Today I saw a little family of otters crossing the road on my way to work. I always knew there were some around, but have never actually spotted any out and about before!

#TokiMusiLili nanpa luka tu
jan moli tawa li pilin ike
#FlashFictionMonth #TokiPona

Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre...

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#datacentre #ai

Let's hear it for the 32nd annual Interactive Fiction Competition!

https://www.wraithkal.com/2026-ifcomp-accepting-entries/

#ifcomp #interactivefiction #competition

For Day 7 of #FlashFictionMonth, a story about a brand new superhero, and a familiar supervillain.
#FlashFiction #flashfic #AmWriting #superhero #parody

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/he-swears-blind/

Actually, "people" may be pushing it. This doesn't appear to have resulted in a single browser play. I'm not positive how itch counts those - the game starts on page load so there's no button to click - but I would imagine that at least a fraction of 87 real human visitors would do something to take that number above zero.

Uhh... Does anybody have any idea why Google is suddenly funnelling people towards Gold Brick Simulator today in particular? #GoldBrickSimulator #itch #gamedev #game
https://damonwakes.itch.io/gold-brick-simulator

the annoyer of my annoyer is my friend

For Day 6 of #FlashFictionMonth, a story about a fairy tale princess who doesn't want to become an evil queen.
#FlashFiction #flashfic #AmWriting #FairyTale #comedy #humour

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/the-good-princess-and-the-evil-queen/

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@HauntedOwlbear/116862684402113085

Seriously infosec ppl we actually have no excuse. Here, take my collection of places to find free, public domain images, you'll discover some amazing art:

• US National Gallery of Art, open access collection (info): https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search?download=1

• Old Book Illustrations (@oldbookillustrations): https://www.oldbookillustrations.com

• Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

• Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev)'s Image Archive: https://pdimagearchive.org

• New York Public Library, public domain digital collection: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters=%5Brights%3DpublicDomain%5D

• Biodiversity Heritage Library's Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/

• Art Institute of Chicago, open access collection (info): https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, open access collection (info): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&sortBy=relevance

• Getty Museum, open content collection (info): https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open_content=true

#infosec #noAI

bicycles are insane. you just take a mammal that’s very good at long distance running and put a wheel adapter on it

For Day 5 of #FlashFictionMonth, a folk horror story about an enormous carcass found in the woods.
#FlashFiction #flashfic #AmWriting #horror #FolkHorror

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/it-eats-it-dies/

#TokiMusiLili nanpa tu tu
jan lili li alasa e mani
#FlashFictionMonth #TokiPona

For Day 4 of #FlashFictionMonth, a detective with an unusual nose confronts a kidnapper with an unusual phobia.
#FlashFiction #flashfic #AmWriting #comedy #humour

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/a-nose-for-trouble/

Callback to something I posted a few months ago: Libraries spent decades crafting policies and best practices to protect data about their readers because they understand how much your reading habits can reveal about you. Then we go and volunteer all of that data (and more) to for-profit companies with a financial motive to exploit everything they collect, in exchange for some pretty graphs and middling book recommendations.

For Day 3 of #FlashFictionMonth, a story about Cupid. But this cherub isn't quite what you're thinking of...
#FlashFiction #flashfic #AmWriting #comedy #humour

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/a-match-made-in-heaven/

#TokiMusiLili nanpa tu wan
#FlashFictionMonth #TokiPona

PicoCAD is very cheap these days... https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

this is the internet i miss because these days this would go into a facebook group :(

https://www.virtue.to/articles/muffin_head.html