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Post #4344217
@Remittancegirl Thanks for this. I&#39;ve never been able to get fitted sheets to fold nicely. This definitely helps. (My usual procedure has been to half-assedly wad it up and put it on a shelf, then plop the flat sheet &amp; pillow cases on top of it.)
Post #4344216
Just FWIW from the Grim Historian, as I followed a rabbit hole from another posting. &quot;The Rich Never Know When They Are on the Menu&quot;: https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/the-rich-never-know-when-they-are (P.S: Please don&#39;t complain that it&#39;s on Substack. Instead, you can pester the author and send a donation to help them get off Substack.) Also FWIW, a book mentioned in the article can be found on PG here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63001 Frederick...
Post #4344215
@LaNaehForaday Mmm, yeah... It&#39;ll probably be barftastic. 🤮 But their pomp and circumstance will also be a zillion times outweighed by the cacophony of a billion people dancing happily on the grave. The blow-out event will probably register on seismographs around the world.
Post #4344214
Nothing to see here, just keeping track of this video on &quot;nitroplast&quot;... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9B3gBhcwqM #biology #microorganisms
Post #4344213
Nothing to see here, just keeping track of this article on MIT research into flying/diving robots. https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-flapping-robot-swims-and-flies-like-diving-bird-0709 #robots #flight
Post #4344211
Nothing to see here, just keeping track of this cool Skepchick video on the current parasitic 💩 crisis in the USA... where one would hope that everyone in congress and the 🍊🤡 &quot;administration&quot; contracts this disease, which they deserve as a minimum reward for their continuing stupid antics, and consequently has a miserable week or two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMnS72WWlWg Please be safe: wash &amp; cook veggies, even if you live in California. #poo #diarrhea #cyclospo...
Post #4344210
All four books in P.J. O&#39;Brien&#39;s monumental &quot;Sanctuary&quot; series are on sale for FREE during the big July sale over at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bkansas The Rodent highly recommends this set. Four volumes, nearly 2 million words. This is the fabulous set of books that I&#39;d take to that proverbial desert island. #ebooks #books #bookstodon #PJOBrien #free #Smashwords
Post #4344209
Nothing to see here, just keeping track of this article on lower-coast PFAS [forever chemicals] removal in agriculture. https://phys.org/news/2026-07-chemicals-farmlands-fraction.html #farming #PFAS
Post #4344208
Oooh, never done one of these hashtag thingies before: #WritersCoffeeClub July 29: Is there something you want to write, but don&#39;t think you yet have the skill? Horror &amp; Thriller. Last time a #SROP author tried writing a gritty, pulse-pounding horror novel for Halloween, what came out at the end was a colorful pageant full of fairy dust and teenage hijinx... #SanguinityHematode #bookstodon #ebooks
Post #4344207
Nothing to see here just keeping track of Rebecca Watson&#39;s fabulous new video on those sex dolls--oh, sorry, I mean robot teachers--in the New York classroom... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbceY_medYk Hmm, yeah, why isn&#39;t it just a laptop? (Edit: transcript available here: https://www.patreon.com/rebecca/posts/i-hate-ai-robo-165114851 ) #skepchick #RebeccaWatson #robots #sexdolls #education #grift #ai #chatbot #privacy
Post #3899916
Nothing to see here, just pointing at this article in The Atlantic: "Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster" I couldn't figure out how to "gift" it for Fedizens, but this quote was interesting. (See image, with alt text.) Link here, in case anyone can get to it: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/ #AIdisaster #noAI
Post #1759550
News on Draft2Digital and other avenues for publishers of erotica... Alternatives, etc. (I was surprised to learn that D2D bought Smashwords, btw, which I thought of as one of the last bastions of more-or-less sanity. https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-alternatives-erotica-authors-writers-2026/ #books #ebooks #draft2digital #smashwords #bookstodon #erotica