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csharpwords.bsky.social
Reader, writer, gamer, chill swimmer, rugby fan, SFF geek, conrunner (currently co-chair of Octocon); back in Wales after many years in Ireland. She/her
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How it feels to have executive dysfunction

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

“We urge the public to remember that leaving the house is not compulsory and that their couch and television will not be at the park.”

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

all of us with the ebooks out here going "a FEW more print editions wouldn't totally fill up the house, right...?"

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"I asked chatgpt". Yeah well, I asked "Doctor, ain't there nothing' I can take? I said, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache? You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot' together. Put the lime in the coconut and you'll feel better.’

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

reposting this old twitter thread because whenever there's a heatwave multiple people tell me it helped them

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

submitted 9 days ago • 450 comments

The secret to my native gardening success

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

submitted 12 days ago • 61 comments

has there ever been a worse harbinger of doom than the phrase "not a question, more of a comment..." Wondermark #1393; In which the Floor is Open

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

This is incredible

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

Oh. Well now. I am going to HAVE to get to one of these events, amn't I?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Stayed up till 2:30am to read The Witch Roads, @kateelliottsff.bsky.social' latest (v excellent, didn't want it to finish), and then got up for a 7:30am sea dip. I am predicting an afternoon nap.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Have your say on our Programme for this year's #Octocon. Our con is for members, by members, so your input is vital for our success. #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #Scifi #Horror #Fandom #Cosplay #ReadingCommunity #Cosplayers #ScifiConvention #BookSky

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I'm counting today as my first proper Monday of being jobless, because I was so sick last week that I couldn't do anything anyway (& would absolutely have been taking it off work if I still had a job). First job: get a decent To Do list tracker, add 'get a To Do list tracker' task and mark it done.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I need advice. I want to see Thunderbolts (eventually) but do I need to see the latest Captain America film first? And even if not, is it worth seeing the latest Captain America film, just to satisfy my completionist tendencies?

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I'd never heard of the Dublin/New York portal until @vallescurarule.bsky.social pitched me an essay about whether this real-world installation could be viewed through a portal-fantasy lens, referencing @effjayem.bsky.social's work in particular. Read it now (for free!): www.speculativeinsight.com

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

How can every episode of Murderbot be so full of good stuff and over so quickly at the same time?!!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Octo would like to wish you all a happy and safe #PrideMonth. #Octocon would be nothing without our #LGBTQ+ members. Thank you for making our con possible and for making our Octobers a lot sunnier. Image as per post #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #Scifi #Pride #Fandom #SciFiConvention #ReadingCommunity

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments