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Om du gillar böcker och befinner dig i närheten av Jönköping ska du så klart besöka SmåLit i morgon. Föreläsningar, författarsamtal, bokmässa och massa annat kul för bokmalar och läslöss. 📚

Där, vid ett av åttio bord kommer du hitta Sanna (och undertecknad) krängandes Sveriges kanske just nu bästa skräcknoveller. 👻 Vi ses!

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Books and potted plants are slowly but surely finding their way back into the study. Along with one of @veronique’s original drawings. 🥰 Check out her lovely creations over at veronique.ink.

Shelves filled with books and a plant. There’s also a framed ink drawing. Abstract but resembling something organic, fungi-like. A network of connected mushrooms from outer space, maybe?

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AI is increasingly used to generate spam content. Spambots explores what would happen if, instead, machine learning was used to empower a group of robotic Spam cans to tell their tales.

I love how Neil Mendoza’s cute spambots tirelessly remix Huxley’s work. Via Lynn Cherny.

An anthropomorphized can of SPAM typing away at a tiny, four-button keyboard.

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End-of-day update! The famous last 20 % still remains, but the room is definitely closer to being finished now than 8 hours ago. I love how cozy it is! 🥰

A cozy room with Xanadu green walls, one are mostly occupied with cube shaped cabinets in different sizes. Someone have started filling the shelves with books, but there are still a lot of ones. A large, comfortable-looking armchair invites you to relax and maybe read some.

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The study is coming along nicely! 💚 We’re getting help from a pro, and I appreciate the fact that I’m not drilling holes in the wall myself. 😅

A messy room filled with power tools and other equipment. One of the walls is partly filled with cube-formed cabinets. Two cabinets are still on the floor, ready to be mounted.

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Wine (The Heinrich Maneuver), pizza, and newslettering with this awesome human. That’s a recipe for a great Friday night.

Someone holding a wine bottle against a white wall. The label is illustrated, depicting two anthropomorphized dogs. One performing the Heinrich maneuver on the other, who is coughing up a branch of grapes.

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This #FeedReaderFriday, you might be wondering why dial-up modems sound the way they do, or if you can transform human speech into blackbird song. If so, subscribe to Oona Räisänen’s blog. She has all the answers! At least when it comes to sounds and signals.

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The next Murderbot book arrives on November 14th, and I can’t wait to read it! 📚

Cover art for the book System Collapse by Martha Wells. A humanoid robot crunches near a rocky field. Getting ready to face an approaching (huge!) spider-like robot.

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On this misty winter morning, I stumbled upon a lonely buoy on the frozen lake Viken. I think it’s longing for spring, yearning to be free once again. Or maybe it’s just me.

A misty, cold view over a frozen lake. Trees partly covered in snow. In the foreground, a lonely red buoy is stuck in the ice.

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metalcore × yurufuwa = soft and fluffy hell. If you like Children of Bodom and/or Foo Fighters, this all-female Japanese heavy metal band might be right up your alley. 🎵

NEMOPHILA / DISSENSION U.S. Ver. [Official Music Video]

A hazy, blue-tinted stage with a drum set and a drummer in action. Set in big, white letters: NEMOPHILA DISSENSION.

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We are changing up the study/home office. Hello, green walls! 💚

A peek into an almost empty room, the floor covered with rosin paper. There’s a bucket of paint on the floor, and the walls look newly painted in a Xanadu greenish tone.

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A week or so before Christmas, we traditionally go to the square to pick out a julgran (Christmas tree). This year, Sanna found the perfect one in less than 30 seconds! It’s a stunning spruce, now fully lit and decorated. 🎄

Closeup of a Christmas tree, with electric candlelights and ornaments. There are also a couple of tiny birds (fake) sitting on sprigs.

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The teaser for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is 👌.

A forgotten children’s shoe lies desolate on a rocky beach. Backdropped by a gorgeous sunset or sunrise.

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If you like to share your Micro.blog bookmarks with the world, check out my latest plug-in: 🔖 Bookmarks Shortcode (BETA).

List of bookmarked webpages: short quotes and links. The first says, “Bookmark improvements in Micro.blog”, www.manton.org.

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Simone Giertz on comfort building:

So I woke up this morning feeling really overwhelmed and sad for no good reason, so I’m treating myself to a day of wearing sweatpants and refurbishing this old fire alarm.

A woman sits at a desk, painting the letters of an old fire alarm. There’s a dog in her lap following the paintbrush’s motions.

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So Lex just disputed a parking fine with ChatGPT, and it was successfully withdrawn. How cool is that?

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Today we made caramel candy. 🤤 Wrapping them all kept me busy for a while.

Chopped up pieces of caramel candy, laying on baking paper. There’s also a glass jar with wrapped candies and wrapping paper.

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Happy #FeedReaderFriday! Today I’ll share with you 3 cartoonists to follow.

I absolutely adore Sarah Andersen’s semi-autobiographical comics. So relatable! Most of the time, I feel like they are about me (and/or Sanna).

Also, check out Elizabeth’s and Jonathan’s War and Peas.

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This excellent guide to writing image descriptions (alt texts) led me to Access Guide, which looks like a helpful (and friendly) introduction to digital accessibility. Both are created by Alex Chen and found via Gemma Copeland.

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Glad to see Molly White on Forbes’ 30 Under 30.