Honly's Pile

there are video games in the pile but they seem a bit broken oh dear

[targetedknowledge]

[seriousjones]

seriousjones 9:12pm (daft punk if they were bees) we're up all night to get stung! we're up all night to get honey!

seriousjones 10:56pm Jesus Christ, you have all made your point. Bees are not known for "getting stung." Fine. You win. I will be taking some time away from social media for my own peace of mind. It honestly makes me sick to my stomanch that one small mistake can bring out the mob, when all I do is try to spread smiles and connection. Respectfully, I hope you all take a long look and the mirror and think about how your words can affect people.

seriousjones 1:44am (daft punk if they were dogs) we're up all night to be dogs! we're up all night to be puppy

[skopostheorie]

[misandrynistic]

[batteriesandflashlights]

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

[tastylemonbread]

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[tricky-pockets]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

[aggressionbread]

It sucks that the only way to begin is by beginning

[em-the-mushroom815]

it's even worse that the only way to learn is by playing and the only way to win is by learning

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

[grace-in-the-wilderness]

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-- G. K. Chesterton

[kibumkim]

The patriarchy won lmao

[pancakeke]

she's right cause I'm gonna fucking get her

[ivipl1]

i love when women have a deeper or raspier voice. its very charming

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sun-cheyne]

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

[snowriddenwolf]

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

[mechanicalriddle]

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

[neonshroudedgraves]

Bluesky asks Texas users to verify their ages, citing new app store law

"Why do you need age verification on a site where everyone is 38?"

[stevishabitat]

idk who on earth could possibly need to hear this, but do NOT, under ANY circumstances, give out your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER to ANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

☝️☝️☝️

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

hey.. two people were asking about you… so i gave them your address and phone number… their names were Skeletal Warrior and Skeletal Ice Mage

[str-ngeloop]

stop trying to make every line the most evocative witing ever. if there's no dynamic range the reader's just going to get worn down by your list of adjectives and overwrought sentence structure. To be blunt, you need to choose carefully when you show off. You need to establish a baseline for deviations from the baseline to register. and you need to get comfortable with the fact that sometimes the sentence you need is just "He walked to the door."

[bernard-jackson]

[yossyislandd]

you fucking suck at burger

[zangoonse]

[bitchautism]

very entranced and enamoured with this deeply mad rant post I read about leon kennedy erectile dysfunction and how physically impossible it would be for leon kennedy to have erectile dysfunction and how according to consulted medical and fitness experts erectile dysfunction is impossible for leon kennedy to have. if I am honest I cannot stop thinking of the improbable case of leon kennedys impossibly limp penis

[bitchautism]

thinking about the improbable case of leon kennedys impossibly limp penis again

[bitchautism]

[vatio-mache]

[vatio-mache]

[sailatina3]

Leon Kennedy is not allowed to have a limp dick unless your parents are at least 49 years old(?)

[masonworlds]

it might save ur life

[punkrock-bottom]

Cold weather enjoyer FREAKS when they’re shivering and tensed up and can’t feel their toes and their face hurts and

[milf--adjacent]