#stories

2025-11-26

Top Influencer’s Real-Life Visuals Exposed…But There’s A Twist

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2025-11-26

Female Group Mates Rumored To Be Dating Each Other Boldly Address The Allegations

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸corbden@defcon.social
2025-11-26

I've got so many stories. I never tell them because many of them have been locked away in "abuser era" memory.

But these people I knew who knew some people I knew (ok it was my abuser's girlfriend's boyfriend's friend group) were punks, and they were into "pencil fights." This was Seattle in the mid-10s.

They'd go to this bar (the Race Car Bar I think?), get up on stage in front of a consenting audience, and fight. With pencils. It was WWE-style. The athletes had personas and they'd get in costume and ham it up. There was a referee.

The rules were simple: Whoever broke the other's pencil first was the winner. They did this week after week. I will generously call it scripted improv comedy. (I have to act condescending now so their memory doesn't out-hipster me.)

My favorite character was a creepy-doll archetype. She really played it up. I wish I remembered her name. They all had cool roller-derby/pornstar/drag-queen type silly names.

I'm remembering this today because I'm talking about cheap beer, and everyone in the audience would drink Pabst Blue Ribbon for some reason. During a time when local microbrews or imported IPAs were the only thing anyone would admit to drinking. I believe I was peer-pressured into drinking it, and I don't like beer.

My abuser's girlfriend's boyfriend competed. IIRC, his character wore suspenders.

#Seattle #Stories

Sam Chavez (she/they/he) 🌈🌱🏜️🤠rootschange@federate.social
2025-11-26

“What Do Saltines & #Hollywood Have in Common?

They’re both white and stale! 🥁

Not to belittle a centuries-old cracker, but we are seeing the social backlash bleed into Hollywood and then reinforced back into society.

As authoritarianist sentiment has seeped into our society through #rightwing corners of the #internet backed by billionaire bank accounts, our #stories have changed…”

rootschangemedia.com/hollywood

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-11-26

Disasters & over-the-top production can make conferences memorable, but they score poorly on ROI. Instead, give attendees an environment to share stories.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

make conferences memorable: a photograph of people around a campfire with a man telling a story. Photo attribution: Flickr user dpnsan
Emanuele Dello StrologoEdellos
2025-11-26

Walking through Milan at night feels like stepping into a movie.
Lights reflecting on wet pavements, quiet streets whispering stories,
and every corner holding a little bit of magic.

MidgePhotoPhoto55
2025-11-26

There's no information available from Farage's university days, because isn't a man. (He really is a foghorn of ignorance)

But he went to in . Who worked with him?
Who ran the cafe he went to lunch at?

What and recollections do they have?

Chery (Great Australian Pods)cheryanne@aus.social
2025-11-26

Big Toe Joe
Poems for kids. Fun, charming, silly, sometimes even poignant. Perfect for families...

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/big-to

#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia #Kids #Family #Stories #Poems

Big Toe Joe
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
2025-11-26

A short story for this week's #podcast episode. A fun little tale about Thanksgiving and getting stuck in traffic, and next week a return to my spy story. Check out all of my #stories on #YouTube or #Spotify. #audiodrama #storytelling #audiobook #audiofiction #fiction youtube.com/@runningsentences1

2025-11-26

The "angel"(?) on my shoulder: Your plot and world-building must be LOGICAL. Where are your parents, child? Who's minding the store? And even if you are writing the out-there-est fantasy or sci-fi, it still must be internally coherent and consistent and you must explain WHY things are weird.

The "devil"(?) on my shoulder: But Lemony Snicket…

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those "exposition is gross! give me the dialogue and action and banter and smut!" numpties. But I will describe an empty highway for five pages before I give you one sentence of Traumatic Backstory back-flash that explains "how a nice girl like me ended up in a place like this."


#writing #creative-writing #fiction #stories
Sajal Choudharysajal24x7
2025-11-25

Vibe Coding November Meetup

The thing that I am most excited about this meetup is where it is happening, at the architecture and design museum.

📖 Read more: sajalchoudhary.net/blog/vibe-c

DimaLinkDimaLink
2025-11-25

Kind Animals Cards – Spring and Summer for Animals

From all sides. From the right and from the left. Hello! Hello! And some smiles. These are kind animals. Here with you and me again for a second. Waving. Sitting on the grass. On such a cheerful little hill.

dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦dbcurren.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-11-25

“Deprive #children of #stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their #actions as in their #words.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue

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