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shaknais

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Author | Aussie | Written all kinds of tales over the years - romance, murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy and more.
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shaknais, to books
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The hand curved round to cup her cheek warmly, as the woman leaned in until they were touching, nose to nose. Warm breath that smelled intensely of fish, ale, and tobacco, enveloped Taylor’s head like a small cloud.

The woman made an amused sound, “Je regarderais celui-la, Ed. La peur est quelque chose qu’elle ne connait pas.”

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/79485/red-treasure/chapter/1530707/eight

Priyajsridhar, to random
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Self-promo time! Share your links, images and videos this lovely evening!

shaknais,
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@Priyajsridhar

Self-promo! My latest book comes out on the first! It is so very nearly here.

https://jamesmilne.org/book?id=redtreasure

Taylor has lived her entire life as a boy. Hiding away as a serving boy at a local inn, but when a pirate comes stumbling into her life, he brings adventure and horror with him. Whether she wants it or not.

Lil to escape from the world.

shaknais, to writing
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shaknais, to random
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02/25—How do you feel about Amazon's influence on books and publishing?

I don't think I'm allowed to say anything specific, under some of my current publishing agreements.

shaknais, to random
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"Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this, right here." - Actual politician.

... USA... Can you please find sane leaders? Pretty please?

shaknais, to 3goodthings
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@3goodthings

  1. Went on my first date in ten years, since my divorce.
  2. My thyroid is finally stable! (Seizures were apparently not caused by it but another mystery... But little victories.)
  3. Only a week until comes out!

melissabeartrix, to random
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No ... Please no

Hugz & xXx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3iytVthDnU

shaknais,
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@melissabeartrix There's no way this will go badly, is there? Like so many other things...? 🤦

shaknais, to random
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shaknais, to random
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I would never be able to tell if poor posture whilst writing, or writers stress, or the like affected me.

I've got somethong called . I am literally never not in pain. The wind on my face feels like pinpricks of fire. Holding a lovers hand feels like grinding the bones to dust. Hell, breathing feels like forcing spikes through my chest.

shaknais, to australia
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In the final frantic days before she was murdered, Kelly Wilkinson visited multiple police stations, warning she was in danger. Official police notes say she was “cop shopping”.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/18/kelly-wilkinson-murder-husband-guilty-plea-police-visits-fear-inquest-brian-earl-johnston

shaknais, to australia
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"It’s apparently of little significance to News Corp and the ABC that the alternative leader of the country is neck-deep in scandals care of Home Affairs. "

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/02/14/peter-dutton-home-affairs-scandal-kpmg-paladin-news-corp/

shaknais, to EdSheeran
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She played the fiddle in an Irish band
But she fell in love with an English man
Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by the hand
Said, "Baby, I just want to dance"

https://youtu.be/XbCDrUBvXJk

melissabeartrix, to random
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The silence is deafening

Hugz & xXx

shaknais,
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@melissabeartrix Ever get checked for tinnitus?

shaknais,
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@melissabeartrix Huh. Mine's a background static, but definitely tinnitus. Just low grade.

shaknais, to random
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Science...

https://lgrmag.com/news/light-bio-to-introduce-bioluminescent-petunias-into-u-s-market/

shaknais, to webdev
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I reckon I'm about halfway implemented a fully usable static site generator in POSIX-shell only. Fun mini project for uni, and open source as usual.

https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/fLatLong

shaknais,
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@melissabeartrix Happy Valentine's. May the mysterious jerks up above get around to shooting a bunch of arrows around you. If that's what you want.

DrALJONES, to auspol
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    shaknais,
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    @DrALJONES The law was changed to allow this. You'll not really convince those who voted for it, that it's a problem.

    shaknais,
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    @DrALJONES No, the citizens don't really vote on laws.

    Feel free to raise your voice - but you need to convince two entire political parties if you want it changed. That's not going to happen through a royal commission. That doesn't have the power to change it, either.

    shaknais, to random
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    Ahem! Due to treatment by my physio... After seven years the muscles and nerves in my left leg are now working again.

    I CAN MOTHERFUCKING WALK!!!

    The more it sinks in, the more happy I'm feelin'!

    shaknais, to gamedev
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    Wanna play a free, relaxing, RPG that's played a way that's fairly unique?

    Have a look at my rpgMail!

    https://rpgmail.netlify.app/

    golgaloth, to worldbuilding
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    Remember to include little human touches in your work so that it breathes. Random bits of humour. Rude or angry graffiti. Kids playing with a rock.

    (The trapped mason from Abbey de Sainte Foy, France, c.1050.)

    shaknais,
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    @golgaloth Game and software designers always drop Easter eggs. Recently, all the big companies started banning Easter eggs as "confusing" for clients.

    So software engineers added even more. And... They started firing us for it.

    So now we're adding even more than that.

    Daojoan, to random
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    I've been to the year three thousand

    Not much has changed but they live under water

    And there's still no iPad app for Instagram

    shaknais,
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    @Daojoan What year was the Apple-Microsoft merger?

    shaknais,
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    @Daojoan Ah. August, 1997.

    shaknais, to random
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    What's faster, uploading a single document to OneDrive, or downloading a whole operating system?

    Who are we kidding. The answer is obvious.

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