: Explain recursion to someone who has never touched a computer.
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-04/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-02]: If you could deprecate one HTTP status code, which one goes?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-02/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
📆 Daily Prompt [2026-02-01]: What's the 'temporary' fix in your codebase that is currently celebrating its 5th anniversary?
https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-02-01/
#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering
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Most of them
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Authentic tales of the human experience,
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North: NORTH WIND
#northwind icy chill
seeps through layers of clothing
and my bones shiver
South: GRIN
a demonic #grin
stares back from the window glass
the snow woman comes
Genna, the enchantress, sat in the back room of her shop, working on a tricky piece of magic, when she heard a polite cough. Irritated, she eyed the drapes towards the front room.
"I'm closed for the day." She got up and made her way into the front room, finding it empty. She pulled on the door a couple of times, but it was locked, just as she had thought. As she sat down at her worktable again, the cough repeated. Genna's eyes began to glow as she slowly scanned the room. She put one hand on the ornate dagger on her belt. Burglars usually don't cough politely, but there's a first for everything. Then her eyes fell on the tree in front of her window. Trees also usually don't cough, but they usually don't have faces either.
Sorry to disturb you, but I can't find the wizard. The words were tinged with a tiny bit of panic.
"You stole his cat." Genna leaned out of her window to get a better look at the tree. "So you're the replacement for my charms?"
Through the veil of reality, Genna could see the spirit in the tree, giving it a golden glow. The spirit's crown extended far beyond the young tree's canopy, covering the whole street in translucent, shining branches.
Oh, sorry, I am Ból, and I didn't steal Píp; we were supposed to be back by dinner. A little more panic this time. But she's... a cat.
"You can tell him when he finds you he went to Dimkarat to look for the both of you." The glow in Genna's eyes deepened, and her gaze wandered up the tree.
He's coming here? That'll take weeks! A moderate amount of panic.
"I think they'll be there sooner."
Ból sighed. I hope so. I've got to go. Fickle catsitter.
"Catsitter? I thought you lost her?" Genna asked, but the tree was just a tree again.
#ScribesAndMakers Day 8. How do you define a book? Do audio books and graphic novels fit your definition?
A book can be a physical, tangible object (as in pages with covers), but the definition has evolved to cover more.
Yes, audio, e-books and graphic novels DO COUNT. It's just a different medium and graphic novels use both art and words to tell a story.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Theorem_Poem/115253666614540058
I am once again asking you to hire an Actual Indian instead of AI to write and translate your articles. (I am a lot more water efficient I promise)
I had fun writing about the robot at the gym. It seemed fun and appropriate after some rather heavy reading for people.
It's Saturday night. Have a little fun. #writing
And by all means, get to the gym more regularly.
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 8 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
The Wandering Shop Stories #prompt for today, Sun-8-Feb, is #mercurial. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "mercurial" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mercurial Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @NaraMoore
I had no idea what/who are endodontists until I recently had a (failed) root canal. In this post I write about trying to find one who is willing to accommodate my covid cautiousness, and also about the (rare) compassion of medical professionals. And of course, a small rant about the unpleasantness of being covid cautious: https://winnielim.org/journal/on-learning-the-definition-of-endodontist-and-compassion/
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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #polarity #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
words stacked like split wood
like knives sharpened
like rolled bandages
no clear fire nor harm
nor healing
needed
words like grey waves
and the grained sands
and the rain slow and fat
but the ache of the gaps
silence framing the noise
tears and blood redacted
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing
#MastoPrompt 6 February 2026 - quiet.
Apparently snow and ice turn cities into crappy HOAs.
https://ko-fi.com/post/Time-keeps-on-slippin-slippin-slippin-Z8Z61TQNKO
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 6 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
Píp the cat lay on a large, sunlit stone by a river, deep in the forests of Dimkarat. Another, translucent and glowing, Píp the cat stood on the same large, sunlit stone and looked at herself in disbelief.
«This is so weird.» She rounded herself a couple of times. «Am I... dead?» She bowed down and listened to her body breathing. «Apparently not.»
Ból, the tree spirit, flowed out of the young tree next to the stone: a nexus of amber light with enormous roots, sinking into the mossy ground, and gigantic branches full of leaves, stretching far over the sunlit canopy of the forest.
«This is even weirder.» Píp stared at him with big eyes.
It is? Ból laughed, and colorful streaks swirled through the nexus and up its branches.
Píp looked back at her sleeping body. «Do you have a body somewhere?»
Not for a long time. The words carried fond remembrance and memories of a tree on the side of a mountain, from a fragile, small seedling to an ancient, tired giant.
«Can I go back?» Píp carefully booped herself on the nose and jumped in surprise. «I FELT THAT!»
It is still very much you, and you can go back any time. Ból flowed onto the stone, cradling the body in fine roots. You must care for yourself.
Píp nodded.
Now, remember how you promised to listen? A gnarled face appeared in the nexus and looked directly at Píp.
«Yeah?» Her ears focused on the face.
For now, do not go alone. There were more memories in these words of getting lost in an alien world without direction and light, without a place to bury your roots and drink the sun.
«Ok, I'll stay at your side.» Píp shivered. «Now, about those trout.»
I'm supposed to be working, but something's getting in the way. Something too fluffy and adorable to move
I should be writing the 2nd book in our Underspace series (book 1 is available now - about a girl who finds the doorway to another world on the roof of her school - you might like it!)
But I think I have to stay here and pay attention to Molly. She's being highly persuasive (pic for evidence). I don't think I can talk my way out of this one...
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets #writing #fantasy
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A black & white cat is lying between my legs as I take the picture. She is rolled on her side, with one paw over my left leg, as though holding me down and preventing me from leaving. Her head is tilted upwards and she is looking at the camera